Rivea

Just dodging bullets without having enemy ships to shoot at feels weird: where are the bullets coming from? Also, having the stream of coins dictate you where to be takes away the whole point of bullet hell: analyzing the patterns and figuring out how to dodge the bullet storm.

Good, but the theme-ing seems strange. I expect a fighter ship to shoot things.

!emoswa

My previous comment refers to other versions of the game, chiefly the newgrounds version..and yes, they do have a scoring advantage over every player on Kongregate(though they lack a leaderboard posting.)

You have a good idea bout the bullet-slowing shield and the bullet absorption, but the player lacks the ability to switch back and forth between them freely. If you modified this, you could have a scoring system kind of akin to ESPgaluda (but not really...), which would definitely be a good thing.

On the subject of the slow shield, players should be allowed to disable its ability to remove bullets. Less bullets=less coins upon conversion. The final upgrade to the slow shield can be seen as a permanent liability to a player's save, which is definitely not a good thing!

so damn awkard that your ship is so like ready to fight but..you just..ugh....collectin coins..for america..