[Gideon Zhi]

Crazy top-down bullet-hell actionrpg. Thing.

Your little guy's attack is a charge-based shield thing. It can dissolve enemy bullets, and if you charge it up high enough to kill the enemy that fired the bullets, the bullets will turn into bonus EXP crystals. As you kill the bosses the normal enemies get progressively harder, and as a result drop progressively more crystals. Despite its simple presentation, I was horribly addicted by this game and played through it in its entirety in two sittings, breaking only for dinner. It took about eight hours.

PROTIP: The Agate Knife artifact supposedly causes the final boss to become harder (and possibly leads to a "best" ending - I got the normal one but did not find the knife.) If you wish to find the knife, do so BEFORE picking up the final boss key (the pendant), as any rooms you have not visited will become inaccessible once the pendant is acquired.
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