With Lux-Pain Chapter 1! Sorry for the plethora of screenshots in advance you'll likely see. Also the music playing right now is so good.

Creator of Tabletop Archaeology 101, and Hostile Takeover. Bookworm, music nerd. avarisclari at tutanota dot com
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With Lux-Pain Chapter 1! Sorry for the plethora of screenshots in advance you'll likely see. Also the music playing right now is so good.
I just killed a Cthulu-like monster with a giant knight sticking out of its head that has two armor-clad tentacles that attack you with poleaxes. Video games are awesome
I'm playing Lord of Apocalypse and mostly navigating the game fine despite not knowing Japanese... and yet I was able to guess an item's use because it was a consumable and had this character at the front of the name: 火. In certain fields there is a "heatwave" similar to the deserts in Monster Hunter and that item protects you against them. I recognized the character as "Fire" because of an American show: Teen Titans.
just saw that the Eigengrau (PC - Switch) dev recently went public with (most of) the game's source code, as well as various design sketches, devlogs, etc—cool move, & one I'd love to see reciprocated by other STG devs
if, for whatever reason, you're currently in the mood to play a recent non-traditional STG by someone who's played more than fifteen minutes of STG in their lifetime, this is certainly one worth looking into (there's a demo!)