History VideoGame / Stellavanity

* NintendoHard: The game is fairly managable on the lower difficulty levels, but on [[HarderThanHard Nightmare and Pandemonium]], there is no god. And that's without getting into playing in Type-S mode, where unless you straight up look up guides and replays, your score over the entire game will be about as high as the qualifying score on stage 1.

* CopyProtection: The [=DLsite=] version previously required a [=DLsite=] account that has purchased the game in order to play it. Certain antivirus software could cause the DRM to fail and prevent the game from starting up. As of November 2013, the game is available DRM-free.

* GameBreakingBug: The English [=DLsite=] version of the game is ''completely unplayable''. Your character clearly tilts left and right in response to inputs but ''does not move.''

** The Type-S exclusive Delayed Shift, which increases shot power, slows down enemy bullets, makes the destruction of enemies turn any bullets they've fired transform into jewels and enables a screen-clearing Counter Burst that gets stronger based on how much you increase your jewel counter during it at the cost of preventing overkill on normal enemies, preventing any and all coins from dropping (most of them become jewels instead), and [[MoreDakka increasing the amount of bullets fired by all enemies and bosses]] ([[UpToEleven this still applies to Pandemonium difficulty, by the way]]).

* CastFromHitPoints: Holding down the bomb button without having any bombs in stock allows you to exchange lives for bombs (at a rate of 4 bombs per life) without actually getting hit. If the life that's sacrificed is your only extra life in stock, you get a 5th bomb as well.

* MacroGame: After each play, the character you played as gains ExperiencePoints and can level up, which increases their starting stats in Story Mode. You can also purchase accessories to use, up to two of which can be equipped in a particular playthrough. Rule Mode downplays this by starting your character at level 10 but lets you still use accessories, and Strict Rule Mode does the same but also disallows accessories.

* OneHitPolykill: Killing more than one enemy with a single use of Assault and/or Blade results in a Multikill bonus.

** The Type-S exclusive Delayed Shift, which increases shot power, slows down enemy bullets, turns bullets previously fired by destroyed enemies into jewels and enables a screen-clearing Counter Burst that gets stronger based on how much you increase your gem counter during it at the cost of preventing overkill on normal enemies, preventing any and all coins from dropping (most of them become jewels instead), and [[MoreDakka increasing the amount of bullets fired by all enemies and bosses]] ([[UpToEleven this still applies to Pandemonium difficulty, by the way]]).

A complete game based on versions 0.30 onward, known as ''StellaVanity -Prelude to the Destined Calamity-'', was released at Comiket 81 in December 2011 / January 2012. It was supposed to eventually have an English translation by the developer himself, but he nixed those plans, as well as English-language versions of his future games, after catching wind of the game being leaked to Western Website/{{Imageboards}}, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings prompting complete cutoff with his English-speaking fans]], leaving the game to be available only through the Japanese version of [=DLsite=]. However, things have changed since and the game was [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091855.html released]] on the English version of [=DLsite=] on November 13, 2013. Another game based on versions leading up to version 0.22, known as ''StellaVanity D -Passage to the Isolated Moon'', is currently in development.

The game was released at Comiket 81 in December 2011 / January 2012. It was supposed to eventually have an English translation by the developer himself, but he nixed those plans, as well as English-language versions of his future games, after catching wind of the game being leaked to Western Website/{{Imageboards}}, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings prompting complete cutoff with his English-speaking fans]], leaving the game to be available only through the Japanese version of [=DLsite=]. However, things have changed since and the game was [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091855.html released]] on the English version of [=DLsite=] on November 13, 2013.

* BulletTime: With the added advantage of being able to delete enemy bullets by killing the enemy a la ''VideoGame/{{Espgaluda}}''.
* CastFromHitPoints: Holding down the bomb button without having any bombs in stock allows you to exchange lives for bombs at a rate of 1:4 without actually getting hit. If the life that's sacrificed is your only extra life in stock, you get a 5th bomb as well.

* HarderThanHard: The difficulty levels are as follows: Easy, Normal, Arcade, Hard, Nightmare, Pandemonium. Hard more is already difficult enough that the creator of the game got hit on Stage 1, but Pandemonium... well... looks a lot like [[http://i.imgur.com/jEBb5sI.png this]]. And that's ''the first stage.''

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As if it wasn't hard enough to master one character, Tris_Gram has stated that he intends to have at least 5 in the full version, all of whom will control differently.

* OneHitPolykill: Killing more than one enemy with a single use of your Assault weapon results in the Multikill bonus.

** The Type-S exclusive Delayed Shift, which increases shot power, slows down enemy bullets, turns bullets previously fired by destroyed enemies into jewels and enables a screen-clearing Counter Burst that gets stronger based on how much you increase your gem counter during it at the cost of preventing overkill on normal enemies, preventing any and all coins from dropping (most of them change into gems), and [[MoreDakka increasing the amount of bullets fired by all enemies and bosses]] ([[UpToEleven this still applies to Pandemonium difficulty, by the way]]).
** The also Type-S exclusive Ethereal Shift, which gives you a rapid-fire variant of the [[{{Roboteching}} Assault Lock-on Shots]] fired for the duration, prevents the coin value multiplier from decreasing, prevents bosses from dying or switching phases (enabling massive overkill bonuses, but increasing the intensity of the patterns), enables infinite usage of Blade and enables a shield that sacrifices a bomb and the mode to prevent death (except during a boss overkill phase, which just sacrifices the mode) at the cost of denying overkill on normal enemies, disabling Raids and increasing the amount of enemies that appear during stages.

* BeamSpam: In Ethereal Shift mode, your homing lasers constantly fire at a rate of about 8 per second.

* CastFromHitPoints: Holding down the bomb button without having any bombs in stock allows you to exchange lives for bombs at a rate of 1:4 without actually getting hit. If the life that's sacrificed is your only extra life, you get a 5th bomb as well.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Averted. At least one of the characters is male, unusually for a Doujin shmup.

** Also, the controls. Default configuration for them gives you 6 buttons (the minimum, mind you), with both shifts on one button and your shot type determined by whether or not you hold the slow button down. You can up this to 8 buttons in the config, splitting your laser and auto shots to two different buttons WHILE ALSO having Ethereal Shift on its own button.
* SpinAttack: With a sword.

** The Type-S exclusive Delayed Shift, which slows down bullets and enables a screen-clearing Counter Burst that gets stronger based on how much you increase your gem counter during it at the cost of preventing overkill on normal enemies, preventing any and all coins from dropping (most of them change into gems), and [[MoreDakka increasing the amount of bullets fired by all enemies and bosses]] ([[Up^toEleven this still applies to Pandemonium difficulty, by the way.]])
** The also Type-S exclusive Ethereal Shift, which gives you a rapid-fire variant of the [[{{Roboteching}} Assault Lock-on Shots]] fired for the duration, prevents the coin value multiplier from decreasing, Allows you to perform considerable overkill on a boss while also preventing overkills on normal mooks.
** Overdrive is a universal super mode that consumes a bomb but boosts your shot power for a short while.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The basis of the entire Type-S scoring system revolves around overkilling enemies. ''Including bosses.''

** Type-C has Accelerator Drive as of 1.20, which increases shot power similarly to Overdrive, boosts the charge speed of the Discharge (except during boss fights), increases the amount of coins that appear when enemies are destroyed and increases the rank of jewels created from bullets canceled by the Discharge. It's even possible to extend the duration of the Accel Drive by using Overdrive during it, though the item-boosting benefits are lost when this is done.

* BeamSpam: In Ethereal Shift mode, your homing lasers constantly fire at a rate of about 10/second.

* SuperMode: At least 3 of them (which can stack, too), and possibly more in the final game. Just from the trial:
** Delayed Shift, which gets stronger based on how much you increase your gem counter during it at the cost of preventing overkill on normal enemies, preventing any and all coins from dropping (most of them change into gems), and [[MoreDakka increasing the amount of bullets fired by all enemies and bosses]] ([[Up^toEleven this still applies to Pandemonium difficulty, by the way.]])
** Ethereal Shift, which gives you a rapid-fire variant of the [[{{Roboteching}} Assault Lock-on Shots]] fired for the duration, prevents the coin value multiplier from decreasing, Allows you to perform considerable overkill on a boss while also preventing overkills on normal mooks.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The basis of the entire scoring system revolves around overkilling enemies. ''Including bosses.''

** Type-C has Accelerator Drive, which increases shot power similarly to Overdrive, boosts the charge speed of the Discharge (except during boss fights), increases the amount of coins that appear when enemies are destroyed and increases the rank of jewels created from bullets canceled by the Discharge. It's even possible to extend the duration of the Accel Drive by using Overdrive during it, though the item-boosting benefits are lost when this is done.

* CastFromHitPoints: One of the items that can be bought allows you to exchange lives for bombs without actually getting hit.

** Overdrive, which consumes a bomb but boosts your shot power for a short while.

The game was released at Comiket 81 in December 2011 / January 2012. It was supposed to eventually have an English translation by the developer himself, but he nixed those plans, as well as English-language versions of his future games, after catching wind of the game being leaked to Western {{Imageboard}}s, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings prompting complete cutoff with his English-speaking fans]], leaving the game to be available only through the Japanese version of [=DLsite=]. However, things have changed since and the game was [[http://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE091855.html released]] on the English version of [=DLsite=] on November 13, 2013.

* HarderThanHard: The difficulty levels are as follows: Easy, Normal, Arcade, Hard, Nightmare, Pandemonium. Hard more is already difficult enough that the creator of the game got hit on Stage 1, but Pandemonium... well... looks a lot like [[http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4938/pandemonium.png this]].

* DevelopmentHell: Development halted (to the surprise of nearly everybody following it) back in August 2010, only to resume in November (with the creator also learning enough english to explain enough of the game mechanics to the English-speaking community), only to be paused ''AGAIN'' (albeit briefly) in Early February 2011. Development resumed (with a complete overhaul of the gameplay mechanics) in late February 2011. If Tris_Gram stays on track (which, [[DoingItForTheArt given how much attention to detail is being given to EVERYTHING,]] is kind of a long shot), there's a chance the game will be released for Comiket 81 (Winter 2011).
** It struck again, but Tris_Gram is already considering doing the final touches on the previous version of Stella Vanity (from before the complete overhaul of the game mechanics) and releasing the "OLD" version at C81 (with potential plans to turn that version freeware after a period of time), with the NEW version aimed for C82 (August 2012).

* CopyProtection: The [=DLsite=] version requires a [=DLsite=] account that has purchased the game in order to play it. You also need to launch startup.exe to play the game; launching the game executable itself will cause the game to throw up an error message at startup. Finally, certain antivirus software can cause the DRM to fail and prevent the game from starting up.

The game was released at Comiket 81. It was supposed to eventually have an English translation by the developer himself, but he nixed those plans, as well as English-language versions of his future games, after catching wind of the game being leaked to Western {{Imageboard}}s, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings prompting complete cutoff with his English-speaking fans]]. Nonetheless, the game can be [[http://www.dlsite.com/home/work/=/product_id/RJ091855.html purchased on the Japanese version of DLsite]]; barring language barriers, the game download is not region-locked and can be purchased with almost any big-name credit card.

** And then the current lack of English translations (partly due to Tris_gram [[http://www.feathered-ether.com/info_e.html suspending english documentation at least until the game is released]]) makes figuring out some mechanics mostly trial-and-error, with an extra helping of error. While there are buttons specifically for Blade and Ethereal Shift, nothing (in English, at least) hints that Overdrive is done by holding the bomb button down. And then there's the accessories...

* CopyProtection: The [=DLsite=] version requires a [=DLsite=] account that has purchased the game in order to play it. You also need to launch startup.exe to play the game; launching the game executable itself will cause the game to throw up an error message at startup.

* HarderThanHard: Beyond Hard, there's Nightmare and Pandemonium mode. Hard more is already difficult enough that the creator of the game got hit on Stage 1, but Pandemonium... well... looks a lot like [[http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4938/pandemonium.png this]].

* HarderThanHard: Pandemonium mode. Hard more is already difficult enough that the creator of the game got hit on Stage 1, but Pandemonium... well... looks a lot like [[http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4938/pandemonium.png this]].

* {{DRM}}: The [=DLsite=] version requires a [=DLsite=] account that has purchased the game in order to play it.

A BulletHell game that is simultaneously the successor to ''VideoGame/CrimzonClover'' and ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'', by the [[DoingItForTheArt absurdly detail-oriented]] developer [[http://stellavanity.seesaa.net/ Tris_Gram]]. So far, about 5 trials have released, during which time the game has changed from a simple ''VideoGame/{{Espgaluda}}'' clone to an absurdly complex shmup with RPGElements. The current version, 0.30d, uses ''six buttons''.

The game was released at Comiket 81. It was supposed to eventually have an English translation by the developer himself, but he nixed those plans, as well as English-language versions of his future games, after catching wind of the game being leaked to Western {{Imageboard}}s, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings prompting complete cutoff with his English-speaking fans]].

The game was released at Comiket 81. It was supposed to eventually have an English translation by the developer himself, but he nixed those those plans, as well as English-language versions of his future games, after catching wind of the game being leaked to Western {{Imageboard}}s, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings prompting complete cutoff with his English-speaking fans]].

The game is expected to be done by Comiket 82.