Meaning of bullet hell | Babel Free

Definitions

A (genre of) two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a barrage of enemy bullets.

attributive, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Mars Matrix is a bullet hell game that is pretty well designed.”

“A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle. Grimy VCRs are hooked up to bullet-hell shooting games...”

“The camera is a convenient nonviolent replacement for a gun, a principle perhaps taken most literally by Shoot the Bullet (2005), a bullet hell game in which you clear bullets by photographing them.”

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