Twin Seeds DX - Tohou Style Vertical Shooter

This is a cute vertical shooter with some catchy tunes and tough boss battles. This is basically danmaku with cute characters where the focus is more on stylish bullet dodging and grazing rather than shooting down your enemies. You know the drill, dodge if you can, bomb when in a pinch. In fact, You can also focus shoot to slow down your character for precision dodging and increased damage but at the cost of your score. Each stage features a 3D scrolling landscape with 2D characters and unique boss battles, each with their own special abilities. There are four levels of difficulty (been a while since I played so this might not be accurate) but all of them are actually quite hard once you reach level 4, which is as far as I can get in this game, because of the way the bullet patterns swarm in on you until you have no place left to dodge. You can continue from the level where you last died even after you exit the game.

This game is freeware, so you can download it from the author's homepage http://www.geocities.jp/pooytwo/

Also, there's another game on the same page, KagaMI, but it seems to be a beta right now.