Very creative take on the theme. I'm a real sucker for y2k/old windows/frutiger aero aesthetics, so the game was very attractive to try in that regard.

The presentation and lead-up to the gameplay were lovely. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy the patterns and the boss fight at all. There were a few reasons for this:
- The gameplay feels very slow. Every pattern continues on for an extremely long time, and the boss itself is super tanky. It would be way more fun if the boss switched patterns more often, and had more variations of attacks.
- The previous point is made even more painful due to most patterns being cheeseable. The pattern on your page's gif as an example - you can just stand in the same spot and not move and you'll be safe. And then the pattern keeps going for like half a minute? I would accept it if the pattern only took a few seconds before switching to something else that requires player action, but as is, it just felt very boring. You could make the bullet spawner rotate ever so slightly, shifting the safespots and making the player move, and it would already be an improvement.
- The massive performance drops on higher bullet counts were not pleasant, but again, you can just stand at a safespot and not move until a different attack happens. I don't think this issue affected my opinion on gameplay as it doesn't happen all the time, but it definitely clouds judgement.

Overall - I think the idea is cool. I can't think of a single bullet hell or a shmup with this aesthetic. I think it needs way more time, adjustments and playtesting, as well as a more robust way of rendering bullets (though you seem to have already fixed the performance according to one of your earlier comments). You don't need to change anything about presentation, but I would look into adjusting text spacing, icons and ui element sizes to make them more faithful to the old windows style. Understandably, it is a challenge, considering how different our modern resolutions are to the 4:3 of back then.

Congratulations on finishing the jam!

I love the setting and the aesthetics!

The bullet patterns fun, but maybe some of them overstay their welcome a bit, perhaps they should switch a bit faster. Also, unfortunately, when I got a pattern with lots of cards in it, the game became so laggy that it was unplayable and I just died :(

Even so, I enjoyed what I got to play and I think you did a very good job with it, well done!

This one is awesome. I haven't beaten it only because the cards are too much to handle for my pc (I tried to disable the CRT effect just in case but coherently it has no effect).

I love everything about the introduction, love the settings and presentation and I enjoy the bullet dodging part a lot because it offers the right difficulty for me.

I'm happy you put some parts where we who suck at games can graze so that we can appreciate the extra bullets too.

Great one!

I love the old Windows aesthetic! Unfortunately my FPS dropped really low when there were a lot of bullets

Loved this game so much I forced my wife to sit down and play it also, perfection! Hope you win best overall.

Absolutely nailed the vibes! Some really creative and fun bullet patterns and I like the general work with windows.

Some of the bullet patterns were a bit too tailored to just standing still for my taste, and the boss did feel a bit bullet spongy. I think making it easier to upgrade with grazing and adding some more effects and feedback when hitting the boss would go a long way towards this.

Also my computer did start slowing to a crawl at some point hah.

Great game and overall interpretation of the theme. I really enjoyed it, but there definitely were some optimizationissues. Other than that very fun game, great job!

This game was really good and enjoyable! I liked how the game would crash when you restart. One thing I noticed was that you could close the restart window after you died and then have no way to start over. Also some optimization might be nice to reduce lag. Otherwise, it's amazing! Great work!

Okay, it's understandable to have a team make suck a good short game, great and easy game play ( Some patterns are exploitable).

And I got janked at the end because of lag, is this intentional?