## Description

_Flying Red Barrel_ is a top-down, vertically-scrolling _bullet hell_ shooter
with planes. The story revolves around the Blue Sky Union, an organization
established to keep the skies safe. The game takes place ten years after the
foundation and the player is a girl, a member with the nickname Red Barrel.
The game area is vertically oriented and takes up only about half of the width
of the screen. On the left and the right side, portraits of Red Barrel and
fellow members or opponents regularly appear during gameplay to show
conversations.

The game has a comic-like look with large black outlines. The player’s red
plane can be moved around anywhere on the screen and needs to shoot the
incoming planes with an unlimited amount of constantly streaming bullets. As
the amount of attackers is overwhelming, it also involves a lot of bullet
dodging. Destroyed enemies leave behind gold coins that fill up to five
missile icons in the bottom left corner of the screen. Once one is a full, a
missile becomes available and it does a lot more damage than regular bullets.
The plane has three lives and there are three continues in total. There are
three difficulty modes and a high score table. Each stage ends with a boss
character, usually with multiple targets on a single craft. The game is not
entirely in 2D, as there are 2.5D sequences where enemies fly below or above
Red Barrel.

Flying Red Barrel ~Diary of a Little Aviator~