Talking with ZUN from the Touhou Series! A Conversation Hell
“The volcano stage in Gradius III was basically Bullet Hell. Even though it had incredible amounts of slowdown” – ZUN, creator of Touhou Project
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Vanquish
Mikami also noted that Vanquish was heavily inspired in both look and feel by the 1970s anime Shinzou Ningen Casshan by Tatsunoko Productions.