Of course, despite these efforts toward accessibility of purchase, there's still the matter of being able to successfully play a Cave game, and ... surprisingly, that's been made accessible too, for those who fear the true "bullet hell" experience. That is, if you want to set it up to be easy.

If you'd like Bug Princess to be easy, you can turn the difficulty down to "novice." You can make it so that being hit by an enemy triggers a bomb to get rid of all on-screen projectiles. The controls are easy to understand -- you drag the screen to move your ship, and even have the option of shrinking the game window to make room for your fat finger. Otherwise, you have a couple of customizable buttons to issue "formation" commands to your collectible "option" drones, and to fire bombs.

For a game from 2004, Bug Princess is remarkable to look at. The giant bug enemies have a subtle 3D effect, looking as if they're towering above the distant ground. The whole enemy army is made of giant bugs, by the way. Crawling, flying, swarming, colorful giant bugs. You won't have much time to stare at them, with glowing purple bullets filling the screen, but they are striking to see. Of course, those hypnotic bullet patterns are pretty nice to look at too.

I would never have guessed that the most "casual" game system imaginable would become a boon for games like this, designed only for crazy people. I approve!