DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm (Japanese: 怒首領蜂II DoDonPachi Tsū; Chinese: 蜂暴 Bee Storm) is a vertically scrolling bullet hell shoot 'em up developed by International Games System (IGS) and published by Capcom in 2001.
At the end of each stage, a boss appears, each having multiple different attack patterns and consisting of individual parts that can be destroyed.
[2] Around this time, Cave was considering leaving the arcade business due to their decline in popularity and difficulties finding publishers for their work (Progear would have been their final game).
[3] Time Extension called the game "a hit, convincing CAVE to both stay in the market and to adopt IGS’s PGM hardware for their future titles.
"[1] Time Extension said the game apes "the bullet hell style with enjoyable but somewhat crude results" and "[...] the story of how it came to be and how it affected CAVE’s future is the most compelling aspect of its history".