After Valentine's Day, you can blast your way past all that lovey-dovey stuff by hopping in the cockpit with The Game Atelier's Sela the Space Pirate! Next Friday, this title will hit the App Store, bringing along with it a lighter take on the bullet-hell shooter genre. Wait, what? How is that even possible?

Instead of the minimalist brutality of something like Ikaruga, you will get a more colorful presentation, with fun characters and dialogue. In the game, Sela is not searching for space riches, like what a good pirate is usually up to. Instead, she must battle wave after wave of insect monsters that have come from the interior of an exploded meteor.

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Helping her along the way is her robot pal Botte, who knows his way around a laser or two. Sela the Space Pirate has 30 action-packed levels, that are full of the Three Bs that are essential to all games of this genre -- bosses, bullets and blasting.

Check out the trailer below:

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