very high energy low budget title. there isn't much unique content, the enemy encounters are just whatever spaghetti, but the game feel really elevates my enjoyment of this game. it feels really good to just spam 20 fireballs enemies (or other players lol) can't retaliate against, or jump installing a ground dash through the prolonged hitstop of a dash normal to circumvent the games lack of prejump frames. speaking of which, although that specific technique while very difficult and essentially frame perfect, it only exists because of the only thing i do find annoying about this game; it's massive buffer window, on top of negative edge lasting like around 15 frames. this leads to you all the time accidentally performing the same move twice in a row, randomly jumping/dashing, etc. but i'm willing to take that trade off for sweatlord jump cancels.

The Vs Capcom to Mad Stalker's Street Fighter II, but the lack of budget and enemy variety makes things extremely repetitive. There's a ton of cues taken from Treasure (especially Gunstar and Guardian Heroes) - most good, like the combat style and high-energy take on Laputa, - but most design shortcuts they replicated don't work in this context. There's exactly one generic enemy type with variants and a couple gimmickier versions - which is fine in Gunstar because the enemy waves are fat to chew between the bosses and setpieces, but not so much in a fixed-lane brawler.

And god what jackass made this a fixed continue game? Beat Stage 7 on my last life and got treated to the Fill-In Cafe boss rush, said 'nope' and just turned it off there. Fucking sickos lmfao.