GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. I want to like shoot-em-ups so bad, but they aren't fun to me. The only way i could've beat this is because the ROM I was playing let me use infinite lives, and it was a GODSEND.

This shit just isn't fair, there's so much happening on the screen and background that half of the time i couldn't figure out what killed me, the bosses take fucking FOREVER to kill, some of the attacks they send out are borderline undodgeable, and finding the one piece would probably be easier than finding their hit-boxes.

If this is the peak of the genre, it looks like I won't be finding much else. MID