In response to Cold_Confort's review [https://www.backloggd.com/u/Cold_Comfort/review/545006/]...
I've beaten a lot of other difficult shooters in my life (Image Fight and Super Star Soldier give me bad memories D:) but in all honestly I would replay this one because it's not a generic military shooter like 95% of this era nor is it a simple cute em up which has inventive designs and nothing else. This title just made me laugh a lot with the story beats and little details (the blue haired girl poking the body of one of the final bosses before it initiates battle, and the apartment that lets you transfer your weapon catching on flames in the last level 😂), it has a lot of charactherizations that is lacking in other games from this type (even the end credits have funny comments about the programmers): it has artistic merit even if it doesn't have a lot of "sportist" merit because of the difficulty design... and as such I consider it one of the best shmups I've ever played. Wish it didn't have an epileptic inducing background in the final boss though.
I've beaten a lot of other difficult shooters in my life (Image Fight and Super Star Soldier give me bad memories D:) but in all honestly I would replay this one because it's not a generic military shooter like 95% of this era nor is it a simple cute em up which has inventive designs and nothing else. This title just made me laugh a lot with the story beats and little details (the blue haired girl poking the body of one of the final bosses before it initiates battle, and the apartment that lets you transfer your weapon catching on flames in the last level 😂), it has a lot of charactherizations that is lacking in other games from this type (even the end credits have funny comments about the programmers): it has artistic merit even if it doesn't have a lot of "sportist" merit because of the difficulty design... and as such I consider it one of the best shmups I've ever played. Wish it didn't have an epileptic inducing background in the final boss though.