sometimes "dodonpachi but now your giant fuck you laser has a hyper mode to turn it into an even bigger fuck you laser" is the main thing you want out of a sequel and this has easily the coolest fuck you laser out of the cave games i've played so far, but i'm still working on playing through more of their catalog so that is subject to change.

(the actual review is that it's quite good and the tweaks to the DDP formula are very cool and fun)