A Sunsoft shmup where you're a badass car shooting things? With the Sunsoft music that's a bonus what could possibly go wrong?

Well, it's a Momentum Shmup. For those unaware, a Momentum Shmup is a term I give to shmups where you are reset to base power when you die, despite the game feeling designed for you to be at full power at all times, but if you lose your momentum, the game becomes near impossible. It gets harder the further you go with the game throwing more and more insta-kills at you the further you get, some you're going so fast you may have no idea what killed you. It's neat you can go this fast and the game seems to encourage it, but since your speed is based on where you are on the screen it's hard to dodge vertically without tripping up your movement in the level.

The game slows down a ton the more things are on the screen. This seems intentional with letting you dodge it but then things become jarring with the fluctuation of both your speed of the car and the game's speed. This also factors into a very common cause of death, Jumps, where if you miss the landing you'll die and sometimes if you land there's another ramp right after in a different spot you have no way of knowing about beforehand and you'll miss that and die.

So yeah, it's alright you get to be a badass car it just has too many things that instantly kill you.