Played on Capcom Arcade. It took me a stage or two to realize that you can spin your character around, and in the manual it tells you to use your trigger buttons to spin your guy left or right. After a few stages of that I thought how much better it would feel if it used twin stick controls, just tried it, and was really surprised when that worked. I was already enjoying flying through stages blasting lizard men as a Fist of the North Star character via Tom of Finland, and the freedom of movement added a lot to it.

The game slightly overstays its welcome for me, maybe because I wasn't very good and never had enough money to buy the cool looking weapons, so I had the same weapon for most of the game; still, a shooting game where you're just a guy flying around is pretty novel (only other ones I can think of are ESP Ra.De. and Espgaluda). Each stage is really difficult, but the bosses were pretty fun to fight.