Played this just enough to start to stockholm myself but not enough that one credit into DDP wouldnt snap me out of it. Yeah this is playable, has the lasers, has the hidden bees, has a lot of the enemy designs/sprites the later games would reuse, is one of the first bullet hells, etc. But every ship is so sluggish compared not just to DDP but any later cave game — to the extent that I’d recommend everyone just play TypeC since TypeA isnt fast enough to not be frustrating anyway. And all the bullets are RED. Hope you like it and also arent colorblind and if you arent that they never just naturally blend into the background — for me unfortunately 0 for 3 there. It’s always nice to dig deeper into hard shmups and learn some survival, pick up your own basic scoring strats (which here is mostly just short bursts of chaining but whatever), etc. Maybe doubly so for a foundational game like this. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say I think the time I spent on this wouldve been better off added to the time I’ve spent on DDP, DOJ, or even Batsugun.

1credit Pb: reached 2-3 with 12.9mil pts, Type C