Best thing about this one is the music, which rules and complements the cool setting pretty well. Otherwise it's unfortunately chock-full of shit I despise in shmups. It's horizontal, a large portion of the weapons feel more like punishments when you pick them up, stage layouts are more threatening than enemies or bosses, ammo management, and the checkpoint system is beyond exhausting and immensely slows the game to a crawl for making even the slightest mistake. I can see why people like it, it's got style and FF7 era Square behind it but it's not for me.