The follow up to MUSHA improves the difficulty but is a huge step down in almost every other aspect. Pacing comes to a crawl with forced story sections and the soundtrack despite using CD audio is rather lackluster compared to its predecessor which was a powerful showcase of the Genesis hardware under the right hands. It does make some cool use of the Sega CD sprite scaling capabilities but otherwise you're better off playing MUSHA over this.

The holy grail of most Genesis owners. MUSHA is a fast paced shmup albeit on the easier side(1CC'd it my second try) but makes up for it in incredible presentation and a roaring speed metal soundtrack. After finding out Raizing was formed from ex-Compile devs I started to notice some of their DNA in this game mostly with the little guys who float around you that you can change various formations with.