Yet another shmup that quite honestly feels like it's defying the limitations of the Mega Drive. Its framerate isn't flawless but it's consistent enough to have a good sense of control. Definitely a game that you have to wrap your head around before attempting a successful run, I went from struggling to reach stage 3 with all continues to beating the game using two continues in the stages I was unfamiliar with in the very next run. I feel like this would be a great game if it had 2-3 more stages. 5 stages is just too short especially with the type of gameplay it's encouraging with branching paths mid-stage and an emphasis on racking up points to keep your life up. At a length this short and a pretty tame difficulty curve it just doesn't feel worthwhile to refine your runs, y'know? Hopefully another entry in the series is essentially this game but longer.