Not too into this one. It's basically R-Type on crack, usually (if not always) to its detriment. Most notably, it somehow amplifies the difficulty and memorization elements even further, leaving behind a borderline barbaric end result. Stage 7 is probably the stupidest, most unfair level I've played in a shmup thus far. Not helping much is the length, being several stages too many while each one progressively gets longer to begin with. Also similar to R-Type is the visuals and presentation, though it's nothing that the former doesn't do better anyway.

I really don't like the weapon switching either. It reminds me of Hellfire, which was very bad about this in essentially the same way (talked about in more detail here https://www.backloggd.com/u/Jenny/review/456097/).

Overall I'm left kinda disappointed. It's not necessarily bad by any means but it made me wish I was playing various other shmups more to my liking, and I just wanted it to be over even when I was only a little past the halfway point.