My quest to get into STGs continues with a game that I've long been interested in from bumping the OST throughout late night college study sessions. The first stage of this immediately drew me in just from the environment design alone. Add onto that the mechanics surrounding your secondary weapon, and the fact that bosses have tons of locational damage opportunities that radically change the course of the fight and I thought I was in for a really great time. Unfortunately, after beating my head against it for a while I just find the lack of on-the-spot respawning to be far too punitive for me to properly learn the game. I'm not sure how much this is common genre convention I just don't jive with, and how much of it is this game in particular, but nevertheless I was filtered after being stuck on stage 4 for far too long. Still gonna rock this OST forever though.