The old Techno team really flexes the CD future through the sheer amount of setpieces and enemy types they cram into such a brisk run. Besides that and some cleaner presentation values, I was pretty middling on this compared to Thunder Force III, this doesn't have as much a sense of 'character' as that game does, I don't like the weapon system as much here, the stages too narrow and claustrophobic, and most of the soundtrack was drowned out by the sound effects. Idk, maybe I'm just not in the right headspace for this right now.