The variety in levels is nice but each play style is janky in its own special way. The jump makes this odd U-shape that’s unwieldy for anyone used to a more traditional jump. There’s a room where you have to make a long series of one-tile jumps, and I lost at least 15 lives there.
You walk/fly/drive rather slowly, making dodging feel sluggish. The game is very easy but can’t restrain itself from throwing cheap shot after cheap shot at you. Enemies are much faster than you, and they will burst from the edge of the screen at warp speed. You at least have a long health bar to soak up several hits. The final boss was honestly hilarious, the two bosses teleport to either side of you and fire so many bullets that you will die comically quickly. Then, once you figure out the timing to jump over one, they die comically quickly.
The music and visuals are absolutely not up to par for a 1990 release. It seems the game originally came out in 86 in Japan, and it is very noticeable. Most of the songs are grating and the sprites are incredibly simplistic.

That might be the ugliest horse I’ve ever seen.