I had been avoiding Mega Drive games with "Heavy" in their titles for quite a while thanks to a certain unplayable mech brawler, but after seeing some activity for this one here I ended up getting indirectly peer pressured into booting the game out of curiosity.

It looks and sounds really shitty, but for some reason it's awfully alluring with it's garbage-ness. A kind of "ugly beauty" I guess. The music is nothing outstanding, but I like the soundfont a bunch? It's like when you listen to a metal band who doesn't have any fantastic compositions, but their production sounds really fucking cool. I don't know how else to put it.

The game was rather easy as it should be the in the first level, apparently so easy I fell asleep at the wheel and died to something. Upon respawning in 1-3 with all of my upgrades stripped I died about three times attempting to get through a big moon-looking enemy that was tracking me, he wouldn't die in time to my shots and I was only barely fast enough to get around him without his hitbox clipping me. It was at that point I went "oh bby its one of those shmups ain't it?" The final boss can kiss my ass too, I love only having ten centimeters to work with while I operate my useless school bus.

This ain't a good shmup, but I don't detest it's existence, so I guess it can feel good about that.