Yikes. What a dreadful game. Its core mechanics are X4's, so shooting and jumping still feels good, which is a trick because everything else in this game is awful. Some great music, but mostly because it's reused and remixed from prior titles. The enemy and upgrade loop is totally broken, forcing you to revisit one stage (the worst one!) three totally separate times. The time limit is pointless given the randomness that determines success with the colony, and the part system is obtuse. Real bad localization, too. Wild to consider the sharp drop in quality of pretty much everything between X4 and this. There are little brief moments that remind you of better games, but this is the start of a real downward spiral for the series.