It's hard to overstate what a massive step forward this feels like for the shooter genre, which until this point may be fun in parts but often feels extremely punishing so it can wring quarters out of you until you've memorized exactly where the enemies are coming from for the game's length. Toaplan's Flying Shark! is a a difficult, but completely playable, vertical shooting game, and it's more often than not pretty fun to actually play. If Tiger-Heli was a rudimentary version of the Toaplan model, this is a complete core model that the future vertical games would be built off of. Really disappointing that the Toaplan Arcade garage games aren't coming Stateside, because I'd love to own this on the Switch without having to import it.