Not enough into shmups to know how good this really is, but the soundtrack was enjoyable and the level aesthetics were mixed but generally good. I didn't ever feel too challenged to be discouraged even after trying mostly every mode. The game's got kinda wonky difficulty, as the hardest level by far is the third stage rather than the fourth or fifth ones after it. The bosses also don't progress all that well in the same vein (the true final boss is far harder than the rest but the third level's boss is also harder than the two after it), and for some reason the true final boss still has hitboxes after you blow its first phase up. I didn't 'true' 1cc this, but I 1cc'd until I died to that same weird hitbox thing right as phase 2 started (then beat it without using another continue). For a newbie to this genre I think that's close enough and good enough for me. Would recommend, but probably won't pick up again any time soon.