I'm not saying this game is a bad game, but I don't understand where all the praise for it is coming from. To get the positive out of the way, the controls feel good and the music sounds great. One more positive thing to mention is that Veteran feels kind of like what should have been the game to begin with and maybe implemented the shield mechanics at a more minimal level without making the player feel practically invincible for stages 1-6. Aside from that, everything else I experienced was mostly lackluster. The sound effects are horrible and some are borderline annoying. The ship doesn't even have any sound whatsoever. There's no sound effects for it's weaponry outside of the annoying impact noises. Normal difficulty seemed like an afterthought. The absorption mechanic just breaks the game and almost feels like cheating since you feel like you're not in any danger until you get to the boss of each stage. Stage 7 is the only stage that felt like any thought was put into enemy attack patterns and the player having to actually dodge fire. All the bosses are uninspired. I 1 CC'd this on my first play through and I'm one of the most horrible shoot'em up players I've ever seen. The game is also BAREBONES compared to other indie/doujin entries on Steam that offer up training, settings, replays, online ranking, etc.All the basic stuff.The game just doesn't even come close to being in the top ranks for me. I guess my tastes are just super different.
