A textbook example of "too much shit going on". I appreciate the sheer amount of content Raizing packed into a half-hour arcade shmup, but by spreading themselves thin with a giant ship roster and loads of unlockable stages I feel they lost sight of the formula that worked so, uh, "well" for Garegga - approachable exterior, confounding systems. There's so much variety that I can never settle on actually playing the game, just doing a series of test drives of various character teams. And like Garegga, the way the game operates seems to be based more on vague suggestions than actual logic - sometimes bosses take forever to kill, sometimes they're just anticlimactic. The bosses in general are a downgrade from the twitch dodging of Garegga, with a lot more trick attacks and gimmicks that are bound to kill you the first time you see them (seriously, what the fuck were they thinking with Envy?) and some so sparse and unthreatening that they feel unfinished (Bazzcok is a bit pointless aside from the opening cheapshot laser).
On the upside: while a bit too gaudy at times, the visuals are much more eye-friendly than the overwhelmingly grey and brown Garegga. The soundtrack is less solemn and atmospheric than Garegga's, but fun as hell,
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