CometStriker DX

Everything necessary has already been said, can't praise this game enough. ILG and their games really deserve more attention.

I think this does a very good job of designing enemies around your restriction of only being able to shoot left and right. I think that restriction is the main thing that sets this game apart from many other, similar games (where you would either always shoot in one direction, or have complete "twin stick" control). The music is good and the designs are cute. It is definitely unforgiving in an "old-school" kind of way (losing upgrades when you get hit or respawn is maybe the biggest example), and I am not sure how I feel about that (I think it makes playing for score a little more fun and playing for survival a little less fun). The game definitely wants you to play on the arcade mode, instead of level-select, and I find the entire game to be a little bit too long for that, especially if you play on a difficulty where you are dying a lot.

Fantastic :)

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome

I saw this game in a speedrun a year ago. It's even more fantastic than it looked to play. It feels like an amazing and perfected culmination of the kinds of games that I loved as a teen in the 90s.

It's a game with a lot of potential, but like so many others, doesn't respect your time as a "feature". Buy it if it's on sale, but be aware you can't save and exit, not after chapters, not ever. You need to finish the whole thing in one go. Ridiculous.

SO GOOD! The controls are reminiscent of Section Z on NES and the visual style is strongly influenced by Metroid. The game is all the nostalgia goodness you can remember playing games as a kid. The art style is wonderfully colorful and the soundtrack perfectly complements the different areas. The game is SO GOOD! Play it!