Rise & Fall of Shoot'em Ups

What's not to like with Guwange.. apart from all the good stuff that's been said, the music is beautiful. I even got the intro music as a ring tune.

Dodonpachi is THE 2d benchmark, graphic detail, bullets, and most of all, the balance of popcorn enemies and big baddies.

Now BOTH of these are cave shooters, so yeaa. cave really does really rule the 2000 something shooter category.

2.5D (3d shooters in 2d perspecitve) are pretty good these days however. Ps2s Gradius V and rtype final are both great games.
Ikaruga has me split, sometimes I love it above everything else.. atm I hate the f*cker where every d*amn enemy punishes me by dying with the wrong colour bullets :/

Just count the damn gems 123 5567 8 ;)

"maybe it feels like youre getting more gems because the closer you are = the faster the gameplay is.
so that it creates an illusion"