I mean, it's not bad, and I don't dislike it, it's just... I'd rather play SDOJ.

The design is also a bit too generic, honestly. It's just spaceships, and there's sometimes a picture of a girl. Lots of browns and greys, not helped by the UI around the game.

I'm loving DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou so much that I wanted to try DaiOuJou again.

And... well, it still doesn't really click. The novice mode is a bit too easy, and the normal mode is too difficult and too technical.

I am less regular on the third stage, which has a lot more stuff going on. I can't imagine how it is in normal mode. But I can at least reach the fourth stage most of the time. I still can't get to the boss, though.

I'm getting better little by little. I can now finish the second stage without using bombs or losing lives in a very regular manner (still novice mode).

There's even a third episode, made for Game Gear by M2 in 2020, with the luxury of having basically infinite space on the cart (the ROM is 1MB, which was very expensive back then) and a much deeper knowledge of what the series is about.