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I don't know if I love it or hate it.

G-Darius HD, the package is amazing. But the actual game itself is more complicated. On Paper G-Darius is amazing, but in action it feels cheap, and mean.

Bullets you can barely see, a system that means if you die during a shield drop you can kiss your run goodbye. No shields on respawn also make the difficulty wonky at best.

That's the worst part really, the shield situation. If they wern't in the game it'd be better because the game would be ballanced with that in mind, but as it is the game never knows if you can take 1 hit before you die, or 15. Outside of that there are bullets you can barely see, and some of the midboss captures actually suck. It's an old game, and is one of the better Darius games, but it made me wonder if I even like Darius, or Shmups, and luckly Mamorukun Recurse came out for me to play to remind myself I do love shmups lol.

I just wonder now if Darius as a system can't work to make a good shmup? One thing is for sure - I was way too hard on Deathsmiles 1 in my review of that game. I've decided on G-Darius. I shouldn't, but I hate it.