It doesn't suck. I was skeptical on this release, but it is Cave so I knew I'd be paying for it. The game is a twin-stick shooter. You control the female character from the series and shoot bugs in an area which opens up the next one after killing enough bugs, basically the same move and kill system as Phantasy Star Online. It's sprite based graphics and it controls really well for an IPhone game. To be fair, I have yet to find an IPhone game control-scheme that uses the virtual joystick that I like (I've only had my IPhone for a month btw). This is the first. It's still not perfect and does take some getting use to, but its not broken.
I only got through the first world which is concluded with an end boss. Area one is a forest, followed by a desert in world two. There are some bullet hell moments (only a few so far, it is early in the game still), but having free movement makes it a different type of shmup than usual Cave fare. In fact I'd equate to Heavenly Guardian more so than I would any other Cave shooter. Its fun, not the console HD vertical shmup I'd like to see Cave make, but for four bucks its not too shabby.
Anyone else have a chance to check it out? I got the rail shooter Rage HD today also, about to go play that.
