My Personal Experience

I utterly adore this game! I'm not the best player, so some shmup legend can point to other games with potentially better technical systems. You know what? I DON'T CARE! Might not be the best, but Hellsinker's own systems do it all for me — the scoring (even if my experience there is limited), the SURVIVAL, the music, the atmosphere, even the lore! You heard that right, lore in a shmup that's worth caring about. I LOVE IT SOOOOO MUCH!

I'll start with when I got started aside from the initial purchase. I hadn't intended to put it on my catalog of games to clear, but talking in this chat unintentionally pressured me to blurt it as my next shmup goal. Cue this great guy named orbajo, Hellsinker legend and just a great guy who locked onto that and sent me a friend request. Well, now I was sort of locked into playing it, so he and I begin communications that were just great. Guides from him, general discussion, all of it!

When I first started, and to this date, I was struck by how great the music was. From Segment One to Two, no matter, they were always fitting with the level atmospherically but also just solid pieces on their own. I recommend listening to Track 29 in the OST (The Final boss' theme, so spoilers) for one of the best. Also Segment Six Part One as well, it's utterly serene, beautiful, somber, all that and so relaxing. The music syncs are just great too. I remember getting to Segment 6's bosses (it's a two in one) and the music sync was just splendid. The opera build-up into the laser coming in at the drop is still among the top for me.