I don't like this game. At all.
This totally looks surprising, right? 
Well, its not. At all.
Take some anime, throw in some Contra, and you'd think that the combination would totally be bad ass, right? WRONG. This high concept, poorly executedbullet hell run and gun game is nothing less than a P.O.S.. Before I take a crack at finding some of the good, and using all of the horrible, let's see the backstory, yes?
The year is 2613, and an empire known as The Commonwealth controls everything. When there's an empire, there's usually a resistance, and that's where the player comes in. The emperor Tiberius must be overthrown.
Um...yeah...that's it.
There are five* playable characters; Bahamut, Krystal(she has an eye patch), Harley Daniels(pompadour)*, Sayuri(lady samurai)*, and the evil dude whose name escapes me and I have no intention of looking up*. *Denotes downloadable content.
The Dude in sunglasses with the awesome hair, is Harley. And again, lady samurai is Sayuri.
Just like Contra, the characters are able to have upgrades to their preexisting weapons via pick-ups. The standard gun, machine gun, laser, spread shot(shotgun), and rocket launcher included, but the game adds more of the futuristic twist with the addition of the wave gun, and heat gun(flame thrower). Both of the last guns have the ability to charge up the attacks which is a hassle when playing the game. But, let me be honest, playing the game itself is a hassle.
Let me show you what you do:
Shoot. Walk and shoot. Shoot. Walk. Jump. Shoot. But mainly, shoot.
This one has an explosion in it, but still shows the shooting.
The dude reflected the shot, but guess what; more shooting.
I tried to show some of the good of this game, but I really couldn't find anything to put... So, let me just dig into it. The checkpointing is shit. You don't get the pleasure of finishing a boss then if you screw up and miss a jump, get to respawn after the fight. You have to go back to the beginning to the fucking fight, do the fight, and then hopefully make the jump. You can't do more than double jump-dash. The movement speed is horrible. Take the heft of the Blob, with the added weight of plate mail, and you're still not slow enough for this games 'dash'. The lady samurai, Sayuri, BREAKS THE FUCKING GAME. I get that she is DLC, but that doesn't mean it's cool. She has only one weapon, her sword. But what she can do with that son-of-a-bitch is unjust. The regular attack is a horizontal slash that reaches the rest of the screen, reflecting bullets back to the enemies, and also killing almost everything in one hit. She also has a charge shot that kills everything in one shot. Why make her? I can say the only reason I played it so much is because of her, otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten through the first level. And finally, the worst of them all; this being a co-op title, the second player achievements are broken. The second player cannot receive them while playing. Having that said, they are making you play this shit game at least twice, both times for each player, to get the achievements. Fucked up. It's more of a punishment than a reward once you actually get them, what with the difficulty being drastically heightened from the get-go.
I cannot give a recommendation to this game. At all. I feel so bad that my own brother has played the living shit out of this, and was so excited once I finally bought it. Its a waste. It is torture. Do not play this game, no matter how much you think you want to. Ugh. 1 Iron Lizard out of 5.
