you beat raiden, well done
I thought nobody would do it, but you have. You have satisfied my needs of a 2d vertical scrolling shooter. Raiden only satisfied me about 90%. the problem with it was i got angry when i died because 1, you lose all your upgrades and 2, it was to hard to make a comeback with the stock weapons. the ship variety is awesome, you can't just sit back and hold spacebar the whole time and expect to win. the upgradeable weapon system is AWESOME!!! it makes me happy that someone finally got it right. you can buy more weapons, upgrade them, and upgrades COMBINE weapons which is an awesome idea and you used it to its fullest. This game is definately better than raiden, which i thought to be the best game on newgrounds. raiden has no storyline, your storyline is intresting and isn't corney like many other games on newgrounds. Raiden is repetetive, of course i never thought any of this until i played this game. In raiden you die and simply respawn and commense the shooting. Here, you fail, but then you want to go back and try a new weapon/strategy, making this game very addictive and also giving it a huge replay value. you did everything Raiden did wrong and did it right, and everything it did right, and made it better! What blows me away most is this is an ORIGINAL game, raiden is a remake of an old arcade game honestly there is nothing wrong with this game, you know that, and so do i, other people are either immature kids, or jealous losers. I commend you greatly for your work, i hope to see a possible sequal or another game at al from you. haha i have to shut up and go back to playing, i failed to kill the W ship beta's twice now and i'm itching for some revenge.