What was the song at the menu?

I always loved the Raiden series...

So it's nice to see something like this every now and then. However, you amp the difficulty waaay too quickly, and not even having one of those fairies pop up to give you a few items to ease the respawning if you die just makes it so that you have to spend the rest of the level dying to respawn for 3 more bombs.
All in all, I'm rating this as... well, harshly as I can, since this is based off one of my favorite series.
Weapon layout=+3 I really like how the purple weapon acts here. And I like how you don't have to fight to stay with one weapon, since all three are active at once.
Music=+4 I love the Raiden music.
Difficulty=-2 Very good starting difficulty, but a player stands no chance if he dies and loses everything when there's a constant massive swarm coming at him.
Replayability=+1 Only due to the score carrying.
Can't think of anything else to rate, so this is it.

it was okay

I liked it but ive played the original before and it wasn't all that great compared to the original. There were alot of different things like
1.The power ups changed your power and looked a bit different.
2.The map doesn't change
3.Not this many enemies came until much much later in the original Raiden II

I will give you points for the music. it was VERY nostalgic LOL

Un-playable

There must be somethign I'm missing here.

Playability 1
I play RaidenX all the time and I love it and I keep trying to play this one and find it completely unplayable. I see people give it reviews and I really can't understand why they give it the scores they do.
First: I don't care about the auto fire. It's not a issue as far as I'm concerned.
Second: Way way way too many enemies that can't get destroyed quickly enough.
I just don't get it. Whats even worse is that if you die you lose all your powerups.
I know RaidenX is like that but it doesn't make sense to me especially when I can't blow enemies up already! I find I have to rely on bombs over and over again.
Im giving you a 2 on playability. Perhaps there is something I am missing, but right now..for all the times I've tried to play this and not even get past level 2...I don't know what it is.

Art:9 Beautiful. No comments
Music: 8 good.

Total score 6

not so good without auto shooting

it took all the fun out of the game