All this game really needs is to be able to move diagonally, its weird how it otherwise has very responsive controls and a focus button that works perfectly and yet no moving in more than one direction
The characters and bullet sprites look kinda good, the rest of the graphics are more of a mess
The bullet patterns range from actually good to decent but too random. The only problem here is the few enemies or bosses that move to random parts of the screen, particularly that they have a tendency to jump right next to you and take out all your lives in a second
There is no reason to make you press two button to shoot at full power, just have one fire button that does it or something.
Overall just make moving diagonally work somehow and you have a solid, albeit rough, game