Amazingly 5pb have pulled off a great port of my favourite shooter ever ^_^
Load times are almost non existent.
Slowdown and bullet patterns seem easily as accurate as any other 360 Cave port.
Presentation is much better than DOJBLEX, there's still room for improvement but everything seems to work well.
After a brief go, X mode seems like a lot of fun. Wider combo window and enemies that cancel bullets into chips when destroyed. Simple but effective idea.
As expected it doesn't look as pretty on a HDTV because of the old hardware and no scanline option but it's better than I expected thanks to some filter options including good old "Nearest Neighbour". I would definitely recommend a tated CRT if you can though.
The Limited Edition has a lovely hologram cover on the CD box
Oh and of course the game itself is still Cave's finest work IMVHO.
If you like shmups and don't have a Japanese 360 now, you're ga-ga.
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