Yes, in fact I do like these type of games. I watched the videos as well before I bought this game and was surprised at how little I enjoyed it.

I tried to be fair to the game and also to the people who might be tricked into thinking that it was good like I was.

Isn’t this the purpose of game reviews anyway? There are plenty of websites you can find that just blow sunshine all day about bad games.

So yes, Ori. I’m saying that even if a game is in HD, it doesn’t auto-magically make it super awesome.

So you’re saying that I suck at these games. I hear what you’re saying. The game is still a pretty bad one no matter how many exclamations you throw into your comments.

A half way imitation of a good game (like the ones that I mentioned in my review for instance) would be a lot better than this ended up being. I haven’t played it since I wrote this review. I’m even considering deleting it off of my console because I’ll very likely never play it again.

This is just a bad game. It isn’t alone. Don’t feel bad for it. I’m sure that it has a lot of friends in badgameland.

Story: Bad (I agree with you but its a shmup so story doesn’t matter in any shmup game.)

Graphics: Mediocre(??? Shmups are 2-D horizontal or vertical scrollers. 2-D graphics…Soldner-x took the regular shmup and took it HD. Graphics are great considering it’s a shmup game and comparing it to shmups. The hell are you expecting out of a shmup?)

Sound: Mediocre-(what? The soundtrack is awesome. Techno music is great. Wow they say a few german words here and there and you’re going to complain? You make it sound as if the entire game is in German.)
Control and Gameplay: Poor (I partly agree with you but why do you go to extremes as to say its poor? The weapon switch sucks but if you did it the right way even dying and playing the later levels you would still not have a problem killing enemy ships.)

Replayability: Dreadful (damn man did you just lose badly in order to give these type of ratings? Replayablity is okay. You have a choice of 2 player co-op, increase your pilot level for more continues, post high scores online, collect all the secret keys for an unlock…..)

Balance: Awful (Balance is Bad not awful! Beginners can find this game to be VERY hard at first. But with simple memorization of enemy placement and stages will be better. Even still it is hard. A new patch came out that included a ‘beginner’ mode which is the easiest difficulty available now.)

Originality: Bad (This is a shmup and there aren’t much if any on PS3 besides 1942. Shmups have been around since NES and even before that. The same concept of a shmup hasn’t changed since then except for better graphics. Don’t know what you expected out of this. I don’t agree with you here.)

Addictiveness: Worthless (I’m beginning to see that you didn’t like the game because you just sucked at it. Game is addicting when you know how to play. If you’re not a shmup veteran then yes this can be hard as hell but dam to call it worthless?)

Appeal Factor: Poor(IS GOOD. It’s in HD hihgly detailed levels. Can’t really see it here but the dragon boss character is huge he takes up pretty much 75% of your screen when fully extended. When I saw the video of this boss I bought the game.

Miscellaneous: Poor(You just suck man)

FINAL SCORE: Bad Game( DO NOT LISTEN TO THE REVIEWER ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!This game is good at best. The game is a decent shmup that any true shmup fan would enjoy. I think the above reviewer was just frustrated from sucking at the game which caused him to fail miserably. Please note that this game is HARD. Don’t let the difficulty of a game interfere. A recent patch was released to make this game easier by adding beginner mode. It’s easier and can certainly be beaten but newcomers will have some difficulty adjusting.