Quote Originally Posted by celerystalker View Post
Gate of Thunder rules. I agree, it's superbly balanced. Maybe my favorite horizontal shooter.
Yeah man, it really was worth the wait(and the money). The difficulty progression reminded me a lot of Blazing Lazers, except that, unlike Blazing, didn't require near-perfect execution on the final stage. With Gate of Thunder it was more difficult at the beginning, but then smoothly progressed as you could feel yourself getting better at the game. It's about as perfectly balanced a challenge as I've encountered in shooter/shmup.