Pure mid to late 90s arcade rail shooter, updated for modern systems with upgraded looks.
I played it last night for my twitch stream and was expecting something longer, but then again I didn't know it was going to be a pure arcade game.
Even the lives you have are called credits, which you can win more when you finish a level, depending on how well you played.
I played with the mouse and kb while there are more options.
You control the camera angle for shooting with the mouse, but you HAVE to use the keyboard too to swap around the four quadrants, forwards, backwards, left and right. Think of it as picking different turrets only that you have one person. There is a radar helping you showing you where the enemies are and even the danger level of them, with red being the higher.
The enemy shoots you and you can shoot the enemy missiles down, if you want to eventually defeat the whole game. You see the actual movement of your flying dragon is very limited. It is an on rail shooter after all. You can avoid some enemies, obstacles, missiles, but for the most part you are a sitting duck than a flying dragon. I am not complaining, just explaining how it plays.
Each credit you have is good for one life and you can't replenish your health. You earn more credits as you play.
I managed to defeat the game on my first go, at normal difficulty. It felt the right amount of challenge, as soon as you learn the game.
To shoot the enemies you have two ways of shooting, one click for each shot, or hold the fire button to lock on targets and release to shoot them with homing missiles at the same time. Most targets can be done with the easier way (lock), but enemy missiles and at least one boss, you have to use the click per shot way. It's not easy, but it is not very hard either.
The game is very well balanced and totally worth buying IMO, even though the length of a single "campaign" is around an hour length.
Here is my stream, uploaded on yt.
https://youtu.be/IknCOJyBTiY
