Preliminary: Even tho it wasn't that long ago I already have nostalgia for the time my husband and I played through this on the arcade machine. I described it as innocuous but fun then, so I foresee this being just a 3 star fun 1990 arcade game. But hopefully with that nostalgia and these cute dialog boxes and great music, this may be higher.

That first boss? or mini-boss or whatever in the bar was a bit tacky. Let me shoot up and down if gonna be in this perspective. But hey it's better than brawlers from this era cuz it has more of a shooter element. Still, run n guns usually don't do much for me so again this may just be a 3 star via the fact I have access to the arcade machine and a fond memory playing it (and a good Look and Sound).

Round one done, beat the uh werewolf? As usual not a fan of depth factors in brawler games, especially since you can't face "up/down". But it's fine. Everything's been intuitive so far, so can't complain, and there are power-ups so yay. And tbh so far the between-round sequences are the highlight :-p Neat and cute and fun and good tunes. Apparently there are 5 rounds, here goes nothing.

Day 1

The collision masks of Round 2 are pretty bad, and not a fan of this wall-climbing scenario. Definitely is best played with a friend and infinite coins :-p The logic that your character can't throw straight when jumping despite enemies that would make sense for that >.< Starting to burn out already we shall see..

I dunno maybe it was just cuz I played as the Red ninja kid? But it just felt blah. And when I saw I had yet another room with these annoying floating enemies with only annoying ways to take them down, I figured it was time to move on. Run n gun and brawlers are just not for me, but this gets a boost from fond memories and good Look/Sound :)

Look: 8/10 Good Look, quite standard for 1990 arcade, but that's a good thing. I love the between-round sequences and chat boxes.

Sound: 8.5/10 Definitely the highlight, can help drive you to keep playing on the actual arcade machine with a friend!

Play: 7/10 Pretty good run n gun/brawler, but never a genre I love.

Feel: 8/10 Good Sound and fond memories and cute Look in parts culminate into a nice Feel.

Attachment: 8/10 Since I have access to it on the arcade machine, and this is perfect for just casual play with infinite coins and 2 players (unlike for my backlog play), I foresee myself playing this again. As a backlog/solo game at home though, nothing great.

Overall: 7.9/10 (largely because of nostalgia/fond memory)

Completion: Got to here and said nope not again (but beat it with my husband before)

Playtime: Not sure that first time, but this time it was 15 mins before dropping it