Viewpoint

Cruising down the landscape of an enemy planet in your Byupo Fighter you take out anything within your Viewpoint. Your enemies are numerous, whereas you are only one. However, you still have the ability to attain power-ups to assist you as you move along the upward-diagonally moving screen, blasting away with your lasers, firebombs, homing bombs and shock waves. These power-ups will enable you to increase your firepower, earn extra lives, gain points or create a barrier for your ship that is otherwise vulnerable to anything that hits it. You'll travel through several different levels, each featuring a boss at the end and a unique terrain such as sea, lava or space. When it's all said and done, only you can determine whether your Viewpoint will be through winning eyes.

Since this is a shoot-em-up, your main goal is to get through each stage while destroying and dodging an onslaught of enemy fighters and encounter a huge boss at the end of each stage. Unlike other shmups that have you navigating through a vertical or horizontal point of view, in here you have to navigate your Byupo Fighter through a isometric point of view which contributes to one of the game's many reasons why it has a high level of difficulty. The reason is this, as the enemy comes at you with tons of bullets to dodge you'll have a hard time telling if the bullets are going above or below your ship, which results in almost 90% of your Byupo Fighter being destroyed. Another reason for it's high difficulty level is the constant slowdown whenever the screen is filled with lots of objects. Now to help you get through this game in one piece, you have and can obtain a couple of items scattered throughout the game which are a standard in all shmups. You can charge up all your energy into one powerful blast called a Power Wave, you can get extra fire power by getting an Option Item (odd name), a barrier to protect you and of course you can obtain bombs with different abilities.