Anyone who loves horizontal shmups, and wants them to be long, packed with upgrades, and challenging yet not quite bullet hell.

Anyone looking for a true bullet hell, one hit kill, almost impossible to beat experience. Anyone not in the mood for a good challenge. Anyone who prefers a very serious (e.g. military, mission based) tone rather than one that can be extremely tongue in cheek and humorous. Anyone bothered by camp and goofy inuendos.

• Extremely long by shmup standards
  
• TONS of upgrades by shmup standards, as well as multiple ships.
  
• Automatic New Game Plus
  
• Intricate art style
  
• Comedic, campy tone
  
• Extremely challenging at first, but giving way to mastery and then sheer, nigh invulnerability granting, ridiculous super weapons after a few playthroughs of acquiring money and unlockables.
  
• Selling items and weapons gives you the amount you paid back in full. (More games should do this. Seriously.)
  
• Feels ripped out of the 90s.
  
• AMAZING music.
  
• Controller support (X360 was used in my case - cannot speak for others.)

• Some radical difficulty spikes, and lulls.
  
• Difficult to see until you become used to it. (Projectiles can be extremely small, and there's not always precise or audible feedback when you get hit.)
  
• One particular stage - the "race" (a highspeed checkpoint obstacle course) - can be maddening on higher difficulties/speeds, and feels out of place with the rest of the game.
  
• Other shmups, as much as I love them, may feel much less meaty in comparison after having played this. ;)

I love shmups. But my favorite variety of them - while I can definitely enjoy bullet hells as well as more casual shmups when in the right mood - has always been the R-Types and, in particular, the Gradiuses (Gradii? - Anyway... Gradius!) of the world. Somewhat lengthy, lots of upgrades and customization, and at least the illusion of choice and playstyle.

Jets'n'Guns is a brilliant example of that style of game... and it goes far beyond what most entries in the above mentioned series do (with the possible exception of R-Type Final) by being both extremely long as shmups go (30+ levels, none of them very brief in and of themselves,) and jam packed with weapons (70!)

The game starts out fairly challenging with your initial armaments, and only gets worse from there (at least until you become wealthy enough to unlock the best weapons.) If you aren't careful, it's extremely possible to "screw yourself" by not making enough money for good upgrades. Which forced me to restart the game at least once. But once you've got the hang of things, your eyes adjust to the at times difficult to see enemy projectiles, and you start racking up some respectable weapons (and leveling them up, which also costs money,) you begin to surge your way forward.

Even still, on your first playthrough - even on the lowest difficulty "too fat to die" (which I recommend starting on, if only so when the game restarts on the next higher challenge level - whcih is how New Game Plus works here - you'll already have all your money and gadgets from the previous run) - certain levels and bosses prove a very steep uphill climb. And, it must be said, certain levels do abruptly spike in difficulty, or seem too easy compared to what came before them. Expect to die a lot as you experiment with what weapons work best for each situation, and memorize what you're up against. Old school style trial and error. (Except with checkpoints, so, not quite.)

Speaking of trial and error, one of the most welcome and refreshing things this game does, is GIVE YOU BACK YOUR FULL PURCHASE PRICE WHEN SELLING WEAPONS AND UPGRADES! This is such a brilliant touch that no one ever thinks of, because we're all so indoctrinated to accept the penalty of re-selling equipment in games. But it makes perfect sense here, because the challenge comes from using the right tool and the right strategy for the job, rather than going broke and being trapped.

The promise that if you can just make it through the next stage, you might come out the other side of it with enough money for that next big upgrade you've been eyeing, is what kept me playing even when the challenge seemed almost hair pullingly unfair. (Which, of course, it never was. I simply hadn't done well enough early on to afford the weapons that would make things easier on me.)

I'm on my third playthrough at the time of this review, with nearly 30 hours played (see the top of this review for where it stands at the time you read this.) The game is MORE than worth the asking price, and not only is it a good deal for what it is, but it's also one of the most enjoyable shmups I've EVER played, because it scratches the "massive number of upgrades" itch more effectively than just about any other game out there. Add to that its whimsical art style and attitude that make Jets'n'Guns feel like it fell through a time warp from the era of Oddworld, Toejam and Earl, and Gex, and you've got a really refreshing shmup on your hands.

Oh, and the music is epic. Seriously, if you find anything writen above appealing... buy this game. I was so pleasantly surprised, I can scarcely believe the game is real, to be honest.

10/10 Would get deployed from a giant phallic spaceship called Impotence and fight borg cubes full of beer bottles again. And again, and again, because I'm stuck in a time loop. (You'll find out...)

This game is a good way to release stress.

Best shooter ever, best video game soundtrack ever!
Don't be fooled by the time played, I had it before I had a steam account.

Guns and sexual puns.

Oh, and a bloody good sountrack might I add!

10/10 would buy again

Needs more players, much fun

Great Game. The first 3-4 levels are a bit on the tough side, so you will need to be very carefull what you spend your $ on. After that around level 20 ish it gets pretty easy and the last 10 levels are boringly easy. total of 40 ish rounds. After you finish it, the game re-sets & you start over with all your stuff on a higher difficulty. I love the BGM, The writing is a bit on the childish side but I would have laughed at everything if I was younger. 2 thumbs up for the amount of content and price.

Cured my gaming anhedonia 10/10

classic 2D side-scrolling shooter
(7/10)

+ game flow
+ ship and weapon configuration
+ music
- weak boss design