I seem to thin I liked this game a bit more, but I was playing the TG-16 version, which probably was a bit enhanced and I remember liking the somewhat goofy humor that went into some of the bosses (I think there was a smoking Buddha or something like that...too lazy to check my review where I think I'd mention something that awesome).
But I agree with the gist of the review. A kinda generic (once you get beyond any quirky visuals that may or may not be in that version) shooter where your character is a bit too large to reliably handle some portions of the game. I remember the first time I played it before I really sat down with it eventually. I was on the first level thinking the only difficulty at all at that stage of the game was simply that your character is so large that it's easy to get nipped by a bullet because the evasive tactics you'd use in most shmups aren't enough here.
I'm not afraid to die because I am invincible
Viva la muerte, that's my goddamn principle