You make this so much harder than it needs to be. I'm supposed to be picking the best one and you give me yet *another* option?? this is a quintessential shmup, all of my other top picks make some deviation from the genre, you leaned straight into it, full bore, and knocked it out of the park. The shrink explosion mechanic is unbelievably fun, i'm not even all that good at shmups and this made me feel cool and strong and powerful as the player, the slowdown helps me engage with this a lot. I think the only "critique" i can come up with is that it's a bit hard to tell when an enemy can be shrink killed? but only until i got used to it. I experienced a glitch where after respawning the music wouldn't play anymore, and that's about the only unpolished piece on this diamond.
phenomenal work c: