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Overall pretty excellent, there's really not much to say. The only thing I have for it is that rarely, parts of the dialogue at the end of Stage 10 won't show up, even more rare it won't show up at all; or to be more specific, the font is completely blacked out because it is blending with the background, leaving it to be unreadable. However, more often than not the entire dialogue will show up, so I wouldn't worry about it at all. This is coming from someone who played it on original hardware via flash cart, so I don't know if that is somehow a factor, but either way, it's something that's there and it's difficult to replicate.

One other thing, that "remixed" music is just only parts of the intro being slightly extended to compensate displaying each dialogue in a set time so that the lines of dialogue doesn't go to the next too quickly; apparently this was due to a problem even the raw Japanese version had. You can tell where the author extended parts of the song because you can hear a missing instrument (mainly the percussion) while it's playing. The result ended up flowing nicely with the intro while also not completely butchering the melody of the song in general, but as I mentioned, those extended parts of the song are noticeable because they have a missing instrument on them.

I'd say give it a go, even if you care very little about the story since the menus are completely readable in English (heck, the original Japanese version got a Virtual Console release on the Wii worldwide). It just adds more flavor to an already good shmup for the Genesis.