Omega Fighter non clear gameplay

This is not a great video, but it's the best one I could come up with for a survival based shmup tournament where I was randomly assigned this game to play among other things. Perhaps it'll show a little bit how frustrating powerup dodging can be in shmups, though I got kind of lucky and died near the I powerups most of the time, so was able to recover. After the first two stages W powerups are worthless, but you can't get too many I powerups or your shot will be far too short ranged, and the only way to power it down is to grab a W powerup followed by another I powerup. Apart from the powerups i think the game is really fun. Decent scoring system and the slowdown items work well with it (You can use them to protect the side of your ship a little, too, they'll absorb one shot each). Bombs seem less useful, though I'll bet I would have gotten further if I had gotten one shortly after my second to last death.
In the end, though, I feel like, while the death (that brought me back to W shot) didn't help, I could have avoided gameovering where I did in spite of it.

Graphics are kind of lame, but I like the fact that all of the stages take place around one big spaceship. The music is fantastic.

The game ends on Mission 5 (out of 7 or 8) with 1,157,200 points. I think I've done better at some point, but not much better and I didn't get an inp.