SHOOTING GAME NEVER DIE.

Good lord, what a game. Absolutely overwhelming and, no doubt as a result, endlessly fun. Be humble; run through Novice Original on your first (set of) playthrough(s) until you can do it on one continue and then do it all over again on another ship, another mode—whatever.
I was VERY unsure about committing to so much as a single proper run of this thing within my first ten or so minutes—a trial period of sorts in which you have to definitively decide whether or not the barrage of stars and projectiles is your Thing™—but man, to say that it grew on me within a couple of stages would be to understate immensely. Not a dull moment, ever. Raw dopamine for as long as your run lasts.

Now to figure out how the hell Yotsubane expects me to get anything above an A in Time Attack...