After seeing the video of
Mushihimesama Gaiden: Bug Panic just now, I have come to say that the gameplay well-apparently is *severely* damned limited to just bombing the bugs while running around to avoid getting hit by them, while at the same time facing the clock as it winds down (which obviously is the amount of time left per play, of course)... kind of drains the replay value away to about nothing pretty fast after a few plays, don’t you think!?
And as for the music, to me, it literally belongs more to a bad Pokémon cartoon than anything else... it is so, so fricking cringe-inducing, that I just ended up laughing hysterically in all the wrong places there!! I mean, WHAT THE RATHER LIVING HELL was Cave even thinking of in the music department of this iPhone original game!?! Crap, they are
a whole lot capable of pulling off something way better than this... just listen to the musics from DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, Mushihimesama Futari, Espgaluda II, or Guwange, for example, and you will get my point pretty damn quick, I am sure. Deadly pathetic, you know that!?
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The final bell you hear when time is up (which took place at the 2:22 mark of the video)... it is like: CLASS DISMISSED!!! Because, that is
exactly like a regular high-school bell ringing, and nothing more. A definite no-thanks from me, to be honest.
And please do not even get me started on the game-title design here, because it blatantly sounds to me like some of the laziest, half-assed title design for some bad shareware title that you usually find on Gamehouse or Big Fish Games, and
not as at least a decent-looking title design. Again, Cave has done much, MUCH better game-title designs for titles like the DoDonPachi series, ESP Ra.De., Mushihimesama Futari (arcade and XBOX 360 versions), Ketsui, and a slew of their other arcade shmup releases, too, so there is really no forsaken-damned excuse there. Dreadful.
You know you are in real trouble when a Japanese high-profile arcade shmup company like Cave decides to test and eventually release
Mushihimesama Gaiden: Bug Panic in America and Europe, which, in their debut to those two countries, will seriously hurt their reputation more than it will help them, I think... and that is
really a disappointing shame right there. Too bad.
(And yes, I have played it.)
)... and have you heard the in-game character voices from that 2007 arcade game Muchi Muchi Pork as well? They were SO drop-dead-awful to the point of cardiac arrest, especially in having the same ones over and over and over again while grazing the many enemy bullets (like in this YouTube video of that game in action, for example: 
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