Oh come on. That's not an attack on shmups, it's just dumb nerd 'humour'. Lisa said pew pew that time she was pretending to be a boy, therefore pew pew pew is half again as funny.
Shmups have unusual gameplay, let's face it, where the 'meta' game is more important than the 'skills' game (ie. memorisation, discovering routes vs. lightning reflexes. see also: playing for score, general lack of casino-style compulsiveness, etc.). It's unfortunate but that does mean it's going to be scored lower than more 'acceptable' genres -
see Pinsof's review of Oniken, which is an 8-bit style platformer, which gets a 7 despite slightly crap controls, cheap design and some overpowered player abilities (according to the review; I haven't played it) - as one example. And yeah, good review scores are paid for (maybe you - Genki Patton - should remind Pinsof that Capcom are involved. Instant 7!).
Still, it's not all doom and gloom; because of this very thing, what shmuppers are going to be hanging round Destructoid/Kotaku/etc. for their shmups news? There are communities around the world, for example right here, that will assess the game on it's actual merits. Of course, this won't bring in the big bucks but you knew that when you started, right?
Oh, and yeah, complain to Destructoid about the pirate link. Just unacceptable.
edit: also lolz at the lock-on charge attack not seeming to do anything. RTFM djeeneus
