Eltigro

I'm not a fan of SHMUP the term, but I like SHMUP the genre. Same with Metroidvania. Hair band, cloud, and AI haven't bothered me. Just seems there's a lot of indie type games that are all jumping on the procedurally generated bandwagon. I'd rather have carefully crafted levels and such.

<grumpy old man> In my day they called it "random levels," and we liked it that way. We LOVED It that way! </grumpy old man>

You gotta think outside the box. It's a total paradigm shift.