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What I mean is that CAVE has always paid tribute to other companies and their games, from Ikeda being amazed by the difficulty of Salamander's loops, how each song title in DaiOuJou gives a nod to different shmup companies, and how they invited Yagawa himself to make several games, the most different ones being those based on Ikeda's vision. don't you think these love letters are for a reason?
The genre is so big and you choose to be stuck with a fraction of what the genre has to offer, the same mentality as 2hufags
Go play Mars Matrix