No, no, no, no, no.
Let me preface this by saying that I am an old-skool side scrolling shooter fanatic. That means, generally, that I expect more from that genre of game than any other.
Right off the bat, I'm playing a big, sluggish target. Sure, I guess the fact that I have a health bar is supposed to offset the fact that I'm too big and slow to effectively dodge anything. But it doesn't.
Next up is the fact that, because the fire key is mapped to the space bar, I can only move vertically or horizontally while I'm firing; I can't move diagonally and shoot, further reducing my already pitiful mobility and limited effectiveness. If this lumbering amateur is our last hope for freedom, we are indeed doomed.
There are no powerups. You're stuck with a peashooter through the whole game, while facing off against 4-5 enemies that take upwards of 10 hits each to destroy at once, and your only choice is to suck it up, lose 25% of your health, and maybe, just maybe, get a health powerup that restores such a laughably small portion of your bar that I wonder why they're even in the game.
The really good shooters, when they kill you, leave you with the feeling that if you'd just done one thing a little different, you would have made it. This does not get that response from me. In fact, it's quite the opposite; I feel like nothing I could do would change the outcome.
Pretty graphics do not a game make, nor do hordes of enemies on the screen at once. A shooter has to give the player the tools, like firepower and mobility, that they need to dispatch the enemies they face. A slow, large target with a pitifully weak gun and limited move+fire options does not fit that bill.
I appreciate the effort, but I cannot give this game a thumbs up. My apologies.