This game was super sick! Smooth controls, a great risk reward style of play where you want to play aggressively to keep yourself alive. I always want to just push forward and hit hard in video games so this hit the spot perfectly for me. A good variety of boss types. I loved the "I'm you, but stronger" final boss, always a good trope. Only tiny nitpick is that I would love for there to be a ranking system so I can go for high scores. You have a score system that works really well but I want to have a "reach this score to be turbo awesome" kind of system so I have an excuse to replay the game more.
Excellent work, really hoping you win something for this!