Haha, very true. Originally it was a lot harder, but we scaled down the difficulty specifically for the jam. I might be a shmup player, but my programmer isn't. And we wanted to make sure we both could have fun with it. And in turn, if we both can have fun with it, so can most people testing it. It would've been sad if people who don't play shmups get frustrated before they got to the boss we spent so much work on :p
But I highly agree with you! ♥