I have played the game 3 times before rating it. In the begining is quite difficult ( I play normal mode). But after I know how to use the bomb, it becomes easier. It's exciting, energetics. The music enhances the atmosphere and the story has its humour. I like the game.
I think it will be better if player respawn with at least 1 bomb
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The player does actually respawn with bombs in a sense, in that you drop a lot of bomb items when you die and you keep your bomb stock from your previous life.
This way, on top of the fact that extra lives are consistently available every 1 million points, dying on purpose to regain bomb ammo (especially during boss fights where there are no ground enemies to get bomb items from) is encouraged.
This is one of the reasons that dying is perfectly fine here and that lives should be treated as a disposable resource, with the other reasons being that the death explosion can be used offensively (by purposely ramming into enemies to do a ton of damage), and as a combo extender (due to it working like a bomb scoring-wise and freezing the combo timer while the player is dead).