Hi, yes, evika wanted the game to not be easy so some things like the damage of the bullets got raised significantly. Although since they tend to stop firing after a little bit, you could take advantadge of that in a duel.
At the beginning of the fight yeah it's probably better to kill alot of them fast.
As for the game itself, it's funny you're the one commenting here, we have a diving section. "Nose diving" =D
This is the last section of the game, unfortunately, when shipping we forgot to change some settings we had for testing, and it kills you when you get there, instead of letting you play it :(
I liked your entry too =)
(I was doing coding and FX on this entry)