Ibara

'The back story revolves around a group of sisters, led by Professor Teresa Rose, who want to destroy all technological progress in the land of Edelweiss, essentially turning it into a rose garden. Players can choose to either lead the characters Bond or Dyne and their airplanes through several levels of "bullet hell"-style gameplay in an attempt to defeat the sisters.'

This is the original 2005 version. A year later, a Black Label edition was released with quality of life adjustments with the purpose of reducing its difficulty, such as rank 'reset' by using a bomb instead of having to deliberately lose a life. Yes, performing this strategy of lowering the rank in a wiser way also makes it less painful, especially near the end. Two full playthroughs are shown, one for each character: Bond with Type-A weapons and as for Dyne, Type-D weaponry was used. Both characters have their own variation of the ending as well, though text is in Japanese. After those runs I show a sample gameplay of the other type selections for both.

00:00 - Start
00:12 - Attract mode
03:37 - Stage 1: Port Town (Bond)
05:01 - Boss: Orange Meillandina (Bond)
06:07 - Stage 2: Canyon (Bond)
08:02 - Boss: Cloire de Midi (Bond)
09:06 - Stage 3: Valley (Bond)
11:16 - Boss: Hana Kasumi (Bond)
12:23 - Stage 4: Sky High (Bond)
15:40 - Boss: Mount Shasta (Bond)
16:59 - Stage 5: Castle (Bond)
19:22 - Boss: French Lace (Bond)
21:31 - Stage 6: Garden (Bond)
24:40 - Final boss: Teresa Rose (Bond)
26:50 - Ending, credits & ranking (Bond)

29:09 - Stage 1: Port Town (Dyne)
30:32 - Boss: Orange Meillandina (Dyne)
31:38 - Stage 2: Canyon (Dyne)
33:33 - Boss: Cloire de Midi (Dyne)
34:39 - Stage 3: Valley (Dyne)
36:49 - Boss: Hana Kasumi (Dyne)
38:03 - Stage 4: Sky High (Dyne)
41:17 - Boss: Mount Shasta (Dyne)
43:16 - Stage 5: Castle (Dyne)
45:38 - Boss: French Lace (Dyne)
47:57 - Stage 6: Garden (Dyne)
51:06 - Final boss: Teresa Rose (Dyne)
53:14 - Ending, credits & ranking (Dyne)

55:33 - Stage 1 replays with the other ship types