Akuu Gallet is a Japanese vertical shoot 'em up from the mid-90s, the genre's golden period thanks to the push from studios like Toaplan, Psikyo, or Cave. It follows the expected structure: ships, enemy waves, and screen-filling bosses, with the breakneck pace typical of the era's shmups. It stayed far from the popularity of its more celebrated contemporaries, but it's representative of the number of mid-tier Japanese studios that in those years competed for a spot in arcades with evenly matched quality. A recommendable curiosity for genre fans who've already exhausted the obvious classics.

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