* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Most of the tracks here qualify, such as the stage 1 theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnOorHOiCyI Urban Trail]], the tunnel stage theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJXgZOHtqh4 Burning Road]], and especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkEG5KrldSo Final Boss]] theme.
** ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fans [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong may find the last one familiar]]--the first part of Suwako's theme is strongly based on it.
* DemonicSpiders: Anything with missiles, especially because missiles in later levels have ''very good'' homing capability and '''will''' hit you more often than not. Compounded when there are background obstructions in the way.
** Jet planes are the worst of the lot. They can fly, are hard to hit, and you have ''very'' little time to shoot them down before they fire a missile. The best method to deal with them is to stay high, then drop low when they fire their missile- if the missile goes offscreen, it disappears.
* IAmNotShazam: The name of your FlyingCar is Inter Gray, not Night Striker.
* PolishedPort: The Sega Saturn version comes with six exclusives levels, as well as a new intro movie.
* PortingDisaster: Compared to the gorgeous sprite scaling of the arcade version, the Sega CD version is reduced to a pixelated mess. The one things going for it are the arranged soundtrack and relatively stable gameplay and framerate.
* ThatOneLevel: Stage U may be one, due to the fact that ''almost every enemy'' in the stage shoots '''homing missiles''' that are '''''hell''''' to avoid.