YMMV / Gunstar Super Heroes

• Breather Level: Level five. A ride down a shaft, a run across a flat level plain (with possibly dangerous gas vents that are harmless as long as you bother to shoot them before going past), a none too difficult miniboss, a space shoot 'em up with two more easy minibosses, and a quick section shooting bad guys while standing on the top of your ship. Even on Hard you've got no one to blame but yourself if you dip below 50 health....
• Contested Sequel: Some fans who were excited to see the original game get a sequel found themselves disappointed when they realized the game was more or less a rehash of the original game, and felt that many of the changes made weren't necessarily for the better. Fans of the game believe it's an underrated gem that was compared unfairly to its predecessor, enjoyed its added variety in its gameplay, and feel that it's a fantastic game in its own right and one of the best action titles for the GBA.
• Game-Breaker:
  • Chaser Lightning is a default weapon for both Red and Blue and manages to stay relevant despite losing range and power.
  • Red's Force Supercharge is capable of generating power faster than it uses up, winding up as a boss melter.
• That One Level:
  • Moon 2. Your helicopter takes 1/8 of the screen and flinches in place when hit by a bullet, with no Mercy Invincibility. Doesn't sound too bad, but try that level on Hard and see what happens.
  • Moon 4 has plenty of difficult challenges that must be completed in order to advance, and exploration is determined by a game of dice - complete with face number four being replaced by "back" after the first roll. To add insult to injury, some places send you to another room if you happen to fall down a chasm.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Smash Daisaku. As before, he appears in Green's stage to throw enemies at you and is seen pointing a gun at Yellow when she's captured in the fifth stage, but he runs off and isn't seen again. He does appear as an optional boss in Black's stage, but some people were disappointed at how diminished his role was compared to the first game.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Red, with Pink's throwaway taunt calling Red a "silly girl" becoming an unintentional Wham Line. Amusingly, some English fans looked to the Japanese version as proof that Red's gender was invented by the game's localizer(s), while some Japanese fans looked to the English version because they didn't have anything else to go off of.