The final stretch before the last boss is where this game starts to get challenging. I was flying through but the last stretch took some attempts.
Though it got even worse with some dense bullet hell bullshit on the final boss. That is why I will need time to work on that and post it in a seperate video if and when it goes down.
Other than that I was flying through Normal mode on the default 2 lives per continue. Averaging maybe 6-9 minutes per level. I actually started the game over and set the lives to 4 so I could have 4 lives per continue for the boss. It was the only way to carry that over. Still getting anihilated as I cant consistantly dodge the bullet hell rings yet.