Awesome game but gets extremely difficult at the stage I got stuck on, shown here. There is a power move I was unaware of, so maybe that will help. You have to hold one of the fire buttons for longer than youd expect. Playing 5 feet from a 65 inch screen doesnt help, as it makes it tough to track characters and bullets for these types of games. I may try normal again with another character. The female seems better. I got farther on the next setting down, difficulty 4, easy mode, but then the game abruptly ended after a cutscene and losing a continue on the next stage. Prior to that continues seemed to be unlimited but Im not sure what happened exactly. I may post up the easy runs for both arcade and original modes as well.