While the PC-Engine has some ok shooters I wouldnt say theyre any better than what's available elsewhere. Graphics, sure, theyre better than c64 shooters, but the games themselves are no better on average. Theyre mostly generic eastern style with nothing to make them stand out from others of the same style.
Yes, that's right, some people do have different tastes.....
I think maybe someone hasn't played many PCE shooters.
Sinistron, Dead Moon, Lords of Thunder, Forgotten Worlds, and Cotton are all distinctly different.
Blazing Lazers, Steam Hearts, Override, Image Fight, and Sylphia are too also different.
This is just the icing on top of the cake that is PCE shooters.
If they're generic eastern style with not alot making them stand out, how come the europeans kept trying to jock the style, albeit poorly.
Menace is a good example of how NOT to copy a shmup concept.