Resolution:
I don't have a particularly high resolution (1280x1024), but I find running a game at 640x480 is no longer of this time. Use 800x600 at the very least, but even that is becoming old with todays hardware. You would be doing yourself a favor too, as it gives you more room to play with.
Speed:
It's running too fast. The first three lives I played though, I had no clue what was happening and I died within seconds, because everything was rushing by so fast. Mind you, it's not too fast to play, it's more like a movie running at twice the speed. It's enough to follow what's going on, but too fast to react on events.
Movements:
The physics are odd. For instance when you get shot, you speed-dive towards the ground with at the very end a sudden angle change. (I assume that is due to preventing the plane leaving the screen so the horizontal movement is ignored leaving only the vertical). I would suggest adding some simple physics to your plane and debree.
Unclear goals.
It's unclear to me what I have to do. Obviously I need to at least hit those that shoot at me, but why is it that I can sometimes destroy buildings with a single hit and others stay in tact? (It's impossible to hit them twice).
Edit: I realize now that I need to hit something dead-on. There is no 'splash' damage so to speak.
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