Yeah I downloaded it a couple days ago, ASW did a fantastic job with it no doubt.
The presentation is great, the intro is cool albeit you might find it cheesy (basic stuff you would expect with it's anime artstyle).The controls are solid, you can do everything from switch weapons to shoot in a 360 direction, shoot whilst walking etc, ammo types I've seen thus far (I'm only up to stage 4 right so there might be more) Scatter Shot/Plasma/Rocket/Laser/Shield. The music is what really makes this game for me, it's Guilty Gear/Blazblue-esque music for a Contra game!, although it doesn't go as far as being as "creative" Ishiwatari's shit, just simple tech-metal kinda stuff that's not grating on the ears and seems fitting for the game at hand. Now the stages, this is where the game shines, the first stage is a desert full of basic enemies but it gets a lot more hectic later on, a giant sand worm coming out from the background to destroy stuff on the stage, which later leads to bike race. Speaking of stages this game is difficult (forget the fact that you can take more than one hit), just about every stage has some kind of surprise at the end that will catch you off guard, this throws everything at you.
I'll put up some more later.