I personally love the graphics. They are solid as can be the only thing that would have made this game a solid playable game would be if the player could fly wherver they wanted. in a sense you can but as soon as you go off target the game grabs your plane and throws you back on course. it's a bit annoying especially when a plane goes by and sprays you with bullets and you cannot retaliate because of bit mapping restrictions. Other than that I feel it is a solid game. I like the particle explostions it really shows off what the DS hardware is capable of performing. Konomi comes through again as far as I can see just as they take advantage of the DS in hardware in the Castlevania series. If you want to beleive the critics go ahead but if you want to expereince a great shooter one really needed for the DS go get this tiltle today you will not be sorry.