Back from a somewhat pleasant couple of weeks during which I completely failed to do any gaming. In order to rectify this situation, I finally picked up a fightpad for my XBox 360 so I could start playing Shooting Love 200x again without worrying about having to get my wrists unlocked with a crab-cracker from mashing buttons on the stock 360 pad.  The shmups skills test portion (obviously designed around a joystick, which makes sense considering the arcade heritage of the title) is suddenly much less frustrating and painful to play, although there are a couple of parts where autofire is just completely abusive.