The game has, if you take the grind away, maybe 2 hours of content total, sadly not helped by the fact that the "roguelite" aspects are severely undercooked. More variety there could make the game feel fresh for longer, but this game is far away from achieving that. Simply speaking, no two runs feel any different.
Level variety may as well not exist, a single level in Starfox 64 has more enemy variety than this entire game, you go for the same build every time as most upgrades fall into the "gimmicky, but not good" camp. In between runs the permanent upgrades are unexciting (+1% gain to currency), and the customization options are divided into objectively correct choices and “why would I ever want that”.
The controls are dumbed down from the already simple on-rail shooter formula (you can't tilt your plane, for whatever reason).
The writing is unimpressive, and my main takeaway is that in this faraway galaxy of furries in space, they still have 2010’s reddit culture. Maybe if you grind hard enough, you’ll eventually have some plot development, but I’ve given up hope on that. Not that anyone should play games like these for the story anyway.
Don’t expect the game to open up later, or for updates to improve the game, what you see is what you’ll get.

Fun. Needs more content though. Seriously. 1 build to rule them all. Who even uses spreadshot?

This game has had awesome potential.

Sadly, instead of awesome this game became plain boring.
You either end up insanely overpowered or it's a painful slog, nothing in between.
If you get the "right" set of RNG upgrades, you'll find yourself flying through long stretches of empty corridors.
If you get anything *but* that "right" set of upgrades, it's a slog, where you slowly chip health off one or two same enemies for minutes on end. Darts in the Translink Corridor are absolutely worst for that.

To make matters worse, the maps are *way too busy*. I get that the devs clearly love their "tight boosts" and roughly half the upgrades revolve around that idea, but the maps are so dense you're forced to break off the engagement every two seconds to jink around yet another bridge/building/rail.

To make matters worse, this density of obstacles means that the game can't introduce more than one or two enemies at a time! They simply aren't able to path around these obstacles correctly in large numbers. To resolve that issue, the enemies are given a lot of hit points -- which results in this too op / too underpowered issue.

And you can't even outrun them, if there's an active enemy on screen it will remain stuck in front of you until you give up.

I wish I could co back to the early EA version, the one with portal spawns, it was awesome...