Blamtastic!

Blamtastic!,Known as BALLISTICA (バリスティカ) in Japan.

Gameplay
The basics of Blamtastic! is you have to avoid balloons that hurt you, and you have to shoot them, the baloons split when hit by your weapon, the gamplay is inspired by the Pang (known as Buster Bros. in North America) series.

Unlike most games that have the same gameplay style, one hit doesn't mean instand death by default means.

Game Settings

 * Beginning Lives: how much lives you start each game with.
 * Continues: how much continues you begin with.
 * Ball Speed: from 1 to 16.

Tropes

 * Difficulty Levels: An unusually wide range variant.
 * Expy: the player 1 character is basically a humanized Sapphire from Pop'n Music. (even though this game came before the latter first appeared in Pop'n Music 8)
 * Loads and Loads of Loading: The PlayStation port suffers from this, start from the title screen, loading screen.
 * One-Hit Point Wonder: Blamtastic! averts this trope unlike other games that have similar gameplay with Pang, normally you have two hit points. but shields still exists.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: the Player 1 and Player 2 characters respectively
 * Timed Mission: Not suprising considering it's inspiration.
 * Songs In The Key Of Panic: two of them, when the timer hits below 30, a frantic tune begins to play, when the timer goes down to single digits (not counting the decimal), the music changes into what sounds like a sped-up funky doomsday-esque jingle.
 * Sprite-Polygon Mix - the 3D foreground/2D background variant.

YMMV

 * Suspiciously Similar Song:
 * Stage 32 sounds similar to this track from the One Piece game for Game Boy Advance.
 * No Export For You: The Sega Saturn Version was only released on Japan, as the said console was newly discontinued in Europe when this game is developing.
 * Polished Port: The ProtoGame Podium port allows 60fps if enough of the Podium's RAM is extended (via PodiumXtra/ALPHAPlus), and also doesn't have as much loading as the PlayStation version