The concept for the original Lovers game and the idea of putting it in a cabinet were both really innovative and well executed.
This week, I was glad to discover the game is available in the Nintendo Switch store for $15 as a 1-4p couch co-op game. It's great to see the devs are still supporting this title. Checking their website, they even have nice tech blog posts discussing some of the work in Unity.
I tried the game on the PC 2 years ago, but thought the gameplay was too difficult with 1 player. But yesterday, I got my family into a 4P game, and it was great! On the "Casual" play setting, my family, with virtually no shmup experience were able to come up to speed by the end of the tutorial, and have fun. It's much less frustrating to man 8 stations with 4 players.
Although I'd give it a 5/5, my main complaint is that it still takes too much mental energy to control your character inside the ship. I'd much rather just select the next station and click GO (like directing one of the pets) rather than have to spend 10 seconds focused inside the ship to accurately walk around corridors and ladders each time I change stations.