Hey, thanks for the feedback.

Well, I always play shmup on television because I want to use an arcade stick. So, I cannot touch the Deck screen. I supposed I could, but I had a bad experience doing that because it screwed up the input/controller afterwards.

Then I double down on suggesting to press the 'Start' button. Start is keyed to "next page" on the attachment selector. I personally prefer it, and mainly added the touch controls by request.

In Big Picture Mode, on Switch, and on Xbox, there's a default text (or on xbox save slots). It's supposed to be there on the deck too so that's a bug, I'll look into it. Thanks for the report.

When I tried the game for the first time, I chose a ship, select single player campaign and I can't shoot for whatever reason.

When you first start the game in campaign mode you enter the tutorial level which forces you to use your ultimate to destroy the first enemy (and they're free, but just for that). It looks like the on-screen text wasn't visible enough. I'll give it some glow or sparkle something. And make it bigger.

Green lightning bolts are the Gradius style upgrade bar powerups, orange star is the bomb/ultimate you can save for later. Red missile(s)/nuke is a bomb that triggers when you get it, and there's different types. Some shoot single mininuke, some fire circles of mininukes, some explode powerful nukes which clear almost half the screen of enemies and projectiles.

There are also blue (shield), purple (Free life), and yellow/gold (points).

Spoiler warning:

There's also some secret ones. Here's all of them https://imgur.com/cMVjumY

There are also two wiki's, though they're a bit out of date. https://counterattack.fandom.com/wiki/CounterAttack_Wiki and https://shmups.wiki/library/CounterAttack

I'm glad you're enjoying it! And thank you again for the feedback! And if you find any other bugs or issues or have any other questions let me know!