I've never seen anyone on RU-vid use the Cyclone force to its full effect. After you launch the force, you can keep pressing the same button to recall or launch it indefinitely, without having to dock with the ship again. So you have more control of where the force is going. I suppose programmers gave it that feature to provide you with a small offensive/defensive capability while you're busy charging that cannon.
It hasn't been useful since R-type III and usually gets you killed. Both Cyclone and shadow in this game also move way slower now so on higher difficulties it will not be favorable to manipulate it ESPECIALLY over a widescreen. My playstyle also tends to spam force recall to make sure it comes back to me, with cyclone I forget about the recall on the fly and it gets me killed often so I'd rather meet it. The reason you don't see it much online is probably due to these reasons. Also look at how slow the force moves vs how fast the bullets are here. There are definitely some stages where recall spam can work, but this isn't one of them. The part before and after gironika might be the only segment you could do a bit of it since nothing comes from the ceiling
