There's a ton of promising art and ideas here, but as a final product everything somehow just feels horribly stilted. This was developed by Jorudan, the same company who did Musya, and it really shows in the gameplay, most notably the awkward jumping. It also extends its runtime by twice as much by making you revisit earlier areas to get upgrades that weren't there before, also reminiscent of Musya just repeating three of its levels for no real reason.

Both of these games kinda suck ass but in a really disappointing way rather than an amusing way. There's a lot of room for something much better in Musya, and probably even more so in Xardion. Assistance from Gainax is listed in the credits, even. I'm sure it didn't have to be like this.