Versus shoot-em-up with dash and melee mechanics. Trap your opponent with smart movement & combinations of special bullet patterns. Ability to turn into a shmup boss, generally either to finish off your opponent or recover health. Characters are pretty distinct from eachother. High level play is very intense & there's a lot of depth to how attacks can be used for area denial, trapping and rushdown. shmup skills can help you a lot.

Dash vectoring and forming traps with special attacks is quite similar to Virtual-On. This game was my foray into the versus shooter genre so it has a special place for that.

Killer soundtrack by Yasuhisa Watanabe (Metal Black, Kaiser Knuckle) and the Xbox360 version Rev.X looks great.

I wish I had a bigger opportunity to play this against people back when it was more active.