If you like R-Type, you'll fancy this.
This game is an obvious homage to R-Type, and though having it's flaws, really captures that game play well (orb works well, same weapon systems).

The style of graphics is an acquired taste, but it's got nice details (bosses coming in through the background, nice parallax). Color setting is interesting, though can be confusing (you can opt to leave out some backgrounds for better visibility).

Music is nothing short of fantastic!
Stunning and really adding to the atmosphere of the game.

The scoring bug and the "forced continue with keeping score intact" are indeed annoying, but will be patched and available to buyers of the original iirc.
If the patch works as promised, this is without doubt a great purchase for all people like R-Type.

I can recommend this if patched well!

Could have been better....
After many delays, the Dreamcast's latest squeeze hits the market after a long road. Being an indie game like Wind and Water Puzzle Battles released November last year it's very impressive to see what has been done with the little resources the developers had, the graphics are nice, the front end is very Cosmic Smash minimal chic and the music has had a great deal of effort put into it.... But.... like Last Hope before it... The Sol Feace style side on gameplay just doesn't suit the style of game, not only does it restrict the amount of freedom to move unlike something like Ikaruga it also makes you contend with debris like Last Hope to which by the time you have charged a shot your already looking at losing a life.. And starting the level again in some cases... I was annoyed that I died at the SAME point everytime on level one due to lack of movement. Don't get me wrong I will support the Dreamcast as long as developers still take the risk, but this game will be one to add to the collection rather than a constant player, lastly the packaging is stunning, I have the Limited one the one thing I did though was change the box to a nice double white DVD case. What the artwork could have done with was a Dreamcast logo in the corner as it does have an identity crisis next to some of my later DVD case DC titles.

No, I do not like it.
I am a fan of shoot em ups with classical gameplay like Thunderforce IV and also waited (too) long for DUX to come out.

On a real television the game just looks worse it does on YouTube or on the screenshots. It is more like a flash game then a CONSOLE videogame.

I also had problems with bugs such as saving errors with a third party vmu or the score bugs.

For how long I waited the game is poor.

Full of bugs and gameplay errors!!
I waited 2 years for this game, it got delayed all over and over and over again! Then I finally received it, after the rest of the world already had it for weeks, and found it full of gameplay errors and bugs! You can earn 99 mio. score in Level 1, you can not enter your name after you are Game Over, the enemies are too strong and on PAL DREAMCAST it is slower than on NTSC DREAMCAST!!! I feel ripped off, this game is just a simple big bug!!!

****comment Play-Asia.com: the distributor announced a patch, that we will ship to all DUX customers, once available****