In reverse order:
P.S. Did you ever beat my
Multitask score?
What's wrong with going, "oh, hey, this game has a lot of stuff that plays just like a
Mega Man game, so I can call it a
Mega Man clone"? If people can call
Puyo Puyo and
Columns "
Tetris clones," I can legitimately call
Chronos Twin a
Mega Man clone.
Shoulder buttons jump in the DS version as well, as does Y. And it looks like my problem is less to do with the button positioning and more to do with trying to alternate fire between the two screens often ending up in pressing both buttons at once (causing neither to fire) in the DS version. (By the way, you contradicted yourself when you said jump needs to be next to the two fire buttons and then pointed out the shoulder buttons that aren't anywhere near the fire buttons.)
Commando is definitely a shmup. If it isn't, then neither are things like
Pocky & Rocky or
Twinkle Tale. And the main character of
Commando definitely isn't shirtless - at least, not in the arcade version, anyway. And speaking of arcade versions, I loaded up
Robotron 2084 myself, and guess what?
Your firing direction is independent of the direction you're moving/facing.(Regardless, it does look like
Ultimate All-Shooters takes a lot of its influence from games like
Commando rather than games like
Robotron 2084, albeit with forced scrolling that doesn't come from either of those. So it's not an arena shooter at all.)
Exist
ence. You should know better than that. And having not played the first
No More Heroes, how was I to know that something that was freely covered by various games media outlets would be a ruinous spoiler to one player on a corner of the Internet?