I don't remember where I mentioned this (maybe the WANTED section of DCTP?), but I once suggested how it could be fun if the
CV gang did something else, a la
Parodius or
Mario Party.
Vampire Survivors recently demonstrated what else could be done with CV elements (
completely coincidentally) and took off so hard it recently added a
Contra DLC including a rendition of the Simon-ish robot from
Hard Corps as an unlockable character; just one remove from CV explicitly being in VS.
I wouldn't be that surprised if Konami just straight up commissioned--if not signed--poncle to create a standalone VS-formatted CV.