Oh, it's just a token. There's usually one or two in each level, and at the end of the level it counts how many you found when giving you your grade. So it's not even a good item! Good music though.
oh yeah the tokens. i eventually found all of them, and the secret VR level when you get all 50 tokens, was honestly not worth the effort. very long, very easy to die, but not due to enemies, but rather too much platforming. and in all honesty a bit out of plsce for the way the rest of the game was, its like the VR stage was their promo Demo
gninja92 Oof. I'm glad I never bothered; thanks for the warning. Did you ever play the sequel? Nightshade had a whole VR section consisting of incredibly obnoxious jumping puzzles that required you to juggle massive jump-dash-slash chains to take out a bunch of floating enemies. It was like one of those Kaizo Mario levels... and while you could reconfigure the controls for the main game, you had to use the default button layout for the VR section. So not only are you platforming with no platforms, you can't use X to jump like EVERY OTHER GAME EVER.