Ikaruga Comments by Simon Parkin
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MrChuckles
09/04/08 @ 13:20
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Why don't you guys shoot actual aliens with real spaceships instead of wasting your time playing games?
Do something useful with your time ffs... |
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There appear to be Leaderboards for everything.
The one slightly strange and annoying thing about it, is that if you switch to using more than 1 credit it won't let you post your score to the Leaderboards at all. It warns you about this, so its not a bug, just some strange design choice they've made.
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beastmaster
09/04/08 @ 16:48
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I love Radiant Silvergun. Dig it out from time to time on the Saturn. Will buy Ikaruga too. Now all we need is Dodonpachi and a load of other Saturn classics which never made it to UK shores. In nice HD graphics.
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as a seasoned shmup'er myself i'd say a 8/10 for ikaruga is about right. when it initially launched all those years ago on dreamcast it gained some degree of free praise simply because of its relationship to the mighty radiant silvergun...in fact for a long time people were dubbing it radiant 2.
its play mechanics are certainly clever and its presentation slick but it lacks a certain atmosphere that the classic shumps have, the lone fighter saving the world feel....in essence it feels more like a contrived puzzle game than a shooter. a good game in its own right, yes, but its certainly no dodonpatchi, battle garegga or radiant silvergun. |
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Bad news beastmaster http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/30/cave-s... hopefully Ikaruga will sell well and they'll reconsider.
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'...in fact for a long time people were dubbing it radiant 2.'
Thats because it is (in spirit). Not sure if its on this version, but when you loaded up previous versions it would say Project RS2 or something. On the subject of the Cave shooters, apparently the reason MS rejected them is that they weren't willing to put in any online play or update them in any way at all...assuming thats the real reason it actually makes sense for MS to reject the games.
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I think teh 8/10 score is spot on to be honest (although i do acknowledge its greatness) as shoot em ups go id give it a 7/10.
The problem is with ikaruga is that it is a 2D shooter puzzle hybrid. To truely master the game you need to get a handle on the black/white switch play mechanic. It is inherently built into the game design. This is what makes it soooo hard and in turn alienates a lot of shooter fans. They generally acknowledge its good but dont enjoy playing it that much. I'm right in that camp i admit Ikaruga is a good game but I dont enjoy it. I much prefer the free flowing adrenaline shooters such as Caves' Espgaluda, Dodonpachi, Ibara and G-revs Border Down and Under Defeat. |
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