@KesMonkey: There's an Xbox 360 Community Game in development called Duality which I believe is the first shooter to offer eight ships at a time, two per player. I think that's a great concept, but I'm not sure I can split my focus like that.
@Kobun: Sounds interesting. I assume you would control each ship with each analogue stick, and each trigger for fire. I can juggle, so I'm hoping those skills will translate. :)
Black and white has never been quite as complicated as it is in Ikaruga
Someone needs to do some reading on Resident Evil 5 or spend some time in the south. :p
Five dollars for the game is a steal. Well, for everyone but Gamerscore whores. I'll never sniff completion, but it's nice to live vicariously through others thanks to the downloadable replays.
Well, I'm convinced. I love bullet hell shooters, but I suck horribly at them. At five bucks, I won't feel bad when my copy collects virtual dust after two plays. (Small Arms, I'm looking at you...)
And once again I feel like I'm being punished for buying a game on its release date. Download titles should really have specials to give people incentive to buy the game early and not one-and-a-half years late.
Punished because you've gotten 1.5 years of play time out of a game?
Welcome to the reality of economy and LAGS, I guess?
You bold your "one and a half" years statement when it's the very thing that invalidates your whine. I'd be annoyed if MS did a price drop on something a month after it comes out. 1.5 years, and then running a temporary sale where it's going to go back to the regular price is an acceptable way to generate interest in the title again.
As far as your concerned, damned if they do, damned if they don't.
@Phydeaux: To me, this isn't the kind of game that doesn't need to regenerate interest. Its been voted time and time again one of the greatest SMUP games of all time. This is also a game that's not 1.5 years old. It made its original debut in 2001, and I personally already own a copy on the Cube.
This is the kind of game that should have been cheaper early on because the people most likely to have bought it have already owned it before.
Awesome. That five dollar savings will help buy the blood pressure medicine this game will invariably necessitate. Still, it looks fun in that blood boiling, old-school sort of way.
@Guitarzan2k5 - Bad puns are my business, and...: Absolutely. This game is a pain in the ass. I'm actually glad that in all the hours I tried passing level one or not shooting anything that I was able to not gather any gamerscore so that I could delete any record of having played it.
I hate this game more than Yaris, for what it's worth.
@TheWP listens to Yukkuris; Takes it easy: This game defines that genre. You can absorb the color you are currently so some areas of the game have only bullets to be seen.
@TheWP listens to Yukkuris; Takes it easy: Ikaruga is a Treasure shmup, so it's kind of different. It's certainly danmaku in many cases, but not quite to the level of a Cave or Touhou. The whole concept of Ikaruga is that there are two kinds of bullets on the screen as opposed to one. It's a unique gameplay mechanic, and the danmaku elements keep the game intense. I highly, highly recommend it, not only as a Treasure fanboy but as a general gamer as well.
I'm really upset that it's taken this long for someone to comment on this (and that it will more than likely go unread), but seriously... where are the sex jokes that should be rampant as hinted at in this article?
What with the "Premature Evacuation" in the text and the Cocksplosion going on in the picture (come on, you all saw it - in the center, towards the right, looks a bit like a fire snowman with big balls....), I would've thought this article would be ripe for the plucking.
Kotakuites, you disappoint me with your wholesomeness. For shame. :'(
In any case, nice to-the-point article, Luke. Glad to see Treasure getting some love (especially for cheap).
It's good to know that Luke didn't finish early, leaving the last boss feeling unsatisfied.
On another topic:
Who else rocks the homing laser that chases everything and makes little blue boxes on them till they're dead? You can clear a whole screen with that and not even have to aim. I think it's the blue thingy & the fire. Mixing powerups is soooo fun.
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Someone needs to do some reading on Resident Evil 5 or spend some time in the south. :p
Five dollars for the game is a steal. Well, for everyone but Gamerscore whores. I'll never sniff completion, but it's nice to live vicariously through others thanks to the downloadable replays.
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Poor Excellica's going to be ignored for a while again.
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Punished because you've gotten 1.5 years of play time out of a game?
Welcome to the reality of economy and LAGS, I guess?
You bold your "one and a half" years statement when it's the very thing that invalidates your whine. I'd be annoyed if MS did a price drop on something a month after it comes out. 1.5 years, and then running a temporary sale where it's going to go back to the regular price is an acceptable way to generate interest in the title again.
As far as your concerned, damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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This is the kind of game that should have been cheaper early on because the people most likely to have bought it have already owned it before.
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psst let me let you in on a little secret
games are more expensive when they first come out, as opposed to later
you're pissed about having paid more for it when it first came out?
Go look up the going price of the gamecube version right now. Or the Dreamcast. And imagine those prices before your XBLA version came out.
Suck it.
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It's the only version I can play. :(
Man, XBLA sounds like such a blessing.
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I hate this game more than Yaris, for what it's worth.
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I never paid much attention outside Touhou, though I got to play Death Smiles at the anime store in Rochester.
Also, as a complete aside, with the ability to edit, I could change my first post to refer to a different genre than danmaku.
"I'm guessing this is more turn-based RPG than regular shooter" -> "This game defines that genre"
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What with the "Premature Evacuation" in the text and the Cocksplosion going on in the picture (come on, you all saw it - in the center, towards the right, looks a bit like a fire snowman with big balls....), I would've thought this article would be ripe for the plucking.
Kotakuites, you disappoint me with your wholesomeness. For shame. :'(
In any case, nice to-the-point article, Luke. Glad to see Treasure getting some love (especially for cheap).
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On another topic:
Who else rocks the homing laser that chases everything and makes little blue boxes on them till they're dead? You can clear a whole screen with that and not even have to aim. I think it's the blue thingy & the fire. Mixing powerups is soooo fun.
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umm firstly its not a port
secondly faithful?
its running the origonal code in an emulator
i expect stuff like this from non gaming sites
not from kotaku
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