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risc
Nov 26, 2005, 05:45 PM
I just thought I'd say after all this 360 talk JHC Ikaruga kicks ass on the GCN, possibly the best shoot'em up ever!

/me heads off to play again

Feel free to flame me on this useless post! :D


rockthecasbah
Nov 26, 2005, 05:50 PM
I just thought I'd say after all this 360 talk JHC Ikaruga kicks ass on the GCN, possibly the best shoot'em up ever!

/me heads off to play again

Feel free to flame me on this useless post! :D
HOLY CRAP I WAS JUST PLAYING THAT TODAY!!! I HADN'T FOR MONTHS!!! Nobody knows what Ikaruga even is though, so i don't know if this thread will last long. That is so weird though...I love that game, very underrated. So creative too..How do you play, shoot or dot eater?
2nyRiggz
Nov 26, 2005, 05:52 PM
yea im lost....whats that game? i thought yall was talking about a drunk that walked around town.
i know a bum name karuga

Bless
risc
Nov 26, 2005, 05:58 PM
How do you play, shoot or dot eater?

I try to be a dot eater, but usually I just die. ;)

whats that game?

Ikaruga (http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/ikaruga/review.html)
2nyRiggz
Nov 26, 2005, 06:24 PM
that game looks cool...gotta go look for it. i like those types of games.....sometimes.

Bless
rockthecasbah
Nov 26, 2005, 06:43 PM
that game looks cool...gotta go look for it. i like those types of games.....sometimes.

Bless
ya it might be difficult to find, but call up some game stores around you and they'll probably have 1 or so..i believe it was out for dreamcast first, but i could be wrong.
raggedjimmi
Nov 26, 2005, 06:48 PM
I have heard many great things about this game. I'm playing Nanostray at the moment, whilst its similar and has more levels I do miss my *right im gonna try and write the name without checking the spelling* Ikurga.
jalagl
Nov 26, 2005, 07:03 PM
It is one of the best shooters I've ever played... I must be a masochist, cause I just love this frustrating games :rolleyes:
hyperpasta
Nov 26, 2005, 07:16 PM
Wow, I never thought Ikaruga would get on this forum. I bought it when I was in like 5th Grade, thinking it was just a fun space shooter.

Big mistake (I got to level 2).

Now I'm able to concentrate enough to get to level 4.
Kernow
Nov 27, 2005, 05:56 AM
Thanks risc, hadn't thought about this game for ages, but am now going to have to dig it out & spend the rest of the day dying stupidly quickly. :p There goes my plans for a productive work day.

I think I managed to get to level 3 as a dot eater, but then it got just too hard. I have seen some of the high score videos on the net and people must spend far far too long learning the enemy sequences than is good for them.

Must be something in the air today, with cult games like Ikaruga and Shadow of the Colossus (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=163795&highlight=%22shadow+colossus%22) being discussed.
bousozoku
Nov 27, 2005, 06:07 AM
Interesting. I got it as a pre-played game months ago and became bored with it quite quickly. I guess I must be wrong.
Kernow
Nov 27, 2005, 07:24 AM
Interesting. I got it as a pre-played game months ago and became bored with it quite quickly. I guess I must be wrong.

Not necessarily. It depends what you expected of it. If you thought of it as a straight shoot-em up, then I guess it would probably disappoint slightly, because it is a short game, but very tough.

I saw it almost as a puzzle game - working out the patterns of enemies, and figuring out the best times to change polarity to string together the best combinations to get high scores
rockthecasbah
Nov 27, 2005, 08:10 AM
Not necessarily. It depends what you expected of it. If you thought of it as a straight shoot-em up, then I guess it would probably disappoint slightly, because it is a short game, but very tough.

I saw it almost as a puzzle game - working out the patterns of enemies, and figuring out the best times to change polarity to string together the best combinations to get high scores
that and also it can take a great appreciation for beauty / art to really get into the action at points, at least for me. People overlook how simply beautiful that game really is artistically.
raggedjimmi
Nov 27, 2005, 08:13 AM
Not necessarily. It depends what you expected of it. If you thought of it as a straight shoot-em up, then I guess it would probably disappoint slightly, because it is a short game, but very tough.

I saw it almost as a puzzle game - working out the patterns of enemies, and figuring out the best times to change polarity to string together the best combinations to get high scores

Shmups in general are small games but extremely tough. They're my kind of game really. They make for excellent bragging rights too.
But yea, take R-Type 2. one of the most excellent-ish Shmups of all time, it could take years to complete (or decades, in my case) but its only what? 6 levels long? with cheats or if you're very VERY good you could finish it in about 30 minutes.
Whereas my shmup (Titan Omega ;) ) has 13 levels and they're bloody huge. only its much easier.
MacRumorUser
Nov 27, 2005, 10:18 AM
Just wanted to say wooohooo:D :D :D :D IKARUGA is great and damn damn hard :eek: Never managed to complete it without cheating 'im affraid ;)
kingcrowing
Nov 27, 2005, 10:58 AM
As fun as all those types of games are, I'd get frusterated and give up. I Just got a DS and its got tons of games like that (I've been playing Feel the Magic) where they are short but hard, I'm getting into them (slowly, I know feel the magic is quite easy comparitivley) but every once in a while I just want a game where I can kill stuff and blow ***** up :D
Sutekidane
Nov 27, 2005, 11:36 AM
I played it on dreamcast like back in 2001...
Mike Teezie
Nov 27, 2005, 02:20 PM
I have it for my GC and love it.

I actually made some Ikaruga desktops and have used the in the past I like the game so much.

I try to be both dot eater and shooter, it makes the game even harder.
eva01
Nov 27, 2005, 03:17 PM
Ikaruga is a wonderful game. Had a lot of fun playing it.
zathras
Nov 28, 2005, 12:15 AM
Just a me too post but Ikaruga rocks. I've seriously considered building a dedicated Ikaruga arcade cabinet. May still do it one of these days...
louis_sx
Nov 28, 2005, 09:21 AM
Hehe...I imported this on the Dreamcast long before the Cube version came to market...then I played and played and played this until I got unlimited continues, then I played and played and played it until I got to the end...and I played and played and played it some more. Gotta be the best way I ever spent $100, given how much enjoyment I got from it before it ever got released stateside.
Deefuzz
Nov 28, 2005, 01:45 PM
Yes it is indeed a great game. I snagged it on the Dreamcast when it came out and loved it so much that I bought it when it was released on the Cube.

This reminds me that I need to break this game out and play it again.