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Game Information
- Platform: GameCube
- PEGI Rating: Ages 16 and Over
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- 2-D scrolling space shooter
- Change orientation to either horizontal or vertical scrolling
- 3-D backgrounds
- Compare your high scores on the official Ikaruga web site
- For 1 or 2 players
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Product Description
Official Nintendo Magazine
"The ultimate fix for hardcore action junkies. Trust us, you'll get hooked. 8/10."
NGC Magazine
"Undoubtedly one of the finest examples of the [2-D blasting] genre you're ever likely to find."
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Less is more ... much more,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ikaruga (Video Game)
How can a 2D top-down shooter, with no power-ups, weapon or ship upgrades, and only 5 stages that would last a total of about half-an-hour, be one of the best games on the Gamecube (and therefore on any console)?Anyone, of any age, who ever hung around a grimy arcade with a pocketful of sweaty coins, oblivious to the outside world, obsessively chasing that Holy Grail of gamers, the High Score, will understand. Ikaruga is an arcade experience like no other on a home console, requiring pixel-perfection, lightning reflexes, and a knowledge of the game's dynamics that no sane human being would ever admit to. Two simple rules produce hours of hellishly difficult gameplay. First, all enemies are either black or white, but your own ship can switch 'polarity' between these two colours. Firing at opposite-coloured enemies inflicts double damage, but a single hit from an opposite-coloured missile will destroy you. Sounds straightforward, but in the more frantic firefights you'll need to switch polarity several times per second! Power from same-coloured missiles is absorbed, allowing you to release up to 12 homing missiles at any time. Secondly, bonus points are earned for destroying enemies in same-coloured groups of three. The bonuses go up with each successive, uninterrupted group destroyed, but breaking the 'chain' -- say, by hitting two black then one white enemy -- resets the bonus to zero. Ikaruga isn't about getting to the end -- you don't even have to destroy the bosses to progress. That might baffle players of all other types of games, but serious shooter fans know that missing out on that massive boss bonus is as bad as dying. The Score is all. Remember coming out of that sweet shop in 1980, all your dinner money having gone into the Space Invaders/Galaxian/Phoenix machine you just couldn't leave alone? Imagine it, but with 21st-Century visuals and sound. That's Ikaruga.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yet another 5-star review, let me tell you exactly why!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ikaruga (Video Game)
Ikaruga is the best 2D shooter I have ever played, bar none- and I have played a lot of them! The fact the there is a practice mode where you can re-play every specific section of every level over and over again just shows how difficult this game is. It's not frustratingly difficult however, as every time you play it you will improve. You just feel drawn to having another go, to rack up a better score, get further than you did last time or play it perfectly like the included demos suggest! It's a stunning game which works on a single, yet incredible gameplay feature: you can change your ship from white to black. No doubt it's been described in detail by another reviewer, so I won't go into much here. I'll just say that this very simple addition makes a whole lot of difference to the way you play. Without it this would be a standard 2D shooter. With it it's one of the most intelligent and challenging games ever made. It's also getting harder to get hold of- so buy yourself a copy quick!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pure Gaming,
This review is from: Ikaruga (Video Game)
Treasure dazzle again with that special brand of gaming bliss fans have come to expect - frenzied 2D action with the emphasis on an addictive core gameplay mechanics, rather than superfluous graphical effects that have increasingly come to typify modern game development. Ikaruga is a game based on a single, maddeningly addictive concept, and a supremely realised risk/reward structure. Hard to learn and harder to master, Ikaruga is neither for those who want a game of docile progression, nor for those who balk at games where attaining high scores is the aim - the game lasts just 25 minutes, but within the context of devising the most profitable strategies through each level, this is the perfect length. For the gamer looking for a novel and challenging game, not to mention a visual tour de force, Ikaruga is perfect. With over 20 hours of play on the clock, Treasure's latest masterwork continues to thrill, intrigue and invariably frustrate. Which is precisely why I love it.
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