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Description
Vertical shoot-em-up ported from the Naomi Arcade version. Ikaruga is more or less a sequel to
Radiant Silvergun on the Sega Saturn.
Based on a two-colors system, the player has to switch between the black & white sides of his ship during gameplay.
The black side is immune to black enemy bullets which it considers as a bonus and dies on impact with white enemy bullets. Your own black bullets damage white enemies twice as much as white bullets. And vice-versa for the white side. Those properties make a balance between protecting yourself well and killing enemies fast.
This aspect, combined with specific enemy patterns and a combo system makes Ikaruga an original shoot-em-up with a dose of strategy.
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Alternate Titles
- "斑鳩" -- Japanese spelling
- "Project RS2" -- Working title
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Trivia
1001 Video Games
Ikaruga appears in the book
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Replays DVD
In Japan the
Ikaruga Appreciate DVD was released in 2003. It contains replays of full games played by three of the world top
Ikaruga players of the time completing levels with unbroken chain combos. Scores are 32,178,600 in easy mode, 35,759,960 in normal mode, and 34,289,970 in hard mode.
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Ikaruga (GameCube) on Apr 16, 2003