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Local time: Jan 10, 2008, 02:28 AM

Raiden Fighters != Raiden series

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Local time: Jan 11, 2008, 02:50 PM

Just a question; I've never been a fan of those shooter games (and I'll bob the next person who says SHOOTAN on the nose, I swear to God), but should I get Ikaruga when it comes? I've hear all this stuff about it being like the coming of The Flying Spaghetti Monster himself, but still...

It was notable because it radically changed shmup conventions, doing away with powerups with an elegant and simple system and effectively becoming a shooter-puzzle hybrid, moving away from the more traditional twitch play.

I respect it greatly as a hand-crafted gaming experience, it has unbelievably good music and aesthetics and the action is fast, inventive and a lot of fun. If you're not fond of shmups however, you won't appreciate what it does quite so much. It is still a shooter, it is unforgivingly hard, and I personally felt the color chaining system made the gameplay more restrictive than the more freeflowing and improvisation encouraging style in something like Radiant Silvergun. It's not a game I'd recommend for someone starting out with shmups, let's put it that way.

And shootan refers to FPS games~

Originally Posted by SuperDK

Ikaruga has a different game mechanic--Polarity, where you absorb certain colored bullets and deal more damage to opposite colored targets (deal less damage to same color). I'm not sure if another shump uses the same gameplay mechanic so if someone wants to correct me, please do so.

Treasure played around with the polarity concept in Silhouette Mirage, but no other shmups have really employed the system, othen than Kenta Cho's.. um.. homages.

The brilliant, brilliant Radiant Silvergun first employed the idea of chaining multiple enemies of a certain color, but it used a different kind of weapon powerup system.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Local time: Aug 20, 2008, 04:29 PM

Sounds like the shape and position (which were the problem) are not fixed, now it'll just use more directions. Which to me would by all accounts translate as even more innaccurate for games requiring 8 directions or even less.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Local time: Apr 7, 2010, 09:59 AM

So they finally added USB memory stick support for copying and moving saves and shit? Anyone tried the update? FAT32 or NTFS?

Either way this is sweet news.

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