.....WOOOOO! if you thought i'd pass up a chance to rant silly about ikaruga....THINK AGAIN!!! 😛arty
Yes this IS the sequal to Radiant Silvergun and a damm good one too!
Amazing effects and 3d detail from start to finish, one of the best soundtracks i've ever heard!
Lacks many of the weapon features that were in RS1, but does have a nice feature where you can store up energy, collected from the enemey fire and be put to damm good use when in a really tough spot (like stage 4 "Reality")...
the light and dark ship/weapon thingy is a nice feature where as if you shoot a enemey of the same colour(as your ship is)it will take longer to be killed, but shoot it in the oppisite ship mode and it will blow quicker!
BLACK SHOT + BLACK ENEMY = NORMAL DAMAGE
WHITE SHOT + WHITE ENEMY = NORMAL DAMAGE
BLACK SHOT + WHITE ENEMY = x2 DAMAGE
WHITE SHOT + BLACK ENEMY = x2 DAMAGE
if you any good with this you can score chain combo's
A successful chain is like this:
(B = BLACK, W=WHITE)
B, B, B, W, W, W, B, B, B, B, B, B, W, W, W; W, W, W, B, B, B, B, B, B,
W, W, W.
1 CHAIN: 100 points
2 CHAIN: 200 points
3 CHAIN: 400 points
4 CHAIN: 800 points
5 CHAIN: 1600 points
6 CHAIN: 3200 points
7 CHAIN: 6400 points
8 CHAIN: 12800 points
MAX CHAIN: 25600 points
screew the order up....and it's back to square one! (B, B, B, W, W, W, B, B, W <chain broken>)
The game has several (not so) hidden features.....
Continues increse by one for each hour of game play you put in...when you reach 9 the game go's into freeplay mode.
Pic Gallery 1
Beat trial mode without continuing OR play time is over 5 hours.
This will open up Gallery 1. There are 17 pictures in this gallery.
Pic Gallery 2
Clear the game on any level (you can use continues) OR play time is
over 10 hours.
This will open up Gallery 2. There are 6 character profiles in this
gallery.
Sount Test
Beat EASY MODE without continuing OR play time is over 15 hours.
This will open up the Sound Test.
Game Mode
Beat NORMAL MODE without continuing OR play time is over 20 hours.
This will open up GAME MODE where you can choose between NAOMI or
PROTOTYPE.
(NAOMI (the Dreamcast arcade board) will be the Arcade version of
Ikaruga.
PROTOTYPE is nearly the same game, but you don't have as much
firepower, and you can not store up bullets to release a homing laser.)
IKARUGA WALLPAPER:
Pop in your Ikaruga disk into the CD-ROM drive on your PC. There are
five wallpapers for you. All in BMP format, at a resolution of
1024x768.
If you have NOT yet played this game....either go buy the Gamecube copy or find a DC one on ebay!
FACTS!!!!!!
There is a town in Japan named "Ikaruga" in Nara. Nara is east of
Heian and south of Mt. Hiei near the Yamato Plain.
The kanji for Ikaruga means "mottled dove". Mottled as in shades of
black and white. Sounds like a direct reference to the ship in the
game.
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Warning! The big enemy is approaching at full throttle.
According to the data, it is identified as "Butsutekkai"
There is no refuge. Unable to avoid firing.