My hope is that this small bit of the internet can be a place where all of us who have suffered at the hands of Ikaruga can find some kind of solace, and maybe learn from those better than us.

Somewhere out there someone must have seen level 4? Right?

Ikaruga scares me.

Will someone hold me?

Level 4 :o :o


nope.... the level three is basically a joke :lol: :lol: :blink:

well have to admit to having not played this game yet, as havn't bought it as it seems way way to hard!

I love the game.... but then after looking at my sig... I would :P

I'll be getting Ikaruga when it's cheaper, since I'm a tight git who wont pay full price for five measley levels :P


giant_frying_pan

See what you've done there? You've completely missed the point of shoot-em-ups! You don't play a shmup to the credits and throw it in the bin. These games are designed for mastery and master it you must. The game is only as good as the chains you can acheive. 5 levels there might be, but the whole thing is designed to be played over and over again until you are "The Don".

I'm not that big a fan of Ikaruga. Well produced certainly, but no real shooting classic. Radiant Silvergun does things better and even then that pales when compared to the likes of Psyvariar, ESP Rade and Dimahoo.

i'm a student, i refuse to pay for games.

£40, i'd rather buy 2,000 tins of beans from netto

Ikaruga is the bane of my existence.

I've never been good at shumps. While I can appreciate the skill of a person who has mastered a level, and can enjoy a bit of a shoot around... I am just damn bad!

Ikaruga is totally about memorising patterns of attack (like many shumps - yes, although I feel it is exaggerated here) which I am just crap at...

I managed to get a couple 1.25(ish) million on level 1 recently through A LOT of practice... but nothing more...

Damn you chains! They make me want to cry!

You think you want to cry now? Try watching someone get 35 million points. Tears aren't enough.

Hehe calm down, I was just joshing with you. Er I mean joking (sorry).

It is a game that I will own. Soon. When I get more money.

Mastering games is my most treasured form replayability. As it happens I've beat Master Mode in Monkey Ball! Pretty sweet eh?!? ;)

No? Oh okay then :(


giant_frying_pan

are you talking about that thing where you have to switch colours between blue and red, cus ive watched someone play all the way through that in black and white (dodgy import or something)... oh, oh the pain...

Ikaruga you switch between black and white.

Other shumps like Radient Silver gun you change wtith different colours!

Chapter 4 isn't half as hard to chain as Chapter 3. The best rank I've ever achieved on chapter 3 is an S where as I've got S++ on chapter 4 a couple of times </brag>.

There's a word that's not used in the right context!

theres no excuse not to buy ikaruga really. i'm also a student, with £2000+ of overdraft used up, and i don't even have a gamecube, and even i have it :) quality game.

some might say "wouldn't you rather eat?"... but they clearly haven't played it.

Ok so here we go then.

Well, top score so far for level 1 is around 1.4. Which aint too bad I supposes. Goes rapidly downhill after that.

Two further questions...

Does anyone know how to stop the damn thing giving me more credits, I don't want it's pity.

Second, is anyone playing on a black and white TV? Does it work?

My jap Saturn came in the post today :P

Anybody fancy selling me a copy of radiant Silvergun for say hmmmmm a tenner?























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Thought not! :D

I have a copy of Radiant Silvergun. Sell me your Saturn.

[whoops]

Ok it's yours for Hmmm say 180 quid that should cover P&P as well!

Don't tempt me. I actually bought Radiant Silvergun at current prices. If I hadn't had a particularly bountiful birthday at the time I would have still be peniless now.

However, if you need to "test" it, and can make it to Edinburgh, I'm sure I can arrange something. Been a while since I last played it.

If you can pick me up from Suffolk and bring me home i'm all yours! :D

Unfortunately, I can already get hold of a Japanese Saturn to play on, I'm just really lazy.

The question now is: Given that I'm prepared to make good on my offer, how much do you want to play Radiant Silvergun?

haven't played the game but i'm haveing a hard enoth time on Axelay and Super Aleste; games witch where classed as easy when they where first released

p.s. those vids are lovely! :-]

Got it, got to Level 2, got bored. Sold on for a £5 loss - not bad at all...

Thought I would resurrect this thread since I love talking about Ikaruga.

Every hour you play you get an extra credit upto 9 credits, then you just get infinite.

Ikaruga is one of the finest, best designed games I have ever played. So much so in fact it has just about convinced me to spend £100+ on getting hold of a copy of Radiant Silvergun.

I wondered if there was anyone about this forum still playing this gem of a game?

My copy came in the post the other day and it's sublime. I just cant stop playing the damn thing. Can now compleatly chain the first two parts of level one. (be kind I've only had it a few days).

If you mean is anyone still playing RSG then, well no I'm not. yet. My entire post has just been rendered worthless. (much like the rest of them then, ho hum)

I meant is anyone still playing Ikaruga.

Well done on the first two sections of the chapter - only a few more sections to go :D.

Everything about Ikaruga is quality - when you start to learn the chains you really start to appreciate just how well put together the game is.

Insanely difficult, yet completely achievable all it takes is a lot of time and dedication.

My copy has give me around 150hours of enjoyment and it is the first shump I ever played properly...

It has already encouraged me to get Star Soldier, Bangai-o, Sin&Punishment and just about any other Treasure game.

Having played through the later levels using credits, I am not looking forward to trying to do 5 without any. But I can't see that happening to be honest. Great fun though - by the way, are we talking about playing it on 'Easy' or Normal here?

Usually Ikaruga is played on Normal difficulty - this is how it is meant to be played really.

I have never managed to complete it without losing a life, but I have done it on one credit before - I lost a total of 4 lives (but gained about 4 during the course of playing) for my best score of 25.5M.

It is really worth persevering with - nothing beats the satisfaction from going through one of the harder sections of the game (like the fast satellite section of 4-2) in front of your friends fully chaining as you go :D.

Incidentally chapter 5 (before the bosses) is actually one of the easiest chapters - chapter 3 is the hardest to learn to chain properly and chapter 4 is probably the hardest to survive initially.