Ikaruga

Um clássico divertido, nunca conseguir ir além da terceira fase.

Amazing game, takes some getting used to but if you stick with it beating it becomes a very immersive experience. There's also playing for score but for us mere mortals beating the bosses before they fly off is where it's at. Highly recommended! Don't forget to charge and use your missiles, I don't think I could beat the bosses without them.

A laser focused, brutally difficult shmup that requires the player's utmost attention for its whole short duration. It knows what it wants to be and executes it with extreme gameplay purity. First off the game's main mechanic made it legendary for a reason - the way the polarity system is used to absorb one type of bullet while the others become dangerous and vice-versa is very unique and requires a brain-to-reflex connection which is rarely explored in other games, let alone other shmups. I'm completely astounded at how creative this mechanic gets. It never felt so good to me to be bad at something What it lacks in content quantity it more than makes up for in pure, raw, unfiltered skill based gameplay - you don't simply play Ikaruga just to get to the end, because that isn't even a challenge nor is there anything that happens at the end to make it "worth" it just to get there - just put the game on free play/infinite continues and you'll get to the end in the span of 30 minutes. Ikaruga is more about the journey than the destination. Yeah sure, the destination is still having enough skill to beat the game in a way you would want to set for yourself as a goal, but the journey to getting there is almost like working out rather than simply playing a hard game, it's a satisfying process. Three difficulty levels (which technically change the way you play the game more than they are difficulties, although hard is definitely harder than normal and easy across the board), 5 short stages, one defensive mechanic and one offensive mechanic, all backed up by a blood pumping soundtrack and clean mid 2000s visuals. Simple and direct, nothing is hidden from the player at any point, what you see is what you get. The core of Ikaruga is practice and getting better. It's a 1 on 1, as in the player against the game, and that purity and simplicity is what gives it this weirdly welcoming aura. It beckons the player to get better, because apart from that there isn't much else here. I'm massively impressed by what this game managed to do with the shmup formula, it's a very unique experience and it's definitely something that should be a longer "on & off" type of game for anyone that wants to play it rather than a one & done type of deal.

Jogaço

接下来向你走来的是，真真正正经过时间检验的竖版STG神作，尼尔机械纪元里STG元素的灵感源头，横尾老贼的心头好——斑鳩。 这美术这画面这音乐这设计，近20年前的游戏放到今天也不过时你敢信。只不过STG这个游戏类型确实有局限性，做得再优秀可玩性也就那样，逐渐式微也是理所应当。 但把STG做到斑鸠这种近似艺术品的高度，也难怪到今天都有游戏爱好者过来夕拾朝花。

Light dances with dark Opposites become one path Peace flies through the storm

лучший шутинап в своем жанре, пол жизни отыграл на свитче у кореша, занес бабки в стиме

好

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