Absorbing bullets increases the energy for your second weapon – homing lasers. The reverse rule applies if you’re a white ship. You can also absorb any bullets/lasers of any same colour ship so in this example, being black, you can absorb black bullets. If you’re in black polarity your fire is more powerful against white enemies but white bullets will kill you. The first concept is that your ship can change polarities and by that I mean it can change shade from either black or white (this concept can also be seen in Treasure’s Silhouette Mirage – PSX, Saturn). But the game features 3 important concepts, all of which must be mastered for you to have any chance of scoring well.
The ship in RS uses a 7 weapon battle system, whereby the Ikaruga (and Ginkei ship) uses only 2. It was considered the spiritual sequel to the superb arcade and Saturn game Radiant Silvergun, but the two games are very contrasting. It has since been ported to both the Dreamcast (Japan only) and GameCube (Worldwide). Ikargua originally came about in the Arcades of Japan in 2001, based on Sega’s NAOMI arcade system. This game does not cheat, it simply requires pixel perfect shooting and dodging skills. They have a huge fanbase too, as their games usually feature a mix of great concept, artwork or gameplay although I must stress that anyone new to Treasure’s games may feel short changed with this title as their games are notoriously hard to the average gamer. However recent games have seen them delve into the good but reportedly unbalanced 2D fighting series, Bleach, and another quality shmup, Bangai-O-sprits. Treasure themselves are an interesting company one of few that dabble in mainstream games like Wario World, which will then usually go on to fund either surrealist titles, hardcore shmups and their staple run n’ jump platformers. Ikaruga is looked upon as one of the de-facto shmups of all time and certainly one that has influenced a good few homebrew and douijn based shmup games available on the PC. I must say, being one of my favourite genres and despite the fact I’ve bought the game twice, I feel rather honoured to be doing this review.
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