
Japanese release - may only work with Japanese hardware. Complete with spine and registration cards.įor the actual shots of this item, please click here. Five chapters may not sound like many, but only the dedicated shmup fan will see the credits roll. The legendary developer Treasure brought use the mighty Radiant Silvergun which could be the best game ever made and than they brought use an outstanding fol. Emulation Lair The Vault Manual Project Message Boards FFA Links. Two player mode gives some welcomed respite and high scores can be clocked up with some well worked teamwork. In tradition with Treasures game design philosophy, Ikaruga was intentionally crafted to challenge the conventions of standard game design and develop a new type of shooting game. Its quite unusual in that respect but there are no other power ups in a bold and refreshing move.

In fact taking on bullets of the same colour is required to charge the only power up in the vessels supergun. The Dreamcast versions disc image, when compressed, took up around 20-100 megabytes depending on the compression method, and the size of an average CD-ROM. Yet your own vessel is invincible to bullets of the same colour making for some tactical thought. Further score incentive is offered in the multiplier that increases for shooting ships of the same colour in sequence. Enemy ships are either one colour or the other and the score is doubled for taking them out with the opposite coloured projectile.

Complete with vertical tate mode plus Arcade and Challenge modes, the main catch to this full on blast is the selection of vessels weapon colour: be it black or white.
