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Ikaruga (DC)

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... ship without causing damage. When you change polarity, your shots do too. Shooting an enemy with bullets of opposite colour will do twice the damage as shooting with the same. This one feature of the game is enough to elevate it above the rest of it's genre because it is executed sublimely and incorporated into the game intelligently. Different strategies can be employed depending on your goal. If you want to just survive, you can play it safe and use the polarity system in a defensive manner. If you're out for big po...more

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Ikaruga (DC): The Perfect Shooter (389 words)
by - written on 16/06/09 (Very useful, 6 readings)
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Ikaruga is a shooter made by the genre's stalwort Treasure. Treasure have made many shooters on many platforms and have shown themselves to be innovative and most importantly capable of making great games. Ikaruga is one of their best games to date. Ikaruga is a vertical shooter with simple but creative gameplay mechanics. You pliot Ikaruga, a ship capable of changing it's polarity between black and white. Enemies and enemy bullets are either black or white. This means that if an enemy is shooting black bullets at you, you can change your ship's polarity to black and the bullets will pass through your ship without causing damage. When you change polarity, your ... Read the complete review