Ikaruga

Often hailed as the best shooter on the Dreamcast, if not of all time, Ikaruga [斑鳩] is a clever bullet-hell of a game. Tactics are employed in the use of switching from white to black. When you are the same colour as oncoming bullets, you absorb them for your special weapon... getting hit by an aleternate colour destroys your ship.

This adds for a rather complicated twist in gameplay.


Here's a gameplay video to just show the complexity of the game:



Check out the above video showing an absolute Master of ikaruga!

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  1. Why did you link to a youtube of Ikaruga being playing on a windows emulator, at 10fps!? Blasphamy! Here is a proper link showing you how a Japanese master plays two ships at once.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEkS199jTuA

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  2. Dear Arcade Fever,
    Thank you for your constructive comment :) I have now included the much better video that you have linked to!
    Keep reading!

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