very interesting game. piecemeal storytelling and dynamite gameplay. unfortunately, the level design makes it unplayable without infinite lives ("free play" in the old arcade parlance) which consequently takes...really all of the challenge out.
so there really is no in-between, either you play with 1-5 lives per chapter or you play the whole game with infinite lives and just wonder how the fuck anyone is supposed to navigate these obstacles and how anyone thought dying repeatedly would be fun.
i'm so down on this game i dont even view it as a skill-based game or something possible with perfect knowledge, its just an explosion simulator with some strangely esoteric lore dropped between levels/stage transitions. i "beat" it twice just to screenshot them all. i like everything here besides the level design, which is unfortunately about 90% of the ikaruga experience.
very strange game. dunno how to recommend it to anyone.
so there really is no in-between, either you play with 1-5 lives per chapter or you play the whole game with infinite lives and just wonder how the fuck anyone is supposed to navigate these obstacles and how anyone thought dying repeatedly would be fun.
i'm so down on this game i dont even view it as a skill-based game or something possible with perfect knowledge, its just an explosion simulator with some strangely esoteric lore dropped between levels/stage transitions. i "beat" it twice just to screenshot them all. i like everything here besides the level design, which is unfortunately about 90% of the ikaruga experience.
very strange game. dunno how to recommend it to anyone.