Ikaruga 360 reviews cropping up, achievement list leaked.

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:12 pm

Damn, two at once? That's weird.

s/m

PepsimanVsJoe · Post by **PepsimanVsJoe** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:50 pm

They did a hell of a job with this port. Even the little bits of text at the beginning of each stage are translated.

God I suck at this game though.
Buy it folks and send a message to MS that some of us actually want more arcade ports.

Talon · Post by **Talon** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:02 pm

All I have to say is Finally

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:24 pm

PepsimanVsJoe wrote:They did a hell of a job with this port. Even the little bits of text at the beginning of each stage are translated.

God I suck at this game though.
Buy it folks and send a message to MS that some of us actually want more arcade ports.

This is one of the few games that I fully enjoy playing while getting my ass beat.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:03 pm

So is Shigi's attack pattern reversed (like the one dude from Super-Play mentioned 3 months back)?

*edit*

I guess so:

Got the game, seems pretty much the same of what I tried in January.

I can confirm they screwed up Shigi. They swapped the colours of the initial position of the lasers and inverted the direction in which they rotate. The best strategy seems to start from the bottom left (which is now red), stay to the right of the laser as blue and release as red when you have no room left.

Unluckily, because Shigi initially moves to the left and the lasers rotate to the right, the laser trail is much more "vertical" and it's a lot more difficult to shoot it as blue without freaking die.

This whole thing is SO SO SO annoying.

I also noticed some changes in the delay with which the ships come in in 4-1 and possibly the timing is more strict to make enemies coming from the background locked by our homing laser...

Uhmmm

mr_m0nks · Post by **mr_m0nks** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:00 pm

1up wrote:great, Ive been looking forward to this and was going to download it.

Turn on the console, RRoD

If only you had the red polarity 360 you would be ok!!!

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:10 pm

mr_m0nks wrote:
1up wrote:great, Ive been looking forward to this and was going to download it.

Turn on the console, RRoD
If only you had the red polarity 360 you would be ok!!!

Then he'd just have to flip over his console for a Green Ring of Life.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:48 pm

Franz The Stampede from Super-Play goes on to mention a wind-laser glitch in the preface of chapter 4:

They also screwed BIG time something with the homing lasers in 4-1. There are moment in which enemy ships cannot be targeted and will be blatantly missed by the lasers. Also the lasers might not distribute intelligently enough among the enemies, which means some of them will survive. I spent about an hour this afternoon and I couldn't find any decent and consistent strat. I do believe there is a serious problem as even looking at the replays of currently top players, they mostly fail at chaining 4-1 properly.

I'm officially disappointed with this version.

Seems the DC port is still king.

seiatsu · Post by **seiatsu** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:17 pm

Once they are aware of the issues, i'm sure they will release a patch.

however, if it's not brought to their attention, they may never realize.

Scarf · Post by **Scarf** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:20 pm

There might come up even more glitches when people get deeper into the game.

If Treasure couldn't handle something as simple as 4-1, how could they handle end of chapter 3 with multiplying enemies, or 4-2 where it is important to land the missiles properly to chain everything. Chaining those big guys in chapter 5 and getting 118 chain could be problematic, too.

We'll see.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:21 am

I just spent an hour and half with the XBLA version and I can confirm everything that the guy from Super-Play stated.

Also, I'd like to add that Misago's initial bullet spiral feels "lazy"... the spacing is off slightly and I was having a hell of a lot trouble chaining through the first sequence.

yyr · Post by **yyr** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:28 am

I just wanted to point out an interesting feature that some may have missed.

When you unlock the Dot Eater achievement, you are informed about the Dot Eater Leaderboards. I checked the menu, and yup, there they are. I assume you're only eligible if you don't fire a shot. The leaderboards exist for all chapters and difficulties, just like the normal ones.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:19 am

Also... the game will occasionally decide to just end your play-through after you've completed a chapter. The game wouldn't let me past chapter 1 for the first four plays... and MrMonkeyMan reports that the game was just ending for him after chapter 3.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:26 am

I don't think these bugs should deter anyone from picking it up, though. If word gets around quickly enough, they'll get a patch out.

yyr · Post by **yyr** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:56 am

Kiken wrote:Also... the game will occasionally decide to just end your play-through after you've completed a chapter. The game wouldn't let me past chapter 1 for the first four plays... and MrMonkeyMan reports that the game was just ending for him after chapter 3.

Make sure when starting a new game that "Chapter" is set to "All." If it isn't, you'll play the selected chapter, and then the game will end. This is by design.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:04 am

yyr wrote:
Kiken wrote:Also... the game will occasionally decide to just end your play-through after you've completed a chapter. The game wouldn't let me past chapter 1 for the first four plays... and MrMonkeyMan reports that the game was just ending for him after chapter 3.
Make sure when starting a new game that "Chapter" is set to "All." If it isn't, you'll play the selected chapter, and then the game will end. This is by design.

I assure you, it was set to ALL. In fact, my brother and I switched it back and forth several times and got the same result. And again, MMM played through to chapter 3 and then the game decided it didn't want him to play chapter 4.

Also, Franz captured quite an interesting chapter 4 glitch... the game decided not to load his player craft... so the stage just played itself.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:18 am

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kemical · Post by **kemical** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:12 am

hey zakk what 360 controller are you using, it looks like it has a common ground setup.. wanting to make an adapter for my db-15 stick, but need to find a common ground controller..

DefaultGen · Post by **DefaultGen** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:57 am

Assuming I don't have a cabinet to play my 360, is there any decent controller to pick up to play Ikaruga? I mean, the 360 D-Pad is really terrible stuff

I dont play with a stick. Is the Hori pad any good?

Etrian · Post by **Etrian** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:04 pm

DefaultGen wrote:Assuming I don't have a cabinet to play my 360, is there any decent controller to pick up to play Ikaruga? I mean, the 360 D-Pad is really terrible stuff I dont play with a stick. Is the Hori pad any good?

The Hori EX Pad is better, but the sticks are really loose and it makes it harder to use them. So it's either a choice of playing with the official 360 controller, with great analogue sticks and a bad dpad, or playing with the Hori one, which has a better dpad and bad sticks.

I don't recommend it personally. There's also the xFPS available, but I haven't tried it out.

cody · Post by **cody** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:10 pm

common ground controller - the newer gamestop full-size pads are common ground. The madcatz arcade stick (looks like a cancerous atari 2600 stick) is also common ground, and cheaper if you can still find it.

ikaruga - it's been a while since I turned on the DC, but didnt it have an option to play tate with yoko controls? I didn't notice this in the xbla version.

Post by **nZero** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:04 am

Tried the demo version last night, anyone else had the homing lasers seem to want to target the options instead of the 1st boss?

slateman · Post by **slateman** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:33 am

I haven't played in a while, but have loved this game for a long while. Of course I grabbed it yesterday (with the theme as well, I hate these microtransaction things, but like the theme). Anyways...I have had no problems with glitches yet, but my one concern...

The controller. When talking pin-point control, the d-pad sucks. If you have one, just try to ever so slightly click left. There's an awful lot of play before it actually depresses down. In level 3 where the large things that shoot lasers are moving, I'm trying to maneuver in between and, OH! Smashed into the wall. I love the game, love the display, etc, just don't like the controller AT ALL.

Scarf · Post by **Scarf** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:55 am

slateman wrote:I haven't played in a while, but have loved this game for a long while. Of course I grabbed it yesterday (with the theme as well, I hate these microtransaction things, but like the theme). Anyways...I have had no problems with glitches yet, but my one concern...

The controller. When talking pin-point control, the d-pad sucks. If you have one, just try to ever so slightly click left. There's an awful lot of play before it actually depresses down. In level 3 where the large things that shoot lasers are moving, I'm trying to maneuver in between and, OH! Smashed into the wall. I love the game, love the display, etc, just don't like the controller AT ALL.

You should try to fix the dpad if you haven't already. Try this.

bcass · Post by **bcass** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:12 am

Just to add to the list of bugs, there is an audio-glitch in the music on stage 4. Anyone else notice it? Don't know if it happens every time.

Afterbirth · Post by **Afterbirth** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:03 pm

I'll make some notes of these giltches for review....

That Dpad fix isn't to great. The Dpad itself is still awful really because of the way it curves and the finger rests get smaller towards the outside. Its still easy to lose balance moving left and right quickly. The pivoting is also rather wrong on an official pad.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:57 pm

bcass wrote:Just to add to the list of bugs, there is an audio-glitch in the music on stage 4. Anyone else notice it? Don't know if it happens every time.

I didn't notice any audio glitches in chapter 4, but whilst fighting Tageri's first form, I found that dying will cancel the sound of the guns firing the sweeping bullet streams.

Also, the StoneLike's final pattern is MUCH easier to dodge. The whole attack seems more spread out and all of the bullets are completely solid (there's no haze around the edges).

Maybe it's just me.. but the aspect ratio for the game in yoko seems closer to 3:5 (at least when set to 16:9).

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:35 pm

has anyone noticed how nice it looks in HD yet?

Afterbirth · Post by **Afterbirth** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:51 pm

I think it somehow looks more detailed in SD then HD.
Theres some detail lost in HD because of the way SD displays a picture - it naturally anti aliases the picture and has better contrast so small details tend look better.

I must admit this is not my favorite game really.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:51 pm

Afterbirth wrote:I think it somehow looks more detailed in SD then HD.
Theres some detail lost in HD because of the way SD displays a picture - it naturally anti aliases the picture and has better contrast so small details tend look better.

I tend to agree. The HD visuals look smeary and just a tad out of focus. The 480p visuals of the DC rev through VGA look amazingly clean, sharp and refined.