My personal review of Ikaruga on the XBLA!
« on: January 07, 2008, 12:01:41 PM »  

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... Ikaruga on XBLA!

Yep. Although it has not bee released, the most advanced build is available in the "Xbox Live of developers". Because the company I work for has nothing to do with the development of the game, I'm not breaking any NDA, so I can talk



The game is about 50MB, so it can be saved even on an xbox 360 Memory Unit.

I can confirm that it is possible to assign no button to a function but also more than one button to the same function. Screen options allow to turn the image in both directions. There is also a "zoom" function that should allow to have the best possible dimension but without cut offs). The whole HUD can be repositioned, with an option for having the homing bar either horizontal or vertical. The Chain counter can also be displayed, à la Game Cube.

The front end menu has been tweaked to be compliant with the presence of an option for leaderbords and stuff. The arcade style mode and difficulty selection have been ditched (no animation of the pilot etc) in favour of a more functional menu with options for extend type, stock, difficulty and stage (the default is "ALL").
This seems to have substituted the Practice Mode and I couldn't see any trace of Conquer mode. So, no levels broken down into substage nor slow down play.

The game seems to be the very same although I'm quite sure the direction in which Shigi's laser go has been inverted. By trying to do it the usual way I died miserably and possibly you have to start from the left and as white.

Other than that the game seems the same.

Records obtained with normal stock and extend options can be uploaded to the Leaderbords but the great thing is that they CAN be uploaded with an attachment which is the replay of the score itself. It will be possible to see the top players in the ranking AND to see their replay.

I haven't been here for a while as I got into other games, hope you'll find my review interesting

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