"Our FROTHING DEMAND for this game INCREASES."
- IGN.com
"Our FROTHING DEMAND for this game INCREASES."
Matthew Brown
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Jaxon Butler
it was pretty funny seeing IGN pretend to know anything about shmups because they were so amazed by the polarity system
Ryan Richardson
Best shmup ever it has two colors
Lincoln Gonzalez
Why did Ikaruga inparticular gain so much favor with normalfags?
Gavin Watson
Probably a domino effect. All it takes is one big site like IGN to review it and many others will follow. That includes Youtubers and Youtubers means sales.
Parker Ward
Enough people knew about it from it being at Arcade and on the Dreamcast before making it to GameCube. It had just enough people talking about it to generate some buzz, people weren't even that crazy about it critically, it was just a cool import game people got for their DC. For an early 2000s shoot 'em up it was pushed pretty hard for some reason.
Angel Allen
polarity + pretty looking bullets
Jack Nguyen
>Youtube
>in the early 00s
Anyway i think Ikaruga got shilled so much because it was more puzzle-like than other shmups and i guess the visuals might have been interpreted as artistic by journos, that's all it takes for people that don't really play games to give favourable reviews.
Carson Nelson
influencers werent really a thing back then
Levi Rodriguez
People that wrote for magazines were the ones that influenced opinions back then, all the constant shilling for shitty british games like Tomb Raider we got in the PS1 era is still stuck in my euro brain.
Dylan Morris
Nolan White
The OP quote is a 2012 review.
Aaron Wilson
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Anthony Howard
If IGN's praising it, I don't want to try it.
Kevin Ward
Uh its on the cover of the Gamecube version of the game
It sure feels like one, not like i care about it since i spend my time playing better shmups like Border Down.
Alexander Sanchez
Wonder how they managed to find that review to put it on the box art in 2001.
Dominic Gonzalez
I think it's because it's a lot less demanding in reactions and works more as you memorizing the levels and building a script instead of reacting to every bullet and dodging, it's why I got into it at least when I didn't play schumps at all and thought they sucked
also, it looks cool af in general
Luis Diaz
People at the time were really deluding themselves about treasure games. Rags like hg101 helped push them as the "best developer you've never heard of" despite all their games being weak but polished.
Connor Parker
Oh, my mistake.
Tyler Kelly
>Ikaruga released on GC in 2012
what
Andrew Garcia
Treasure was very good but i don't find Ikaruga to be special, they made better games before that that's for sure.
Gabriel Morgan
Artistic game from a dying genre that normies like to say they enjoy for niche gamer points (they've never even heard of the developer or any of their other games)