Damocles wrote:

FABIO wrote:

cpct0 wrote:

I definitely do not agree with you on this. I guess you haven't played the game at all.
Unlimited continues ... In Trial Mode, for the first level, yes.
It took me nearly 5 hours to be able to finish the 3 first level at Normal. That's quite difficult if you want my opinion... Unless you have unlimited continues, of course.

Yes, I must have hallucinated the entire thing. You receive unlimited continues once you've logged in 3-4 hours of playtime, happy? Time spent dying and restarting from the beginning over and over and over again is stretching the term "play time" in my book. But guess what, Ikaruga is still a tragically short shooter. The likes of Gradius and Life Force (Salamander) will last you 30-60 minutes playing straight through on unlimited continues as opposed to Ikaruga's 15-20. There are rythm games longer than that.

Maybe, but since when has length mattered for shooters? That's like complaining that a Japanese RPG has too many bishonen.