Ikaruga, the most challenging mother fucker out there. If you haven't played it yet, you should.
"Ikaruga's gameplay centers primarily around the polarity mechanic. Only bullets of an opposite polarity can kill the player. Same-color bullets are absorbed and converted into energy for the game's special weapon, a homing laser. Switching the ship's polarity also changes the color of the ship's bullets, and shooting an enemy using opposite-polarity bullets will cause double damage. Thus, much of the challenge of Ikaruga comes from careful polarity-switching, choosing between high damage and (relative) invulnerability. This is especially true when fighting bosses, as they often fire bullets of both colors in overlapping patterns. The game also presents navigational challenges where the player must maneuver through continual streams of weapons fire, using their shields to absorb one color while avoiding the others."
Sounds difficult? its because it is.
Aside from Ikaruga, Lately I've become very interested in Shoot-em'-Ups especially the classics R-Type as well as Darius 2. It's a well needed change from my normal regimen of nearly everything first person based on XBOX.
I'm going to devote more time into this blog, which I had avoided for a period because of this sort of weird inability to write about myself, but im going to do it anyway.
PS I've fallen for these bad boys, I must have them.
