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Click [[Ikaruga (Video Game)|here]] to switch polarity.
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{{quote|''"WARNING: The big enemy is approaching at full throttle. According to the data, it is identified as ''Butsutekkai''. NO REFUGE"''|Warning screen before each boss in ''Ikaruga''}}
|Warning screen before each boss in ''Ikaruga''}}
 
'''''Ikaruga''''' is a modernized take on the "[[Bullet Hell]]" school of [[Shoot 'Em UpsUp]]s, developed by [[Treasure]], creators of ''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''. It's widely regarded as one of the best examples of the genre.
 
In ''Ikaruga'', everything comes in one of two polarities: black or white. Black ships fire black shots, and white ships fire white. Your ship is unique in that you can switch between the two polarities at will.
 
Your ship's [[Battle Aura]] can [[Energy Absorption|absorb bullets]] of the same polarity, but is [[One -Hit -Point Wonder|destroyed by shots]] of the opposite polarity. However, ''your'' shots do double damage to targets of an opposite polarity to your own, giving you the option to fly with your defences down to increase your offensive power. Absorbed bullets [[Charged Attack|charge up]] your special attack, a [[Roboteching|homing]] [[Beam Spam]]. Finally, the scoring system allows you to accumulate "chain" multipliers by destroying three enemies of the same polarity in a row.
 
That's all there is to the game: no other gimmicks, no other features. Just five levels of careful design, switching polarity, and more bullets than you can shake a stick at. ''Ikaruga'' is a work of art that way: it takes a simple idea and plays that idea to its most logical extreme. (Obviously, [[Your Mileage May Vary]], especially when it comes to the sheer difficulty of the game.) All five levels are [[Scrappy Level|Scrappy Levels]] in one way or another, but there is something to be said for elegance.
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Released as an arcade game (using the Sega NAOMI platform) and on the Dreamcast in Japan in 2001, it was later ported to Gamecube systems around the world in 2003. In 2008, it was ported to Xbox Live Arcade.
 
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=== Tropes used in ''Ikaruga'' : ===
* [[Advancing Boss of Doom]]: Chapter 3's [[Boss in Mook Clothing]] near the end.
* [[A God Am I]] - Horai Tenro and her followers, once they found the [[Artifact of Doom|The Power Of The Gods]] and started calling themselves the Divine Ones.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: in the true tradition of [[Shoot 'Em UpsUp]]s, the only place you will find anything remotely resembling a coherent plot for the game. And not even then, in the Gamecube version.
** [http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/dreamcast/file/561887/23884 CTRL+F 'Extras' to read an English translation of the prologue from the Dreamcast GD-ROM.]
* [[The Atoner]] - Kagari, as she used to be a mercenary for the Horai.
* [[Battleship Raid]]: The whole of stage four.
* [[Bigger Onon the Inside]]: The arcade version of the game takes up only ''eighteen megabytes''. Trust us, that's impressive.
* [[Breather Level]]: Chapter 5, which is substantially easier than the previous two chapters and has extremely simple chaining. Even the [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Bosses In Mook Clothing]] that show up at the end of the pre-boss section that fire massive bullet storms only fire in one color, allowing you to easily build up your homing laser attack to finish them off.
* [[Bullet Hell]]: While its difficulty has arguably been eclipsed by some of the more recent entries in the genre, the game will still throw some truly intimidating patterns at you. [http://ryuzie.sakura.ne.jp/ikaruga/text/tageri/tageri_big.jpg Perhaps the most infamous example...]
* [[Cast Fromfrom Hit Points]]: Simply piloting the Ikaruga and Ginkei prematurely ages the pilots' brain cells.
* [[Chain -Reaction Destruction]]: A lot of of the bosses do that when killed.
* [[Charged Attack]]: The "collect" kind. Notably, you can use the attack even if the meter isn't fully charged; you just get weaker beams (and possibly less of them) from your [[Beam Spam]].
* [[Computer Voice]]: The Ikaruga and Ginkei fighters. Their voice is somewhat hard to comprehend though especially during the epilogue.
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** Or [[Bittersweet Ending]]. Though you will have to consider {{spoiler|the last chapter is called Metempsychosis, or "moving from one life to the next."}}
* [[The Empire]] - The Horai.
* [[Heel Face Turn]] / [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Kagari in the prologue.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* [[Hitbox Dissonance]]: Knowing the exact position of your hitbox is vital to getting the Dot Eater rank. You have to be very precise in your positioning in order to get past walls, blocks, and enemies you're normally suppose to shoot to safely progress.
* [[Hold the Line]]: The final boss fight disables your weapons. The only objective is to survive for 60 seconds.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: After defeating Tageri, the Stone-Like appears and attacks you with several different patterns of bullets for 60 seconds. You can't even shoot, much less damage it. After you dodge and absorb the [[Bullet Hell]], the Ikaruga performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] with the energy charged up during that time. Shinra [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence|ascends to a higher plane of existence]] according to the storyline in the Japanese version.
* [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]]: Any time a boss is destroyed.
* [[Kaizo Trap]]: When the boss of Stage 2 dies, the second plate-like object that protects its weak points gets blown off. If your ship is directly below it, you can still die from getting hit by it, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RFxlMnxPkQ&t=08m56s like so].
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* [[Mickey Mousing]]: The musical score is synchronized to the progression of the levels.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Good ''Lord'', though this is somewhat mitigated by the fact that the console versions give out more credits as you log in more game time. Good luck unlocking most of the secret content though, which usually requires 1-credit clears of different game modes.
* [[One -Hit -Point Wonder]]
* [[Pacifist Run]]: It is perfectly possible to complete ''Ikaruga'' without ever firing a single shot. Doing so for an entire level earns you the rank of "Dot Eater!"
* [[Power Limiter]]: The Ikaruga and Ginkei have these to prevent their ships from blowing themselves up with excess power. {{spoiler|Turning this off allows the pilot(s) to use the [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] and destroy the final boss in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}
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* [[Theme Naming]]: The levels are named after the stages of enlightenment in Buddhism.
* [[Time Limit Boss]]: Every boss battle, though you don't lose if time runs out... the boss simply moves on to other, more important things, leaving you free to go on. Apparently.
* [[Two and A Half 2½D]]: Almost everything in the game is 3D, but the game, being a [[Bullet Hell]] shooter, plays out on a 2D plane with some cutscenes shown on a full 3D plane at the start of each stage and boss, as well as at the end of the entire game.
* [[Unreadably Fast Text]]: Seen (very briefly) at the start of each stage.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The chapter titles- Ideal, Trial, Faith, Reality and Metempsychosis- represent Man's struggle towards enlightenment, with the aura-enveloped Ikaruga craft symbolising the human soul. Apparently.
* [[Yin -Yang Bomb]]
 
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[[Category:Shoot Em Up]]▼
[[Category:Vertical Scrolling Shooter]]
[[Category:Self Demonstrating Article]]▼
[[Category:Ikaruga]]
[[Category:Darth Wiki]]
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