So I'm no expert on shmups. I admire them from afar like fighting games. Any genre that is hard like that just never really clicks with me. But I always like the games even if I can't be good at them or get into the groove of the gameplay. But I hear that Sine Mora wasn't exactly the best. Which is a shame, because I do know that they had some big words for what this game was supposed to be. I know the name Ikaruga was thrown around a bit pre-release.
But everyone I've ever heard talk about it seems to think it had the right idea but fumbled the execution. But then there was the EX version that came out later on. I don't know if that fixed everything or what. But all of that doesn't mean too much to someone like me who can't play these games for shit either way. That is to say I had a good time with this one. The art style is great. It's somehow 1943 meets Panzer Dragoon Orta meets Star Fox meets Metal Slug meets Sin and Punishment at the same time. I'm not sure how one pulls that off, but I'm glad they did.
Yamaoka's soundtrack certainly doesn't hurt anything either. Soundtracks these days, as much as I love so many of them, don't have that 90s sound that games used to have. But this one somehow has that sound, and sounds futuristic too. Throw in the weird vibe of the cartoon animal people all speaking Hungarian, and you at least have a game that you won't forget about easily. But let's just go ahead and look at the pictures now, shall we?
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