Sup, Phuckos, I'm Phirmth, a Baphomet and VTuber who likes to make overly-long video essays and shitposts about overly-niche content. Stay tuned for all sorts of phresh, phunny, and phrenetic nonsense.
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Oh my Satan, Ninja Gaiden written in the vibe of Revengeance would actually SLAUGHTER. Also probably make a shitload of money so I mean there's incentive for corpos to actually greenlight it
A small detail that is often overlooked is that bit of dialogue before blowing up the Stone Like is the Ikaruga (the ship) cherring you up for doing your best, thanking you for taking them along along for the ride. I find that such a cute beautiful bit of storytelling.
@@BlueSazerac if you check out my VODs channel, I’ve been playing through and voice acting the Ace Attorney trilogy, plus I did an entire readthrough of My Immortal!
@@Superdude-rd2gs i mean he DOES glide, but I don’t know how I’d feel about giving him a traumatic backstory. Both because I don’t think Team Ninja would necessarily pull it off well, but also because I feel like the last thing NG needs is to be more grounded. Now, if he had a traumatic backstory and then went all Asura’s Wrath with it, NOW we’re talking
Ive loved this game since i first played it ten years ago. Still havent beaten Reality without dying, but I love this game so much. What a good video, instantly subscribed!
some of the best ikaruga content i have had the pleasure of stumbling across, but also kindling for the realization that it has been over 2 decades since initial console release
It feels like the weird movement in the Canary scene was trying to read as camera movement, since the four /mostly/ stayed in the same relative orientation. It was still a questionable decision to start with and badly done on top of it. From the perspective of the lighting tech I was when I wasn't on stage for high school drama, I'd have put a gobo on a rotatable mount and turned that along with the cast if I had the unenviable task of making that not look like dog vomit.
@@scottstuddert9178 you see, at least you would have been doing SOMETHING, which is way better than what they did here. The bar’s SO low. I still think they were a touring production and so the lighting was limited as hell but my god that scene is rough
I'm here... Quite late, but great playthrough overall! It's always so neat to see people discover and interpret things in their own way and their own order, making us live similar yet so personal stories, only to bring us together one final time, in front of a campfire, with burnt marshmallows...
I love this, as well as the ikaruga video, but I don't care about stream highlights, and they're all mixed together on your channel. I'm leaving this comment here, hoping it might influence you to make a playlist of your video essay content :)
2:17:47 this scene is so beautiful because after a full game plus an expansion spending your time learning and learning and learning some more, at the end finally, we become the teacher.
I used to play ikaruga alot, almost every day, on my wii u. Then it broke, and I stopped playing. I've mostly forgotten about it, but this video made me remember why i loved it. I might buy it off steam.. edit, a day later: Found it on my wii. enjoying it quite alot now, got up to chapter 4 with 5 coins and 3 ships each. here's to ikaruga.
One of the best high effort shitpost I've seen on this site, and I've been here since the first YTP days. It's too bad that IGN and Imagine francise had no relation because that Eldritch knowledge bit was hilarious.
Really awesome video! Congratulations for improving so much at this difficult game man, that’s some serious dedication. I feel like this illuminated for me just how difficult getting a 1CC of this game truly is. It’s gotta be one of the most difficult shmups of all time to clear. I’ve been playing CAVE games for years and I’m still so intimidated by Ikaruga, but I admire the game a lot. It’s extremely unique in the shmup world, and the brutal difficulty adds to the mystique. Really enjoyed this deep dive man, not really many videos about Ikaruga that are this in depth exist.
This looks awesome, but yeah I'd be one of the people who are shut out due to photosensitivity. I'm not usually super photosensitive but something about this particular game got to me while watching this video and left me with a headache.
Oof yeah fair, I know there are options to turn down some effects, but I don’t know how effective they’d be for any particular strain of photosensitivity. It’s really a damn shame, it’s a phenomenal game but I couldn’t recommend it in good conscience to someone who suffers from those issues. Glad you enjoyed the vid tho!
Small note on the colorblindness: Given that the two modes aren't just red/blue and are actually bright/dark I think it would be pretty doable even with total colorblindness. As long as an individual can perceive the difference between light and dark it should be ok.
nice to see a gameplay video of this game that is much more like it felt like 20 years ago on the gamecube, constant dying is a feature and like you said part of the gameplay, I think my best result was finishing it with "only" 3 continues, seeing the perfect playthrough was not fun. Also the 1 Player - 2 Player game are just making me feel bad. Have you played multiplayer? it was fun realising you can push eachother (similar like the laser pushes you) And the gasecube version had on option to put the screen on the side so you could play borderless
I had this video saved in for about a year, probably a bit more (YT sucks), and it's my first time viewing a video of yours, and I love it. I have a similar strange relationship with R-Type Final (though that game at least gives you new shit even if you lose, so you have prizes for your progress), and you put in words not only a great dissertation on the game but also on what it's like to play those "be perfect or die" games and what they say about us. So yeah, you got a subscriber, which isn't much at this stage (hell, I'm 36 and recently got a job, I don't have the time to see content in binges), but it's important to me. I hope the rest of your videos are as good as this one.
