PLAYING CATCH-UP

Welcome to four years ago, friends: Ikaruga is awesome, but pretty god damn hard. (this) I feel like maybe I should've warmed up some first, like maybe on Stinger or something (I loved that game). I figured I would use Ikaruga as a "clear my head between tasks" thing, but I'm finding instead that it just gets me energized, which is still pretty OK. Energy's good. If we had a copy of Stinger, I'd just play it until I beat it, which takes too long. It doesn't take long for me to use up all my lives in Ikaruga; I would not make a very good fighter pilot, I don't think.