Ikaruga Review

[A Black Falcon]

What's weird is that almost all of them get bad scores, then Excitebike 64 and Ridge Racer 64 get mid 8's... strange.

Yeah, I've never liked their N64 racing game scores much... same with the modern Gauntlet games... but the reasons they give those games bad scores seem a bit more evident than why IGN gives strange scores (not mentioning review quality...)... more consistent? :)

Also, I never said that the fact I think their reviews are better quality and more trustworthy and consistent means that I always agree with them or anything, or think they are right all the time... I just think that their reviews are well done and usually not subject to the kinds of silly things that IGN marks games down for all too often.

I don't understand the F-Zero X score at all, but the Rush one I can see for someone who doesn't especially like arcade/futuristic racing games, or likes specific kinds of them best, or something...

Oh, and as for Mario Kart, it doesn't deserve to be hit that hard, but the fact that the single player game is pathetically easy does hurt it. DKR though makes no sense... it has a great single player game so its weaker multiplay shouldn't hurt it nearly that much... do they just hate kart racers too?

And for every one of those low racing game scores there's a Ikaruga that shows their quality... or Majora's Mask. :)

Oh, and I haven't played Rush 1 all that much, but I wouldn't think it'd be THAT different from Rush 2 and 2049, both of which are great racing games... and as I've said before, 2049 is, IMO, easily the N64 game I play the most (I still play it regularly), and after F-Zero X is the second best racing game on the system... IMO of course.

But my stand on arcade racers is shown pretty clearly when you note that 8 of my 26 N64 games are arcadish racing games...