Ikaruga is one of those games that better live up to the damn hype. I have been reading fanboy cries for this game for months. Apparently Ikaruga is extremely hard and is well known for its "bullet hell" scenarios. This will be a day one download for me. I recently added an additional VGA line to hook my Xbox 360 up to my computer monitor (in additon to my HDTV hookup) so I guess I can also play in tate mode.

Tate mode provides the ability to rotate the game's display by ninety degrees while the player's monitor rests on its left side (for full-screen arcade size). This same mode can be used without rotating the monitor by configuring the controls, in essence changing the game from a vertical scrolling shooter to a horizontal one. When the game is played with the display in a normal orientation (YOKO mode), the sides of the screen are blank because the game field itself is taller than it is wide. If it is turned on its side, it can take up the whole screen and still have the same aspect ratio.