And besides, the series is fun enough that we’re glad to be back in its skies.Īs of right now I’m fully addicted all over again. In an age where games like FIFA get away with releasing the same thing over and over each year, we can forgive an indie game doing it but Sky Force Reloaded does bring enough to the table to make it all worthwhile. The obvious criticism here is that this is so very similar to the previous game that it almost feels a little pointless at first going through it all again but the increased number of stages (there are five or so more this time) has also been met with extra upgrade options as well as new planes to unlock and technicians to earn that will bestow extra buffs on you. Also, as before, there is no ground attack button. The game rarely goes full bullet-hell and you can get by for the most part on reflexes and skill although a little bit of memorisation helps when going for some of the trickier medals later on. Your plane’s movement (delivered by way of the left analog stick) is slick and precise and the action gets more satisfying as the level of challenge, and your ship, is beefed up. The shooting here is just as good as in Anniversary. Thankfully, the game’s clever medal system rewards you for passing certain challenges on each stage such as destroying every enemy, rescuing every stranded soldier and for taking no damage. The need to upgrade is apparent pretty quickly with the difficulty level between stages jumping pretty savagely to the point where you’ll need to replay old stages quite a few times before taking the next one on. You fly up the screen taking out airborne and grounded enemies over land and sea and they drop stars that you can collect and then spend on upgrades such as improved armour or beefed up weaponry (or the ever-helpful star-attracting magnet). You are then resurrected in a far less-powerful plane and tasked with clearing out the game’s dozen or so stages. This is illustrated right away when the game pulls the same switcheroo that Anniversary did by starting you off in a powered-up ship before having you eat a bag of dicks against the game’s main adversary. While the game is obviously a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up with obvious nods to arcade classics such as 1942 and Flying Shark, the upgrading-centric, rogue-lite aspect of the gameplay is just as evident. Sky Force Reloaded carries on in exactly the same vein as 2014’s Sky Force Anniversary by throwing you right into the action. The core shooty mechanics were very enjoyable and while the constant upgrading of your plane did lead to a fair bit of grinding, there was something deeply addictive about getting all the medals on each level and working your way up from the basic peashooter weapon to packing the kind of firepower the average American student takes to college when they are a bit miffed. We rather enjoyed the last Sky Force game. Novemin PS4 tagged anniversary / arcade / rogue-lite / shoot em up / sky force reloaded by Richie
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