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Waves of gunless drones are easy enough to take down in their own, but when they’re coming from all sides of the screen, you have to be smart about your kill order lest you let one escape (and break your scoring chain as a result). Instead, it’s about quick reactions, prioritising targets, and killing enemies as quickly as possible. This isn’t a bullet hell enemies are trigger happy and pull out some interesting shot patterns, but they don’t usually flood the screen and force you to navigate a maze of gunfire. That makes it even harder to resist the call of “just one more”-one more attempt to beat a level, one more star collecting run, one more ship upgrade. It helps that each level of short, a couple of minutes at most, and loading times are almost non-existent. Low health and a pathetic pea-shooter of a cannon mean you’ll die a lot when you start out, but with each death you get stronger, so you can get further next time, collect more stars, and further improve your jet. Such a system isn’t uncommon, but Sky Force Reloaded gets the balance just right, so that almost every run will net you enough stars to buy at least one upgrade, and the effect of each upgrade is small but noticeable. There are secondary weapons to add, like homing missiles, and limited-use power ups in the form of a laser beam, shield, and mega bomb. Upgrading your main cannon increases damage, fire rate, and spread improving the plane’s body gives you more health adding and strengthening a magnet lets you collect stars and power ups from further away.
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Again, it’s simple and familiar: destroyed enemies drop stars, which you can spend on between levels to upgrade your vehicle’s various components.
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That’s a timeless design, but what makes this take on it so compelling for me is the upgrade system. Related reading: Super Hydorah is another excellent shoot ’em up that came out recently.
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