Sky Force Reloaded

First off, this is NOT a bullet hell shmup, ignore the tag. Anyone classifying it as such has never played a bullet hell game.
That being said, it is a solid SHMUP with polish and attention to detail. Highly recommended.

Grindy but fun
I think they overcooked this a bit compared to Sky Force Anniversary. The core gameplay is still great - pretty much the same, which is good - and time spent with this one is quite enjoyable. They tried to extend the progression system adding many more weapon levels, plane variants, passive skills, etc which on premise sounds great, but in practice it's a grindfest.

Gameplay
8/10 (6/10 including the grind factor)


Aesthetic & GFX
7/10


Music & SFX
5/10


Time Played
18hrs

Final Score: 6/10

The perfect old-school top down shooter, infinitely replayable and always satisfying. One of my favorite "turn off your brain" games to just shoot the shit out of everything you see. Becomes more fun when you unlock more planes, now that I have everything unlocked it's ridiculously fun. One of my very few 10/10 games.

The best shmup I've ever played, it has it all. Great graphics, great sounddesign and music, wonderful levels and enemies, great difficulty spike to gradually challenge you more and more. An upgradable skilltree for missiles, maingun, winggun, laser, powerbomb etc. There are 4 difficulties on each stage, you finish all the 4 tasks on each stage to unlock the next difficulty. So the 4 ones are, kill 70% of the enemies, kill 100% of the enemies, rescue all survivors and stay untouched.
Some mention that the game is grindy and that might be so quite early on but I still completed upgrading my whole ship way before I was tired of the game and I still come back to it. I have levels left to complete on nightmare difficulty which is very hard but it's super rewarding game on higher levels. It start out slow and that's the point, that way you feel your power later on, think Diablo 2, you start as this little nerd smacking 1 monster at a time to just melting stuff on your screen later on.
Have fun, highly recommended and like I said one of the best if not the best shmup, the only other game comparable is Skyforce anniversary. They are 2 must buy shmups, way more fun and engaging than all the asian psychadelic ones. This is more like an old school 1942, 1943 but with modern graphics.

Good bullet hell shooter game, the grind for upgrades takes a while but not that long, and is infinitely many times better than the mobile grind (waiting after updates and waiting for planes??? who designed that, homescape??) Get it in the sky force bundle with Sky force anniversary, a slightly older yet similarly compelling game with a much shorter grind

Solid 4 star shmup . The inclusion of 'must play' multiplayer events really pisses me off.
No, I don't have anyone to play with.

Make me remember when this game available at Old Phone.
Nice graphic and sounds too. The only challenge is the grinding star points and how to keep survive till the end of level when obtain such card or component.

And, since it's playable in Ryzen 5500U laptop + 16GB LPDDR4, it's quite worth it for me.