Gameplay is top tier, but the pricing seems a bit out there.

First of all, I’d have to give props for the developers for faithfully replicating the arcade game feel. The controls are smooth, the variety in gameplay keeps it fresh, the game runs great without crashing, and most importantly, the ads are optional and don’t really impede the game. At the end of the day, the devs have to make money somehow, so I completely get that they need to generate some ad revenue. That leads me to the puzzling part of the game. I’m not sure why the in-app purchases are so insanely-priced. A couple bucks to get optional items in a mostly-single player game would be completely reasonable, but $50-$100 for any items in the store seems like they completely missed the mark by a a couple extra zeroes for reasonable pricing. Personally, I just ignore the items that cost money, and since it’s mostly single-player anyways, it doesn’t really affect my experience by not buying them. I just feel that the devs would probably get more purchases if they adjusted their pricing scheme a bit more reasonably. A secondary minor QoL issue is that the English translation isn’t very well done and looks like somebody just stuck it in Google translate. It’s not a big issue once you get what they’re trying to say, but tbh they should probably just hire an actual bilingual translator. Overall though, it’s still probably one of the best mobile arcade games that faithfully replicate the old-school feel.

Used to be fun. Now deceptive.

This game was a blast at first. Loved creating my fleet and shooting things. Then you realize, since there isn’t a player’s manual, that you have to do all these other things to gain the items needed to keep making your fleet better, or you won’t go far at all in the game. Now updates are happening every few days. While the tournaments and special events are cool, they don’t tell you that they keep making it harder to win. The enemies keep getting harder to beat and your planes firepower and armor gets weaker and weaker. Perfect example today- played a daily mission like I always do and win. Then update comes out. After update, play that daily mission again. Can NOT win at all now. Try multiplayer, that I usually do really well in. Matched against someone higher rank but with fewer planes. I don’t even last a minute, lose all my planes and the match. They didn’t lose a single plane. I couldn’t kill any of the enemy that I didn’t have a problem with yesterday. So, yeah, anytime an update says “improve performance” they really mean make it harder to play. If you don’t spend real money, don’t expect to get far. AND it’s expensive! I have bought some cheaper things a couple times but usually everything costs so much! And I know they get this feedback a LOT but they don’t care. They’ll continue down this path until all they have left are people who are willing to spend an exorbitant amount of money, like they want.

A good game, heavy grind for players.

A great game inspired by the classics, unfortunately the marketing system is what causes the game to be poor. Now I and everyone else know it’s a free game but besides child gambling (the new gear system) that you developers added the box reward system is awful. Never knowing what reward you get is terrible especially when the only way to rank your plane, wingman and special abilities up is through random methods.A complete waste of time. When one person can get the items they need all randomly and the other players all spend months or years getting the same modules. Next is the price for in game purchases which is astronomically insane. It’s the 21st century a free to play game and your deals are hundreds of dollars??? Is that a joke? One console game is 60$ u.s. no special edition or anything but in this free game one plane cost over 40$ and it’s not even the best. To the developers be realistic it’s a game for kids what kid do you know has hundreds of dollars laying around? Your gonna drive your game into the ground no one wants to grind for days to get the modules they need that’s too unrealistic especially when the replay levels are you know the same thing. Add some boss fights or something to single player protect or bombard missions. Sorry not sorry. Either make your game free to play or make us buy it. This in between in game pay to win stuff is ridiculous.

First ever review

Dear developers, I’ve never written a game review before, but I played the bejesus out of this so I thought I’d share pros and cons. First of all, really great gameplay. The menuing system was hard to figure out but I eventually got it. You have to be very precise in your movements, and on the hardest levels, develop a strategy with how you time your special attacks. It’s very challenging as you progress to the higher levels, but it’s doable with the one upgraded plane you can get for $2.99. At least I think. I’ve been stuck on level 97 for a few days. I think I can beat it, I’ve gotten so close, but I fear I won’t be able to progress soon without paying dumb amounts of money. And that’s the problem—the micros are very dumbly exorbitant. It’s literally $100 for the best planes. It would actually be over $900 if, heaven and hell forbid, you loved the game so much you wanted to collect all the planes and weapons. Even if some idiot would pay that, please change this. It feels like you’re being punished or laughed at for getting into this game and wanting to beat it. This little game, fun and addictive as it is, should not be one of the most expensive games of all time. *Surely* you would make more money if you came up with a reasonable pricing on micro transactions. Right? Anyway, good job developing a highly playable version of the old classics.

The Most Rigged Game Ever

Begging the game you get a decent advantage against enemies and of course the difficulty rises. You end up reaching a point maybe at like level 25 to where you have to farm hours to get upgrades or pay real money for some trash rewards or garbage loot crate like slot machine that also gives you bare minimum rewards for money well spent. I wasted about $70 real money on this game to find out that once you start progressing and you pay for all these upgrades SURPRISE! There’s another update. Then you start to notice that after every update the levels you have already demolished seem to get more difficult than they had before the update. You can of course see your stats and what type of damage you do prior but there’s also that you aren’t for certain the hp of the enemy so either one of these things are for certain throttled. Why not do your loyal paying customers a solid and quit screwing them over after they complimented a you developed??? Then there’s the social media blockage of information flow like the developers know they are screwing people and don’t want people to communicate. Do not invest time or real money into this game unless this is all you have to do in life and if so, it’s still going to be a huge disappointment at the end of the day.

Agree with draco3255 - please read his and my review

I really enjoyed this game and played it every day and made good progress. The hard levels might have needed a few tries but eventually would figure out how to win. I carry 4 planes with wingmen and special feature. They all could hold there own in any level. I had enough to get a top level plane, so I broke down and got one. Then everything changed. All of the sudden my planes could NOT DO ANY DAMAGE at all. They obviously have it programmed to adjust based on what you buy. I believe they do it assuming that Because I bought something once, I’m more likely to buy again if I need to. So make the game harder to force me to spend money or just give up on the game as a whole. It’s as though they keep you playing and winning until you spend money. Once that happens they don’t care if the game is fun, they see me as an ATM for them. Basically get your money and then kick you out. I wish I had never bought anything because maybe I would still be enjoying the game. What a scam!! You are better off not even starting this game. Find a game that rewards there good customers not take advantage of them!!! This is the first review I have ever written, so that should tell you just how bad it had to be for me to do this.

Too much monetization and bad UI

There is what probably started out as a good shooting game hiding under vast layers of monetization infrastructure. I would love to just play the actual game, the part where you’re piloting a plane and shooting at waves of things which are hard-but-not-impossible to kill until your lives run out and you have to start over. To play THAT game I would be okay with either watching ads OR paying some money (say, $5?) to permanently turn off ads but what I don’t want to do is be constantly forced to play a horrible meta-game of deciding what features to temporarily “upgrade” to keep playing and/or remaining competitive. The interface for picking how to upgrade stuff and picking missions to play is too complex and arcane and just generally an annoying distraction from the ACTUAL GAME. Also, it can be hard to tell apart some of the coins/bonuses you’re supposed to collect from some of the bullets that are trying to kill you. (I am red-green colorblind so there might be color cues I’m missing). In short, this feels *tantalizingly close* to being a fun game but is not actually on-net a fun game; I played a few levels and deleted it. Recently I downloaded it again to give it another chance but it hasn’t gotten any better so I deleted it again.

Disappointing investment 👎🏼👎🏼

Hi, I loved the game at first. I must admit I am addicted. It is a good game. The last two updates have changed my feeling toward this game. I have worked very hard and taken time away from other things to seek rewards that the updates have removed. I’m very disappointed. This current update has made me write this review. The devices changed to much lesser value ruins it for me. You say it is to balance the game and I understand you wanting to achieve that. It’s not a balanced game in the first place and that is a long list. The balance you are wanting to achieve is pushing more people to make in game purchases to make progress. I cannot go any further in game with the level of difficulty being raised yet again. I have watched the countless adds this game has pushed. I have gone to the end of a boss fight for the game to bug. I have watched faulty lightning end my multiple player run. I have died for no apparent reason in the middle of combat. I have lost escort missions to multiple bugs. The point I am trying to make is I have looked past the faults of this game. But this last update I cannot continue to play. The enjoyment has dried up for me. Think about the people that have spent money for this game prior to the update. Please return to it glory and I would gladly play again. Thank you,

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