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.

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 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.

I’ll keep it short. At first play, I found the game to be amazing. It gave me the feel of a 1990, good old fashioned feel like Konamis Ajax. The game is easily addicting and love the fact that you have assistance of two side aircraft, as well as, a special weapon. Each level comes with competitive enemy aircraft’s and bosses on certain levels. I love that this game allows you to get better and stronger by upgrading your aircraft but it comes at such a COST. This is where it gets really bad and ultimately ruins it for people. The deeper you get into the game the harder it gets. Inevitably the game is programmed to get so hard that it becomes a moot point to shot down the very same enemies you were once able to kill at a single shot. At that point , you will not be able to advance deeper into the game. To upgrade your vessel, you’ll need to earn gems to by chests, other vessels, etc, etc so that you can get stronger. The deeper you get, the harder it is to obtain gems and upgrades. This is where you then need to start literally pumping your hard earned cash to buy what you need. I went from $10, 20, 40, etc, etc. In a nutshell, in order to really enjoy this game you need to pump lots and lots of money to continue to advance over and over and over again. This will make you broke! Your better off dumping $60 in a PS5 game rather than $100’s of dollars. The developers have really ruined the game in this regard. I’m done spending my hard earned cash into this game and will never ever be suckered into doing that ever again.