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This is clearly a relic of a free-to-play title, which can’t simply give away content for free. Since later missions will require around 25 additional medals each, you’re going to be spending an extreme amount of time replaying levels and trying to perfect them to unlock even more medals. If you manage to get all four medals on a particular level, you’ll unlock a harder difficulty that then gives you another four medals to unlock. The problem is just that even making progress in the campaign requires you to become an expert at almost all of the levels.

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Unlike the mobile versions, you won’t need to wait to install any of these, either, so you can pick something and get right back into the action. There are a whole range of upgrades you can then buy that will alter your maximum health, your fire rate, your power-up’s efficiency and even a magnet that attracts stars to you. When defeating enemies, they’ll drop stars which act as currency in-game.

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To mitigate some of the grind, you can upgrade your ship to better tackle each level. Since you’ll eventually need to start perfecting levels, this drags the whole thing down quite a bit. That last one is a real pain, because the screen can become riddled with flying bullets in some segments. These extra requirements are all the same on every level (save for the one different mission) and require you to kill 70 and 100% of the enemies, save all of the downed pilots on a level and then complete the level without getting hit. You won’t really notice this until level three, where the requirement goes from one medal (which is basically guaranteed to be unlocked) to around four.

Sky Force Reloaded has extra objectives on each level that award you medals, but these medals are required to unlock later missions.

There aren’t any pre-mission briefing screens or even a text description of what is going on you’re just thrown in to a short tutorial and get killed before you even know what hit you.Īfter that, you’ll breeze through a relatively simple first level before hitting the true roadblock of whole experience. The basic gist of the experience is that you’ll be blasting your way through 13 levels in an effort to stop some evil force from doing… something? To say the plot is limited would be an understatement, despite the fact that some evil lady will chime in to talk to you when you defeat a boss. This detail is important, because Sky Force Reloaded is a grind heavy game that makes getting to the conclusion a real chore.

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For the price of absolutely nothing, you can enjoy this game on your iPhone or Android device and get pretty much the same experience, albeit with wait timers. The biggest thing I need to point out is that Sky Force Reloaded is actually a port of a free-to-play mobile game. Sky Force Reloaded looks to change that, but it stumbles on a lot of the basic elements that make shmups enjoyable.

You can dig into a bunch of older ports and some remakes, but anything made in the last few years isn’t really represented. While shmups aren’t lacking on the Switch, there aren’t a whole lot of new ones on the system.

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