Broken Sky Reviews

Picked this up as a Luftrausers fan. But honestly. I'm torn. I think I am just about leaning negative here. This is like Luftrausers, but worse. I gave it half an hour. I don't necessarily feel like I wasted my money as it is only £5.79, but for £6.99 you could get Luftrausers instead. With Luftrausers you really feel like a sky ninja, ducking, diving, rolling all over the place. & it is super rewarding. The way the BGM builds up as you survive as you flip & twist around all over the place dodging bullets by sheer luck whilst of course telling yourself it is skill. & every run you have a new combo of gear to try out & clear achievable goals. This game feels like it is trying to play out similarly. But it just doesn't quite hit the mark. Instead of feeling like a sky ninja, you feel like a sky truck & a lot of the time just don't feel like you have the agility to dodge some of the projectiles that come at you. & without regenerating health after a period of safety it feels like you are just ground down by these cheap shots. Progression also felt too slow to keep me engaged. With the poor agility & repetitive gameplay after 30 minutes I just didn't feel compelled to keep playing. I wanted to like this, & nearly gave a thumbs up regardless because 'eh, it's only £5.79', but honestly I don't think I can see myself come back to it. Luftrausers just does everything this tries to do, but better. Vsync also seems borked, I played the first couple of runs at half speed thinking game was dull as hell. It didn't get much better when sorted though. Your agility is just terrible, you take half the vertical space of the entire map to turn around. Not a ~bad~ game, really am on the fence, but it just misses the mark. The dev should play Luftrausers & will see why it is just a better game