Sora Reviews

This game is cool and I like it personally.

where is the duck where is goofy why is this touhou

A fairly old game in what is apparently called the "Shoot 'em up" genre, I purchased Sora as a fan of 100% Orange Juice, both for the character you get for having both games on Steam, and to learn about Sora (the character)'s story. Most stages follow a pattern of going through a stage filled with weak enemies and the occasional mini-boss, followed by a showdown with that stage's boss. While I consider the bosses to be the highlight of these stages, the area leading up to there never felt repetitive to me, as learning how to save as much health as possible for the boss leads you to optimise your path through the stage, sometimes taking out enemies before they even appear on screen. After playing through normal mode to completion, this is an incredibly fun, albeit short (for the main story), game. The story and world are interesting, the characters are all unique and memorable even just with their character designs, let alone some of their battles! The dash and heat mechanics, which I assume are unique to this series within the genre, prove a very interesting and satisfying tool to use. Even before I learnt how to use it well, just dashing around in a stage is fun due to the sudden speed you get. It is so fast, in fact, that it would normally be overpowered, but due to the aforementioned heat mechanic it becomes more of a "high risk, high reward" option where the risk is taking more damage and the reward is feeling absolutely awesome. I couldn't recommend this game more, especially at such a low price point (most games cost twice as much as their story lasts for nowadays, whereas this one was even). For anyone who does get into it, I recommend the following difficulties based on your case: Easy - For those who haven't played games known for their difficulty before e.g. Touhou/Souls. Medium - For those who have played difficult games but not bullet hells e.g. Souls but not Touhou. Hard - For those who have played bullet hells before. I recommend if this difficulty was fun but a little too easy to check out Special mode as well!