Heroes in the Sky-Origin Reviews

does not start up past the title screen

It looked fun....but I couldn't play it. I was taken to a server select screen, but clicking on them did nothing at all. No matter what I did. I tried hitting enter and all and there was no instructions whatsoever. Do not purchase this game at all, there are better arcade plane games on Steam.....some of which are free to play.

It's not bad, but it's not good. the controls are crude as compared to the mouse move in games like war thunder or world of warplanes and its also pretty ugly compared to those games and has little variation in aircraft. wouldnt recommend.

Stuck on server screen can't even play it. The escape button works so you can quit the game and get a refund at least.

Welp. It's got a horrible translation, messy interface, stiff controls and utterly brainless gameplay where you just hold down the fire button and don't even worry about aiming as the hitboxes are mighty generous. Most missions take about a minute or two to beat, and typically just involve you vs. an entire cluster of aircraft you'll breeze through with usually about one burst of your machine guns. Sometimes mission enemy spawns don't even work, and you need to restart. A lot of the mission design is nonsensical eg. destroy these radars then blow up those exact same radars in the exact same place you blew them up again for a second time, within the same mission. Although the (often incomprehensible) briefling lady tells you these radars are "anti-air guns" for the second bout of bombing, they're extremely clearly still the exact same radar sites you blew up a second ago and are even identified as radars in the quest kill counters and on their targeting info. Another example is the Battle of London mission, where you blow up the Parliament House and then may opt to blow it up again when it immediately restores itself a second later, again within the same mission. While the idea that you can select branches for sub-missions adds to replayability of these missions (as indeed most "quests" involve just replaying the same ones over 2 or 3 times), certain branches appear to be non-functional or just a choice on what you want more of to fight eg. do you want to fight 14 Spitfires or 14 B-17s? Both, again, tend to go down in a single burst of machine gun fire anyway, so the decision doesn't make that much of a difference. I haven't been able to try out proper PVP, but I have been able to conquer just about the entire world for the Axis in PVP. Let me explain. In the store page's first and foremost listed, most vaunted feature of the "Occupation War", you vye over particular territories on three main maps (Europe, Pacific, and North Africa) in online PvP. Theoretically. Except you yourself can travel to any of these territories and just take them. There's no cooldown, there's no NPC opposition if players aren't there (and they aren't; game is dead on arrival.) There's just empty maps and nothing standing between you and victory but some patience. I'd just trigger an "invasion", minimize my game window and then go do something else until the timer expired and the battle was "won." With enough time, I ended up not only painting all these of these maps near fully Axis red (with the exception of the Allied base camps, which I cannot seem to seize for whatever reason), but am now top of the score board for my faction. Also got enough tech points from my peaceful journey of world conquest that I went from Bf-109s and He-100s to jet fighters, which is nice. Gud game design. I won't even bother to go into how it's just a lazy port of a mobile game also. That's pretty much self-evident. I guess the long and short of it is that it kind of sucks a lot. Has a pretty nice roster of aircraft, though. That's at least a single thing that can be said in its favour. You can find flash games more fun and more thoughtfully put together than this.