1945 - Airplane shooting game 12+

First of all, I’d have to give props for the developers for faithfully replicating the arcade game feel. The controls are smooth, the variety in gameplay keeps it fresh, the game runs great without crashing, and most importantly, the ads are optional and don’t really impede the game. At the end of the day, the devs have to make money somehow, so I completely get that they need to generate some ad revenue.

That leads me to the puzzling part of the game. I’m not sure why the in-app purchases are so insanely-priced. A couple bucks to get optional items in a mostly-single player game would be completely reasonable, but $50-$100 for any items in the store seems like they completely missed the mark by a a couple extra zeroes for reasonable pricing. Personally, I just ignore the items that cost money, and since it’s mostly single-player anyways, it doesn’t really affect my experience by not buying them. I just feel that the devs would probably get more purchases if they adjusted their pricing scheme a bit more reasonably.

A secondary minor QoL issue is that the English translation isn’t very well done and looks like somebody just stuck it in Google translate. It’s not a big issue once you get what they’re trying to say, but tbh they should probably just hire an actual bilingual translator.

Overall though, it’s still probably one of the best mobile arcade games that faithfully replicate the old-school feel.

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.