Posted on: January 13, 2023
AlistertheWretched
Verified ownerGames: 24 Reviews: 2
Not Fun Unless you Cheat
I have tried to convince myself I love this game for 44 hours, but the truth is that without the alt-f4 cheat or quitting every mission that goes sideways to prevent losses of crew and bombers, the game is just a long, miserable grind. I went through the campaign using the above trick, and it was fine. Some of the mechanics are actually pretty cool. However, (unless the game is meant as an artistic anti-war statement by causing you to rack up a huge number of dead crew on the memorial monument wall in the title screen) playing it as designed, as I have tried to do for the last two days out of pure curiosity, is a disaster. The mission rewards are just too small for you to recoup the losses you will suffer from any loss of crew or aircraft. What happens is that you build a decent little bomber and crew, advance through maybe one or two critical missions, and then you get shot down because odds are just against you, by which I mean you are the only bomber, and are typically under attack by as many as a dozen fighters at a time -- on top of anti-aircraft fire. So you die, and now your upgraded bomber is gone, along with many of your crew, and you do NOT have enough money to reproduce a setup of similar efficacy. So you have to carefully, gingerly grind for several hours to get something back with which you can advance, and it's VERY likely that you will need to cheat to keep your anemic new crewmembers and underpowered bomber alive and aloft long enough to make that happen. If you still choose NOT to cheat, prepare to abort many, many missions, losing many hours and suffering much frustration. Now, this is in some ways an accurate depiction of WWII bomber combat, but I'm not sure a cutesy, chibi-character game like this was really the place to try to do that. Worse, it would have been easy to avoid the whole problem by just giving the player enough money and xp per mission to recoup losses efficiently. Still, I think the game is fun... but ONLY if you cheat.
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