Posted on: September 24, 2021

q13

Jeux: 180 Avis: 5

epic space opera, challenging battles

Have you ever watched a mecha anime and wanted to take command? Now you can! Sunrider is a weird cross between a harem VN (which is forgettable), and epic space opera with good world building and an innovative, challenging battle system. The battle system is turn based, where your small squadron faces off against hordes of enemies (as should be expected when challenging a galactic superpower!). Each of your vessels is unique and irreplaceable, featuring different offensive and defensive systems that are mechanically different and interact in interesting ways. Between battles, players allocate funds to upgrade their fleet, being able to incrementally improve every aspect of each vessel's offense or defense (and sometimes even adding entirely new abilities). Since funds are limited, choosing where to spend them can spell the difference between victory and defeat. The overarching plot is mirrored on the battlefield in terms of varied mission objectives (sometimes affected by player choices), and enemy force composition, which gradually evolves to show the increasing technological and tactical sophistication of the enemy, requiring the player to adapt or perish. (Speaking of perishing: You'll do a lot of that. It wouldn't be heroic if it were easy, would it?) Production values: Decent visuals, great music, superb voice acting. Interface a bit clunky. No bugs found. (There are also some weird interludes with harem elements and juvenile humor. I don't know what that is doing here. Fortunately, there is a skip function ...) Overall, Sunrider has vastly exceeded my expectations. Spending 100 hours on what amounts to a free demo is pretty much unheard of, and I am nowhere near done yet. Must perfect my tactics!

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Posted on: June 18, 2022

Trident2010

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Jeux: 316 Avis: 3

It spoke to me.

OK, it is more than a bit rough around the edges, default Ren'Py UI, original English (badly) pretending to be a Japanese translation, the cast being a standard set of -deres, and memes and references that had been kinda cringe even back when this came out... But it is somehow a dark an epic war story all the same. You should try it, it's free. Just don't believe those difficulty level descriptions, apart from the lowest they're all quite challenging in the latter half of the game. BTW, about the "dark" part... Without going into spoiler territory, ugly stuff happens as you play, uglier stuff is mentioned in the backstory, innocent bystanders die, Machiavelli is referenced, and there are some VERY morally questionable choices you're allowed to make.

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Posted on: March 1, 2024

slickrcbd

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Jeux: 294 Avis: 5

Fun, but feels like half the story

The game is very obviously set up to make you buy the sequel, as it feels like only half the story was told. Other than that, it is an interesting game with some fun, if cliche characters.

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Posted on: December 31, 2018

RicYa

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Jeux: 7 Avis: 1

Cool Game

This is my first Graphic Novel video game purchase. Personally, I like a game with a good story plus good gameplay. This has both a good story and the turn-based strategy tactic gameplay, like Final Fantasy Tactics. This is a harem themed game where there is one male main character with all other supporting characters are girls. I really like this game. Played through it in 2 days. Put in about 10 hours total in Graphic Novel mode because I wanted to focus on the story. I also did all the side stories, not much, to level up my characters. Each character has personality, which I like, except for the main protaganist. He's kinda bland and reacts emotionally to every situation, more so, than the female characters, which is odd. So, let's get the HCG out of the way. There is ONLY one scene, which is a shower scene, which shows bare breasts. That's it! The character drawings are ok. I do know it is a particular style, Graphic Novel style, but I think the characters could have been done better, maybe with more details, since it is not animated, it shouldn't be too much of a demand. The 3D images of the techs are pretty cool. Reminds me of Gundam series, or any old space opera anime from the 80s, which I was a huge fan of when I was a kid.

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Posted on: July 4, 2020

Cygog111

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Jeux: 29 Avis: 3

The Best Single Entry in the Series

The play order I followed was one I saw recommended, and it worked well, so I do recommend going MoA > Academy > LD. MoA is actually the strongest stand-alone game. This ironic because it's the free game of the trio, but it also was good enough in hindsight that my frustrations with the other two games were mitigated, and I was happy to have retroactively paid the developer money for the experience. MoA has a very fun space-combat system mixed into the visual-novel story. Played at the base/easiest difficulty, it's very approachable and entertaining, while still being casual. The cast is also strong and fun overall, which is a very big plus where many visual novels only have one or two interesting characters. MoA has two major issues. The combat game's animations are neat, but can't be skipped on the enemy turn, which makes the enemy turns, especially in late game fights, very painful to click through. (LD fixes this issue, but overcompensates, which I'll get into on that game's review) The second issue is basically a content warning. One of the characters effectively sexually assaults the player character, but it's played off for laughs. Some people don't care, but the people that would, will be REALLY put off by that one throw-away scene. In MoA, the only nudity is completely out of left field, and has almost no connection to plot coherency at all. Very much felt tacked on for no reason beyond being able to say it has nude CGs. Game would've been better if those were left out, in my opinion, but they aren't as bothersome as the content-warning I explained above. (basically a shower-scene for one of the cast members) Overall, I consider MoA the best single game, and it was good enough that I don't regret investing in the rest of the series. Hope this helped! --Cy

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