Great game feel. This is a slick, polished and difficult game. As soon as you start to play it, you immediately feel the kinetic motion of your aircraft, cutting through the skies like a blade. Turning, shooting and accelerating are all simultaneously really responsive and almost a bit out of your control, like you're going too fast for your own good - the camera even seems to have a hard time keeping up with it sometimes.

As you play the game, you slowly unlock new weapons, engines and bodies for your craft (which can all be combined in different ways) by completing certain achievements. Each craft part has different achievements, by the way, and so the player is encouraged to experiment and eventually master them all.

Aside from this progression system, however, the game doesn't offer much else in terms of sticking power. There's no campaign, multiplayer or leaderboards - it's a singleplayer arcade game, and its fun is derived solely by its tight gameplay loop. In my opinion, this will come down mostly to how good you are at the game - this seems like the perfect game to "enter in the zone", or for the more game design-savvy people, "the Flow State". If you're good enough to eventually reach that, honestly, this game seems like paradise. For the swads of people that aren't, though... I'd give you 5-6 hours before you shelve it.

Reviewed on Jan 16, 2022


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