[STG Night] Mortal Skies: Modern War Air Combat Shooter (1CC Hard, No Upgrades)

Mortal Skies is an old iOS shmup from 2011, and while it's old and isn't one of the best or most well-designed shmups it's got its nostalgic place for being an early one on the platform. Game controls smoothly and your plane follows your finger well, comparable to CAVE's iOS ports which are the gold standard (except that the plane will snap to a fixed position to the finger). Plane autofires, powerups are dropped by killing squadrons and can either be automatic or manual use (with manual, you can only stock up to one powerup at a time). There's some grinding elements present similar to Danmaku Unlimited, where playing a few runs gains you EXP for you to spread around your stat build. Without it, like in this run, you'll do okay in Easy and Normal, but struggle a bit in Hard, where the health of the enemies are jacked up. You one-shot enemy planes by colliding with them at the cost of some of your health, and this is the only way to get squadron eliminations and get powerup spawns. You need powerups in order to eliminate further squadrons, so strategic colliding may be necessary for scoring with no upgrades. Best powerup is easily invincibility, since you can simply smash into everything that way, building up a lot of momentum from all the powerups. Health is restored back to full between stages, so as long as you don't die you'll keep the life you're on. Oh, and for some reason the music isn't playing in the most updated version of the game, so I had to manually edit the music back in for your listening pleasure. 25/08/16 Tumblr ►  / coroplaysstuff   Twitch ►  / coroquetz   Facebook ►   / coroplaysstuff