Rising Sun - Iron Aces

This is a game that at first glance seems focus-grouped for me: we have a shmup with WW2 era planes, bosses that are technologically advanced far beyond this era for inexplicable reasons, and cute anime girls who speak Japanese as they protect the US fleet during...the Battle of Pearl Harbor. So we have just the right level of absurdity, and then that gets combined with great graphics, great sound (both in terms of...

5 found this helpful, 2025-12-27

Rather disappointing Shoot 'em Up experience :-/ I finished the story mode (on easy difficulty) in about 2 hours, with probably ~1/4 of it being uninteresting comic-like sequences. Besides the story mode, which you can do with several different characters and different airplane types and 3 different difficulty levels, there is an aracde mode and a boss mode: - arcade mode is identical to story mode minus the comic...

2 found this helpful, 2026-03-09

I really enjoyed the game! You can tell the developers put love into this project The gameplay is very fun and each level presents something new, which prevents the game from becoming repetitive. The soundtrack is excellent! The story is simple, but decent for what it sets out to be. The graphics are beautiful too, it's a really cool 2.5D look. The biggest problem is some bugs, like in the upgrade system where I...

2 found this helpful, 2025-12-14