"Your name is Sora... Because you're just like the sky... Beautiful, dignified, and full of life."— Sora's parents
"Father... Mother... The sky... Isn't beautiful at all... I want to clean up this sky!"— Sora, Accleration of SUGURI's sora teaser
sora is a
prequel to the fan-acclaimed
SUGURI, a horizontally-scrolling doujin
Shoot 'Em Up by Orange_Juice. Just like it's predecessor, it stars a title protagonist, Sora, who must take part of a war between humans and reploids. Like Suguri (the heroine of the first game), Sora can amass a large arsenal of weapons at her disposal, ranging from
beam rifles,
bazookas,
energy swords, and even a pile bunker thrown in for good measure. The game maintains its trademark dashing and lock-on shooting gameplay, but also adds more emphasis on grazing bullets and attacks to restore lost life energy and building up energy for your
Hyper Attacks.
sora's storyline takes place in a once peaceful world being ravaged by an ongoing war between humans and reploids. It was a war that brought chaos, death, destruction, and the end of any moral values that will ultimately bring an end to all life for the planet. Sora, one of the most powerful combat-ready reploids ever created with near-human emotions, is unwillingly sent into battle to settle the score.
The game was first released for Windows PC during the 78th summer Comiket of 2010. Just like
SUGURI,
sora was followed up by a Shoot 'em Up-
Fighting game with
Acceleration of SUGURI 2 released during the 80th summer Comiket of 2011.
Acceleration of SUGURI 2 not only featured characters from
sora as playable characters, but also the characters from
SUGURI as well. An English-translated version of
sora is expected to arrive in June 1, 2012.
sora's official Japanese website can be viewed
here
and its English website can be viewed
here. Acceleration of SUGURI 2's Japanese website can be viewed
here.
These games provide examples of:
- Action Girl: Sora, rather she likes it or not.
- Advancing Wall of Doom: Stage 4's boss, Sham, uses this as part of her attack patterns.
- An Ice Person: Tsih.
- Apocalypse How: The war between humans and reploids brought destruction to Earth as it made the air to support any lifeforms toxic and ultimately uninhabitable.
- Art Evolution: A huge improvement from the artist in terms of the art-style and overall visual quality in sora compared to SUGURI. The same goes for Acceleration of SUGURI 2 compared to its predecessor.
- Background Boss: The mid-stage of Stage 5 in sora.
- Also the first two phases of the final battle with Starbreaker in Stage 7.
- The final battle in Acceleration of SUGURI's Story Mode when Sumika Turns Red.
- Beam Spam: Oh boy, does sora deliver.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: The English lyrics incorporated in "Le Train" and "Grand blue" songs from sora.
- The same goes for "Remember me" in Acceleration of SUGURI 2.
- Bullet Hell: Very much like it's predecessor.
- Cute Little Fangs: Tsih has them in Acceleration of SUGURI 2.
- Defeat Means Friendship: In a similar fashion to the original SUGURI; Sora and Suguri quickly made up after their scuffle during the events of the True Final Boss battles.
- Downer Ending: The game ends with Sora slowly plummeting back to Earth, with hopes that the skies above will clear up after stopping Starbreaker from unleashing an Earth-Shattering Kaboom as a last-ditch effort to destroy Sora along with the planet.
- Golden Ending: During the EX Stage, Sora notices the sky is still black and toxic while descending to Earth, realising her efforts of trying to save the Earth are for naught. She finds Hime and Suguri on Earth and blames them for the fighting that ruined the world then proceeds to attack them. Once the fighting was over, Suguri reveals to Sora that in the end she saved the world and the sky has returned the beautiful clear blue color she once remembered from her childhood.
- Dub Name Change: In the English version of sora, Tsih's name was changed to Telos.
- Genki Girl: Tsih.
- Genre Shift: The true final battle with Suguri in sora's EX Stage is turned into a fight straight out of Acceleration of SUGURI.
- The final battle with Sumika in Acceleration of SUGURI 2's Story Mode is also reminiscent to the final battle with Starbreaker in sora.
- Gratuitous English: In sora, it features the songs "Le Train," "Grand blue," and sora's version of "Rendezvous"*
Hime's boss theme from the first game
, all of which incorporates English vocals instead of Japanese, although some of songs have mistranslated lyrics.- Acceleration of SUGURI 2 has "Swordfish" and "Remember me," both of which are also sung in English. The latter does suffer from mistranslated lyrics; the former on the other hand, not as much.
- Highly Visible Ninja: Mira.
- Humongous Mecha: Nath pilots one.
- Improbably Female Cast: To a similar extent of SUGURI.
- Kick the Dog, Kick Them While They Are Down: This happens to Nath in sora by Starbreaker after Sora defeats her.
- Laser Blade: Sora can use one, and she knows how to use it.
- Limit Break: Hyper Attacks also returns in sora and Acceration of SUGURI 2, but players can now chose either Standard*
(which lets the player evoke their Hyper Attack immediately corresponding to the weapon button held when launching the attack like the original SUGURI)
and Advanced* (which will enact a shield to protect Sora from harm for a brief amount of time, during which can trigger the Hyper Attack if any of the weapon buttons are pressed while the shield is up)
modes to invoke the Hyper Attacks. - Macross Missile Massacre: Stage 1 opens with this, although this trope is invoked in many places of the game.
- Mecha-Mooks
- Meaningful Name: Sora's name is referring to the word "Sky" and how beautiful it is, although it doesn't like it in the game at first; After the battle with Hime and Suguri in the EX Stage, the black and toxic skies returns to its beautiful, clear blue color again, thus fulfilling Sora's purpose of her creation.
- More Dakka: Even more so than SUGURI with the addition of a "Special" weapon slot to bring a total of three usable weapons at Sora's disposal.
- No Continue Run: Required to unlock the secret characters and their respective stages in Acceleration of SUGURI 2.
- One-Winged Angel: Sumika, the Final Boss of Acceleration of SUGURI 2's Story Mode scales it up once her Armor gauge hits the 33% mark.
- Peek-a-Bangs: Alte.
- Playing with Fire: Starbreaker.
- Rank Inflation: sora and Acceleration of SUGURI 2 does this just as their predecessors did.
- Roboteching: Orange_Juice loves their arching lasers and missiles.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Mira wears one.
- Scoring Points
- Shoot 'Em Up: sora just as SUGURI before it.
- Title Drop: After the credits from sora's EX Stage, it was revealed that the is game is titled as SUGURI II.
- Token Mini-Moe: Tsih and Starbreaker.
- True Final Boss: Two in fact, Hime and Suguri in the EX Stage of v1.1EX in sora.
- Turns Red
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Tsih, Nath, and Starbreaker.
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