sora / YMMV - TV Tropes

Awesome Music: Although the tone of sora's music is on the moodier side from DEKU's more upbeat compositions in the SUGURI series, and to a lesser extent acceleration of SUGURI 2 in terms of tone, these games still have a solid and memorable soundtrack.
Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Star Breaker has gotten a lot of love from Orange_Juice fans, especially after her appearance and story campaign in 100% Orange Juice!.
- Nath also has gotten some fans in large part of her tragic encounter with Sora and the various artworks of her by hono.
Even Better Sequel: Or in this case, even better "prequel", sora improves on some of the foundations of SUGURI had, such allowing players to use up to three weapons of their choice, allows HP recovery from grazing attacks, and tweaked how Hyper Attacks works (and in two variations). acceleration of SUGURI 2 (post-patch) also made some fundamental changes from its predecessor to make the game much more balanced and less spam-abusive while maintaining the fast-paced action, even moreso with balance and quality-of-life improvements added from Fruitbat Factory's re-release.
Fan Nickname: Due to her cute appearance and being featured in the Steam re-release of 100% Orange Juice! as a downloadable character with her own story campaign where she put aside her destructive tendencies after discovering the taste of baked goods, fans have given Star Breaker the affectionate nickname of "Starbo".
Game-Breaker: Saki in the initial versions of acceleration of SUGURI 2 due to her tambourines being capable of trapping opponents in infinite loops.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Overlapping with Heartwarming in Hindsight, Sham comments in her Acceleration of SUGURI 2 ending about her dream of becoming an Idol Singer, and asks Sora to join in and form a duet; well, in 100% Orange Juice!, Sham's dream has finally become true as one of the "Cuties", and as an added bonus, Sora joins in to form the first dual character in that game. They even have an Image Song that can be acquired via DLC, sung by Saori Fukuyama and Miki Maruyama, Sham's and Sora's voice actresses.
Ho Yay:
- Resident cutie Saki from SUGURI complements sora's own cutie Sham in acceleration of SUGURI 2 by letting her know she has "a smoking hot body".
- In the same game, Iru quickly grew very fond of Nath from the arsenal of weapons she possesses.
- In an artwork by hono outside of the game, Star Breaker is seen pocky kissing Nath as they look longingly into each other's eyes, with Sora in shock. There's also this piece which, drawn for fun during the Christmas season, features Suguri marrying Sora.
Nightmare Fuel: The entire game has this setting compared to its predecessor.
- The fact that every one of the military’s best soldiers is a Child Soldiers conscripted at a very early age.
- Mira, who is basically a woman without her body and a man without his mind, combined together to become whole.
- Nath, who cannot go against her superiors wishes no matter how much she wants to stop.
- Star Breaker, who was implied to be once an ordinary girl named Hoshino Reika in 200% Mixed Juice! and the Love Love★Star Breaker audio drama until she was enlisted and subjected inhumane experiments into becoming the army's secret weapon, resulting in her mental instability and desire to destroy everything with her destructive powers.
- Sora herself, who saw the world go up in flames during the war as a child, was drafted to take part of said war against her will when she became the right age to be enlisted, and was nearly killed on her first mission. She reluctantly fought against those participating in the war and took some of their lives while also seeing firsthand how the planet was dying throughout various places along the way. After she regained consciousness 10,000 years from a coma following her battle with Star Breaker, the moment she saw the cloudy skies during the Winter season, Sora completely lost it thinking that all the fighting she went through to protect the people who were trying to save the planet meant nothing in the end. Upon seeing a glimpse of Hime and Suguri flying in the snowy clouds, she immediately attacks them upon seeing their Winter uniforms believing they contributed to the world's end, in which the player controls Sora trying to fight them. Thankfully, Suguri was able to calm her down and shown Sora that she did help save the planet while Suguri healed and protected it to help her father (Yukito, who treated Sora back to health after she was blown up by Alte), realizing his dream during Sora's absence.
Obvious Beta: The initial version of Acceleration of SUGURI 2 had character balance issues and lacked some features originally intended upon release like the Story Mode. Thankfully these problems were remedied by v1.3 and further improved with the overseas version by Fruitbat Factory.
Polished Port: Fruitbat Factory's re-releases of sora and acceleration of SUGURI 2 vastly improved on these games by giving them support for widescreen and HD resolutions^note, higher resolution visuals, improved controller support, built-in keyboard remapping, and supports multiple localizations. The latter goes even further with the addition of a lobby system for online multiplayer similarly to 100% Orange Juice!, balance tweaks, extra music and costumes as DLCs, and various quality-of-life improvements over the years.
Tear Jerker:
- Nath's death in sora at the end of Stage 5 after she was killed off by Star Breaker.
- sora's initial ending, which ends with Sora presumably falling to her death after stopping Star Breaker from destroying the planet, with tears falling from her eyes as she falls as she had faint hopes that the sky will return to its former glory; the true ending from Stage EX, however, is a tear jerker for a different reason since Sora lives to see her dream, as well as Yukito's, finally coming true after everything she has been through.
That One Boss:
- Star Breaker in sora during Stage 6 has some fire attacks that can inflict Burn status that will steadily rise your Heat percentage or drain your Hyper Gauge. She also has an attack when she Turns Red that a difficult to avoid and also inflict Burn status effects that can deplete your health and/or your Hyper Gauge.
- The True Final Boss fights with Hime and Suguri. Hime has some very damaging attack and they need the utmost reflexes to dodge them. One particular attack, however, involves her sending down flower-like crystals in an Ikaruga-like pattern. The fight with Suguri takes things to another level, as you have fight her as if it was a Acceleration of SUGURI match, with many hard-hitting and hard-to-avoid attacks, and her desperation involves her leaving the area so she can drive her Force Edge at you which also leave a trail of bullets that segment and break off upon release. She can also pull of a devastating Hyper Attack that bombards the screen with both homing lasers and missiles, then ending with a massive Wave-Motion Gun that a huge chunk of the arena.
The Woobie:
- Sora. All she wanted was the world and the skies to go back the way it was before the war started, yet she gets thrusted into the heat of war against her will, nearly dies in her first mission after her run-in with Alte's last-ditch effort to defeat her, witnesses how lifeless the Earth has become and ravaged by the war, and despite how much Sora wants to avoid fighting, she ends up taking lives of others during the war. She developed post-traumatic stress disorder from things she witness and caused, and nearly went Ax-Crazy into fighting Suguri and Hime after finding them on Earth 10,000 years later after going comatose from fighting Star Breaker, but Sora at least got a happy ending.
- Alte. She was likely thrown into this war against her will like Sora and she was constantly worried about her husband's safety during her encounter with Sora. However, since she was possibly ordered to take down her enemy by any means necessary, she calls a craft to blow herself up with Sora after her defeat. Alte's husband likely has died afterwards.
- Nath. After Sora's defection from the army, they used Nath to create their own ultimate weapon, which involved cruel and inhumane experiments being performed on her, severing her arms, and stripping her of own freewill. As much as she wants to help Sora and her cause, she has no control of her own body or mind. And after being defeated by Sora, the army sends in Star Breaker who annihilates Nath.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Star Breaker. Although she was responsible for killing off Nath and has gone off the deep end to the point of wanting destroy an entire planet, you may not help but feel sorry for Star Breaker after what she has been through and witnessing her emotional breakdown after being defeated by Sora. It gets worse with her ending in acceleration of SUGURI 2 where she wants to die and burn down everything with her if she were to come back in world filled with strife again.

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