History Videogame / Sora

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts the Keyblade wielding boy]] or Creator/MasahiroSakurai's development team responsible for ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' and the [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU fourth]] and [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate fifth]] ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games (which, coincidentally, features the Keyblade wielder).

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHears the Keyblade wielding boy]] or Creator/MasahiroSakurai's development team responsible for ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' and the [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU fourth]] and [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate fifth]] ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games (which, coincidentally, features the Keyblade wielder).

Not to be confused with [[Franchise/KingdomHearts a certain Keyblade wielder]] or [[Anime/DigimonAdventure a certain member of the chosen children]].

** [[spoiler:Sora, in the nick of time, used her own shield system to encase Star Breaker and her bomb in a barrier. She barely survived the resulting explosion almost killed herbut was left in a coma for over 10,000 years.]]

* DummiedOut: The initial release of ''sora'' had four unused music tracks in the game which involved birds chirping along with some calming music, [[spoiler:few recognizable remixes of music from ''SUGURI'']], and a piano piece that stood out from the game's techno and trance soundtrack, all of which were eventually implemented into the game with the v1.1 update [[spoiler:and used in Stage EX]].

As with ''SUGURI'' before it, ''sora'' was followed up with a shoot 'em up-fighting game hybrid with ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' released during Comiket 80 in 2011. The game features both the heroines and boss characters of their respective games as playable characters, a Story Mode, an Arcade Mode, a local and online Versus Mode. During it's initial release however, lacked certain key features originally planned for the game and suffered from character balance issues, but thankfully these were through patches. ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' was also localized by Fruitbat Factory in 2018, with similar quality-of-life improvements that ''sora'' received, an online lobby system through Steamworks, and rebalanced gameplay. Sora and some of the boss characters from her game also make an appearance in ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice'' along with characters from ''SUGURI'', ''VideoGame/QPShooting'', ''Flying Red Barrel'', and other games by Orange_Juice. She also makes an unofficial cameo appearance in Daisessen's ''[[VideoGame/LethalCrisis Lethal Crisis: ProtoSphere]]''.

''sora''[='=]s official Japanese website can be viewed [[http://daidai.moo.jp/sora/soramain.html here]] while its English version's website is found [[https://fruitbatfactory.com/sora/ here]], and ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''[='=]s Japanese website can be viewed [[http://daidai.moo.jp/aos2/aos2.html here]].

* AchievementSystem: One is implemented in the Steam re-release of ''sora'' and ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''. Such achievements includes "Clearing a stage with an A-rank or higher" (''sora''), "Defeat X boss on Special difficulty on Match Mode" (''sora''), and "Play through the Story mode with X character on Normal or higher" (''[=aoS2=]'').

* AnachronicOrder: The ''SUGURI'' series are released in an order that different from the series of events that happen within them. Chronologically, the story goes in this order: ''sora'' (Tutorial-Stage 7) → ''SUGURI'' → ''Acceleration of SUGURI X-Edition'' (the Story Mode scenarios and Extra Stories) → [[spoiler:''sora'' (Stage EX)]] → ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''.

* ArtEvolution: A huge improvement from the artists 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.

** [[spoiler:The final battle in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''[='=]s Story Mode when Sumika TurnsRed.]]

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The first boss fight in ''sora'' ends with Alte grabbing onto Sora. The final (true) boss fight with Suguri ends with her grabbing onto Sora. The Song "Accelerator" in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' is also this, combining a remix of Suguri's theme Icarus with a remix of the very first stage in ''SUGURI'', Green Bird.]]

* TheCutie: Sham believes she's one in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' during Saki's story, in which they fight over who's cuter. [[spoiler:This feud of cuteness continues with Saki's encounter with Sumika.]]
* CuteLittleFangs: Tsih has them in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''.

** RankInflation: ''sora'' and ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' does this just as their predecessors did. The lowest to highest ranks are E, D, C, B, A, and S.

** [[spoiler:The final battle with Sumika in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'''s Story Mode is also reminiscent to the final battle with Star Breaker in ''sora''.]]

** ''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, [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish not as much]].

* LimitBreak: Hyper Attacks also return in ''sora'' and ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'', but players can now chose either Standard[[labelnote:*]](which lets the player evoke their Hyper Attack immediately corresponding to the weapon button held when launching the attack like the original SUGURI)[[/labelnote]] and Advanced[[labelnote:*]](which will enact a shield to protect the player 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)[[/labelnote]] modes to invoke the Hyper Attacks.

* ObviousBeta: 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.
* OldSaveBonus: Owning the Steam version of ''sora'' and ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' unlocks Sora (Military) and Suguri (Ver.2) respectively for the Steam version of ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice''.

** The v1.6.5 update for the Steam edition of ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' introduced player titles for online multiplayer, some of which includes "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Get in the Robot]]" for Nath, "[[VideoGame/StarFox64 Can't let you do that, Star Breaker]]" for Sora, and "[[VideoGame/SambaDeAmigo Samba de Explosao]]" for Saki.

* ThirdPersonPerson: [[spoiler:Sumika from ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' always refers herself in third-person.]]

* UpdatedRerelease: Fruitbat Factory's overseas version of ''sora'' features support for higher resolutions, widescreen support, native keyboard and controller remapping, and support for Xbox 360 (or similar) controllers. ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' received a similar treatment for its overseas re-release with a lobby and match making system à la ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice'' along with various gameplay tweaks and rebalancing.

* ZergRush: Sham has a Hyper Attack in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' where she summons a swarm of robots to rush in and bombard opponents.

** [[spoiler:Sora, in the nick of time, used her own shield system to encase Star Breaker and her bomb in a barrier, and the resulting explosion almost killed her but it knocked her into a coma for over 10,000 years.]]
** [[spoiler:Yukito, a scientist who defected from the war along with many other researchers, spent his life on trying to find a way to heal the planet and bring back the skies beautiful blue skies the war has corrupted. He would go on to have a daughter, Suguri, who also shared in his ideals as well as Sora's, in which she chose become an altered human to look over Earth's recovery. Although Yukito passed away sometime after Suguri started overseeing Earth's recovery, his dream as well as Sora's came true as the planet is brimming with life and the skies above are clear and beautiful again.]]

* FightingYourFriend: Sham was a friend to Sora when she was in the army, however, after they reunite in Stage 4, they had a conflict of interest as Sham wants her to return to the army but Sora refuses, so the two get into a fight. [[spoiler:After being defeated by Sora, Sham decided to devote herself into helping Sora's cause.]]

* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler:During the EX Stage, after waking up 10,000 years later, Sora notices the sky is still dark and hazy, believing her efforts of trying to save the Earth are for naught, but in reality it was simply snowing though she has never seen this happen on Earth before. She then finds Hime and Suguri on Earth and [[AxCrazy blames them]] for the fighting that ruined the world and then proceeds to attack them. Once the fighting was over, Suguri shows Sora that in the end, she helped saved the world, and above the snowy clouds, the sky has returned the beautiful clear blue color she once remembered from her childhood and the planet is thriving with life once more.]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Nath is fully aware of what is going on and supports Sora's cause, but has little to no control over their own body.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Star Breaker become extremely unstable mentally after the experiments that were done to her and drove her crazy enough into wanting to burn and blow up ''everything''.]]

* BlindIdiotTranslation:
** The English lyrics incorporated in "Le Train" and "Grand blue" songs from ''sora''.
** The same goes for "Remember me" in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''.
** There's also ''sora'''s English localization by ΩTH, which received widespread backlash from the fans of the previous ''SUGURI'' games localized by Rockin' Android. Thankfully, Fruitbat Factory averted this with their localization of ''sora''.

* ChargedAttack: Some of the weapons in ''sora'' change be charged up and use alternate properties, such as locking onto multiple enemies with Rifle-M, to a charged shot that pierces through enemies and some projects with Rifle-C, and the Bullet shooting off a ricocheting shots.

* CoveredWithScars: Alte and Sham have burn scars on them, Alte's scars covering half of her face and Sham's scars covering a good portion of her body and parts of her face.

* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Star Breaker, who appears to be a cute young girl, yet she wields incredible fire-based powers and dangerous explosive weapons, and is very mentally unstable after the experiments done to her by the army, which drove her to become an OmnicidalManiac.]]

* DubNameChange: In ΩTH's English localization of ''sora'', the names changes as follows: Tsih's name was changed to '''Telos''', Sham was changed to '''Siri''', and Nath was changed to '''Nadius'''. Thankfully this wasn't the case with the 2016 re-release by Fruitbat Factory.

** In ''sora'', it features the songs "Le Train", "Grand blue", and ''sora''[='=]s version of "[[spoiler:Rendezvous]]" ([[spoiler:Hime's boss theme from the first game]]), all of which incorporates English vocals instead of Japanese, although some of songs have mistranslated lyrics.

* LimitBreak: Hyper Attacks also returns in ''sora'' and ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'', but players can now chose either Standard[[labelnote:*]](which lets the player evoke their Hyper Attack immediately corresponding to the weapon button held when launching the attack like the original SUGURI)[[/labelnote]] and Advanced[[labelnote:*]](which will enact a shield to protect the player 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)[[/labelnote]] modes to invoke the Hyper Attacks.

* ObviousBeta: The initial version of ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'', it had character balance issues and lacked some features originally intended upon release like the Story Mode. Thankfully these problem were remedied by v1.3 and further improved with the overseas version by Fruitbat Factory.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Multiple:
** Tsih appears to be a young girl but is actually an adult woman.
** [[spoiler:Although Sora may look like a young lady, she has survived to be over 10,000-years-old after recovering from her coma.]]

* {{Overheating}}: The Heat mechanics of the previous games returns, but Heat builds quicker than before and takes a bit longer to cool down.
* PeekABangs: Alte's hair obscure's one of her eyes and hides her burn scars.

* ShiftingSandLand: Stage 3 in ''sora'' takes place in a dessert.
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler:Sora developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the war, witnessing the unimaginable damage it caused, and nearly died twice over the course of the game. Sora went into a blind rage upon seeing Hime and Suguri flying around the snowfield, assuming they contributed to the death of the planet when it was already healed along with the sky.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Alte and Sham uses some electrical attacks.

** The v1.6.5 update for the Steam edition of ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' introduced player titles for online multiplayer, some of which includes "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Get in the Robot]]" for Nath, "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Can't let you do that, Star Breaker]]" for Sora, and "[[VideoGame/SambaDeAmigo Samba de Explosao]]" for Saki.

* SuddenlyVoiced: For most the game, all the dialogue is entirely text-based, however, during the game's climax between Stages 6-7, Sora [[spoiler:and Star Breaker]] have voiced dialogue.

** There's also ''sora'''s English localization by ΩTH, which received widespread backlash from the fans of the previous ''SUGURI'' games localized by Rockin' Android. Thankfully, Fruitbat Factory inverted this with their localization of ''sora''.

* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Star Breaker, who appears to be a cute young girl, yet she wields incredible fire-based powers and dangerous explosive weapons, and very mentally unstable after the experiments done to her by the army, which drove her to become an OmnicidalManiac.]]

** Tsih appears to be a young girl on the outside but she's older than what she appears to be.

* ThemeNaming: The bosses' names save for the final boss in the original Japanese material, which was preserved in the 2016 re-release by Fruitbat Factory, are named after stars.

* TokenMiniMoe: Tsih [[spoiler:and Star Breaker]].

* OlderThanTheyLook:

* ProtagonistTitle: Similarly to its predecessor, ''sora'' was named after Sora.

* NoContinueRun: Unlocking secret characters, stages, and extra stage music in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' requires playing through certain modes in a single credit, with some requiring they must be done on Normal or higher.
* ObviousBeta: The initial version of ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'', it had character balance issues and lacked some features originally intended upon release like the Story Mode. Thankfully these problem were remedied by v1.3.

* ShoutOut [[spoiler:Star Breaker is one to [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Princess Nia]]. She has TechnicolorEyes, [[RapunzelHair long]], [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pastel-blue hair]], wears a [[FutureSpandex skin-tight black bodysuit]] during the final sequences of ''sora''[='=]s story, as well as being bound to a spherical object of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom doom]] during the final stage of said game.]]

Has nothing to do with gravel (it's Finnish translation means gravel)

* JustBeforeTheEnd: ''sora'' describes itself as this, as shown by the quote at the top of the page. [[spoiler:Eventually Averted, as Sora’s efforts are shown to have saved the planet.]]

The game unfortunately received a terribly-made English localization on June 1st, 2012 by ΩTH who turned out to be an Internet troll by the name of [=FalcomGameFan=]. It involves use of such terms as "[[VideoGame/MegaManX reploids]]" when the characters are actually referred to as "altered humans", a few [[DubNameChange name changes]] that threw its ThemeNaming off, lies about its copy-protection to botch the game from being playable after purchase, swapped music that wasn't even in the game, bugs and glitches that were never present in the original version of the game, and above all else, [[BlindIdiotTranslation a terrible translation]] of the game. Not only that, but the company even copyright flagging videos of the game on Website/YouTube. Fans of the previous ''SUGURI'' series localized by Rockin' Android weren't happy about this, thus leading to [[http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sora-translation/signatures an online petition]] being formed to get the game professionally localized by someone else. Although the petition didn't get the signatures it needed, near the end of 2015, Fruitbat Factory obtained publishing rights to ''sora'' and eventually released it through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and directly from their website in 2016 with a proper localization and higher resolution visuals. The game's soundtracks, ''Sora no Kakera'' and ''Celeste -SORA EXTRA SOUNDTRACK-'', were also released digitally from Fruitbat Factory.

As with ''SUGURI'' before it, ''sora'' was followed up with a shoot 'em up-fighting game hybrid with ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' released during Comiket 80 in 2011. The game features both the heroines and boss characters of their respective games as playable characters, a Story Mode, an Arcade Mode, a local and online Versus Mode. During it's initial release however, lacked certain key features originally planned for the game and suffered from character balance issues, but thankfully these were through patches. ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' was also localized by Fruitbat Factory in 2018, with similar quality-of-life improvements that ''sora'' received, an online lobby system through Steamworks, and rebalanced gameplay. Sora and some of the boss characters from her game also make an appearance in ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice'' along with characters from ''SUGURI'', ''Flying Red Barrel'', and other games by Orange_Juice. She also makes an unofficial cameo appearance in Daisessen's ''[[VideoGame/LethalCrisis Lethal Crisis: ProtoSphere]]''.

* SuddenlyVoiced: For most the game, all the dialogue is entirely text-based, however, during the game's climax between Stages 6-7, Sora [[spoiler:and Star Breaker]] have voice-over dialogue.

* UpdatedRerelease: Fruitbat Factory's overseas version of ''sora'' features support for higher resolutions, widescreen support, native keyboard and controller remapping, and support for Xbox 360 (or similar) controllers. ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' received a similar treatment for its overseas re-release with a lobby and match making system à la ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice''.

The game unfortunately received a terribly-made English localization on June 1st, 2012 by ΩTH who turned out to an Internet troll by the name of [=FalcomGameFan=]. It involves use of such terms as "[[VideoGame/MegaManX reploids]]" when the characters are actually referred to as "altered humans", a few [[DubNameChange name changes]] that threw its ThemeNaming off, lies about its copy-protection to botch the game from being playable after purchase, swapped music that wasn't even in the game, bugs and glitches that were never present in the original version of the game, and above all else, [[BlindIdiotTranslation a terrible translation]] of the game. Not only that, but the company even copyright flagging videos of the game on Website/YouTube. Fans of the previous ''SUGURI'' series localized by Rockin' Android weren't happy about this, thus leading to [[http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sora-translation/signatures an online petition]] being formed to get the game professionally localized by someone else. Although the petition didn't get the signatures it needed, near the end of 2015, Fruitbat Factory obtained publishing rights to ''sora'' and eventually released it through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and directly from their website in 2016 with a proper localization and higher resolution visuals. The game's soundtracks, ''Sora no Kakera'' and ''Celeste -SORA EXTRA SOUNDTRACK-'', were also released digitally from Fruitbat Factory.

->''"Father... Mother... The sky... Isn't beautiful at all... I want to clean up this sky!"''
-->-- '''Sora''', the teaser trailer from ''Acceleration of SUGURI''

''sora'' is a horizontally-scrolling doujin shoot 'em up by [[Creator/OrangeJuice Orange_Juice]], and was released in 2010 for Windows PC during Comiket 78. It is the prequel to ''VideoGame/{{SUGURI}}'', which was initially teased at the end of ''Acceleration of SUGURI''[='s=] Arcade Mode if players managed to [[NoDamageRun 1-Credit Clear]] the game and encountered Sora as a secret boss. The game's story takes place many years prior to the events of its predecessor where Sora, a girl gifted with the combat capabilities beyond anything the world has ever seen, was born in the middle of an ongoing war between two unknown armies that has brought death and destruction throughout the world. Against her own will, Sora drafted to fight for one side of the war, when all she wants is the Earth to return it's former glory and beautiful skies she once remembered from her childhood. Like Suguri before her, Sora can amass a large arsenal of weapons at her disposal, ranging from [[RayGun beam rifles]], a [[GrenadeLauncher bazooka]], a [[LaserBlade beam sword]], and even a {{pile bunker}} thrown in for good measure. The game maintains its trademark dashing and lock-on shooting gameplay from its predecessor, but unlike our previous silver-haired heroine, Sora's able use to three weapons instead of two (generally a beam weapon, a ballistics weapon, and a melee weapon). The game also improved on its combo-based scoring system, adding more emphasis on funneling through enemy fire to restore some lost life energy and building up energy for your [[LimitBreak Hyper Attacks]].

As with ''SUGURI'' before it, ''sora'' was followed up with a shoot 'em up-fighting game hybrid with ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' released during Comiket 80 in 2011. The game features both the heroines and boss characters of their respective games as playable characters, a Story Mode[[labelnote:*]](which wasn't added until v1.3)[[/labelnote]], an Arcade Mode, a local and online Versus Mode. During it's initial release however, lacked certain key features originally planned for the game and suffered from character balance issues. Thankfully, the Orange_Juice rectified many of the game's issues through patches since then. ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' was also localized by Fruitbat Factory in 2018, with similar quality-of-life improvements that ''sora'' received, an online lobby system through Steamworks, and rebalanced gameplay. Sora and some of the boss characters from her game also make an appearance in ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice'' along with characters from ''SUGURI'', ''Flying Red Barrel'', and other games by Orange_Juice. She also makes an unofficial cameo appearance in Daisessen's ''[[VideoGame/LethalCrisis Lethal Crisis ProtoSphere]]''.

''sora''[='=]s official Japanese website can be viewed [[http://daidai.moo.jp/sora/soramain.html here]] and ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''[='=]s website can be viewed [[http://daidai.moo.jp/aos2/aos2.html here]].

* AllLowercaseLetters: It's title, [[BoldInflation contrast]] to it's predecessor.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Nath is fully aware of what is going on and supports Sora's cause, but has little to no control over their own body.]]
* ApocalypseHow: The war raging on Earth has took many lives and it made very the air to support any lifeforms toxic and ultimately uninhabitable.

** Sora can use the Pod weapon similarly to Suguri.
** Alte and Sham can use their own attack drones during battle, with the latter being capable of sending a mob of drones against her opponents.

* BeamSpam: Oh boy does ''sora'' deliver on this. The Artillery weapon also qualifies.

* BossGame: ''SUGURI'''s Match Mode returns in ''sora'', and some bosses have special attacks seen only in this mode.

* {{Combos}}: The damage you deal to enemies are used as part of score, though unlike ''SUGURI'' the combo meter stops during moments where player transitions from empty areas until the next wave of enemies.

* CrapsackWorld: The war that takes place during ''sora'' has taken many lives, innocent or otherwise, slowly killing life on the planet, and tainted the sky above it to be as gloomy and depressing as the war itself. [[spoiler:It gets better however thanks to Sora's efforts and Suguri helping with the planet's recovery.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: While far from the latter, ''sora'' is much more serious and darker in tone compared to ''SUGURI'' and Orange_Juice's other works; the game takes place during a war that is slowly killing the planet, a reluctant Sora is drafted into one side of the war and nearly died on a mission, tried to defect from the war to help Yukito and achieve their dream of a world without war and beautiful skies only to witness and/or cause some causalities herself. Many of the environments Sora travels to are often barren and lifeless, the game's soundtrack is moodier versus the upbeat and energetic score of its predecessor, and some of the characters Sora encounters play a much more serious role in this game.

* MookMaker: Sham can summon robots as her reinforcement. Because of this, she also doubles as FlunkyBoss.

* NoContinueRun: Required to unlock the secret characters and their respective stages in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''.

* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: [[spoiler:Inverted. Sora was awake during the war that was killing the planet as she was forced to fight in it, however, she knocked into a coma after plummeting down to Earth from preventing Star Breaker blowing up the planet. During the time she was comatose, Yukito and the other surviving researchers on Earth put their efforts towards giving his daughter Suguri the power to become Earth's caretaker, which she also helped heal the planet over the course of 10,000 years and foiled Shifu's planetary invasion-turned-annihilation scheme. Sora eventually awakened during the Winter season sometime after the events ''Acceleration of SUGURI'', which she initially believed that the planet died until Suguri showed her otherwise.]]

* AnIcePerson: Tsih. She can create ice blocks that she can throw around with the line tethered to them.

* CuteButPsycho: [[spoiler:Star Breaker, who appears to be a cute young girl, yet she wields incredible fire-based powers and dangerous explosive weapons, and very mentally unstable after the experiments done to her by the army, which drove her to become an OmnicidalManiac.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Averted in the main game up until the EX Stage; Sora and Suguri quickly made up after their scuffle during the events of the TrueFinalBoss battles.]]

** Mira to Kae, both of which are good at close encounters and can use reflecting projectile attacks.
** Nath to Kyoko as they both focus on defensive tactics during battle.

* FightingYourFriend: Sham was a friend to Sora when she was in the army, however, after they reunite in Stage 4, they had a conflict of interest as Sham wants her to return to the army but Sora refuses, so two get into a fight.

%%* GenkiGirl: Tsih.

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Although Sora may look like a young lady, she has survived to be over 10,000-years-old after recovering from her coma.]]

* PeekABangs: Alte's hair obscure's one of her eyes.

* ReflectingLaser: Nath can use mirror-like barriers that can reflect laser beams back at her opponents.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While far from the latter, ''sora'' is much more serious and darker in tone compared to ''SUGURI'' and Orange_Juice's other works; the game takes place during a war that is slowly killing the planet, a reluctant Sora is drafted into one side of the war and nearly died on a mission, tried to defect from the war to help Yukito and achieve their dream of a world without war and beautiful skies only to witness and/or cause some causalities herself. Many of the environments Sora travels to are often barren and lifeless, the game's soundtrack is moodier versus the upbeat and energetic score of its predecessor, and some of the characters Sora encounters have their own stake in the war, except in the case of Tsih who was hired by Sora's opposing army to kill anyone defecting from the war. [[spoiler:Sora ended up getting [[ShellShockedVeteran post-traumatic stress disorder]] as a result of taking part of this war and nearly lost it in the game's true ending after waking up 10,000 years later only to find the skies still dark when it was really just snowing at time, attacking Hime and Suguri on sight out of blind rage/sorrow until they finally rationalized her after their intense fight]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: While far from the latter, ''sora'' is much more serious and darker in tone compared to ''SUGURI''; the game takes place during a war that is slowly killing the planet, a reluctant Sora is drafted into the military to fight for one side and nearly died doing so, tried to defect from the war to help Yukito and achieve their dream of a world without war and beautiful skies only to witness and/or cause many causalities herself. Many of the environments Sora travels to are often barren and lifeless, the game's soundtrack is moodier versus the upbeat and high-tempo score of its predecessor, and characters Sora encounters often have their own stake in the war, except in the case of Tsih who was hired by Sora's opposing army to kill her for abandoning the war. [[spoiler:Sora ended getting [[ShellShockedVeteran post-traumatic stress disorder]] as a result from this war and [[HeroicBSoD nearly lost it]] in the game's true ending after waking up 10,000 years later only to find the skies still dark when it was really just snowing at time, attacking Hime and Suguri on sight until they finally rationalized her through a grueling fight]].

''sora'' is a horizontally-scrolling doujin shoot 'em up by Orange_Juice, and was released in 2010 for Windows PC during Comiket 78. It is the prequel to ''VideoGame/{{SUGURI}}'', which was initially teased at the end of ''Acceleration of SUGURI''[='s=] Arcade Mode if players managed to [[NoDamageRun 1-Credit Clear]] the game and encountered Sora as a secret boss. The game's story takes place many years prior to the events of its predecessor where Sora, a girl gifted with the combat capabilities beyond anything the world has ever seen, was born in the middle of an ongoing war between two unknown armies that has brought death and destruction throughout the world. Against her own will, Sora drafted to fight for one side of the war, when all she wants is the Earth to return it's former glory and beautiful skies she once remembered from her childhood. Like Suguri before her, Sora can amass a large arsenal of weapons at her disposal, ranging from [[RayGun beam rifles]], a [[GrenadeLauncher bazooka]], a [[LaserBlade beam sword]], and even a {{pile bunker}} thrown in for good measure. The game maintains its trademark dashing and lock-on shooting gameplay from its predecessor, but unlike our previous silver-haired heroine, Sora's able use to three weapons instead of two (generally a beam weapon, a ballistics weapon, and a melee weapon). The game also improved on its combo-based scoring system, adding more emphasis on funneling through enemy fire to restore some lost life energy and building up energy for your [[LimitBreak Hyper Attacks]].