Line #59 Videogame/Sora


1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sora_steam.png]]
2	->''The last war on the worn-out planet.''\
3	''Whether it is won or lost, there will be nothing left.''\
4	''Sora does not know the meaning of her fight.''
5	-->--''sora''[='=]s opening sequence
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7	''sora'' is a horizontally-scrolling {{bullet hell}} [[ShootEmUp shoot 'em up]] by [[Creator/OrangeJuice Orange_Juice]], which 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 encounter 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 incredible combat capabilities, 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 and once-beautiful skies to return their former glory. 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 with some fundamental changes, such Sora being able use to three weapons instead of two (generally an energy-based weapon, a ballistics weapon, and a melee weapon), revises the combo-based scoring system, and incentivizes dashing through or "catching" enemy fire by dashing as Sora can recover some lost vitality while building energy for her [[LimitBreak Hyper Attacks]].
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9	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" in the ''SUGURI'' series, unnecessary [[DubNameChange name changes]] that threw its ThemeNaming off, poorly-implemented [=SecuROM=] UsefulNotes/{{D\|igitalRightsManagement}}RM that botched the game from being playable after purchase, swapped music that didn't belong in the game, introduced 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 filled with out-of-place pop-culture references. Not only that, but the company even copyright flagging videos of the game on Website/YouTube showcasing the dubious quality of the localization. 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, higher resolution visuals, and quality-of-life improvements. The game's soundtracks, ''Sora no Kakera'' and ''Celeste -SORA EXTRA SOUNDTRACK-'', were also released digitally from Fruitbat Factory.
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11	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 issues were addressed through patches. ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' was once again 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. Sora also made an unofficial cameo appearance in Daisessen's ''[[VideoGame/LethalCrisis Lethal Crisis ProtoSphere]]''.
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13	''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]].
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16	!!These games provide examples of:
17	* TwoAndAHalfD: Just like its predecessor, however, the dev team took advantage of what they learned from their previous works to feature Sora going through more visual angles of the stages of this game.
18	* AchievementSystem: One is implemented in the Steam re-release of ''sora'' and ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2''. Such achievements include "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=]'').
19	* ActionGirl: Sora, whether she likes it or not, she is capable of sending mechanized goons to the scrap heap like no other.
20	* AdvancingWallOfDoom: Stage 4's boss, Sham, uses this as part of her attack patterns.
21	* AllLowercaseLetters: It's title, contrast to it's predecessor which was stylized in upper-cased letters.
22	* 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''.
23	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Nath is fully aware of what is going on and supports Sora's cause, but has little to no control over her own body.]]
24	* AntiFrustrationFeature: Similarly to ''SUGURI'', while it's possible to get newer weapons by clearing stages with an A Rank or higher, you can also get them through multiple play sessions, regardless of difficulty and whether or not you were able to clear the stages.
25	* ApocalypseHow: The war raging on Earth has took many lives and eating away at its natural resources, making the once-green Earth barren and lifeless, with the skies being tainted to reflect upon its depressing condition.
26	* ArtEvolution: A huge improvement from the artists in terms of the art-style and overall visual quality in ''sora'' compared to ''SUGURI'' while pulling off more elaborate camera views for the backgrounds during gameplay. The same goes for ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' compared to its predecessor.
27	* AttackDrone:
28	** Sora can use the Pod weapon similarly to Suguri. She can also obtain a new weapon called Sprites.
29	** Alte and Sham can use their own attack drones during battle, with the latter being capable of sending a mob of drones or robots against her opponents.
30	* AttackReflector: Nath can use mirror-like barriers that can reflect energy-based projectiles back at her opponents
31	* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Star Breaker became extremely mentally unstable after the experiments that were done to her, and wishes only to burn and destroy everything.]]
32	* BackFromTheDead: All of the bosses who were killed in ''sora'' are brought back in ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' [[spoiler:by Sumika.]]
33	* BackgroundBoss:
34	** The mid-stage of Stage 5 in ''sora''. [[spoiler:There's also the first two phases of the final battle with Star Breaker in Stage 7 in said game.]]
35	** [[spoiler:The final battle in ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2''[='=]s Story Mode when Sumika TurnsRed.]]
36	* BarrierWarrior: Nath specializes on defensive tactics to reflect energy-based attacks.
37	* BattleInTheRain: A rainstorm occurs during Sora's fight with Sham.
38	* BeamSpam: Oh boy does ''sora'' deliver on this. Sora can also do this herself with the Artillery weapon or shot-canceling her energy-based weapons.
39	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Despite nearly dying from Alte's last-ditch efforts to defeat Sora in the first stage, Sora survives with hardly any scuffs or damages shown on her body. [[spoiler:This also happens after stopping Star Breaker's attempt of blowing up the planet during the game's original ending.]]
40	* {{BFS}}: Sora can unlock one called the Zapper, a huge broadsword that is difficult to swing due to its size, but can deal high amounts of damage. This weapon however prevents you from getting Achievements from fighting bosses in Match Mode's Special difficulty.
41	* BlemishedBeauty: Sham is noted for having burn scars on the left side of her body, though how severe it is [[DependingOnTheArtist depends on the artist]] (some artwork depicts it going all the way down her body, while others merely restrict it to her left cheek). Even then, she still looks quite cute and, as mentioned in the ImageSong "Ultimate Weapon Girl", is determined not to let that get in her way.
42	* BlindIdiotTranslation: ''sora'''s English localization by ΩTH, which received widespread backlash from the fans of the previous ''SUGURI'' games localized by Rockin' Android due to its poor localization quality while inserting out of place terminology and pop-culture references in the game's script. Thankfully, Fruitbat Factory averted this with their localization of ''sora''.
43	* BlowYouAway: Mira can create cyclones as one of their special attacks.
44	* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The first boss fight in ''sora'' ends with Alte grabbing onto Sora. The true final 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. The game's logo also appears twice during the game's story, the first being after the end of Stage 1, then the real game's logo appearing at the end of Stage EX's credits.]]
45	* BoringButPractical: Similarly to ''SUGURI'', you start out with a basic beam rifle and bazooka along with a beam sword to fill out your new third weapon slot as your starting set of weapons, and while you can unlock more exotic weapons as you play the game, these weapons can get you through the game most of the time.
46	* BossGame: ''SUGURI'''s Match Mode returns in ''sora''.
47	* BrokenTears:
48	** [[spoiler:Star Breaker broke down into tears after being defeated by Sora, and so did her sanity.]]
49	** [[spoiler:Sora also broke down into tears after waking up from her coma to find the sky was still dark and assumed that the planet was dead and the war was still going, even though it was only snowing and the war was already over, which then turned to [[BerserkerTears tears of rage]] upon finding Hime and Suguri around the area and attacked them, then finally {{tears of joy}} after seeing the Earth and sky are beautiful again.]]
50	* BulletHell: Very much like it's predecessor.
51	* ChargedAttack: Some of the weapons in ''sora'' can be charged up and use alternate properties, such as locking onto multiple enemies with Rifle-M, firing a charged shot that pierces through enemies and some projects with Rifle-C, or the Bullet shooting ricocheting shots.
52	* {{Combos}}: The damage you deal to enemies are used as part of the scoring system, though unlike ''SUGURI'', the combo meter pauses during moments where player transitions from empty areas until the next wave of enemies and it doesn't drop instantly if you take damage.
53	* ContainTheKaboom: [[spoiler:Before Star Breaker detonates the bomb she's bound to, Sora uses her shield to contain the explosion to prevent her from taking the Earth with her.]]
54	* ContinuityNod: In ''SUGURI'', its titular heroine was called a "monster" by [[spoiler:Shifu]] for taking down [[spoiler:his subordinates and]] many mecha mooks. Here however, when Alte called Sora a "monster" for destroying many robots and unmanned aircrafts, Sora was hurt by that since she never wanted to use her powers to hurt anyone.
55	* CoveredWithScars: Alte and Sham have some nasty burn scars, Alte's scars covering half of her face and Sham's scars covering a good portion of her body, left arm, and a portion of her face.
56	* CrapsackWorld: The war that takes place during ''sora'' has taken many lives, innocent or otherwise, slowly killing life on the planet and draining its natural resources, 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.]]
57	* CursedWithAwesome: Sora was born with incredible combat capabilities, however she gets used to fight in the war when she wants no part of it and wants to avoid senseless violence.
58	* 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 a very mentally unstable OminicidalManic driven to madness by the experiments done to her by the army.]]
59	* 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.]]
60	* CuteLittleFangs: Tsih has them in ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2''.
61	* ADayInTheLimelight: Star Breaker, [[spoiler:this game's final boss]], has gotten audio drama centered around her with ''[[https://www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE100807.html Love Love Star Breaker]]'', staring hono and Reina Toda (Star Breaker's voice actress).
62	* DarkerAndEdgier: While far from the latter, ''sora'' is much more serious and darker in tone compared to the {{lighter\|AndSofter}} tone of ''SUGURI'' and Orange_Juice's other works; the game takes place during a depressing war that is slowly killing the planet, a reluctant Sora is drafted into one side of the war and nearly dies on her first 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 energetic score of its predecessor, and some of the characters Sora encounters play a much more serious role in this game.
63	* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Star Breaker in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2''. After she having fought Sumika for bringing her back 10,000 years later when the Earth was healed and the war has long since ended, she wishes to come back to a world that was still in war so she can destroy everything and die with it.]]
64	* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Averted throughout most of main game up until the EX Stage; Sora and Suguri quickly made up after their scuffle during the events of the TrueFinalBoss battles.]]
65	* DifficultyLevels: The game has three: Easy, Normal, and Hard for the Story and Arcade Modes. There is a [[HarderThanHard Special]] difficulty exclusive to the Match Mode where bosses are not only more stronger than the difficulties preceding it, but they also have a powerful DesperationAttack when they are close to defeat.
66	* DownerBeginning: The game opens with a prologue that explains the state of the world slowly dying because of an ongoing war that no one how it started with the skies becoming dark and lifeless. The first stage also ends with Sora nearly being killed in action on her first mission [[spoiler:when Alte used a self-destructing aircraft to suicide bomb her]].
67	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The game initially ends with Sora slowly plummeting down to Earth, with faint hopes that the skies above will clear up as she loses consciousness after stopping Star Breaker from unleashing an EarthShatteringKaboom [[TakingYouWithMe as a last-ditch effort to destroy Sora]] along with the planet. After the v1.1 update, the game received a True Final Boss battle and a happier ending.]]
68	* DubNameChange: In ΩTH's English localization of ''sora'', Tsih's name was changed to Telos, Sham was changed to Siri, and Nath was changed to Nadius. This broke the character's star-based ThemeNaming, but thankfully the 2016 re-release by Fruitbat Factory kept the original names intact.
69	* EvolvingTitleScreen: [[spoiler:Upon clearing the EX Stage, the sky in the background goes from dark and clouded to a beautiful, vibrant, clear skies. The title screen's logo also changes to the one seen in the true ending, as well as new background music to accompany the new background.]]
70	* {{Expy}}: The cast of ''sora'' shares some similarities with its predecessor.
71	** Sora is one to Suguri as {{The Hero}}ines of their respective shoot 'em up games.
72	** Alte is one to Iru, both of whom possess a large array of weapons and possessing an electrical attack, Iru with her electrical mines and Alte with a huge shock rod.
73	** Tsih is one to Saki as they share use of unusual weapons, Saki with her instruments and Tsih with rocks.
74	** Sham is one to Nana as they both use robotic drones to fight alongside them, although the former also uses miniature mechs and barriers to ward off attacks.
75	** Mira is one to Kae, both of which are good at close encounters and can use reflecting projectile attacks.
76	** Nath is one to Kyoko as they both focus on defensive tactics during battle.
77	** [[spoiler:Star Breaker is one to Shifu, both of which are the BigBad of their respective shoot 'em up games with [[OmnicidalManiac a desire to destroy the world and all of it's inhabitants]].]]
78	* ForcedTutorial: Averted; although a tutorial is available when players start from a new game, they have the option to skip it and go back to it anytime from the Stage Select screen. The game's tutorial level does show however where Sora's and Sham's friendship started.
79	* FightingYourFriend: Sham was a friend to Sora when she was in the army, but after they reunite in Stage 4 they come into conflict as Sham wants her to return to the army but Sora refuses. [[spoiler:After being defeated by Sora, Sham decides to devote herself to helping Sora's cause.]]
80	* FrickinLaserBeams: Like its predecessor, ''sora'' features enemies that will rain down all manner of laser projectiles, to simple laser beams, to homing lasers, and even arching lasers that fills a big part of the screen.
81	* GameplayGrading: The game grades your performance based on your score, remaining Shield Meter, the total damage dealt, and how quickly you can beat the stage.
82	** 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.
83	* GenreShift:
84	** [[spoiler:The true final battle with Suguri in ''sora'''s Stage EX is turned into a fight straight out of ''Acceleration of SUGURI''.]]
85	** [[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''.]]
86	* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler:During Stage EX, after waking up 10,000 years later, Sora notices the sky is still dark and hazy, and believes her efforts to save the Earth were for naught -- in reality it is simply snowing, something she's never seen and can't recognize. She then finds Hime and Suguri on Earth and, blaming them for the fighting that ruined the world, proceeds to attack them. Once the fighting is over, Suguri shows Sora that above the snowy clouds, the sky has returned to the beautiful clear blue color she once remembered from her childhood and the planet is thriving with life once more.]]
87	* GraphicsInducedSuperDeformed: The game uses super-deformed versions of the characters during gameplay.
88	* GratuitousEnglish:
89	** ''sora'' 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 incorporate English vocals instead of Japanese, although some of them have mistranslated lyrics.
90	** ''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.
91	* GratuitousGreek: Each stage boss is represented by a Greek letter, from the Bayer designation of the star they're named after (so for example, Alte's health bar has a lambda, from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Leonis Lambda Leonis]]).
92	* HealThyself: New to this installment is the ability to recover a red portion of the life meter from the damage you've taken, which is done by catching or dashing through enemy projectiles, but the next hit you take can also deplete that red portion of your life meter.
93	* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Sora had one after waking up from her coma 10,000 years later, only to find herself on an empty snowfield during a snowstorm. However, she assumed that the war was still going from how dark the snow clouds were as she never seen a snowstorm in her life until that point, despite that the war was long since over. She gets better though after her fight with Hime and Suguri, where the latter showed her the blue skies above the clouds and the green Earth below.]]
94	* HeroicSacrifice:
95	** [[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 but was left in a coma for over 10,000 years.]]
96	** [[spoiler:Yukito, a scientist who defected from the war along with many other researchers, spent his life 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.]]
97	* HidingBehindYourBangs: Alte's hair obscures one of her eyes and hides her burn scars.
98	* HighAltitudeBattle: The final stages of ''sora''.
99	* HighlyVisibleNinja: Mira, who fights with ninja-esque weapons such as kunais, shurikens, and smoke bombs out in the open.
100	* HumongousMecha: Nath pilots one. It's even capable of [[TransformingMecha transforming to more powerful forms]] as the battle progresses.
101	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: To a similar extent of ''SUGURI''.
102	* JustBeforeTheEnd: ''sora'' describes itself as this, as shown by the quote at the top of the page. [[spoiler:Eventually Averted, as Sora’s efforts led to Suguri being able to save and revive the planet.]]
103	* KickTheDog [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown While They Are Down]]: [[spoiler:This happens to Nath in ''sora'' by Star Breaker's hands after Sora defeats her.]]
104	* LagCancel: Just like its predecessor, it's possible to shorten your attack animations by canceling them either from dashing or firing another weapon, but this also builds Heat.
105	* LaserBlade: Sora can use one, and she knows how to use it.
106	* LightningGun: The Shock weapon will create balls of electricity when fired, and it's Hyper Attack will create a trail of plasma.
107	* 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.
108	* MacrossMissileMassacre: Like Suguri, via the Launcher weapon. Stage 1 also opens with this, although this trope is invoked in many places of the game.
109	* MadBomber: [[spoiler:Star Breaker likes to deploy bombs, in either a cross-shaped formation, or camouflage themselves to blend into the background until the detonate.]]
110	* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:Star Breaker uses some fire-based attacks that can either damage Sora or drain her Hyper Meter and does damage over time if she's burned. She can also cloak herself in flames to discourage close-ranged attacks.]]
111	* MartialPacifist: Sora wants to avoid fighting, yet she's capable of wrecking machines with the weapons she's packing.
112	* MercyInvincibility: Happens similarly to ''SUGURI'' whenever you take damage, but your invincibility frames ''slightly'' longer.
113	* MechaMooks: Most of the enemies you fight in ''sora'' are battle robots and drones.
114	* MeaningfulName:
115	** Sora's parents named her after the Japanese word for "sky", referring to how beautiful they are, although it doesn't seem like the sky is beautiful at all in the game. [[spoiler:That was until Sora's efforts to help Yukito with their dream of saving the planet from the war and bringing skies back to its former glory became a success.]]
116	** [[spoiler:The boss characters are named after stars. Then we have Star Breaker...]]
117	* MookMaker: Sham can summon robots as her reinforcement to make up for a lack of personal combat capabilities. Because of this, she also doubles as FlunkyBoss.
118	* MoreDakka: The Machine Gun, but then again, this game is a BulletHell shooter after all.
119	* 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''.
120	* OlderThanTheyLook:
121	** Tsih appears to be a little girl but is actually an adult woman.
122	** [[spoiler:Sora doesn't visibly age during her 10,000-year-long coma, making her this once she wakes up.]]
123	* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:Star Breaker. She is out to destroy '''everything''', including the entire planet.]]
124	* OneWordTitle: AllLowercaseLetters ProtagonistTitle style.
125	* {{Overheating}}: The Heat mechanic of the previous games returns, but Heat builds quicker than before and takes a bit longer to cool down.
126	* ProtagonistTitle: OneWordTitle, AllLowercaseLetters. Similarly to its predecessor, ''sora'' was named after Sora.
127	* {{Prequel}}: This game takes before the events of ''SUGURI'', although it was released much later than its predecessor.
128	* RayGun: The Rifle series of beam-rifles.
129	* ReflectingLaser: Nath's mecha can fire reflecting laser beams around the area.
130	* {{Roboteching}}: Orange_Juice loves their arching lasers and missiles in this game.
131	* ScarfOfAsskicking: Mira wears a red muffler around their neck.
132	* ScoringPoints: The scoring system of ''sora'' is similar to its predecessor, in which you shoot down enemies for points while building up a combo meter extra points. However, in this game the combo meter has been updated where entering different sequences and dialogue between characters doesn't break the combo meter. You are also given bonus points based on your performance.
133	* ShiftingSandLand: Stage 3 in ''sora'' takes place in a desert.
134	* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler:Sora developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the war, witnessing the unimaginable damage it caused, and nearly dying twice over the course of the game. She 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.]]
135	* ShockAndAwe: Alte and Sham use electrical attacks.
136	* ShoutOut:
137	** [[spoiler:Star Breaker is one to [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Princess Nia]]. She has TechnicolorEyes, long, 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.]]
138	** The v1.6.5 update for the Steam edition of ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' introduced player titles for online multiplayer, some of which include "[[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.
139	* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: [[spoiler:Inverted. Sora slept through Earth's ''healing'' process.]]
140	* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Stage 2 in ''sora'', which takes place in an icy ravine.
141	* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''SUGURI''. See DarkerAndEdgier above.
142	* SpreadShot: Rifle-S's charged and dash attack will spray many shots at once, however charging the weapon creates more shots to be fired than dashing.
143	* StatusEffects: Similarly to its predecessor, certain attacks can inflict status effects to Sora or her enemies.
144	** [[ManOnFire Burning]]: Slowly lose life over time. [[spoiler:Star Breaker also has a blue variant that inflicts ManaBurn to her enemies.]]
145	** [[TheParalyzer Shocked]]: Prevents hyper dashing.
146	* SuddenlyVoiced: For most the game, the dialogue is entirely text-based, but during the game's climax between Stages 6-7, Sora [[spoiler:and Star Breaker]] have voiced dialogue.
147	* SuperSoldier: The altered humans of ''sora'' are one, however, Sora herself became one in order to fight one side of the war due to her own natural fighting talents, despite that she wanted nothing to do with the war.
148	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Alte attempted this on Sora at the end of Stage 1 by calling a self-destructing craft in a last-ditch effort to defeat her, and Star Breaker also did this by detonating the massive bomb she's bound to in an attempt destroy Sora ''and'' Earth.]]
149	* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:Sora was in tears of joy with a [[TearfulSmile smile]] after Suguri shown her the beautiful skies above the snowy clouds and the renewed Earth thriving with life during the true ending's final moments, knowing that the surviving inhabitants of Earth have expressed their gratitude for Sora's efforts to help save the planet a reality.]]
150	* ThemeNaming: All of the bosses save the last are named after stars. The {{Dub Name Change}}s in the original localization [[LostInTranslation threw this off]], but Fruitbat Factory's re-release preserved it.
151	* ThirdPersonPerson: [[spoiler:Sumika from ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' always refers herself in third-person.]]
152	* TitleDrop: The game's title appears after clearing Stage 1 for the first time. [[spoiler:After the credits from ''sora'''s EX Stage, it was revealed that the is game is titled as ''sora: suguri II''.]]
153	* TokenMiniMoe: Tsih, at least in appearance.
154	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer for the 2012 English version by ΩTH revealed one too many story and gameplay-related aspects of the game, such as showing many of the weapons players can discover (and poorly demonstrating them at that) and a few of the unlockables. [[spoiler:A grievous story spoiler out of nowhere in the trailer includes showing Sora fighting Hime, one of the game's two true final bosses, and a poorly edited clip of Sora falling from the sky after her battle with Star Breaker.]]
155	* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Two in this game, Hime and Suguri in the Stage EX of v1.1 in ''sora''.]]
156	* TurnsRed: When a boss' HP at the 1/3 mark, they'll break out the more powerful attacks and difficult to dodge patterns.
157	* UpdatedRerelease: Fruitbat Factory's overseas version of ''sora'' features higher resolution graphics, support for HD and widescreen resolutions, native keyboard and controller remapping, and supports [=XInput=]-based controllers compared to the original C78 release. ''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.
158	* VideoGameDashing: This gameplay element from its predecessors return, but now it's possible recover some lost health by grazing through or "catching" certain projectiles which will heal the red portion of your life meter. To balance this out, however, your character builds up Heat more quickly and cools down more slowly than its predecessor, and any major hits you take empties the previous red portion of the meter.
159	* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Star Breaker has one after Sora beats her in Stage 7 of ''sora''. Let's just say that she doesn't take defeat very well.]]
160	* WarIsHell: Sora gets first-hand experience of how terrible the war was after being drafted to fight in it, and then some. The world itself is also slowly dying because of the war.
161	* WaveMotionGun: The Rifle-M, the Artillery, and the Buster's LimitBreak. Some enemies and bosses uses this as well.
162	* WorldOfActionGirls: Just like its predecessor series, with ''half'' of a guy (Mira, who's made from a woman's brains and a dead man's body) being among them.
163	* ZergRush: Sham has a Hyper Attack in ''acceleration of SUGURI 2'' where she summons a swarm of robots to rush in and bombard opponents.

Context Videogame / Sora