Sky Fury: Pacific War

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sky fury: pacific war is a vertical arcade shooter for iphone and ipad. fly a p-38 lightning through 25 stages in five acts, with eight aircraft bosses and five strike missions. the art is painterly, and the soundtrack's five act songs take turns, one per stage.

fly by instinct
• drag to fly. your guns fire while your finger is on the screen.
• collect weapon upgrades through six tiers, plus bombs and shields.
• enemy rounds are outlined, streaked and coloured by kind, and enemy aircraft flash as they shoot.
• a round that crosses your plane without hitting its middle is a graze, worth 50 points.
• on strike missions, destroy a set number of targets before they scroll past.

your hangar
after every stage, win or lose, your score earns supply. the first stage clear of each day earns double. spend it in the hangar, where your own p-38 stands as a 3d model carrying the weapon tier, bomb racks and armor plate you have fitted. tap a station and the camera moves to show what its next rank adds:
• armament: a weapon floor your gun never drops below, even after a lost life.
• bomb racks: carry up to 5 bombs; at rank 2 every life refills them to 3.
• airframe: armor plate that takes the first hit of every stage, then a sixth life.
• salvage: weapon upgrades in 25% fewer kills, then a lost life keeps up to one tier above the floor.
• magnet: pulls pickups in from a third of the screen's width, then every pickup except rescues from anywhere on screen.
• requisition: 15% more supply, then 30%.
supply is earned in flight only, and nothing in the hangar is for sale. every stage keeps its own weapon cap, and no upgrade lifts you past it. lifetime supply promotes your pilot, from second lieutenant to colonel.

what a game over costs
• cadet: lose your last life and you retry the stage with full lives.
• ace: lose your last life in act i and you retry the stage with full lives, or switch to cadet. from act ii on, the act starts again from its first stage.
• legendary: lose your last life and the campaign starts again from stage 1.
• no continue comes from an ad or a purchase.
• each stage has three medals per difficulty: clear, no-death and no-hit. strike missions add a fourth: mission perfect.
• clear a stage on cadet and it opens on ace. clear it on ace and it opens on legendary.
• signed in to game center, the results of a campaign stage clear can show where you stand on that stage's board, such as #3 of 9 pilots or top 8% of pilots, and your rank among friends.
• weekly sortie: signed in to game center, every stage you clear, in the campaign or a sortie, puts its stage score on a board that starts over each week. your best of the week counts, on any difficulty.

sorties
• clear act i on any difficulty and the sortie board opens: all 25 stages in a grid, with your medals and best stage score on each for the difficulty you fly.
• a sortie is one stage flown on its own, with its own results card. it earns supply and medals, and your campaign run is left untouched.

ads and purchase
• all 25 stages are free.
• from the second act on, an ad plays between stages, never straight after a boss. there are no rewarded videos.
• remove ads is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. it turns the ads off. it is the only in-app purchase, and it adds no stages or upgrades.

set in the pacific theater from 1942 to 1945, the campaign ends with a fictionalized escort of the enola gay over hiroshima.

learn the patterns. find your opening.