Aces of the Luftwaffe

A classic bullet hell from the days of actually good and creative mobile games. I remember playing when there were only 2 planes and 3 chapters! Unfortunately, not everything translated well from mobile, and nostalgia can't save a bad port. File editing can though! Since the game was designed with micro transactions in mind, the upgrades become absurdly expensive! The game can definitely be a challenge without them. Don't worry though! For windows, you can easily edit save data at ...AppData\Local\aotl and set your medallions to a stupidly high value. (100,000 is a good amount) If you don't want to kill the progression for yourself, a good way to experience the game is to play the missions in order with one plane at a time, and buy an upgrade of choice on your current plane for every mission/boss completed. Ensure your upgrades are evenly distributed for extra balance. With the mindless grinding removed and a solid progression system implemented, you can now enjoy the game. Or you could just... Beat the game without any upgrades. I plan to try this someday. Additional notes: The game is horizontal. I personally feel the game is best experienced in vertical mode. Unfortunately, this isn't mobile, and I don't have the ability to turn my monitor 90 degrees. Not a big deal though. Achievements are pretty fair, and only a few of them will take a while to get. The game does have a notable difficulty spike in Chapter 3. The difficulty can be smoothed out by playing Chapter 4 first if you wish. Finally, the graphics are a little rough on the edges on modern resolutions. The pixel art has aged well though so it kinda balances out. I would definitely recommend this game on sale if you played it back on the day on mobile or if you are just a big fan of the genre. This game is quite short, and isn't terribly hard to beat, but can be worth the price for sure.

Poderiam ao menos ter ajustado a velocidade da nave nesse port a velocidade esta muito alta a mais baixa. Nao da para jogar principalmente por esse fator, vc nao consegue desviar dos tiros, pois eh ruim de controlar a nave. Talvez em outro dispositivo seja bom, mas a versao do PC nao recomendo, olha que precisa ser algo muito ruim para nao recomendar um jogo, pois no geral eu nao sou muito critico, mas nesse caso nao tem como.

"I wanted to like this game", no, I liked this game for the sprites having done them myself and being an avid kitmaker, they were good for what they were, fighters, but done in the "egg" style to make them cute, but also because of limited space. The game was grindy, but it seemed fair as in, really slowly and surely you progressed. Now you can't do that anymore, as your saves keep getting wiped every few weeks. The game desyncs and you can't resync it unless you got into properties, verify the files, then you can save again until everything gets wiped again. I looked past the fact that it was a mobile port for the GFX and getting somewhere slowly but surely, but now you can't and the game is abandoned. Have a look in the discussions about the save problem. This problem means that you can't progress very far in the game anymore without having all your grind taken away from you and reset, and of course it is now impossible to finish achievements in that game. Finally the art direction for the characters was funny and well done and the story was not bad for a mobile game port either. The German team should be commended for those efforts and for the voice acting to create a complete game world. There are no other reviews that mention this, so after checking, I thought I'd put this heads up in here. As other reviews have said, the Second iteration of this game is still working. I suspect it's a windows 11 problem, but it's abandoned at the time of writing, so no remedy, don't buy this broken game.

It was Eh, i would give it a 4/10 Why? 1) I am not sure why in this day and age, the Dev decided that we can only play the game in... Is it Potrait? or Landscape? I will go with Potrait, since it's like playing a mobile shootem up game. 2) The Grinding is insane for this one. There's unlike Skyforce series, there's no Difficulty scaling level, all you do is simple, farm a boss/ stage over and over again, until you can get new upgrades 3) So no new difficulty for completed stages, a stage normally yield around 250~450 medals? And the boss is the... worthwhile one? About 500~650 plus? But the issue is that the Upgrades cost too much ! Even you have to purchase to unlock new stages... 50 each ! Like WHY? The Ok- 1) Nice variety of enemy types, with Historical accurate planes. 2) Good effects (explosions / plane crushing physics) 3) 4 stages, so 4 different boss... could be better Only if you're a huge fan of shootemup, Only Buy on SALE !

Been playing this since 2014 and i am still having fun with the very few levels this game has

Bombs Away

need more boss

Игра крутая, играл в детстве. Но главная проблема это гринд. А так рекомендую

Boa história, 3 naves, armas, demora para coletar suficiente para desbloquear as melhorias, tem que jogar várias vezes as mesmas missões, chefes memorizar padrão para ganhar, 6/10

The controls are loose compared to more polished shooters. There would be a lot of grinding to totally unlock all three planes. You don't need to. Play until you can unlock Beast then Focus on increasing his stats before Freshman then Tykers in that order. I would increase damage first then health (and Beast's special I'd consider most important). The gaming ends up being much less repetitive if you repeat the levels over and over attempting each achievement. Shooting down 70 red fighter planes is a lot harder than it sounds. I read Aces of the Luftwaffe was adapted from a mobile vertical shooter for PC. While this may not be as interesting as something like Jamestown or Abadox it's still good fun if you like grinding and achievements.