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Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders 2 review copy provided by Atypical Games for the purposes of this review.How do you take the sports betting experience to new heights? Well, theScore Bet is literally doing that at this yearвЂ™s RBC Canadian Open PGA Tour event. On the whole, I feel that all but the most devoted aerial combat fan should sit this one out вЂ“ and even those who do wish to take to the skies would be much better off grabbing the game on mobile to enjoy as a rapid-fire lightweight distraction at a quarter of the price. Technically, the game doesnвЂ™t do much to restore confidence thanks to a jittery frame rate вЂ“ it often struggles on Switch to keep the action stable once things get hectic.

Granted, one could forgive the price differential if significant work had been put into making Sky Gamblers feel like it belonged on a console, but thatвЂ™s not the case either thanks to the like-for-like mobile UI and clumsy button mapping. The value, for one, isnвЂ™t great вЂ“ the game is short, very short вЂ“ and itвЂ™s currently four times the price of its mobile version. Taking the entire package into consideration, itвЂ™s difficult to recommend Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders 2 based on a couple of different factors.

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Sound for instance, is one area in which the game is let down immensely вЂ“ the music sounds like it has been sourced from some royalty free MP3 hub of dubious quality, and the few sparse samples used for weapons and dialogue are relied on so heavily that they lend the game a cheaper feel than it necessarily deserves. The attention to detail and sense of place within the cockpit as you down a group of bombers, scrape through their descending wreckage and evade pursuing fighters can often times impress for a mobile game вЂ“ but as a console experience, thereвЂ™s perhaps not enough weight and polish to the entire endeavor. I found that that the most engaging way to play Sky Gamblers was by opting for the default simulation preset and switching your view to the gameвЂ™s cockpit camera, which is by far the standout feature for me.

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There are three control schemes to choose from вЂ“ two вЂњsimulationвЂќ presets that offer full control over pitch, roll and yaw, and one casual preset that uses tilt controls for aiming. ItвЂ™s got a light, arcade feel that вЂ“ like much of the game вЂ“ has a distinct made for mobile sense of feedback to it. Excluding the twelve campaign missions, which all come in around 10 to 15 minutes in length, thereвЂ™s very little else on offer вЂ“ you can set up a custom game with bots any of the included maps, or jump online for some multiplayer dogfights to unlock more planes вЂ“ but thatвЂ™s just about all there is to it.ДЄs far as the aerial combat itself goes, itвЂ™s serviceable but far from what any would consider a simulation. Objectives have a tendency to shift unpredictability as events unravel, and thereвЂ™s a decent variety of ground, air and sea targets for you to juggle your attention between which serves as a decent emulation of the high-stakes nature of real air combat.ДЄlthough the game prominently features some of the most pivotal air and sea battles of World War II, you can forget about there being anything in the way of a compelling narrative beyond the already apparent historical significance of these events. Cutscenes for instance, play out as simple camera cuts between planes with dry, single-sentence text boxes jutting into view from the top of the screen. From Pearl Harbor to the Western Front, a respectable amount of work has been put into differentiating the look and feel of each new location from the last, even if there is a slightly dated вЂњmobileвЂќ feel to the overall presentation. Once youвЂ™re strapped into the cockpit, things get far more intuitive over the course of the games twelve mission campaign.

Thankfully you can at least easily navigate the menus using touch controls, as you would within the mobile version вЂ“ even though the game never tells you that you can. Sky GamblerвЂ™s UI has been barely altered in its transition from mobile to console, and at its best itвЂ™s an unpolished, poorly designed relic reminiscent of mid 90вЂ™s shareware games вЂ“ at its worst, itвЂ™s borderline unusable thanks to the twitchy implementation of hardware controls used to get between sections. Now, this doesnвЂ™t necessarily have to be a bad thing вЂ“ a couple of well executed free-to-play mobile conversions already exist on the eShop, but there are certain inherent design elements that must be reconsidered in order to appeal to either mobile or console players вЂ“ UI being one of the most crucial. Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders 2 is a mobile game through and through.