Sine Mora EX is a thing (PC, PS4, Xbox One - Summer 2017)

[AxelMill]

Releasing on PC, PS4 and Xbox One this Summer, it offers a Story Mode that tells an “over-the-top tale” and an Arcade Mode that provides “deep, satisfying gameplay".
Whether Gematsu is talking about the original or not, I don't know.

Any thoughts? Hopes? Nah, we all love it for what it is

[Dinjoralo]

Hmm... Are the original developers involved at all? It seems like THQ Nordic got the IP from Digital Reality, but I don't think that them or Grasshopper are contributing. Weird. Well, here's hoping the scoring system gets a bit of an overhaul.

[Stevens]

Well the first one looked nice, hopefully this one won't share the same glaring flaws. Like shitty game play.

[mamboFoxtrot]

Literally the first comment on that page

The game that no one was asking for, finally available!

This is... random as hell. I hope by "extended" they don't mean they're going to make the game longer!
I could hope for things like integrating the Time Capsule and Sub Weapons into the scoring system rather than punishing you for using them, fixing the auto-fire, making the enemy design for the first half of the game better than "fly in a straight line across the screen", use more than two colors and shapes of bullets, etc, but I'd be surprised if it turns out to be anything more than a resolution upgrade, maybe an "arrange" mode of some kind, and maybe an extra boss or two.

[Stevens]

Literally the first comment on that page

The game that no one was asking for, finally available!

The funny thing mambo is that I tried Sine Mora years before I started playing shooters seriously and didn't like it.

[Necronom]

Releasing on PC, PS4 and Xbox One this Summer, it offers a Story Mode that tells an “over-the-top tale” and an Arcade Mode that provides “deep, satisfying gameplay".
Whether Gematsu is talking about the original or not, I don't know.

Any thoughts? Hopes? Nah, we all love it for what it is

Sounds more like one of those remaster thingies...

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I told myself I wouldn't post in this thread just to complain about Sine Mora yet again. But Sine Mora was a massive dissapointment as far as modern shmups went, so here goes.

If you really want a shmup with furries to look forward to in 2017 then Jet Buster already looks more competent than Sine Mora's gameplay ever was.

*micdrop*

[clippa]

Jet Buster already looks more competent than Sine Mora's gameplay ever was.

*micdrop*

Rozyrg's shmups are fab but I don't rate the rest of the output from "Team Grybanser Fox"

Zenodyne R and zenohell left me really cold, this looks like it's more of the same. I'm not convinced.

Sine mora was atrocious.

[kassj0peja]

The game appeared on THQ Nordic's website:

https://www.thqnordic.com/games/sine-mora-ex

[mamboFoxtrot]

English voice option actually does sound nice. I mean, the game was already designed so that you didn't have to read and play the game at the same time, but it's still nice to be able to just listen to the conversation instead of reading it from the corner.

Also, an option for 16:9 ratio aka you can finally play the game without the black bars on the top and bottom.

Kinda weird that the co-op is only for Story mode, though. Chuck that in with "why do Story and Arcade mode have mutually-exclusive difficulty options", I guess.
e: wait a minute, it's actually extra-weird that it's story mode that has the co-op, because I think plot-wise you were always flying solo. So, we're going to have a non-canon co-op option in the Story mode but not in the obviously-non-canon Arcade mode. Okaaaaayyyyy....
I guess it's just so they don't have to program what happens when more than one type of Time Capsule is activated simultaneously, nor do they have to add programming to prevent that from happening at all.

No clue wtf "Versus" mode is going to be.

Risk and reward - multiple difficulty levels in Arcade Mode with deep scoring and hidden rank system for the more experienced players

but... the rank bar is right there on the screen! Unless this means they're going to hide it for EX?


A bit disappointed that it seems nothing about the core design will be changed, not even via an optional new mode, but I wasn't really expecting it anyways.

[Doctor Butler]

Why, though?

[BIL]

"Hey baby, wanna play hide the rank bar?"

(Beats playing a credit of Sine Mora!)

[Mischief Maker]

Just came out on gog today.

Out of perverse curiosity, did they manage to fix any of the major problems with this ex version?

[Tokyo-J]

Still waiting on my PS4 version to ship from Amazon. Still no date on the Switch version.

[Kollision]

Original Sine Mora made me afraid of pianos.
No pianos would be nice.

[OmKol]

Original Sine Mora made me afraid of pianos.
No pianos would be nice.

Just checked achievements conditions - encounter piano still exists lol
Okay, now you can slow your ship, play this game in 16:9 mode which is just cropped left and right side of game area and also there is a challenges.

[Doctor Butler]

Original Sine Mora made me afraid of pianos.
No pianos would be nice.

Just checked achievements conditions - encounter piano still exists lol
Okay, now you can slow your ship, play this game in 16:9 mode which is just cropped left and right side of game area and also there is a challenges.

Is that all they changed?

[PepsimanVsJoe]

I did a quick play-through (Got EX for free since I already own Sine Mora on Steam).

Still not feeling it.
Nothing ever seems to click.

Even though the ships have small hit-boxes, apparently they only apply to bullets. It seems like I can't even so much as scratch a wall without taking damage.

[Tokyo-J]

PS4 version should be here today a week late. Ordered for a friend. Plan on getting it for Switch if it ever ships...

[Kollision]

Of all things that Sine Mora has that brings it down, I would definitely be sold on a new, vibrant soundtrack to match the great art design.

[Magma Dragoon]

So I download and installed this, but for whatever reason the game's UI and subtitles all defaulted to Portuguese. I didn't find any option to change the language either on the game or in the game's files. Does anyone know how can I cahnge the game's language?

[xxx1993]

Is the Switch version already out?

[Tokyo-J]

Is the Switch version already out?

No not yet. No date.

[xxx1993]

Amazon says it'll come out by December 31st... I can't wait that long. I hope that's not true.

[Despatche]

Fucking boo. Oh well. We have Nex Machina now, so Sine Mora is i r r e l e v a n t.

[BrianC]

Amazon says it'll come out by December 31st... I can't wait that long. I hope that's not true.

Placeholder. Common practice for Amazon.

[Skykid]

Amazon says it'll come out by December 31st... I can't wait that long.

Confirmed for troll. Ban plz.

[Weak Boson]

I gave my free EX upgrade a whirl just to see if a fresh pair of eyes could help me look past the game's faults and enjoy some of the things it did right without getting hung up on its faults.

NOPE

I jumped into arcade mode and everything just felt so jarring and wrong. When the first popcorn enemy didn't die in one hit I checked to see if autofire was still exploitable and yep that's not fixed. I think they made the game easier because iirc I got further than I normally did. Whether that was just because it was now easier to recover power ups upon getting hit or if things just die quicker, or if it was actually a different mode, I don't know. Don't care, because I still felt excruciatingly under powered and completely unmotivated to risk dodging any of the surprise bullet farts the game likes to throw at you. Very bad second first impressions.

Maybe playing through the story mode was a good acclimatization the first time around. Presumably that's still OK. It's important to remember that this is primarily a game about time travelling cats and genocide.

[Despatche]

Super Galaxy Squadron and Sine Mora... someone free us from this tyranny. Nex Machina and Tempest 4000 are our chosen ones, I guess.

[CStarFlare]

Vienna/Austria, September 13, 2017: That's the thing with time travel: You can be in the same place at the same or at different times. We've chosen the latter for Sine Mora EX. The extended version of the critically acclaimed original Sine Mora arrives on Nintendo Switch™ in the United States on September 26th and on October 10th in the rest of the world.It's America first, after all.