Sine Mora

IGNDaemon Hatfield

9/10

It's time for a new 2D shooter. Everything fans expect is here in Sine Mora (giant bosses, flashy explosions, serious challenge), but the entertaining time mechanic should prove a welcome surprise. It tweaks the recipe just enough to create an uncommon shooter. The visuals set a new standard for the genre, providing sights heretofore unseen in an arcade shoot 'em up. With a relatively manageable Story Mode and a ridiculously difficult Arcade Mode, pilots of all skill levels should check out Sine Mora.

Push SquareAsher Asghar

9/10

The side-scrolling shooter genre, so prominent in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, gradually began its demise with the advent of 3D. The newfangled technology rendered the format passé, before refining its DNA into its spiritual successor, the first-person shooter. Those forerunners, however, tested lightning reflexes and memory skills, offering supreme playability across a variety of titles: Sanxion, Salamander, Raiden, Xenon II: Megablast, Axelay, Ikaruga, Panzer Dragoon Orta, and, now, a bona fide candidate for the best of modern times, Sine Mora. Indeed, the PlayStation Vita game is in esteemed ...

Worth PlayingBrian Dumlao

9/10

Sine Mora is diesel-punk shoot 'em up that provides a unique take on the genre, where time is the ultimate factor.

VideogamerAndrew Kirkcaldy

8/10

Sine Mora strikes a deft balance between madness and shoot-em-up fun.

VGChartzBrent Galietti

7.8/10

Bullet Hell has never been so beautiful.The genre of shoot 'em ups, affectionately known as Bullet Hell, has been pushing gamers to their breaking [...]

But of all Suda’s catalogue, the bullet hell was always going to be the one least likely to succeed. Despite being ported so professionally, and despite looking so good on that iPad retina screen, the genre just doesn’t mesh with the gameplay. Fingers crossed that an update comes once the officially-supported Apple game controllers come.

GameWatcherOmar Khan

0/10

Sine Mora is not only a breath of fresh air from a developmental perspective, adding new ideas to a old, yet ofter over-used genre, but it’s also fun. Few games nowadays manage to look good, play well, and still offer a level of enjoyment on par with games that haven’t existed since the Nintendo 64 era, but Sine Mora manages it. And for 1200 MP on the XBLA, I can’t recommend it enough.