MMOHut, "Valkyrie Sky is an incredibly unique 3D horizontal "shoot em' up" style MMO with many MMORPG elements. It resembles classical arcade games like R-Type, Robotron 2084 and Scramble, but for those unfamiliar with the niche genre, 'Shoot em' up' games are extremely straight forward – players have to reach the end of each stage while defeating waves and waves on enemies and at the same time dodging their bullet fire. The player in most of these classical arcade games is almost always a lone gunship against hordes of enemy aircraft..."
Bright Hub writes "The first free-to-play, arcade-style, vertical scrolling MMO to hit the market is Game Kiss' Valkyrie Sky. It's an interesting concept that gets hampered down with a few persistent flaws."
Valkyrie Sky is pretty much what happens when you introduce the MMORPG genre to something as alien as the SHMUP style. In Valkyrie Sky, players can choose between four unique character classes (these classes can then sub-specialize into four+ additional subclasses like Knights, Warriors, Protectors, etc), to smash through levels and bosses in a SHMUP style of gameplay. What makes Valkyrie Sky so unique, however, is that the world players enter is meant to support an MMO community, and you can play with up to four players in PvP (odd, yes) or to tackle more difficult dungeons.
The exciting new MMO Valkyrie Sky, due for release in Korea this year, has had its closed beta extended due to the huge amount of attention it got from the testers during the short CBT last week.
The game merges two game genres, the traditional MMO like WoW, and a scrolling shooter. A demo of Valkyrie Sky can be seen at Incgamers.
This actually does look very good, what a shame we won't see it in the west. Maybe if it's a hit we will..
I'm not sure who came up with the idea of a scrolling shooter MMO, but it's one of those ideas that I suspect will just *work*. Sort of like many obscene examples I won't trouble you lovely people with.
