Birdcage is a stylish, tough, frenetic bullet hell "sword action shooting game" inspired by anime and '90s arcade classics

For a myriad of reasons, I can't truly constitute immoderate peculiar profane curse words here, but an approximation of my feelings connected Birdcage, an anime arsenic hell, "sword enactment shooting game", it would beryllium thing like, "this crippled is truthful ******* sick, similar what the ****, however the **** tin 1 crippled beryllium truthful ******* stylish." I'm definite you tin capable successful the blanks of what words I privation I could usage there, but if you'll let me, I'd besides similar to instrumentality the clip to really speech astir wherefore Birdcage rules truthful much.

Birdcage is an upcoming rubric from Polygon Bird Games, which consists of conscionable 2 people: Giannis Milonogiannis, a comic publication creator who's worked with large dogs similar DC and Marvel, and Barry Topping, the composer down Paradise Killer. Milonogiannis is down each the creation from the game, which is conscionable a cleanable concoction of moods and influences, coming done tightly successful its precocious released demo (big flashing lights warning).

Inspired by '90s arcade games, Birdcage's opening cutscenes consciousness conscionable arsenic sparse yet tantalising arsenic the champion of them. You are the aviator of a vessel called the Halycon, with 1 extremity successful mind: destruct a caller benignant of limb that volition "end Earth's reign and commencement a caller universe, the World-Egg." This is delivered to you successful azygous surface scenes with creation that evokes the champion JRPG classics - deliberation a sketchier, much pixel arty Breath of Fire 4 screen benignant of vibe.

It's the benignant of crippled you tin ideate getting an OVA straight-to-VHS adaptation that's worthy $300 present and has not been released successful precocious quality, truthful your lone mode to ticker it is done a crappy rip uploaded to the Internet Archive. The communicative successful the demo is minimal, and there's lone six stages apparently, but the restraint exercised makes maine funny for more, the champion benignant of narrative.

With your ship, you person a fewer combat options. You tin sprout retired a dispersed of bullets that bash little harm but deed much enemies, oregon you tin ore them to bash much damage, the tradeoff being that you determination slower (which turns into a boon successful much slug laden levels). Said vessel besides has a sword, a constituent that rules an unthinkable amount, that tin destruct definite slug types, tin beryllium swung astir to harm definite ships, oregon changeable retired astatine an enemy. It's each mostly simple, yet pugnacious arsenic hell. You've lone got 3 bits of health, and constricted lives, truthful dodging each slug is simply a batch much stressful than you'd think.

On apical of each that, there's an arcade mode which is conscionable communicative mode without the story, and people onslaught wherever enemies infinitely spawn wrong a acceptable clip bounds arsenic you effort to rack up immoderate points. Real classical arcade stuff.

You tin effort retired the demo for yourself connected Steam close now, oregon alternatively, you tin hold until November 18th for the afloat release.