AIRANBLADE

Solid shoot em up all around. So glad to see the very clear visual distinction between enemy bullets and pickups. Enemy shots are mostly dark black and the collectibles are gold, easy to see so I don't end up try to grab enemy bullets or avoiding the coins being pulled towards me. Boss patterns are all really good. Changing movement speed is easy and feels good. Would be nice if the weapon upgrades scaled a little higher, feels like you get the power up three times and the weapon is already maxed. The loud crash after defeating a midboss and boss is insanely loud, pipes.mp3, and some other boss sound effects.

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Nice explosions, nice 3d environments, good perception of enemy bullets, I don't think it's a bullet HEeLL, and I don't even like bullet hells lol, but they said it was easy, I'm bad as I am so, I don't think so rsrss. Goood Rom, Do More o//

Airanblade had been languishing on my wishlist for a long time, mostly because I assumed from the art style, very low number of reviews, and low price that it was a janky (maybe Euro-ish) shmup. And the relatively blurry screenshots in the store contributed to that impression. Anyways, it's now Bulletfest, dozens of shmups on my wishlist to choose from, and Airanblade is 70% off so maybe it's finally time. I stumble across a reddit post of the solo dev struggling to drum up interest in the game and it seals the deal. Generosity gets the best of me . . . I can throw $2.69 his way. I load it up and am immediately surprised that the game is extremely POLISHED. Like professional-level polish. Looks great, extremely crisp in 4K (the screenshots way undersold it). Sounds good. Good pacing, patterns, ship movement, shooting. On a basic level, it "feels" better than Sky Force, which it looks almost exactly like. Only bad thing I have to say about it is that the weapons feel slightly underpowered. They max out a few levels before they should. There are no bombs. You don't have homing missiles. You don't have option ships following you around. The basic problem is that your ship should b…

This runs on steamdeck! A good game, if you like raiden. Not so easy. You can change the movement speed while playing, with r1 and l1.

Good shmup with a really nice look to it. I think this and Cloud Cutter are maybe the best scrolling shmups I've bought in the past couple years (though I haven't bought many). Both use 3D graphics and have good atmosphere.