Skyfire Embers

Quite nice; while the game lacks any sort of popcorn enemies, it has two full stages with several bullet herding challenges that are quite interesting. The first boss is particularly fun with its scary wavy fire bullets. Some criticism: The player has access to a straight, wide and homing shot, the latter of which has a weak RoF but is useful in optimizing damage as one approaches enemies - it feels a little luke-warm to use on its own. Some of the menus don't seem to work properly, so you'll have to get around the student project jank there, but it's worth it.

Skyfire Embers is a pretty cool looking game, It feels similar to Cuphead in artstyle, music and gameplay but something about just isn't super interesting to me. Still a decent game overall but I feel that it leaves much to be desired. Mechanics are.. fine, nothing to crazy and nothing to bad either. Overall the game just felt boring and not super interesting for long periods of time. Art : 8/10 Gameplay : 5/10 Fun Factor 2/10 Overall 5/10