Having initially launched on PSP ten years in the past, Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims arrives on Swap through the Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Version. Its developer, Dakko Dakko, will likely be most acquainted to Nintendo followers through their notable Wii U eShop launch, Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails. Floating Cloud God combines a horizontal shooter with parts of one thing like Lemmings to create a novel expertise.
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You play because the titular Floating Cloud God and should defend your loyal worshipers as they set off on a pilgrimage to reclaim their stolen statue in your likeness from evil demons. As you fly by every degree, your pilgrims will comply with alongside on the bottom. Your aim just isn’t solely to succeed in the tip of the extent and defeat the boss, however to maintain as many pilgrims as potential protected alongside the way in which. Oftentimes merely dodging enemy fireplace gained’t be sufficient, as something that makes it previous you has an excellent likelihood of hitting your pilgrims. For every menace you neutralize, be it enemies or projectiles, your pilgrims will drop hearts. As you decide up hearts your love meter will fill, which can be utilized to improve your talents or present a brief defend to your pilgrims. A single hit will kill your pilgrims otherwise you. A pilgrim dying means fewer hearts being dropped so that you can decide up. When you die, your upgraded talents lose a degree. Pilgrims additionally carry over from one degree to a different, so scraping by on the finish of a degree will typically go away you in a tough spot for the following one.
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Floating Cloud God just isn’t a forgiving recreation, and a few bosses can put up an actual problem. Oddly, the second boss particularly is among the harder within the recreation. It isn’t that he has a tough assault sample, merely that his window of vulnerability is brief and all the time in movement. When you make it previous him, nonetheless, the remainder of the bosses are enjoyable, ingenious, and sometimes make distinctive use of your restricted talents. At any time you may as well rewind again to a earlier degree to aim to clear it with extra pilgrims, probably providing you with extra sources on later phases.
The transition to Swap is generally clean. Floating Cloud God’s clear, daring artwork was initially designed for handheld play, however holds up nice on a TV as properly. I did discover some gentle efficiency hiccups in later phases if you happen to managed to get a full occasion of pilgrims dropping a complete bunch of hearts as a barrage of enemy fireplace got here flying in. It wasn’t frequent, but it surely was noticeable when it did occur. General, Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Version is a good model of an ideal recreation. Whereas a considerably harsh preliminary issue curve could scare off some, it’s price pushing by for some pleasing boss fights, and for the nice of all these tiny pilgrims.