Having initially launched on PSP ten years in the past, Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims arrives on Change by way of the Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Version. Its developer, Dakko Dakko, might be most acquainted to Nintendo followers by way of 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 way of every degree, your pilgrims will comply with alongside on the bottom. Your aim is just not solely to succeed in the top 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 hearth received’t be sufficient, as something that makes it previous you has a very good likelihood of hitting your pilgrims. For every risk 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 skills or present a short lived 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. If you happen to die, your upgraded skills lose a degree. Pilgrims additionally carry over from one degree to a different, so scraping by on the finish of a degree will typically depart you in a tough spot for the subsequent one.
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Floating Cloud God is just not a forgiving recreation, and a few bosses can put up an actual problem. Oddly, the second boss specifically is without doubt one of 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, nevertheless, the remainder of the bosses are enjoyable, ingenious, and sometimes make distinctive use of your restricted skills. At any time you can too rewind again to a earlier degree to try to clear it with extra pilgrims, probably providing you with extra sources on later levels.
The transition to Change is usually easy. Floating Cloud God’s clear, daring artwork was initially designed for handheld play, however holds up nice on a TV as nicely. I did discover some delicate efficiency hiccups in later levels in case you managed to get a full occasion of pilgrims dropping an entire bunch of hearts as a barrage of enemy hearth got here flying in. It wasn’t widespread, nevertheless it was noticeable when it did occur. General, Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Version is a good model of an important recreation. Whereas a considerably harsh preliminary issue curve might scare off some, it’s value pushing by way of for some fulfilling boss fights, and for the nice of all these tiny pilgrims.