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COMPLETE: BirdGut
Apr. 13th, 2020 09:58 pmSaw this in a Steam queue, it was free and looked neat, and it was. The trailer caught our eye because of the gratuitous use of Fever the Ghost, which is not in the actual game, but... you know what, sure, the actual game is quirky enough in its own right that I'll allow it.
BirdGut is an odd action-platformer with a neat visual style. You are a bee that... didn't quite come out right. Literally tossed out of the hive at birth after the caretaker drones have a brief "What happened to that one?" "I don't know but get rid of it before the queen sees" exchange, you find yourself eaten by a bird, whose insides happen to be filled with a Super Meat Boy-esque industrial buzzsaw factory, brainwashed enemy guards, a secret underground resistance group, and things like that. Look, this game is kind of weird.
The action platforming is challenging but doable, the writing and dialogue are delightfully quirky, and the visual style is effective and memorable. The bugs who don't have a... disorder... look nice and buggy, (and yes, some of them are definitely would in my eyes.) There's a really cool boss fight I had a lot of fun with. This game knows the exact kind of aesthetic it wants to hit, and it hits it well.
There's a level that's an actual labyrinth, and that was... not great, especially because one of the nine secret collectible secrets is in there (how dare you.) Still, the rest of the game makes up for it. I'd have paid for this and felt like it was a good quality game that deserved the price, but for free? Highly recommended.
BirdGut is an odd action-platformer with a neat visual style. You are a bee that... didn't quite come out right. Literally tossed out of the hive at birth after the caretaker drones have a brief "What happened to that one?" "I don't know but get rid of it before the queen sees" exchange, you find yourself eaten by a bird, whose insides happen to be filled with a Super Meat Boy-esque industrial buzzsaw factory, brainwashed enemy guards, a secret underground resistance group, and things like that. Look, this game is kind of weird.
The action platforming is challenging but doable, the writing and dialogue are delightfully quirky, and the visual style is effective and memorable. The bugs who don't have a... disorder... look nice and buggy, (and yes, some of them are definitely would in my eyes.) There's a really cool boss fight I had a lot of fun with. This game knows the exact kind of aesthetic it wants to hit, and it hits it well.
There's a level that's an actual labyrinth, and that was... not great, especially because one of the nine secret collectible secrets is in there (how dare you.) Still, the rest of the game makes up for it. I'd have paid for this and felt like it was a good quality game that deserved the price, but for free? Highly recommended.