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, shall 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 components of one thing like Lemmings to create a singular expertise.
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 means of every degree, your pilgrims will observe alongside on the bottom. Your purpose just isn’t solely to achieve the tip of the extent and defeat the boss, however to maintain as many pilgrims as potential secure alongside the way in which. Oftentimes merely dodging enemy fireplace gained’t be sufficient, as something that makes it previous you has a great likelihood of hitting your pilgrims. For every menace you neutralize, be it enemies or projectiles, your pilgrims will drop hearts. As you choose up hearts your love meter will fill, which can be utilized to improve your skills or present a brief protect to your pilgrims. A single hit will kill your pilgrims otherwise you. A pilgrim dying means fewer hearts being dropped so that you can choose up. Should you 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.
Floating Cloud God just isn’t a forgiving recreation, and a few bosses can put up an actual problem. Oddly, the second boss specifically is likely one of the tougher 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, creative, and sometimes make distinctive use of your restricted skills. At any time you too can rewind again to a earlier degree to try to clear it with extra pilgrims, probably providing you with extra assets on later phases.
The transition to Swap is usually easy. Floating Cloud God’s clear, daring artwork was initially designed for handheld play, however holds up nice on a TV as effectively. I did discover some gentle efficiency hiccups in later phases should you managed to get a full celebration of pilgrims dropping a complete bunch of hearts as a barrage of enemy fireplace got here flying in. It wasn’t frequent, however it was noticeable when it did occur. Total, Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Version is a good model of an awesome recreation. Whereas a considerably harsh preliminary issue curve could scare off some, it’s price pushing by means of for some satisfying boss fights, and for the nice of all these tiny pilgrims.
