Feb 12, 2019. The story sets an intriguing mood that the rest of the game fails to live up to.There are moments of unfettered joy in A King’s Bird. For instance, you can wall climb using your boost, or, gain a fairly moderate long jump through holding RT and pressing the A button. Her hopes are caged by a … Rinse, and repeat.The King’s Bird is an utterly challenging platformer that’s perhaps, oftentimes, more frustrating than it needs to be. Instead you’ll probably be cursing as the screen as you miss the same platform for the tenth consecutive attempt. Soon after, the boy stumbles upon a temple that bestows him with magical abilities. The crux of play sees you making your way from one end of the level to the other, overcoming a wide range of deviously crafted obstacles that sit in your way. All this publication's reviews. The King’s Bird Review Mark Sherwood February 12, 2019 The King’s Bird is a tough nut to crack. This is further evident by the fact that the boy’s village appears to be encased in the cage from his dreams.Upon trying to interact with the cage, a large angelic-like being appears and demands that the boy leaves.
The game’s soundtrack is wonderfully mellow and never becomes tiresome.
It wants to be two games. The game’s balance is second to none, constantly forcing you to adjust to a growing variety of new mechanics.
The moments of flying through a dreamscape and sticking the landing are a true delight, at least.
The King’s Bird should have taken a leaf out of that book, rather than heavily relying on several mixtures of its base mechanics.
There’s something oddly gracious and gratifying about it when you’re gliding and moving through the levels with such delicacy and fluidity. That being said, if you can muster the perseverance and precision to see it through, you’ll find a pleasant, warm, and somewhat endearing adventure buried underneath its convolution.I guess that it feeds you a sense of false security in one way, but in truth, these wildly fluctuating difficulties only hurts the game’s pace.
The King’s Bird is a tightly designed precision platformer whose gameplay loop consists of retrying the same frustrating areas until reaching the satisfaction of conquering them. There’s a small boost that you can utilize through the use of RT, and outside of that, you can cling onto ceilings via LT. Dynamic background music and sounds that change based on your movements. Everything's communicated through music and animation, like a surreal operatic fairy tale brought to life.
Even just running across a smooth plateau is pleasant because the surreal architecture is so pleasing to look at.The King's Bird is a momentum-based precision-platformer that seamlessly combines parkour with aerial movement.A King’s Bird is a platformer that hinges on maintaining your momentum to overcome the many hurdles that stand between you and the exit. You’ll oftentimes find yourselves doing this several times in each level. With that being said, accuracy is your greatest ally here. As you glide through tight corridors or shinny up a long passageway to the heavens, the freedom of no longer being shackled by gravity takes hold. The game’s levels, although far from lengthy, are served as a cluster of dangers. I cant quite say that the game has a fair difficulty curve. A King’s Bird has a zoomed out view that makes your character appear small even on large screens, and this is great in the early going because it lets you see the obstacles that lay before you. There are, of course, obstacles more dangerous than mere pillars. Furthermore, the game often stutters during the moments when you’re flying the fastest, and those slight hiccups usually mean an unceremonious death.The game isn’t helped by the collectible little birds that hover around each level waiting to be nabbed. Gliding at top speeds through holes in pillars and across bottomless pits is fun if there is plenty of space between you and death, but as the walls close tighter around you, that fun begins to dissipate. There’s no enemies present, well, not if you’re not counting brambles – which will most likely take your life when gravity, water, and death-drops, give you a small rest.I say this because in order to progress to the next area of the temple, you’ll need to have nuked however many levels are required to dive further in.
One interesting quirk about The King's Bird is how the story develops.