I couldn’t really tell you what the World-Egg is, but I do know it needs to be destroyed. There’s a lot I don’t know about the world of Birdcage actually. What I do know is that it’s one of the best-looking, best-sounding games I’ve played this year, and that despite being pretty terrible at it, I can’t get enough of its intense sci-fi action.
Birdcage is a bullet hell shooter that somehow manages to feel like a lost PlayStation classic and like something brand-new at the same time. Bullet hell games, for the unfamiliar, can seem extremely unapproachable. A subgenre of space shooter that includes games like the classic Ikaruga, bull hell games fill the screen with projectiles to dodge, forcing you into a near-trance to avoid them all while firing back at your enemies. I’ve historically had a tough time getting too into bullet hell games, where missing one dodge out of a thousand can mean game over, but Birdcage has me totally captivated.
