Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Edition Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Edition Switch NSP Free Download Romslab Having originally released on PSP ten years ago, Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims arrives on Switch via the Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Edition. Its developer, Dakko Dakko, will be most familiar to Nintendo fans via their notable Wii U eShop release, Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails. Floating Cloud God combines a horizontal shooter with elements of something like Lemmings to create a unique experience. You play as the titular Floating Cloud God and must 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 through each level, your pilgrims will follow along on the ground.  ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

Floating Cloud God Anniversary Edition Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Your goal is not only to reach the end of the level and defeat the boss, but to keep as many pilgrims as possible safe along the way. Oftentimes simply dodging enemy fire won’t be enough, as anything that makes it past you has a good chance of hitting your pilgrims. For each threat you neutralize, be it enemies or projectiles, your pilgrims will drop hearts. As you pick up hearts your love meter will fill, which can be used to upgrade your abilities or provide a temporary shield to your pilgrims. A single hit will kill your pilgrims or you. A pilgrim dying means fewer hearts being dropped for you to pick up. If you die, your upgraded abilities lose a level.

You can even turn love into Cloud Cover, to shield your worshippers when they are in danger!

Pilgrims also carry over from one level to another, so scraping by at the end of a level will often leave you in a rough spot for the next one. Floating Cloud God is not a forgiving game, and some bosses can put up a real challenge. Oddly, the second boss in particular is one of the more difficult in the game. It isn’t that he has a difficult attack pattern, merely that his window of vulnerability is short and always in motion. You can make him more vulnerable but realizing exactly how to do that isn’t immediately obvious. Once you make it past him, however, the rest of the bosses are fun, inventive, and often make unique use of your limited abilities. No More Heroes 3 Switch NSP

Floating Cloud God Anniversary Edition Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

At any time you can also rewind back to a previous level to attempt to clear it with more pilgrims, potentially giving you more resources on later stages. The transition to Switch is mostly smooth. Floating Cloud God’s clean, bold art was originally designed for handheld play, but holds up great on a TV as well. I did notice some mild performance hiccups in later stages if you managed to get a full party of pilgrims dropping a whole bunch of hearts as a barrage of enemy fire came flying in. It wasn’t common, but it was noticeable when it did happen. Overall, Floating Cloud God: Anniversary Edition is a great version of a great game.

Get as many followers as you can through seven treacherous (but beautiful) stages,

Take down the deadly bosses guarding each goal, and help the Pilgrims reach their stolen statue! While a somewhat harsh initial difficulty curve may scare off some, it is worth pushing through for some enjoyable boss fights, and for the good of all those tiny pilgrims.  You get lots of things if you’re a cloud god. Your very own personal, environmentally friendly air transportation, the power to smite the mightiest of demons with only the tips of your fingers and the undying devotion of as many little old men as you like. It’s not all lounging on beds of water vapour and gobbling grapes, though.

Floating Cloud God Anniversary Edition Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims catches the titular deity in a particularly turbulent year as his followers decide to go on a big trek, and what kind of god would he be if he let them trot off into the mouths and claws of any old heinous hell-beings alone? Thus you take control of the almighty cloud-dweller in a horizontal shoot ’em up that mixes in a bit of divine strategy. The goal is simply to reach the gate at the end of each right-scrolling stage. The catch is, it’s not just you that needs to get there. Beneath you struts a line of pilgrims that must be guarded at all odds from the swarms that approach from the right, using only right- and downward-moving projectiles – and your own body. No Place for Bravery Switch NSP 

Playing as Floating Cloud God, protect your followers to earn their love

Your own shots just knock their hats off, but getting hit by anything else will kill a pilgrim and send their spirit floating off with a sad little wail. This is bad not only because the pilgrims are a de facto health bar (losing them all ends the game) but powering up Cloud God depends on harvesting their love – juicy little hearts that pop up whenever you kill an enemy and increase in size as you blast more. These hearts are an elegant and devilish tool. Chaining enemy kills pumps them up and up, but they’ll disappear relatively quickly if things go quiet. The game becomes about positioning Cloud God far enough away to blast through groups without sacrificing the pilgrims’ safety.

Floating Cloud God Anniversary Edition Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Cultivating bigger and bigger hearts with ever-longer chains, then gobbling them all up at once and unleashing god’s own fiery wrath on a bewildered mid-boss. Sometimes you’ll get hit and lose them all. Sometimes you’ll try to string things too far and they’ll vanish. And sometimes a dirty enemy picks off a pilgrim while you’re doing other things. They’re good at that. The Cloud God’s powers and the heart system mesh so well that any enemy can be destroyed in a blink – so they’ve got to be deceptive, sneaky, and sometimes numerous. Paper lanterns send out an arcing flame on death, red-eyed foxes hide in the scenery, imps swoop to carry off unlucky pilgrims and bobbing doll heads send out swarms of kisses.  Noel the Mortal Fate Switch NSP

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