Ever since Super Mario World introduced us to a Mario with a cape, I’ve had a fascination for game mechanics that allow you to glide. Nothing has quite captured what Nintendo accomplished so long ago, but The King’s Bird took me right back to those SNES days of old. This is a speedrunning platformer based on gliding around the environment where a solid grasp of momentum and timing is the key to success.
While I don’t have any idea what the basis for the story is or its specific art direction, The King’s Bird is incredibly fun to control. This is a relatively simple platformer that sort of adapts what Super Meat Boy did years ago. You can wall jump, slide up walls, and sprint before jumping and gliding to your destination. The big change here is pinpoint precision isn’t as necessary as in Team Meat’s masochistic masterpiece.
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