[DonDonDonPata]

CYGNI: All Guns Blazing launches in 2023 for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC

Twin-stick vertical scrolling shoot ’em up CYGNI: All Guns Blazing will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam in 2023, publisher Konami and developer KeelWorks announced.

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Looks incredible with the near-abusive use of lighting effects and detailed maps. I usually keep an eye on new shmups and there's nothing even remotely as cinematic or detailed as CYGNI. This blew my mind. Most shmup devs are going in the opposite direction, sadly, using simple/boring backgrounds.

Anyway, the twin-stick aspect should make it more appealing to the masses, but it's otherwise a traditional vertical scrolling shmup. PS5 / Xbox series / PC only.

For those interested, here's the trailer from 2 years ago. Graphics have drastically improved.

 

[and 3 others]

I didn't hate that!

 

[regawdless]

100% agree with @DonDonDonPata

This genre deserves modern visuals that bring it to the next level. The trend to go old school graphics sucks, make it epic, detailed, let the particles fly, give me them advanced shaders.

Game looks good, will keep an eye on it!

 

[Gold Loot]

That looks pretty cool actually.

Reminds me of one of those early CDrom FMV shooters from back in the day.

 

[DonDonDonPata]

100% agree with @DonDonDonPata

This genre deserves modern visuals that bring it to the next level. The trend to go old school graphics sucks, make it epic, detailed, let the particles fly, give me them advanced shaders.

Game looks good, will keep an eye on it!

Yeah I got strong Housemarque vibes (Nex Machina and Resogun are of course very similar in genre), just pumping the visuals of a simple genre to another level.

Housemarque is more on the cartoony side. Returnal is by far their most realistic game. Everything in NM and Resogun are dripping with particle effects, voxels, etc.

Cygni looks darker, simpler in color palette, more cinematic. I really love the look, especially the dense explosions when a boss goes down, that really caught my eye the first time I saw the trailer. All the movement down below on the map adds so much activity, and apparently this will use RayForce's ground targeting so that's cool.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

I'll be getting that

 

[OuterSpace]

For whatever reason my mind went to the long forgotten Xyanide though this seems to be a full on vert shmup with twin stick aiming. Looks quite appealing and appears to be this devs first game. Hope it's solid.

 

[kiNeMs]

You have my attention Konami

 

[HeresJohnny]

Holy shit fuck I want that.

 

[Chozofication]

That's neat. Like a cinematic shmup.

 

[Eneru]

I'm in.

 

[DESTROYA]

This type of game is my kind of game , fast paced , looks great and a lot of replay value, thanks @DonDonDonPata for this and should be great on the SD

 

[regawdless]

Now all I need is a Star Fox 64 type game, modernized with Unreal Engine 5 raytraced particle filled visuals.

 

[Vyse]

 

[Torrent of Pork]

This looks good, WTF is Konami doing publishing it?

 

[Spiders]

Here's the timestamp of the CYGNI segment from IGN LIVE:

 

[Spiders]

Here's the timestamp of the CYGNI segment from IGN LIVE:

Arcade Mode with online cross-platform leaderboards confirmed.

 

[HeresJohnny]

This game looks so good. Can't wait.

 

[regawdless]

Here's the timestamp of the CYGNI segment from IGN LIVE:

I came a little.

Jk! Was a yuge load.

 

[DonDonDonPata]

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Wow, this completely flew under my radar..
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