Of Bird and Cage Reviews

REALLY GREAT GAME!!! But be warned. You will most likely need to do 2 playtroughs to fully understand this game. but thats not much a problem, as it got multiple endings and such, and lots of tings to do. youre mostly playing the game in real time with the music, so your choises and what you do is really important. Pretty realistic game, about tings that can happen in life. Higly recomend this game, For anyone that likes: + Higly immersive games. + Choices and what you do ACTUALLY play a BIG difference. + Likes Music.

I was interested in this game based on the music alone as a fan of the music genre the artists for the soundtrack do, but that being said, it seems that the music is literally all this has going for it. The graphics are meh at best, the MC's voice acting sounds so flat as if she's uninterested in what she is doing, some of the side actors outshine her in their performance. The timed events are some of the worst I have ever experienced in a timed event game. You barely get enough time to do your "quest", half of the time the quests don't even show up until well into the timer so you're just wandering around aimlessly trying to figure out what to do. When you finally get told what you need to do for the quest, you barely have enough time to even get it done. I have never had this problem before in any choices matter game where I am failing nearly every time event because we're not being told what to do right away. It's like they want us to explore but we're also timed and can't explore everything and just fail. What's the point of there being items we can inspect and an area in a scene we can explore if we're being timed in everything we do? The game also feels a bit lifeless. I'd recommend to get this on sale if you want to experience it yourself, or avoid it entirely because honestly you're not missing out on anything that has already not been touched on in video games. The idea itself behind the game is the only thing it has going for it honestly. Symphonic metal music to a dark choices matter story, how could you not be interested in that alone? Too bad the game is meh.

Hands down, one of the best, most twisted games (in a good way!) I've ever played. A game which as actually a music album experienced as a video game - for a start, is just awesome. The music - one of the best metal albums I've heard. On top of that, there is a really really dark story that gave me the chills at the very beginning of the game. I enjoyed every second of it. It's really more than just a game. It's an experience which I highly recommend everyone \m/

This is one trippy fucking game. It's pretty interesting, I didn't feel like many of my choices really mattered or made any difference so that was a bit frustrating but overall it's a decent game to explore at least. >But hey guys, that's just my opinion !! <

I was excited to try this game based on the "Very Positive" reviews and the different concept, but my experience was completely different. The game was choppy even just walking forward or turning. The character animations are laughable at best. The voice acting, when there is any, is terrible. And the music, the "feature" of this game, is not good at all. I didn't know what I was expecting going into this game, but it certainly wasn't this. Stay away from this game until they redo it from scratch. I bought it on sale and asked for a refund.

Alright, so it pains me to have to say this, but I wouldn't recommend this game. It has absolutely wonderful and great concepts applied, but it falls apart in the dev side. Best way to describe it is it feels like an amazing game concept, but slapped together with all the cheapest or free assets possible to make it come together when you don't have the budget to do the programming yourself. So S-Tier concept, absolute failure in terms of gameplay. Controls are trash, mini game fights are trash, quick time events are somehow 1000% more trash than most quick time events, and I say this as a software developer that for funsies has made basic games whose controls functioned identically to this game. Know how I did it, purchased or installed free assets that other people made and then tweaked it a bit to try smoothing it out. It came out just as bad as this. Should pull out the dumb fights, turn it into more timed choices, basic puzzles, etc. Play to the games and devs strengths here. Sure you won't have as many features to the game, but I would greatly prefer a fully functional simpler game than this buggy crap (bug in this case meaning not ship-able quality). I legit want to see the other story possibilities, but getting through to one ending was a huge trial in patience that I uninstalled it after one play through and will not ever attempt to play it again, not will I watch someone else play it just to see the other endings because that in itself would be painful to watch.

Good story and awesome music get hampered by horrible QTE's and terrible time limit.

The reviews for this game must be fake, it's a bug fest. The voice acting is atrocious, the overall models look like garbage. The music made me wanna burst my own ear drums.

Oh what a mess. Where to start - so, the game is an unmitigated disaster. Graphics - bad. Controls - bad. Gameplay - Huh what? Non-existent, yet also bad. Story? I suppose it's a matter of taste... It's pretty linear. Even though there are meant to be meaningful choices/decisions you mostly end up in the same places. Definitely cheap, nasty and misanthropic in any case. So as a game it's a hard pass. Does it work as a piece of art? A bit more difficult to judge. Some great musicians that I love are involved, but I don't think you'll hear their best work here. Even if you did, the mess of a game would stop you noticing... This is really the worst example of "game as art" I've ever seen. So to everyone, involved, please stop - you suck at this. We'll see you on stage again soon, until then maybe stick to the studio?

This title falls under the "wish there was a neutral button". I played only via Steam Deck, so feed back here for the review is based on my experience playing it this way. First off, the game is labeled as being a verified deck game. This is more or less true, the prologue worked fine with no settings changes. However, getting the actual game to run required forcing it to Proton 5.13-6 compatibility. Some video did not display properly and navigating back to main menu from ends of chapters hung the game requiring forced shut down. The Music score was stellar and fit the themes of the game well as was certainly intended. The game play for me was less than stellar. QTE events run the show here and are quite confusing in some places or out right impossible to get right as you are on a time elapse to complete objectives and use QTE. There isn't much room for exploring an area because of this and you will often fail to accomplish a lot of things. Although failing to do things doesn't lead to any game over or repeat of the chapter to continue, it left me feeling like I missed a large part of the narrative going on. I'm aware that there are multiple endings which I assume I could reach by completing QTE better or managing to beat the clock in some scenes to alter the outcome in the ending. I don't think I'll be doing another play through to be honest as the pressure of beating the clock to find things in overly large areas coupled with QTE system that had a lot of moving parts puts me off from giving it another try. I found the story was adequate for my time spent with it and it is certainly a different type of interactive game that is worth a try. In closing I would say cautiously recommended with the expectation that there will be much trial and error to see all thats on offer here.