Quick Look: The Blue Flamingo

*puts on nonexistent flight club shirt*

Way into shooters, but this one.. I don't know.

No Flight Club?

I REALLY like the music in this. When Brad said this is from the developers who made Pid, it all made sense why I like the music so much.

Tally-ho!

That framerate looks awful though.

This looks pretty neat. Love the art.

looks like shit!

This looks boring as hell. Slow shots, sparse enemy placement, and stale, motionless environments. The only thing I like about this is the explosion effects. Funny how the Raiden games were high energy and exciting 20 years ago, and this just looks like a nap-inducing slog.

whats up with all this spam on this QL?

I keep seeing a flying leg when I glance at the picture for this video. Disappointed it wasn't real

Just before I saw the duffel bag full of $9600 in cash, I accept that @butteredtoast was like they say actually bringing home money parttime robbing liquor stores. There aunts neighbour haz done this 4 less than fifteen months and a short time ago fully covered her meth habit and got a brand new Impala. look at this web-site...............WWW.GiantBomb.com

Oh you got me. I just about flagged you!

Non Japanese really still don't understand SHMUPs...

The money/score counter is driving me crazy. Numbers simply don't work like that. Maybe I'm supposed to pretend that the decimal point isn't there?

Seems more like a proof of concept. Would be cool to see a more fully realized, more detailed version.

Reminds me of public domain Amiga shooters, or DMA's Blood Money. Pretty, but also slow and bland.

Disclaimer: Number of games I've ever made=0 so I'm sure this took some effort but it almost seems like it could be frog fractions 2, like any second now it will be... more?

The found objects scenery and design is really cool but the game doesn't look all that hot.

That looks really nice. And bloody creative! I feel like the music is great with the art style.

Since it was mentioned and I ended up looking it up. Here is that 60 minutes piece on Mandy Patinkin. http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mandy-patinkin/ 13 minutes

This looks pretty boring... Even in the DOS days shooters were more interesting. Personally I prefer it when they have terrain like R-Type or Gradius.

The construction gimmick got them attention, the gameplay doesn't seem to hold up though.

And while we're at it I might as well harp on about Revolver and how that didn't get a single review on Metacritic.

This looks interesting at least!

Bullet hell is difficult like Dark Souls is difficult, people constantly talk about how hard they are and inflate everyones idea of their difficulty when they are not that bad. I mean @brad is a big Geometry Wars fan, bullet hell games in general are not harder than that.

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony disagrees.

@baconhound: Yeah, not sure why they have decimal point there during the level. At the end of level results screen, it's gone and just says $2350 or whatever.

I like the art style and concept but this feels like a free flash game...

This really looks like an art project first and foremost and then they half-assed the actual game part.

This seems interesting, but its like the same enemy patterns the entire quick look?

@theimmortalbum: lol, what is up with today and like fifty spam comments on all of the new QL's? I feel now that I should start spamming for giantbomb on other websites.

I like the art style, but as a shmup this looks terribly slow and boring.

Yuck....

On the surface, doesn't seem like much. But there's some cool stuff going on. And the model stuff really is nice.

So this is how shoot 'em ups could look like today... even older ones like Raystorm is more interesting. Well, for the small price I guess this is worth it. It's still just a slow shoot 'em up.

(Yeah, I hate the "shmup" word. Sounds way too close to "schmuck" you know... "shoot 'em up" sounds a lot cooler in my ears. Don't know where "shmup" came from... sounds stupid.)

The video won't go past about 5:30 for me.

Incorrect.

I love that the floor of the hangar in the start menu is made of floppy disks.

Totally not sold on the musical choice, though.

Was this some kids Klik & Play project or something? This looks terrible.

It's lacking... something. A little flare. Maybe some more impactful sound effects for the guns. I know there's the stylistic aspect... but at a certain point you need to make the game fun, too. Looks alright. Visually, it looks fantastic.

Cool to see modeling for the sprites, which I'm sure cost them a bunch of time and money, but the actual part where it's a game looks pretty bad. $5 is cheap relative to the cost of other games, but it's more than you should probably pay for how bad the gameplay is (if this QL represents the difficulty curve). I could probably go search flash games for an hour and find 10 better shoot em ups.

Again, it's cool that they made it, and I'm sure they're super proud of how their modeling work turned out, but it seems more like a labor of love than anything.

I love Might and Delights style, Pid was my favorite game to come out in 2012, such a shame pretty much no one played it

The "photographed images as backgrounds" is giving me a series flashback to the old "Firefox" laserdisc shooter.

this reminds me alot of Raptor.

The models they used make the game look nice. Gameplay seems a little dull.

Like others said, the art style is striking but as someone who loved a good shmup, this looks incredibly boring and slow.

I'm hyped for Shelter 2, but I've got too many games on my plate now to check a $5 novelty that granted looks incredible. I hope they QL The Marvellous Miss Take because I've been loving that right now.