CYGNI All Guns Blazing Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · August 20, 2024

CYGNI All Guns Blazing Review, An unrelenting onslaught of eye-popping visuals, ear-bursting soundscapes, and mind-melting action makes CYGNI the vanguard for the next generation of shoot-em-ups. Outgunned, outmanned, and out on your own, plunge into a sky full of hell in a last-ditch battle for survival.

CYGNI All Guns Blazing Review Pros:

Stunning graphics.
21.04GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Own in-game achievements called badges.
Graphics settings – gamma slider, subtitles, and subtitles size.
Controller settings – Invert the axis, and sensitivity sliders, and you can remap the controls and turn off vibration.
Gameplay settings – leaderboards, camera shake, display shield, HUD size, player ship HUD size, and skip movement speed sensitivity.
Shmup gameplay.
You can freely move around the rolling screen.
3 save slots.
Optional tutorial level.
Unlock and rewatch in-game cutscenes.
It plays as a twin stick shooter meaning the left stick moves and the right stick aims.
There are airborne and ground-based enemies to kill.
The tutorial is well presented on an old-school style monitor complete with basic graphics.
You can use the stick and d-pad for movement.
Pick up energy in the game and then apply it to shields or weapon power, you can adjust this on the fly whenever you want.
A homing lock is an easy button press.
Full stats breakdown.
It’s a visual treat.
Difficult gameplay.
The Planetarium lets you select planets and learn about them.
Massive upgrades menu for gun and drone presets, homing missiles, and save them by design.
Three difficulties – Easy, medium, and hard.
Missions can be done solo or in a two-player local co-op.
Puts the hell in bullet hell.
Has mind-blowing sequences and visuals like blowing up a marching army on the ground as you fight alien ships in the sky.
Combo counter.
It’s a game for die-hard veterans of the genre.

CYGNI All Guns Blazing Review Cons:

Very difficult.
A lot to take in even after you have done the tutorials.
The pacing of the game is all over the place, it’s a lot a wave wave-based attacks in a set area and then a slow crawl. Up the level to the next encounter.
Boss fights are just so long and tedious.
A game over is just that, no credits or score is banked at all so if you wipe on the boss or anywhere else then all progress is gone.
No stats are saved when you wipe out and get a game over.
Doesn’t offer a good leaderboard system.
No online con op just local.
Is a hardcore shooter and with that casuals will really struggle.
No aids or assists for new players or those who lack the skills.

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