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“Marion” the little great wizard in the steampunk world.
The masterpiece of the “Psikyo Shooting”!
GUNBIRD is a vertical-scrolling shooter game that first appeared in arcades in 1994.
A comical story about the “magical mirror” that makes wishes come true.
You can see the dialogue demos that unfold during the intermission and when the boss appears,
and the dialogue between the characters that changes when the 2 players mode.
You can set the difficulty level, life, number of continues,
controls, screen orientation, and more.
In addition, now we have online rankings!
Be the world’s best GUNBIRD!
Characters:
- You like it, don’t you? – “Marion” The Little Great Wizard
- One strike, one kill, one rocket punch! – “Barnas” The Flying Robot Warrior
- The offensive and defensive ruyi stick! – “Yang Nyan” The Chinese Magician Girl
- Power is No. 1! – “Tetsu “The Lovely Carpenter
- Speed is No. 1! – “Ash” The Sky Explorer
Planes:
- Power up with “P” items, with sub-weapons also added.
- Get bombs with the “B” item to wipe out enemy bullets and evade your foes!
- Unleash the charge shot to take down your enemies!
Arcade mode:
- 7 levels of difficulty can be selected for beginners.
- Now players can really test out their skills with a “HARD” and “VERY HARD” mode. We’re looking for recruits who are up for the test.
- Local rankings will support all difficulty levels and your own planes.
Options:
- The vertical screen mode that allows you to play in arcade style like back in the day.
- Select the screen filter from the normal +2 version.
- You can set the number of lives from 1 to 9 and the number of continues from 0 to unlimited.
- Assign “Shot”, “Auto Shot” and “Bomb” in the key configuration.
- The vertical screen mode can be operated in the horizontal mode as well! Now enjoy a completely different gameplay.
Score Attack:
- This is a new feature that has a very severe mode with a fixed difficulty level and number of lives.
- Compete in high scores and score attacks against players from all over the world!
- Online rankings can be viewed from the options menu.
- 7 levels of difficulty can be selected for beginners.
- Now players can really test out their skills with a “HARD” and “VERY HARD” mode. We’re looking for recruits who are up for the test.
- Local rankings will support all difficulty levels and your own planes.
Options:
- The vertical screen mode that allows you to play in arcade style like back in the day.
- Select the screen filter from the normal +2 version.
- You can set the number of lives from 1 to 9 and the number of continues from 0 to unlimited.
- Assign “Shot”, “Auto Shot” and “Bomb” in the key configuration.
- The vertical screen mode can be operated in the horizontal mode as well! Now enjoy a completely different gameplay.
Score Attack:
- This is a new feature that has a very severe mode with a fixed difficulty level and number of lives.
- Compete in high scores and score attacks against players from all over the world!
- Online rankings can be viewed from the options menu.
- The vertical screen mode that allows you to play in arcade style like back in the day.
- Select the screen filter from the normal +2 version.
- You can set the number of lives from 1 to 9 and the number of continues from 0 to unlimited.
- Assign “Shot”, “Auto Shot” and “Bomb” in the key configuration.
- The vertical screen mode can be operated in the horizontal mode as well! Now enjoy a completely different gameplay.
Score Attack:
- This is a new feature that has a very severe mode with a fixed difficulty level and number of lives.
- Compete in high scores and score attacks against players from all over the world!
- Online rankings can be viewed from the options menu.
- This is a new feature that has a very severe mode with a fixed difficulty level and number of lives.
- Compete in high scores and score attacks against players from all over the world!
- Online rankings can be viewed from the options menu.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
Excellent arcade to Steam conversion.
Good menus, sound, performance, adjustable controller settings etc. It's all here.
Thoroughly recommended!
Steam User 1
(Ignore my time played, i have this game on multiple systems)
Everyone who likes shmups/shooters owes it to themselves to play the Psikyo games (the Strikers series, Gunbird series, and Samurai Aces series). It seems like Toaplan (who i also love) is usually considered the best developer when it comes to shmups, but i think Psikyo was every bit as good and deserves to be mentioned alongside them as the best of the best. The Psikyo ports by City Connection are very good.... except on the Switch, unfortunately, where they are basically unplayable due to input lag. But you're not reading this on Switch, so who cares! The PC port is great.
Anyway... this game rules, as do all of the others mentioned above. Love the Psikyo shmups.
Steam User 1
Gunbird is one of the classic Touhou-style franchises
A great game to have fun, complete, get platinum, break records and relax!
If you're a fan of this style of game, give Gunbird a chance!
Steam User 1
HUUUUGE fan of GUNBIRD, don't let my on record playtime fool you.
Switched over from emulating the PAL version of GUNBIRD Special Edition on PS2 in 60hz mode for the achievements + to support the devs bc I like it *that* much, and that's a high bar coming from someone like me who is already a (self-proclaimed) fairly big fan of STGs, and niche ones at that. Knowing this is a *very* good port going into it helps too though, lol
An enjoyable soundtrack, gorgeous backgrounds and spritework, and an addicting learning curve to charge shot optimization (you stop firing and they take literal seconds to charge, can you hold out long enough to pull it off? When should you even charge? How long do you wait to release it once it's ready?), along with a visually striking cast keep GUNBIRD prominently at the front of my mind when I'm itching for a shoot em up.
This port also has a very nice and clean widescreen UI, which I appreciate. Would like to get a vertical monitor setup some day, but until then I'm a big fan of the addition, especially the extra overlay for your keybinds which I haven't seen before, because I *will* forget them during extended breaks from the game, lol
tldr: excellent shmup and one of my favs, excellent port for its asking price (but I was lucky enough to receive my copy as a gift). Definitely consider picking it up even if it isn't on sale (currently -66% at the time of writing)
Steam User 0
Very nice and simple port. It respects sound, graphics and mechanics of the original game. My initial concern was the input lag, but I'm glad to say it has absolutely none that I can notice, at least. Nice price too.
Steam User 0
Game gave me existential crisis.
Apparently my skill in shmup is just like that of a monke.
Dev thinks i'm just a monke.
I'm having a hard time sleeping because of this.
Steam User 0
Great version of a classic.