The Blue Flamingo

While it is pretty to look at, The Blue Flamingo is rather underwhelming as a game. 1) Control lag and movement inertia. I hope you don't like having fine control over your ship. It makes the game vastly less enjoyable to play as a result. 2) Enemy design is incredibly basic. There's a lot of the same enemy from the last level, who flies the exact same way and shoots the exact same way, over and over, level after level. There are even enemies that litereally do nothing but take a bunch of hits. Nothing remotely interesting starts to show up until you've looped the game around six times. 3) Weapons are dull and uninteresting. Leveling up your shot only increases fire rate. No shot type selection or variety to choose from. 4) Color selection. In most games of this type, certain colors are reserved for important information (such as enemy bullets), so they are always visible and clear. The nighttime cityscape background breaks this basic design rule, as bullets and enemies bl...

Novelty graphics and sound effects that while beatiful and charming, quickly wear out their welcome after only a few minutes of dealing with the horrible controls (even menu control with an Xbox360 pad is atrocious). The designers obvious lack of shmup experience make this nothing more than a poorly executed artistic expression under the guise of a "shoot 'em up". 3 out of 10

The Blue Flamingo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a nice top- down arcade shoot em up game! You are in command of this interesting design craft that shoot bullets, missiles and bombs to destroy your foes. But be very careful and destroy or avoid touching any enemies as your flying vehicle take quiet a fair bit of damage every time you get hit by a projectile or by touching the enemy craft. After all, you only have one craft. Every time you destroy an enemy you get points and $$ or a coin (seems to have more value) if you actually manage to destroy a wave of enemies before disappearing out of the screen. At the end of the level you can upgrade your bullets or booms with the money you earn. I really like the feel of the sceneries and the game fluidity. Well executed and nicely polished. And for $4.99, how can you go wrong? One slight downside is perhaps the gamepad sensitivity (it is maybe an issue with my Logitech gamepad) but you get use to it fairly quickly. Positives: • Nice and ...

The Blue Flamingo is a neat "art game" that has a unique artstyle created by actually building the terrain and all the ships in miniature and then converting photographs and video of them into the background and sprites used in the game. Somewhat defying the tendencies of "typical" art games, it's actually a shoot-'em-up, rather than a puzzle platformer or walking simulator. Unfortunately, that's around where the neatness ends - it's a fairly short score attack game, where you play through more or less the same two levels repeatedly, just getting slightly more difficult each time, with very clunky controls. The shortness in terms of content is likely due to the limitations of the artstyle, which constrained them to only having one model for the terrain because building an impressively detailed 32-foot-long model is hard and only so many models for enemies, as those too had to be hand-built and hand-painted, but the loose controls are less forgivable, as they combine with the lack of a...

A very simple airplane shooting game, nothing really special about it, but the handmade models in the game amazed me!

Perfect for those who like to chase the highscores. For me it was all about the art, lovely art!

[quote] Grade = C. Worth a buy, if you enjoy score attack gameplay to beat your friend score. However, if you looking for big content, don't buy it ⚖️[u][url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/expectationchecklist/discussions/1/2259062250949991765/]Check Scoring Scheme[/url][/u] [/quote] [table] [tr] [th]GRADE[/th] [th]SCORE (19)[/th] [th]WORTH BUYING?[/th] [th]OVERALL[/th] [th]DISCOUNT[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]A+[/td] [td]57 ~ 70[/td] [td]Valuable than Normal Price![/td] [td] -[/td] [td]No Wait[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]A[/td] [td]43 ~ 56[/td] [td]Worth Normal Price[/td] [td] -[/td] [td]No Wait[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]B[/td] [td]29 ~ 42[/td] [td]Good Value[/td] [td] -[/td] [td]Wait 10%~35%[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]C[/td] [td]15 ~ 28[/td] [td]Overpriced[/td] [td] ✔[/td] ...

The Blue Flamingo is a visually very pleasing game and could have been a really good shmup, but in this genre you need perfect controls without any lag, and there it fails. The Blue Flamingo definitely has an interesting art style. All the aircraft, missiles, laser platforms and other things you encounter are actual models, and all the explosives etc. are also made from miniature pyrotechnics. You're also flying above what looks to be model landscapes as backgrounds. The music on the other hand is uninteresting and the soundeffects are decidedly standard, but not to the point of annoyance. There are too few enemy variations which is perhaps understandable since everything had to be photographed from actual models but worse is that they all use the same patterns. The challenge in most shmups comes from the variance in enemies and their different patterns, here the challenge is simply increased by giving you more enemies to deal with at the same time. That in itself is not a big issu...

This is a game I REALLY wanted to like, but... The art is gorgeous, the main reason I bought the game without checking ANY reviews. I just dig that handmade look, just what I also loved in The Swapper and The Dream Machine. But where as The Swapper and The Dream Machine are actually great games, with great design, The Blue Flamingo unfortunately isn't, and it's a shame, it really is. The look and the soundtrack had a great foundation, especially from athmosphere point of view, but the game and level design part fails hard. It is just boring to play, unsatisfied. I hate to be this mean with my assumptions, but to me it almost looks like the developers have not played a lot of classic shoot 'em ups, haven't got what makes those games great. The controls feel also somehow a bit off, also collision model. But those are minor gripes compared to the downright bad level design. Buy it for the art, but don't expect to enjoy it more than 10 minutes.

While the mechanics seem simple the fact that things kind of fluctuate and that you have a big bulky ship make this feel clunkier than most SHUMPS. You'll be trading money you earn that is your final score against your upgrades, wile you can buff your ship, you'll be trading in your place on the leaderboard. Something fun, different, cheap, and quick to play.