Excellent bullet hell and melee battle mashup Furi dropped back in 2016 and left a big impact crater on action genre fans, demanding attention and careful play from players with a unique control scheme emphasizing dual stick play around shooting and slashing. It's certainly one of those games for fans of responsive controls, people who really care about how a game feels while they're playing it.
Now, developers [[link]] The Game Bakers have dropped a free demake via another developer, Sylph, that reimagines Furi's first boss fight against The Chain as an 8-bit era game with brilliant neon colors and high-contrast pixel-art visuals. It's honestly a pretty wild bit of game design, taking a very 3D shoot-em-up and hack and slash title and making into a very 2D version of the same thing.
It's complete with straightforward 3-button controls and a soundtrack to match the era. It's free on Steam.
Since publishing Furi [[link]] in 2016, developers The Game Bakers went on to make the 2020 cool and experimental 2020 cooperative RPG Haven. They teamed up with solo developer Sylph, whose previous [[link]] works are a variety of retro-styled platformers, for the Furi demake.
PC Gamer's review of Furi back in 2016 called it one of the year's biggest, most pleasant surprises. The boss-rushing combat charmed reviewer James Davenport.
"Furi’s combat is shallow, and I mean that as a compliment. All you can do is observe, react, and punish. It’s advanced Bop-It, a lighting quick series of rock-paper-scissors, the Grand Finals in fly-swatting—Furi exercises the hell out of a very small set of abilities until they feel like they were always there," he said in the 86/100 review.
You can find Furi Demake - The Chain on Steam. It's free. You can also find the original Furi on Steam.
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