Don’t let the Konami logo at the start fool you – Cygni: All Guns Blazing is very much an indie game, albeit one being released globally by the Japanese publisher.
You’d be fooled for thinking otherwise, of course. Just a brief glimpse at it in action may be enough to convince you that a lot of money has been thrown at it, when in reality the game – which started off as a three-person team and grew to around eight developers – has just been punching well above its weight, in the best way.
If it’s passed you by until now, Cygni was developed by KeelWorks, a Scotland-based team led by brothers Meher and Nareg Kalenderian and co-founder Helen Saouma. The game is an attempt to bring something new to the shoot ‘em up – a genre that was once synonymous with Konami back in the ‘80s and ‘90s – and it passes with flying colours.
