I am a huge fan of heavy metal music and I'm always on the look out for new music to listen too. About 2 years ago now, I came across the heavy metal video game Of Bird and Cage. This project featured artist from some of my most favorite metal bands (Epica, Within Temptation, ex-Kamelot, & ex-Evanescence and more). I knew with out a doubt I need to play this game. This week, I was notified that the demo was released and I immediately played it and since I finished I knew I needed to write a review on it. Of Bird and Cage is set to release on May 20th, 2021. So let get started!
*This is a spoiler free review and I will keep all spoilers to a minimum.*
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| Of Bird and Cage: Gitta Barbot |
Game Description
"Dive into a dark, twisted game specifically tailored to its music. Let symphonic metal lead you through a two-hour-long story of trauma, violence, and madness based lightly on ‘Beauty and the Beast’.
Play as Gitta Barbot, a 25 year-old drug addict, who tries to escape the physical and mental prison of her captor—Bres Lupus. Make quick choices that will have dire consequences and watch how your actions reveal new paths while struggling to keep your sanity.
You’re surrounded by violence at home and at work, engulfing every aspect of your life—what will you do? Will you take revenge or grant forgiveness? Ultimately, the choice is yours.
Follow the twisted relationship between two characters, portrayed in a gut-wrenching way. Happy endings don't come easily here. In this first-person hybrid of a concept album and a game, your choices and actions will shape the narrative."
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| Of Bird and Cage: Bres Lupus |
Gameplay
When it comes to the controls of the game it was very simple and easy to figure out. When it came to walking and interacting with the world around me it was also fairly easy too. However, I did struggle to interact with a few things here and there but this could be because I need to replay the game since I know what to expect. The demo took me about 20 minutes to play so its not super long. But this small portion that we do get to experience really sets the mood of we can expect with the full game. It sets us up to what I could consider the prologue of what will happen.
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| Of Bird and Cage: Dive Bar |
Storyline
I'm highly invested into this storyline for Of Bird and Cage, and with the Beauty and the Beast aspect I can see in the storyline, I know that this story will absolutely amazing to explore. I'm also getting a Phantom of the Opera feeling to it but I think that’s just because of the musical aspects or maybe not. After all, Of Bird and Cage has very similar aspect to POTO. Of Bird and Cage is based on the idea on the Butterly Affect, which in turn affects the story moving forward. Your choices and actions as Gitta will ultimately affect the storyline and how each part of the story moves forward. This could be the choices you made when talking to someone or choosing to do nothing when presented with the option. I will admit that I'm curious about how each of the choices affect the game so I will definitely need to replay this to see everything in the game.
In the begin of the demo, you first play Gitta as a child and you have the ability to influence the character's young life. In her early life, Gitta lives in an abusive and drug filled house (Her father being abusive to her and her mother, and her mother with her drug use). This really sets the stage for how this affect Gitta later in her life. Though this demo displays Gitta sweet and innocence personality, it also shows how truly vulnerable she is. She continues to make bad choices in her life even though she knows that they are wrong, since this is all she knows, this story really gives us the ability to explore what she thinks and how it affects her. You can see that though the title of the game Of Bird and Cage represents Gitta life. Gitta the innocence and sweet bird that's trapped in a cage whether in her own making or of the others around her. Now the only question is, will she break free of her cage?
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| Of Bird and Cage: Bres Lupus and Gitta Barbot |
Music
I loved listening to the music in the game! (Also note: As much as I love music, I know nothing about terminology etc. so if I list something wrong that’s why!) We first get the chance to listen to two of the main songs that are played during the storyline. The first song which is sung by Gitta Barbot is absolutely lovely. You can really hear in the words what she truly wishes to say and what she's feeling. This song is played in a sense of a moment before the storm before everything breaks out into chaos.
This is when it leads into the second song which is absolutely brilliant! The screams used int he song along with the heavy beat. It really showed the chaos of what happening and why you needed to take specific actions. Both of these songs really help set the tone in each part of the game and represent what isn't spoken. Also with the photo above I can already picture the music of what could be happening in the scene! I can't wait to buy the game soundtrack now.
Thank you everyone for reading! I cannot wait for this game to be released on May 20th and I hope I will get the change to play it soon. If you want to check out the demo for yourself then I would highly recommend checking out Of Bird and Cage on Steam. I would love to hear what you thoughts of the music that was played and will you be playing Of Bird and Cage.
Until next time,
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