Blindflug Studios’ beautiful, blistering, aerial adventure AIRHEART out now on PC and PlayStation®4
Download diesel-punk action title today; additional platforms to be announced in coming weeks
ZURICH – July 24, 2018 – Blindflug Studios, the award winning Zurich-based independent development studio, is thrilled to announce that AIRHEART is now available to purchase on PC and PlayStation®4, with additional platforms to be announced in the following weeks.
PlayStation®4 owners can purchase the game via the PlayStation®Store, while PC players can pick it up on Steam, or opt for the Deluxe Edition – which comes bundled with the original soundtrack and additional bonus content.
AIRHEART is a diesel-punk action game set in the beautiful, vibrant, floating city of Granaria. Players will step into the shoes of Amelia, a young pilot who dreams of one day reaching the world’s edge and capturing the legendary Sky Whale.
Amelia must take to the skies in her customizable plane – soaring higher and higher through a uniquely vertical environment as she explores vivid landscapes, partakes in a spot of sky-fishing and takes on rival aircraft in tight, blistering twin-stick combat.
A robust crafting system offers Amelia opportunities to upgrade her highly customizable plane, crafting new items from scrap obtained from fallen foes. Funds can also be earned from sky-fishing, but doing so might have a bigger impact on Granaria’s ecosystem than it first might seem.
“It’s been a long road since we launched AIRHEART in early access; the game has evolved so much since then, and I’d like to thank everyone who supported us during the development process,” said Moritz Zumbühl, Blindflug Studios CEO. “Amelia’s plane is now ready for takeoff, and we can’t wait for the AIRHEART community and newcomers alike to take to the skies and explore Granaria. The Sky Whale is waiting for you!”
For more information, please visit the official website: http://airheartgame.com/
About Airheart – Tales of broken Wings
AIRHEART is a dieselpunk airplane action game where every colorful level is built on top of the previous one, all the way up to the stratosphere.
Welcome to Granaria, a flying city in the clouds. Meet Amelia – a young pilot and fisherwoman wishing to reach the abundant world’s edge. Sky fishing became a really dangerous job, with pirates roaming around everywhere. So start your engines, arm your airplane and get ready to make the catch of a lifetime!
AIRHEART combines free-roaming, twin-stick gameplay with a beautiful, colorful world. Defeat your enemies, salvage their scrap and reuse it to craft new parts for your airplane. Build and try out over 40 weapons and airplane parts. Combine their abilities to become the pirates’ worst nightmare. Or just have some fun with your enemies, and use your harpoon to disarm, unshield, swing them around or drag them back home to disassemble them.
An airplane game reimagined in a wonderful world, AIRHEART is a treat to fans and newcomers to flight action games alike.
About Blindflug Studios
Blindflug Studios is a young Swiss game developer made up of seven designers and developers. The studio was born in 2014 as a spin-off to the successful Zurich-based web agency Feinheit. Its mission is to develop awesome games that tackle relevant topics of our time by transporting them into fascinating and surprising game worlds. Its debut title, “First Strike,” dealt with nuclear proliferation and the dangers of nuclear weapons, while also being a smash hit, having more than four million players to this day.
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Capcom definitely started the X series strong, but as it entered the newer platforms such as the Playstation during what is the latter half of this collection, quality starts to dip. This is mainly due to the same gameplay mechanics applied to a newer graphical engine. Sure, the visuals look better, but it is almost like the game only improved visually, and the rest never caught up, leaving us with what feels like a retread with a new coat of paint each time. Sure, X and Zero get nice new abilities, armor, and so on as you go through the series, but the gameplay just stays at the same pace, which can make one thirst for a bit of evolution that never quite comes. When X7 attempts to alter the formula, the results are not exactly what one would ask for. Again, the franchise here is solid throughout several console generations as a whole, it just is an interesting look at how some franchises refuse to change, for better or worse. Not even a complaint, rather more a mere observation.
I think the shining light of this collection is how much fan service went into the extras. Players can go to a museum and see a ton of concept art, photos, and development illustrations in the gallery. Also featured in each part of the collection are two Jukeboxes, where you can listen to the amazing soundtracks to each title, while watching demos of gameplay. Players can also see Japanese merchandise for each title, and get character biographies for each character in the game. It is seriously like a digital encyclopedia, and after coming on the heels of Sega’s atrocious Genesis collection for modern platforms, a swift bow of how a collection should be done. I still am finding more such as wallpapers, secrets, and so on as I simply filter through, so if you are looking for a ton of content, this collection should have everything you desire.
As far as the soundtrack goes, it is of course amazing. The music from the X series may be some of the finest ever released from Capcom period as these were tunes that were able to take advantage of better technology. If you cannot get enough of the beats or simply just want to hear tunes, all songs are unlocked from the start, so you can dive straight into the museum and turn the volume up for a nice treat.
