CYGNI: All Guns Blazing Set to Light a Fire Under Shoot-Em-Ups on PS5 | Push Square

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CYGNI: All Guns Blazing takes flight on PS5 next month, promising high-octane bullet hell action for players starved of shoot-em-ups. Offering classic arcade thrills with modern production values for one or two players, we got a PS5 «immersion» trailer to whet our collective whistles.

Taking advantage of the DualSense's haptics and the PS5's speedy SSD, it looks pretty awesome and will appeal to ageing fans of this once-great subgenre. The bright flashing colours, sustained explosions, and bullet hell bonafide already have this one on our radar. The fact that CYGNI is Scottish developer KeelWorks' first outing is also impressive, and we'll be interested to see how it handles.

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What do you think of CYGNI: All Guns Blazing? Are you a fan of shoot-em-ups or shmups, as they are sometimes known? Run your pre-flight checks in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Yes, this looks awesome! As someone who was just playing 1942 this afternoon, this is right up my street!

This looks amazing. Hopefully it will play well with an arcade stick.

I really like the look of this but my reaction times are not the greatest anymore so I'm not sure I'd enjoy myself as much as I used to..I might give it a shot in a sale.

Same as @Northern_munkey i love the look of these style games but i just wouldnt get off the first lvl. Ive nearly grabbed Raiden in the past but the same issues stopped me there too.

25GB for a Shmup game What an era! Can't wait

This looks pretty solid. But i really wish there's more bullet hell games especially from Japan devs.

It's just sad how Psikyo defunct and Treasure on hiatus (or