Swordbird Song: The Iron Owl Tower

Such a good game, love it! Only thing is, the cut scenes become quite annoying after about the third time, if you're struggling with a boss you can sit thorough the same scenes for quite some time. Maybe an skip button or something would be helpful? Overall the game is genuinely incredible, the art is amazing- as well as the balance between combat and puzzles.

This game is incredible.  Great balance between artwork, puzzle-solving, story-telling and combat.   This is really high-quality homebrew.

Haha, I was going to say you should have the option for us to pay you for this, but I'm looking back and I see where you already can do that with the "Download now" button.  Thanks!  

very nicely done!

Awesome game (played on the Analogue Pocket)

Took around 2 hours to complete and the last boss was a bit frustrating..

The snowdin motif caught me off gaurdlol

Great game, really captures the feel of OG zelda

Came back to pay for the game after completing it. Lovely game I played using a flash cart on my gbc.

good

I was pretty sure the mage boss was elaborately failing to mention that the Enormous Mentor Bird was actually the Owl King, who wanted the battery for nefarious purposes. Which wouldn't make sense actually; the Owls are in charge of the whole facility until you kill them all. Maybe something else similarly nefarious.

This was a decent game. I think a 'skip cutscene' option, and maybe a run button, would have been big helps - the backtracking felt unreasonably padded, and the second bossfight was extremely frustrating because the death penalty was unusually large.

This was a charming little experience! Good classic 'Zelda' vibes, with a charming cast, and and some neat little dungeons.

The ice dungeon (Icra?) was an absolute highlight particularly the second half. I also really liked that you had to go through each of the dungeons in sequences instead of fully completing one. The Green Maze was another favorite moment with how you executed it.

The spike in difficulty at the end caught me off guard with the ledge-turret sequence, and the final boss - though the latter was more because of how many times I saw the cutscene. Since I died. A lot. But I'm really glad I powered through and ended it!

The cutscenes were great otherwise, and I love how good the pixel art is. There were some rather evocative splash panels, and I loved the design of the characters. 

Edit: The music was pretty good too, with the main theme's melancholy, and the triumphant notes of the track that played during the cutscene before phase 2 of the Owl King.

This was a very charming, fun game. It had "Link's Awakening" vibes, but in a good way. I enjoyed the puzzle elements, particularly in the ice dungeon. Very nicely done, and I appreciated that it told a sweet tale without overstaying its welcome. I hope to see more from you in the future!

Pretty cool for a Zelda alternative!

pretty cool, short adventure. the only thing i found """""""""""""BAD""""""""" was that if you open the map the boxes go back to their position, the thing? if you are standing in some of those positions you can cross like nothing. it ruins some puzzles and makes me feel like two things, a cheater or a man with a peanut instead of a brain

I don't understand how to open the game, since it doesn't seem to have an "application" file to launch. Is this a fault on my end, or am I just stupid?

Very cute game. Too much backtracking between long, empty rooms. Combat is a chore and the power cell items do nothing when they could've been much-needed health upgrades. 

The puzzles in the icy section are easily the game's high point- fantastic job on those. Same thing with the elaborate cutscenes.

The orb-shooting statues and precarious ledges overstay their welcome after their first or second appearance, and I'm baffled to see them used over and over. The final dungeon's corridor, which is nothing but orb-shooting statues and precarious ledges, is the most tedious thing I've played this year so far. I'd rather do one of those mouse cursor mazes that end with a screamer. The fact there's a combat room right after (and the fact you can get there without the key) is just sadistic.

Most importantly, when making a game, you should pick ONE of the following:
1) A cutscene before a fairly tough final boss, and another after the first phase
2) Unskippable cutscenes
You can't have both.  Not in The Year Of Our Lord 2021/2023.

So yeah I'm not beating this game. Pretty fun romp until the last 10% and a lot of care was put into this (you didn't have to make fully functional maps, but you did and that's fantastic). Overall, that love still shines through.

(P.S. The turrets in the second mage-bird showdown can still shoot and kill you while the boss plays their defeat animation, which locks the player into place. Probably the only bug I've found though, which is good!)

This was a very intricate and great game! Loved all the puzzles and how everything tied together.

 I had an enjoyable time playing it!

(DO NOT ANSWER, I FIGURED IT OUT MYSELF.)

How do I get rid of cracked blocks like this one?

Pros: Classic Zelda-style gameplay.  Good difficulty progression.  Cool art style.

Cons: Slow-paced.  Way too much backtracking.  

i have played this but i never got that far

i had go to the middle lever, i had gotten the first and third but not that one, i loved this game so much but i dont understand how to do it, i got by useing the shift where i would reste the game by pressing it

I would really like to own a hard copy of this game. Is there, or will there be a physical copy? 

Really enjoyed this game! There is one bug I found. The room with the broken lever retains a question mark on the map even after the lever is fixed, but there seems to be nothing else inside the room.

The room with the narrow path and the statues at the very end is extremely difficult. Everything in the game until that point has been somewhat easy, but that room is awful. I've even gotten struck by a fireball after falling off the path, which did damage AND knocked me back when I got sent back to the start of the room, so I took 3 from falling off the path at the wrong time.

nice game, i enjoyed it very much.

Will there be gamepad support and will you put on steam? Game looks cool

Hey! This game is dope! I write a blog about indie games and would love to interview you!

That was real nice. Only complaint I have is the hurtbox of our hero is a bit big which makes fights feel a bit awkward.

Cool game i love the art

Wait, the plot twist is that there is no plot twist? lol. Jokes aside,  it's an amazingly cute and fun game mate, love it!

"its dangerous to get alone... take this ." 

Finished it. took me 4 days . Quite good, you might want to upload it to playstore, it could do really good. Like the feeling of solving seemingly unsolvable puzzles in an area by going to another. Isn't the easiest thing to do but quite gratifying.

Love the feel of this, although it would be nice if the music changed in different areas, since the music started to feel old, but other than that, great art, puzzles, mechanics, and everything else. Great game!

Cute graphics. Loved it.

Let me be honest, I didnt trust the owl/parrot thing at al. Since the end, I expected the final boss to actually be the parrot guy. guess I was wrong :-)

Loved this! Oracle of Seasons was my Game Boy (Color) era Zelda game, and this definitely gave me similar vibes, including moments of uncertainty and very mild frustration (looking at you, bottomless pits) that I found ultimately delightful. They made the victories that much sweeter.

I thought this was overall extremely well done. I loved the last boss fight. I think seeing comments that some people got stuck helped me know not to cling to any one dungeon too tightly, so I found playing through it all smooth sailing. That was definitely a subversion of the usual Zelda formula, so I understand how people felt stuck.

Thanks for making this charming and satisfying Zelda-like! I'd love to see more of Bird Hero's adventures!