The Last Canopy is a Bullet Hell flash game by Easy Only! Games
. It was a submission for the Jayis Casual Game Design Competition #5, centered around the theme "upgrade", and has been selected as the winner for that competition.
The setting is a ruined world where a single tree—the last canopy—still stands, protected by a race of butterfly-winged fairies with the power to absorb energy from their foes. You control one of these fairies on this heroic quest to return a fallen bird to its nest. This mostly nonsensical story serves as an excuse for you to battle an army of hostile vehicles through four bullet-drenched levels, each capped off by an intense boss encounter.
In this unique shooter, you start off with weak firepower, so absorb the enemy’s attack and make it your own!
Avoid, Absorb, Attack!
Kongregate also selected this game for Buried Treasure Week.
- Bullet Hell: Among the first Flash games of this genre.
- Continuing is Painful: When you die, you lose all your copied powers, which can be a real pain, especially in boss battles.
- Excuse Plot: Take the bird to the tree, fight construction drones along the way, and take their powers.
- Hitbox Dissonance: The only important part of the player that matters is the fairy's body. The wings and the bird being carried don't actually count.
- Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: They're as follows as they follow this blurb: "I want to save this bird…"
- "…but I'm scared of heights." - 99 Lives
- "…I think I can do it." - Normal (30 Lives)
- "…by any means necessary." - Hard (15 Lives)
- "…at the cost of my life!" - You're Nuts! (1 Life)
- It's Easy, So It Sucks!: Compared to the Touhou Project, at least. But given how difficult that game series is in general, that's a pretty high bar.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Not only do they have butterfly wings, and are strong enough to carry a single bird in their arms for an extended period of time, they can steal powers from enemy machines, which then take forms reminiscent of Gradius Options.
- Power Copying: Your fairy character can do this, and store them in orbs that follow like an Option. However, the rarer the enemy you're stealing its powers from, the longer it takes, which can leave you vulnerable. Additionally, these orbs gradually lose their strength, fading from green to yellow to red to empty, so you have to constantly refresh them by stealing new powers.
