The Last Birdling Demo

Fantasy stories always include some kind of weird creatures to make things more interesting, and some of them stick around to become part of the lore. However, it’s getting tougher and tougher to come up with new ideas nowadays, given the fact that almost every possible combination has been featured somewhere already.

The Last Birdling is an interactive visual novel in which you play the girl of a birdling, which is a combination between a human and a bird. In short, the whole thing is about the hatred between birdlings and humans, because for some reason they kill each other on sight. The game features colorful graphics and a handful of choices that can be made along the way, so there are multiple possible endings.

The girl’s name is Bimonia, and the plot begins with her stumbling onto a human girl named Tayo. Naturally, their first encounter is quite violent, but none of them manages to do any real damage in the process. Contrarily, they actually become friends, which sparks a whole controversy once they return to Tayo’s village. Thus, you must try to bring peace between the two sides or risk an even bigger conflict.

As it’s always the case with interactive stories, there are a few decisions that affect the course of the plot, and depending on them you reach one ending or the other. Hence, you can play the game multiple times and reach different conclusions, which is wonderful in terms of replay value. On the other hand, these choices don’t always spawn new events, so it can still get a tad boring.

The graphics are about as colorful as they can get in the genre, and the characters are very detailed and cute. You can marvel at a variety of interesting backgrounds along the way, each one of which is drawn by hand. Lastly, the soundtrack isn’t bad either, but there are times when the music can be too repetitive, although there’s always the option to turn it off.

Even if it doesn’t revolutionize the visual novel genre, The Last Birdling is definitely a fun adventure, not to mention the fact that it provides you with multiple possible endings. Thus, visual novel lovers should have a blast with it.