Key Fairy is a “hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric bullet-hell”, and its demo actually lives up to how interesting that description is
To overcome the first enemy you meet in Key Fairy (a Bugle with big eyes and bat wings), you zip around the woods with a grapple, avoiding its circling and collecting the stars it dispenses. When you collect three, it turns friendly and apologises for attacking you. “Worry not, little bird”, I reply from a set of dialogue options. “My cloak is thick.” The next screen is inhabited by three cyclopean worms chanting about the “eels of creation”. I like it here very much.
Brought to life with spacious, enchanting and playfully layered electronic music and hand-drawn art (you can change the colour palette to something cooler or monochrome if you wish), Key Fairy’s forest is a place I want to live, and I’m very grateful for even a short opportunity to spend time in it.
