It's shaping up well man, sorry there haven't been loads comments, everyone's probably to busy eating ice cream!
I played the new demo, I think it makes sense to make the big screen clearing shot come up less often and the golden bird works ok. I would make the standard shot more powerful though, like sometimes I would shoot a little bird at one of those little triangle dudes and he would just sit there and take it, an I'm all like "come on, give me a break". When you have to collect ammo for every shot the shots should be a bit more powerful IMO, either that or, like I said before make each bird you eat give you more than one shot.
I'm looking forward to the cutscenes though, the art so far can't be faulted, it's very cool. Have you got a proper story worked out? All I can think of right now are the cutscenes / conversations you have with the bosses in Bangai-O (
like this guy).
Anyway, keep up the good work.