AIR Flight (Comiket 61, 2001) is a classic doujn title from Watanabe Seisakujo (now French Bread), an arcade platformer based upon SEGA classic Flicky and AIR visual novel. There are three characters to choose from: Misuzu Kamio, Kano Kirishima and Minagi Tohno.
Each character utilizes different abilities and it provides unique playthrough. Misuzu and Kano seem to be more “light”, while Minagi has more force and momentum when moving. AIR Flight covers so many details from its visual novel. For example: Kano collects potato as her pet dog, Michiru collects her friend Michiru and Misuzu collects crow.
AIR Flight has 50 stages in Story mode and three different levels to choose from in Score Attack Mode. The gameplay is identical to Flicky in which player must collect all the pets, saving them from enemies and bring them to safety at the exit. Each captured pets follow player in a trail, so the more pets you have the longer the trail is behind you. If any enemy touch the pets, they will run away and forcing you to backtrack in order to pick them up. If enemy touches your character you lose a life and have to restart the level.
Enemies move predictably, and since the character can get cornered by multiple enemies, it’s important to learn how each enemy type moves. Fortunately, coffee cups are scattered throughout the level and collecting one lets player launch an attack. Various power-ups are spawn randomly that will allow player to complete a level with more ease. Killing an enemy only gives player short time to breathe, since the enemies respawn quickly, however. Every 10th level is a boss battle and they must be defeated before the exit opens.
AIR Flight also contains a bonus round every at 5th level (5, 15, 25, 35, etc). The bonus rounds have adapted almost similar from the original Flicky where player must collect falling birds fired from a cannon. If player manage to collect every bird a huge amount of bonus points can be obtained.