Deathsmiles II
Deathsmiles II Makai no Merry Christmas (デススマイルズII 魔界のメリークリスマス) is a shmup by CAVE released in May 14 2009 for arcades on the CAVE PC hardware.
It was the first CAVE shmup to use 3D polygon models instead of their traditional pre-rendered 3D sprites.
Later, a remastered version of the game called Deathsmiles IIX was released for the XBOX 360.
For Deathsmiles II AC replay videos, visit the Deathsmiles II AC Video Index.
For Deathsmiles IIX replay videos, visit the Deathsmiles IIX Video Index.
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Gameplay Overview
Like in the previous entry, the player`s mechanics are practically the same, such as left and right shooting, bombs, lock-on circles power-ups, and the branching stage paths. The difference is that rank cannot be selected, meaning the game must be played on it`s determined difficulty.
Controls
- Button A: Left shot
- Button B: Right shot
- Button A+B: Lock-on/Power-up
- Button C: Bomb
Characters
Windia
Windia is the basic character. She fires narrow feather shots. Her familiar fires a stream of small feathers, while on focus mode fires moon shaped boomerangs.
Casper
Casper fires a stream of electricity, and can fire two electric streams on focus mode. Her familiar fires electric shots as normal shots, while it`s focus shots fires electric saws.
Supe
Supe fires a stream of spread shots. Her familiar fires a rapid narrow stream as normal shots, and 3-way energy balls as it`s focus shot
Lei
Lei can fire a stream of arrow shots. His 2 familiars can fire piercing arrows as normal shot, while their focus shot is a rapid curved shot stream.
Items
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Red ring: Spawned from attacking enemies with the normal shot and trough some bullet cancels. |
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Blue ring: Spawned from attacking enemies with the focus shot. |
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Silver ring: Spawned from attacking most enemies with the lock-on shot. |
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Life-up: Restores a portion`s of the character`s HP. Spawns under certain conditions |
Story
The game takes place in Gilverado (Same location as the first Deathsmiles) on Chirstmas Eve. Satan Claus has come to Gilverado to exact revenge on Count Dior for a past incident. He wounds Count Dior and escapes with five gold music notes which can grant wishes. After the girls discover their master wounded and the music notes gone, they take flight to stop Satan Claus and get the notes back to bring back Dior.
Trivia
- There was a rare v2.0 release, in which Windia and Supe were the only playable characters and the game ends after beating the chosen 4th stage, in which shows a unique "To be continiued" scene that has a remixed BGM of field A1 from the first Deathsmiles.
