Product Description:
5 Characters to Explore Gilverado: Choose your favorite gothic Lolita and discover their past before they came to this mysterious land. Will you choose Windia, the foppish English girl, Casper, the sassy German, Follett, the cautious French girl, or Rosa, the California valley girl? Travel down the roads of Gilverado and discover hidden dialogues among the angels. Mega Black Label: Test your supernatural powers against the onslaught of the Ice Palace and its forgotten protector! Put your skills to the test with a new scoring system which demands more but pumps out even more explosions of shiny point items. Fully Selectable Progression and Difficulty Level: You can choose your own route through the game’s stages and set the difficulty for each, from a level of 1 to 3. These levels allow you to customize the bullet count and boss toughness. Watch out if you choose level 3 four times though. Save and Playback Replays: Save replays of your own games to watch later for your own enjoyment. Players can also download the top 20 scoring runs on the leaderboards.
Product Details:
- Online two-player co-op play option available via Xbox LIVE
- Limited Edition extras including an exclusive Deathsmiles Xbox 360 faceplate, a CD soundtrack and special boxart
- Play as one of four playable characters as you test your supernatural powers against the onslaught of the Ice Palace and its forgotten protector
- Choose your own route through the game?s stages and set the difficulty for each, from a level of 1 to 3, allowing you to customize the bullet count and boss toughness
- Save replays of your own games to watch later for your own enjoyment. Players can also download the top 20 scoring runs on the leaderboards
Customer Reviews:
Absolutely Excellent By J. B. Shoopman
I can't stress enough how excellent this game is(provided you like the genre). Cave has long been known as one of the kings of bullet hell type games, but this is surprisingly the first Cave game to be localized for a US release on a console. The only other I know of to get on shore at all is Espgaluda II, which was released on iPhone and is also an excellent port.
Synopsis
There are basically 6 different versions of the game. They are split up into the original arcade port, a version 1.1 arrange version and an xbox 360 specific version. There are 2 versions of each of those, the normal and the MBL(mega black label) version. MBL versions are a special edition of sorts. In that version there is 1 extra character playable and 1 extra level.
Anyway, you are presented with a choice of 4 different girls to play and you play through an other world where you are attacked by monsters and spirits typical of a Halloween setting. You will fight flying pumpkins, ghosts, goblins and Death himself. As you progress farther the difficulty increases and you eventually reach the your goal. Don't worry about whether or not you'll make it here. There are different difficulty levels selectable per level, and you can continue after deaths. Difficulty levels range from a relative easy to blisteringly hard so you can suit that to your own tastes. There's even a "Level 999" option if you really want to hurt yourself.
As far as controls go, they are spot on. You'll never feel like you're fighting the game to do what you want. Everything is fluid and solid.
Finally, there are several nice extra features. You get online leaderboards, a score attack mode, replay saving so you can watch how you did and a practice mode for attacking a specific level until you get it right.
I really can't recommend this title enough if you enjoy these types of games. We don't often even see bullet hell shooters on US soil. It would be a shame to pass up one of the best ones.Old school fun By flywheels
If you grew up playing old school 2D shoot 'em ups like I did and hate to see that Japan is getting all the new old school games then you'll be happy with this U.S. release of Deathsmiles. It features side scrolling 2D action with very tight controls. Designed by Cave, modern "bullet hell" masters. This game even on harder settings didn't feel too difficult. You'll want to play through the various game types more than once - which is needed if you want to unlock the various Achievements. The bonus soundtrack and faceplate is a nice touch since this limited edition retails for less than more new releases.Time Waster By Nick
I was very interested in this game and the limited edition bonuses that come with it, so I decided to pick it up. This review is based on the game itself, as the bonus goodies are pretty nice.
This game is really short. Like, you can beat it in under an hour, and that's if you have to go to the bathroom really frequently. If you play 2 player, it's even shorter. There are multiple difficulty levels depending to choose, so I can't really say anything about challenge. Also, I have to ask the developers a question.
If you're going to port an arcade game to a console, why couldn't you fix the frame rate?
Seriously, every time you use a bomb, the game slows down. And since bombs are basically the strongest thing in the game, you'll be doing it quite a lot. Also, there is practically no story at all. Heck, you barely learn anything about the game until you're a few levels into it. But, arcade games never really shine in story do they?
Anyways, if you want something to pass the time that comes with a wicked sweet faceplate for (old design) Xbox and a soundtrack, go for it. If you want something with a good story or something longer, you should look for something else.
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