Deathsmiles Mega Black Label is a heavily altered version of Deathsmiles.
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It's a CAVE shooter, you already know it's great, I just wish I didn't feel like playing it is gonna put me on a watchlist.
I have no clue what release to use on this shit because I'm playing a PC version on steam with more variants than there are grains of sand on a beach okay. But the black label ones are the ones I've been playing so this is it.
I am not, ACTUALLY, much of a shmup fan. Or rather, bullet hell of the CAVE variety. This is a branch of the genre that mostly requires reflexes about a hundred times faster than I could ever manage, and also a lot of them have rank mechanics, the most irritating shit I've ever encountered. Like in Resident Evil 4 sure but fuck of Battle Garegga I don't want to strategically kill myself to win the game get out of here.
That said, CAVE is great at making games and there are a few I vibe with, none more than Deathsmiles. The biggest reason probably just boils down to it being very easy compared to its siblings so I can actually perceive the mess of shit being fired at me. It doesn't HAVE to be easy, there actually is a rank system in here but it's influenced by your deliberate choices instead of just fucking you over with a magic algorithm. I have 1CC'd the normal mode of Deathsmiles Mega Black Label, which is a baby accomplishment but makes me like the game okay.
Also I am always a big fan of characters over spaceships (not that those are mutually exclusive) and Deathsmiles has that. Unfortunately it is aimed squarely at perverts so the girls you actually play as range from fine to actively very uncomfortable but the monsters are cool and there is a little story here which is fun. You fight a big cow at one point. The cow is named Mary. It's great who doesn't love that.
Mechanically, this is one of the rare good horizontal bullet hells, and it even has you able to fire in either direction with level designs that have you frantically trying to manage your own fire and your little familiar at the same time when dealing with attacks from multiple directions at once. That, I think, is actually one of the keys to why it hooks me: Deathsmiles is less interested in just throwing a ton of bullets at you in a massive torrent than other Cave games.
Harcore fans probably like other games from the developer more than this one, but if I have to pick one Cave to get lost in, it's Deathsmiles out of the ones I've tried. I would just... never want to own the Xbox 360 box where the back uses the word 'lolis' ugh ugh ugh
I am not, ACTUALLY, much of a shmup fan. Or rather, bullet hell of the CAVE variety. This is a branch of the genre that mostly requires reflexes about a hundred times faster than I could ever manage, and also a lot of them have rank mechanics, the most irritating shit I've ever encountered. Like in Resident Evil 4 sure but fuck of Battle Garegga I don't want to strategically kill myself to win the game get out of here.
That said, CAVE is great at making games and there are a few I vibe with, none more than Deathsmiles. The biggest reason probably just boils down to it being very easy compared to its siblings so I can actually perceive the mess of shit being fired at me. It doesn't HAVE to be easy, there actually is a rank system in here but it's influenced by your deliberate choices instead of just fucking you over with a magic algorithm. I have 1CC'd the normal mode of Deathsmiles Mega Black Label, which is a baby accomplishment but makes me like the game okay.
Also I am always a big fan of characters over spaceships (not that those are mutually exclusive) and Deathsmiles has that. Unfortunately it is aimed squarely at perverts so the girls you actually play as range from fine to actively very uncomfortable but the monsters are cool and there is a little story here which is fun. You fight a big cow at one point. The cow is named Mary. It's great who doesn't love that.
Mechanically, this is one of the rare good horizontal bullet hells, and it even has you able to fire in either direction with level designs that have you frantically trying to manage your own fire and your little familiar at the same time when dealing with attacks from multiple directions at once. That, I think, is actually one of the keys to why it hooks me: Deathsmiles is less interested in just throwing a ton of bullets at you in a massive torrent than other Cave games.
Harcore fans probably like other games from the developer more than this one, but if I have to pick one Cave to get lost in, it's Deathsmiles out of the ones I've tried. I would just... never want to own the Xbox 360 box where the back uses the word 'lolis' ugh ugh ugh