heartisblazing
An overall improvement from Star Ocean: Till The End of Time. The story is better, for sure. I'd say the characters and their development is mostly better. The environments look pretty nice and the number of different planets you get to visit is a very welcome change. However, the English voice acting is arguably worse than ever before. Also, the 3D character models in cutscenes can look really off-putting, especially Lymle's.
2009
2007
2007
Deathsmiles is a REALLY fun, gothic-flavored horizontal-shmup with some killer music and great visuals. It's hands-down one of my all-time favorite shmups, even if I'll likely never get a 1CC on Arcade.
I have a very minor complaint though, in regards to the Steam achievements. They only activate if you're playing the Arcade versions, it can't be Normal or 1.11 versions for achievements UNLESS it specifically mentions one of those versions in the achievement's description. This kind of sucked for me at first because I got quite a few of the character endings while playing the 1.11 versions of both Deathsmiles and Mega Black Label.
I have a very minor complaint though, in regards to the Steam achievements. They only activate if you're playing the Arcade versions, it can't be Normal or 1.11 versions for achievements UNLESS it specifically mentions one of those versions in the achievement's description. This kind of sucked for me at first because I got quite a few of the character endings while playing the 1.11 versions of both Deathsmiles and Mega Black Label.
2011
I really enjoyed playing this on Xbox 360, but I forgot my account information from all that time ago, so I was unable to recover the account. I can't redownload it anymore, even then, it was also delisted from XBLA as well. Thankfully, it got a re-release on Steam as "Trouble Witches Origin", though I do prefer the artstyle of Neo over Origin.
This is a fun and incredibly adorable shmup that's the definitive release of Trouble Witches Neo. It has 10 total characters (5 in-game, 5 DLC characters) as well as other visual improvements and some game modes while dropping the awful English voice-acting from Neo. It's not a very difficult shmup either.
If you enjoy shmups and cute stuff, you'll be right at home here.
If you enjoy shmups and cute stuff, you'll be right at home here.
2018