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DEATHSMILES
78 Score
Action · Shooter · Arcade · Casual · Indie

DEATHSMILES

CAVE  /  May 28, 2010  /  Rated Unrated

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Released

2010

Publisher

Degica

Time to beat

~2 hrs

Community

124

Deathsmiles’s developer, CAVE Co., Ltd., is the powerhouse behind revered bullet-hell shooters such as Mushihimesama, DoDonPachi, Espgaluda, and many more!
Horizontally scrolling bullet-hell madness across six different game modes including Mega Black Label mode.
Spooky good fun! Battle ghosts, demons, man-eating plants, and even giant cattle in this gothic horror-themed adventure.
Five playable angels to choose from, each with her own faithful familiar.
Supports two-player local cooperative play. Banish the forces of Hell together!
Reap what you sow with the challenging and powerful Counter system.
Freely choose your path and difficulty with nonlinear progression between a variety of macabre stages.

Deathsmiles is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade video game by Japanese developer Cave, released in late 2007. It has heavy occult and gothic influences. It is the second Cave shooter to be played using a horizontally-oriented monitor. It was the first Cave shooter released in North America on a console, and the first one in Europe. Cave has also released it for iOS. A sequel, Deathsmiles II, was released to Japanese arcades on May 14, 2009. A compilation of both Deathsmiles I and Deathsmiles II was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in Japan on December 16, 2021.

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