During their trip to the Tokyo Game Show last year, one of IGN's favorite discoveries outside the show was the arcade shooter DeathSmiles II. A "bullet hell" game created by the masters of the genre, Cave, this is a gothic horror shooter starring cute anime girls that fly around blasting the crap out of fantasy monsters.
This year you'll get the next best thing on Xbox 360: the original DeathSmiles. While it's a surprise to see a game like this coming to retail as opposed to Xbox Live Arcade, they've been spending some quality time with it and are pretty sure it will appeal to shmup fans.
"The Germany-based video game publisher Strictly Limited Games and the Japan-based game developer/publisher City Connection, are today very happy and excited to announce that Cave's classic arcade shmup "Deathsmiles I- II" is getting a Limited and Collector’s Edition to the PS4 and Nintendo Switch via the Strictly Limited Games Shop." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
I don't care for the series but as a collector of Limited Edition sets, I love that arrangement.
COG writes - A few may be turned off by its art style but Deathsmiles is every bullet hell fan's dream of a game.
Joseph at Skewed and Reviewed has posted a positive review for the game Deathsmiles. He liked the updated gameplay and action of the game.
