Deathsmiles

“The scenario pairs with a brilliant soundtrack that fuses orchestral Hollywood monster composition with rock and electronic energy, filling the player with equal drive and dread.”

“Mega Black Label (MBL) in particular is such an intricately designed game with excellent mechanics, a great difficulty system for newcomers, lots of different characters and ways to play, with one of Cave's more unique aesthetics and Manabu Namiki's consistently fantastic music.”

“Deathsmiles has great Junya Inoue art, a great soundtrack, and isn't that much of a difficulty cliff, so if you're into shooters, you can do a lot worse than this.”

“Deathsmiles is a fun and very nice arcade game; the graphics are super nice, and the first six levels are super fun.”

“This was my first Cave game, and the pixel art and visuals still blow my mind with how great this looks and plays.”

“The era of Cave's pre-rendered CG sprite graphics technique was at its height around this time, so it's beautiful.”

“Speaking for story, it has a very solid storyline with plot threads entwining all 5 of its characters across 11 total endings (two for each character, including one character with a secret ending that must be unlocked in a very novel way).”

“Cute game, cute character designs, lots of continues, touching storyline... this has everything!”

“The story is this: 4 (or 5) girls from various countries (Windia, Casper, Follett, Rosa), known as angels by none other than the host of the manor they live in, Count Dior, have suddenly been transported to Gilverado. Unbeknownst to them, they appear to understand how it's connected to their fates, and they also appear to have "familiars" as well.”

“My wife and I played through it on co-op and it has a nice variety of characters, map choices, and ending choices to help the replayability.”

“With four (or five, depending on which version you play) different characters with different powers and familiars, it has a lot of replay value.”

“There is easily 200 hours worth of replayability here.”

“Cute game, cute character designs, lots of continues, touching storyline... this has everything!”

“The characters are really cute and I loved pretty much all of them, some more than others. My favorite both in gameplay (for the damage) and in personality is Casper with her random German words all the time. Her 'go back home' ending is really scary though; I was not expecting it since I played her story after all the others, with all being heartwarming 'going back to a lovely family.' In the end, it's a good Touhou game that didn't age that well in graphics and effects, but is a really good game for both pros in bullet-hell games and people new to it.”

“Lolis killing giant characters and grim reapers is surely something to enjoy, plus the endings are really wholesome and sure are worth replaying to unlock.”

“Cute game, cute character designs, lots of continues, touching storyline... this has everything!”

“Third: music and character design”

“On one hand you have great music, stage art/enemy design, and very satisfying and tight gameplay... on the other you have character design created jointly by Diddy and Epstein, seriously it is inescapable, the characters are wretched.”

“Controller support was great and ran into virtually no glitches while playing the game.”

“The atmosphere, the graphics, the music, and the unique Japanese feel to it.”

“One of the most challenging bullet hell games I have played with a great atmosphere and soundtrack. Truly wish the series had continued past 2, which I can't wait to play in the collections coming for consoles and hopefully to Steam too.”

“Some bosses go from terrifying, like the freaking buried man, to downright hilarious, like the cow... a cow!?”

“The adequate missions are funny; you will never feel bored when you complete this game.”