My game review!
Today I'm going to review my first game ever: Death Smiles!
Firstly Death Smiles is in my opinion one of the best games I know! it is a psychotic horror bullet-hell "shoot em' up" (S.H.U.M.P. for short) game developed by one of my favorite game developers, Cave. Cave is known for making EXTREMELY HARD S.H.U.M.P. games and I've got two of them. It's an arcade game where you have to fight of massive swarms of demons and what not. It all begins when a group of young high school girls mysteriously travel to the undiscovered country of Gilverado which just so happens to be a demented clone of Israel. The trouble all started when a young girl named Sakura and her father Bloody Jitterbug came to Gilverado when a giant power awoke inside of him, transforming him. Later on he opened up a portal of mystic revealing light which led to Hell itself and he began summoning demons from it. Your job (I just love this part!) is to stop the giant demon invasion from spreading to the real world. Sounds challenging, right? Well it is on the harder settings. It's not your ordinary Cave game. This time instead of scrolling upwards you scroll sideways, and sometimes the demons come from behind you! Sometimes on the harder modes there are so many bullets on the screen that even the Xbox 360 can't support it! But the immense lag does make it easier to dodge those bullets. You also have a killer bomb attack that damages everything on screen!
One of the weaknesses is there are no lives, JUST HEALTH!!! But you do get a lot of it in MegaBlackLabel mode. Speaking of MegaBlackLabel mode they have extra stuff you can unlock and extremely enhanced difficulty!!! But one of the most notable of all that stuff is that you can unlock and play as the young witch girl Sakura herself! (see second paragraph)The bosses are also very notable. For example, the first boss is a giant bull demon that has big blocks that shoot enemy bullets floating around it. The second boss is a giant demon-possessed zombie head named Jordan. (JORDAN??? REALLY?!?!?) In its second form, your attacks sear Jordan's flesh clean off, leaving nothing but its creepy looking skull!!! Even though the game is relatively short, there are lots of reasons to go back and play it again and again because, there are many different modes and styles and there is a different ending every time!
Death Smiles is truly a must-have for anyone who likes massive swarms of bullets and demons!
Rating, 9.1
