Deathsmiles IIX: Makai no Merry Christmas
Death Smiles II, the sequel to the hugely popular Death Smiles is coming in May. This is not only a port, but a upgraded version. The graphics are updated to full 16:9 HD splendour. Look at the screen shots…
Deathsmiles IIX: Makai no Merry Christmas is an indie developed by CAVE Interactive, released 27 May 2010 on Xbox 360.
What Deathsmiles IIX: Makai no Merry Christmas is
Deathsmiles IIX: Makai no Merry Christmas is an indie game developed by CAVE Interactive and released in 2010. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Death Smiles II, the sequel to the hugely popular Death Smiles is coming in May. This is not only a port, but a upgraded version. The graphics are updated to full 16:9 HD splendour. Look at the screen shots, the gothic fantasy world and their fire spitting monsters have never been so beautiful.Besides visuals, we have two more characters, Roza, affiliated with a fairy and Foret who has a dragon. Let's see what stories and their special bullets they have.Meet the new monsters and bosses. The Xbox360 version has two new stages, Meiro - Shiroi yami no naka (Labyrinth - In the White Darkness) and Hairakuen - Mihatenu yume no kuni (Forgotten Paradise - Land of the endless dreams). Fly into them…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Deathsmiles series
Deathsmiles IIX: Makai no Merry Christmas is the third of 5 entries we hold in the Deathsmiles series. It arrived a year after Deathsmiles II: Makai no Merry Christmas. The next entry was Deathsmiles I & II in 2021.
How it was received
Deathsmiles IIX: Makai no Merry Christmas holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Deathsmiles IIX: Makai no Merry Christmas launched on 27 May 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake and Xenoblade Chronicles. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake, Xenoblade Chronicles.
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