Deathsmiles II

Deathsmiles II
DeveloperCave
PublisherCave
DirectorJunya Inoue
ProducerKenichi Takano
DesignersAtsushi Aburano
Akira Wakabayashi
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Hideki Nomura
ProgrammerTakashi Ichimura
ArtistJunya Inoue
ComposersManabu Namiki
Noriyuki Kamikura
Yoshimi Kudo
Motoi Sakuraba
SeriesDeathsmiles
Platforms
ReleaseArcade
  • JP: May 14, 2009
Xbox 360
  • JP: May 27, 2010
  • NA: May 17, 2011
PS4, Xbox One, Switch
  • JP: December 16, 2021
Windows
  • WW: June 23, 2022
GenreBullet hell
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Deathsmiles II: Makai no Merry Christmas is a 2009 bullet hell game by Cave. It is the third Cave shoot 'em up to be played using a horizontally-oriented monitor (preceded by Progear and the original Deathsmiles). Deathsmiles II is also the first CAVE arcade game to use polygons instead of their traditional sprites for graphics. A compilation of Deathsmiles I and Deathsmiles II was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in Japan in December 2021 and later for Microsoft Windows in June 2022.