Deathsmiles II X [JP X360, May 27th, 2010 | US X360 GoD, May 17th, 2011]

[Special World]

By "counter refill trick" do you just mean canceling all suicide bullets into points when your fever is about to run out, in order to try and fill your gauge back up to 1000 and re-enter fever?

[TheSoundofRed]

By "counter refill trick" do you just mean canceling all suicide bullets into points when your fever is about to run out, in order to try and fill your gauge back up to 1000 and re-enter fever?

Yep. Until your multiplier is 10k, any suicide bullets you cancel turn into blue rings instead of skulls. You can only obtain skulls my destroying enemies with lock-shot outside of having a 10k multiplier. I wasn't aware of this since it doesn't explicitly mention that you HAVE to have a 10k multiplier to cancel suicide bullets into skulls in the DSII strategy thread.

[EOJ]

Yep, you need the 10K to keep riding the 1K. Protip: You can also burst up to 10K from power up mode when you're as low as 3K or 4K, if you have enough sperm trackers and time the blue rings properly at the end of power up mode.

This is all Arcade mode talk, of course.

[Special World]

Describing this game sounds more like prostitution than anything else.

[bcass]

Does the DLC work with this release?

[StarCreator]

Does the DLC work with this release?

Yes, it does - everything is identical to the Japanese disc release, just without the disc and the region locking.

[bcass]

Great.  Time to fire up the VPN.

[StarCreator]

Do you have a PAL 360?  Would love to confirm this works on one - we only know it works on NTSC consoles so far.

[bcass]

Unfortunately not, I only have a J360.

[cstle]

Time to fire up the VPN.

No need. A poster at NeoGAF downloaded it in Germany with a US account, US 360, no proxy/vpn.

edit: As well as one in Japan.

[TheSoundofRed]

Really loving IIX mode. Got the hang of the IIX scoring and now just need to figure out how to pay attention to blue sperms and regular enemy bullets at the same time. Especially on the Ruins stage. DSII very well be my favorite Cave game 

[jyumi]

The scoring is very smooth; jewlery everywhere. I just need to remember that the counter resets every time I get out of power up (I'm spoiled too much by DSMBL).

I'm still in limbo in arrange. I've never had to weave through and cancel so many bullets since ESPgaluda2 Arrange

[Raiden]

Wow. Deathsmiles 2 is much harder and more rewarding. I like it. And thats why 2 is better than 1 (Lol at the reference  )

I give it a 9/10

[Dandy_Sephy]

I've still not been able to get a 100m+ score on the first stage with any character 

[lam47]

Is this correct.

Meanwhile, it seems possible to download this game from anywhere in the world as long as you have an NTSC-J or NTSC-U X360 and a US Xbox live account.

Because I'm in the UK and would quite like not having to use the disc.
Will just have to use some poor souls address to make an account is all.

Just took the time to read the few posts above mine.
Cool!

[Shalashaska]

Available to Canada and Mexico the 24th. http://cave-game.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/05/deathsmiles-i-1.html

[jheiger]

This game really is alot of fun. It seems like th 1cc on level three dificulty is possible too. I died on the last boss last night (made some silly mistakes getting to him). I finished with a score of around 3.5billion. Its nowhere near the top scorers but I can see where the potential is. I wasn't really getting the timing of the refill until towards the last stage. Once i get the 1cc its time to attack the EX Stage, but honestly I am scared of that boss.

[Special World]

The last boss is deceptively easy. A lot of his bullets will just go right through you. I find the Carnival bosses to be harder, but I still don't think they're too terrible.

[ssfsx17]

Question on Arrange mode: is there any reason (or reliable method) to keep the Heaven/Hell bar closer to Heaven? It seems like the bar will just always be max-Hell all the time.

[Daverost]

Hmm...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/990640-deathsmiles-ii-x/61425013

Anyone got any info on this?

[EOJ]

Hmm, I'll check it out when I get off work later today.

[bcass]

Was there a title update on or near release?  Maybe it's just that his cache has cleared and he needed to download that again?

[EOJ]

Maybe it's just that his cache has cleared and he needed to download that again?

It's this. I just checked, and there's no new patch to download. He just re-downloaded the first patch.

[Daverost]

Well that was disappointing. I haven't been able to check on it myself. Oh well. Thanks.

[Orochi S]

I've been really getting into the arcade mode on this recently - didn't quite appreciate how good it was before! The scoring system is very, very cool 

Anyway, I just saw on the Rising Star Games forum that the DeathSmiles II X thread under 'game suggestions' has been moved to 'other Rising Star Games' - an indication of a PAL release, perhaps?

http://www.risingstargames.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=19

I suppose there's only this and Mushi HD that Rising Star might give a disc release to after Akai Katana? I can't see them going for Ketsui or DOJBLEX...

[cstarflare]

I've been spending some time with Deathsmiles II myself. I really like the feature where it disables my left shot button when I'm fighting the mansion boss. And the part where I feel really awkward at Lei's ending.

But the other stuff they included is cool too. I really want to break 1 billion and clear, then move on to X Mode.

[iconoclast]

I've been spending some time with Deathsmiles II myself. I really like the feature where it disables my left shot button when I'm fighting the mansion boss. And the part where I feel really awkward at Lei's ending.

But the other stuff they included is cool too. I really want to break 1 billion and clear, then move on to X Mode.

I really, really hate that bug. Sometimes your rapid shot button randomly stops working, or sometimes it'll even change to the laser (most common on the final boss). I wish the port wasn't so sloppy, because the game is so good.

Good luck on 1 billion. I've been meaning to put some time into X-mode as well.