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Developer(s)	Cave
Publisher(s)	City Connection
Composer(s)	Manabu Namiki Noriyuki Kamikura Yoshimi Kudo Motoi Sakuraba
Series	Deathsmiles
Platform(s)	Arcade Xbox 360 PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch
Release date(s)	Arcade ^JP May 14, 2009 Xbox 360 ^{May 27, 2010} NA PS4, Xbox One, Switch ^JP December 16, 2021
Genre(s)	Bullet hell
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Deathsmiles II: Makai no Merry Christmas is a bullet hell game by Cave, released in 2009. 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.

Gameplay

Arcade version screenshot.

Development and release

Deathsmiles IIX was ported to the Xbox 360 with additional modes in 2010. It was released both regular and limited editions which included a soundtrack CD. On release week, Deathsmiles IIX sold 16,112 copies in Japan according to Media Create. A platinum edition was released in 2011. The unlocalized Japanese release was made available on the US "Games on Demand" store in 2011.

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