Deathsmiles iPhone, iPod touch announced

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 22 February, 2011

Out in the spring.

Cave's brain-melting horizontal shmup Deathsmiles will launch on iPhone and iPod touch in the spring.

The Japanese game maker refers to the iPhone/iPod touch version of Deathsmiles as a port of the Xbox 360 version rather than of the arcade version, reports Andriasang.

The Xbox 360 version launched as a budget game in the UK last Friday. Simon Parkin entered the zone for Eurogamer and emerged with an 8/10.

"This is a superb horizontal shoot 'em up delivered in a sterling package," he gushed. "It has all of the score-attack appeal of Bulletstorm in a far more dense and concentrated form."

A trailer for the iPhone version is below.

Deathsmiles on iPhone.

Picture of Wesley.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Ninja_Tino #1 1 year ago

    Only introduced to Cave through the iPhone, but boy do I love 'em. This seems the trickiest to port though, what with the shoot left/right being integral. Awesome!

  • abigsmurf #2 1 year ago

    I'm not a huge fan of the iphone versions of their shooters. To me the touch screen controls trivialised the game, I only seemed to die if I got knocked or if my finger got 'stuck' on the screen (usually happened if I didn't have to move for a few seconds). Not sure if its been patched in since then but no save option was also a major problem given games last 45 minutes and drain so much battery power.

    Looking at the video, they could do with adjusting the contrast of the bullets. Purple bullets + purple backgrounds + small screen partially covered by fingers isn't a great combination.

  • midnight_walker #3 1 year ago

    I bet it will cost an order of magnitude less than the 360 version.

  • Cadence #4 1 year ago

    I wonder how the touch screen controls will work as this is a horizontal shooter. I don't really want my fat finger obscuring the screen. It works well with stuff like Espgaluda because you've got a bit of space at the bottom of the screen.

  • BillyBrush #5 1 year ago

    Espgaluda2 was a good Iphone game but still paled next to the home console version.

    I hope it's a profitable route for Cave, will stick with the console versions myself though.

    It's interesting that Ios is getting some hardcore/niche games.

  • dwalker109 #6 1 year ago

    Good news. My only concern is the price - I do think that £6 for most of Cave's iOS games is excessive. Still, they are awesome....

  • Rack #7 1 year ago

    Yeah Espgaluda's control system was fantastic but I may stick to the 360 version for this, the shoot left/right mechanic seems ill-fitted to an iPhone.

  • sonicyoda #8 1 year ago

    If anyone can make a horizontal shooter work on the iPhone, it's Cave. Cannot wait to give this a go; DoDonPachi and Espgaluda are ridiculous amounts of fun and probably my favourite iPhone games.