Devil Blade Reboot (v1.0.0) - Inferno Mode ALL Clear (1CC) - 22,806,910 Pts
463Devil Blade Reboot is a highly anticipated doujin shmup that finally came out on Steam yesterday.
The game has been in development since about 2017 and is made by Shigatake, a Vanillaware-affiliated illustrator, so you can expect some great production values here.
A remake of a game that started as a 1996 Dezaemon project.
Dezaemon being a popular 'Shmup Maker' on SNES, Saturn and PS1 (quite a lot of now fan-favorite shmups have similar roots).
The presentation of this game is one of the best I've seen. A highly cinematic audio and visual spectacle.
The gameplay is very good as well, it has an incredibly high pace with mechanics that encourage very aggressive play for the highest rewards.
Game is doing some cool new QOL features for the genre.
Enemies have different markers indicating whether they're ground or air enemies. The bullet and laser telegraphing lines from Natsuki Chronicles also seem to make a return here.
Pointblanking increases the enemy's score multiplier and your Berserk%.
When Berserk is at 100% you enter Berserk Mode and all multipliers are multiplied by 5 (x4 becomes x20). Enemy rank also goes up. Berserk lowers when you're not pointblanking.
Bombs can also be used as Boosts which increase Berserk% gain by 5 times while the hyper is in effect.
Inferno is the highest difficulty in the game, changes include:
- Bombs, Boost, and shields are not available.
- You will die if Berserk Mode remains inactive for too long (lol).
- Rank is always maxed out.
- Only 2 score extends.
The limited resources makes this pretty hard, the patterns themselves aren't that bad.
It seems a little silly to me that you can't use Boosts in this mode, as that is one of the main scoring systems of this game, but I guess that would make the main gimmick of this mode too easy.
Speaking of, you dying when you're not pointblanking enough is hilarious. That's one way to force people to play for score I guess.
According to the video and streaming rules of this game I apparently can't show you the ending or any other art from the game that's not in the intro and main game.
See the Twitch VOD here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2154761722
Buy the game on Steam here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2882440/DEVIL_BLADE_REBOOT/
00:00 - Intro
01:41 - Episode 1 - Lost City
05:42 - Episode 2 - Lunatic
09:22 - Episode 3 - Resistance
13:21 - Episode 4 - Threat
18:34 - Episode 5 - Last Stop
23:16 - Last Episode - Judgement
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