Deathsmiles II

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Deathsmiles II
Developer(s)	Cave
Publisher(s)	Cave
Director(s)	Junya Inoue
Producer(s)	Kenichi Takano
Designer(s)	Atsushi Aburano Akira Wakabayashi Hiroyuki Tanaka Hideki Nomura
Programmer(s)	Takashi Ichimura
Artist(s)	Junya Inoue
Composer(s)	Manabu Namiki Noriyuki Kamikura Yoshimi Kudo Motoi Sakuraba
Series	Deathsmiles
Platform(s)	Arcade Xbox 360 PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Microsoft Windows
Release	Arcade 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
Genre(s)	Bullet hell
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Deathsmiles II: Makai no Merry Christmas^[1] 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 and later for Microsoft Windows in June 2022.