Kaite Tsukutte Asoberu Dezaemon [Model SHVC-66]

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(Kaite Tsukutte Asoberu Dezaemon)

Dezaemon is a vertical shooter editor developed and published by Athena, and it is the second title from the long-running and unique series of the same name. This unique game comes with an already build-in vertical shooter called "Daioh Gale", but this is only half of what's on offer here. Dezaemon allows the player to create his own vertical shooters - to draw all the in-game sprites, design the levels, edit enemy attack patterns, customize power-ups and even compose the music tracks. Daioh Gale somehow shows what the editor is capable of and features six levels, waves of all king of enemy ships, power-ups, special effects and large bosses - and all aspects of this built-in game can be used as a template, changed and tailored with the editor. Dezaemon is all in Japanese though, so anyone not familiar with the language should expect a bit of trial and errors - but the overall interface is almost completely free of text and relies on easily recognizable and comprehensible icons and menus.