1996 · Expanded edition · Athena · Shooter
Dezaemon Plus
PlayStation exclusiveExpanded edition
Dezaemon Plus is an updated PlayStation release of Dezaemon on the Super Famicom. Both games allow players to create their own vertical shooters through use of an icon-driven tool set. Players can control enemy placement, behavior, weapons, powerups, boss firing points, and so on. A graphics editor allows players to draw backgrounds, along with sprites for players, enemies, and even explosions.
- Released
- 24 May 1996
- Platforms
- PlayStationPlayStation 3PlayStation Portable
- Genres
- Shooter
- Developers
- Athena
- Publishers
- AthenaMonkeyPaw Games
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Age ratings
- ESRB E10+CERO A
- Languages
- Japanese
About
Dezaemon is a 1991 vertically scrolling shooter video game and game creation system developed and published by Athena for the Family Computer. It was released only in Japan on September 13, 1991. An enhanced version was released for the Super Famicom on September 20, 1994 and the PlayStation as Dezaemon Plus on May 24, 1996.
Despite its expensive price and entry barrier, the game has maintained a small but dedicated community of level creators, with new games such as Devil Blade Reboot being developed to this day. It is one of the earliest game creation systems easily accessible to console players, paving the way to similar systems such as Blast Works and Super Mario Maker. It was followed by a sequel, Dezaemon 2 for the Sega Saturn, as well as spin-offs, Dezaemon 3D for the Nintendo 64 and Dezaemon Kids! for the PlayStation.
Keywords
- shoot 'em up
- shmup
- playstation network
- digital distribution
- psone classics
- playstation tv support
- backwards compatibility
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The player can design vertically scrolling shooter games with the available tools in a manner similar to developing for a NES development kit. The player's spaceship sprites can be customized alongside the backgrounds, music, enemies and projectiles, a relatively ambitious and robust system for the time. The SNES and PlayStation versions offer vastly improved variety in graphics and music. The SNES version includes Daioh Gale, a sequel to Athena's arcade shooter Daioh, as a built-in game developed to display the game's capabilities.
Reception
Gonçalo Lopes of Nintendo Life gave the SNES version a 8/10 score, praising the robust course editing tools and rewarding design experience, though he lamented the lack of a modern successor to the game.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Part of
- Kaite Tsukutte Asoberu: Dezaemon
- Expanded edition of
- Kaite Tsukutte Asoberu: Dezaemon
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