Underplayed Gems

Dezaemon Kids! (1998)

Dezaemon Kids! cover
Developer
Athena
Publisher
Success, Athena, MonkeyPaw Games
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Genres
Shooter

How it feels

It feels like a friendly toybox for tinkering, letting players casually piece together their own shoot-'em-ups without pressure or steep difficulty.

creativelightheartedaccessiblecolorfulplayfulexperimentalcasualkid-friendly

About

Dezaemon Kids! is a title in the Dezaemon series that allows players to create their own shoot-'em-up games. The players can design levels and enemies by themselves or choose from a number of presets, as well as compose musical themes for the levels. The game has a simplified colorful interface which makes it targeted for younger audience. It also boasts fully-voiced tutorial, a large amount of sample data, a horizontal scroll option, and 2-player simultaneous play option. The second game disc contains 102 sample games created in Dezaemon Plus.

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Screenshots

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