NCS
Game Synopsis
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"Please kill me..." pleads the girl but before
anyone can perform a quick and painless slaughter at
the Kuzunoha Detective Agency, she is spirited away
by kidnappers. Who was the girl and what was the
reason for her strange request? Fast forward 20
years and
Kuzunoha
Raidou is chasing a seemingly normal thug on a
street. As the thug is cornered, his body shudders
forward and strange appendages begin growing from
his body until he's transformed into a demon. A
demon that attacks. After being blown back, Kuzunoha
Raidou removes an innocuous looking instrument from
his coat and summons a mighty demon which bellows a
blast at the demonic target. Just when it seems the
battle has been won, Kuzunoha Raidou slowly turns
around to confront a mighty force of suited sword
wielding soldiers...
Devil Summoner takes place in a dark and tempered post WWI Japan
when industry took hold
and the nation was on its way to becoming the second
largest economy on the planet. Raidou is the 14th
detective Devil Summoner to work in the family
business. While Raidou doesn't have any remarkable
offensive power of his own, his summoning abilities
marshal mighty demons to his side to fight for the
cause. Battles are fought in real time with full
blown action along with summons which light up the
screen and help with combination attacks and
unilateral offensive blasts.
NCS Game Notes
* In the intro to the game, Raidou is chasing a thug
and the camera switches between the two and a cat
which watches the action from above. Kitty is seated
at a window while its owner inside is making
matchstick structures indoors. Unable to contain its
excitement at the chase below, the cat leaps
downwards, crashes the matchstick pagoda, and joins
Raidou pace for pace and they corner the thug.
Unable to climb walls or disappear into thin air,
the thug does the next best thing - he transforms
into a demonic Daredevil-like creature. The
policeman removes a summoning trigger from his
jacket and slips it open, which causes it to light
up with shimmering illumination and summons a
mightier demon who attacks the thug-turned-demon and
knocks it down. Images flash of other characters in
the game before turning back to the scene at hand. A
bunch of menacing soldiers line up behind Raidou and
appear ready for battle as they draw their swords.
Raidou lowers his head and raises his hands which
hold a total of 8 summoning triggers which begin
shimmering. Intro ends.
* After pressing START, the following options
appear:
LOAD GAME
NEW GAME
DUAL SHOCK ON/OFF
* Start a new game and another intro starts where a
gnarled tree is the centerpiece with two torches in
front of it as the camera sways downwards. Raidou is
bowing in front of the tree and his uniform is laid
out with his sword and a gun. After a naming
ceremony, Raidou appears all decked out in his
uniform as he swishes on his cape and rushes off to
do battle with the forces of darkness.
* In the first action sequence once control is
handed over to the player, a training session begins
where the basics of movement and battle are taught.
Encounters take place in a separate screen where the
player is given full movement and control of Raidou.
The game controls:
L-Analog / Run around
D-pad / Run around
SQUARE / Sword attack
TRIANGLE / Gun attack
X BUTTON / Guard
R1 TRIGGER / Help menu and options
* The action plays like a hack 'n slasher except
that the screen doesn't scroll and the immediate
area of the temporary arena is all that Raidou has
to roam around in. Movement is fast and fully
controlled by the player where Raidou runs here,
sidles there, and shoots followed by slashes at
enemies. There are no statistical rolls of the die
here to determine victory, just your action-packed
sword hand
* To perform a lightning fast dash attack, move the
L-analog or d-pad in concert with the SQUARE button
and your man will rush forward so quickly that he
leaves light trails as he rams into a foe with sword
stretched before him. Pressing and holding SQUARE
then releasing will ignite a spinning whirlwind
attack where Raidou's sword smacks everyone that's
around him.
* The first training session foes appear to be WWI-era pimps of some sort. They're dressed in brown
fedoras and pink-colored kimonos that are pinched at
the waist with sashes. Both wear wooden shoes and
shuffle like the walking undead while their blue
skin and undead manner are discomforting to watch.
Shoot them and green blood jets away from their
bodies while sword slashes release pools of green
ochre. After defeating another pair of pimps, the
next battle pits Raidou against a demonic imp who
wields a fiery spear weapon. Every gunshot and slash
attack causes the demon to erupt a few quarts of
blood which explode outwards with each blow. The
little imp blows out fire and appears menacing but
it's a lightweight. Raidou has two bullets for his
gun at this point, a standard bullet and an ice
bullet that momentarily freezes the target so you
can rush in for the kill.
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