Espgaluda II OST If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. Espgaluda is a vertical arcade shmup that was ported to the PlayStation 2. This game follows the Cave tradition of giving the player large quantities of bullets to dodge. This is the sequel to Esp.Ra.De. The PlayStation 2 version features an arrange mode with the following changes: Enemies fire many more bullets (approx.
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The Espgaluda series is a series of Bullet HellShootEmUps by CAVE
The series spans two main games:
- Espgaluda (2003): Once upon a time, there was a peaceful kingdom named Shinra, ruled by a line of queens with supernatural powers. The current king, Jakou, decides to conduct a number of experiments to induce this power in his children as well as harness it for military purposes. Two of his children, Ageha and Tateha, are rescued from his grasp and taken into hiding by a man named Hiodoshi. Eventually, Jakou's forces track them down...
- Espgaluda DX (2005)
- Espgaluda II (2005): It has been three years since the first game, the events of which are known as the 'Great Shinra War.' The ruling family of another country named Soma decide to salvage Jakou's research and create an organization called the Spirit Society, dedicated to producing more children with psychic powers. One of the products of these experiments, Asagi, flees and joins Ageha and Tateha.
- Espgaluda II Black Label (2010)
- Espgaluda II iPhone (and Android) (2010)
- Espgaluda II HD for iPad 2 (2011)
The Espgaluda series contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Ageha and Tateha's father, the king Jakou is decidedly not a nice guy.
- Animal Motifs: Butterflies are everywhere in both games. The playable characters themselves are named after Japanese terms for certain species of butterflies, and fly around with butterfly wings.
- Archnemesis Dad: Jakou from the first Espgaluda is the father of Ageha and Tateha and the main villain of that game.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: 'Royalty' in the case of Jakou, an evil king who experimented on his children Ageha and Tateha so he can turn them into psychic Tykebombs and use them for military purposes.
- Arrange Mode: The PS2 port of the first game has an arrange that is a crossover between it and ESP Ra De, complete with Suspiciously Similar Substitutes of J-B 5th and Irori and a force field meter replacing the usual Smart Bomb.
- Espgaluda II has the 'Black Label' arrange, which includes a chaining system in the style of DoDonPachi which multiplies the value of gold, makes it so that when an enemy is killed, their bullets are always canceled into gold, includes a shield meter that repels bullets, and includes Seseri as a new playable character. There is also an arrange mode, programmed by S. Yagawa of Recca and Battle Garegga fame, that implements a polarity system akin to Ikaruga or Dimahoo, where bullets are either blue, which are canceled with normal shots, or red, which are canceled using the laser. Switching between your two shots costs gems. Finally, there is the Omake mode, where collecting gems and gold contributes to a combined counter, and when enemy shots approach your character, they turn red. Activating Kakusei mode cancels these bullets, but killing an enemy turns them into gems instead.
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- Art-Shifted Sequel: The art for the first game was done by Tsukasa Kado, while the art for the second game was done by Masaki Hirooka.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Asagi's ending has this for herself, Tsubame & Janome, and all of the children who were being experimented on by the Spirit Society.
- Bare Your Midriff: Ageha's female form in Espgaluda II. Tateha's male form in both games, with much tougher abs in the second game.
- BFG: Madara, the midboss of Espgaluda II stage 2, carries one.
- Big Bad: Jakou in the first game.
- Bullet Time: The effect of being in Awakening mode and having spare gems.
- Cain and Abel: Sersei's father is Jakou, but her mother is not the Queen of Shinra (aka Ageha and Tateha's mother), making her the half-sister of the player characters. She hates Ageha and Tateha because Jakou focuses all of his attentions on them, so she seeks to kill them to earn Jakou's love.
- Continuing Is Painful: In the first game. If you die, your gold meter is cut in half.
- Creepy Child: The Alice Clones from ESP Ra.De return for the final stage of both games in this series.
- Curtains Match the Window: Ageha and Tateha... sort of. Their eyes are a darker shade of green than their hair. Seseri's purple eyes have a reddish tint compared to her blue-violet hair (in the first game at least).
- Cyborg: Seseri, after the first stage of the first game.
- Disney Death: In the first game, Seseri falls from a great height while injured and bloodied from the first boss stage. She then comes back as a cyborg.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: If not for the first game and the other two characters as references, you might not realize that Asagi's alternate form is supposed to be a boy, especially thanks to the artwork showing that this male form's shoes have higher heels, and the book is changed to a stuffed bunny head.
- Duel Boss: In Espgaluda II Black Label, there is a special theme song for Seseri vs. Seseri.
- Evil Counterpart: Jakou, the final boss of the first game, is able to do gender-changing Awakening just like the player characters.
- Evil Laugh: Madara, the boss with the multi-part tank in Espgaluda II.
- Fanservice Pack: In Espgaluda II, Tateha and Ageha have aged a bit, and their clothes for their female forms are noticeably more revealing. Almost literally for Seseri, who was rebuilt to look like she had aged as much as the main characters. (not counting her playable version in Espgaluda II Black Label)
- Flight: The main playable characters can fly around with butterfly wings made of Psychic Powers. Seseri can do it, too, but with machinery. Jakou can do this, too.
- Fusion Dance: The final boss of Espgaluda II
- Gender Bender: The core gameplay mechanic for high scoring. The final boss of Espgaluda can do it too. In Espgaluda II, this game mechanic is required for unlocking the fight against True Seseri, and the final boss is a fusion of a boy and a girl.
- Gender-Restricted Ability: In the first Espgaluda it's explained that only the female royalty of Shinra can wield vast psychic powers passed down every generation. The only reason why Ageha and Tateha can wield them too is due to their mother being Shinra royalty, and being experimented on by their evil and ambitious father.
- Guest Fighter: The PS2 port's Arrange Mode has two Suspiciously Similar Substitutes of J-B 5th and Irori.
- Guide Dang It!: The scoring system, especially the Awakening Overdrive mode for Espgaluda II. Then there's the whole gameplay for Espgaluda II Black Label.
- Incest Subtext: In the second game, Tsubame and Janome unify into a single being named Kujaku as the final boss. There is a lot of additional subtext between them shown in Asagi's ending. Also present in Ageha's ending, between him and Tateha.
- Innocent Flower Girl: Janome, the boss of Espgaluda II stage 3, is strongly linked with flowers. She turns not-so-innocent when she becomes a boss of a Cave game.
- Light Is Not Good: Jakou's female form is angelic and beautiful, and has golden wings. He later his male and female forms together, resulting in a saintly figure with demonic-looking wings.
- Long Song, Short Scene: Unless you're listening to the soundtrack, you won't get to hear the entire stage song in some levels.
- Mad Scientist: In the first game, Ageha & Tateha's father is an evil king who experimented on his own children in order to induce Psychic Powers. In the second game, the Spirit Society is doing this on a larger scale on many children.
- Magic Pants: An interesting example, in that the characters' clothes magically transform to be appropriate for their current gender, for certain definitions of 'appropriate.'
- Meganekko: Asagi from Espgaluda II wears glasses bigger than her eyes.
- More Dakka: Stage 5 has Jakou's men shoot at you with a ludicrously amount of bullets. Stage 6 has the Alice clones do the same as well.
- Pretty Butterflies: The playable characters have butterfly-esque wings made of psychic energy.
- Psychic Powers: The player characters were engineered specifically to have these.
- Robot Girl: Seseri appears to be fully machine in Espgaluda II
- ROM Hack: Espketsuda, the result of mashing Espgaluda's program ROM with the graphical and sound assets of Ketsui. It was popular enough that it got an original soundtrack of sorts. YOUR MISSIONS!
- Sequel Difficulty Spike: As far as playing for score goes, Espgaluda II's mechanics are much harder to understand and master.
- Shapeshifter Baggage: It is difficult to calculate how much of a mass difference there is, or whether or not any of it is involved in keeping Kakusei ('Awakening') mode going besides the gems.
- Spiritual Successor: To ESP Ra.De due to the guard barrier mechanic, bosses with huge psychic wings, and the Alice Clones.
- Steam Punk: The technology and fashion featured in Espgaluda are both reminiscent of this trope.
- Super Gender-Bender: The heroes are already powerful psychics, but gender-changing makes them into even more powerful psychics. Not only Jakou, the Big Bad, can do this, but in the final boss battle he fuses his male and female forms together to create a powerful, androgynous being.
- Tank Goodness: A three-part tank that can combine, no less, in Espgaluda II stage 4. Lampshaded by the achievement for the iOS version, 'One Less Tank in a Cave Game' upon defeating this boss.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: At the beginning of the first game, Hiodoshi gets shot up a lot of times.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Seeing their Parental Substitute Hiodoshi get brutally killed by Jakou's men caused Ageha and Tateha's Psychic Powers to awaken.
- True Final Boss: Subverted in Espgaluda II, in which it's the boss of stage 5 who has a true version.
- Voice of the Legion: Jakou's final form, a fusion of both his male and female forms, speaks with both male and female voices.
- We Can Rebuild Him: Seseri, twice.
- 'Well Done, Son!' Guy: Seseri's motivation for wanting to kill Ageha and Tateha, since she was not born from a psychic queen like they were. When she is defeated in the second game, she even says, 'Father, I'm sorry...' as she dies.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Ageha and Tateha (and their female/male counterparts) have light green hair. Asagi and Seseri have light and dark purple hair, respectively.
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Besides Ageha, other popular characters such as Asagi and Ceceri are joining in the fun, choose your favourite girl as your player character. The developers have added more play modes. Novices, train your shooting abilities and then take up simple missions. Veterans, challenge the ultra hard stages and win rare items.