| Shikigami no Shiro | |
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| Developer(s) | Alfa System |
| Publisher(s) | Arcade Taito Corporation PlayStation 2 XS Games Xbox Mediaquest Windows Sourcenext |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Windows 98 |
| Release date(s) | Arcade
Windows
Xbox
PlayStation 2
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| Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter |
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| System requirements
Pentium III 700MHz CPU, 128MiB system memory, 500MB hard drive space, video card with 16MiB memory |
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Shikigami no Shiro (式神の城), released as Mobile Light Force 2 in the US and Europe, is the first game in the Shikigami no Shiro series.
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In July 2005, a string of serial murders took place in Tokyo, where all the victims were female and killed by external injury. The killings took place within 20 hours.
On July 21, the 31st victim was found. The police force classified the case as special crime #568, and began to seek investigators from occult sources.
The story begins on July 23, with the 32nd victim.
Player gets 0, 100, 280, 640 bonus coins when weapon level is at 1, 2, 3, 4 respectively when destroying an enemy.
When player is close to enemy bullet, player gains multiplier based on distance of bullet from player's centre, with closer distance receiving higher multiplier. The multiplier ranges from 2x to 8x. Score multiplier is applied when destroying enemy or retrieving item.
When destroying enemy in shikigami mode, the multiplier also applies to the number of items dropped by enemy. When an enemy is destroyed in shikigami mode, all item dropped by the enemy is automatically retrieved.
The Xbox release adds Practice mode, Gallery, and Replay mode, while the PlayStation 2 release has Practice mode, Gallery, and Side Story mode.
It is a Windows port of the first Xbox game. It includes I.R. mode and vertical screen layout from the arcade game.
Shikigami no Shiro Evolution (式神の城 EVOLUTION) is a revised version for Xbox. It was available in two separate versions, a red (藍 kurenai) version which included a database containing character gallery, trailers, and unused voices, and a blue (藍 ai) version which included developer videos. Both versions have improved enemy AI, new characters, a vertical screen mode, and the new Evolution Mode game mode.
When the title was developed for the US market, several changes were made.
A comic version was written by Tooru Zekuu (是空 とおる Zekuu Tooru) (aka Shinji Takano) and illustrated by Yuuna Takanagi (たかな ぎ優名 Takanagi Yuuna), serialized on monthly Magazine Z. Three volumes were published under Kodansha's Magazine Z KC label.
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