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Espgaluda II

Espgaluda II is a manic shooter originally released by Cave in the arcades in 2005 as a sequel to Espgaluda, and it has now found its way to Nintendo Switch.

83 9 September 2021

Espgaluda II is an arcade developed by CAVE Interactive, released 9 September 2021 on Nintendo Switch.

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What Espgaluda II is

Espgaluda II is an arcade game developed by CAVE Interactive and released in 2021. It was published by Live Wire. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game takes place in a fictional land called Soma, three years after a massive war known as the Great Shinra War devastated the land and killed most of its plant life. Humanity is forced to pull their efforts together for the sake of survival and reforestation. Using new found technology, an alchemist named Hiodoshi spearheaded a project called Project Espgaluda, which gathered youths and used them as experimental test subjects for artificial armored wings. They were then called Galuda, named after the mythical bird of legend. Ageha and Tateha were two of the subjects who escaped during the project. At the end of Espgaluda, they were reunited with their mother and lived peacefully after…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Espgaluda II holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Espgaluda II launched on 9 September 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Espgaluda II come out?
Espgaluda II was released on 9 September 2021 for Nintendo Switch.

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