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name	publisher(developer)	year	description	platform
Angel Marlowe	Technos	1994	Incomplete unofficial English translation available: [[link:http://www.romhacking.net]] [cjlee001]	GB
Chubby Cherub	Bandai (Tose)	1985	Jump and fly with a little angel (or ghost in the Japanese version) to the end of each level. Enemies consist mainly of dogs who have nothing better to do than try to bark the little hero to death. The graphics in this game a relatively nice with good backgrounds for a title from 1985, but the gameplay is weak with several unfair situations.	NES
Dom Camillo	Free Game Blot	1987		Amstrad CPC
Dom Camillo	Free Game Blot	1987		Thomson
Favorite Dear	NEC (NEC Interchannel)	1999	In this game you are an angel, you come to the world to select 6 characters, rise and train them into warriors to battle against the devil. Before the game begins you can choose the sex of the angel, which will affect the story and events in the game.	PS
Gabrielle	Ubi Soft	1987		Amstrad CPC
Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami	Nintendo	1986	You are Pit, a little angel trapped in the underworld and you have to free your homeland from the evil Medusa. Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami (half a year later released as "Kid Icarus" in the US) plays like a mix of [game=#5128]Super Mario Bros.[/game], [game=#7949]Zelda 2[/game] and [game=#8012]Metroid[/game]. Not quite as "classic" as the aforementioned games it nevertheless features interesting gameplay and is technically well done. However it is also overly difficult. Actually much too difficult in my eyes. Hard to hit enemies, difficult jumping passages and several levels being a huge labyrinth. Nintendo seemed to follow a general rule of other publishers in 1986 and 1987 to rise the difficulty level to near insane levels.	Famicom Disk System
Kid Icarus	Nintendo	1987	[100]* [22]* [52]* [49]Half a year after Nintendo released Kid Icarus in Japan for the Famicom Disk System, they brought the game to the west for the NES. The game is of course nearly the same as the Famicom Disk Version with a few differences. Instead of saving your game on disk a password system was implemented. The NES version als features weaker sound effects and the last shooting-type level a bit more convenient control-wise. The rest from the Famicom Disk System version also applies to the NES version. It is a quality-wise good game, a mixture of [game=#5128]Super Mario Bros.[/game], [game=#7949]Zelda 2[/game] and [game=#8012]Metroid[/game] with nice graphics and music but overly high difficulty level.In a time when men and gods lived in harmony, the kingdom of Angel Land was ruled by two goddesses: Palutena, the Goddess of Light, and Medusa, the Goddess of Darkness. Unlike Palutena, Medusa despised all humans and enjoyed destroying their crops and turning them into stone. One day, Palutena decided to punish the evil Medusa and banished her after turning her into a hideous monster. But Medusa would not go without a fight. She created an army of monsters and evil spirits and captured Palutena. Players play as Pit, a young angel trapped in the Underworld, and Palutena's only hope. They use a magical bow to retrieve the Sacred Treasures, defeat Medusa and restore peace to Angel Land.*This game was released alongside Metroid. They share similar graphics and even have a crossover character. Both games were also the first to use a password feature. The game was made in 1986 by Nintendo.	NES
Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters	Nintendo	1992		GB
Messiah	Interplay;SoldOut Software (Shiny Entertainment)	1999	Names of interest: * Bob (the protagonist; diapered litttle angel/cherub) * Prime Father (the antagonist)*[b]posthumans[/b] - the Chots (devolved rather) [b]cannibalism[/b] - it is said the Chots eat their own. (Unverified if this is actually seen or if the player can perform this when possessing one of them.) --- notes religion-christian --- the most I can gather from this game is that there's a single god who sends out Bob the cherub down to Earth to fix things because satan or some other evil devil/demon is messing things up. This seems to be more as punishment for Bob than actually to save Earth. The focus of the game is humor, however, so the religious content may be only superficial.Sex, Religion, Possession, Death Bob is the scum of the Heavens, an angel in name only. He's been asked by the `Big Man´ Himself to rub out those "Screw Ups down on Earth". He has the power to possess anyone and use sinners to slay sinners. He can enter over 40 characters and control them to mutilate, sneak, impale, charm and creatively wipe out other vermin, but it takes cunning to decide who to possess... As Bob, you can possess and control any of the over 40 characters, including: Prostitutes, cops, behemoths, priests, bouncers, sub girls, bondage dancers, gigolos, demons, chots, welders, nuclear workers, medics, bartenders, dwarves, pimps, monsters, animals and much more! * Over 10 different weapons, including: rocket propelled harpoons, needle guns, rocket launchers, flame throwers, grenades, stun guns. * Use enemies as weapons. * All characters have real skin covering their bones, resulting in skin that jiggles and stretches in all the right places. [Box blurb]	Windows
Nazoler Land Dai 2 Gou	Sunsoft	1987	Nazoler Land Dai 2 Gou is the second game in an obscure game series for the Famicom Disk System. The concept of releasing several small games and applications on one disk as so called "disk magazines" was not new in the homecomputer area. But Sunsoft tried this concept for the first time for a console. Nazoler Land Dai 2 Gou features six (mini)-games (five "real" games actually and a non-interactive information/entertainment part). So there are two less games than in the first game. But the games are overall a bit more sophisticated. But still a good step behind most other games. And several below average games don't make a good product. 1.) [b]Putarikku:[/b] A puzzle game. Turn all squares of the playfield into white squares. Bland puzzle game for purists. 2.) [b]Sekai Isshuu Nazoraa Quiz:[/b] Travel to cities around the world and answer questions to earn money and travel to further cities. Sadly, more difficult than the questions is the Japanese language here. 3.) [b]Warashibe:[/b] Barter with other characters for items/money. Very strange game. Not fun. 4.) [b]Bakufuu Tomo-chan:[/b] Another puzzle game. You play a girl which bombs her way down some platforms, avoiding animals and trying not to get stuck. I think this is the most interesting game in this collection. 5.) [b]Nazoraa Shounen Tantei-dan Ougen Yashiki no Nazo-hen:[/b] An adventure game in first-person perspective. Didn't seem interesting enough to work my way through the language barrier here. 6.) [b]Nazoraa Box:[/b] Not a game, but a collection of strange non-interactive scenes. For example a girl who reads some news (or letters to the editor I think) and a rudimentary paint program. Maybe they wanted to become even more like homecomputer disk mags, which also often featured tools and news besides games.	Famicom Disk System
Painkiller: Overdose	DreamCatcher Interactive;JoWood Productions (Mindware Studios)	2007	[b]unique/angelic/demonic/hybrid protagonist[/b] - a cross-breed of the two, so he's quite special. [b]odd appliances[/b] - the starting weapon is a demon's head, the second weapon gained is a shattered cube.*Overdose's events start sometime after the end of [game=#154094]Painkiller[/game] as a result of Lucifer's death (at Daniel's hands) when Belial is freed, having been trapped by Lucifer's essence.2007-10-30 on Steam, by Dreamcatcher Interactive (lang: eng)*Packed with tons of fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled single player and multiplayer levels of mayhem, Painkiller: Overdose brings with it 6 innovative new demonic weapons, mind-bending physics, lightning-player maps, over 40 demented and sickly-twisted monsters from Hell and gigantic end bosses that will blow your mind! Game Features: Prequel to the eventual Sequel bridges the storyline and ties up wandering ends. * Overdose introduces a new character and storyline that examines the repercussions of Daniel defeating Lucifer in the original Painkiller! * 16 NEW levels of fast-paced pain-killing action! * 6 New demonic weapons grant the powers of a demi-god to souls awaiting damnation everywhere! * Crafted and designed completely by Mindware Studios; long-time advocates and fans of the game. * A reshuffled Tarot deck infuses Belial with new powers and devastating combinations. * An innovative direction in the Painkiller universe! * Over 40 demented and sickly-twisted monsters from Hell * New End Bosses of colossal statures standing guard over Hell's crumbling domain and the entrances to the other realms! * A revitalized commitment to multiplayer introduces a series of stats tracking features and game server options intended to revamp the multiplayer experience. * Multiplayer compatibility with original Painkiller multiplayer maps and game modes! [Mindware]*US 2007-10-23 by DreamCatcher EU 2007-11-15 by Jowood INT 2007-10-30 on Steam, by JoWooD Entertainment, DreamCatcher (lang: eng, ger)*Minimum requirements: * Windows 2000, XP or Vista * 1.5 GHz Pentium III or Athlon CPU * 512 MB RAM * 2.5 GB free HD space * 128 MB VRAM * GeForce FX 5600 or Radeon 9600***Apparently this was originally a community driven mod for [game=Painkiller]Painkiller[/game].	Windows
Requiem: Avenging Angel	3DO;Ubi Soft (Cyclone Studios)	1999	The game is most definitely influenced by Judeo-Christian mythology. I do not know if there is any Christian religion in it [wip].* [100]* [84]* [53]On newer systems, the game bugs out around the time you almost reach Elijah (a door guarded by two grunts). There isn't much you can do about it, besides running the game on older system (MSVPC wasn't enough, it seems), or find a savegame that's past that point. Unfortunately my ability to find such a savegame have returned no results, so anyone wanting to play this needs to be a hard retro geek with actual old system to run the game on. Update: Or get the updated GOG/Steam version or similar I suppose works too. The original release is not anywhere as workable however.*[b]Minimum:[/b] Windows 95 or 98 * 166 MHz Pentium CPU * 32 MB RAM * 2 MB VRAM * 110 MB HD space * CD-ROM drive [b]Recommended:[/b] * 200 MHz Pentium CPU * 4 MB VRAM * Glide or Direct3D compatible GPU * 275 MB HD space***Latest version: 1.3 (as of 2001?) for English, 1.3 (as of 2004?) for Korean releases, 2.0 (as of 2000?) for Japanese release	Windows
Seraph	Dreadbit	2016	2016-04-26 Steam Early Access started	Windows
To Hell and Back	CRL	1988		C64
Voxel Slam: Jam of the Last Archon	author	2012		Linux

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