#Castle of Shikigami 2

[satoshi-mochida]

Castle of Shikigami 2 Switch physical edition launches in Q2 2024 in the west

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Red Art Games will release a physical edition for the Switch version of shoot ’em up Castle of Shikigami 2 in Q2 2024 in North America and Europe, the publisher announced. The western physical release will feature new French, Italian, and Spanish localizations.

In North America, the physical release of Castle of Shikigami 2 will be handled by Video Games Plus and is limited to the standard edition.

In Europe, the physical release of Castle of Shikigami 2 will be handled by Red Art Games and includes the standard edition, Deluxe Edition, and Dream Edition. Here are the details:

In addition to the game’s Standard Edition which will be available everywhere once it launches, two special editions can also be pre-ordered from Red Art Games’ official online store. Red Art Games’ Castle of Shikigami 2 special editions were created using assets coming straight from Alfa System‘s archives. Those assets were initially used for Japan-only releases of the game in the early 2000s.

Castle of Shikigami 2 Deluxe Edition (300 PEGI-rated copies) (€39.99)

A copy of the game featuring reversible cover art

An exclusive sleeve inspired by one of Castle of Shikigami 2‘s 128-bit Japanese versions

A set of three Castle of Shikigami 2 tokens inspired by those in use in Japanese arcades

Castle of Shikigami 2 Dream Edition (500 PEGI-rated copies) (€69.99)

A retro style box

A copy of the game featuring reversible cover art

An exclusive sleeve inspired by one of Castle of Shikigami 2‘s 128-bit Japanese versions

A double-sided poster featuring art inspired by Castle of Shikigami 2‘s original Arcade flyer

The Castle of Shikigami 2 original soundtrack CD

An acrylic stand

Watch a new trailer below.

Physical Edition Trailer

[itsfantasticac]

Castle of Shikigami 2 illustration by Miku Sonoda, for a 2003 issue of Arcadia magazine.

Shikigami no Shiro II - Koushiki Settei Shiryoushuu (Nov. 26, '03), pg. 8

[singular-yike]

Len'en Stuff Masterpost

Here's a more organized collection of every Len'en post that I've, hopefully this makes things easier to look through.

Overall Explanations

Introduction to Len'en

Getting into Len'en Lore (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

Len'en Relationship Charts

Character Analyses

First-person Pronouns Used in Len'en

Second-person Pronouns Used in Len'en

Overall Shitodo Siblings Analysis

Evanescent Existence

Kurohebi

Aoji Shitodo

Tsubakura Enraku

Yabusame Houlen

Hooaka Shitodo

Kuroji Shitodo

Wilhelm von Clausewitz Halcyon HISUIMARU

Tsurubami Senri

Earthen Miraculous Sword

Jun Amanomiya

Shou Amanomori

Lumen Celeritas

Sukune Katano: 1 2 (Speech Quirks)

Adagumo no Yaorochi and Saragimaru (Saragimaru's Name)

The Tasouken

Reactivate Majestical Imperial

Sese Kitsugai

Fujiwara no Iyozane

Taira no Fumikado

Shion

Tenkai Zuifeng (Also see the Azumaterasu analysis!)

Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle: Haze Route

Kujiru Kesa

Kaisen Azuma (Also has a small theory)

Taira no Chouki

Para: 1 2

Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle: Brilliant Route

Mitsumo

Medias Moritake

Kunimitsu Ooya

Fujiwara no Shirogane no Sanra (Sanra's Speech Style)

Ooama no Ake no Mitori

Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle: Extra Stage

Yago Ametsukana (1st Version)

Haiji Senri

Other Characters

Hoojiro Shitodo

NiLU

Other Analyses & Theories

On JynX's Inspiration and Creative Process

Locations & Organisations

The Outside World

On the Sanctuary

Barrier Shop "Azumaterasu"

Buddhism and Devanagaran Court Culture

The Devanagaran Fujiwara Dynasty and the Historical Fujiwara

Ponderer of the Ivory Cup

Concepts & Terms

Barriers: From History to Len'en

Shikigami: From History to Len'en

Spell Cards & the Spell Card System

On Bird's Names

On the Name "Len'en"

"Lily Pad Ice" Dimensions (Relies on a fair bit of theory)

Theories

Holy Sites of the Len'en Series (also has 2 little theories)

Outsider Senri Priests

The Earthly Gods and Mugenri (Follow-up)

2 Tsurubami Theories (Eye of Senri + Rei)

On Iyozane's Revival

The Tale of Genji and Len'en (has analyses but is mostly theory)

A Pair of Mysterious Kuroji Spells

Musing on Ancient Mugenri History

Other Len'en Asks

Favourite Characters

Favourite Facet of Iyozane

Funniest Translation Moment

Character Most Likely to Make it as an Idol

My Wish For A Future Len'en Game

Speculation: The Orochi Myth in Len'en

BotC Release Version: First Impressions

Thoughts on Iyozane's Theme

How I Understand EmEv in Relation to Modern Len'en

Non-Len'en Stuff

My 2023 Japan Trip

The Kamishikimi Kumanoimasu Shrine

The Shirakawa Yoshimi Shrine

Other Asks

"Warrior Shinto Priests"

Ask: Japanese Translation Tips

[shadwife]

I found a thread complaining about castle shikigami 2’s localization. All the typical weebs who complain about things not being “just translated.” There’s even a post complaining that even using a synonym instead of the original word is bad. Like BRO

Castle Shikigami 2 is literally translated. It is translated word-by-word as if the translator only had a dictionary. It is exactly what you’re asking for and yeah! It’s bad! That’s why some localizing is still important.

The game is full of incomplete sentences because that’s how people speak in Japanese. The speech sounds so unnatural because Japanese speech doesn’t cleanly translate to English. Language doesn’t work like that.

Also fuck you castle shikigami 2 is a masterpiece. Literally one of the greatest games of all time. The weird translation makes it. why? MIGHT!

[archoneddzs15]

Sega Dreamcast - Shikigami no Shiro 2 Deluxe Edition (Castle Shikigami II)

Title: Shikigami no Shiro 2 Deluxe Edition / 式神の城 II

Developer/Publisher: Alfa System

Release date: 25 March 2004

Catalogue No.: T-47701M

Genre: Shooting Action

THANK YOU, ALFA SYSTEM!! Alfa System listened to their loyal Dreamcast fans and brought us Shikigami no Shiro 2 (The Demon God Castle 2 in English) on the 25th of March 2004. From what I can tell, the Dreamcast version seems to have all the same options as the Game Cube version (the first console version) including the gallery mode which is a great sign. There are loads of play modes plus a remixed soundtrack option, full speech for each character that can be switched on or off and a very convenient practice mode. Each player has a variety of two different attack styles to choose from which can be accessed by pushing left or right on the character select screen. A great point about Shikigami no Shiro II is that every one of the characters has their own unique way of shooting just like characters of a fighting game have their own unique fighting style. Personally, I haven't tried out every character much yet but it's going to be fun finding out.

I can imagine that a lot of you out there are asking "Is Shikigami no Shiro II better than Psyvariar 2?" Well, that's a tuff one to answer. They are both shooters played in a 2D style over 3D backgrounds, but I'd say Psyvariar 2 is more of a pattern shooter than Shikigami no Shiro II. I love both of them, but I'd have to say Shikigami no Shiro 2 would be my favorite due to the style of the characters appealing more to me. As far as game play goes, I'd say Psyvariar 2 will have you on the edge of your seats more.

The Dreamcast Limited Deluxe edition comes with a free CD Soundtrack (pictured above) of all the music and character voices featured in Shikigami no Shiro II plus a cool set of 4-character trading cards which you can see below.

But that's not the end of the goodies. Not only do you get the game, OST and trading cards presented in a beautiful card sleeve, but you can also get a very limited Shikigami no Shiro II NTT phone card for use in Japan. These were only available if you ordered the game directly from Sega Japan.

[gonagaiworld]

Red Art Games pubblicherà l'edizione fisica di Castle of Shikigami 2 per Nintendo Switch La finestra di pre-ordine e la data di uscita, saranno condivisi in seguito. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/red-art-games-pubblichera-ledizione-fisica-di-castle-of-shikigami-2-per-nintendo-switch/?feed_id=359494&_unique_id=643264087fa52 #CastleofShikigami2 #NintendoSwitch #RedArtGames

[universo-nintendo]

Degica Games de una vez le pone fecha de salida a Castle of Shikigami 2 para Nintendo Switch y confirma que tendrá edición física.

[spritecell-com]

Here is a breakdown of how many games the 6th generation consoles shared. The four that were released on all four systems were Puyo Puyo Fever, NBA 2K2, Castle Shikigami 2, and Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium. 

Full report with lots more graphs and comparing lots more systems: https://spritecell.com/6th-generation-ports/

[satoshi-mochida]

Castle of Shikigami 2 releases today digitally for the Switch. Physical copies from Red Art Games TBA. It is also available on Steam.

[itsfantasticac]

Castle of Shikigami 2 poster illustration, by Miku Sonoda.

Shikigami no Shiro II Koushiki Settei Shiryoushuu (Nov. 26, '03), pg. 7

[thesplintering]

“Castle of Shikigami 2” and “Crimzon Clover World EXplosion” Coming to Steam PC on 6 December

“Castle of Shikigami 2” and “Crimzon Clover World EXplosion” Coming to Steam PC on 6 December | #gaming #Steam #arcade #pcgames #PCgames

On Tuesday, Degica Games announced that a pair of vertical, arcade-style shoot ‘em ups will be released on 6 December via Steam PC – Castle of Shikigami 2 and Crimzon Clover World EXplosion. A Nintendo Switch version of Castle of Shikigami 2 is currently planned for a later date in 2022, and Crimzon Clover World EXplosion is already available on Switch, so… Both games will feature multiple…

[shadwife]

I think it is possible that all media in the world connects to Castle Shikigami 2 somehow.

[vgadvisor]

[jyu-ichi]

Arala Cran Castle Shikigami 2

Commission Full art in high resolution and nsfw version on my patreon

[hellman55]

Longplay of Castle Shikigami 2/Shikigami no Shiro II

[verdantspringcourtyard]

Oniou Banquet Event

A new 3-week long event that coincides with Suzuka Gozen's release and is the big event to start the new story arc. It's similar to the Shiranui island, Castle of the Sun and Sea Voyage type events. Consists of 3 major parts; Hyakkou Defense, Sign of Daybreak and Lantern Grandma bosses.

Hyakkou Defense

Progress through multiple stages by clearing 4-14 rounds of activities and last round bosses. Stages 1-10 have 5 rounds, stages 11-50 have 10 stages, while stages 51 onwards have 15 rounds. Costs 1 event AP to clear a round, may cost more if you need multiple attempts to clear last round bosses. This part of the event can also be done on auto.

First Rounds

For the first rounds, you must clear an activity or choose between 1 of 2-3 activities. If there's a choice while on auto, a random one will be picked.

List of activities are;

Boss Battles: Costs 1 event AP to do solo or co-op. Battles consist of 1-6 enemies and has no time limit.

Blessings: Choose 1 of 3 bonus effects that can be applied to your whole team. Bonus effects do not stack but multiple of the same increase the level and strength of the effect, max 10 levels. Bonus effects include;

Stat Buffs

Splash damage

Restore HP after taking an action

Chance of reduced onibi cost

Mitama/souls

Lantern Adventure: Pick between 2 answers, after picking can leave a comment for other players to read. On auto, an answer will be randomly be chosen for you. There are no right or wrong answers.

Lantern Reward: A random reward box.

Quizzes: The quizzes are the exact same as the ones for Oumagatoki/Demon Encounter. On auto, only the correct answers will be chosen for you.

Mystery Merchant: Exactly like the Mystery Merchant that appears on Wed&Sat, but there are only 1 of 3 items to buy or you can choose to not buy anything and move on. On auto, nothing will be bought.

Recommended to always pick Blessings until you max out your desired bonus effects and completely avoid the Mystery Merchant.

Last Round Bosses

These bosses are solo only, gradually become stronger over time and have a 2-minute limit. Despite there being a time limit, HP for the boss and minions will carry over between attempts. The rewards for defeating the boss are event currency, an "mirror shard", daruma shards, orochi scales evo materials and 1 of 3 reward boxes. The reward Boxes are;

Mitama/Soul Box: ~8 random 5* mitama/souls ~3 random 6* mitama/souls, orochi scales and gold orochi scales

Gold Box: gold, daruma shards (includes black daruma shards) and/or whole darumas, evo materials

AP Box: AP, jade, mochi, realm cards, grey summon tickets

S-Jade Pack

There's also Oniou s-jade packs that can be bought for this part of the event. They last for 7 days and grant the following:

Boss Battles: The first 10 boss battles won't require event AP to challenge.

Blessings: All bonus effects will be temporarily increased by 1 level, includes bonus effects that are already max level.

Mochi: Rounds of mochi is increased to 7 and the cost to feed the auto paper doll is capped at 10 mochi.

If you intend on buying this, then buy it on the first day of the event.

Lantern Grandma Bosses

After the first week of the event, 4 Lantern Grandma Boss Challenges will become available.

After the second week of ths event, an assemble version of the Lantern Ggrandma bosses will become available.

“Faith Blessings” are really important for these bosses. Blessings are obtained via the exchange shop, you can use event currency or jade to buy them. Each blessing gives you +3% damage and damage reduction. There are also powerful effects for having certain amounts of blessings, which are;

10: Start each round with 8 onibi and ATK is increased by 60% for 3 turns

30: Shikigami skills cost 2 less onibi

50: After taking an action, own HP is restored by 25%

70: Enemies’ DEF is reduced by 50%

100: Damage from a single nemy attack will not exceed 50% of max HP

150: Speed is increased by 100

Boss Challenge

Defeat the Lantern Grandma bosses within 3 minutes. It's solo only and has Easy, Normal and Hard difficulties. Only 1 Lantern Grandma is challengeable at first, the other 3 will be gradually unlocked. The unique mechanics and annoying skills to be wary of for these Boss Challenges on Hard are;

Boss 1:

Every time a skill is used, the onibi cost for it is increased by .

Boss 2:

One round battle.

Boss has 80% chance to dodge normal attacks and their received damage from AOE attacks is greatly reduced.

Boss 3:

One round battle.

Boss inflicts enemies with a "debuff". Boss greatly reduces their received damage while "debuff" is active. Need to gain a total of 350% of own HP as healing to remove the "debuff" and the boss' damage reduction.

The "debuff" is a visual effect that looks kind of like a shield or a bubble, plus a green bar above your shiki or onmyouji's HP bar. The green bar is how much healing you need to gain.

Boss 4:

One round battle with 3 of the boss as enemies.

A yellow bar underneath the HP bar represents how much total HP the 3 bosses have. Can switch between the bosses to view their individual HP and skills.

Bosses hit very hard.

Rewards for clearing all difficulties for each of the 4 Boss Challenges are;

Easy: 5 black daruma shards, 90 jade and 16666 gold

Normal: 1 bio affection item, 16666 gold, 6666 event currency

Hard: 1 bio affection item, 16666 gold, 6666 event currency

Although there is ranking, there are no rewards for besides bragging rights and providing examples of teams to use.

Assemble Boss

Fight the Lantern Grandma bosses twice a day between 18:00 - 23:00. The 1st time to join a boss is free, the 2nd time requires a "Battle Token" which can be bought from the exchange shop. A min/max of 60/100 people can participate. If not enough people join and you used a "Battle Token", it will be refunded. Buffs for Boss Challenges are also applied here. Ranking is same as Oumagatoki/Demon Encounter bosses.

The assembly boss is split into 2 phases. In phase 1 everyone must pick 1 of 4 bosses to fight separately. Phase 2 begins when 1 of them has been defeated and the remaining 3 must be fought together. Can choose your team at the start of both phases. Grandma bosses have the same skills as in easy Boss Challenges.

Note: Please do not go to the Oumagatoki/Demon Encounter map to fight this boss. It is accessed via the same area as the Boss Challenges.

Sign of Daybreak

The entire server must work together to unlock stories with “mirror shards" for all 6 factions. Each faction has 4 stories to unlock, they are unlocked at by donating 500k, 1mil, 1.5mil and 2mil "mirror shards". Donating shards to a faction gives event AP and other random rewards.

Once all 4 stories for a faction are unlocked, a 30% damage and damage reduction buff will be granted to the following shikigami and onmyouji;

Ouma no Hara: SP Tamamo, Ootengu, Yuki Onna, Enmusubi, Sanbi

Fujiwara Clan: Seimei, Kagura, Hiromasa, Yaobikuni

Mt Suzuka: Suzuka Gozen, Ootakemaru, Kujira, Kani-hime, Fuuri

Mt Seven Peak: Yamakaze, SP Ichimoku Ren, Youtou, Hakurou, Hotarugusa

Minamoto Clan: Orochi, Onikiri, SP Onikiri, Heiyou, Warrior Soul

Mt Oe: Shuten, SP Shuten, Ibaraki, SP Ibaraki, Hoshiguma

Additionally, these rewards will also become claimable when all 4 stories for a faction are unlocked.

100 AP, 66666 gold, 13666 event currency

100 jade, 66666 gold, 13666 event currency 

3* white daruma, 66666 gold, 13666 event currency 

50* mochi, 66666 gold, 13666 event currency

1 blue daruma, 66666 gold, 13666 event currency 

1 blue summon ticket, 66666 gold, 13666 event currency

Betting

Sadly this is just regular Showdown Bidding, not the tournament-style one. Betting is only active from 10:00 to 24:00.

Rewards

The most notable in the exchange shop are: 2 event icon frames, 12 loading screen illustrations, new SP Miketsu skin, random SSR/SP, skin tickets, 4 blue summon tickets, 100 jade, orochi scales, demon souls, 3 x 3* white daruma, 4-5* white daruma, black daruma, special kekkai/realm cards, lots of gold and AP, "Oniou Packs", etc.

Like always, the more appealing items like the random SSR/SP and new skin are locked by a requirement. In this event the requirements are event points, however, they are not obtained as drops or rewards for doing anything. Instead, event points simply represent your total accumulated event currency.

There's 5 lots of event AP that be bought with jade, 2 x 400 that cost 5-10 jade per 1 event AP and 3 x 100 that cost 5-10-15 jade per 1 event AP. After the 1st week of the event, 2 lots of “Faith Blessings” can be bought per day with jade and event currency, 1 x 20 that cost 10 jade per 1 and 1 x 10 that cost 4888 event currency per 1. Then after the 2nd week, 1 “Battle Token” can be bought for 10 jade.

Recommended Teams

Hyakkou Defense

Boss Battle Activity

2 AOE attackers + Oitsuki or Zashiki + Yama Usagi or Peach & Karashi and snow spirit Kiyohime

3 AOE attackers + Oitsuki or Zashiki + Yama Usagi or Peach & Karashi or snow spirit Kiyohime

3 AOE attackers + Kaoru + maneki/fortune cat Kujira

3 AOE attackers + Ushi + snow spirit Kiyohime

SP Iba + SP Tamamo + Enmusubi or Ushi + SP Shuten + Oitsuki

Last Round Bosses

2 AOE attackers + snow spirit Kiyohime + Oitsuki or Zashiki + Yama Usagi or Peach & Karashi

SP Tamamo + SP Iba or Ootengu + Enmusubi or Ushi + SP Shuten + Oitsuki

2 Multi-hit AOE + Oitsuki + Ushi + snow spirit Kiyohime

AOE + Shoyou + Oitsuki + Ushi + snow spirit Kiyohime

SP Tamamo or Takiyasha + Shoyou + Oitsuki + Ushi + Enmusubi

Double Shuten + Shuranui + Ushi + Enmusubi

SP Tamamo or Takiyasha + double Youkinshi + Oitsuki or Enmusubi + Aoandon

After you max out the "Reduced Onibi Cost" bonus effect, lighters (eg; Oitsuki, Zashiki) might not be needed. So feel free to swap them out for an additional attacker or any other shiki that can help you do more damage/clear bosses quicker.

3 of the 6 recommended bonus effects to equip are; reduced onibi cost, increased SPD, hyousube. The other remaining 3 are up to personal choice.

Lantern Grandma Boss Challenges (Hard Difficulty)

These are the recommended teams specifically for Hard. For Easy and Normal you should use the same or similiar teams, but for the 3rd boss you can use whatever healer you already built.

1st Boss:

SP Tamamo + SP Shuten + double Youkinshi + Ushi

Kuro Douji + SP Shuten + double Youkinshi + Ushi

2nd Boss:

SP Tamamo + Youkinshi or Kamai + Enmusubi + Ushi + snow spirit Kiyohime

3rd Boss:

SP Tamamo + Youkinshi or Kamai + Enmusubi + Ushi + Hotarugusa or Momo

4th Boss:

SP Tamamo or SP Iba + double Youkinshi + Kosode + Enmusubi

SP Tamamo + Kamai + seductress Kiyohime + Kosode + Enmusubi

SP Tamamo + double Youkinshi + Enmusubi + shield shiki

Double SP Tamamo + Kamai + Enmusubi + shield shiki

Shuten + Shiranui + Enmusubi + Ushi + shield shiki

For 1st Boss Challenge, must either have 30 blessings so the reduced onibi cost buff is unlocked.

For 2nd Boss Challenge, cannot use shiki that primarily use normal attacks or AOE attacks without Ushi.

For 3rd Boss Challenge, must have a very a strong healer to remove the debuff inflicted on your team and the boss' damage reduction. Hotarugusa and Umibouzu are probably the best options, because their healing isn't based on HP but ATK and damage dealt. The next best are Momo and Sakura, but since their healing is based on HP, it could take longer to remove the "debuff" on them.

For 4th Boss Challenge, must have a shikigami who can provide a strong shield such as; Ichimoku Ren or Hako no Shoujo with hamaguri/sea sprite, Kujira oe 2-6* Shiro Douji with maneki/fortune cat, or Sakura with shinju/pearl. Shiro Douji and Kujira are probably the best options. If you choose not to use any of them, must use a somewhat fast Enmusubi with hamaguri/sea sprite so she can heal more frequently.

Lantern Grandma Assembly Boss

Phase 1 & 2:

Double Shuten + Shiranui + Ushi + Enmusubi

SP Tamamo + double Youkinshi + Ushi + Enmusubi

Phase 2:

Double Shuten + Shiranui + Ushi + Kosode

The assembly boss is rather easy. The grandma boss that may be a problem during either phase is the 3rd one, but as long as you have a healer (eg Enmusubi) you won't have to worry about her damage reduction.

Even if you don't have or use the double Shuten + Shiranui or double Youkinshi + SP Tamamo teams, can use whatever team/s you usually use for Oumagatoki/Demon Encounter bosses. However, you should equip your attackers and Ushi with kyoukotsu to make the most of the 30 blessings buff.