Grim Phantasm 1.6.0

Grim Phantasm is a great looking side scrolling fighting game, you play as a phantasm sent to bring back the demons who have escaped from hell and are disguising themselves as humans, you must use your katana and scythe to kill the demons and return them to hell, if you scythe them just as they drop to their knees dying you will also replenish your life source as well.

The protagonist is a very nice looking lady (for a cartoon anyway) who is a demon herself but is doing the work of good by sending the demons back to their rightful place, however in the first level the demons look more like Yakuza than demons but then it is explained the demons are in disguise, the reason I only mention what they look like in the first level is because that’s as far as I got, this game is seriously as hard as nails, even once you have mastered the special moves such as using the speed slide function to quickly move past people firing guns at you, that’s another thing the bad guys have guns, you don’t so you need to be fast, well some have guns, some have swords, they are all worthy adversaries and you will be proud if you can get past five or six of them, I think the best I got to was about eight of them but sometimes they come in two’s and then it gets even harder as you try to face an enemy coming at you from either side.

The game is a lot of fun though and you will find yourself going back for more and more even if you do keep dying this game really has that “one more go” factor and you find yourself still playing it an hour later even if you make hardly any progress, this is just the demo at the moment but as it was so difficult to progress it’s impossible to know how much of the game is in this demo but the part you will be able to play is lots of fun.

You can download the Grim Phantasm demo here for free.