Xexex is a 1991 side-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game by Konami released in Japan. It draws on Irem's R-Type and Konami's other shoot 'em up Gradius, while adding the tentacle mechanics of Irem's other shoot 'em up XMultiply. In the game, players pilot a ship called the Flintlock in order to save a blue haired princess named Irene of the planet E-Square from an evil lord named Klaus. Each stage is punctuated with a cutscene of the princess crying for help as she is tortured. In the ending, the Flintlock sends the orb back through the atmosphere of the planet, where it morphs into a naked fairy. There are different gameplay mechanics between the original Japanese release and the overseas releases.
ShooterArcadeActionScience fictionshoot 'em upside-scrollingArcade
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Plot-driven, unpretentious, earnest and grave.
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- gravecomic
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- Platforms
- Arcade
- Developer
- Konami
- Publisher
- Konami
- Released
- April 30, 1991
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
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