espgaludaii_iphoneJapanese shoot-’em-up developer Cave has opened a new website announcing the upcoming release of Espgaluda II for the iPhone.

Originally released in arcades in 2006 (and ported to the Xbox 360 last month as Espgaluda II Black Label), Espgaluda II is a vertically scrolling shooter that features lots and lots of candy-colored bullets. How many bullets? About this many.

Yes, it’s one of Cave’s infamous “bullet hell” titles, designed in the tradition of notoriously difficult games like Mushihime-sama and DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou. If you’re willing to die many deaths before you get a feel for dodging enemy attack patterns, these are the games for you.

Espgaluda II follows up on Cave’s iPhone-exclusive action title Mushihime-sama Gaiden: Bug Panic, which still has not yet been released as of this writing. Given Cave’s recent experimentation with region-free Xbox 360 releases, a U.S. App Store release for both titles is all but assured.

[via rdb_aaa]