Otomedius Excellent

North America
Japan

Japanese
title

オトメディウスX: エクセレント！

Otomediusu X: Ekuserento!

Designer(s)

Mine Yoshizaki

Composer(s)

GEM Impact, Motoi Sakuraba, Michiru Yamane, Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, Motoaki Furukawa, Naoyuki Sato

Platform(s)

Xbox 360

Release date(s)

November 1, 2011

April 21, 2011

Media

DVD-ROM

Ratings

ESRB: T (Teen)

CERO: C

Genre

Horizontal scrolling shooter

Modes

1 and up to 4 players

Input

Xbox 360 game controller

Otomedius Excellent (オトメディウスX: エクセレント！ Otomediusu X: Ekuserento!^?) is an Xbox 360 horizontal scrolling shooter, part of the Otomedius series (which in turn is heavily inspired by the Gradius series), and the sequel to the 2008 game Otomedius Gorgeous by Konami for the same system. It was released on April 21, 2011 in Japan, and in North America on November 8 of the same year.

Otomedius Excellent features female characters representing different Konami franchises riding on vehicles or equipped with flying armor.

GetsuFumaDen references[]

The game introduces Gesshi Hanafuuma,^[1] a female playable character inspired by Getsu Fuma, the protagonist of GetsuFumaDen. Her spaceship is the Axelay Viper, which is inspired on the player's spaceship in Axelay (also from Konami). She was voiced by Satomi Satō.

The game also reintroduces Ryukotsuki, the original main antagonist from GetsuFumaDen and sworn enemy of the Gesshi Clan, who has been resurrected by the Gofer Sisters to take advantage of her power. Her ultimate goal is to defeat Hanafuuma in order to make her hers.^[2] Keeping with the overall theme of the game, Ryukotsuki features a female humanoid body, which is based on her second form from GetsuFumaDen.