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Dezaemon is a 1991 Super Nintendo Entertainment System release from Athena, a game that arrived early in the console's life and felt like a glimpse behind the curtain. It wasn't just another game to play; it was a set of tools, a creative suite for building your own side-scrolling shooters when most players were just consuming them.

You control a small ship, navigating through waves of enemies you designed yourself, firing weapons whose patterns and power you defined. The main objective is to test your creations, to see if your level layouts and enemy placements actually function as a challenging, playable experience. Signature mechanics include placing and editing sprites for enemies and backgrounds, programming enemy movement and attack behaviors, and composing simple music tracks using a built-in sound tool. The pacing is entirely up to you, dictated by the complexity of your design choices, and the difficulty is whatever you make it, often resulting in brutally unforgiving screens that need constant tweaking. It feels like tinkering with an intricate machine, where every small adjustment can completely change the flow of a stage.