Sensing his inevitable defeat, Firebrand dropped the crests to the earth below so that Phalanx could not claim them for himself. But before he could get to safety, he was attacked by the Arch Demon, Phalanx. Wounded and exhausted, Firebrand took the crests and fled from the battlefield. But Firebrand did not claim his victory unscathed. After years of battle, one demon stood victorious: the Red Demon, Firebrand. A great war was waged over who was to claim ownership of the crests. These crests carried immense powers, able to control the forces of the elements and even time itself. The backstory of Demon’s Crest states that one day, six crests fell from the heavens into the demon realm. The only common constant is the Red Arremer, still assuming the moniker “Firebrand” in the localized version. It obviously expands on the elements introduced in the two Gargoyle’s Quest games, but is a stand-alone product, neither directly tying into those games nor the Makaimura games. Demon’s Crest is the third game starring Red Arremer as the player character. Capcom took the whimsical and simplistic Makaimura brand and created something so far detached from it that it’s hard to believe such a game could emerge from such a franchise. Perhaps Capcom’s tendency to clone games to the point of obscenity and then reinvent them to shock us all is a genius marketing ploy, but one thing’s for certain when Capcom gets off their lazy asses and actually puts their collective minds together on something, the results are usually stunning.ĭemon’s Crest is quite possibly the most dramatic example of this. Plus they took away those goddamned disappearing blocks, which was probably the best part of the whole deal. A year prior, Capcom took Mega Man, a long stagnating and formulaic franchise, and updated it for a new generation of gamers with Mega Man X, giving the series a new look and feel and throwing in a whole mess of new features. Demon’s Crest is what happens on the rare occasion when Capcom decides to take one of their dying IPs and reinvent it thoroughly.

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