Dark Arms: Beast Busters 1999

Dark Arms: Beast Busters is an action role-playing game released by SNK for Neo-Geo Pocket Color in 1999. It is the follow up to the SNK arcade shooter Beast Busters. Dark Arms features a girl, Meghan Loughlin, whose job is to defeat and contain an outbreak of demons and act as a mediator between this world and the next. The game is unique in that you can collect the spirits of the various demons and zombies you fight in the game with a gun known as The Catcher. You can, in turn, use these spirits to feed other weapons to evolve them into more powerful weapons (Handgun into Sub Shotgun into Shotgun, etc.).

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