Those who are super old-school mobile gamers, or those who have an affinity for PSP Minis I guess, will remember the name iDracula. It launched around this time way back in 2009 and was published by the Golden Developer of the time, Chillingo, and quickly shot up to the top of the charts. It was one of the original dual-stick shooters on mobile before that genre got majorly oversaturated in the years to come, and it basically had you playing as a Van Helsing-esque vampire hunter with an anatomically questionable swiveling torso that allowed you to shoot in any direction with one virtual stick while moving in any direction with the other. What were you shooting" Well vampires, naturally, but also werewolves, witches, and even Dracula himself. It sounds positively mundane explaining it nowadays, but in early 2009 iDracula was THE COOLEST THING. Here is Eli and myself revisiting iDracula back in 2013.
Anyway, a couple of years ago Moregames, the original developers of iDracula, announced that they were working on a spiritual successor of sorts called I, Dracula: Genesis. This new game would also be a dual-stick shooter and feature a Van Helsing-esque protagonist blasting away at eldritch horrors, but other than those very basic concepts everything else in I, Dracula: Genesis was quite a departure from the original. It featured colorful pixel art visuals and a more cartoon-ish style, and a huge emphasis on absolutely over-the-top weaponry. Frankly, it looked BAD ASS...