Been playing Neptunia x Senran Kagura Ninja Wars for the last couple of days and really enjoying it — should have something up on Rice Digital for it tomorrow afternoon, as that's when the embargo lifts. So technically I shouldn't be saying anything about it here, but eh, we're all friends here and whatever.
They've had quite a few goes at "action Neptunia" to date, and all of them have been enjoyable games in one way or another — but up until now, Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online had been quite a way ahead of the other titles. Hyperdimension Neptunia U and MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune vs. Zombies both felt kind of like "Senran Neptunia" to a certain degree, while it was Cyberdimension Neptunia that really added some significant "action RPG" trappings to the arena combat of the earlier games.
Interestingly enough, the latest attempt at "action Neptunia" is even less like Senran Kagura, despite there being four Senran Kagura characters in it. If anything, there are elements of Phantasy Star Online, Final Fantasy VII Remake and a fair few other bits and pieces in there — I'll talk more about them in the article tomorrow, but suffice to say for now that it's really enjoyable and satisfying to play. I hesitate to say it's the best Nep game for a while — Megadimension Neptunia V-II still takes some beating, since that's just such a wonderfully complete package of enjoyable mechanics and excellent story — but it's certainly a high point for "action Neptunia", for sure.
Anyway, I've been playing it all evening and it's now 1am, so I should probably sleep. So I can play it some more tomorrow before I write about it! Ah, it's a hard life. Anyway, hope you all had a good weekend. We bought a bed!
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