We need a nep fighting game. I NEED a nep fighting game. I NEED A NEP FIGHTING GAME!!! Seriously, this game shows how well a nep fighting game could look like
Really great and detailed review. I can see how much work you've put into making this video. Really appreciate your effort, just like always. I still need to finish Super Neptunia RPG, but I've really enjoyed it so far... It's truly something different than the main games. It's refreshing. Also 3:05 I got a little heart attack since I thought I heard my name. lol
Hello) I'm from Russia and also rewieved this game. I liked it a lot, i think i like it more than other Neptunia games. Visuals are kinda wonky at first, but it gradually grows on you. And some locations are gorgeous, ecspecially with soundtrack. Like Sunken city and planeptune forests. Gameplay is a mix between classic JRPGs - main battle system taken from Valkyrie Profile, learning skills through equipment from Final Fantasy Tactics and elemental system taken from Shin Megami Tensei in which if you strike your enemy with elemental attack that they weak to, you gain addiotional APs. So the whole game is like a homage to classic 2d games. And the game is VERY easy, i never died. Even after beating story and going for optional side quests i beat a 100 lvl dragon being lvl 72 myself) BUT, the game has missable sidequests. I think this game is eprfect for newbies to the series. It doesn't rely very much on mythology of Neptunia series and gradually introduces all the characters. On the other hand, i personally kinda dissapointed that sisters doesn't appear in the game) Why is it bombed in Japan? Oh, and Chrome supposed to be a first-gen goddess. So she is Magnavox Oddisey?) Or maybe Pong console?
To be entirely honest, while I'm glad that there are people who have managed to find enjoyment with this game, I'm still kind of baffled that people are actually liking it. As much as I wanted to like this game myself, I couldn't get past all the many, many glaring faults I found with it. While this is probably the best looking entry in the entire series, even that aspect comes with a lot of buts. The environments look amazing...but they weren't implemented well. Depth-of-field issues, constant clipping issues, enemies can get concealed by foreground elements, etc. Like they were made first and then retrofitted into being explorable fields. Not to mention, while this is subjective, they lack any of the series' charm and aesthetic. The character sprites are beautiful and emote pretty nicely...but as soon as they animate even a little more than an idle animation, like walking, they look so awkward. Animations in general, especially in battles, look oddly sped up for whatever reason. As interesting as the gameplay is to fully utilize, the game is so brain-dead easy that you don't really need to use any of it. After the first 1-2 hours of the game, I found a tactic utilizing draining skills and regen from Blanc's formation that made characters nigh-unkillable. I literally spent the rest of the game easily beating battles holding L2 (to speed up battles) and mashing the attack buttons, if not just 1-2 of them to not cause as much lag. The story...is there. Basically yet another reimagining of the first game's story. Granted, there is more to than just that but it's all very much just there. The new characters in particular were very underdeveloped, some barely having any screen time at all despite being crucial to the story. And that's not even getting how I think this game probably has the worst UX design I've ever seen in any video game I've played. Even basic quality-of-life features that games from decades ago have learned to implement are missing here. - There's no way to compare equipment in shops to what you currently have equipped. - The game doesn't notify you if you mastered any skills or abilities so you have to constantly check them yourself. - AP usage for skills aren't listed anywhere, you have to use them in battle to find out. - What rewards you got aren't listed when you finish quests, you have to look up what you got yourself. - You can't sort skills, abilities, or even party members, new entries are just dumped at the end/bottom of the list. - There's no item or monster compendium of any kind. - Text from pinned quests can block npc text. So on and so forth. "Neptunia" spin-offs already have a poor reputation and this doesn't buck the mold at all. Personally, while I don't know if I'd consider it to be the actual worst entry in the series, it's definitely among the worst of them. What an utter disappointment this was.
@@PasscodeAdvance I have to agree with you, I would throw rebirth 1 and 2 on that as well, rebirth one was very solid and fun, and a great introduction, and 2 did a new introduction and made me like the sister units, (except rom and ram, they are a bit bland to me), Nep VII (original) was great, I just wish there was more game in there and less grindy elements, and also no paywalls to ultimate equipment but the gameplay was fun, wish the next forms were more important tho instead of just thrown in randomly midway, and Cyberdimension only had one issue I ran into, the initial load time on PC when you start the game which is about 3-5 minutes, after which the game plays like butter, its weird but I guess it gives me time to get a drink? I am "trying" Hyperdevotion Noire, tho these character models being so weird in battle throws me off.
Since you asked viewers about our experience with the switch version compared to what we see in this PC version video, I can be of some help. I got the switch LE. It runs like garbage. It's almost unplayable. I DID beat it, but it was a nightmare. The platforming is next to impossible becasue of how bad it runs, and there are a lot of mechanic freezes, such as during a battle, at random, it'll just stop doing things. The first day I had it, in the Volcano in Lastation, I was going up against one of those large fire monsters, and it actions altogether just stopped. Iwas no longer able to press Y to attack. Not to mention the enemy also was no longer attacking. Since ZL is fast forward, I did that and heldit for about 20 seconds. Literally nothing happened. The only option I had was to try to flee because pause and A and B worked. In fact every button EXCEPT Y worked. But no matter how many times I pressed flee and the timer went down, I never successfully fled the battle. I tried over 20 times. I was forced to exit out and reset the game. It happened multiple times. I quickly learned to save after literally EVERYTHING I did. It was tedious. Playing on switch ruined the entire experience for me. EDIT: Oh I also forgot: Lag. Like CRAZY! EVERYTHING you do lags a ton. I put tweeted a video showing it. If you press B ((jump on switch) the button will be fully unpressed before Nep jumps in game. Horrible emulators have less lag than this game.
@@maaxn6588 Yea it's a shame. The story was really good, but it runs so badly on switch that I literally will never pick the game back up again. I'm going to buy a PS4 copy later on cuz I want all the physical games, but still this was such a horrible experience.
If u lz too much to speed up time you get a debuff on your character and it limits actions you can take did you have a clock with an x over neps head when u got stuck. As far as lag i only experience it when i get overzealous and spam buttons like spamming weak elements just to quickly get it there. The experience can be better if you know thehardware limitations. The switch version is more for people who want to take their time with it as thats how it best operates.
@@zuramaru3837 Not really anything negative to add to this particular version - the game is a ton of fun and looks gorgeous, music is stellar. It's just loading times that drive me up a wall.
This is definitely the freshest Neptunia game I have played since the first game. What I like most about this game is the animation of the characters during cutscenes. Previous Neptunia games only have those visual novel style drawings of characters talking to the screen. Being able to see nep claps her hands while talking with other characters is really a step forward from the idle talking we had in previous games, hope they will keep doing moving story scenes like this in the future game. Ps: If someone has the scene where vert is on game addiction withdrawal send me a link pls thanks 😂 Edit: I found a vid that has that Vert's animation in it, the Internet is great. Link: ruclips.net/video/7AYDyHDMhHk/видео.html
Since SNRPG is on the switch which is the first time for it Do you think Idea Factory and Compile Heart will port the Re;birth games and megadimension neptunia VII to the switch in the future if SNRPG does well? And do you think the other spin offs can be ported?
Not sure how well this game is doing on switch considering if I’m not mistaken came out on the same week as super Mario maker 2. But hopefully neptunia games get ported. Just don’t expect them all to get physical release for western releases. As most of the IF/CH games that are coming to switch have been all digital only, with most of them only having Asian physical releases like Moero chronicles H, Mary skelter 2 (Japanese physical only) and possibly the same will occur with Arc of the alchemist, not to mention a bunch of VN games by them as well that will just be digital only if released in the west. So buy a large micro SD card in the future just to be on the safe side.
I love how underwater Noir's twin tails just hang out if the bubble but you'd think Neptune and Blanc's coats would be uncomfortable to move on underwater especially..... plus no swimming animation. that's how many an RPG does it but still
Sounds good to me. One thing I'm sure I'll be missing in some way is that (from what I've seen in your video) they don't have the usual skills. People might complain about "recycling", but I also like the world-consistency it brings to the table. Also, I suppose they went "back" to silence again. I've just finished "vs. Zombies", and while they have almost everything voiced in English, they didn't do it for the special unlocks ("Backstage talk" in particular). However, instead of just being silent, they used the Japanese voices -- something that I'd love to see in all Neptunia games, at least as a setting. Even if the voices aren't identical, having scenes voiced is still better... IMHO.
I will buy this game later when it's on sale. I have a rule to never pay retail prices for a digital only copy. And I still have 3 or 4 other Neptunia games to finish, so it doesn't make much sense for me to buy it now.
@@PappaPanda Unfortunately there are no physical copies for PC. And I don't think it's reasonable to buy a console for one or two games when I already have a PC and 90% of the games I want to play have a PC version. But as long as IF doesn't make physical copies for PC I will not pay the full price.
Great review! Only 1 gripe- not a single mention if the games' influence; Valkyrie Profile. The gameplay - 2d sidescroller with face button activated attacks - are straight from Valkyrie Profile. Not to credit that fact appropriately is criminal. You got my sub! Also, waiting for mt ps4 copy in the mail, and its going to be my 1st Nep experience.
I thought it was pretty good other than the glitches, I never really had any bad glitches in the previous games (never in the main games), but using fire element spells with Noire sometimes can glitch the game. It isn't really that laggy like I keep hearing, not on PS4 at least (I platinumed it in 3 days without trying so it didn't really lag), just the fast travel causes a few seconds of lag. My favorite spinoff was probably 4GO, but I still like this one since it kinda reminds me of old RPGs.
I've got the first Rebirth game, and while I haven't finished it yet, have really been enjoying it. And this game looks like a lot of fun too. Might just have to pick it up at some point. Thanks for the detailed review
1:48 Yoo that's sick! I just need to scratch up 10 Bucks somewhere lol, I'm saving up for a PC but of course I still want to spent atleast something on my PS4.
If you're smart with it, you can mix a bunch of attacks with attack items. The amount of damage you can eventually spam is ludicrous. I did so when I platinumed the Japanese version of this game. Can't wait to try out the story though.
This game's battle system and some story elements reminded me of Valkyrie Profile as well and love it for that. Are there any other Neptunia games that play similar to this one?
This nep game is refreshing for me... Its also well made and chill, for the most part... However... Maybe it is only me... But Chrome looks somewhat similar to Arfoire (the one in rebirth 1 in true ending route)
Wow the same day I plan to post my review you post yours what the heck man lol great video tho I agree this game was great definitely the best one in a while
Well... this certainly is a... interesting review. Your intro does make it seem like it's a good game just because it's something different from the usual Neptunia. From what I've seen about this game, it seems to come with it's own Shantae/Metroidvania like Overworld? A huge "open world" styled Gamindustri would be nice, but with how CH/IF has been reusing Assets, it's no surprise that there isn't. Not sure if that would be troublesome without any form of warp points though. (Maybe simply include warps but still allow players to run through areas?) Other than the 4 Goddesses, IF, Compa and whoever else returns from the cast, plus Dogoos, nothing really looks Neptunia like. Looks more like generic steampunk like stuff which in my view doesn't really fit the colorful vibrant look of the characters, despite this being supposed to be Gamindustri. I guess many of the other NPCs seen in the Neptunia Series don't really show up here? The Plot's similar to what we had in the original game, except with all of the Goddesses. This, combined with the new environment that's still supposed to be Gamindustri does make me wonder if this kind of is a Reboot in some way? The Goddess Transformations seem to be more something to help out against tougher longer battles, you can still store it up though, still kind of a odd mechanic to have it be that way. (Rather than having a bar that's full but decreases over time, requiring you to be in non HDD Form to fill it up again) Break Attacks seem to be the replacements of SP/EXE Drives this time around? Your review also didn't really go much into the negative parts, unless you count the briefly mentioned points of: -Wonky Animations -All Enemies looking like Dogoos -Enemies being hidden by foreground visuals -Performance Issues after startup -Character Traits not being as obvious to new players At the End you said "Since you can't button mash after all." Yet there's the battle speed up button and various different sources say that you simply can do that. Interestingly enough, only the negative reviews have really gotten into criticism about the game, still naming positive points or being happy about people that can enjoy it, while all positive reviews are either meme ones or simply praise the game as flawless. I do wonder about you using the EN Voices though, I guess you're aware on how different the localization, especially for the first HDN, MK2, V and Re;2 & 3 is? The fact that I never really liked that as well as how this game was developed in Canada does make me wonder how likeable the story will be for me. Also not a big fan of the English Voices so my ears were kinda bleeding throughout the video, they should be fine again soon though.
Super Neptunia RPG took a while for it to click with me. I kinda dropped the game after hitting Lowee because I didn't feel like I was having fun. A few days of trashing the game as a joke then feeling bad later, I came back and got sucked in hard. I do think at least in terms of a Neptunia game that it is pretty good. The lack of playable characters does kill some replay-ability for me (As I'm soneone who likes to challenge themselves and do X only runs in Re;birth 1) but the roster itself is fine and decently balanced. Here's the thing though... I never bought an item in this game. Equipment, sure. But item-wise I didn't buy anything. Mostly because the fast travel system allows you to heal up rather quickly along with there being no SP system (so you can just spam Omni Heal against a weak enemy while you build up HP again) and the only items I did use were Life Fragments and some Potions towards the endgame as I couldn't be bothered walking back. It says a lot about the game when even games like Re;birth 1 a game that I've piratically mastered still requires me to stock up on items, either for tougher fights or for end game farming. Meanwhile I came into this game 100% blind and beat it within 20 hours with barely any items used. Nothing wrong with easy games, Kirby is one of my favourite franchises, but there's a point where you start to question why the devs even implemented certain items due to how little you need them. I sill enjoyed my time with the game, of course. A lot of what you said positively about this game I echo, but I left feeling like ti could have done more. At the very least, Chrome is a fantastic character for reasons I can't say without spoiling the game but... Well, anyone who saw the True Ending in Re;birth 1 can probably see where SNRPG was going. (No, they're not connected, despite the "Super" in the name and RB1 being in Superdimension. It could have been but one CG just blows it up entirely. RIP.)
I think I'll wait for a sale. The game just doesn't seem like something I should pay full price for. Plus I don't have a Switch or PC yet so I refuse to get the PS4 version lol.
I decided to start playing this game on Twitch, it's pleasant... but the battling is kind of easy because I get overleveled from not being sure how to progress the story and I end up doing a lot of side quests. Although some side quests are hard to get compeleted... Not sure how far into the game I am yet, but our characters haven't transformed yet.
The switch version is deffenitly suffers from some slow down during some battles. Nothing that ruins the game but it's deffenitly noticeable and drags the experience down.
This is why I'll stick with the Japanese audio. Either you go all in with the English audio or not at all instead of only dubbing about half of the game.
Ehh ive heard theres actually more english dubbing then japanese for this particular title like. Dubbing some things that were left with no audio in japanese. Playing thru it only parts not with audio were basic side quest and similar unimportant plot points.
@@griffinjosh90 atelier series is even worse,...English dub only cover for like 20% of the game while Japanese are fully intact,..later Atelier no longer has English dub at all,....i play all Neptunia on both voices and Japanese ver cover every single part of the game, while English dub only cover for main story and battle grunts
@@KaizAmari and even the nelke atelier in japanese has only audio in the half of their conversation and i dont think they dub atelier marie characters in nelke even in japanese ^_^
I agree I don't understand the terrible reviews actually! I like this one very much... especially considering the bad games IF kept releasing recently... after Mary Skelter it was a disaster this one seams to me it saves the day!
in regards to newbies I've actually had a debate about the niche gaming market in general on twitter and regardless of how different this is still more on the niche market side of things as a series. one thing to note what you may like about this is likely again more niche than we would like to believe especially given the poor reception in japan and how so far you're the only who's given it this much praise in a review. Super Neptunia is a game you'll either like or just straight up hate for some reason. so far at least there hasn't been much between. so it's kind of important to note why there would be reasons people wouldn't like this one as much as others as well as noting your own reasons for liking it. I'll probably look into what is about this neptune game japanese fans seem to dislike about it later cause despite that the fanbase still love the series and that may have to do with why the series is got another OVA release this week on japanese PSN to try an appease those who weren't too big on the approach super neptunia went. just by looking at it and how it plays it can be easy to see why people would be pissed off at it in a way it does kind of look like this is something you'd get as a mobile app game. while I don't really share your skeptism on on the other games since for main titles it does make sense on why they'd take a brief explanation on what's what while others kind of do it that way too but a lot of those reasons is mostly cause unlike say pokemon or soul calibur that always look to draw new audiences every game the neptune series seems comfortable aiming for it's usual audience. but a lot of that is just perspective from what I can tell and does need a bit of digging into in what is it about this game in particular people don't like since another reason I can probably guess is just in the fact it's less characters to play with over having more since this looks like it had enough space and budget for it but again needs to be looked into before making any big claims. so in my opinion it's either yes or no depending on who you are and what you're looking for in a neptune game.
Replaying this recently on PS5 with the PS4 version of the game. I really hate fighting some of the enemies. The fights drag so long and they be having no weakness. Also the constant enemy respawn is annoying as hell too. Especially when the game challenge you to collect stuff scattered all over the maps.
got my entire party immune to physical damage, with blanc in the lead i have constant HP reg and i spam her neutral damage HP absorbing attack... fights have become too easy now, occasionally the one or other magic spell hits but the life reg takes care of that, i would go as far as to call this a balancing issue, not that it harms my enjoyment anyway.
Since I'm a newbie in the series and this is my first neptunia, I must say I actually really like the story and it was very funny even though there are things that I don't understand...
Hmm, looks like they took he combat system from Valkyrie Profile. There you had 4 Characters too, and each attacked when you pushed the corresponding button. Also similar is that you can attack the Enemies on the Map and then get a "first strike" like bonus. However you could not switch where who stands in Valkyries Profile and also the amount of Attacks a character had depended on the Weapon Used. Maybe you should check that one out too! ;p Though there are allot similarities ... from what I see they only used Valkyries Profile as a base ... and then build up allot own new stuff which looks like fun!
I thought there were five formations with 4 active at a time(the 4 goddesses and the tall white haired girl who's friends with bombixmories leader forgot her name)
Interesting review. I'm still not sure if I would want the game or not. The changes to gameplay and world design are pretty interesting. I really like the plush in the limited edition too. There is one fact that really mispleases me though: my favourite couple is not part of it - neither Nepgear nor Uzume is present. If they add them as dlc I would definitely buy it. Btw. Have you already finished the game? How much playtime does it offer?
Looking at the 2D graphical style, I get a strong Vanillaware vibe from this. But considering the developer is from the west I think they took inspiration from Vanillaware's Dragon's Crown and added in a strong turn based JRPG similar to the Neptunia series.
Ugh, for me it is probably the WORST nep game in years. It is extremally boring, with gameplay so pointless (pressing one button) and repetetive than even games like Neptunia U feels like a 4x strategy. Artstyle is superb, plot is really interesting, but gameplay itself... well: thing that is most important in games... it sucks, really really badly.
Aurora Solaris I have the same sentiments too. This game has both the best and worst combat. Let me explain. Pros: The formation system allows for varied strategies if you need to switch moves on the fly. Do you want to buff the party then move on the offensive? Do you want to change formation to switch out the person taking the next hit and heal them? Do you want to switch between physical, magical or elemental attacks because the enemy is weak to one of them? Having a set of moves with synergy with one another based on who you assign on the frontlines actually gives way for creative builds now that enemies require you to switch formations on whichever is your attack priority. Cons: Pretty much everything else. Getting to that part of the game where it finally gives you these mechanics is a pain to go through, especially when the general combat itself is so un-engaging. Going through the first part of the game is a testament to how this game was first and foremost designed with a complete party. Anything below that number shows how shallow mashing the attack button is until the gauge fills up. Speaking of which, the AP system is slow. The only way you can work around it is if you hit enemies with their weaknesses to gain AP back from an attack... or you hold down the fast forward button. Yeah. A fast forward button. Even the devs realized how boring it is to wait for your gauge to fill up. This wouldn't be an issue if downtime in between attacks aren't so passive. Why not have an option to let us defend against attacks to gain AP if we time it correctly? This would have given incentives to be always cautious of the enemy's actions. Why does the game only allow one action at a time whether it's the enemy or ours? This would have given players the ability to multitask considering that attacks are on separate face-up buttons. Everything seems to work around who presses the button first, so you can't even switch formations or do anything in general when the enemy is going to attack. These are just some of my issues with the game. Don't even get me started with the quality issues regarding the menus and the PC version. Heck, the reason why I didn't even include talking about how the HDD forms could have changed combat is because I didn't even reach that far before dropping the game. I could see why it bombed in Japan because this game is sadly the first ever Neptunia title I refunded.
As someone that will most likely get this title later on at a heavy Discount, I'm interested in the PC and Menu issues mentioned, can you elaborate those further?
So for my first Neptunia Game it was pretty good. I liked the gameplay and the music was great. I played the Switch Version and I had some performance issues like FPS drops and input lags in the menu. I hope they bring out a patch or something. But overall, it was fun and I would play it again :)
This reminds me of the old school Valkyrie profile games on ps 1 and ps2 people bitching about the battle system take some time and learn it crybabies I find the battle system refreshing nice and complex i like it great review
It's not like the Japanese hate the idea of a 2D nep game in this format, but the quality here is pretty subpar compared to most 2D and sprite-based games they have over there. They're probably wondering why IF didn't hire someone like Vanillaware to do it, with the battle system of Grand Knight History and exploration of Odin Sphere/Oboro Muramasa and the visuals they're known for it would've been perfect.
I've finished the game a few days ago, and as long as you can exploit the elemental weakness system (hitting an enemy with their elemental weakness will increase the AP) and stack different attacks and spamming chrome's/Noire's normal attack/elemental edge attacks to increase your break gauge and go crazy with the break attacks, everything is beatable
Honestly, to me, the game was a sort of mixed bag. I didn't have a lot of problems with what most people did. Got it on Steam. Just as a foreword, I started playing the games with the Re;birth series. The game's glitches weren't a big problem to me. I never ran into any hard crashes and it was pretty stable. I was rather mixed on the change in themes. Much of the game changed themes from traditional Neptunia to a more standard high fantasy feel and I'm not fully sure what to think about that. After all, the presence of meaningless technology has typically been a hallmark of the series to me. There's always a ridiculous, surreal feel to things in that regard. The art and soundtracks cotnributed to this. You speak of the soundtrack to this being subtly epic but at times, it just feels generic, and is Neptunia ever supposed to be subtle? The quality of the art and soundtrack, don't get me wrong, are extremely well done and there are some truly breathtaking moments, like the underwater section. I'm just not sure the direction is well advised. Where it really suffers, however, is the gameplay. Which is kind of important. Every phase of the game has separate issues. At the start, when your party is limited, your tactical options suffer greatly. Nep alone can literally only do one thing in battle (aside from using items) which makes it literally just a case of 'mashing the X button'. Early on, when you start getting additional party members, they annoyingly tend to get swapped in and out and each time, you gain or lose tactical options and everything about the characters is reset when they rejoin. At this point tactics also seem worryingly constrained because you know even with a full party you have only 16 skill choices to equip, just barely enough to get a full retinue of tactical choices (and that's assuming you've mastered enough to get all your viable options). You don't have targeting control over supportive abilities either which is an unfortunate issue with the design of the battle system. Though it's not like you need all these options, keeping the right elemental abilities on hand is vital because any fight becomes fairly easy if you have an enemy's weakness covered -- since it lets you rapidly spam the same attack over and over again without worrying about AP. Late game, you start to be able to break the game in various ways. Blanc literally is able to obtain a skill that heals, revives, and cures the ENTIRE PARTY; while pricey in AP, if you're exploiting enemy weaknesses this shouldn't be a problem. You also gain the "Spirit of" spells, the strongest elemental magic in the game and can easily gain access to the "Half AP" skill which does exactly what it says (AP costs halved), and these long animation skills have a notable exploit tied to them. If you keep spamming these spells over and over again it can prevent enemies from ever acting if you queue these spells up while the animation for the previous is still running, allowing you to basically stun-lock any boss in the game. And the long animation time makes it so that by the time the animation is concluded, you've got more than enough AP to have queued up another from a different character. This even works on enemies resistant to the attack so long as you have Half AP on all your attackers. Even the final boss and the last hunt mission are susceptible to this. Because of this (and the general lack of difficulty in the game in general), even after I had gained goddess forms, I never once intentionally used them in battle. Only when the game forced me to start fights in HDD. Other gripes: - Permanently missable quests and no New Game + feature - Some of the cutscene events seem to just come out of nowhere and don't make any sense whatsoever - The CPUs got flanderized to hell and back - Blanc can't go a single scene without talking about books and Vert is the same way for wanting to play games. - IF and Compa require DLC to play as - No cosmetic items unless you have DLC - DLC weapons and armor are utter ripoffs that aren't worth equipping at ANY point in the game - The ending was unimaginably dumb - Game's backgrounds don't upscale well to 4K in some places - Characters voice quips in battle and when jumping/dashing in the overworld can get annoyingly repetitive at times Why would a person still want to play it, all things considered? - More silly Nep shenanigans and a lot of the references you know and love - High quality 2D art and pretty good soundtrack even if they don't stay true to the theme of Nep, IMHO - Some might consider it an interesting take on the world of Gamindustri Is it worth buying? - If you're not a fan of the Nep series, probably NO. - If you are a fan, it may be worth it, but only at a steep discount. It's just not worth $50 in my personal opinion. - Avoid the Ensemble Edition bundle and the following DLC: Dengeki Bracelet/Accessory Set, Famitsu Weapon Set, Enchanted Weapon Set, Cosplay/Foreign/Traditional/Enchanted Series Equipment Sets. They're completely useless equipment that you'll never wind up using. They have no abilities and the stat boosts will only be worthwhile in the early game, but you're always going to want to have items equipped that you can learn abilities from. So you're just throwing away money buying them.
Super Neptunia RPG was a really good spin-off but there are a few cons about it that really dipped my experience: 1) Despite the whole AP limiting your actions hitting your opponent’s weaknesses was too rewarding considering that you can button mash with the right combination of spells. 2) Final boss was abit underwhelming in my opinion. When I saw the three heads with colored gems on them I was almost impressed and was prepared for the game to test my formation skills... only to find out that it didn’t really matter cuz spamming Lightning+ Protagonist slash finished the fight in 4-5 minutes? (Also Vert with Fire Absorb made this boss look like a joke 😂) 3) I understand giving us the weaknesses of regular enemies but bosses too? I feel like they held our hands waaay too much with that status thing XD Anyways I’m glad that the Goddess forms were just a nice bonus and not something you desperately needed (I say that as I’m about to take on every Hunt quest now)
The Switch version does not run well. Constant fps drops, long loading times and stuttering. It sometimes takes me almost a minute just to open the menu and even then it still has to load the character models. I was amazed in your video how well the game runs. Still i like the game. Nice visuals, good music and story. I find the battles to be pretty boring though. If i know enemys are weak to something i just keep spamming the Y button or whatever and end the battle that way. The idea is nice in theory. Still i enjoy it for what it is
My question is, is Chrome actually uhh... who everyone thinks she is? (P.s. look closely at her design and then look at who else in the series she shares both JP and EN VAs with)
Even though I have a lot problems with this game, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've played it for 8 hours so far, and I'm not really liking it that much, mostly because of some weird design choices (some platforms don't even look like platforms, bad/reused animations, etc) and gameplay mechanics (basically a waiting game). On the other hand, I really didn't expect to like so much this new (kinda) take on the characters. Also, the music and art pretty good.
Thanks for this review, I like your objectivity. Being a Nep's fan sometimes disapointed with some titles, I think I can sink into this one in the same way you did. I was really curious about Super Neptunia RPG and this vidéo sold it in my heart. Thanks again.
i found an easy set up to break the game and beat it with ease. i did not bother with the side quest once i beat it. it's a shame there's no gallery mode that would of been nice.
The core fanbase over there probably don't like that it was developed by a western development team that nobody heard of, on top of feeling that this feels westernised compared to other similar games
@@Shadowespeon17 yup, unfortunally canadian dont understand the nep soul, yandere simulator and senran kagura soul to made a nep game, i dont understand why iffy did this mistake, she could delay a nep game of one year to dev herself a nep game or wait tamsoft being free to dev a nep game
(First off sorry if my English is a little bad) To be honset i hope that this game isnt the standart for the next Neptunia games. I couldn't even finish the game. I got to bored and i had to force myself to start and play the game because i wanted to finish it. In the end i couldn't do it.
Meh this like other Neptunia have potential but never reach or attempt to reach futher and just feels bland aling with technical issues and a boring combat system its just another Neptunia game 6/10
I think the game was very repetitive after a while, I played it on PC with an xbox controller and what I did after a while was holding down the left trigger to speed up battles, honestly the game was very refreshing nontheless and I had my enjoyment but the battle system was something that I really didnt like about it and I think an approach that would combine this battle machanic to the the one you know from other neptunia titles would have been more to my taste, like it would have been very cool if you had like those points act as turn points that you can save up by skipping turns of the characters to unleash an more powerful move on an character and so you would need to plan out rounds of battle on how you want to spend your points. As the gameplay was in the game you just sat there attacked a few times and used a heal and then you repeated the process. For grinding there was a special grinding spot that for some reason was weirdly designed, there was an magic stone item that dealt physical dmg which was amazing against those metal slimes and there was an AoE and a single target version available at shops and I think they made the AoE very expensive because of the special grinding spot(?) which made no sense to me since you had to spam out the normal single target ones that were normal priced because you couldnt really afford the big ones that were way more expensive than the others
10 seconds in, and there's a riff on the video game industry and its constant pumping of samey iterations.
I'm getting this game.
So you buy a game because it makes fun of that while also doing the same thing? OK
The COD series
Sony with their ultra realistic walking and playable cutscene simulators
@@xBox360BENUTZER I thought it was making fun of itself, not other games.
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it a good year for them I did own couple of figure as well.
We need a nep fighting game. I NEED a nep fighting game. I NEED A NEP FIGHTING GAME!!! Seriously, this game shows how well a nep fighting game could look like
Neptunia for Cross Tag
@Chris C I mean, Bayonetta got in so why not dream?
The fighting game genre should disappear for good because the genre itself and a large portion of its fanbase are toxic af and that includes smash.
If Thems Fighting Herds can do it so can Nep
A Blazblue tag battle style would be amazing
Really great and detailed review. I can see how much work you've put into making this video. Really appreciate your effort, just like always.
I still need to finish Super Neptunia RPG, but I've really enjoyed it so far... It's truly something different than the main games. It's refreshing.
Also 3:05 I got a little heart attack since I thought I heard my name. lol
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it a good year for them I did own couple of figure as well.
Hello) I'm from Russia and also rewieved this game. I liked it a lot, i think i like it more than other Neptunia games. Visuals are kinda wonky at first, but it gradually grows on you. And some locations are gorgeous, ecspecially with soundtrack. Like Sunken city and planeptune forests.
Gameplay is a mix between classic JRPGs - main battle system taken from Valkyrie Profile, learning skills through equipment from Final Fantasy Tactics and elemental system taken from Shin Megami Tensei in which if you strike your enemy with elemental attack that they weak to, you gain addiotional APs. So the whole game is like a homage to classic 2d games. And the game is VERY easy, i never died. Even after beating story and going for optional side quests i beat a 100 lvl dragon being lvl 72 myself) BUT, the game has missable sidequests.
I think this game is eprfect for newbies to the series. It doesn't rely very much on mythology of Neptunia series and gradually introduces all the characters. On the other hand, i personally kinda dissapointed that sisters doesn't appear in the game)
Why is it bombed in Japan? Oh, and Chrome supposed to be a first-gen goddess. So she is Magnavox Oddisey?) Or maybe Pong console?
the Magnavox Odyssey was the pong console, i think.
To be entirely honest, while I'm glad that there are people who have managed to find enjoyment with this game, I'm still kind of baffled that people are actually liking it. As much as I wanted to like this game myself, I couldn't get past all the many, many glaring faults I found with it.
While this is probably the best looking entry in the entire series, even that aspect comes with a lot of buts. The environments look amazing...but they weren't implemented well. Depth-of-field issues, constant clipping issues, enemies can get concealed by foreground elements, etc. Like they were made first and then retrofitted into being explorable fields. Not to mention, while this is subjective, they lack any of the series' charm and aesthetic. The character sprites are beautiful and emote pretty nicely...but as soon as they animate even a little more than an idle animation, like walking, they look so awkward. Animations in general, especially in battles, look oddly sped up for whatever reason.
As interesting as the gameplay is to fully utilize, the game is so brain-dead easy that you don't really need to use any of it. After the first 1-2 hours of the game, I found a tactic utilizing draining skills and regen from Blanc's formation that made characters nigh-unkillable. I literally spent the rest of the game easily beating battles holding L2 (to speed up battles) and mashing the attack buttons, if not just 1-2 of them to not cause as much lag.
The story...is there. Basically yet another reimagining of the first game's story. Granted, there is more to than just that but it's all very much just there. The new characters in particular were very underdeveloped, some barely having any screen time at all despite being crucial to the story.
And that's not even getting how I think this game probably has the worst UX design I've ever seen in any video game I've played. Even basic quality-of-life features that games from decades ago have learned to implement are missing here.
- There's no way to compare equipment in shops to what you currently have equipped.
- The game doesn't notify you if you mastered any skills or abilities so you have to constantly check them yourself.
- AP usage for skills aren't listed anywhere, you have to use them in battle to find out.
- What rewards you got aren't listed when you finish quests, you have to look up what you got yourself.
- You can't sort skills, abilities, or even party members, new entries are just dumped at the end/bottom of the list.
- There's no item or monster compendium of any kind.
- Text from pinned quests can block npc text.
So on and so forth.
"Neptunia" spin-offs already have a poor reputation and this doesn't buck the mold at all. Personally, while I don't know if I'd consider it to be the actual worst entry in the series, it's definitely among the worst of them. What an utter disappointment this was.
Most of these features are standards for old rpgs and that's what the gaming is aiming to do.
I would say Neptunia VII and maybe Cyberdimension are best
@@PasscodeAdvance I have to agree with you, I would throw rebirth 1 and 2 on that as well, rebirth one was very solid and fun, and a great introduction, and 2 did a new introduction and made me like the sister units, (except rom and ram, they are a bit bland to me), Nep VII (original) was great, I just wish there was more game in there and less grindy elements, and also no paywalls to ultimate equipment but the gameplay was fun, wish the next forms were more important tho instead of just thrown in randomly midway, and Cyberdimension only had one issue I ran into, the initial load time on PC when you start the game which is about 3-5 minutes, after which the game plays like butter, its weird but I guess it gives me time to get a drink? I am "trying" Hyperdevotion Noire, tho these character models being so weird in battle throws me off.
@@brendangoodell6233 Re;Birth 1 is the God of Neptunia games. Just wish it was on switch and 3ds
@@philippillis9393 ironically bad is still bad...
I really like the game. I'm about five hours in and I'm enjoying it.
Valkyrie profile style is always a win :)
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it a good year for them I did own couple of figure as well.
Same i love it
I really hate the game. I don't get to play as Rom and Ram.
My only real issue with it is its WAY too short for full price.
Thankfully i bought on sale so i suppose its worth it.
Since you asked viewers about our experience with the switch version compared to what we see in this PC version video, I can be of some help. I got the switch LE. It runs like garbage. It's almost unplayable. I DID beat it, but it was a nightmare. The platforming is next to impossible becasue of how bad it runs, and there are a lot of mechanic freezes, such as during a battle, at random, it'll just stop doing things. The first day I had it, in the Volcano in Lastation, I was going up against one of those large fire monsters, and it actions altogether just stopped. Iwas no longer able to press Y to attack. Not to mention the enemy also was no longer attacking. Since ZL is fast forward, I did that and heldit for about 20 seconds. Literally nothing happened. The only option I had was to try to flee because pause and A and B worked. In fact every button EXCEPT Y worked. But no matter how many times I pressed flee and the timer went down, I never successfully fled the battle. I tried over 20 times. I was forced to exit out and reset the game. It happened multiple times. I quickly learned to save after literally EVERYTHING I did. It was tedious. Playing on switch ruined the entire experience for me.
EDIT: Oh I also forgot: Lag. Like CRAZY! EVERYTHING you do lags a ton. I put tweeted a video showing it. If you press B ((jump on switch) the button will be fully unpressed before Nep jumps in game. Horrible emulators have less lag than this game.
i'm honestly sad for you bro
@@maaxn6588 Yea it's a shame. The story was really good, but it runs so badly on switch that I literally will never pick the game back up again. I'm going to buy a PS4 copy later on cuz I want all the physical games, but still this was such a horrible experience.
That's really sad. 😢
If u lz too much to speed up time you get a debuff on your character and it limits actions you can take did you have a clock with an x over neps head when u got stuck. As far as lag i only experience it when i get overzealous and spam buttons like spamming weak elements just to quickly get it there. The experience can be better if you know thehardware limitations. The switch version is more for people who want to take their time with it as thats how it best operates.
This is the best game series I have ever accidentally stumbled upon.
Thanks for your videos on this series, it really helped!
I really need Valkyrie Profile remake now...
Switch version player here. Animations are smooth as butter, but load times are ... UGH.
anything to add before a fella commits with the sale?
@@thehighwaygoddesssss Sure. Enjoy it! Game's fun as hell.
@@MethraelSo anything else apart from the load times? Asking being a switch player
@@zuramaru3837 Not really anything negative to add to this particular version - the game is a ton of fun and looks gorgeous, music is stellar. It's just loading times that drive me up a wall.
This is definitely the freshest Neptunia game I have played since the first game. What I like most about this game is the animation of the characters during cutscenes. Previous Neptunia games only have those visual novel style drawings of characters talking to the screen. Being able to see nep claps her hands while talking with other characters is really a step forward from the idle talking we had in previous games, hope they will keep doing moving story scenes like this in the future game.
Ps: If someone has the scene where vert is on game addiction withdrawal send me a link pls thanks 😂
Edit: I found a vid that has that Vert's animation in it, the Internet is great. Link: ruclips.net/video/7AYDyHDMhHk/видео.html
Since SNRPG is on the switch which is the first time for it
Do you think Idea Factory and Compile Heart will port the Re;birth games and megadimension neptunia VII to the switch in the future if SNRPG does well? And do you think the other spin offs can be ported?
Not sure how well this game is doing on switch considering if I’m not mistaken came out on the same week as super Mario maker 2.
But hopefully neptunia games get ported. Just don’t expect them all to get physical release for western releases. As most of the IF/CH games that are coming to switch have been all digital only, with most of them only having Asian physical releases like Moero chronicles H, Mary skelter 2 (Japanese physical only) and possibly the same will occur with Arc of the alchemist, not to mention a bunch of VN games by them as well that will just be digital only if released in the west.
So buy a large micro SD card in the future just to be on the safe side.
I love how underwater Noir's twin tails just hang out if the bubble but you'd think Neptune and Blanc's coats would be uncomfortable to move on underwater especially..... plus no swimming animation. that's how many an RPG does it but still
I agree, I am really enjoying this one... the best among IF’s later games for sure if we exclude Mary Skelter
Thank you for the detailed review. This game looks amazing I don't understand why it was bashed so much.
So true.
Sounds good to me. One thing I'm sure I'll be missing in some way is that (from what I've seen in your video) they don't have the usual skills. People might complain about "recycling", but I also like the world-consistency it brings to the table.
Also, I suppose they went "back" to silence again. I've just finished "vs. Zombies", and while they have almost everything voiced in English, they didn't do it for the special unlocks ("Backstage talk" in particular). However, instead of just being silent, they used the Japanese voices -- something that I'd love to see in all Neptunia games, at least as a setting. Even if the voices aren't identical, having scenes voiced is still better... IMHO.
This is my first Neptunia game and I’m really enjoying it ^^ The graphics are definitely a highlight for me
The Switch version has bugs and stuttering but those aside I still enjoyed it
Hopefully a patch is put out before I start the game because that's the version I got. Anything game breaking?
Anything BLJ-like?
Youmu Konpaku No
@@Painmaster212 some softlocks happen but thats about it
The gameplay is clearly valkyrie profile the ps1 aka Lenneth of psp.
I will buy this game later when it's on sale. I have a rule to never pay retail prices for a digital only copy. And I still have 3 or 4 other Neptunia games to finish, so it doesn't make much sense for me to buy it now.
I got a physical copy at gamestop
@@PappaPanda Unfortunately there are no physical copies for PC. And I don't think it's reasonable to buy a console for one or two games when I already have a PC and 90% of the games I want to play have a PC version. But as long as IF doesn't make physical copies for PC I will not pay the full price.
The Skyrim theme is one of the greatest video game songs of all time.
Between this and Indivisible. It's gonna be a good year for Valkyrie Profile spiritual successors.
Great review! Only 1 gripe- not a single mention if the games' influence; Valkyrie Profile. The gameplay - 2d sidescroller with face button activated attacks - are straight from Valkyrie Profile. Not to credit that fact appropriately is criminal.
You got my sub! Also, waiting for mt ps4 copy in the mail, and its going to be my 1st Nep experience.
I thought it was pretty good other than the glitches, I never really had any bad glitches in the previous games (never in the main games), but using fire element spells with Noire sometimes can glitch the game. It isn't really that laggy like I keep hearing, not on PS4 at least (I platinumed it in 3 days without trying so it didn't really lag), just the fast travel causes a few seconds of lag. My favorite spinoff was probably 4GO, but I still like this one since it kinda reminds me of old RPGs.
I've got the first Rebirth game, and while I haven't finished it yet, have really been enjoying it. And this game looks like a lot of fun too. Might just have to pick it up at some point. Thanks for the detailed review
1:48 Yoo that's sick! I just need to scratch up 10 Bucks somewhere lol, I'm saving up for a PC but of course I still want to spent atleast something on my PS4.
Worth mentioning that this game is already on the Steam sales, at least on my region. I'm still gonna wait for that comparison, thanks for the video.
If you're smart with it, you can mix a bunch of attacks with attack items. The amount of damage you can eventually spam is ludicrous. I did so when I platinumed the Japanese version of this game. Can't wait to try out the story though.
The game is amazing. I'm super glad I got the Limited Edition for this one!!!
This game's battle system and some story elements reminded me of Valkyrie Profile as well and love it for that. Are there any other Neptunia games that play similar to this one?
The battles give me Adventure Quest vibes, it's probably unintended but it's welcome all the same.
You really go in depth on your reviews. I always have a good idea of the games after your videos. Cheers
This nep game is refreshing for me...
Its also well made and chill, for the most part...
However...
Maybe it is only me...
But Chrome looks somewhat similar to Arfoire (the one in rebirth 1 in true ending route)
Wow the same day I plan to post my review you post yours what the heck man lol great video tho I agree this game was great definitely the best one in a while
Well... this certainly is a... interesting review.
Your intro does make it seem like it's a good game just because it's something different from the usual Neptunia.
From what I've seen about this game, it seems to come with it's own Shantae/Metroidvania like Overworld?
A huge "open world" styled Gamindustri would be nice, but with how CH/IF has been reusing Assets, it's no surprise that there isn't. Not sure if that would be troublesome without any form of warp points though.
(Maybe simply include warps but still allow players to run through areas?)
Other than the 4 Goddesses, IF, Compa and whoever else returns from the cast, plus Dogoos, nothing really looks Neptunia like.
Looks more like generic steampunk like stuff which in my view doesn't really fit the colorful vibrant look of the characters, despite this being supposed to be Gamindustri.
I guess many of the other NPCs seen in the Neptunia Series don't really show up here?
The Plot's similar to what we had in the original game, except with all of the Goddesses.
This, combined with the new environment that's still supposed to be Gamindustri does make me wonder if this kind of is a Reboot in some way?
The Goddess Transformations seem to be more something to help out against tougher longer battles, you can still store it up though, still kind of a odd mechanic to have it be that way.
(Rather than having a bar that's full but decreases over time, requiring you to be in non HDD Form to fill it up again)
Break Attacks seem to be the replacements of SP/EXE Drives this time around?
Your review also didn't really go much into the negative parts, unless you count the briefly mentioned points of:
-Wonky Animations
-All Enemies looking like Dogoos
-Enemies being hidden by foreground visuals
-Performance Issues after startup
-Character Traits not being as obvious to new players
At the End you said "Since you can't button mash after all."
Yet there's the battle speed up button and various different sources say that you simply can do that.
Interestingly enough, only the negative reviews have really gotten into criticism about the game, still naming positive points or being happy about people that can enjoy it, while all positive reviews are either meme ones or simply praise the game as flawless.
I do wonder about you using the EN Voices though, I guess you're aware on how different the localization, especially for the first HDN, MK2, V and Re;2 & 3 is?
The fact that I never really liked that as well as how this game was developed in Canada does make me wonder how likeable the story will be for me.
Also not a big fan of the English Voices so my ears were kinda bleeding throughout the video, they should be fine again soon though.
It looks like this Neptune game looks interesting, with a different gameplay concept than the previous Neptune games
Super Neptunia RPG took a while for it to click with me. I kinda dropped the game after hitting Lowee because I didn't feel like I was having fun. A few days of trashing the game as a joke then feeling bad later, I came back and got sucked in hard.
I do think at least in terms of a Neptunia game that it is pretty good. The lack of playable characters does kill some replay-ability for me (As I'm soneone who likes to challenge themselves and do X only runs in Re;birth 1) but the roster itself is fine and decently balanced.
Here's the thing though... I never bought an item in this game. Equipment, sure. But item-wise I didn't buy anything. Mostly because the fast travel system allows you to heal up rather quickly along with there being no SP system (so you can just spam Omni Heal against a weak enemy while you build up HP again) and the only items I did use were Life Fragments and some Potions towards the endgame as I couldn't be bothered walking back.
It says a lot about the game when even games like Re;birth 1 a game that I've piratically mastered still requires me to stock up on items, either for tougher fights or for end game farming. Meanwhile I came into this game 100% blind and beat it within 20 hours with barely any items used.
Nothing wrong with easy games, Kirby is one of my favourite franchises, but there's a point where you start to question why the devs even implemented certain items due to how little you need them.
I sill enjoyed my time with the game, of course. A lot of what you said positively about this game I echo, but I left feeling like ti could have done more. At the very least, Chrome is a fantastic character for reasons I can't say without spoiling the game but... Well, anyone who saw the True Ending in Re;birth 1 can probably see where SNRPG was going. (No, they're not connected, despite the "Super" in the name and RB1 being in Superdimension. It could have been but one CG just blows it up entirely. RIP.)
I think I'll wait for a sale. The game just doesn't seem like something I should pay full price for. Plus I don't have a Switch or PC yet so I refuse to get the PS4 version lol.
I'd like to see a future Neptunia game with real-time combat like Kingdom Hearts.
4 goddesses online comes relatively close :)
I decided to start playing this game on Twitch, it's pleasant... but the battling is kind of easy because I get overleveled from not being sure how to progress the story and I end up doing a lot of side quests. Although some side quests are hard to get compeleted... Not sure how far into the game I am yet, but our characters haven't transformed yet.
The switch version is deffenitly suffers from some slow down during some battles. Nothing that ruins the game but it's deffenitly noticeable and drags the experience down.
This game really reminds me of Valkyrie Profile
I don't think so!
You're review is way better then the other guy who's done one
This is why I'll stick with the Japanese audio. Either you go all in with the English audio or not at all instead of only dubbing about half of the game.
Ehh ive heard theres actually more english dubbing then japanese for this particular title like. Dubbing some things that were left with no audio in japanese. Playing thru it only parts not with audio were basic side quest and similar unimportant plot points.
@@griffinjosh90 atelier series is even worse,...English dub only cover for like 20% of the game while Japanese are fully intact,..later Atelier no longer has English dub at all,....i play all Neptunia on both voices and Japanese ver cover every single part of the game, while English dub only cover for main story and battle grunts
@@KaizAmari and even the nelke atelier in japanese has only audio in the half of their conversation and i dont think they dub atelier marie characters in nelke even in japanese ^_^
Still the English dub of Neptunia series is the best among these types of games. Very well done and enjoyable.
You might have convinced me to buy this game, was sceptical to the 2D gameplay, hur after this i might just give it a try
I agree I don't understand the terrible reviews actually! I like this one very much... especially considering the bad games IF kept releasing recently... after Mary Skelter it was a disaster this one seams to me it saves the day!
in regards to newbies I've actually had a debate about the niche gaming market in general on twitter and regardless of how different this is still more on the niche market side of things as a series. one thing to note what you may like about this is likely again more niche than we would like to believe especially given the poor reception in japan and how so far you're the only who's given it this much praise in a review.
Super Neptunia is a game you'll either like or just straight up hate for some reason. so far at least there hasn't been much between. so it's kind of important to note why there would be reasons people wouldn't like this one as much as others as well as noting your own reasons for liking it. I'll probably look into what is about this neptune game japanese fans seem to dislike about it later cause despite that the fanbase still love the series and that may have to do with why the series is got another OVA release this week on japanese PSN to try an appease those who weren't too big on the approach super neptunia went.
just by looking at it and how it plays it can be easy to see why people would be pissed off at it in a way it does kind of look like this is something you'd get as a mobile app game. while I don't really share your skeptism on on the other games since for main titles it does make sense on why they'd take a brief explanation on what's what while others kind of do it that way too but a lot of those reasons is mostly cause unlike say pokemon or soul calibur that always look to draw new audiences every game the neptune series seems comfortable aiming for it's usual audience.
but a lot of that is just perspective from what I can tell and does need a bit of digging into in what is it about this game in particular people don't like since another reason I can probably guess is just in the fact it's less characters to play with over having more since this looks like it had enough space and budget for it but again needs to be looked into before making any big claims.
so in my opinion it's either yes or no depending on who you are and what you're looking for in a neptune game.
didn't expect this will be full voiced o.O
Is there a Neptunia game where you can transform at will instead of waiting for a bar to fill up?
Is it possible to have Noire, Blanc or Vert as the controllable character when exploring the dungeons?
Platinum got in 30 hours. Stunning jrpg very cute and actually profound ❤
The platforming is great.
I just bought it on PS4. I haven't played through all of the other Neptunia games so I hope I won't get lost at all story wise.
Replaying this recently on PS5 with the PS4 version of the game. I really hate fighting some of the enemies. The fights drag so long and they be having no weakness. Also the constant enemy respawn is annoying as hell too. Especially when the game challenge you to collect stuff scattered all over the maps.
I think there is a feature to speed up and "fast motion" battles if I remember correctly.
got my entire party immune to physical damage, with blanc in the lead i have constant HP reg and i spam her neutral damage HP absorbing attack... fights have become too easy now, occasionally the one or other magic spell hits but the life reg takes care of that, i would go as far as to call this a balancing issue, not that it harms my enjoyment anyway.
Since I'm a newbie in the series and this is my first neptunia, I must say I actually really like the story and it was very funny even though there are things that I don't understand...
Definitely pick up Megadimension Neptunia. It's good game and the storyline is easy to follow
Crome is Arfore, just obvious similarities not to mention well she looks literally like, the purified version of arfore in rebirth 1.
I actually like this game I wouldn't mind replaying this on my other switch account
Hmm, looks like they took he combat system from Valkyrie Profile. There you had 4 Characters too, and each attacked when you pushed the corresponding button. Also similar is that you can attack the Enemies on the Map and then get a "first strike" like bonus.
However you could not switch where who stands in Valkyries Profile and also the amount of Attacks a character had depended on the Weapon Used. Maybe you should check that one out too! ;p
Though there are allot similarities ... from what I see they only used Valkyries Profile as a base ... and then build up allot own new stuff which looks like fun!
I thought there were five formations with 4 active at a time(the 4 goddesses and the tall white haired girl who's friends with bombixmories leader forgot her name)
Still have yet to figure out how "Silkworm" (which is the Japanese version) translates to "Bombyx Mori".
Interesting review. I'm still not sure if I would want the game or not. The changes to gameplay and world design are pretty interesting. I really like the plush in the limited edition too. There is one fact that really mispleases me though: my favourite couple is not part of it - neither Nepgear nor Uzume is present. If they add them as dlc I would definitely buy it.
Btw. Have you already finished the game? How much playtime does it offer?
Looking at the 2D graphical style, I get a strong Vanillaware vibe from this.
But considering the developer is from the west I think they took inspiration from Vanillaware's Dragon's Crown and added in a strong turn based JRPG similar to the Neptunia series.
Nice a really well explained review
Ugh, for me it is probably the WORST nep game in years. It is extremally boring, with gameplay so pointless (pressing one button) and repetetive than even games like Neptunia U feels like a 4x strategy.
Artstyle is superb, plot is really interesting, but gameplay itself... well: thing that is most important in games... it sucks, really really badly.
Yeah I think so too
Aurora Solaris I have the same sentiments too. This game has both the best and worst combat. Let me explain.
Pros: The formation system allows for varied strategies if you need to switch moves on the fly.
Do you want to buff the party then move on the offensive? Do you want to change formation to switch out the person taking the next hit and heal them? Do you want to switch between physical, magical or elemental attacks because the enemy is weak to one of them? Having a set of moves with synergy with one another based on who you assign on the frontlines actually gives way for creative builds now that enemies require you to switch formations on whichever is your attack priority.
Cons: Pretty much everything else. Getting to that part of the game where it finally gives you these mechanics is a pain to go through, especially when the general combat itself is so un-engaging. Going through the first part of the game is a testament to how this game was first and foremost designed with a complete party. Anything below that number shows how shallow mashing the attack button is until the gauge fills up.
Speaking of which, the AP system is slow. The only way you can work around it is if you hit enemies with their weaknesses to gain AP back from an attack... or you hold down the fast forward button. Yeah. A fast forward button. Even the devs realized how boring it is to wait for your gauge to fill up. This wouldn't be an issue if downtime in between attacks aren't so passive.
Why not have an option to let us defend against attacks to gain AP if we time it correctly? This would have given incentives to be always cautious of the enemy's actions.
Why does the game only allow one action at a time whether it's the enemy or ours? This would have given players the ability to multitask considering that attacks are on separate face-up buttons. Everything seems to work around who presses the button first, so you can't even switch formations or do anything in general when the enemy is going to attack.
These are just some of my issues with the game. Don't even get me started with the quality issues regarding the menus and the PC version.
Heck, the reason why I didn't even include talking about how the HDD forms could have changed combat is because I didn't even reach that far before dropping the game. I could see why it bombed in Japan because this game is sadly the first ever Neptunia title I refunded.
@@NoxinPistol That could be feedback for a great update n.n
I personally think it would have been better if they just made a RPG Maker game.
As someone that will most likely get this title later on at a heavy Discount, I'm interested in the PC and Menu issues mentioned, can you elaborate those further?
So for my first Neptunia Game it was pretty good. I liked the gameplay and the music was great. I played the Switch Version and I had some performance issues like FPS drops and input lags in the menu. I hope they bring out a patch or something. But overall, it was fun and I would play it again :)
which neptunia game is best to start off with?
That was a cool review, i think I'm sold
The lack of "memey" dialogue is probably because NISA didn't touch it
I probably buy it during autumn sale
This reminds me of the old school Valkyrie profile games on ps 1 and ps2 people bitching about the battle system take some time and learn it crybabies I find the battle system refreshing nice and complex i like it great review
I was thinking the same thing! I love the game too.
It's not like the Japanese hate the idea of a 2D nep game in this format, but the quality here is pretty subpar compared to most 2D and sprite-based games they have over there. They're probably wondering why IF didn't hire someone like Vanillaware to do it, with the battle system of Grand Knight History and exploration of Odin Sphere/Oboro Muramasa and the visuals they're known for it would've been perfect.
Hey Great job on this Video!
The real question is, do you have to grind in some no name dungeon for hours to level up and have a chance to fight the story related fights?
I've finished the game a few days ago, and as long as you can exploit the elemental weakness system (hitting an enemy with their elemental weakness will increase the AP) and stack different attacks and spamming chrome's/Noire's normal attack/elemental edge attacks to increase your break gauge and go crazy with the break attacks, everything is beatable
Honestly, to me, the game was a sort of mixed bag. I didn't have a lot of problems with what most people did. Got it on Steam. Just as a foreword, I started playing the games with the Re;birth series.
The game's glitches weren't a big problem to me. I never ran into any hard crashes and it was pretty stable.
I was rather mixed on the change in themes. Much of the game changed themes from traditional Neptunia to a more standard high fantasy feel and I'm not fully sure what to think about that. After all, the presence of meaningless technology has typically been a hallmark of the series to me. There's always a ridiculous, surreal feel to things in that regard. The art and soundtracks cotnributed to this. You speak of the soundtrack to this being subtly epic but at times, it just feels generic, and is Neptunia ever supposed to be subtle? The quality of the art and soundtrack, don't get me wrong, are extremely well done and there are some truly breathtaking moments, like the underwater section. I'm just not sure the direction is well advised.
Where it really suffers, however, is the gameplay. Which is kind of important. Every phase of the game has separate issues. At the start, when your party is limited, your tactical options suffer greatly. Nep alone can literally only do one thing in battle (aside from using items) which makes it literally just a case of 'mashing the X button'. Early on, when you start getting additional party members, they annoyingly tend to get swapped in and out and each time, you gain or lose tactical options and everything about the characters is reset when they rejoin. At this point tactics also seem worryingly constrained because you know even with a full party you have only 16 skill choices to equip, just barely enough to get a full retinue of tactical choices (and that's assuming you've mastered enough to get all your viable options). You don't have targeting control over supportive abilities either which is an unfortunate issue with the design of the battle system. Though it's not like you need all these options, keeping the right elemental abilities on hand is vital because any fight becomes fairly easy if you have an enemy's weakness covered -- since it lets you rapidly spam the same attack over and over again without worrying about AP.
Late game, you start to be able to break the game in various ways. Blanc literally is able to obtain a skill that heals, revives, and cures the ENTIRE PARTY; while pricey in AP, if you're exploiting enemy weaknesses this shouldn't be a problem. You also gain the "Spirit of" spells, the strongest elemental magic in the game and can easily gain access to the "Half AP" skill which does exactly what it says (AP costs halved), and these long animation skills have a notable exploit tied to them. If you keep spamming these spells over and over again it can prevent enemies from ever acting if you queue these spells up while the animation for the previous is still running, allowing you to basically stun-lock any boss in the game. And the long animation time makes it so that by the time the animation is concluded, you've got more than enough AP to have queued up another from a different character. This even works on enemies resistant to the attack so long as you have Half AP on all your attackers. Even the final boss and the last hunt mission are susceptible to this. Because of this (and the general lack of difficulty in the game in general), even after I had gained goddess forms, I never once intentionally used them in battle. Only when the game forced me to start fights in HDD.
Other gripes:
- Permanently missable quests and no New Game + feature
- Some of the cutscene events seem to just come out of nowhere and don't make any sense whatsoever
- The CPUs got flanderized to hell and back - Blanc can't go a single scene without talking about books and Vert is the same way for wanting to play games.
- IF and Compa require DLC to play as
- No cosmetic items unless you have DLC
- DLC weapons and armor are utter ripoffs that aren't worth equipping at ANY point in the game
- The ending was unimaginably dumb
- Game's backgrounds don't upscale well to 4K in some places
- Characters voice quips in battle and when jumping/dashing in the overworld can get annoyingly repetitive at times
Why would a person still want to play it, all things considered?
- More silly Nep shenanigans and a lot of the references you know and love
- High quality 2D art and pretty good soundtrack even if they don't stay true to the theme of Nep, IMHO
- Some might consider it an interesting take on the world of Gamindustri
Is it worth buying?
- If you're not a fan of the Nep series, probably NO.
- If you are a fan, it may be worth it, but only at a steep discount. It's just not worth $50 in my personal opinion.
- Avoid the Ensemble Edition bundle and the following DLC: Dengeki Bracelet/Accessory Set, Famitsu Weapon Set, Enchanted Weapon Set, Cosplay/Foreign/Traditional/Enchanted Series Equipment Sets. They're completely useless equipment that you'll never wind up using. They have no abilities and the stat boosts will only be worthwhile in the early game, but you're always going to want to have items equipped that you can learn abilities from. So you're just throwing away money buying them.
Super Neptunia RPG was a really good spin-off but there are a few cons about it that really dipped my experience:
1) Despite the whole AP limiting your actions hitting your opponent’s weaknesses was too rewarding considering that you can button mash with the right combination of spells.
2) Final boss was abit underwhelming in my opinion. When I saw the three heads with colored gems on them I was almost impressed and was prepared for the game to test my formation skills... only to find out that it didn’t really matter cuz spamming Lightning+ Protagonist slash finished the fight in 4-5 minutes? (Also Vert with Fire Absorb made this boss look like a joke 😂)
3) I understand giving us the weaknesses of regular enemies but bosses too? I feel like they held our hands waaay too much with that status thing XD
Anyways I’m glad that the Goddess forms were just a nice bonus and not something you desperately needed (I say that as I’m about to take on every Hunt quest now)
What Neptunia game should I start with? This one?
Enjoying this game on my PlayStation 5.
The Switch version does not run well. Constant fps drops, long loading times and stuttering. It sometimes takes me almost a minute just to open the menu and even then it still has to load the character models. I was amazed in your video how well the game runs. Still i like the game. Nice visuals, good music and story. I find the battles to be pretty boring though. If i know enemys are weak to something i just keep spamming the Y button or whatever and end the battle that way. The idea is nice in theory.
Still i enjoy it for what it is
Definitely a great Nep-Nep game! I loved it and it gets even better once you figure out the enemy weakness trick!
The original system in Neptunia was easy to understand if you bother to read it
Play it on Switch PS4 version is the absolute worse option there is.
ugh. 2019 and console fanboys still exist
@@Clear706 It's true it's the worst on PS4 but it's the only console I have so I have no choice but to play it on PS4 the worst version to ever exist.
@@avakinlifeuser6888 Power to you man. Play any game any way you can. Unfortunately nerds like the OP still exist.
Nah, the worst thing about this game is Rom and Ram not being playable or even appearing.
@@Clear706 He changed the one on PS4
We're in a day where I'm in agreement with YellowSuperNintendo. Well...
My question is, is Chrome actually uhh... who everyone thinks she is? (P.s. look closely at her design and then look at who else in the series she shares both JP and EN VAs with)
Even though I have a lot problems with this game, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I've played it for 8 hours so far, and I'm not really liking it that much, mostly because of some weird design choices (some platforms don't even look like platforms, bad/reused animations, etc) and gameplay mechanics (basically a waiting game).
On the other hand, I really didn't expect to like so much this new (kinda) take on the characters. Also, the music and art pretty good.
Switch version is good but it will lose frames and lag in big battles
Thanks for this review, I like your objectivity. Being a Nep's fan sometimes disapointed with some titles, I think I can sink into this one in the same way you did.
I was really curious about Super Neptunia RPG and this vidéo sold it in my heart.
Thanks again.
For me 1.Neptunia VII (no R) 2.4Goddesses Online 3.Hyperdevotion Noire
but r has nice vr with the godesses ^_^
yeah i admit they could do a better vr, so maybe next neptune game in vr we can explore gamindustrie in vr ^_^
i found an easy set up to break the game and beat it with ease. i did not bother with the side quest once i beat it. it's a shame there's no gallery mode that would of been nice.
Nep Nep seal of approval 🍮🍮🍮🍮🍮🍮
Neptuna has never been hard. The early chapter are often the hardest of the games because your weaker and underpower.
I'm surprised, cause everyone over in Japan and Taiwan is saying this is a bad game.
The core fanbase over there probably don't like that it was developed by a western development team that nobody heard of, on top of feeling that this feels westernised compared to other similar games
@@Shadowespeon17 yup, unfortunally canadian dont understand the nep soul, yandere simulator and senran kagura soul to made a nep game, i dont understand why iffy did this mistake, she could delay a nep game of one year to dev herself a nep game or wait tamsoft being free to dev a nep game
I would try this one out...but 50 dollars for this one? Seem steep. Plus already 3 dlc characters.
(First off sorry if my English is a little bad) To be honset i hope that this game isnt the standart for the next Neptunia games. I couldn't even finish the game. I got to bored and i had to force myself to start and play the game because i wanted to finish it. In the end i couldn't do it.
swich version soft locks a lot in most of all in boss fights also it studers a lot
I feel stupid playing this because I really don’t understand the battle system it just doesn’t make sense to me idk
It on sale on PS store for 19.99 I'm so getting this this game epic 😁 forever NEP NEP fan
Meh this like other Neptunia have potential but never reach or attempt to reach futher and just feels bland aling with technical issues and a boring combat system its just another Neptunia game 6/10
FINALLY! Someone recognizes its GREATNESS! One of the best, if not THE BEST, Neptunia games of all time.
I think the game was very repetitive after a while, I played it on PC with an xbox controller and what I did after a while was holding down the left trigger to speed up battles, honestly the game was very refreshing nontheless and I had my enjoyment but the battle system was something that I really didnt like about it and I think an approach that would combine this battle machanic to the the one you know from other neptunia titles would have been more to my taste, like it would have been very cool if you had like those points act as turn points that you can save up by skipping turns of the characters to unleash an more powerful move on an character and so you would need to plan out rounds of battle on how you want to spend your points. As the gameplay was in the game you just sat there attacked a few times and used a heal and then you repeated the process.
For grinding there was a special grinding spot that for some reason was weirdly designed, there was an magic stone item that dealt physical dmg which was amazing against those metal slimes and there was an AoE and a single target version available at shops and I think they made the AoE very expensive because of the special grinding spot(?) which made no sense to me since you had to spam out the normal single target ones that were normal priced because you couldnt really afford the big ones that were way more expensive than the others
Dat moment when Neptunia is better at platforming than Devil May Cry.