download neptunia x senran kagura ninja wars review

I guess it’s a way of balancing difficulty, but most of them have so much ending lag that it’s like the game is actively encouraging you not to combo them together. That and I also did not like the fact that these abilities cannot be canceled mid-animation. The game should have gone with the system from Ys or even Tales of, where you pop these abilities on the fly and the combat feels much more smooth as a result. You have all of these flashy moves and whatnot, but a completely jarring pause in-between them. The basic strings feel great to use and the character abilities too, but I was not a fan of how the game is effectively paused when you’re selecting which ability to use. The core to the combat here is fine – there’s a good amount of feedback and it’s not as weightless as it appears.

Start with a few basic attacks before popping a multi-string ability and then finish it off with a launcher just in time to avoid the enemy’s incoming damage, for example. You have your one basic attack string per character, but then a handful of character abilities that can be comboed together in different ways. It’s a full-blown action-based combo brawler that is kind of reminiscent of the Ys games. Starting with the gameplay though – I was honestly a bit surprised. This doesn’t make it a bad game though – just a Neptunia game. The gameplay that has a good base, but some flaws on top of it, the story that takes up around 75% of the game’s play time, and the overall “not really taking itself seriously”-kind of attitude. This may be a crossover, but this is ultimately just another Neptunia spin-off and it brings pretty much all the usuals associated with that label.

Alright, so I think it’s important to set expectations here.

Download neptunia x senran kagura ninja wars review