Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters is Compile Coronary heart and Concept Manufacturing facility’s newest installment within the fan-favorite long-running Neptunai sequence and the newest mainline sport that isn’t a spin-off shortly. Just like the title suggests, the sport places the principle characters on the again burner and places their sister/ CPU candidates, Rom, Ram, Uni, and Nepgear, the protagonist of this story, within the limelight. The story takes place within the Gamindustri, the cheeky in-game reference to the true Gaming Business, and the areas Lowee, Lastation, Leanbox, and Planeptune, which reference the plain real-life gaming firms.
A Stunning Story
After Neptune and the remainder of the leaders of those nations are despatched on a vital mission to analyze unusual occurrences within the PC continent, it’s as much as their sisters to go on a separate mission which sadly finally ends up with them seemingly unsealing a brand new malicious goddess and them being sealed for 2 years. They later awaken to search out the world plagued with new monsters and residents shedding religion within the goddesses and spending time with their new fashionable cellphones. So it’s as much as the sisters to get the world again to the way it was, with the assistance of recent characters Maho and Anri, whose fates are additionally tied to current occasions.
To maintain issues brief, the story in Neptunia: Sisters vs. Sisters is by far one of the best side of the sport, because the builders succeeded in giving the story nice depth and letting a number of characters actually shine. Whereas the story begins with a reasonably orthodox construction, it rapidly ramps up by introducing new characters and excessive stakes. Should you’re a long-time fan of the sequence, the sport affords tons of references to the outdated video games in addition to geek and gaming tradition, comparable to nods and pokes enjoyable at Pokemon Go, PlayStation censorship, Higurashi, and extra. I have to additionally admit that the story idea is without doubt one of the most amusing and fascinating ideas in any title I’ve seen, and the sport’s story particularly manages to cowl trendy gaming tradition in a method I’ve by no means seen any sport do earlier than.
Nonetheless, whereas the sport sports activities a genuinely fascinating plot that admittedly tries to convey you on top of things on the lore and world, it sadly nonetheless depends on you being a returning fan or participant of the sequence, as most of the story and character particulars will fly over your head in any other case. Although it’s additionally truthful to notice that that is customary for many continuation titles.
Hit-and-Miss Gameplay
Now when it comes to gameplay, I have to admit that whereas the sport’s fight system is satisfactory, I didn’t discover it very pleasing, particularly earlier within the story. Gamers can change in, out, and between characters on the fly and use their a number of customary, vary, and particular assaults. Doing this lets them construct AP (Motion Factors), which in flip lets them execute hyperlink assaults, particular assaults, and goddess transformations by increase their EXE Drives. And whereas fight isn’t sluggish per se, the power to rapidly change between characters actually makes you want actions had been quicker, and the restricted body price on the PS4 doesn’t assist in any respect. What’s extra, the sport additionally, sadly, sports activities plenty of bland enemies which can be closely repeated, and only some bosses are literally entertaining and satisfying in a struggle. Outdoors fight, gamers may even purchase consumable objects, use equipment, and stage up their characters whereas exploring the sport’s a number of repeated maps and areas, lots of which sadly look bland visually, save for Planeptune, which is surprisingly not solely giant and explorable but in addition distinctive among the many sport’s different areas.
Apart from that, it’s additionally price mentioning the sport’s character fashions, which, whereas not dangerous, usually are not actually as detailed as you’d anticipate a sport of this period to be, as they give the impression of being extra akin to PS3 fashions than the rest. Lastly, I’d even be remiss if I didn’t point out the superb Japanese and English voice solid, which did incredible jobs portraying the characters making the general story that rather more pleasing.
Last Ideas
General, Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters supplies an interesting story and extremely endearing, well-voiced characters. Whereas the sport has its fair proportion of points, making it a tough title to suggest to JRPG followers basically, Neptunia followers will most definitely nonetheless like it, particularly after lots of its gameplay points have been hopefully ironed out.
The Assessment
Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters
PROS
- Nice story
- Nice refrences
CONS
- Gradual gameplay
- Mediocre fashions and graphics