Samurai Maiden Assessment (PS5) | Push Sq.

It’s the fifteenth century and one among Japan’s main figures, Oda Nobunaga, duties a twenty first century college woman and a trio of ninjas to slay the Demon Lord. With the ability of friendship and kisses, off you go to avoid wasting the world. Emphasis on kisses, by the way in which, as a result of if the title did not give it away, Samurai Maiden is that kind of sport. Nonetheless, it’s a bit lighter on the fanservice than a few of its friends.

The plot is simply there. Nothing floor breaking, nor horrible — it’s an excuse to carry the women collectively and make a fairly catchy opening theme. Nonetheless, the interactions and banter is entertaining sufficient to disregard the generic plot, and the fairly prolonged visible novel-esque cutscenes that generally regurgitate plot factors.

A lot of the enjoyment depends on the hit or miss gameplay. There are greater than 24 missions alongside optionally available quests generally known as ‘bubble pockets’. You’ll discover out in a short time there’s a scarcity of degree design variation. It is rinse and repeat by means of fairly linear paths till you attain large and, generally, detrimentally small arenas the place enemies are roughly a reskin of one another with related assault patterns.

Nonetheless, the bubble pockets do add some selection to the common method, with mild puzzle and platforming parts making a pleasant distinction to the general monotonous most important missions. They’re additionally important in boosting your fight expertise. In actual fact, something remotely optionally available, similar to bolstering your relationship along with your teammates, is the place the sport stands out.

Each time you utilize your companions’ expertise, your relationship with them rises. They’re pleasantly designed in a means which means you do not have ton depend on them, appearing extra as stun mechanics. As well as, these assaults assist masks the sport’s quite a few body charge dips. Sadly, these drops, alongside your most important character’s stiff assaults, make Samurai Maiden’s encounters rather more irritating than they need to be.