Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters PS4 Assessment

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 recreation 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 corporations.

A Stunning Story

After Neptune and the remainder of the leaders of those nations are despatched on a essential 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 seek out the world plagued with new monsters and residents dropping religion within the goddesses and spending time with their new stylish cell phones. 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 quick, the story in Neptunia: Sisters vs. Sisters is by far the most effective 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 fairly orthodox construction, it rapidly ramps up by introducing new characters and excessive stakes. For those who’re a long-time fan of the sequence, the sport affords tons of references to the outdated video games in addition to geek and gaming tradition, resembling nods and pokes enjoyable at Pokemon Go, PlayStation censorship, Higurashi, and extra. I need to additionally admit that the story idea is among 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 recreation do earlier than.

Nevertheless, whereas the sport sports activities a genuinely fascinating plot that admittedly tries to deliver you up to the mark on the lore and world, it sadly nonetheless depends on you being a returning fan or participant of the sequence, as lots of the story and character particulars will fly over your head in any other case. Although it’s additionally honest to notice that that is customary for many continuation titles.

Hit-and-Miss Gameplay

Now when it comes to gameplay, I need to admit that whereas the sport’s fight system is satisfactory, I didn’t discover it very satisfying, particularly earlier within the story. Gamers can swap 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 build up their EXE Drives. And whereas fight isn’t sluggish per se, the flexibility to rapidly swap between characters actually makes you want actions have been sooner, and the restricted body fee on the PS4 doesn’t assist in any respect. What’s extra, the sport additionally, sadly, sports activities numerous bland enemies which are closely repeated, and just a few bosses are literally entertaining and satisfying in a combat. Exterior fight, gamers will even purchase consumable objects, use equipment, and stage up their characters whereas exploring the sport’s a number of repeated maps and areas, a lot of which sadly look bland visually, save for Planeptune, which is surprisingly not solely massive and explorable but additionally distinctive among the many recreation’s different areas.

Aside from that, it’s additionally price mentioning the sport’s character fashions, which, whereas not unhealthy, will not be actually as detailed as you’d count on a recreation of this period to be, as they appear extra akin to PS3 fashions than the rest. Lastly, I’d even be remiss if I didn’t point out the wonderful Japanese and English voice solid, which did improbable jobs portraying the characters making the general story that rather more satisfying.

Last Ideas

Total, Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters gives a captivating story and extremely endearing, well-voiced characters. Whereas the sport has its justifiable share of points, making it a tough title to suggest to JRPG followers usually, Neptunia followers will almost definitely nonetheless like it, particularly after a lot of its gameplay points have been hopefully ironed out.