Characters can also be improved by placing Spirit Gems on a board, with those who carefully consider their placement reaping extra rewards. As you play through the game they’ll gain experience and level up, increasing their abilities and granting access to new Ninja Art Skills. You’ll want to in a bind, because the character in reserve will restore up to 50% of their health. Your active party consists of any two of them, and you can quickly change between them in battle with the simple push of a button.
#SENRAN KAGURA PLUS#
Ten playable characters are available in Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars – the eight previously mentioned, plus two new faces – Yuuki and Goh. There’s also the fact that the outlandish nature of many of the enemies you’re up against makes it hard to anticipate their attacks. But the lock-on system itself can be awkward to use. Using Ninja Art Skills can also be troublesome at times, with them targeting random enemies unless you lock-on first. You can zoom it out a little in the settings, but it doesn’t help a great deal. The camera, for example, often feels like it’s working against you, obscuring enemies readying up ranged attacks. All the ingredients are there, but they just don’t feel fine-tuned enough to be any more than simply entertaining. Each character has a Shinobi Extreme attack, too, that can be used when a gauge is full, while a system called Fuurinkazan Drive allows you to power up your character momentarily, capitalising on the power of fire, wind, forest or mountain.Īs you’d probably expect, the combat isn’t going to wow you, though.
You have access to a wide range of attacks including fancy Ninja Art Skills which can be chained for greater effect, and both kunai and shuriken to attack at range. Instead, the combat is familiar to that of the Senran Kagura series, in that it’s real-time and action-packed. You essentially traipse through fields like you would any normal Neptunia game, only this time there are no turn-based battles. The actual gameplay of Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars is entertaining enough when you do get to it, however. I just want to slice and dice enemies and power up my characters. It’s amazing how long they can drag out what eventually boils down to “I need you to go here and do this.” This is an action game, after all. started one of their long-winded conversations I’d be sorely tempted to. I’m not one to skip text, but every time Neptune and co. I tried to, but the dialogue is generally asinine, filled with gags that never hit the mark. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”, and all that.Ĭhances are though, that you won’t care one jot for Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars‘ story. A new force called the Steeme Legion has invaded, you see, and its might forces the two warring nations to work together. They’ve been battling for control of Gamninjustri (see what they did there?) for a while now, but that’s all about to change.
And on the Senran Kagura side there’s Asuka, Homura, Yumi and Miyabi.
#SENRAN KAGURA SERIES#
So, from the Neptunia series you have Neptune, Noire, Blanc and Vert. Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars finds the four goddesses of Heartland warring against the four shinobi of Marveland. Idea Factory International will release the game in the West as Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars in North America on October 26, 2021, and Europe on October 29, 2021.The worlds of Neptunia and Senran Kagura collide, and the result is exactly what you’d expect. It released the game first in Japan on September 16, 2021. However, the company shut down the title in October 2020.Ĭompile Heart recently made a collaborative title between the Neptunia and Senran Kagura series. Marvelous previously had an older mobile game titled Senran Kagura: New Wave that ran since 2012.
Originally launched in November 2017 in Japan, the free-to-play game is still available to this day. The franchise also has an active mobile game titled Shinobi Master Senran Kagura: New Link. The company also released a pinball spin-off game titled Senran Kagura Peach Ball in December 2018 in Japan and 2019 in the West. It released Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal, an HD version of the inaugural 3DS titles, in February 2018. The series officially began when Marvelous released the first action game on Nintendo 3DS in Japan on September 22, 2021.Īs listed on the 10th-anniversary webpage, the latest Senran Kagura games published by Marvelous came out in 2018. Senran Kagura is a franchise featuring battles between female shinobis attending ninja-related high schools. The page also contains celebratory messages from voice actresses who provided voices to the main characters from the inaugural 2011 title, such as Hitomi Harada (who voiced the protagonist Asuka), Eri Kitamura (Homura), and Asami Imai (Ikaruga). Honey Parade Games published a new webpage to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Senran Kagura series.