Pretty much the final nail in the coffin that Neptunia is never going to be good again. This game is EMBARRASSING.
I'm not even gonna bother writing a proper review and just list all the reasons why this game sucks
-Action RPG combat made by people who have never made an action game. Clunky combos where each move just happens one after the other, no real sense of combo or flow. Animations that can't be cancelled out of leading you to just getting hit (the dodge is pretty much worthless because of that) Genuinely the worst combat i've ever experienced in an action game.
- Series mainstays like IF and Compa have been downgraded from major playable characters to just extras who might as well not even be in the game
-New makers introduced (Higurashi and Touhou) that aren't even playable until NG+ (So whats even the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ point of them existing??)
-Entire dungeons copy pasted right next to each other. Most continents have reused dungeons (some dungeons even have maps copy pasted within them, sometimes the 2nd floor/part of a dungeon will have the SAME map as the first with some things moved around)
-Basically entire soundtrack copypasted from previous games.
With all that being said, why would anyone even want to play this?? It's got some love poured into it for Neptunia fans with tons of references and callbacks, but with gameplay this boring, slow and shallow; who cares anymore??
Neptunia is dead, and Compile Heart are dancing on the grave while we continue giving them money to produce absolute garbage. I'm done, Neptunia is dead to me now.
I don't even care if the game gets "better" later on. The first couple hours were an absolute slog to get through and I have no doubt the rest of the game will be the same.
I'm not even gonna bother writing a proper review and just list all the reasons why this game sucks
-Action RPG combat made by people who have never made an action game. Clunky combos where each move just happens one after the other, no real sense of combo or flow. Animations that can't be cancelled out of leading you to just getting hit (the dodge is pretty much worthless because of that) Genuinely the worst combat i've ever experienced in an action game.
- Series mainstays like IF and Compa have been downgraded from major playable characters to just extras who might as well not even be in the game
-New makers introduced (Higurashi and Touhou) that aren't even playable until NG+ (So whats even the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ point of them existing??)
-Entire dungeons copy pasted right next to each other. Most continents have reused dungeons (some dungeons even have maps copy pasted within them, sometimes the 2nd floor/part of a dungeon will have the SAME map as the first with some things moved around)
-Basically entire soundtrack copypasted from previous games.
With all that being said, why would anyone even want to play this?? It's got some love poured into it for Neptunia fans with tons of references and callbacks, but with gameplay this boring, slow and shallow; who cares anymore??
Neptunia is dead, and Compile Heart are dancing on the grave while we continue giving them money to produce absolute garbage. I'm done, Neptunia is dead to me now.
I don't even care if the game gets "better" later on. The first couple hours were an absolute slog to get through and I have no doubt the rest of the game will be the same.