Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

An interesting concept of warring goddesses representing each consoles interacting with one another, where game companies are represented as characters, that is competently executed. The story is not spectacular. The gameplay is good, but not spectacular either. The humour is quite good. It's the perfect average game.

古德

8/10. A colourful JRPG with quasi-movement turn-based combat that's fun to play. However, lack of enemy- and level-design are all too apparent, the power of most characters pale in comparison to the big 4, and the story is kinda just there. Overall, a fun game with a satisfying but fairly long grind. Only buy DLC if you enjoy the grind, which I do, as the DLC is pretty much a grind + new characters. The story follows Neptune, one of the Goddesses of Gamindustri, and her journey on moving away from the constant fighting in the Console Wars. You meet a plethora of characters from beginning to end to post-game, but unfortunately most of them don't get much screen-time. Other than the Goddesses + IF + Compa + 1 side character, most characters only get a gimmicky entrance and few lines throughout the game. To add insult to injury, these characters are power-crept like crazy outside of DLC, so even if you like them you can't use them for tough fights which is a shame. The story itself is very meh, never awful, never amazing, full of plot-holes. Enemy- and level-design is literally copy-pasted too, a simple recolouring between a blue dogoo and a metal dogoo wouldn't hurt. One of the best parts of this game is the combat. Typical turn-based JRPG combat is made to feel a bit more in-depth with movement during turns, big combos, and powerful EXE attacks, although a part of me hopes movement and environments could be explored more in future titles. Regardless, it's fun. The grind is quite long in this game, maybe too much so between the first few and last bosses, but the combat and super-upbeat atmosphere made it enjoyable throughout. Customisation is excellent in this game, every character appears to have 50+ accessories, I wish I could get them all if I wasn't grinding for the 100 million credits achievement :P

If you are looking for dumb fun RPG without caring about plot, enemies that share no similar artstyle, and stages that are repeated around 4 times each across the entire game. HyperDimension is for you, this game is just a parody. It will throw every possible cliché and joke known to man just to be "haha funny". It is proud in its randomness and dumb jokes, enemies and plot. It honestly feels like the type of game you would see made in RPG Maker by a group of friends having a laugh but made into a full 3D game. The battle system is fine but has 0 reason to ever use any character that isn't the main CPU's and the Dev/Publisher characters are really unnecesary and feel more like something they were forced to add, at least If and Compa play with their companies names but having "Marvelous" and "CyberConnect2" as their names instead of a nickname is just cringeworthy

Its pretty good when you mod yourself to one shot everything and not choose to take the horrendous grind path.

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