Code of Princess EX - Nintendo Switch

If you have played a game called Guardian Heroes, then you have an idea of what type of game this is. In Code of Princess EX, Princess Solange and her motley crew of warriors, mages and thieves (if you want to call them that) have to stop the spread of evil monsters through the kingdom. This is an enhanced version of the 3DS game but with better graphics and rebalanced gameplay. The game is a sidescrolling brawler that allows you to shift up and down through (3) horizontal planes to dodge and defeat your enemies. Each character has unique melee and ranged attacks and the more levels you beat (they can be pretty short and to the point), the more characters you unlock to play and upgrade as. You also gain new upgrade perks that you can assign to either give you more HP, Magic points or help you do stronger attacks against bosses. You can purchase others and swap them out as you like between characters. As you progress, your characters will automatically upgrade as well. The physical edition does come with a full color instruction manual and a mini cd with songs from the game. One thing of note for anyone who played the original 3DS game, although the graphics are a bit better and the gameplay/combat rebalanced, there is one huge change: You can no longer assign individual skill points to characters in order to upgrade. Even though you can swap out perks and upgrade automatically, the first game allowed you to gain a number of skill points as well that you could assign permanently to your overall health, magic, attack power etc. You can longer do this. For example, you could grind a few battles and assign all of your skill points to your melee attack to give you a strong upper hand but this is not the case in this version. These skill are distributed automatically when you upgrade now. Which means that you will have to do a lot more grinding before you can advance through latter levels for certain characters. Also, the English dub is no longer available - it is Japanese with English Subtitles only! The comedy is still funny and quirky, but anyone looking for the Atlus release's dub might be disappointed. Overall a fun and challenging game with better graphics and quirky characters...but with a few omissions. The soundtrack is also solid. I do recommend it but know what you are getting into!

I think that if you like anime, a slower style of beat ‘em up, and A large array of playable characters this game is for you. I enjoyed the humor in the story, the visual art style, and most of the game play. It does fall a little flat as once you figure out a decent combo with your character that will be able to take out pretty much everything. I did hit my first “big boss battle” and got stuck. He was faster than me, stronger than me, and once I got him to half health he blocked everything I threw at him. It took a passably ok game and made it an annoying game. So I can’t say I finished it, but I played a lot and had some fun. But I also wouldn’t recommend it. It does come with a little mini disc with the sound track and a beautiful manual, but looks only go so far.

I had fun with Code of Princess Ex at first. The characters and story are fun, but at one point in the game it got so hard that I couldn't move forward anymore. I find this extremely frustrating since I basically have a game that I cant play anymore. I still give it 4 stars because I got to play a good chunk of the game.

This game first released on 3DS, and though I never picked it up then, I remember really wanting it. Always have been a big fan of action rpgs, so I was eager to pick up when it got this touched up port for Switch...and it's fantastic. The game has aged pretty well, and looks great. Highly recommend, especially for fans of Nicalis.

This is another game I knew very little about. I had a friend who had got it for 3DS and recommended it. I have always been a fan of beat em ups, especially arcade style. This game gave me exactly that. Its a great looking game, with a fun button mashy type control to it. I played the story mode which was fairly weak in premise and characters, but sets the stage for the quest-like advancement through fights. It definitely has a different perspective geared toward a quirky, buzz word type dialogue. It goes, story, fight, story, fight. You can repeat fights with new characters that add on to best times and experiences. I stayed interested enough through this because of the fun fights, the story won't be the reason you stay, but can work to make this game fun. That's what you will get from this. I am not disappointed with my purchase.

This beat em up game is really good and the Switch is the perfect home for it. I think it's a fun one and, although it doesn't bring anything really innovative to the genre, it is definitely worth getting.

Great little hack and slash game with some RPG elements thrown it and has co-op too!

Now this is a awesome hack and slash game! Soundtrack is awesome!