Customer Ratings & Reviews

It is okay game for an RPG game privileged RPG I like it okay

While the Neptunia series may not be the most polished game series out there, it certainly bears its charms and compensates in some way to make it an enjoyable experience. This game however absolutely fails to accomplish this compensation by cutting corners in many ways. While having seasoned voice actors on board, there was this stale, dry feeling in the voice work almost as though they only did one take of each bit of dialogue, just accepted it, and threw it in the game. The characters themselves even feel out of place in comparison to the personalities they've carried with them since the beginning. It seems as though the team didn't have their focus on the right aspects of each character and either inflated an irrelevant quirk to them or absolutely missed what the character is actually like. The generic voice work for the unimportant NPCs was subpar as well with no sense of role fulfillment in a given moment; just blank slab characters that are there to give dialogue. These characters can be likened to the ones in the very first Hyperdimension Neptunia game where they feel inserted without thought, don't fit in, and are overall awkward character slot filler. The writing almost has a sense of being written by a child. Character lines just don't seat all that comfortably and conversations always feel awkward and forced. For the well-known characters, the dialogue just doesn't suit the characters and their personalities properly almost seeming as though the writer(s) did very little research on the characters and focused on either irrelevant traits or miss what makes each character unique. The gameplay is unsatisfying to say the least. Traversing the world is both confusing and frustrating as the platforming controls are jerky and not quite as responsive or precise. Coupled with an art canvas styled world leads to confusion on what's an alternate path, what's a platform, etc.; for example you'll reach a fork in the road, you'll go down the wrong path so you walk back a bit and it looks like you can select to take the alternate path only to see you still have to unnecessarily go back further. Basically the 3d navigation of a 2d world is very uncomfortable and could've been done much better. As for combat you never really know when your actions get to take effect sometimes and having to wait to charge up a bar enough to be able to attack/ use an ability is an unnecessary drag. They added a feature that speeds everything up, but it goes WAY too fast and pans through enough time to more-so allow your enemy to do more than you. The combat is tedious and doesn't give room for options once you're in battle. As for the Quality Assurance side (unsure if this issue is exclusive to the Switch version, but) the game sees a very fair amount of frame rate drops (especially when you got more than 2 things going on at once during combat) and laggy/delayed input registration. Given the real-time aspect of the combat this is a major interference with maintaining proper control during fights and makes the experience significantly frustrating. And no this isn't just a brief, minor stutter kind of frame rate drop, it has to be dropping to 1-4fps when it does this and again it's not a frequent occurrence, but it's far from being a rare one even more so. This game is definitely not worth it's launch price and I'd akin the quality to that of an unfinished mobile game. I would not recommend this to even fans of the series; the game has neglected so much to the point that familiar characters that probably are the main reason you took interest in the game at all are just just don't feel like themselves and are portrayed in a very bland and unfitting way. The game is very awkward and it definitely wasn't professionally done. I got the limited edition and I gotta say I'm disappointed I got it over this disappointing game.