Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters PS4 Evaluation

Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters is Compile Coronary heart and Thought Manufacturing unit’s newest installment within the fan-favorite long-running Neptunai collection and the newest mainline sport that isn’t a spin-off shortly. Just like the title suggests, the sport places the primary characters on the again burner and places their sister/ CPU candidates, Rom, Ram, Uni, and Nepgear, the protagonist of this story, within the limelight. The story takes place within the Gamindustri, the cheeky in-game reference to the actual Gaming Trade, and the places Lowee, Lastation, Leanbox, and Planeptune, which reference the apparent real-life gaming firms.

A Shocking Story

After Neptune and the remainder of the leaders of those nations are despatched on a crucial mission to research unusual occurrences within the PC continent, it’s as much as their sisters to go on a separate mission which sadly finally ends up with them seemingly unsealing a brand new malicious goddess and them being sealed for 2 years. They later awaken to search out the world plagued with new monsters and residents shedding religion within the goddesses and spending time with their new fashionable cellphones. So it’s as much as the sisters to get the world again to the way it was, with the assistance of latest characters Maho and Anri, whose fates are additionally tied to latest occasions.

To maintain issues brief, the story in Neptunia: Sisters vs. Sisters is by far the most effective side of the sport, because the builders succeeded in giving the story nice depth and letting a number of characters actually shine. Whereas the story begins with a reasonably orthodox construction, it rapidly ramps up by introducing new characters and excessive stakes. In the event you’re a long-time fan of the collection, the sport provides tons of references to the previous video games in addition to geek and gaming tradition, resembling nods and pokes enjoyable at Pokemon Go, PlayStation censorship, Higurashi, and extra. I need to additionally admit that the story idea is without doubt one of the most amusing and attention-grabbing ideas in any title I’ve seen, and the sport’s story particularly manages to cowl trendy gaming tradition in a means I’ve by no means seen any sport do earlier than.

Nonetheless, whereas the sport sports activities a genuinely attention-grabbing plot that admittedly tries to convey you in control on the lore and world, it sadly nonetheless depends on you being a returning fan or participant of the collection, as most of the story and character particulars will fly over your head in any other case. Although it’s additionally truthful to notice that that is customary for many continuation titles.

Hit-and-Miss Gameplay

Now when it comes to gameplay, I need to admit that whereas the sport’s fight system is satisfactory, I didn’t discover it very gratifying, particularly earlier within the story. Gamers can swap in, out, and between characters on the fly and use their a number of customary, vary, and particular assaults. Doing this lets them construct AP (Motion Factors), which in flip lets them execute hyperlink assaults, particular assaults, and goddess transformations by increase their EXE Drives. And whereas fight isn’t sluggish per se, the flexibility to rapidly swap between characters actually makes you would like actions have been quicker, and the restricted body price on the PS4 doesn’t assist in any respect. What’s extra, the sport additionally, sadly, sports activities plenty of bland enemies which can be closely repeated, and only some bosses are literally entertaining and satisfying in a combat. Exterior fight, gamers may also purchase consumable objects, use equipment, and degree up their characters whereas exploring the sport’s a number of repeated maps and places, lots of which sadly look bland visually, save for Planeptune, which is surprisingly not solely giant and explorable but in addition distinctive among the many sport’s different places.

Aside from that, it’s additionally price mentioning the sport’s character fashions, which, whereas not unhealthy, aren’t actually as detailed as you’d count on a sport of this period to be, as they appear extra akin to PS3 fashions than anything. Lastly, I’d even be remiss if I didn’t point out the superb Japanese and English voice solid, which did implausible jobs portraying the characters making the general story that rather more gratifying.

Last Ideas

General, Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters supplies an enchanting story and extremely endearing, well-voiced characters. Whereas the sport has its justifiable share of points, making it a tough title to advocate to JRPG followers usually, Neptunia followers will probably nonetheless like it, particularly after lots of its gameplay points have been hopefully ironed out.