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Senran Kagura Bursts onto the 3DS!
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Yes I'm making a thread about THAT game. Yes it is a game about well endowed ninja girls from a good ninja academy fighting well endowed ninja girls from an evil ninja academy. Yes, special attacks sometimes revolve around costume changes (not actually that uncommon in modern Japanese action beat 'em ups, but usually not like this) and you can dress up the young ladies in various pandering animeish outfits.
Yes the producer of this game's sequel once said, and I quote
Well try to ignore all that for a second; this game is a shockingly competent beat 'em up that runs smooth, sounds great, has tons of content (the entire original Senran Kagura is included as the Hanzō Academy/Senran Kagura: Skirting Shadows missions) with a real deal writer behind it who most recently worked on Ace Attorney 5!
Well, I said try to ignore it/laugh at the hilarity of it all. Hyper inflated breasts to go along with lightning fast beat em up content that goes on and on forever. There's Frantic Mode (L+R at the start of a match) you can choose at the beginning of the fight to shed your armor like street clothes (usually a school uniform, ninja suit or some other bit of weird anime fetish garb, with tons and tons that you can unlock) to drastically decrease your defense (90%!!!) and radically improve offensive power(750%!!!) and speed to the point of giving you nearly unlimited combos. I freaking love this mode although I think the bathing suit it puts you in is a bit much and nowhere near as attractive as some of the regular outfits. Your characters level up as you go through missions and while the story might require a certain character for a story mission you can go back and play through any of them with any character. They all play quite a bit differently from each other, some with frankly ridiculous special attacks while others have more grounded offense.
There's 12 characters in this game, ten regular, five on each side (good ninja school Hanzō Academy and five from evil Hebijo Academy, one hidden for each side) The story mode has two paths as mentioned and unless the mission specifies a character you can use anyone on the roster for any mission. They do level up the more you use them.
Trailers:
Probably not safe for work. I wouldn't play the game at work either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UTAHsL6kcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4e_g51VM4
Frequently Asked Questions:
Why no Screenshots?
Hard to find cleanish ones.
well, here's a few.
Story mode select screen. SK 1's mode is recommended for beginners.
Evil ninja academy roster.
A relatively short combo string. This game is generous with the timer but I've only played the game for two hours and have been well over 600.
What is this Ying/Yang nonsense?
You increase your Ying gauge by fighting in Frantic Mode/when your costume is ripped off. Maxing it out will grant you even more benefits for those who espouse total offense over all else.
Yang is increased by staying in your clothes/transforming into Shinobi Mode. This gives you more combos, longer aerial combos, better defense, quicker recharge on your Ninja powers.
Luckily as far as I can tell this game doesn't do any of that awful Ogre Battle style balance issue and you can max both out without having to balance them. Eff taoism, Full Ying and Full Yang baby. Also Ying style/frantic mode is hilariously fun. You move like Sonic and do combos like banned MvC2 characters...and you die in around five solid hits. There is seemingly some reward for beating every mission in Frantic mode.
What about Shinobi Versus?
That's a Vita game and sequel to this one. It's a 3D brawler (think Dynasty Warriors) with a versus mode. If this game does well enough XSeed has more or less said that they'll bring this one over too. The producer of the series has also said that Burst isn't the last 3DS game he has in mind. Bless this man. You can also just import the Vita game if you want, but you'll miss the surprisingly decent writing unless you understand Japanese.
Is this game digital only?
In America, yes. It's coming out in early 2014 in Europe in both retail and digital.
Why isn't there more media on this game in this thread?
Because I don't want to be banned. Even the instruction manual is NSFW.
But this game got a T for Teen from the ESRB, It can't be that bad, Xenogears of Bore!
It's a lot of flesh but no nudity. Very few adult situations beyond hints of nudity. Cartoony as fuck violence. Seemingly little to no blood. Just a lot of anime girls being anime girls and solid beat em upness...with some visual novel bits thrown in because why the fuck not.
Why are the controls on the character viewer screen so bad?
I have no clue but to say that I use the gyro instead.
Yes the producer of this game's sequel once said, and I quote
Takaki wrote:Tits are life, ass is hometown.
Well try to ignore all that for a second; this game is a shockingly competent beat 'em up that runs smooth, sounds great, has tons of content (the entire original Senran Kagura is included as the Hanzō Academy/Senran Kagura: Skirting Shadows missions) with a real deal writer behind it who most recently worked on Ace Attorney 5!
Well, I said try to ignore it/laugh at the hilarity of it all. Hyper inflated breasts to go along with lightning fast beat em up content that goes on and on forever. There's Frantic Mode (L+R at the start of a match) you can choose at the beginning of the fight to shed your armor like street clothes (usually a school uniform, ninja suit or some other bit of weird anime fetish garb, with tons and tons that you can unlock) to drastically decrease your defense (90%!!!) and radically improve offensive power(750%!!!) and speed to the point of giving you nearly unlimited combos. I freaking love this mode although I think the bathing suit it puts you in is a bit much and nowhere near as attractive as some of the regular outfits. Your characters level up as you go through missions and while the story might require a certain character for a story mission you can go back and play through any of them with any character. They all play quite a bit differently from each other, some with frankly ridiculous special attacks while others have more grounded offense.
There's 12 characters in this game, ten regular, five on each side (good ninja school Hanzō Academy and five from evil Hebijo Academy, one hidden for each side) The story mode has two paths as mentioned and unless the mission specifies a character you can use anyone on the roster for any mission. They do level up the more you use them.
Trailers:
Probably not safe for work. I wouldn't play the game at work either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UTAHsL6kcQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4e_g51VM4Frequently Asked Questions:
Why no Screenshots?
Hard to find cleanish ones.
well, here's a few.
Story mode select screen. SK 1's mode is recommended for beginners.
Evil ninja academy roster.
A relatively short combo string. This game is generous with the timer but I've only played the game for two hours and have been well over 600.
What is this Ying/Yang nonsense?
You increase your Ying gauge by fighting in Frantic Mode/when your costume is ripped off. Maxing it out will grant you even more benefits for those who espouse total offense over all else.
Yang is increased by staying in your clothes/transforming into Shinobi Mode. This gives you more combos, longer aerial combos, better defense, quicker recharge on your Ninja powers.
Luckily as far as I can tell this game doesn't do any of that awful Ogre Battle style balance issue and you can max both out without having to balance them. Eff taoism, Full Ying and Full Yang baby. Also Ying style/frantic mode is hilariously fun. You move like Sonic and do combos like banned MvC2 characters...and you die in around five solid hits. There is seemingly some reward for beating every mission in Frantic mode.
What about Shinobi Versus?
That's a Vita game and sequel to this one. It's a 3D brawler (think Dynasty Warriors) with a versus mode. If this game does well enough XSeed has more or less said that they'll bring this one over too. The producer of the series has also said that Burst isn't the last 3DS game he has in mind. Bless this man. You can also just import the Vita game if you want, but you'll miss the surprisingly decent writing unless you understand Japanese.
Is this game digital only?
In America, yes. It's coming out in early 2014 in Europe in both retail and digital.
Why isn't there more media on this game in this thread?
Because I don't want to be banned. Even the instruction manual is NSFW.
But this game got a T for Teen from the ESRB, It can't be that bad, Xenogears of Bore!
It's a lot of flesh but no nudity. Very few adult situations beyond hints of nudity. Cartoony as fuck violence. Seemingly little to no blood. Just a lot of anime girls being anime girls and solid beat em upness...with some visual novel bits thrown in because why the fuck not.
Why are the controls on the character viewer screen so bad?
I have no clue but to say that I use the gyro instead.
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It's also completely ridiculous, of course.
Most of the aerial launchers are tied to the heavy button. So instead of doing a four hit combo to get an aerial rave you can do it in two or three by using a heavy hit. Heavy hits also break boss shields much quicker.
Yeah, my go to combo in the middle of large groups is Y Y X. Knocks em all into the air where I can go to town with crazy aerial ninja moves. I managed to land a 1000+ hit combo in one of the chapter 1 missions
Also, that Yin (Yang?) thing for Frantic mode is nuts. You can just hammer the Y button endlessly and your attacks never stop. I get the impression that completing missions in Frantic mode is supposed to be harder, but I'm finding them to be a lot easier. Still only in chapter 1, though, so that may be why.
My love of boobs brawlers might get me to pick this up once my backlog is cleaned out a bit. (Yes, Code of Princess also played with this a bit, but it is a legitimately good bralwer). XSEED deserves all the support they can get after bringing us such great stuff as the Ys games and other oddities from the East.
Will this be hard to find at retail in like two months?
It's hard to find at retail right now.
Mainly because it's a digital-only game. There are no boxed copies.
Played a couple of missions last night. I was worried it would be too simple but so far I'm enjoying mashing out the combos and making the numbers bigger.
I don't hide things from my wife but it will be interesting if she ever peeks over my shoulder to see what I'm playing.
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Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
Also fuck maids. Maids are way harder than bosses. The hardest maps by far to beat on Frantic mode are those with maids that surround you, especially when it happens over and over again.
The amount of content this game has for a beat em up is insane.
Which reminds me, why hasn't someone made a Queen's Blade game like this yet? Cause they really need to. Or maybe they have and it's far too classy for us to handle.
I mean the ones where clothing comes flying off in shreds, or the transformations where they zoom in on all the jiggles.
That said, I'm enjoying this game so far, and look forward to more like it.
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
This is an excellent question.
I've had success mashing Y and X, but not every time.
Probably because they're already making enough money off the MMO.
This video (and every other one I could find) is extremely not safe for work, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2_1Y4ID68
There is a Queen's Blade MMO?
...
Basically my opinion as well.
It's an easy mode for boss fights but a super fucking mega hard mode for five star missions. When you get the Yin mode bonus on top of that it becomes frankly ridiculous with near infinite weak combos and the ability to burst for no HP cost (and about a three second recharge) Yang or even better Balance (aka Senran mode) are much slower but become far far easier as you level up and suddenly most attacks mean jack nothing to you.
Also I have confirmed that all transformations/cutscenes can be skipped with the use of the start button.
The novella bits are also SHOCKINGLY well done, especially in evil ninja mode/later on good ninja mode.
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
Oh, and Mirari(? the evil gothic lolita catgirl with the overly phallic Secret Art) is one of the most obnoxious fights in the game. Stupid ranged attack spam.
Until Xeno put it, I didn't even know that it was a boobbeat 'em up.
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I only just finished Chapter 1. Going back through the chapter with each character to get A ranks and frantic mode completions in each level before starting chapter 2. Beat Hibari in 3 seconds, and evil ninja girl that weilds her swords like Wolverine claws in 10 seconds with Asuka.
Just finished clearing the first game on frantic. Still need to go back and A rank with everyone/get everyone up to level 50 but I can do that later. Time for evil ninja school.
I'm biased towards Katsuragi, since my wife is a blond who is fond of kicking things (2nd-degree black belt in TKD) ...also named Kat. It gets kind of hot weird when the character's defining personality trait kicks in.
*THWAP*
Roundhouse to the nose
What do you mean by "clearing the first game on frantic"? With one character?
I like to think so.
Yes.
Then I can play it at work he he