X
- T
- XSEED Games
- T
- XSEED Games
- T
- XSEED Games
- T
- XSEED Games
Senran Kagura Burst
3DS
Released On: Nov 14, 2013
62
7.1
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
62
22% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
70% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
62
22% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
70% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Senran Kagura Burst's strength is its sheer pace and energy. It's exciting and flashy, and thoroughly entertaining. I haven't enjoyed a brawler this much in a very long time; if only certain writers had given the game a go before dismissing it for something it isn't.
Behind its protagonists' breasts, there's a game that offers fast and crazy action, and that will deliver entertainment and fun at its core.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.1
59% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
20% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
20% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.1
59% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
20% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
20% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
A fun throwback to the old school beat-em-up style game play. The art is neat and cute, the characters are fun to see how their styles play, and the enemies are just goofy and silly fun. I really enjoyed this game, and anyone who is a fan of beat-em-up games of yesterday would benefit from picking this one up, it's just what games should be at the end of the day, good fun!
Report
3DS
In reality, this game deserves an 8.5, but I'll give it a 10 to offset all the anime/fanservice haters that rate it a 0 without even completing half the game. 0.5 points off for muddy textures and 1 point off for Mirai. I know the social boundary for what is acceptable is a gray area--Yagyu, being a good example. But no matter how you look at it, Mirai cannot be considered anything but prepubescent. Her depiction approaches the 10-12 year old range.
Now that I got that out of the way:
Most of the girls are incredibly sexy. Fight mechanic is great. Japanese voices are amazing. Love the Japanese setting. There's more to the game than just fanservice, although that part is awesome too obviously. We need more games like this!
Report
3DS
Senran Kagura Burst is silly. Its presentation is silly, its combat is silly, and its whole reason for being is silly. Yet somehow, it’s compelling. Alongside the gratuitous boob and panty shots there’s a nice pair of intertwining stories here with amicably fleshed-out characters.
It's ultimately let down by a wheezing framerate and the inability to play within 20 metres of a fellow human being. [Apr 2014, p.78]
It’s basic, has no depth and is far from being one of the best games for 3DS, but it's still a good distraction.
Just as is the case with bras, Senran Kagura Burst has been modeled around the female anatomy. In this case, around the gigantic breast of these Japanese schoolgirls. Removed the itch, the entire apparatus is deflated and what remains is a fast-paced but trivial beat-em-up.
Never mind the sexism, the awful gameplay is the primary reason you should be avoiding this shockingly poor beat ‘em-up.
sexy and direct game. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah! Simple but fun gamplay. recommended for anime fans,
ecchi, ecchi, ecchi and if! more ecchi. but! is a remarkable game
Report
3DS
The gameplay is repetitive, there are framerate issues, the story is rather poor, and yet, somehow, I found it quite addictive. I shouldn't like this game, but I find that I keep coming back to it, there's something about the beat-em-up action that draws me in. If you don't mind the gratuitous t & a on display, it's actually quite fun.
Report
3DS
A gaming UFO like Senran Kagura needs to be identified : it’s in fact a BTA with RPG elements (levels, stats, XP). Senran Kagura Burst is a second one that had been released in Japan, but as it contains the first game entirely , you're not missing anything.
The various missions are quite repetitive and only the boss battle bring a little variety. Similarly, the gameplay is not as deep as you can expect since you have only 2 or 3 combos per character (but you do have 5 characters from the start). Adding to this, Senran Kagura is rather easy. Even the bosses don’t put up much of a fight, let alone regular missions. It can’t help thinking it would much more interesting if the use of special attacks was a bit more limited.
The character design is attractive and reinforced by beautiful anime-style graphics. The anime-like style has no match on the system, outside Ace Attorney 5.(and maybe ever). On the musical side, Senran Kagura is also excellent : the mix between classic Japanese music and modern genres fits perfectly to the game. The one you can hear during the battle vs Mirai is even one of my favorite game music ever. But beyond that, Senran Kagura is also excellent at what it does : fan-service. You do have a lot of eh… how to say this… hum…. well type Senran Kagura on Youtube and you’ll understand soon enough! Paradoxically, the story and the dialogs feel really serious despite being naïve at times. It’s sometimes even brilliant and moving, because it refuses Manicheism and features the idea that bad guy aren’t necessarily bad guy, but merely opposing people with their own reason to fight.
Not really a sequel, Senran Kagura Burst makes you revisit the story of the first Senran Kagura (SK) from the «bad girls» side. You therefore play as the busty female ninja of Ebijo school, opposed to the (equally busty) heroines of the first game. I’m not sure Marvelous had expected to do a sequel, because the characters of this one don’t really fit in the main role. It impacts the story because it fails to achieve the same coherence we had in SK. It feels more like a sum of individual stories of variable interest.
Higake as well as the duo Yomi/Ikaruga were great parts, I really like both the story and the gameplay. Homura was fun to play (especially in Crimson mode) but her story was skipped (probably because we already know it from SK). Haruka and Mirai felt really flat imo. I have to stress that, like in the first one, there a LOT of written dialogs. It’s not uncommon to read for half an hour and actually play a 3-minute level. SKB therefore is a light novel as much as a video game.
The gameplay of Burst is more varied than in first one and combos are smoother than before. A good thing that takes all its flavour in the reshuffled difficulty settings. SK was a somewhat easy game. SKB is really easy too (excluding the side mission which are pretty tough)… until chapter 4 in which difficulty suddenly increases tenfold! The AI that had been queing to get its ass kicked so far now deals considerable damage, and your rivals act as real bosses. Hence you begin to play Senran Kagura for real : making clever use of burst and dash and using your ougi at the right moment is critical to encure victory. Those difficulty spikes might be unsettling, but I liked that extra pressure.
With 2 decent games in 1, Senran Kagura Burst is definitely worth a try for Japanese games fans. People hungry for fan-service must get it regardless, even if it fades in comparison to the more recent Vita episode.
Report
3DS
+Characters have depth / are likeable
+All characters play differently
+Two different play styles at start
~Supers are hit and miss
~Huge Breasts
~Combos are mindless
-AI is very muddled
-combos will keep going despite enemie(s) defeat
-Both stories sides favor one character way too much
- 2D plain not made for combos
Report
3DS
Summary A little violent, a little sexy, and a ton of fun! Enter a world filled with beautiful ninja destined to break down the barriers between good and evil. Play two different storylines, each with its own perspective. The girls of Hanzō believe they fight on the side of righteousness, but are their methods always right? The gi...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- 3DS
Initial Release Date: Nov 14, 2013
Developer:
- Tamsoft
Publisher: XSEED Games
Genres:
