It pushes more boundaries and is a sharper satire than the other games in the series, as fine as they are, and that marks this one out as something special indeed.
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2 provides many hours of gaming jokes, silly plot developments and strategic battles which adds up to a mostly lovable JRPG.
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 2 is where the Vita remake series really hits its stride. Re;birth 2 introduces the CPU candidate characters for the first time in the remakes and offers novelty in the combat system for those who completed Re;birth 1 and want to enjoy something new. Don't miss the chance to collect idea chips in Stella's Dungeon while you take your party through the main quest!
I love these games, I even played PP, which was not good.
HD MK2 on ps3 was my least favorite.
But this version with the "victory" battle system, oracles added, and the stella dungeon mini game has changed my opinion on it. I enjoyed this game as much as re birth 1.
If you liked RB1 you will like this also.
Please don't give any attention to the idiot review on gamestyle, very bias...they should fire that guy.
Try this game if you like JRPG, you won't regret it.
While Rebirth 2 is a massive improvement over the PS3 version in terms of performance, I felt the newly included mechanics and playable characters didn’t quite add enough to warrant double dipping for those like me who have already finished the title once before.
If you have the original game, you probably won't find relevant additions here. It relies on the plot rather than on the gameplay, but if you think you'll like what this game has to offer, then buying it is probably the right choice.
After a few long hours of the cast’s banal dialogue, I wished to throw my Vita – or myself – down the nearest staircase. Either would have made it all go away.
A change of pace in the cast and main protagonist from the First game, its basically a reboot as it completely ignores the First game in the series due to the ending of the First Game. This time you play as Nepgear a rather blank character that develops her personality more over time but is far from the enjoyment I got out of playing as Neptune. She is a unique character though and does have her qualities but she is just a bit too normal in my opinion.
The Game play hasn't changed all that much from the first game you still have the annoying hidden treasure search function that is quite bothersome but then again I started with Re;Birth3 and that game had a very interesting Search Function that reminded me of Mario so it might also be because I didn't start with the first two games and so got a better game as my basis.
Pros:
- The story is unique and has its moments of laughter
- The cast is once again fun and brings a lot of new members into its ranks
- The Stella's Dungeon is quite a unique addition to the game Mechanics
Cons:
- Reuse of Dungeons that are slightly altered.
- The Protagonist is someone I immediately swapped out of my battle formation once I got Neptune
- The Search function is rather annoying.
A very funny story, very friendly and funny characters and best of all, has a master combat system . The game is brutally addictive and perfectly solves the problems that had the original game. A perfect choice for lovers of Japanese RPG games .
I hate it. They didnt play the first game. They didnt know what the first game had. They just recycled the enemies, the dungeons, the colossuem, the characters, but the most important, the story, they drop it. They created a new story where i dont understand how each character meet other OR didnt meet other, we had a good story we dont need a new one that is so bad.
Histoire is no more a god is just a secretary, when the other secretaries looks like normal humans. They created so many new humans that are so weak compared with the CPUs, except Cave. Iffy loved Vert, now Iffy dont care Vert but her secretary is replacing her love, why this change. I can think that just like Blanc recieve two sisters but Vert didnt have one. Vert couldnt participate in the main story of the game. So they **** up an existent good character to create Chika.
First game i love the farm. But here was horrible. I entered the same dungeon 20 times looking a hide item just to take a 20% of recieving the plan Add Dungeon. First game had it but was more too easy to find it. Or farming the bosses 30 times because 1% of dropping. Just no.
Stella dungeon was strange in the start, then easy, until some dungeons were impossible, but finally i could take the hand. It has some problems.
More that one villain is cool. But a pedophile is bad idea. The boyfriend of Noire i like it. The villain from the first game is now the final boss again without lore, The villains from Leanbox and Planeptune dont have lore. They appear and just fight. And the mouse girl and her pet, though they were going to be something in at least ONE ending, but no.
Characters, new ones are useless, except Cave. Cave was so cool to play. And then i played 5PB and is so weak, she is a tier F. The rest of them are recycled with the same stats and skils.
Finals, why we have a bad ending. We dont want this. It is bad. They make us kill a lot of characters we love and didnt even need to die. And you need to NOT take some events because you take one single mistake and drop your final. At least let me kill 5PB. And too many finals, i didnt spend 50 hours in a single boss but.. too much thing i spend 100 hours total anyways.
First off. to jaymz1970 You're wrong. PP was one of the best Nep games.
Next, this is just CTRL C+CTRL V of both mechanics and story from Mk2. Only, more boring. Then there's the WORST ending in Neptunia. The holy sword ending. Kill it with fire!
Even with all that though, it takes nearly the 2nd best story of the OG trilogy, so it will always have an advantage over Re;Birth 1 and 3. Conquest Ending is BAE, as usual.
I was very disappointed in this game, Which is sad cause i loved rebirth 1. Its flaws stem from its recycling of rebirth 1's content (i felt like i bought a half assed version of rebirth 1) and the short, bland story.
Negatives: The ENTIRE soundtrack was a MESS! Nearly EVERY song was some form of a sloppy remix of a BGM or theme song from rebirth 1 (the exception being rom and rams theme which was made of catchy awesomeness). Almost all the enemy fodder was also recycled. The main cast (the CPU candidates) are all very whiny preteen girls without an ounce of confidence between them (excluding ram, who actually had confidence). The story was RIDICULOUSLY short for the $50 I payed for it (the world was also incredibly small and dungeons, very few). The main bad guys (the 4 felons and the "deity of sin") had no fleshing out to their characters. they existed solely to easily be beat by the main cast. one of them was even a pedo monster... it was.... weird... The stellas dungeon was also a broken mess what with the randomness of the enemys that appear and can kill you no matter what your gear. last but not least, anyone who payed attention to the whole story in rebirth 2 would realize they actually screwed up the back story from rebirth 1.
Positives: The art is well done (cute where it needs to be and cool where it counts). As mentioned Rom and Rams theme is AWESOME. Compa got slightly smarter (heh). Neptune is still funny (but she appears too late to save the over all lack of confidence.)
Overall NOT a recommended game (unless your bored and can find it cheap used)
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