Senran Kagura 2 winks at players with sexual jokes, hot visuals and hentai tropes, but it's actually a very good beat'em up with tons of content and unlockables. Despite its target audience and some issues with controls, there's a lot to enjoy here.
In my opinion, the second-best Senran Kagura game behind Shinovi Versus. The plot and characters are all awesome. The music is amazing. I have been bumping it nonstop ever since playing this. And the 3D fanservice is great. Best use of the 3D slider of any Nintendo 3DS game!
In the end, it really is a game for fans of the series and something of a hard sell for newcomers who can't separate the fan service from the game mechanics.
In one of the most fan service of series that we have right now, Senran Kagura 2 tries to fix the issues we saw in Burst. And most of the time it's successful in that, but an unreliable camera, poor allies IA and uninspiring combo system are there. A shame, because the use of the 3D is spectacular, the graphics are very good and we have a funny coop and few modes really interesting.
Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson continues the use of very visible physical attributes of its female characters to catch the player’s attention but this does not hide a disproportional difficulty curve and changes to the combat system that make it less enjoyable than its predecessor.
Anyone who is on the fence about this sort of game, and especially those who don’t find it appealing at all, isn’t going to be swayed by Senran Kagura 2. It’s okay in bursts, but overall its gameplay doesn’t have the entertainment value to distract from its overreliance on sexiness to ensnare players.
What is missing in American and Western tit play.Cool **** Japanese give me exactly what I need. West to learn and learn from the Japanese how to make girls in games.
Fanservice aside, this game is a decent brawler and has a certain charm to all of its characters. The characters are interesting to follow and also, the game has the right difficulty. There are also a lot of things to do in the game that keeps you coming back for more. Don't judge this game hastily just by its looks and also its fanboys (omg, they are the worst). This game certainly offers a unique experience for the 3DS console and is certainly a standout among the lineup of the console.
Don't listen to the bad reviews, their made by super conservative Americans with an aversion to boobs, so any game with "fan service" is instantly bad and immature. This is not fair for this game, the game is really good, it has great visuals for the 3DS, it has a story line (That's saying something these days), likable characters and really fun game play. Giving it a negative review because "hurr durr bewbs are bad!" is dishonest!
On the one hand: the immaculate attention to dressup unlockables, overactive jiggle physics, clothes destruction, and character animation. On the other hand: a chugging framerate, load times just bad enough to be aggravating, and horrendously flawed game mechanics. You can tell where the focus was during development.
What is ostensibly a beat 'em up game takes a wholly unappealing divergence from the formula by making all fodder enemies effortless drawn-out busywork in the lead up to your inevitable duel with one or two of the main characters, which always demands the exact same strategy: play cat and mouse as best you can (because the only challenge in the game is **** AI with multiple health bars that can override any of your attacks with its own when it feels like it) until you can land enough slapfight hits to fill your special meter, at which point you transform, enter frenzy mode, and either chain infinite supers into the enemy until you finally deplete the full dozen of their health bars, or whiff your attacks because of the horrendous and inattentive camera and die horribly instead.
But wait, I hear you say! What of the story? Are there any compelling developments along the lines that would merit the drudgery of the gameplay?
Well, that depends on whether you've ever seen DBZ. The plot is exactly that, with boobs instead of screaming. (Characters with drastically different values initially at each other's throats end up being friendly rivals in pursuit of a common goal, and thwart some evil in the process.)
It *could* have had a more engaging combat system. It *could* have had a better developed story. It doesn't. It's an underdeveloped mess **** and there are much cheaper and probably more engaging sources of titillation out there.
You want a game filled with unoriginality and content that you immature people could possibly go critter to? Go look for this game in a store near you and buy it now.
SummaryThe game follows the Hanzo & Hebijo Shinobi Academies as they battle for good and evil respectively. This time however there is a greater evil at work, as the tyrannous tycoon behind the Hebijo Academy is hell-bent on raining terror across all of Japan by utilising a destructive army of summoned demons. This great danger thrusts the girl...