Teacher by Day - Gamer by Night
  • Home
  • By Platform
    • Arcade
    • 3DO
    • Mobile
    • Atari >
      • Atari 2600
      • Atari 5200
      • Atari 7800
      • Jaguar
    • Nintendo >
      • Consoles >
        • Nintendo Entertainment System
        • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
        • Gamecube
        • Nintendo 64
        • Wii
        • Wii U
        • Switch
      • Handhelds >
        • Game Boy
        • Game Boy Color
        • Virtual Boy
        • Game Boy Advance
        • Nintendo DS
        • Nintendo 3DS
    • PlayStation >
      • PlayStation
      • PlayStation 2
      • PlayStation 3
      • PlayStation 4
      • PlayStation 5
      • PlayStation VR
      • PlayStation Portable
      • PlayStation Vita
    • NEC >
      • TurboGrafx-16
      • TurboGrafx-CD
    • PC
    • Sega >
      • Master System
      • Genesis
      • Sega CD
      • Sega 32X
      • Sega CD 32X
      • Saturn
      • Dreamcast
      • Game Gear
    • SNK >
      • Neo Geo MVS
      • Neo Geo AES
      • Neo Geo CD
      • Hyper Neo Geo 64
      • Neo Geo Pocket
    • Xbox >
      • Xbox
      • Xbox 360
      • Xbox One
      • Xbox Series X
  • Nep Scale
    • What is the Nep Scale?
    • 1 Nep Games
    • 2 Nep Games
    • 3 Nep Games
    • 4 Nep Games
    • 5 Nep Games
  • Review Archive

Teacher by day
​gamer by night

MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune vs Zombies (PlayStation Vita)

6/2/2016

Comments

 
Also available for Windows
Let me preface this by reminding (or informing if you're new to my gaming habits) everyone that I'm Hyperdimension Neptunia Super Fan #1. I fangirl over that series harder than anyone on the Racketboy forums past, present, or future. Keep that in mind as you read my review of this game.
Picture
This game is horse shit. There it is. I said it. This game sucks. "Oh, well, it's about school girls - who are goddesses that personify game companies - killing zombies in miniskirts because weeb pervs; of course it sucks." I mean, yeah, there's that, but I also enjoyed Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection which is just a raising sim where the CPUs become pop idols. Okay, my standards really aren't that high when you've got cute anime girls (let's be honest, I'm one of those weeb pervs). And this has cute anime girls in SCHOOLGIRL outfits. Seriously. I should love this game.
Picture
But I don't. I own all 11 games in the series currently out in the West (and I have the 12th game pre-ordered), and I can honestly say that this is, without rival, the weakest entry in the series. The writing, first and foremost, is shit. I mean, you don't really expect a literary masterpiece from a series that is 110% fan service, but the other games were at least clever and made some marginal sense. This game is a fucked up kind of frame story where it's about the CPUs being students at a school and trying to make a movie about zombies to save the school by getting more kids to attend but then there really arezombies so they just film them actually killing the zombies for the movie and half the story is that while the other half is the movie script that Blanc wrote (which is an unmitigated and cringe-filled disaster). Like, it's not even the funny/endearing bad kind of writing like the entire House of the Dead series. This just hurts.
Picture
The other awful thing is the gameplay. If you've played Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed, then you know what to expect from the gameplay, but imagine a super gimped version of that. There are 12 "scenes," each of which have, on average, 6 or 7 "cuts" (basically chapters and levels, respectively), but each cut takes less than a minute to finish on average. I could have finished this game in its entirety in one 3 hour sitting even with the lengthy dialogue scenes. Imagine if Dynasty Warriors had about 80 levels, all of which could be complete in between 30 and 60 seconds and had between 30 and 50 enemies each. Now put a Neptunia skin on it. That's this game.
Picture
There are some optional scenes that you can unlock based on who you use in a certain level, but I never bothered with them for the same reason that I spaced this game out over four or five days - it was so fucking boring that I had to make myself finish it. It hurts me to tell yall what a steaming pile of shit this game is. It really does. You all know how much I adore this series and how hard (and obnoxiously) I push everyone on the Racketboy forums to play it. I don't like telling you guys to steer clear of this game because it makes the rest of the series look bad, but this game is fucking awful. Unless you're a hardcore Vita weeb like me and my buddy Exhuminator or are a Neptunia super fan like me, don't bother with this game. Play the rest of the series. Don't play this.

And truthfully, I can't even recommend my equally eroge-loving friend Exhuminator pick this one unless he finds it for less than $10, even with the anime schoolgirl miniskirts.
Picture

​My Rating - 2 Neps

Comments

    I'm a teacher.

    And I like to play video games.  I like to collect video games.  I like to talk about video games, and I like to write about video games.  During the day, I teach high school history; during the night, I spend my spare time gaming.  Then I write about it.

      What game should I review?

    Submit
    Check out my complete collection page
    Join the RacketBoy Forums

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • By Platform
    • Arcade
    • 3DO
    • Mobile
    • Atari >
      • Atari 2600
      • Atari 5200
      • Atari 7800
      • Jaguar
    • Nintendo >
      • Consoles >
        • Nintendo Entertainment System
        • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
        • Gamecube
        • Nintendo 64
        • Wii
        • Wii U
        • Switch
      • Handhelds >
        • Game Boy
        • Game Boy Color
        • Virtual Boy
        • Game Boy Advance
        • Nintendo DS
        • Nintendo 3DS
    • PlayStation >
      • PlayStation
      • PlayStation 2
      • PlayStation 3
      • PlayStation 4
      • PlayStation 5
      • PlayStation VR
      • PlayStation Portable
      • PlayStation Vita
    • NEC >
      • TurboGrafx-16
      • TurboGrafx-CD
    • PC
    • Sega >
      • Master System
      • Genesis
      • Sega CD
      • Sega 32X
      • Sega CD 32X
      • Saturn
      • Dreamcast
      • Game Gear
    • SNK >
      • Neo Geo MVS
      • Neo Geo AES
      • Neo Geo CD
      • Hyper Neo Geo 64
      • Neo Geo Pocket
    • Xbox >
      • Xbox
      • Xbox 360
      • Xbox One
      • Xbox Series X
  • Nep Scale
    • What is the Nep Scale?
    • 1 Nep Games
    • 2 Nep Games
    • 3 Nep Games
    • 4 Nep Games
    • 5 Nep Games
  • Review Archive