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Senran Kagura: Estival Versus |OT| Summer Life in Your Hometown
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Demoskinos
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Oh wow a new OT? Figured people would have just used the old one.
Demoskinos
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Yes Shiki is listed in the Japanese version as being 15 which is the youngest of the girls.
Hmm, does this game have nudity? I always thought this series was about cleavage and panty shots. I guess if you want to split hairs that wouldn't be "safe for work" either, but usually when I think of "NSFW" in regards to video games I'm thinking like full-on nudity and/or sex or like Manhunt-levels of violent sadism.
Demoskinos
Member
Technically yes. Although its censored. You can actually completely strip the girls naked but there are always beams of light covering their bits.
Ultimadrago
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This will be my first Senran game. Hope it holds up!
#Mirai
#Minorin
#Mirai
#Minorin
It's very odd that minory is 16 and shiki is 15.
YianGaruga
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Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
Is digital PS4 available yet? I'm not seeing it on the web store.
After the store update in 4-5 hours.
We can only hope for PSVR.
Ultimadrago
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Yeah, there's no way I'm going back to finish previous titles before playing the PS4 game.
Like No. Way.
I've watched the (bad) anime and have seen some profiles here and there. It'll have to do. I'd be impressed if the story's plot would be enough to daze me out of my chair though. Whenever, SV releases on Steam I may check it out then granted I enjoy EV.
SK2 is very good game tho.
And it's running very will on 3ds at 60fps.
Ultimadrago
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Of course, Thoraxbro! All the Plot I need was in it~ fufufu.
Maybe I'll get around to it later on. I've just been waiting for this series to get on console.
SerTapTap
Member
English OT? Sure. Here's my review in progress AKA a big bulleted list of what I like/don't like, since XSEED rarely gives enough time to review properly.
If you're at all interested I highly recommend it. Fixes almost everything I didn't like in Shinovi.
I don't have framerate tests but I can't imagine that's true. Felt like a decent 30
If you're at all interested I highly recommend it. Fixes almost everything I didn't like in Shinovi.
I don't have framerate tests but I can't imagine that's true. Felt like a decent 30
Bow down to the hometown! *w*
Ultimadrago
Member
Wow, your review almost makes me not want to get SV now. Lol. It does a good job selling me on the Estival experience though, thanks.
I also didn't know that there was an option to turn off clothing destruction. May make for a decent Stealth Mode around others (minus the Puru finishers) haha.
SerTapTap
Member
I haven't beaten the game yet, but I'm kind of wondering how much damage Xseed did by giving such a short review period with an, IMO, pretty bad chapter 1 (and how much Tamsoft did by sticking the perv chapter so early on). From what I saw in Japanese it looks way better after chapter two, but
. I just beat chapter 2 last night and that chapter is a big part of why I'm reserving judgement and a formal review until I finish the story. I know there's more dramatic parts after the opening.
It's the one "flaw" when a series improves this dramatically with each iteration...it's REALLY hard to go backwards. SV is still the best game at introducing the characters though.
But IMO, just read up on the characters on the Wiki and you're in pretty good shape. You need to know the characters more than the story, here. I think it does an okay job showing SOME character's personalities, but unlike SV it doesn't deliberately make the rounds through each and every character (however, SV's formulaic structure also got really old, so I like this story better)
And yeah, the clothing damage off is a really good idea, but it should really disable puru purus (A ko is a KO so gameplay-wise it doesn't matter other than unlocking the puru puru in the shop). Also the updates to the game added puru purus almost everywhere, and you don't even need to fully strip or use a Super to KO to activate them, so it's REALLY hard to avoid them.
Chapter 1 just basically just Haruka being a nasty ass pervert and ruining everything for like 4 episodes
It's the one "flaw" when a series improves this dramatically with each iteration...it's REALLY hard to go backwards. SV is still the best game at introducing the characters though.
But IMO, just read up on the characters on the Wiki and you're in pretty good shape. You need to know the characters more than the story, here. I think it does an okay job showing SOME character's personalities, but unlike SV it doesn't deliberately make the rounds through each and every character (however, SV's formulaic structure also got really old, so I like this story better)
And yeah, the clothing damage off is a really good idea, but it should really disable puru purus (A ko is a KO so gameplay-wise it doesn't matter other than unlocking the puru puru in the shop). Also the updates to the game added puru purus almost everywhere, and you don't even need to fully strip or use a Super to KO to activate them, so it's REALLY hard to avoid them.
Was working on my. Review on Friday and that first hour was brutal as hell. I almost went to sleep because of how boring it was.
Dragonslayer_023
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Still undecided on what version to get, leaning PS4 because Vita performance issues and it takes up a lot of space. Depends how much the PS4 one is here in Canada.
SerTapTap
Member
I thought the prologue was pretty good. But I almost started skipping dialog in the "summer sports" thing (and the entire reason I'm playing in english is for the story...). But
the festival sisters were getting pissed at the other shinobi for goofing off so I assume it's about to get serious
Strongly recommend PS4. The 1080p/60FPS and load times are a major improvement over Vita. DS4 is ideal to play with too, though you can use that on the PSTV. The characters actually look really damn good (aside from a stray lower res texture here and there, and slightly low polycount on the characters). The hair, eyes and specials in particular look great, and they went all out on the camera work so some specials look super good.
Its not 60fps.
I have the JP PS4 version if anyone wants to try multi add me. PSN: kysen100
They added a ton of modes and I never got to try them before JP online went dead.
Maintenance
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How long is this game?
SerTapTap
Member
I forget if I mentioned, but I recommend playing on Normal even in a first playthrough. Easy is a bit too easy.
Hard mode is improved from Shinovi, but enemies can be SO aggressive you can lose in seconds on some levels so it's hard to recommend at level 1
Oh yeah, online. My PSN's Barakku if anyone wants to add me, please say neogaf or Estival Versus in the invite message or something. I mostly want to try out that co-op defense mode.
I have 91 hours in the Japanese version...but I idle a lot so you can assume anywhere up to half of that is idle lol. It's longer than SV though if you include side stories, and I don't know why you'd deliberately avoid them.
Hard mode is improved from Shinovi, but enemies can be SO aggressive you can lose in seconds on some levels so it's hard to recommend at level 1
Oh yeah, online. My PSN's Barakku if anyone wants to add me, please say neogaf or Estival Versus in the invite message or something. I mostly want to try out that co-op defense mode.
I have 91 hours in the Japanese version...but I idle a lot so you can assume anywhere up to half of that is idle lol. It's longer than SV though if you include side stories, and I don't know why you'd deliberately avoid them.
Maintenance
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Hm, thanks. SK2 was too short from what I've heard so I skipped it.
Skyfireblaze
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Quick question, Estival Versus gets a full physical release in Europe unlike IFI games, right? Means I can just grab a copy in a local store later this week? 
SerTapTap
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The Versus series is a bit different from the 3DS series. I'm actually not a fan of the 3DS series, though it certainly has it's fans. It's a more straightforward story thing, and I don't think it has the side stories? Which are like half the game in Versus.
Quick question, Estival Versus gets a full physical release in Europe unlike IFI games, right? Means I can just grab a copy in a local store later this week?
They treat EU way better than the US for the most part so yeah I think so. You even got SK1 physical in stores, we didn't get it physical at ALL
Linearskillz
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YianGaruga
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Quick question, Estival Versus gets a full physical release in Europe unlike IFI games, right? Means I can just grab a copy in a local store later this week?
It should. BUT seeing as you're from Germany, the problem is that our release has apparently been delayed to the 24/25th, for reasons even Marvelous isn't able to explain to me.
See amazon for example http://www.amazon.de/dp/B01BOID73I/
That's a myth. EV will be the first game that will be normally sold in stores ever since the first one. SV didn't get a release at all and SK2 was exclusive to the Marvelous store and amazon.
The only thing EU has over NA is more expensive LE options. That's it.
Skyfireblaze
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Alright that's a bummer for US fans but I'm glad we get a full physical release here so I can just buy it at my local store
IFI physical games are Amazon only here since a while so I always have to remember ordering them early enough.
SerTapTap
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Oh right, since the cards the LE gets are random, I might need to trade someone if I don't get a Ryouna or Yozakura card in mine. I don't like the random card idea, I want the whole thing when I buy something.
I think EV is amazon only in the US. Which I don't mind at all personally, I wish more games would get amazon-only releases instead of digital only at least. Especially with 20% off all new releasesAlright that's a bummer for US fans but I'm glad we get a full physical release here so I can just buy it at my local store
Skyfireblaze
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Point taken yeah, Amazon-only is still better than digital-only I agree and the 20% off sweetens the deal :/
Hmm alright that's odd since the 24th would be a Thursday o.o I wonder if this is only a Amazon specific delay or impacts retail stores aswell.
EDIT: Okay something is definitely up in Germany, GameStop, Media Markt and Saturn (the two biggest German retailers that carry games) don't have Estival Versus in their system yet and Spielegrotte.de also lists it for the 24th, what is happening here? D:
YianGaruga
Banned
No I've seen other stores list the same date. Some say 25th but it's definitely delayed for a week. MM or Saturn don't have it on their site yet but I think they should have it as well by then.
The game is co-published by Pqube and their distributor in Germany is Flashpoint AG. This isn't the first pqube game that had Germany-specific delays (EDF 4.1 released a MONTH late, most other games a week late), so there are definitely some problems in how they release their games here. I think EV will pop up in MM and Saturn in the next few days though.
Marvelous was only able to tell me "they're looking into it"
No PSN shouldn't be affected. That problem only affects German retail copies.
Skyfireblaze
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Yeah if you see my edit above I noticed the same thing, very odd. So they will likely delay it on PSN too for a week. I wonder what happened.
Demoskinos
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Haruka is great! You cray.
coredecepts
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Do the characters play significantly different from each other? That was my main beef with Shinovi Versus, there were only minor differences in the gameplay from character to character.
Stilton Disco
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Well, they certainly know their audience. Also, that's an impressive Amiibo collection that guy has.
dragonflys545
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My body is ready! Gimme that Dynasty Warrior gameplay with something extra
Skyfireblaze
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Ah okay thanks for all the info, I won't go digital either way and I'm happy we still get these games physical, a week later is not much to complain about. I just hope PQube doesn't drift off in a month of delay then for future releases, I had no idea about EDF 4.1.
coredecepts
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Responding to myself here, since I just looked at TapTap's review/bullet points:
Nice.
Ultimadrago
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RIP me
Pellegri Testament
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Both Bestbuy (which also has 20% off) and Gamestop also have the game here as well for both systems.
WildEagle18
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Just picked up my copy, can't wait to get home now.