Sega has done it again with releasing another smash hit, this time with sakura wars! Wow this is like Segas new golden age or something.
Keep in mind sakura wars haa been a thing for Japan for a LONG time mostly as a visual novel/romance series, this is more like a soft reboot new sakura wars game strictly for the north america audience as most of us are unaware of the sakura wars franchise.
You play in a Steampunk version of 1940 tokyo. The Imperial Combat Revue, the captial's global defense force, is on the verge of disbanding, which offers the city little protection against external threats. You play as the captain of the Tokyo Revue were it's up to you to mend the hearts of your troops and restore the revue to it's former glory.
You can play as other characters from your troops of course, all of then pretty much being women *cough* your own harem of beautiful woman *cough*
There is this LIPS dialogue system were you as the captain interact with your female soilders and the way you say things to then will have a effects on relationships off and on the battlefield. This is important because there is no leveling up in this game, so you got to pretty much charm or even romance these ladys to be more effective in battle.
Point and simple the main combat in this game is MECHA COMBAT, which is one of the reasons why I bought it because I love Gundam so this really clicked with me. As you play as the captain with his mecha you also play the other characters with their own mechas it's pretty nice action paced and it feels great as you can imagine if you saw gameplay videos of it.
Keep in mind though you will not jumping into the mecha fights until near the end of every chapter..... So this game is 80% visual novel/romance and 20% mecha fighting..... So basically if you don't like visual novels you will not enjoy this at all.
The soundtrack is actually pretty good, I guess lush would be a good way to describe it..... Soundtrack gets an 8/10 from me.
And since this very much an anime type game, there will be a couple of anime cutscenes here and there... That is also obvious from the overal style of the game and also the typical over the top anime dialogue.
Oh should I mention the character designer is none other than the legend himself Title Kubo the creator of bleach? Ya he KNOWS how to draw beautiful woman and really good looking guys that's for sure, it's the second reason I bought this game. My man Kubo is on a ROLL this year.
Also I don't know why the costume set that comes with this physical edition is like 349 MB...... That's a really big file for just freaken costumes.... And of course you can buy more costume DLC in the Playstation Store as well as a 20 dollar deluxe upgrade with a bunch of costume DLC, BGM's, and Static Themes with probably to be added later.
In any case if you like beautiful woman, and mechas then you will defently love sakura wars!
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Beautiful Woman, Giant Mechas? Sign me up!
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