{"id":59,"date":"2016-06-04T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=59"},"modified":"2016-06-04T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T02:50:08","slug":"game-ramblings-13-megatagmension-blanc-neptune-vs-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Game Ramblings #13 &#8211; MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune vs. Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ideafintl.com\/blanc-zombies\/\">More info from Idea Factory<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Platform<\/strong>: Vita (PlayStation TV Compatible)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Action RPG<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Blanc + Neptune<\/em> as the long name implies, is an extension of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, this time\u00a0acting as a side story focused on Blanc. \u00a0The gameplay is similar to Vita and Steam release\u00a0<em>Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed<\/em>. \u00a0I&#8217;d also played that one, so went in knowing roughly what to expect, but generally left entertained but disappointed as it felt like it hadn&#8217;t picked up on the promise of that title.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get this out of the way first. \u00a0Like the rest of the <em>Neptunia<\/em> series, \u00a0the girls are all powerful female forms of various game consoles and properties, and the setting absolutely makes fun of some known videogame tropes. \u00a0In this case, the girls are part of a high school movie club, and spend most of the game filming movies that poke fun at the <em>Resident Evil<\/em> series. \u00a0Like the rest of the series, the story is generally pretty non-serious, but absolutely entertaining. \u00a0Also like <em>Neptunia U<\/em>, the minute to minute gameplay is relatively fast paced, and generally entertaining combo-based action RPG gameplay. \u00a0So then, where do things go wrong?<\/p>\n<p><em>Neptunia U <\/em>at its core was a game out along the lines of the various <em>Warriors<\/em> titles, where individual\u00a0levels would often\u00a0result in killing hundreds or thousands of enemies as I went around completing the story and various side quests. \u00a0Far as I can recall, the most enemies I was tasked at killing in\u00a0<em>Blanc + Neptune<\/em> was 80. \u00a0That right there exemplifies a lot of the problem I had with this game. \u00a0It took what worked in <em>Neptunia U<\/em>, and made it all shorter. \u00a0There was less story, less action, less side questing, less progression. \u00a0The core game was there, but felt like a step back in the series. \u00a0In the end it definitely felt\u00a0that this was a side game focused on a side character, where the game just didn&#8217;t receive the attention that a core Neptunia title would receive.<\/p>\n<p>So, was it worth playing? \u00a0Probably, though I&#8217;d probably recommend waiting on the price dropping some. \u00a0End of the day, these games have always been pretty mindless fun, and this was no different. \u00a0I was generally just left feeling like they could have done so much more, even if they just went in with the goal to match\u00a0<em>Neptunia U<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More info from Idea Factory Platform: Vita (PlayStation TV Compatible) Genre: Action RPG Blanc + Neptune as the long name implies, is an extension of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, this time\u00a0acting as a side story focused on Blanc. \u00a0The gameplay is similar to Vita and Steam release\u00a0Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed. \u00a0I&#8217;d also played that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=59\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Ramblings #13 &#8211; MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune vs. Zombies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,28],"tags":[48,46,47,45,44,43],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arpg","category-vita","tag-arpg","tag-blanc","tag-neptune","tag-neptunia","tag-ps-tv","tag-vita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}