@ShogunRok Hmm, the logic checks out on the assumption that the fan-service was an extra. Neptunia is a game where fan-service is not an extra. They even advertise on the trailer where they have "Personification x Moe x Transformation" 59 seconds in.
This is a game that stars only girls, and not the gritty warrior ones, the cute ones. Generally interested consumers are going to be expecting some amount of fan-service. Yes then there are the minority who are interested and don't like this, however what is going to make sales, cater to those minority or cater to what works.
Neptunia sells its games on the appeal of the characters otherwise, you'd have a rather bland RPG. That is how I see it.
The characters, most certainly have it, in character to do fan-service scenes. They are Goddesses, they are supposed to be pretty and Neptune is aware she is in a JRPG. She understands she has a fan-base, the players, and has to show off.
In fact, knowing how the player thinks, generally is the part of the appeal of the game to me and others. It is witty which the reviewer has praised. Fan-service is therefore, part of the jokes the game tells. If I may be so bold, I'd even claim it should then follow that fan-service should be considered a good part of the game.
If one plays the game and hates a feature that had been seen throughout the franchise, fine and, you could think the game would do better without it but then you'd be in the minority. In the minority, you'd get quite a lot people who would disagree.
In that sense, I'll retract my statement one being "wrong" about wanting to remove fan-service. I'll just say that a majority of people who play that game would hold the opinion that fan-service does not do the game disservice.
@Illusionistt Really? Less fanservice on a game franchise built on fanservice both sexual and nerdy references here and there? You, and the reviewer think the game should just screw that and focus on the gameplay 100%. I'm going to have to disagree with that.
Neptunia has always had subpar gameplay and story, which is why I don't disagree with the rating (provided it is a rating on the gameplay) but to fault them on fanservice on this niche game catering on Otaku with moe and stuff, that is like hating the genre before rating it. That's like complaining Mortal Kombat has fatalities.
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Re: Review: Megadimension Neptunia VII (PS4)
@ShogunRok Hmm, the logic checks out on the assumption that the fan-service was an extra. Neptunia is a game where fan-service is not an extra. They even advertise on the trailer where they have "Personification x Moe x Transformation" 59 seconds in.
This is a game that stars only girls, and not the gritty warrior ones, the cute ones. Generally interested consumers are going to be expecting some amount of fan-service. Yes then there are the minority who are interested and don't like this, however what is going to make sales, cater to those minority or cater to what works.
Neptunia sells its games on the appeal of the characters otherwise, you'd have a rather bland RPG. That is how I see it.
The characters, most certainly have it, in character to do fan-service scenes. They are Goddesses, they are supposed to be pretty and Neptune is aware she is in a JRPG. She understands she has a fan-base, the players, and has to show off.
In fact, knowing how the player thinks, generally is the part of the appeal of the game to me and others. It is witty which the reviewer has praised. Fan-service is therefore, part of the jokes the game tells. If I may be so bold, I'd even claim it should then follow that fan-service should be considered a good part of the game.
If one plays the game and hates a feature that had been seen throughout the franchise, fine and, you could think the game would do better without it but then you'd be in the minority. In the minority, you'd get quite a lot people who would disagree.
In that sense, I'll retract my statement one being "wrong" about wanting to remove fan-service. I'll just say that a majority of people who play that game would hold the opinion that fan-service does not do the game disservice.
Re: Review: Megadimension Neptunia VII (PS4)
@Illusionistt Really? Less fanservice on a game franchise built on fanservice both sexual and nerdy references here and there? You, and the reviewer think the game should just screw that and focus on the gameplay 100%. I'm going to have to disagree with that.
Neptunia has always had subpar gameplay and story, which is why I don't disagree with the rating (provided it is a rating on the gameplay) but to fault them on fanservice on this niche game catering on Otaku with moe and stuff, that is like hating the genre before rating it. That's like complaining Mortal Kombat has fatalities.
You have to see that is wrong.