Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation
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Key Features:
Gamindustri in 1080! Experience all the humor, turn-based battle, and crazy HDD transformations of Re;Birth2 with the sheen of 1080p excellence!
Four or More for War! Have up to 4 characters on the battlefield, and 4 more on the sidelines, ready to jump in and give their support!
Stella goes Rogue! Send Stella out to brave Gamindustri’s dungeons in this realtime mini-game and she’ll collect all kinds of treasure for you – you just sit back and eat pudding! Be careful though, because if she dies in the dungeon, she’ll lose all her special gear!
The World’s your Oyster! Customize the Gamindustri experience with Plans, which allow you to do things like increase/decrease enemy difficulty, change the items you’ll receive from a dungeon, and more!
Build-a-Sword! Use Idea Chips and Blank Discs to create custom equipment that can open up new worlds of skills for you!
Customer reviews
65
Better than 1 in some ways, worse in others.
Snotnarok | July 23, 2015 | See all Snotnarok's reviews »Just going to say this review is gonna be filled with some mixed messages. I've only recently stumbled into the series after a mishap with gifting gone wrong with ReBirth 1 and I wound up mostly enjoying that game. The combat is fun, I like the game / industry humor but not so much the fan service. It's kinda like Disgaea but with a more ..'kawaii' wrapping and without the large panel based map battles. What I like: It's more of the same but expanded, dungeons are larger to explore, there's more variety to character moves and more characters in general. The game keeps what was good but improves upon the first in terms of gameplay. The new characters reflect the companies they spoof well, Cave being a very amusing one who represents a company who makes bullet hell shooters...and her specials all reflect this. There's also a lot more characters and more focus on the non-CPU (transforming) characters. The combat is fun, more so with a 4th character in battle allowing you to feel less cramped with battle options. Feels like you're more able to dish-out damage while having 1 character handle support. What I don't like: The game takes on a more darker tone from the get go, which loses a lot of impact when you find this is NOT the same universe at all. Shortly after the start a character recounts how she met Neptune and ...that's not how it happened. So this game has absolutely nothing to do with 1 story wise-it's another universe. Yes you still care for the characters but you have to wonder why they'd spin off in a series of games that already has (at the time of writing) 4 spin off titles on the Vita. There's more 'fanservice' which is less appealing because if you happen to look at the screens ...you'll notice there's 2 very young girls and they aren't shy with pushing some really dumb perversion with them. They reuse a lot, I mean a bloody lot. Some music, characters & moves, the animated portraits, some maps are straight up lifted from the first game. I'm currently on chapter 5 and it's been very repetitious, the same Underling character getting in the way and getting away, even when her boss characters are defeated It feels like they dumped their efforts into the new characters vs adding interesting enemies. Maybe this changes later. 3 chapters in and I really feel like I've done nothing because you just don't stop this 1 dumb character, or it's subordinates. Near the end of it someone else FINALLY drops in. Currently the game is bugged too, the world map music is unbearably loud and the rest of the music despite being jacked up well above the other sounds is too low. Which is a shame since the music is fun. There's a mod on the steam community forums to adjust the music till they do something about it. I'm not saying this is a bad game, though I do seem to have more complaints than praise. I do like the first game better in ways...kinda like how Disgaea 1 had better story and characters and Disgaea 2 had superior gameplay, this is a lot like that. But if this game seems a bit wonky and you're interested in the new one coming out, Neptunia Victory...I wouldn't blame you for skipping this one since as I've stated it has nothing to do with the story of 1, maybe not Victory either. You'd honestly have to read what game has to do with what since they decided to not link this game with the first.
80
Great game for the JRPG Fan
Renakh | July 21, 2015 | See all Renakh's reviews »Much like the title implies this is the second game in the Re;Birth series which are remakes of the PS3 games. This time you control the CPU's little sisters who you meet in the first Re;Birth game. There are many similarities between these two games including areas and monsters and most important humor. The series flourishes with its anime like sense of humor is its references to pop culture video games and anime. If you enjoyed the first game then you'll enjoy this one, if you didn't enjoy the first one and hoped they distractedly changed things then you're out of luck.
20
Still mediocre
KingTed | July 21, 2015 | See all KingTed's reviews »Like Re;Birth, Sister Generation is a remake. This time, that's Hyperdimension Neptunia MK2 which gets the chance of a new version. Like its predecessor, Re;Birth 2 offers 1080p visuals but with a unstable framerate. Furthermore, the two games share the same weaknesses. The dull combat system is back once again. Same thing about the game system. The story is still a idiotic mess with the same kind of humor. In this episode, you play Nepgear, the little sister of Neptunia and must save the four goddesses who were vanquished by CFW magic. During your adventure you will recruit each goddess's sister (Because of course every single one of her has a little sister). Furthermore, most of the game dungeon and the enemies are from Re;Birth 1 and the game is pretty short (About 20 hours. Yeah, THAH short!) Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 : Sister Generation is a game RPG fans should avoid at all cost.