This is what, the 7th game in the Senran Kagura franchise, and the first on home consoles, and I must say this game looks gorgeous, every detail is bright and colorful, not to mention the babes, but lets put the babes aside for a second. If this game wasn't stuff to the brim with fanservice, what is this game? Is it worth buying or renting? Here's why I think that's a yes.



They did a damn good job on this game in multiple aspects, aspects you notice past all the fanservice.



Graphics:

Graphics on the ps4 are pretty amazing looking, everything is colored brightly, full of detail. They did a really really good job on making this the best looking game in the franchise, no thanks to the PS4 hardware used to it's best of capabilities.



Sound:

Oh wow, the sound is off the charts as well. The music is very upbeat and well made, and not to mention that incredibly catch opening song. The voice actors did a spankin' good job and the sound effects, like slashing, slamming, booms - oh! especially the booms. They make booms sound good and incredibly satisfying.



Story & Campaign:

I haven't played through the whole story to get a full impression, but story wise, it's very lighthearted and not to be taken all too seriously, but you can still have lots of fun with it. The campaign, as far as I was told, is a very long one, with lots of missions with replay value. After you complete a mission with the designated character, you can go back in with another character to relive the chaos. The dialogue is hilarious, like, insanely funny at times, especially when it comes to stuff from the boob-fanatic Katsuragi, and the masochistic Ryona. Ryona especially, she's so friggen weird and hilarious. Anyways, you'll have lots of fun with that



Online Multiplayer:

To be honest, I didn't expect much from this game in terms of multiplayer, but I was absolutely blown away by the vast amount of options you have in terms of online multiplayer.

For the PS Vita version of this game, you can play with up to 4 people online, with PS4, that more than doubles to 10! And there is lots to do.

-Points Battle: Basically you have a time, rack up as many points as you can before time runs out

-Shinobi Deathmatch: It's a Deathmatch, need I explain?

-Queen of the hills: Again, need I explain?

-Capture the bra: .....yah

-Shinobi Survival: Survive wave after waves of enemies, you can even earn prizes from this mode other than EXP.

and various other modes to goof off in.

The online Multiplayer to me seems to take a lot of inspiration in the PS3 game, Anarchy Reigns, if any of you have played that. That game is chaotic, fast pasted, crazy, and downright fun, and this game is all that, but with fanservice.

Not to mention, you can have up to 10 people, you can fill it with your friends, or bots, you can even throw in grunts to make the chaos even more chaotic.



Character Customization:

Wowy. I expected the customization to be good, but the mode is GREAT. The amount of things you can change on the girls is staggering, almost to the point of which you can even recognize the character from their original looks. You can borderline create your own character in almost a Soul Calibur 5 like way. Nothing beats the customization in SCV, by far, but this is very similar cause it just has SO MUCH to change, and this is NOT including DLC. I mean, what game have you heard of which you can customize your character with up to 130 different pairs of underwear?! 130!!! Underwear! What?!



Combat:

Combat is very fluent, pretty, explosive, fast, insane, and alot of fun. There can be like 50 enemies on the screen at at time and the PS4 handles that as smooth as butter. If you're familiar with the Dynasty Warriors series, this will seem very familiar. All characters don't feel the same, even though the core fighting mechanics are easy and can be used for any character, all characters have their own style of fighting. So most likely you'll have fun learning all the characters, instead of feeling you have to "main" on or three to get good at the game. trust, me, you'll have favorite characters, and there will be characters you dislike, but you'll be able to play all of them



And now.. Fanservice:

I am a weeaboo and I'm proud, let's make that clear now.

the girls are really cute, all of them... not to mention they are all super volumptuous in all the right areas. I swear the boob physics in this game. Everything shakes, boobs, butts, bellies (yes, bellies), hair buns(They even have hair bun jiggle, now that's sexy), and their clothing will be exploding and tearing all over the place. You remove clothing to transform, remove clothing to get more powerful. H'oh boy, I can go all day describing this to you guys. Albeit, there is no nudity, well.. there is but it's censored with a glaring light across their chest and hips in classic anime fashion. Not to mention I could swear most of the cast are perverts and will be constantly getting what we hope to get. Lucky bastards... Now this might tern some people away, for sure, not everyone is into exploding girl's clothing off, but if you can .... somehow.... look past it all, there is a great gaming experience waiting for you, and if you are into it.. well...

Welcome to the best thing in a long time.



I think I touched up enough on the PROS. this game, even though it's well made, is far from perfect, so let's go over the CONS.

-The Camera: the camera in this game is... wowy... Its bad. The camera tends to faze through walls a lot, blocking sight of the action, or suddenly become so close it's like it's first person perspective. Fear tight corridors or places with high walls, cause the camera will be another obstacle you must overcome.

-DLC: DLC's going to be heavy, if that turns you off. It's not much of a big deal to me. They even treat us by giving us two free DLC characters, but I feel like it's because they were for to take out 3 others. Ikkitousen characters had to be removed from the western release do to licensing issues. There is an oddity I'd like to point out concerning online multiplayer. Because JP players still play the ikkitousen characters, the ikkitousen characters were reskined and renamed ( I believe). Which begs the question, why couldn't they do this for us? I've never really heard of ikkitousen, but I loved the characters play styles. Hopefully there will be a loophole found in the future and we can get them as DLC

-Fanserive: A pro as well as a con. Yah, fanservice can get very creepy at times, even for me. It's an awkward feeling seeing these girls clothing explode and the screen zooms in on their flusters, teary-eyed faces, it kinda makes me feel bad at times, especially for my baby, Murasaki-chan :( And don't get me started on the stuff that goes down in the changing room, that is rant worthy, but I won't get into too much detail.

-Difficulty boost is a must: I suggest if your starting this game off, kick that difficulty to max or near max settings, cause this game's lower difficulties is pathetically easy. you'll finding yourself wiping out hordes of enemies and bosses without even taking damage, and I don't know about you, but I like a challenge in my games. I mean I just got finished playing Bloodborne, for peat sake.



Is this game worth buying?

In my opinion, yes. If you look past the fanservice, you'll find a very great and fun game to play either alone or with friends. there is so much this game does right, it makes me proud. The Senran Kagura series has always enticed me since Shinobi Verses, and now that I can play this on my PS4, baby, that's all I'll be doing



So, wanna buy this game?