2/19/2024 0 Comments Sakura dungeon voice patch![]() I knew early on that the story was likely going to need help from its cast of characters, and they delivered. It’s quite the emotional finish to a game that was relatively light in tone up to that point. I did one of the battles fighting back tears. Despite all of this, the final two chapters left me an emotional wreck as the story broke me on a few occasions. The tropes are there, they’re high in number, and they’re not going anywhere. For anyone that hates anime tropes and cliches, I would recommend going into it accepting this, or to stay 6 feet away from Sakura Wars at all times. I could predict with about 90% accuracy everything that would happen in a given scene, since these setups have been used so many times before. Now, I didn’t hate all of this wackiness, but it made the story predictable. This is the closest I’ve ever felt to playing an anime, aside from games based on an existing anime. I seriously asked if I could give this game an anime/100 score. Just to make the game feel even more like an anime, there’s intermissions (I like to call them commercial breaks) with the appropriate eyecatches, ending each chapter on a cliffhanger, and previews after finishing a chapter. I was in hysterics after this scene, since it’s like every romance anime where they tease you with the kiss. The game in essence directed the player to make this sudden advance on her before the scene would end. After mentioning how it’s admirable she has someone to look up to, the skills she’s acquired over the years, the game basically says, “Now, kiss her!” There was no way for me to back out of the scene. Not even five hours into the game, it presents a scene where I have to cheer up Sakura. The game has a number of opportunities to barge in on the girls’ bath (which obviously will result in negative points with them) for some fanservice that anime is infamously known for. Everything about Sakura Wars screams it: the “never give up” monologues, the power of friendship moments, the plot armour, the inspirational yelling and so on. But I don’t know if I’ve played a game that represents what it means to be shounen as much as Sakura Wars. He’s joined by his earnest childhood friend Sakura Amamiya, the hot-headed Hatsuho Shinonome, the gentle Luxembourgian noblewoman Claris Snowflake, ninja prodigy Azami Mochizuki, and the Greek superstar Anastasia Palma.Īs a reviewer, I’ve played a lot of anime-influenced games - even games based on existing anime. Inheriting this situation, he is commanded by the leader of the entire Revue, Sumire Kanzaki (a character from the original Sakura Wars games), to prepare a team for the biennial Combat Revue World Games, which will be hosted in Tokyo. They aren’t even able to defend Tokyo from occasional demon attacks, relying on Shanghai’s Combat Revue in their stead. The Imperial Combat Revue lost its former glory and is on the verge of being disbanded. Currently, Imperial Japanese Navy officer, Seijuro Kamiyama, is heading to the Grand Imperial Theater in Tokyo for his new assignment as captain of the Imperial Combat Revue Flower Division. The previous Imperial Combat Revue members were caught up in a massive battle in Tokyo and disappeared during the battle, along with the demon threat. The game takes place twelve years after the original Sakura Wars and two years after the most recent Sakura Wars game, So Long, My Love. The artistic and voice acting talent SEGA brought in from across the Japanese anime, manga, and light novel industries was staggering to say the least, but could they coalesce to create a game that lives up to the franchise’s legacy? I was pretty excited to dive into this one and get my introduction to the series. ![]() I’ve always been interested in the Sakura Wars series but haven’t played any due to the scarcity of copies here in the West. In 2018 during SEGA FES, SEGA announced that they were working on a new Sakura Wars game, with a follow-up announcement saying it would be a soft reboot of the franchise. While niche here in the West, Sakura Wars has a big following in Japan. ![]() The top franchise in the poll was Sakura Wars, a series that has been dormant since the PS2 era with a port of the most recent game on Wii in 2010 in the West only. In 2016, SEGA put out a poll asking which of their franchises fans would like to see rebooted. Pre-patch gameplay and control scores are 75% and 70% respectively. My gameplay and control scores represent my post-patch prediction. Note: A day-one patch will fix gameplay and control issues I had during my playthrough.
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