Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

JOGAÇO! JRPG de GRIND insando do início ao fim, gostosinho demais. Estava precisando de um desses na minha vida há um tempo. Recomendo demais se você tiver tempo livre pra queimar!

Pretty slow to grind but combat is pretty good

As my first JRPG (unless you count the early Paper Mario games), Neptune has shown me what I've been missing out on all these years. The game is split into 3 main elements of gameplay; the map and city menus, 3D dungeons where you walk around and fight mobs, and visual novel story segments. The dungeons are fun to run around and seeing the girls as rendered models rather than flat sprites (like many other games) makes it feel more immersive. You have the freedom to pick your fights so if you only need to farm a specific drop or just want to fight a specific difficult enemy, you don't have to wade through heaps of mobs, just walk around them. Some people may not enjoy the ample amounts of visual novel storytelling in Neptunia but for me I rather enjoy it. Plus the voice talent is top notch, though for Japanese media that isn't exactly a rarity. It's a fun game that, while maybe a little grindy, I can see myself getting a lot of hours out of. Then I'll go play Re;Birth2. [h3] Stuff I really love about Neptunia: [/h3] - The blend between turn based combat and free movement in battles. Having your characters too close together while fighting can cause enemies to target multiple of your girls at once, but you can also do the same to them if the enemies group up. - The surprisingly in depth combat mechanics. Rush / Power / Break attacks, magical vs physical vs elemental damage, building up the EXE bar to add an extra attack to the end of your combo or spending the bar to unleash extremely strong EXE attacks etc. There's a lot going on and combat is way more complex than just 'press A to hit.' - Customizing gear is a lot of fun, you can go for a generalist build or min max your stats. Each character has multiple slots for clothes, weapons, accessories etc. and through discovering plans or progressing the story, you get access to new gear to fill those slots, often with stat modifiers. There are also a LOT of items to change how the girls look in game, so for people like me who appreciate character dress-up, this was great. - The soundtrack is a lot of fun. There are a limited number of tracks so be prepared to hear the same songs over and over but the music is good and really sets the mood so I don't mind having them get stuck in my head for the rest of the day. The music in this game really captures that niche 'early 2000's Japanese wizbang computer music' vibe. Lot's of beeps and digital sounds. It reminds me a lot of the Super Paper Mario OST so I found it very nostalgic. [h3] Minor gripes about Neptunia: [/h3] - Enemy hitboxes are super inconsistent and it can be frustrating to get sucked into a battle against some insanely hard enemy because the tip of Neptune's toe touched its invisible hitbox that goes like 4 feet past its body. - Sometimes maps or cities will be marked with "[b] EVENT! [/b] text showing that's the next place you should go to progress the story. However, it doesn't give you any warning about if you are just going to that location normally, it might be just a VN reading segment, or you could get thrown into combat against a difficult boss. It doesn't wait around either, you just get one of those things as soon as you click it. - The game is only really playable with a controller. I didn't even own one, I had to buy some cheapo PC compatible controller off amazon to play this game. Overall, is good game. IF best girl