A very fun and super short arcade-like shooter! The anime cutscenes are very well done, the voice acting is top notch, and the gameplay is swift and easy to learn.

It's maybe 2 hours worth of content, so it's an insanely short playthough, but it's quite fun! The story is interesting but a little undercooked and ends rather abruptly, but for a clearly budget title it does enough to get you from point A to B.

I wish they had done more with this world and character, like an expanded version of the game or a sequel (there was a visual novel follow up but only in Japan). If you're a Suda51 fan, you'll likely enjoy the short ride!

It's dumb mecha fun.
The story is just an excuse to blow stuff up while you (second President of New Japan and teenage anime girl Shoko) pilot the Infinite Stratos-looking mech known as the Liberator.
The gameplay is fun, blowing stuff up with missiles and lasers never gets old and while it does not get to the levels of bullet hell of things like Toho, there is a not so slight possibility of losing if you do not evade lasers and missiles.
It's weird for me to love a game with such little story as this one, but the sheer fun of it makes me love it.
If you can, give it a chance.

Liberation Maiden was a good surprise to play on the 3DS even though its eshop was discontinued I'm happy to have picked up this game before the 3DS virtual store ceased to exist, about Liberation Maiden is a Shooter game that has 5 stages and the game is very Arcade style of Easy, Normal and Hard with limited continues, and has a good replay factor. When doing missions you release information about the characters and Lore which is the most detailed story of the game that is in a gallery this helps a lot with the factor of playing again and reading what is happening in that universe, something about the game is that it was made with with little money, in their time in 2011/2012 Level 5 launched a series called Guild where they released small games but that they were accessible but also fun to play and Liberation Maiden is one of them where the Grasshopper Manufacture studio was responsible, but only because it had a smaller investment not to say it was bad it's a functional game from start to finish with simple controls but super satisfying to play, the final boss is pretty insanely difficult! to dodge their attacks but it was a challenge that was very satisfying, an interesting highlight is that this game has very well animated cutscenes created by Studio BONES at the beginning and end of the game for a 2012 game and also for the proposal of being a cheap game and easy to access, I really have nothing to complain about.

It's a pretty neat take on third-person arcade-inspired shooting, that utilizes the 3DS hardware well. I did play this with my New 3DS XL mounted on a repurposed Nintendo Switch stand, which I think helped me handle the game's controls. You move with the analog slider, and hold the left shoulder button to strafe, while everything else is handled with the touch screen. Definitely a curious take on shooter controls, but I dig it.

It's a very short game, but also incredibly hectic. The length and pacing is maybe a bit weird - on one hand it's short as far as story-focused experiences go (and there is a lot of dialogue here), but at the same time, as far as arcade-esque games go, this is kind of on the longer side, as it took me about an hour and a half to beat.

Unfortunately this ultimately amounts to a prologue to a visual novel sequel, which as of this writing is only available in Japanese. Maybe someday I'll get to see this story to its conclusion. Either way, this is worth a go.

Cool and stylish action game that is at least as good as the other high profile shooters on the console. I liked it, but it is perhaps a bit convoluted to control, although it does feel unique in a good way, tank controls and everything. It is brief and lighthearted, as I think these weirder experiences should be. Do yourself a favor and don’t read the diary entries (evil chinese empire wants to expand its territory opressing the poor and defenseless japanese people? Projecting a bit motherfuckers???)