Black Rock Shooter: The Game is a boring and repetitive slog of a game. It took me 20 hours to fully 100% the game, but it feels longer than 20 hours. My advice, don't try to 100% this game.
The story starts when an android named Black Rock Shooter (BRS) is awakened years after an alien invasion almost wiped out humanity. When she is awakened, there’s apparently only 12 humans left on the whole earth, all of them male. Your role as BRS is to fight back the alien, since you’re an android and a lot stronger than all 12 humans combined.
BRS starts off very innocently, not understanding anything about humans, though by the end, she does get a nice development. However, it doesn’t really help that the overall story is just boring and full of padding for the sake of padding. Stage 4 and 5 is the worst culprit here.
Now, if the story is boring but the gameplay is good, I wouldn’t have that much to complain about. In combat, you can shoot like a Third Person Shooter, but can’t move except dodging left and right, you can also guard and use skills. There are a bunch of skills, most of them I never use except to complete a certain challenge, because some skills are just too powerful and there’s really no reason not to use them.
The combat is also very repetitive caused by the lack of enemy varieties making you use the same strategy over and over again.
I do like the boss fight though, while still not as varied as I hoped, they do offer a bit of a challenge and have unique skill animation. There are only 7 of them in the whole game though, and you will have to fight them 4 times if you want to 100% the game (each time with no variation but only bloated HP).
There are only 6 stages in the whole game, now if you’re not trying to 100% the game, this won’t matter that much (it might even be a saving grace for your enjoyment of the game). But if you do, be prepared to run the same stage a bunch of times. Though I do admit that they are very varied, some are clearly worse than the others though, stage 4 and 5 is the culprit again.
Overall, it’s still an enjoyable game if you just go from start to finish and not care about the alternate ending or trying to 100% it. Just don’t let yourself play long enough to feel the repetitiveness of the game and it’ll be fun.
The story starts when an android named Black Rock Shooter (BRS) is awakened years after an alien invasion almost wiped out humanity. When she is awakened, there’s apparently only 12 humans left on the whole earth, all of them male. Your role as BRS is to fight back the alien, since you’re an android and a lot stronger than all 12 humans combined.
BRS starts off very innocently, not understanding anything about humans, though by the end, she does get a nice development. However, it doesn’t really help that the overall story is just boring and full of padding for the sake of padding. Stage 4 and 5 is the worst culprit here.
Now, if the story is boring but the gameplay is good, I wouldn’t have that much to complain about. In combat, you can shoot like a Third Person Shooter, but can’t move except dodging left and right, you can also guard and use skills. There are a bunch of skills, most of them I never use except to complete a certain challenge, because some skills are just too powerful and there’s really no reason not to use them.
The combat is also very repetitive caused by the lack of enemy varieties making you use the same strategy over and over again.
I do like the boss fight though, while still not as varied as I hoped, they do offer a bit of a challenge and have unique skill animation. There are only 7 of them in the whole game though, and you will have to fight them 4 times if you want to 100% the game (each time with no variation but only bloated HP).
There are only 6 stages in the whole game, now if you’re not trying to 100% the game, this won’t matter that much (it might even be a saving grace for your enjoyment of the game). But if you do, be prepared to run the same stage a bunch of times. Though I do admit that they are very varied, some are clearly worse than the others though, stage 4 and 5 is the culprit again.
Overall, it’s still an enjoyable game if you just go from start to finish and not care about the alternate ending or trying to 100% it. Just don’t let yourself play long enough to feel the repetitiveness of the game and it’ll be fun.