Idk why I'm doing this.
Everyone's first Senran Kagura game is definitely played out of a twisted sense of curiosity about them action games that feature a lot of jiggling, I started with this one, way back in 2014.
Once you get past that curiosity, you find a fairly compelling set of characters, which is fairly surprising. Story is pretty simple, good shinobi fight bad shinobi, but you find out that there has to be a balance of both, the usual trope of grayness, what gives it its more interesting weight to it are the characters, every girl has her background development, and a rival character from whom they grow to understand their opposite side, it gets fairly dark at times, is essentially what you would get out of competent shows about magical girls and the like, but with a much more lewd presentation to it. rivalries, enemies to friends, discovering moral neutrality, troupes like fiery and emotional vs. emotionless, the rich and the poor, a lot of stuff that works is all presented with competent execution in Burst.
Presentation itself, is fine, visually it won't win any awards, but the art style itself is pleasant and works with the uh, character proportions well enough, framerate leaves a lot to be desired, specially from such a simple looking game. Music is fantastic tho, idk why it slaps as hard as it does, and this is definitely still the musical peak of the series in terms of how memorable it is.
Gameplay is serviceable, is essentially a 2D plane musou, you get the type of combos from those games, mostly mindlessly beating the shit out of a bunch of mobs, and sometimes rivals, with some bizarre difficulty spikes here and there in the 1v1 duels, is pretty mindless and simple, but fairly satisfying to play, quite fast paced as well.
Overall, an ok game that is elevated by its characters.
Everyone's first Senran Kagura game is definitely played out of a twisted sense of curiosity about them action games that feature a lot of jiggling, I started with this one, way back in 2014.
Once you get past that curiosity, you find a fairly compelling set of characters, which is fairly surprising. Story is pretty simple, good shinobi fight bad shinobi, but you find out that there has to be a balance of both, the usual trope of grayness, what gives it its more interesting weight to it are the characters, every girl has her background development, and a rival character from whom they grow to understand their opposite side, it gets fairly dark at times, is essentially what you would get out of competent shows about magical girls and the like, but with a much more lewd presentation to it. rivalries, enemies to friends, discovering moral neutrality, troupes like fiery and emotional vs. emotionless, the rich and the poor, a lot of stuff that works is all presented with competent execution in Burst.
Presentation itself, is fine, visually it won't win any awards, but the art style itself is pleasant and works with the uh, character proportions well enough, framerate leaves a lot to be desired, specially from such a simple looking game. Music is fantastic tho, idk why it slaps as hard as it does, and this is definitely still the musical peak of the series in terms of how memorable it is.
Gameplay is serviceable, is essentially a 2D plane musou, you get the type of combos from those games, mostly mindlessly beating the shit out of a bunch of mobs, and sometimes rivals, with some bizarre difficulty spikes here and there in the 1v1 duels, is pretty mindless and simple, but fairly satisfying to play, quite fast paced as well.
Overall, an ok game that is elevated by its characters.