Some of your heavy attacks have terrible recovery, and your evade isn’t that reliable. This wouldn’t be an issue if it weren’t for the paltry defense options you have. Most enemy attacks come out pretty fast and can deal big damage if you’re not careful. The heavy enemies cannot be interrupted at all unless you use the corresponding elements to stun them. The enemy variety is lacking, to say the least, but they can get cheap and tough to fight especially in droves. You have your grunts, your giant heavies, your ogre enemies, your heavy ogres, and a ton of flying skulls that explode in your face. You only have one life in a stage there are checkpoints that give you extra lives, but the undead you face can overwhelm you, at least in the later stages. You’ll need all the help you can get here because Samurai Maiden gets downright dirty like a D3 game. I’ll have to admit: the Pocket Bubble stages are quick bouts of platforming and simple puzzle-solving fun that made me tolerate the Samurai Maiden experience. These also unlock new artwork as well as flesh out the ninja gals’ stories and history further. Komimi will give you quick getup evades and parries, so you’d do well to replay stages to get their relationships higher and higher for those new skills.Īs the relationship meter gets higher, you also unlock Pocket Bubble character stories & quests: you bring one of the ninjas through a short puzzle stage and also unlock their new weaponry with skills and upgradeable stats. Iyo will give you new sword combos, while Hagane gives you aerial attacks. The bonds you forge aren’t just for show Tsumugi will gain new moves from being more than friends with the trio. This isn’t my first anime game rodeo, but if you’re into all the anime tropes and romance bits that entail, you’ll find something to love here. After all, when you activate your special sword buff powers, the game transitions to a scene where you get publicly intimate with your ninja partner. Tsumugi will form bonds via bringing them to battle, and will talk/train with them through a series of visual novel segments that may either entertain or bore you depending on your tolerance for anime nonsense and a lot of back-and-forth.ĭid I like it? Well, I did skip portions of it because I know where most of the conversations are headed. In case the feature image on the review didn’t tip you off, Samurai Maiden is a yuri game, meaning the girls will eventually fall in love with each other throughout the course of the story. They don’t do squat unless you command them, which makes them kinda useless if you’re not active with your support and assist buttons. The trio also have their respective elements skills that can help with hindering the opposition: Iyo with fire shurikens and the ability to carry and place items on-stage, Hagane with her Lightning gauntlet and grapple skill to swing to places, and Komimi with her onmyoji Ice hammer magic and her bomb-carrying-and-throwing skills. Along the way, Tsumugi gets to bond with said ninjas: ninja-in-training Iyo who has the same body type as Tsumugi, mechanical arm ninja Hagane with the well-endowed big sister archetype, and haughty fox ninja lady Komimi with the tsundere vibe. She teams up with three ninja females as they help out Nobunaga fight off the undead horde in 24 different stages filled with action and platforming. The game pits you as a young schoolgirl named Tsumugi who gets warped from her 21st-century trappings into the Sengoku period. If you like your action games cheaply made and overpriced, look no further than D3 Publisher and developer Shade Inc.’s latest title Samurai Maiden. Genre: 3D action game with ninjas, samurais, fox ladies, and girl love Console modding permission The author gave permission for someone else to port this mod to console and for it to be uploaded to (s): PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4.Asset use permission in mods/files that earn donation points You are allowed to earn Donation Points for your mods if they use my assets.Asset use permission in mods/files that are being sold You are not allowed to use assets from this file in any mods/files that are being sold, for money, on Steam Workshop or other platforms.Asset use permission You are allowed to use the assets in this file without permission or crediting me.Conversion permission You are not allowed to convert this file to work on other games under any circumstances.Modification permission You are allowed to modify my files and release bug fixes or improve on the features without permission from or credit to me.Upload permission You are not allowed to upload this file to other sites under any circumstances.Other user's assets All the assets in this file belong to the author, or are from free-to-use modder's resources.
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