Towns are represented by menus, so you are simply limited to walking around when in one of the game’s dungeons. You have control over the party when exploring dungeons, but the bulk of this game is told through a story using on screen animations rather than exploring the world freely. Neptunia ReVerse is an RPG that plays out in front of you like a visual novel. That’s not an exaggeration either – at more points than I care to remember, Neptunia ReVerse focuses more on Nep’s obsession with tasty desserts than the main plot of the game. Throughout her quest to recover her memory, Nep seems to worry about eating as much pudding as she can possibly muster, and the small task of ending the Console Wars once and for all.
What unfolds is a quest full of humour and pure randomness, not often seen in a video game. When she regains consciousness, she’s forgotten everything and sets off to recover her memories in, as the game itself puts it, the typical “protagonist has amnesia” storyline. She’s defeated and falls to the ground in her normal form – Neptune.
Purple Heart has been battling the three other Goddesses of Gamindustri, a world that heavily riffs on the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 era of video games, in what has become known as the Console Wars. The premise of Neptunia ReVerse is much easier to get to grips with than the game’s history. But more importantly – the perfect jumping-on point for anyone who has an interest in a dungeon crawling RPG full of humour and charm.
While this might sound muddled, and that’s without me even dipping into the PS4 port, I will say that Neptunia ReVerse is a retelling of the first game in the series, with a decade of experience that developers Idea Factory & Compile Heart have built into the game.
Neptunia ReVerse has a beautifully complicated path to existence but in essence it’s a PlayStation 5 remake of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re Birth 1, a PlayStation Vita title that was released in 2013, which is a remake of the original Hyperdimension Neptunia for the PS3. Little control for early portions of the game +Self aware and funny take on the console wars The publisher, Idea Factory, seemed to have enjoyed this comment maybe a little too much as before I knew it, Neptunia ReVerse was kindly offered for review. 18 November, 2021 - 11:59 am by Joe WhitfieldĪ few months ago when I reviewed Neptunia VIrtual Stars I nonchalantly mentioned that I had never heard of the franchise before but it was playable enough to pique my interest with the series.