Overall, the sound design of the game has been handled superbly when it comes to the voice acting and the general soundtrack. The foundation is there, but it feels as if the developers were hoping that the pretty girls would distract gamers enough so that they wouldn’t notice the lack of polish. We also found it quite jarring when they mention items in their hand(s) to then never see the aforementioned items. The visual novel portions of the game look quite cute, but sadly the characters lack decent animations, and they keep repeating the same movements over and over again. The game suffered from severe frame drops regularly. You’ll go from one empty hallway to another, to sometimes encounter random floating bridges and ledges that look completely out of place. You’ll constantly go through different areas that simply look identical and they often have little to no clutter in them. It’s mainly the enemy models that get recycled ad nauseam and the empty environments that detract from the game’s initial charm. The character models are nicely made, and these are truly the highlight of the game. When it comes to the overall graphics, SAMURAI MAIDEN isn’t an ugly game, it’s just very basic. We would have liked it if there were a few more actual cinematics thrown in the mix, as it currently feels a bit too basic at times. Dialogues are presented via basic visual novel-like segments. She will get help from three other female warriors, who have also convened in the underworld to help train and fight alongside the Priestess of Harmony.Įven though it took us a few moments to get into the story, it eventually turned into something quite pleasant and we were curious to see how it would further unfold. It seems that she is the Priestess of Harmony, and she is prophesized to have the power to make sure the Demon Lord does not walk this Earth again. SAMURAI MAIDEN revolves around Tsumugi Tamaori, who is spirited away from our time to the Sengoku period to halt the resurrection of the Demon Lord. We suspected this would be the same case when taking a closer look at SAMURAI MAIDEN, and we were not wrong. All these games focus heavily around the aforementioned attractive women, but they often lack polish or have very simple gameplay loops. We have played generic card games with the chest-laden cast of the Pretty Girls franchise, we chopped up hordes of enemies in the Senran Kagura games where we were surrounded by scantily-clad ninjas, and we have gone to search for treasure with the voluptuous pirate girls in Seven Pirates H. We’ve reviewed our fair share of games with pretty (busty) anime ladies in the lead.
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