I bought it, played once and initial impressions are not very good. Cliffs:
- It's basically Shiki. You only shoot in 1 direction and it has 3 buttons, autofire, shikigami attack and bomb. The only thing it has in common with Mamurokun is that you're little girls walking across the stage.
- 5 stages, all very short. Level design and enemy patterns are pretty uninteresting.
- Starts off pretty easy but gets manic by stage 3. I credit fed normal on my first run and used 5 continues. I'm not a high skill player though, I can 1cc only a handful of games.
- There are environmental elements that are really annoying like ice that slows the player down or fans that knock you around. Stage 4 is absolute bullshit. The entire stage including the boss is in the dark with a light only around the player so you can only see a small radius.
- Overall production value seems pretty low. Art style is super inconsistent. Technically it runs fine at 60fps and the game isn't ugly but it never shines at anything. Environments themselves are pretty forgettable with not much going on. There's a really bad disconnect where the characters in game are chibi but the illustrations of them during dialog sequences is of regular adults. Both kinds of character designs are pretty boring anyway. Massive boobs on the screen is frequent.
- There are 2 or 3 good music tracks in the game but apart from that the music and overall sound effect quality is really bad. The carnival type music they use in between stages is a worst of all time contender.
- It's story driven and very Japanese text heavy. No English and no voice acting at all. At the start/end of each stage and at the start/end of boss battles there will be lengthy dialog between characters. You can skip it but might mean the game will take a while to get localise if at all.
- It has tate and button config. Most of the menu is in Japanese but there's not many options at all so easy to figure everything out.
I really like the Shiki series but I really have no urge to go back and play this after trying it once, it's just average. Maybe I'll give it another chance soon.
Tokyo-J wrote:
Any suggestions on how to buy this? I have a Japanese Account but am located in the USA.
Unless your paypal account or credit card is from Japan then the only way is using a Japanese eshop card.
I get them from playasia. There's probably cheaper places but I haven't looked recently.
https://www.play-asia.com/nintendo-esho ... /13/704a2v