Hyperdimension Neptunia mkII (Unfinished)

I keep forgetting to write up this post, but now that I have to study my database notes, SUDDENLY I REMEMBERED. WOW, AMAZING.

>.> I need to find ways to stop giving into distractions...


Anyway, game play so far has been surprisingly good. Or rather, I believe that they somehow designed a really crappy gameplay game for the first Neptunia only to make the second one actually reasonably interesting, therefore giving the player a sense of "WOW THEY MADE THIS GAME SO MUCH BETTER IT MUST BE A MASTERPIECE NOW".

Honestly it probably isn't, a lot of things they've used has probably been done in other games before. However, given the rather crude gameplay in the first game, those who played the first which then moved onto the second would probably think the game is a revelation. At least the game appears to require more skill than "mash triangle until the battle is over" for about 95% of the battles.

I still haven't played far enough into the game to see if there is any trolling like they did with the first game. Of course, since I played the first game I suppose I can expect there to be something similar so it's not as much of a troll anymore (at least the shares thing is MUCH more obvious, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to deal with it later on in the game).

One of the good things in this game is that you get new members to your party sooner, and YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY DLC TO ADD THEM TO YOUR PARTY. These are the non-CPU characters (unfortunately), but nevertheless it's still good to see that we actually can have variety in our game, and not like the first game where you can accidentally BEAT THE ENTIRE GAME WITH THE SAME THREE CHARACTERS IN YOUR ENTIRE PARTY WITHOUT GAINING ANY MORE MEMBERS, ever since the start of the game, never once using the character switchoff option. (sigh, trolled)

Well of course, game play and everything else aside there are the characters. I mean seriously why else would we be buying both the first or the second version of the game? Glad to see Nepgear being much more moe than Neptune (I didn't like Neptune's human form that much, though her CPU form is pretty cool albeit with a 100% personality change). Nepgear is a great main character, just like Totori. It's one of those games where you can pick it up just because you like the main character so much so you know you'll enjoy the game despite what kind of gameplay it has. Kind of like Serah in FFXIII-2! :V

I just hope the game will be somewhat long. I'm guessing I'm already halfway through the game, maybe more (even though I only just finished "chapter 2"). But if the game turns out to have a lot more content and story ahead for me, I will be pleasantly surprised and amused.