Compile Heart does it again! and only for $60! I am so fucking glad Neptunia died for this

games entirely based on anime fanservice

modern video games refuse to allow anime fanservice

Compile heart is doomed.

Without sounding like a twitter freak, explain why this game is bad

The shooting feels mediocre and it's too expensive for the effort they put in.

The reviews seem to say the shooting is mediocre, and the graphics settings are weirdly limited for a 2025 $60 game. Max 60fps, max 1080p.
But my question is, are there slutty outfits?

I'll die on this hill

This is the same dev that is working on Kodaka's newly announced game.

They're just the publisher.

Is a ''roguelike'' with little variety, very easy difficulty, levels are very long but only have 2 room types, new power ups and enemies are introduced at an extremely slow pace.

Feels like they made it because rogue-likes sell without actually having played any themselves. Movement also looks super retarded. Low budget game with a AAA price.

I don't get how Compile Heart and Idea Factory consistently put out some of the worst games imaginable without ever going out of business.

I think they are a company which exists like that movie company that tricks people into buying its knockoffs.

holy shit running around empty rooms. I am very much reminded of the very first neptunia on ps3

Why is it rated so badly?

It reminds me of the latest Nepslop game

$60 for a game that is 3 hours long and makes YGO Wheelie Breakers look good

Shooting is subpar, doesn't feel good to play, character design is really average(which is disgusting when CH normally nail their character designs) and the fanservice is severely lacking. How are these the same devs that gave us Genkai Tokki? There's just no passion put into the game.

This looks like one of those single indie dev prototypes
How embarrassing

That floaty ass movement lol

looks like they were trying to make anime returnal but didnt have the skills to do it right

60 bucks for this slop

lol, do people really?

lol this looks like Crackdown movement.

i see they wanted the stellar blade audience

are there slutty outfits?

I don't know but her base outfit gets progressively damaged the longer you play.

How are these the same devs that gave us Genkai Tokki?

You're confusing publisher with developer anon. Neilo has mostly developed cat games for mobile and switch.

Damn, some doujin games look better.

What in the fuck are those animations

oh, well they should've stuck to those. They had no passion when making this game.

This actually is giving me a second-hand embarrassment. A whole dev team for this, damn

Damn is it THAT bad?

apparently she's already 17 in the anime
and she was either born late 80s to early 90s or 1999, according to the wikis

Japan, pls

What did they do to make those niggas that mad?

Should've just made something 2d jfc

Every here and there they make a decent niche game.

It's anime returnal with bad graphics, sounds, controls. The only stand out is that CH actually spun for an English dub.

why is it so expensive though

also zero variety

Now what are some GOOD Japanese roguelikes?

Sell me on this shit.

Motherfuckers will say this shit is too expensive and then spend the same amount of money to buy an acrylic stand of their favorite vtuber.

kusoge heart is back

at least the 2hu sting game came out good

Who the fuck is funding this company?

superior japanese gamedev compiled 10000 times

How are these devs still alive.

they used to make fun lewd games, these days who knows.

Neilo Inc.

Same team that made the Saburo Jinguji prequel visual novel. That was a really bad VN, both a retarded storyline that skipped ahead incoherently where it should have had meat, yet really tedious "gameplay" in regards to triggering the flags needed to progress during mostly meaningless moments.

Even the SAO kusoge games aren't anywhere near this bad what the fuck

They didn't even have the humility to charge less than $60 for something this obviously bad?

JD Vance

How did Japan let China beat them so hard at making anime games?

It doesn't cost much to make video games

Good key art is only going to carry your game so far my nihonjinman

I've seen shitty porn games on dlsite for less than half the price that look better than this

The only non gacha Chinese game that's good is AI Limit which is a cheap imitation of Dark Souls. China only has gacha

1080p max resolution

60fps max, shutters if your monitor is above 60hz

no other graphical settings

60$

games

More like chore simulators

Slot machines aren't games

china

LOL

THIS IS SIXTY (60) DOLLARS?!?!?!?!? Oh lordy I'm gonna faint
Just play SAO fatal bullet instead

japtroon, stop samefagging. China won.

Name 1 (壱) good anime game from chinklandia

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
checkmate

Afterimage

Star Rail

Ok you got me there
lol
lmao even

I said game
see

Looks like a game to me

A roguelite with the anime tax seems extra egregious. I hope that the new Death End will be better, that seems to be more of a mystery dungeon game at least.

idea factory

that's why

Compile Hearts

Awe sick, i love me some trash!

A neptunia virtual stars reskin

the only good game with their name on it is the one pandora heart game made by sting

It's mechanically complex and actually forces you to think about proper setup in the later areas

Nepshit is just as bad. Compile Heart is as bad as Falcom.

japs should stick to making VNs

he said good

Puyo puyo died for this

This has to be some kind of left over vita game they prototyped and shelved for years; and shit like really proves it.

No, Falcom is 100% better than Compile Heart.

They're bad at that too.

At this point to me Falcom is on the same level because all they shit out are copy paste waifufag trash and they dumb down every new Ys game more and more. The days of shit like Xanadu Next are long gone.

Stupid sexy hag

This looks shittier and jankier than Dolls Nest, and that's a $20 game made by like 10 people.
What the fuck?

Falcom makes the same kind of annual copy-paste no effort garbage. Bottom of the barrel.

they should just make a Nep breeding sim

Neptunia was garbage too, faggot

Dolls Nest is unreasonably good for Nitro+'s first serious foray into actual vidya

Is there rape or netorare in the game? This is nitro so I have to ask.

And CH does the same copy paste, but on a monthly basis. They're both garbage

Yea, it was surprisingly fun all things considered.
Seriously though, something's going on with some of these larger devs, either they're run and staffed by retards or all the talent left to make their own shit or work for bigger devs years ago and the only people left are the retards.

What if they reboot Neptunia for modern audiences.

No, CH barely makes games anymore. Falcom releases more games. They're worse.

probably not

Sometimes we don't need AAA or AA games we just need A games.

How money money do I need to donate to get a Trillion Sequel.
Thats all I ever wanted.

not that I can remember, but there is a ton of miserykino

Neptunia is conceptually not something that works for modern audiences. Nobody nowadays even knows what "moe anthropomorphism" is.
That said there's clearly been some market change over the years, so I think there needs to be a scraggly meganekko CPU to represent PC.

Mark Skelter is arguably their best series.

This looks like those eShop spam games with titles and descriptions that wouldn't look out of place on DLSite but they're still rated E for Everyone because the game itself is the lowest possible effort Unity asset flip garbage with less content than even the worst PlayStation 2 Simple 2000 series games

Is that the game where you are supposed to die a lot?

large empty rooms

Yep, its a kusoge. All kusoge have large empty spaces.

You lead your waifus to their death as they get eaten alive, yes.

Sounds kino. I will look for it on Steam.

I played this. It's like the patrician version of NTR in a way.

In all seriousness their older games were so much better. Like I wouldn't say the old Nep games were great games, but my god they're so much better then what we get now.

Its what I don't get about CH. If it takes them reusing a games assets 5 times over to finally get something like VII, then just keep doing that? Why do they keep switching engines and making new IPs just for them to be this rubbish. People whine that CH are some kind of oppressed devs due to censorship but really they are just absolutely retarded. They continuously make terrible decisions and ship awful games. Their CEO's mantra last we heard was "many batters", like their literally aiming for quantity over quality, I doubt that'll last long.

lmao at the movement

Ah, classic Compile Heart QUALITY

Even the dog gets NTR, thats how grim it is.

Poor cerberus...

The mainline Neptunias are good and I will die on that hill. Mary Skelter too.

When you try to cram the night before the exam

lmao

With this level of quality they should shift production to porn games

What the fuck, this looks like one of those PS2 RPGs with tons of empty repeat rooms.

AI could make a better game.
These niggas is cooked.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, people need to stop shitting on the Neptunia series. Yeah the games are budget and haven't been good for some time, but without them JRPGs wouldn't be so strong on PC like they are now. The re;Birth trilogy was instrumental in getting other Japanese developers to realize that PC was actually a viable market.

Suffering NTR

This looks like one of those games running in the background in anime or something

Pic related made me a fan to the point I recommended it to a friend who only plays more famous and praised JRPGs and he liked it too.

They've never made a good game

They've never made a good game

um...Cross Edge?

Dude it’s just $60 are you guys poor?

Xbox chads are gonna get the next nep game for support the compile hearts

pay in 4 installments

lmao, what is this shit? directed at EBT receivers?

paying for a game in fucking installments

Um bwo… what about Moero Chronicle Hyper?

Isn't this game pretty much Returnal but anime?
Is it a lot worse than Returnal?

Movement reminds me a lot of gun gun pixies
This game is actually something I really wanted, we don't have nearly enough cute anime girls third person shooters, but those maps are dreadful, gun gun pixies is a better game than this

I've seen it a few times as well, its weird.
Its not like video games cost the same as buying a refrigerator where you might need to pay in small amounts.
Fun fact did you know that 40% of Soft drink purchases are made by SNAP.

Why pay in full when you can pay in installments PLUS tip

I WARNED YOU ABOUT COMPILE HEART GIGA KUSOGE SLOP!
WHY YOU ARE NOT LISTENING?

yes konata is older than me. i was hoping someone else would echo my desire for an r4 hero game but realistically I'm guessing gamindistri fags just dont care

this looks like PSO but dogshit

Fucking retard

no argument

so this is the power of japanese developers...

wheres my r4 game antipirate faggots? neptunia can be as good as it wants to be but the timeline is a mess and I dont want to play the story because the bad guys win.

Jesus, all CH games look the same

There is no interest if you actually pay on time. They count on people being late.

r4 hero game

Arfoire is really charming but she's fun in that Team Rocket Jesse and James way, if she actually won she wouldn't be as fun. See: SvS.

They probably only had 2 copies just for the 2 xbox nep fans

Qureate is making something akin to Gun Gun Pixies.

Over 60% of the retards who went to Coachella this year paid an extra $41 to pay for their tickets in installments. Zoomers are not ok.

Holy shit that looks bad. Did they make this in the Neptunia engine? It has he same movements and jank Neptunia had in the open zones map..

I'm convinced it's a Yakuza front.
They are a "respectable" business front that exists to turn illegitimate funds into legitimate funds, by making low effort, cheap titles that will surely make SOME money back.
They've figured out the horny otaku market will always buy some amount of even the most dogshit games if they have anime babes on the cover, they have one or two actual game developers chained to a desk who have an idea for a cool game they will never actually make (though, as Idea Factory hasn't released any of their previously near trademark "schizophrenic turn based grand strategy management sim with real time tactical battlefield control aspects" games in a while, I suspect that developer either retired, died, or got adopted by someone else), and they just have a consistent revenue stream, that taking consistent losses on and never learning from remains viable.

Making r4 that evil was a conscious and vile mistake from a game company, just like james and jesse she has everything she already needed to be the hero for gamindistri she was always meant to. fimfiction.net/story/271498/celestias-rocket-adventures

There's no way Compile Heart can survive in the era of credit card companies deciding what gets to go on storefronts. Their games have always survived on fanservice of young looking characters. If they're not allowed to do that anymore, they have nothing.

If anyone has grounds to sue for fucking over their business by not allowing them to sell 100% legal content, it would probably be them.

I don't think it's a Yakuza front. Yakuza more uses tourist stuff. It's more likely just a policy of low as hell budgets.

I dunno anon, the older games had better gameplay then this. Unless its been a downward spiral and they just can't afford that same quality maybe.

AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP
WITH THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE

Mary Skelter was pretty decent
most of their games are mediocre because they just slap that re;birth battle system with tweaks on it, and it was never good, just serviceable enough to force your way through to get to the events

The low budget thing isn't a proper excuse anymore, this game is genuinely below what you'd expect from a DLsite game made by 1 dude.

because they just slap that re;birth battle system

I wish they started doing that again

I wasn't making excuses I was just trying to explain why it's so bad

AI = no buy

Their games have next to no budget so it doesn't take much to profit.

Didn't this series go through multiple rehashes, genre shifts with spin-off titles, and multiple controversies/collab issues that got other companies to take away their dlc characters? Didn't they beat the horse a little too much?

Neptunia died for this.

Good. Neptunia was always just as shit. Compileheart deserves to fucking go under.

game with a yuri romance

praised on Anon Babble

a feat in itself

I was surprised myself that I liked it as much as I did.

It just takes not being a tourist. And what about Signalis? It still gets whole threads.

Is it?
There are plenty of yurifags on Anon Babble, they just toned down some of the samefagging after the hack since it'd be a bit too obvious with how dead all the yuri threads/boards on altchans were during that time.

Anon, Otsuu wasn't even a woman before she became what she was now.
And it wouldn't make sense for her NOT to be a woman.

Seems like there's nothing really fundamentally wrong with the game except the price and drastic departure from their usual style. If Chinese or Korean devs made it, westoids would have consumed it without question. Beside Compile Heart does not want to milk Neptunia forever and chase on the western trend like Capcom.

The death end re quest series is underrated kino
Apparently mary skelter is good too but i havent played it yet

The game should cost 10, not 60.

how the fuck is this company still in business

kusoge tier gamedev

game so good they made 24 spinoff game and their low tier serie also have spinoff

newest game rewiews

Mostly negative

how the fuck ? it can't possibly be that bad lol

because their other game are succefull, but they could really dissapear if it flop this hard while jew sama run away with the money acumulated for 2 decade

Japan has fallen...

years of exp

10+ games under their belt

and we get this...
fucking how?

Compile Heart does not want to milk Neptunia forever

Right. After 7 years of nothing but trashy spinoffs they've decided to have a brain.

Mary Skelter is carried by its writing and proper choice of genre. Yomoji cared about telling a story (though supplementary material shows he's abetter novelist than scenario writer), and the gameplay supported the narrative and was just right for the type of developer CH is.
I'm glad they could finish the series, even though Finale suffered quite a bit because of covid, though it's hard to surpass MS2, it's just too good.

This is why China is taking over. Japan will never ever make anything like WuKong.

Even the cover is low effort. Look at that font wtf.

Where’s the switch version?

Damn, where's the combat?

Imagine making such a shitty game that not even weebs will gobble it up

Gameplay Sucks

Lewd Content Sucks

I'm beginning to see why some Nintendo fans weren't sad Compile Heart was moving back to Sony.

Those 30 people funded the company for the next 30 years.

1080p max resolution

60fps max

shit controls

All the neptunia games are also terrible and it has hardcore fans.
T. Played almost all of them

Returnal but bad.
youtu.be/bktBwCFCUys?si=r8k4Y2Xcb6eCFh8X
Rooms are huge but only few enemies spawn and movement sucks. Game is a chore to play.

Too high-tech for Switch, wait for the Switch 2 version.

Come home, white man

roguelike

amazing what you can do with vibe coding :^)

Now that the dust has settled, Neptunia Mk2 is their best game

"Game devolpment is my passion."

why does this look infinitely better?

geeez

Hey, Fatal Bullet was pretty decent, it just had DIMPS developing so they didn't even come close to actualizing its potential

And then they cuddled and held hands right?

How come NITRO PLUS could but Idea Factory couldn't?

turns out playing to the strengths of your limited budget and the simplified art style creates a better experience, and by better I mean "this looks like dogshit but it's a budget anime game so whatever". trying to give your game a more higher detailed art style that looks like its trying to take itself seriously and then still having a soup can budget results in a dumpster fire when people expect more and see nothing more.

so, weeb returnal?
shit.

idea factory AND compile heart?

aren't they usually separate? I haven't played much from either of them since the vita days... are they so screwedd they are teaming up now?

Card-en-Ciel was really fun. There's a demo if you're on the fence.

The third game was way too long. The ending was nice, but wow was that long.

Idea Factory only makes otome VNs nowadays, otherwise they just publish Compile Heart games.

I had too high of hopes for Neptunia, I was legit thinking we'd be playing a Neptunia Arcsys fighting game by now, but they fumbled that shit so hard.

reminder this is the LORE of your company, they were always terrible youtube.com/watch?v=p-skIBPWOPE

$60

for what purpose

It's called a scam

Yeah they had no idea what to do after VII and let the franchise go to waste. It's still the best JRPG franchise tho.

This game could've been so good but they just fucked everything up. Like seriously why in the holy love of cunt fuck do you need to enter a code for class select?

so this is was soul looks like...

I only came to know about this game because the devs (or was it publisher?) said they were inspired by Returnal.

how is compile art still even in business

AI old slop models

try posting ZZZ kino instead, HRTroony

dat run cycle

Wow they still sell doujinsoft at comiket?

Neptunia died because they abandoned fanservice in their latest games. Retards thought they would appeal to wokeness and get a bigger fanbase.

no switch version

What the fuck.

shoot giant girl not BE giant girl

swing and a miss

wtf thank you vance for ensuring neps have a future

HOLY soul

Major platforms are blockading them from being able to compete and they aren't confrontational enough to raise a major stink about being effectively blocked from competing. When they could compete, they wipe the floor with anything chinkland or gookland could shit out. Compare Castle Panzers or Senran Kagura Estival Versus to even the most risque chink gacha and the chinks will inevitably come up shirt. They are only ascendant because the Japs are literally not being allowed to compete. Even among today's Japanese gachas, Bombergirl wipes its ass with any chinkshit, but Konami are deathly afraid of giving it exposure in the west.

Have you seen how Nintendo has been treating them lately? They're probably pivoting away and I wouldn't blame them.
But still, it is a tragedy what Nintendo has been doing to them. We got several games on Switch in English courtesy of Eastasiasoft that we would never have gotten otherwise. Now how are we going to get Castle Panzers? That's the last one. Do we have to fucking crowdfund it?

Mate, CH are massive sony dicksuckers.

Bunny garden top eshop since release.

Bunny Garden is extremely safe compared to what Compile Heart used to put out. And even with it, Nintendo apparently tried to sabotage it by manipulating the eshop rankings to keep it out of the top 5.

Somehow looks like a worse version of an already 5/10 game from 20 years ago.

This. When the west wasn't actively fucking over Japan the chinks had no chance. None of their gachas, even the one's being posted about being "soo much better than Japan" could even scratch a second of Bullet Girls' Interrogation minigames. Castle Panzers and Seven Pirates went above and beyond in terms of service as well with leveling up being centered around massaging breasts(and asses as well in the case of Castle) to improve the girls' stats.
The only reason chinks and gooks are "winning" is because they don't get attacked by the western games industry and are allowed to do whatever.

This cope again?

I mean, he's right that there is a market for ecchi. 2024 also gave us Mahoako which proved very popular. Doesn't change that Nintendo is shitting on that market and audience, though, that much is undeniable. I blame ESG/DEI taking over Nintendo of America and then creeping up to Japan through it like a cancer.

Nips are killing their own games. Even a lot of their modern mobile games I have to jump hoops like use a VPN just to get access.

You can complain about how they handle their mobile games all you want, but this is mainly about retail games, and the last time Compile Heart tried to release a Vita-level ecchi game (a Vita port, in fact), it got censored or banned by THREE different storefronts in THREE different countries. Literally the single most censored game in recent memory.

One anon mentions CH is involved with Yazuka.

Nintendo has Yazuka

Maybe this is more deeper than we believe.

Nitroplus actually gives a shit, no way you can compare them to hacks like IF. Some of their VNs has 3D action scenes and shit with a ton of effort put into the art and writing when they absolutely could get away with the usual wall of text VN everyone expects. Dolls Nest is cheap looking for sure but it feels real nice to play and it's actually good, for a first game it's real nice.

has good music

has a lady with an amazing ass

clothes destruction to where she is almost naked

jiggle on ass and tits

E33 has less so idk how anons arent praising this game, oh wait, because in E33 its hidden, unlike this game
Learn the difference, it could save your game. Hide your lewd.

Are you sure this isnt a remake of that demo girl on ps2 game

Their games have always survived on fanservice of moe characters (that are called "underage" by trannies and seething post-wall femoids)

FTFY. These people will literally measure skull shapes and eye sizes to decide if this stylized Asian cartoon character fits their arbitrary definition of "underage". And yes, they, or someone, should absolutely be suing over this. This is plainly just a war on Japanese-style expression and all the performative hand-wringing about pedophilia is merely a thin excuse.

theres like, one eccentric Japanese politician trying to do something about it. It really should be a broader issue since the chilling effect it can have on the anime & manga industry at large is not good

Good for them. There are very few good japanese developers out there so hopefully this success will allow them to grow.

Ken Akamatsu. The Negima guy.

Two, from my memory; Ken Akamatsu and Yamada Taro. Both mangaka.

He kind of went quiet after his own site got shut down. Either he's planning something or he knows something we don't.

Japan seems very easy to push around, and the economy is currently in the gutter. Part of me is afraid that if whoever is pulling the strings at Visa/Mastercard feels passionate and is crazy enough about this (as people tend to get when they think they're "protecting kids"), and the Japanese government gets involved that it could lead to them pulling out of the country entirely, which would devastate various industries.