The story is told primarily through visual character portraits, subtly animated to appear more alive but still static in placement. As the game takes inspiration from real life events, so do the characters with an untold number of quirks and quotes that break the fourth wall and speak to the player often with light humour and clever touches. This story mimics the sales and recognition battle between the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii, with a hypothetical seventh-generation SEGA console to represent Planeptune. In her travels to recover her memories, Neptune meets new friends, discovers a wider threat to the world, and sets out to make peace with the other goddesses.

HyperDimension Neptunia Re Birth1 follows the story of Neptune, an amnesiac girl that discovers she is one of the four goddesses that preside over the world of Gamindustri, split into the four lands known as Planeptune, Lostation, Leanbox, and Lowee. Turn-based battles, levelling-up and getting stronger from Experience Points, exploring new places, and fighting tough monsters, and so on…but the one thing that simply must be seen for any devout follower of the games industry is the game's storyline that actually takes central inspiration from said industry. Is this truly a restart for the series or should it have been aborted?Īs a Japanese RPG, HyperDimension Neptunia Re Birth1 already contains a strong number of elements that fans of the genre will enjoy. Re Birth1 is a full remake, borrowing elements from later games in the series, and targeted to an audience that seems to be more receptive to more unorthodox packages such as this. The HyperDimension Neptunia series has had no such trouble branching out of Japan beforehand, with the games starting out on the PlayStation 3 in 2010 to a somewhat lukewarm reception.

Whilst not the runaway success Sony may have desired, the Vita is still receiving a fair amount of support with more niche and unknown games making the trip across-seas, like Demon Gaze and Monster Monpiece. The 3DS is the clear sales winner of the two with key handheld IPs like Pokémon and Monster Hunter, coupled with dedicated First Party projects and a host of downloadable Third Party efforts. As the battle for handheld supremacy surges on, Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's PlayStation Vita seem to have found their respective audiences away from the domineering mobile gaming sector.

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