Among the various Nintendo Direct shenanigans earlier this month, the Japanese broadcast included the unveiling of a 'Senran Kagura' game coming to the eShop in Japan. The advert for it put HD Rumble front and centre and, well, it's quite something.
Series producer Kenichiro Takaki spoke about the eShop project in Weekly Famitsu recently, highlighting how Shinobi Refle: Senran Kagura is a departure from the full games in the series. According to a Gematsu translation we should use our imaginations for how HD Rumble will be used - that for a series that's always been adult in its material to varying degrees, occasionally causing controversy in the West.
Beyond that fans of the IP may be intrigued by the concept. It'll be 'affordable' and Asuka will be the only character to appear on screen, with a new visual design focused on "the portrayal of light". It's described as a "pure and wholesome" entry focused on character feelings, with a "charmingly stupid" storyline.
We're intrigued, in any case, though we'll have to wait and see whether this will ever make it to the West.
[source gematsu.com]
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Brilliant! There surely must be a Special Limited Edition with all sorts of physical goodies, soundtrack CD and Special Art Book to come with this game!
As good as the story in 1, 2 Switch?
So, they basically pulled a DoAX, just ditched the smoke & mirrors of keeping the series in the Action Game genre and went straight into "Dating Sim with HD JiggleRumble."
I'm okay with this.
The tagline for this game should be "The closest you'll get to touching the real thing"
@cfgk24 Tut tut. If I did that I'd get lambasted.
Who even cares for the story?
Wow. Those jiggle physics are nice.
Can't wait to have wholesome famlily fun for everyone.
I'll just wait for the next real main series game to come out.
Was kind of hoping for just another beat 'em up... We'll see how this turns out.
"...with a "charmingly stupid" storyline"
So... the norm for the series at this point, right?
Also, is "pure and wholesome" a replacement euphemism for "life and hometown?" Because otherwise, I don't believe a word of it!
They are pretty wholesome, to be honest. They don't even have any nudity (going by Senran Kagura Burst). It seems to be a breast fixation thing rather than anything genuinely sexual.
I strongly doubt that this will come westward if the treatment of Dead or Alive: Xtreme 3 is any indication. A definite import for me. I enjoy a good, wholesome, amply proportioned story with firm, yet bouncy, well-rounded characters. If any Switch game will warm my bosom with emotion, it's tits. Er, I meant "this".
Also... bewwwwwbs!!!!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE tbd - you get Lambasted more than is due. . . but is there anything wrong with my comment? lol
@Ralizah I think it refers to Pure and Wholesome boobs. . . .
I guess I'm getting this on launch day, I had already made a Japanese Nintendo Account. Better make sure to close the game when exiting my room. Will it have a button to instantly show a fake turn-based RPG on the screen when your mom walks in? Maybe?
Jokes aside, someone's going to lose their job because of this. It's scary m9
@cfgk24 Brilliant.
This looks like the breast iteration yet!
I'm sure it will be a "whole" lot of "something"...
Not sure what to think, I love the serie cause it actually does more then just fanservice, but same time I can't see as negative a small spin-off derailing and focusing on what sounds like a ridiculus april-fool made real XD
@Braok
Aren't you too young for having the fantasy to grab an imaginary woman's breasts? I'm fairly sure I'm older than you, and I have no part in stuff like this. Rightly so.
You should be focusing on school at this point in your life, not girls. You will thank yourself for it down the line.
...
Honestly, I'm not too sure why games like this exist.
Hope it comes to the West. Still play the 3DS version.
BOOBS!!!
Too bad my fav Katsuragi won't be in it, but I will pick this up regardless. Hoping they decide to port Estival Vs or Peach Beach Splash to Switch in the future.
Will this come to the West?
Charmingly...stupid? O_o
Sees video WTH did I just watch?
@ProjectCafe it was a joke lol
@sillygostly
ROFLOL!!! X'D
Let me guess. It's a story about the Pudding Princess, a gelatinous alien with very bouncy... everythings, who came to Earth in search of their long lost sister.
Now, the sister of the Pudding Princess was supposed to be the bounciest in the land of Bounceopolis, but many perverted suitors came for her upon reaching maturity. The sister, being strong willed and independent, decided of her own accord to go on a journey across the star ocean of our Milky Way Galaxy, an uncharted space for them, so she would not be hounded anymore.
All of this made her family and all the Puddites very distraught and sent many search parties out. None ever found her, and they despaired. But the Pudding Princess refused to give up, and swore to find her estranged sister. This inspired the Puddiknights, who formed FLAN (Flabby Ladies Are Nummy) as a special expeditionary force to find the sister.
Their journey was long and hard. In more ways than one. They were too delicious for the green space serpents of the Milky Way Galaxy to pass up. Their mini fridges were running low on power, and valiant puddinights were lost in battle. Eventually, only the Pudding Princess remained. She was beginning to spoil, too. She thought it was the end... But then. A reading in the ship's sensors. There was a bounce sensor installed, and it could detect bounciness from many light years away. But there was more than one reading. Had she discovered intelligent life outside of Bounceopolis!? She hurried onward towards it, hoping her sister had also found this foreign planet, and was stranded there... Hopefully, the natives would be kind and not want to kill anyone who is even slightly different from them...
The Senran Kagura girls were playing a game of volleyball. Their oversized balloon breast implants were swinging around furiously. Boing. Bounce. Jiggle Wiggle Squiggle. But suddenly.... keeeeeooooooaaaaaaWHOOOOOOSH something streaked onto the court and crash landed straight onto one of the girl's obviously faked Photoshop beach balls chest, and bounced off onto the net, which bounced them onto the ground. This startled the girls, and they wandered over to see what the commotion was.
Out came the Pudding Princess, and everyone was shocked! She was even bouncier and more voluptuous than them! (One of the girls fainted, a nose bleed bursting out.) She used her magic "plot device because aliens know human languages for some unknown reason just go with it" translator, and explained her plight. As it turned out, Bounce Power was needed to continue the journey.
Thus, the Senran Kagura girls set out to do the bounciest things possible on this not truly spherical planet that's actually a spheroid called Earth. The fate of the Puddites rested in the it's freaking silicon and they're teenagers you sick bastards go kill yourselves bosoms of the Senran Kagura girls, and only the most disgusting pieces of living literal dumpster trash can use their Nintendo Switch to pretend to oh my God you're going to burn in Hell for this fondle and grope them to produce the bounciest effects.
Arceus damn it, Japan. What have you done to me!?!? To us!?!?!?!?
@ProjectCafe I know what you did last Summer. Don't try to hide it.
So eshop only?
Pure and wholesome in this case means large naturals.
Disappointing that it appears to be nothing more than a cheap eShop-exclusive tech demo.
I guess that this will be my first Japanese eShop purchase. I only intended to import retail games, but this crème caramel groping simulator is too tasty a proposition to resist.
As "pure and wholesome" as breasts are, (they do make life brighter!) I doubt anyone is buying this game because they have innocent thoughts on their minds. The dating sim aspect means I'll be sitting this one out, though.
@SetupDisk Naturals!? Son, those funbags are as fake as they come. The real thing will have blemishes. Dimples. Maybe a little mole here or there. A little sag if they're heavier, a bit of perk if they're lighter, not oddly elevated. Not spherical or even spheroidal, but more of an oblong semi-oval. Something more than microscopic nipples, with an almost cylindrical shape. Darker, earthier brown, not party balloon pink that looks like it would inflate if you blew into it. A subtle spring to the form, not flying around like a warp speed Windows 95 screensaver. A certain firmness, not completely squishy. So pudding is actually a somewhat incorrect allegory.
Female physics is difficult to replicate. But indeed, it is the greatest endeavor mankind can embark upon. The world would be a better place if all those bank and business bailouts were redirected into physics research. It's not voyeurism, it's science!
Boobs...
Something I will never understand the appeal of... 🤔
I guess a game like this -does- have an audience though, obviously, and this may fare even better due to the Switch's capabilities.
@Shugo
Nowhere did he suggest it was a joke, especially since it's sort of common for people around his... (and by extension, my) age to go around looking for that kind of stuff.
There was literally zero joke material there, and not everything on the internet is a joke. In fact, it is common for people to say something dumb, then when people blast them for said comment, they claim it was a joke to get out of trouble. Granted, I'm not saying this is the same kind of case; far from it. I'm just saying is all.
I don't care if it isn't my place to play Morality Police. I'm looking out for his best interest in life. Who's going to stop me? You? OK, continue to play the Stupid Police while I laugh. Hysterically. Because that's stupid.
Even if I am made out to be a fool since the entire thing was apparently a joke, I still look out for people who need it. It's what I do; you can't change who you are.
Deal with it.
@PlywoodStick
Oh, please refresh me. I have nothing to hide here, otherwise it would be deleted.
(Unlike Shaneoh, who is begging people not to look at his earliest posts.)
@ProjectCafe You were in a car with your friends. You were laughing and having fun, but the driver of your car hit a man who was crossing the road. Instead of calling the police, you all dragged the body into your car and dumped them into a deep lake. The family was devastated, but you continued living your life normally. But someday. Someone will find you. And they will kill you.
...With comedy! I know your game! I watched the movie 20 years ago!
@ZurapiiYohane Shin-chan is a thing. They don't just like big butts. They like big jiggling butts that ricochet everywhere like marbles in a pinball machine.
@PlywoodStick
You realize not everybody could take that as a joke, some idiot could think it's real and come after me. Like one of those SJW hooligans.
Thanks for accusing me of being guilty of murder, all for me trying to look out for a young person's best interest in life.
Really appreciate that.
PS: Emphasis on the word "idiot" up there.
PPS: Oh my God, I just saw his "jokes aside". I'm clearly an idiot and will proceed to **** off.
Forget this happened...
@ProjectCafe I was telling you a synopsis of what happens in the beginning of the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, a slasher movie from 20 years ago. Maybe the 1990's movie reference was too much of a stretch...
But yeah, here you go.
@PlywoodStick
Sigh
Excuse me, I don't joke much.
I'm not a very happy person.
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