Senran Kagura Reflexions Brings The World Of Japanese Massage To Switch

Knew it would be localized at some point...still waiting for a normal game on the Switch.

...Or hearing about that pinball game.

Now THIS will show off the Switch's capabilities to my friends

Finally!

Family Friendly Nintendo!

Colour me surprised this is making its way here.

That's a-ding-dong-dorable.

Should be touch screen enabled, no?

I wonder if all the people in the world who do professional massage therapy for a living - the legal actual professional massage, not the happy ending kind - would take offense to our reaction to this game?

Since it's Senran Kagura I'm sure it will be titillating, but it's also possible they use some actual massage techniques in the game. I'm very curious to see how this works. If they could somehow match up the HD Rumble Joycon with the PSVR headset you'd really have something. The beginning of the end of mankind.

Nah, I prefer the true Senran Kagura games like the one on PS Vita and 3DS, not a silly spin off like this.

Burst Re:Newal should come to the Switch.

There was someone over at Push Square yesterday saying that Nintendo babies can't handle some face rubbing. Correct, we prefer rubbing boobs.

Dang, I didn’t think this would be localized.

Have the Japanese release so won't buy it again, but the game is awsome if you like Asuka. The game is great. Very much recomended.

I can't believe they're actually localizing this!

Cool. Day one purchase for me. I like creative uses of the joycon tech.

@Rayquaza2510 Is it weird that I read that as Bust Te:Newal?

this will sell the 20 million that Nintendo Switch needs. i guaranteed it too
er... day 1 for me.

So the onslaught of Senran Kagura to the West continues and it invades Switch as well.

Garbage. Al a minimum they should have done Peach Beach Splash on the Switch not some massage simulator.

Just another example of a publisher putting zero effort for the Switch. Make an actual game with online play and missions like on PS4/PC not some crap that looks like it should be on an iPhone.

Nintendo seems to have as a goal for this year to please pervert gamers....

Just as long it's not censored

Oh boy finally. Some use for the HD Rumble ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Troll mode comment: who here ever thought that this game would come westward long before Monster Hunter XX?

This is a surprise! Glad to hear it's making it's way over.

I'll probably pick this up, but already have it downloaded from the Japan eShop.

One odd thing I've noticed in the eShop is games I've bought on the U.S. market are marked as purchased in the Japan shop menus, and I am unable to buy or download them there. Can there only be one version of a game on the Switch at any given time? Is the only way to get the same game from another region to remove the version which is currently installed? I suppose I can test this first-hand once the game is on the western market, but has anyone else dealt with region juggling different versions of the same game on the Switch that could fill me in?

Wasn't milking already included in 1-2 Switch?

sold.

Dang, I didn’t think this would come over. I probably won’t get it if all you do is mess around with Asuka. More interested in that remark on PS4.

I don't know if I need this...

Stan = "hey dad this new game came out on the E-Shop and you can play it anywhere. It can teach me to talk to Wendy"

Randy = "hold on son I need to check this game is appropriate first"

@TrixieSparkle

You can't have the same app listed multiple times on your Switch menu. When they're marked as purchased in both shops, it means that both shops supply you with the same app, and the language changes are done via an in-game menu or via the Switch's language settings.

This only applies to games where this is the case, though - with some games such as Splatoon 2 or Puyo Puyo Tetris, the different shops actually supply completely different apps.

It makes sense for Splatoon 2 JP version to be its own app because it needs to have Splatfests that are different from the European and American versions. But then there are some other eShop games such as KOI that have separate apps for basically no reason. Which is a bit annoying.

I hope that for this release they update the existing Shinobi Refle app instead of releasing a new one for westerners.

@EarthboundBenjy
That helps clear things up. Thanks for the info!

@Agramonte
> Zero Effort.
> Developer actually took the time to put the joy-con motion sensors to work with a sensible application.

Do you even think before you type?

@rjejr
As a professional massage therapist this doesn't really mess with my head. I am curious if it utilizes similar massage tools.

Can't wait to spank some thighs

@MegaVel91 The simple fact you called it a "sensible application" - says it all.

Do you ever stop to think how far low you push your standards before you type in defense of nonsense like this? This is at best a thinly veiled Mobile Phone game.

Summer 2018.

It's finally happening.

Bring PUBG to Switch Please

Neat. Hopefully Peach Beach Slash can get on Switch as well so it can actually have a player base that lives for more than three days.

I like to objectify women so this game is right up my street.

Whoa this is surprising! Definitely will pick this up day one. Waiting on news for the pinball game and also hope Burst Re:Newal gets announced for the switch as well.

The file size is quite large so a physical release would be preferable,

Australian retailers refuse to stock Gal*Gun and Senran Kagura even though games in these series have been approved with an R18+ classification. Even one of the recent Yakuza games and South Park: The Fractured But Whole have received the hilariously specific "Sexual activity related to incentives and rewards" classification descriptor, and yet, hypocritically, retailers have no issue in stocking those.

@Agramonte "Do you ever stop to think how far low you push your standards before you type in defense of nonsense like this?"

That tells me all I need to know too. You're one of those people.

Being able to recognize they're making good use of the Joy Con's capabilities and maybe even demonstrating the extent of what they can really do is not lowering my standards. Recognizing that developing something like this actually takes effort, is not lowering my standards.

You're just looking for something to be angry about.

I'm sure the localised release will help thousands of new people experience the game's particularly groping storyline. I mean gripping. I've heard it has a very gripping narrative.

Love it.

Time to unlock the true potential of HD Rumble

@Elithal I didn't mean the game messing with your head, I meant all the comments equating massage to sex. I've had a lot of massages in my life, locked shoulder and scoliosis messing w/ my neck, and none of them were anything even remotely sexual. Yet people hear "massage game" and their first reaction is NSFW.

From the article:
You'll never look at your Joy-Cons the same way again
equally adult route
You'll use the Joy-Cons to... ahem...
a risque massage game

@AlexOlney "I can guarantee that professional massage instruction is not the aim of this title"

Well the way this article is written the game better end w/ a lot of moaning and groaning and a happy ending. I watched the vid and I wouldn't even label it NSFW.

@Maxz The main series games actually have decent story, the mechanics are hit and miss though...This is a side game.

@rjejr
I understand what you mean now. I think that the general public would only want a sexual massage game being the pervs that we are. Being a legitimate massage therapist in a game might prove very boring lol.

I wonder if censorship comes bundled with this localization.

Don't whine to me about perverted games and then turn around and watch western TV on HBO or Netflix - shows that have full on sex scenes in almost every episode. Don't whine about anime girl panty shots when America fast food commercials often feature real women wearing Bikinis that leave NOTHING to the imagination. Don't whine about big breasted anime characters when western pop stars run around basically naked, and cheer leaders are literally paid to dance in skimpy clothing.

There are few things that make me more annoyed that fools whining about "perverted Japanese anime culture" when western content goes FAR beyond.

Either denounce it all, or shut up.

@MegaVel91 no idea what part of expecting an actual game in the series on Switch (not a cash-in) has anything to do with being angry.

Maybe you sitting around waiting for Splatoon "Handshake" and Animal Crossing "pet me park" or whatever 3D rumble tech demo - but for some - we actually want a game. Even the VITA had real Senran Kagura games.

There is a reason why this was $10 bargain price and straight to eShop in Japan.

@Agramonte Making assumptions about what my standards actually are isn't winning you any points. Just because I defend something isn't a mark of my standards, it's a mark of me working against your ignorance.

Nothing about game development is Zero Effort.

I'll review for this one, Dom

@Richard_Atkinson Hope you end up liking it, its an awsome game

@Elithal "Being a legitimate massage therapist in a game might prove very boring lol."

Well ok yeah since you put it that way.

Cmon Alex, enough with the act. You knew what you were supposed to grab.

@tobibra excite intensifies

Hmm. Was kinda of unexpected to see this happen.

Now where's Peach Beach Splash? I wanna play as my waifu (guest DLC character) Super Sonico.

I have the Japanese one and I'll still get the English version. It's supposed to release all the dlc the Japanese one has like characters and outfits. Also, I heard it's a download only title on Switch and is coming out this summer. Day 1 purchase for me I'm checking e shop everyday. I'm playing Gal Gun 2 while waiting.

@animefan923
I didn't get the Japanese one as I figured I'd be almost as lost as Alex was, but they said the localized one would release in the summer so hopefully it's not too far away.

I want it because it is odd and quite unlike anything else on the Switch, like a curio. It's the same reason I bought that Japanese model phone game (plus it was cheap), but I hope this one at least has English menus.

It's the same as Japanese one. I don't care how poor ratings and reviews it gets, I'd rather have a game I want no matter how bad reviews and comments it may get, instead of letting all that negative stuff affect me.