Matches are generally quite short, so it isn’t exactly break neck in its pacing. In the story missions and multiplayer missions, there is a bit of variety thrown in for good measure, but this is the fundamental loop of the game. ![]() PBS matches consist of smallish arenas and two teams of five girls shooting one another with water guns until the timer runs out. ![]() The loading times were not bad, but there were an excessive number of them for the type of game this is. My only issue with this narrative stuff is just how badly it breaks up each story mission. If you aren’t sickened by it, you will probably find it pretty amusing. It’s pure, exploitative, ecchi trash fantasy at it’s most profoundly triumphant. This is after all a game with a mechanic that allows you to fill a gun with white liquid and spray a girl in the face with it, a sentence I hope is never discovered was written by me when the college I applied at does my background check later this year. Nobody cares, this is what Senran fans have come to expect, and it’s the exact proper way a game like this should be treated with a healthy dose of snickering and playfulness. The narrative segments which break up the gameplay are a tonal rainbow, shifting between dramatic character relationships and endless jokes about titties and fanservice. Wrapped in a melodramatic narrative where ninja girls are magically whisked off to what can only be described as a “mystical” water gun fight, the story is utterly meaningless, that’s fine - the dumber the better in my opinion, and this is the most notably idiotic narrative I have run across in the series. This game is utterly shameless in what it sets out to do. Now for the fanservice folks, it probably hasn’t been any better. Although personally, I did find it to be less engaging and entertaining than previous titles. In fact, as someone remotely familiar with the Senran Kagura games, it actually doesn’t play much differently from the main series at all. ![]() But I did learn one thing Peach Beach Splash is not the Splatoon clone I had assumed it was. How much violence can we withstand on a psychological level before the barrier of our humanity is broken down, and we are reduced to the baseline of our carnal, primal nature? In what universe would a woman choose a bra or bikini eight times smaller than her bust size and not have it cause her breasts turn into deformed, radish shaped sacks of corn syrup? Why am I playing this game? Why am I even alive at all?īy the end of my experience, none of these questions were answered, obviously, especially the bra bit. More of a psychological analysis than a video game, PBS, much like the novel Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is something of a deep character study that dissects the frailty of the human condition. Now that I have your attention, I want to tell you what I think about the PC version of Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash, a highly sophisticated simulation representing what happens when you put a group of intricately complex, three-dimensional characters in an arena with water guns to allow them to vent their frustrations on one another.
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