Buy Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

If you angle the camera correctly and jump with some of the characters their skirts will go up and you can see their panties.

tl;dr: An extremely basic and grindy RPG with cute characters, funny dialogue, impressive English dub, and a pretty depth lore. Give this one a go if you're very patient and have a few days to burn.

Gameplay: The Gameplay is a turn-based system where you and your enemies take turns beating each other up and magical or physical attacks, sometimes both at the same time. The higher your combo, the more abilities you can use. There's a shop in every city that's indentical (The shop that is) and sells gear for your Party Members. There's also plans, which are basically upgrades you can get which will change the game or different characters, but you need materials for said plans. To get plans you have to visit through dungeons and collect loot, kill enemies, and explore. There's roughly 7 or so dungeons that are all very different, but they get copy-pasted for roughly 40 or something dungeons. Same with enemies, so it can get repetitive very quickly. Some Dungeons such as the Snow-related ones are also too big and don't have enough enemies. Plus, lots of treasure can go un-noticed due to the painful amounts of white everywhere.

Characters: The characters in Neptunia are so good and likeable that there's even fans who pretend to be them, kinda odd, but kinda charming in it's own unique way. The Characters themselves are also charming, it's very silly with dialogue. You don't get to pick who you send out to talk, or the words which they say. Instead you're pretty much just watching them talk to each other, sometimes with voice to go along, other times just text. To move on to the next text box, you need to press Enter on your Keyboard. I found myself pressing Space by accident and ended up skipping tons of important dialogue, the skip is just so fast that it literally skips all of it within just 2 seconds. Kinda annoying, but it's a habbit that you can break easily.

Dungeons: The Dungeons are the classic turn-based RPG game, they look really pretty and large, but only a small portion is where you can play. Enemies are randomly strewn about in the dungeon, who will sometimes follow you and attempt to take you down, or you can sneak up on them and get the first-turn of combat, which is very useful against those stronger boss-like enemies. As I noted earlier, the dungeons are very limited and are copy-pasted a ton throughout the game, same with the enemies who are just retextured with different colours. The enemiy choice for some of the Dungeons make no sense. Like, a flower in a dystopia Tron-setting.

Enemy Design and Item Design:
Something which immediately freaked the ♥♥♥♥ outta me was the enemy models. THEY ARE ODD! A giant walking Flower with an angry face, a man who is part-plane, a weird flying face that shoots out steam. Pretty bizarre stuff, but it also sort of gives the game it's own style and charm. The kind of charm where a Game-Show Host shows you different Enemies from different games and asks you which one is which. You see a Part-Man, Part-Plane and immediately you know that it's from Neptunia. The items, like weapons and costumes also look wicked cool. Classic giant Japanese weapons, can never get enough of them.

I'm afraid that's really all there is to the game. It's a very simplistic game that should probably be just 10 hours long. But they manage to stretch out longer, while keeping new surprises coming towards you in terms of story and dungeons (even if those dungeons are copy-pasted, they add small changes each time).

After countless hours of browsing the Steam catalog, I found a game that gave me

• Pudding addiction
• So many items to craft and dungeons to clear
• Nep-Nep
• Pudding
• Something that fits my grinding mentality
• Character customization
• Badass combat moves

If you are not sure if you should buy this game, JUST DO IT!

This is a very closed world JRPG style game which features a cast of cutesy girls who beat up monsters minding their own business to harvest XP save their world? It’s very reference heavy and joke heavy in a large part thanks to Meme Overlord Nep. You’ll feel like a massive weeaboo and lose respect of friends and/or family but at least you’ll have fun doing it. Pick up the game if it’s on sale, it’s worth it even if to just try the style and the franchise. I will say though I have started mk2 and its combat is the same and fairly repetitive.

So where do I start with the Neptunia? It's an amusing game, that's for sure and to sum it up it's more or less references to other games the game. For starters place names are named after consoles or based off places in other games. Monsters exist that look like the enemies in space invaders or like Kyubey from the Madoka Magica anime. Items have names from the final fantasy games. Throughout dialogue there are vague references (vague for copyright reasons I would assume) to consoles, people involved with games, websites, anime, manga and I doubt anyone would pick up on all of them, it's actually pretty good. I've been told that the later games actually get a more references, memes and typical game tropes thrown into them and that is amazing.

• Interesting and likely to get a giggle now and again.
  
• Cute and quirky “animu grills” doing “cute things” If that’s your style and you’re down for that.
  
• Did I mention the insane amount of references and jokes the game makes relating all sorts of “geeky” things?
  
• I feel like the word Nep could be used like the word Smurf was and that relacing any verb with the word Nep will make it an innuendo. (Just me? Okay.)
  
• English dub is actually very, very good.
  
• Nep-Nep sings the Final Fantasy victory fanfare on levelling up sometimes and it’s amusing.
  
• Nep is bit of goof ball and MEME OVERLORD making for a funny experience.
  
• Good sense of humour.

• It is a huge grind from start to finish it feels. After the first half of the game you really get tired of the grinding and need up put it down. There are ways to speed up the grind to your desired speed however, I won’t mention it here; I’ll leave that up to you to look into.
  
• Cringe factor is a thing. Rarely something gets said and you just go “ohhf yeah, no”
  
• Holy ♥♥♥♥ do I feel like a massive weeaboo playing this game sometimes. Your friends will deffinantly think you’re a massive weeaboo for owning it.
  
• It’s difficult at times unless you have the DLC. In which case sadistic Plutia will wreck everyone.
  
• Loss of all self-respect

(see top for short/ final conclusion)

What do you get when you cross kawaii girls with battle scenes and great humour? This game of course! No matter who your favourite is, you are all welcome in Neptunia! :D