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The core gameplay is indeed fun, but I would advise against buying this because it was primarily designed as a multiplayer game, has a quarter of the content of usual SK games, and SK audience was never the type to go for multiplayer so there was basically never any community, even for the week following launch. There is room to retool this entirely for singleplayer, but as it stands, PBS is a failed experiment.

No

It's not terrible, either - but it's not good. The biggest problem I have with it is that there's a half-HP invulnerability period that gives you (and enemies) an escape window that just completely fucks the flow of any match. What they really should have done is just either nerfed the weapons or increased the HP pool. Though not by much, because the current balance is not terrible. You can get your shit wrecked in a split second if you're under team fire or are targeted by some powerful weapon, but you have to not really be paying attention to enemy position and what they're using for that to happen.

The card abilities are fine, and can turn the tides of a battle if used properly. Kind of reminds me of hero-shooters, but the powers are limited use and you can customize what abilities you want to have from a pool of hundreds of different cards. Friendly fire is encouraged, since soaking your allies to the equivalent of their HP gives them infinite ammo for a period.

The story is dumb, and there's not a whole lot of variance in maps or enemy design, so you'll be running through a lot of the same areas - fighting waves of the same fodder enemies a lot. It's also pretty easy. That's kind of par for the course with a Senran Kagura game though. They're rightly assuming you're there for the titties, not for well crafted design and mechanics. To that end, character customization is pretty well done.

I haven't played it in months, and I'm pretty sure the online is dead - and was dead before they got the bugs that would crash-out multiplayer fixed - but what is there is enjoyable. If you get it, pirate the PC version so you can mod it.

Did you post this from a phone nigger? You typed this like you were.

Also people say the senran kagura gameplay steadily improved, but the story got worse

PBS has a ton of fanservice though so its probably still good

>enduring shitty gameplay for your medicore 2.5d model censored soft porn

>>15469820

That's pretty much all porn games ever. Visual Novels aren't even fucking games, but people treat them as such, because they want the semi-interactive softcore porn. Metal & Lace was a garbage fighter, but it's remembered much more fondly than it's technically far superior sequel (a decent SFII clone) because it had much better lewds.

>>15469908

Lewds arent meaningful content, and at least visual novels can have a interesting story. And even if the story itself is shitty, at least it will enhance the porn experience by giving it some context and making it feel more immersive. Many people underestimate that factor when it comes to porn.

But in the case of Senran Kagura the mediocore porn is just shoehorned into mediocore gameplay. I can see how some of the stuff might appeal to your fetish, but you mightaswell just look up the stuff online rather than wasting your time with this garbage

As someone who thinks standard Senran gameplay is absolute ass, I was actually able to have fun playing PBS, and would enjoy it with or without the ecchi content.

It's fucking trash, like all Senran games.

It uses water as a resource both for movement and shooting, and you run out of it extremely fast. This causes the issue of having almost no mobility because all your non-water-movement options are very slow and basic, and all guns needing to reload constantly. The game is very chaotic in general, with visual and sound effects at all times, and it's made worse by the various card effects. The cutscenes every time you undress or defeat someone get boring really, really fast, and for some fucking reason the button that lets you skip them also makes you do a water-consuming dash. So every time you trigger that cutscene you press the button to skip the dull, drawn out fanservice and the result is that you dash somewhere and waste some of your water.

Also, the fanservice is very low quality in general. Essentially all of it is "girl gets beat down (or shot down in case of BPS) and covers her Barbie body up with tears in her eyes". I get that nips have an insane rape fetish but come the fuck on, give some variety. Not all your oft-repeated fanservice needs to be obvious rape imagery. The clothes tearing is the same shit. It's a shit fetish anyway, and clothes that look good and lewd are much better than nonstop clothes tearing faggotry. The gameplay is lacking and the fanservice has just gotten dull at this point. Overall it's just wasted potential. I think that at least those spinoff things for Switch or whatever has the girl actually desire the faceless player's attention, instead of just LOOK IT LOOKS LIKE SHE'S ABOUT TO BE RAPED times twenty for each match.

>>15469707

Eww, that looks embarrassing to play.

>>15469707

>watching jewtube through 3rd party site

why, they know you are watching that embed anyway

>>15482850

>weeb trash means it was made by weaboos

What