

The girls look great and animations are slick across the board. When you have to wander to the next area for another wave of enemies, you realise how empty and bland many of the stages are. The only place I was let down visually was in the stage design.

I haven’t been able to test the online mode yet as I’ve not been able to find anyone, and don’t know if there are region restrictions or just no one playing when I check online.Įven with a lot of re-use in terms of animations across Senran Kagura and Valkyrie Drive, the developers have done a good job with the visuals here.

The Drives look great in motion and are similar to Shinobi transformations from the Senran Kagura Versus games. Drives can have up to four levels that are unlocked as the story progresses. These Drives enhance the main character’s weapon with new attacks. Each girl can unlock more Drives to use in combat. On easy mode you can get away with spamming the attack button, but chaining together a combo in any mode sometimes requires button inputs reminiscent of a fighting game more than a Musuo game. Things feel a little more weighty and slower here since there are combos that require holding and releasing inputs to execute. After a few hours I just ended up keeping Triangle pressed to fast forward dialogue to get to the combat sequences.Ĭombat is similar to Estival Versus’ combat, but the enemy AI being quite brain dead is annoying. Rinka and Ranka meet up with more girls on the island and basically end up fighting after a bit of dialogue. The girls get sent to islands to get cured and you start out on the island of Bhikkhuni with two sisters.

Girls are infected with a virus and they turn into weapons when aroused. Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni is from the creator of the Senran Kagura franchise, Kenichiro Takaki and it plays similar to the Versus games on PlayStation platforms. When I reviewed Gal Gun Double Peace I commended PQube for localizing games that I’d never expected would leave Japan.
