Narumi Nitpicks: Shin Sakura Taisen
To begin I feel it necessary to say that I have absolutely no history with the series beyond knowing that it’s some SRPG series by SEGA and the only reason I was interested was because: they’re ditching the SRPG combat, they’ve gotten the Yakuza team to work on the event scenes, and Ayaneru and Mizuki Nana are in it. No other reason. To my surprise the game ended up being more VN oriented than a more balanced VN-Musou hybrid, which was a pleasant surprise considering the combat is pretty barebones and shallow, yet at the same time incredibly tedious. The meat of the gameplay lies in the VN segments where you interact with the various denizens of Tokyo. This reminded me very heavily of the Yakuza series in which almost everyone is a weirdo and you can either choose to be the Tsukkomi to their Boke or double down on the stupidity and freak them out. It’s great and it helps that Yakuza’s over-the-top cheesy animations are recycled in this game to full comedic effect. As far as the actua