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Pretty Girls Panic! PLUS Switch NSP Free Download Pretty Girls Panic! by Zoo Corporation is basically the same game as Bishoujo Battle Cyber Panic!, a previous title that it (via publisher EastAsiaSoft) has already released on the Nintendo Switch. It is, basically, Qix, but rather than clearing blank or generic backgrounds, you’re instead revealing pictures of pretty girls.Pretty Girls Panic! is so similar to Bishoujo Battle Cyber Panic that I’ll copy and paste the review across, but there are a couple of minor differences that are worth noting; firstly, rather than girls with guns and dressed up in military uniforms, Pretty Girls Panic! instead has a more tropical vibe and instead focuses, for the most part, on swimwear and other such summery wear. ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

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On the downside, the character art is also copy/pasted from visual novels (from quite a few years ago now) and therefore looks quite fuzzy and low resolution on the Switch. Given that the art is a key reason to play this, that’s a significant detriment to the game. The art still is well-designed and certainly fanservicey enough (there’s no nudity but the swimsuits are daring), but it’s hard to get past the poor presentation of the game’s hero feature. On the other hand, Pretty Girls Panic! is super-cheap for 14 sets of lovely ladies to Qix your way through and so, without further ado, here’s the adapted review of the last time that Zoo Corporation brought this kind of action to our Switches

The game is a homage to Gals Panic

a series of super-lewd arcade games in the 90’s. In those games, the main “hook” was that by playing well you’d get to reveal the silhouette of a character that, at the start of the level, was completely hidden. In Qix, the goal of the game is to uncover 70 per cent or so of the playfield by drawing “boxes,” while avoiding enemies as you do so. In regular Qix you’re just drawing boxes. In Gals Panic and Pretty Girls Panic!, after you draw a box, whatever was silhouetted underneath is revealed. Naturally, you want to reveal the girl, but since she’s in the middle of the playfield you generally need to take some risks to do that, because those enemies are bounding around and the middle of the playfield is where things get most dangerous. Astral Chain Switch NSP

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Now, Gals Panic was pretty erotic, with nudity and everything (for those that didn’t live in markets that censored this stuff). In comparison to that series, Pretty Girls Panic! aims for the classy route, eschewing nudity for a sexy pin-up aesthetic. It’s art like you’d see in a calendar that a brazen person might display in the lounge room without needing to worry about being called an out-and-out pervert should a guest arrive. By that, I mean there are some provocative “camera angles”, and rather revealing clothing, but no actual “naughty bits” exposed.The game plays like a very standard version of Qix, with a couple of different enemy types and the occasional power-up, all of which do make it substantially easier to complete levels, so their presence in the game is meaningful.

Each of the enemy types

follow prescribed behaviours and are very fair (many Qix games have enemies that move completely randomly, which can be infuriating to deal with). The only issue with the game, mechanically, is the size of the icon of your own character. Because it’s an octopus icon, and quite big, it’s hard to tell when you’ve started drawing a box sometimes. More than a few times I’d accidentally inched forwards without realising it, only to have an enemy crash into me and knock me out. Qix is also a game where you will sometimes need to draw tiny boxes, and that’s difficult when the icon is hiding the lines underneath them. Astria Ascending Switch NSP

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There’s not a lot of meat to Pretty Girls Panic! The 14 characters have between three and five stages each, and that flies by pretty quickly, though the difficulty curve is steady and the more extreme levels will test your classic arcade ability. Thankfully, however, there is a good reason to replay levels, even once you know what the waifu underneath looks like, because there’s an online leaderboard for each individual stage, and getting to the top is a rewarding challenge – you’ll need to complete levels quickly, using big boxes (the larger the box you draw, the more points), and without losing lives.

Take some risks around the middle of the board

The second way that Pretty Girls Panic features pretty girls is through a “companion character” system. As you play, you have the opportunity to level up two characters, with each level up unlocking a new outfit for them in the game’s “Dressing Room” feature. The companion characters don’t actually do anything aside from changing facial expressions and occasionally shouting things in Japanese at you while you’re playing, but this component of the game does provide a certain amount of long-term “metagame” that some of Zoo’s other titles lack. Astro Aqua Kitty Switch NSP

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Also noteworthy in this regard is the addition of an “Arcade Mode”. Previous Panic games from Zoo have unfolded stage by stage, with each stage acting as a self-contained challenge. In Pretty Girls Panic Plus’ Arcade mode, meanwhile, you can challenge an entire set of stages with a single stock of lives — it’s a welcome additional challenge after you’ve cleared all the individual levels, though it’s a pity that there are only online leaderboards for stages tackled individually. Competing against friends and opponents worldwide in the Arcade mode would have added potentially limitless longevity. Maybe in Pretty Girls Panic EX Plus Alpha.

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