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SAMURAI MAIDEN Switch NSP Free Download Romslab If you like your action games cheaply made and overpriced, this release covers everything needed than D3 Publisher and developer Shade Inc.’s latest title Samurai Maiden. The game pits you as a young schoolgirl named Tsumugi who gets warped from her 21st-century trappings into the Sengoku period. She teams up with three ninja females as they help out Nobunaga fight off the undead horde in 24 different stages filled with action and platforming. Along the way, Tsumugi gets to bond with said ninjas: ninja-in-training Iyo who has the same body type as Tsumugi, mechanical arm ninja Hagane with the well-endowed big sister archetype, and haughty fox ninja lady Komimi with the tsundere vibe. ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

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The trio also have their respective elements skills that can help with hindering the opposition: Iyo with fire shurikens and the ability to carry and place items on-stage, Hagane with her Lightning gauntlet and grapple skill to swing to places, and Komimi with her onmyoji Ice hammer magic and her bomb-carrying-and-throwing skills. They don’t do squat unless you command them, which makes them kinda useless if you’re not active with your support and assist buttons. In case the feature image on the review didn’t tip you off, Samurai Maiden is a yuri game, meaning the girls will eventually fall in love with each other throughout the course of the story.

A temple in flames. Swirls of black smoke rise high into the sky.

After all, when you activate your special sword buff powers, the game transitions to a scene where you get publicly intimate with your ninja partner. Tsumugi will form bonds via bringing them to battle, and will talk/train with them through a series of visual novel segments that may either entertain or bore you depending on your tolerance for anime nonsense and a lot of back-and-forth. Samurai Maiden is exactly what you expect. It’s a raunchy, shameless, action-packed anime adventure with a miniscule budget and all the predictable tropes you’d want from a game like this. The marketing revolved around all of its main female characters being super gay for one another should have been a fairly obvious sign, but here I am still shocked by its boldness. Musou Orochi 2 Ultimate Switch

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Within moments, I was fighting demons and being a giant lesbian, and sometimes that sort of thing is just what you need. It isn’t good nor groundbreaking, but it’s weirdly fun. Because I am a raging homosexual, the folks over at D3Publisher offered me an exclusive preview to mark the game’s Japanese release, so I’ve spent the last week isekai-ing my ass into oblivion to hang out with cool samurai homies as we team up to save the universe from demonic destruction. I’ll be blunt – it isn’t the best thing I’ve ever played, but there remains a nostalgic charm to my shameful teenage weeaboo days that was a joy to revisit, even if I’m slightly taken aback that games like this are still being made.

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Did I like it? Well, I did skip portions of it because I know where most of the conversations are headed. This isn’t my first anime game rodeo, but if you’re into all the anime tropes and romance bits that entail, you’ll find something to love here. The bonds you forge aren’t just for show; Tsumugi will gain new moves from being more than friends with the trio. Iyo will give you new sword combos, while Hagane gives you aerial attacks. Komimi will give you quick getup evades and parries, so you’d do well to replay stages to get their relationships higher and higher for those new skills. Mutant Mudds Collection Switch

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As the relationship meter gets higher, you also unlock Pocket Bubble character stories & quests: you bring one of the ninjas through a short puzzle stage and also unlock their new weaponry with skills and upgradeable stats. These also unlock new artwork as well as flesh out the ninja gals’ stories and history further. I’ll have to admit: the Pocket Bubble stages are quick bouts of fun that made me tolerate the Samurai Maiden experience. You play as Tsumugi Tamaori, an average zoomer high schooler who also happens to be trained in the art of sword fighting. She even carries a katana with her at all times, which is some serious commitment to the craft.

Slay the Demon Lord of the Sengoku period and forge everlasting bonds with your ninja friends!

You’ll need all the help you can get here because Samurai Maiden gets downright dirty like a D3 game. You only have one life in a stage; there are checkpoints that give you extra lives, but the undead you face can overwhelm you, at least in the later stages. You have your grunts, your giant heavies, your ogre enemies, your heavy ogres, and a ton of flying skulls that explode in your face. The enemy variety is lacking, to say the least, but they can get cheap and tough to fight especially in droves. The heavy enemies cannot be interrupted at all unless you use the corresponding elements to stun them. Most enemy attacks come out pretty fast and can deal big damage if you’re not careful.

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This wouldn’t be an issue if it weren’t for the paltry defense options you have. Some of your heavy attacks have terrible recovery, and your evade isn’t that reliable. Your lock-on completely focuses the camera onto your target to the point where it can get janky and bonkers. When not in lock-on, your attacks somehow focuses on the weakest enemy instead of where you’re pointing your character with the left analog, resulting in a ton of frustrating moments when fighting. Even with the majority of the skills unlocked, enemies can dogpile you really quickly because they cannot be interrupted even with heavy attacks and can just knock loads of life away if you aren’t careful. MX vs ATV All Out Switch NSP

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