![]() ![]() Senran Kagura gets a bad rap from people who don’t play it for seemingly being not-quite-porn masquerading as a game-and I’ll admit, I’ve similarly written it off in the past. There are four campaigns, one for each school, and though they’re relatively short at 10 missions each, each one manages to tell its own little arc, giving the girls involved plenty of opportunity to bond and grow. Silly as the whole premise of the game is, the game manages to be as heartfelt as it is lewd, particularly in its story mode. If you decide to buy Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash, please consider getting it from Play-Asia with this affiliate link. This is the sort of humour that Senran Kagura thrives off, and Peach Beach Splash is no different. In one early story scene, the girls from Gessen Academy learn that the best way to fire a gun, even a water gun, is to squeeze the trigger rathan pulling it naturally, this leads them all to squeezing their breasts as a form of practice for the match ahead. Racy humour underpins everything, from the way tournament hosts Miss R and Mr K flirt with one another, to fourth wall – breaking jokes about the need for more fanservice, to cinematic “kills” where you spray a downed opponent until her bikini top (or bottom) goes flying off. More importantly, it’s a chance for everyone to unwind, run around in swimsuits, drench one another, and maybe shoot each others’ bikini tops off, all in the spirit of summer fun and friendly competition.īasically, it’s a bunch of adorably silly, lewd nonsense, which is exactly Senran Kagura ’s wheelhouse. This is a tournament that apparently has a long history among ninja clans, with shinobi from all walks of life being invited to take part. The game begins with select members of the series’ four main ninja schools-Hanzō, Homura, Hebijo, and Gessen-being mysteriously invited to participate in Peach Beach Splash, as part of the midsummer festival. Instead of the beat ‘em up action of the core Senran Kagura games or the rhythmic cooking of Bon Appetit, Peach Beach Splash is a team-based third-person shooter-think Gears of War, but instead of bullets you’ve got water guns, instead of grey and brown you’ve got bright colours, and instead of gruff angry men you’ve got joyful, fun-loving, beautiful women. This game sees the lovely shinobi of Senran Kagura taking a break from their ninja training to take part in in the eponymous water gun tournament. Now, Marvelous and Tamsoft bring us their approach to the non-violent shooter with Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash. Gal*Gun turned a rail shooter into a sort of dating sim Splatoon gave us a colourful multiplayer shooter about painting turf and spraying opponents with bright ink. There’s something inherently exciting about shooting game mechanics, but they’re almost always tied to violence-understandably so, given the genre’s origins, but it’s always nice to see games question the ubiquity and necessity of violence as the main form of interaction. I’m loving this new trend towards less-violent shooting games. ![]()
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