Valkyrie Drive, by the Senran Kagura guys (contains YURI fanservice)

Looks fairly straightforward for a brawler.

Now is Mana turn into the spotlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r-NEtEL2mI

edited 8th Dec '15 9:47:26 PM by Tzitzimine

Does Senran Kagura have bosses like the one in this video?

The only thing close to it are the youma in SK 2

edited 9th Dec '15 4:15:35 AM by Tzitzimine

Also, looks like the video, and the entire channel has been terminated. I blame trolls.

Edit:The preview videos will be showing up here. So look there for when the next video drops.

edited 9th Dec '15 10:07:31 AM by mega-dark

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/12/09/marvelous-youtube-account-gets-terminated-probably-due-to-excessively-sexy-trailers/

So this is now a thing.

edited 9th Dec '15 4:52:06 PM by Memers

Account is back, boy did YT screwed the pooch this time

Awesome promotion though for the game considering everyone picked up on it.

The game is officially out on the japanese psn. So we should be hearing some opinions on the game for those who own it soon as well as gameplay videos.

edited 9th Dec '15 6:32:45 PM by mega-dark

Hope this game doesn get any kind of censorship when it gets released overseas (if it ever gets one)

It's Momo's turn.

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/176/1176052/

Mamori and Mirei are DLC for Bhikkhuni!

Awesome.

I think one of things that I saw in the video is that the partners aren't locked to certain characters. In this trailer Momo was partnered with Rinka but in Rikna's trailer she was partnered with Ranka and in Mana's trailer she was partnered with Momo. Another thing I've observed is that the girls can transform into multiple weapons. This confuses me because I was under the assumption that each girl was locked to one weapon and that weapon could evolve. Than again, Mamori changed from Sword to Twin Blades but it's still kind of a Sword. Here Rinka is usually a pair of Gauntlets for Ranka but in this trailer she's a Spear for Momo. I wonder what the story justifications for this is?

edited 9th Dec '15 10:52:28 PM by mega-dark

Double posting for notice. If anyone can't wait for the youtube videos to show up, here's a vod from a twitch stream of the game.

Sweetness. Now to take this out of context a bit.

How did they end up on Bhikkuni Island? Why, that's simple! They found Mermaid Island's Terminal, and used it to get on over there. Terminals are so convenient.

A video of someone taking a character to final drive and of her specials. I'll throw a NSFW warning just to cover my rear.

https://twitter.com/kenichiro_taka/status/676348371431387136

Takaki's reporting Bhikkhuni's LE has sold 87.6% of its stock. Hopefully this means the game did well.

Marvelous JP's YT account is dead, again.

Arg. I just hope nothings happening to people that uploaded Senran or Valkyrie content.

According to Media Create and Famitsu, Bhikkhuni sold 40k copies on its first week.

Finally got my copy of VD: Bhikkhuni.

I'm very, very impressed. Aside of voluptous protagonists and the fact it has the clothes-ripping mechanic there's little in common with Senran Kagura. The battle system is considerably more complex, you have light and heavy attacks (Square and Triangle respectively) plus a special attack mainly used to start air combos on circle. X has different functions according to the way is pressed: Jump, Hover, Homing Dash and Flight.

Unlike SK, here the combos are timing dependant and working in tandem with the Phantom Move mechanic you can get some really complex combos going on by tapping and holding the attack buttons. For example: O, O, X (hold), X, Square X 3, O, X (Hold), X, Square X 3, O, X (hold), X Triangle, etc.

The Drives are essentially glorified Shinobi transformations but having four different tiers allows to bigger movesets for each character thus expanding the combo possibilities.

This makes the system somewhat daunting for people expecting a SK clone since is easy to feel that you're pressing buttons but not getting a satisfactory result but is all matter of practice and getting the hang of it. In that sense is simlar to a fighting game where mashing buttons won't get you very far.

I'm only on the first missions and while so far the game has been easy (you have a TON of health and enemies don't do a lot of damage) enemies are more agressive than Versus' punching bags (Bosses in particular won't stop attacking or stand still) forcing you to be on constant movement to start your combos.

Graphic-wise the game shits all over the Vita SK with better stages and character models. I've seen people claiming that this takes a toll on the framerate but so far I haven't found the game unplayable or anything.

The general design on the levels is also closer to a character-driven action game than the pseudo musou style of the versus games, Camera is infinitely superior and having a functional lock on puts this game MILES ahead of the Versus games.

Definitely worth the price and I'm really hoping it gets localized, it pretty much does better anything SK does.

Takaki says no plans for localize Bhikkhuni

https://twitter.com/kenichiro_taka/status/686451439472791552

Honestly I'm not surprised. It's amazing we even got Senran Kagura.

Some gameplay videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaoO-MJj4_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lslK86-AtPc

Marvelous put out a couple of replies immediately that they're not opposed to releasing it in the West.

edited 11th Jan '16 10:18:17 PM by burnpsy