Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online

“The game mechanics are just straight up bad. Dodging is useless because monsters will just 360 to where you land and attack you. Blocking is even worse—you cannot block while in attack animation, skill animation, or while falling after jumping. Even if you hold and mash the block button, there is either a delay or your character just doesn't block at all. The worst part is being stuck under bosses due to hitbox issues, unable to move or do anything but attack and block, while the boss spams attacks and kills you. Honestly, this game is horrible even though I looked forward to it. Audio is buggy and doesn't match cutscenes, booting takes too long, and there are frequent crashes.”

“The gameplay was really dumbed down. Most games use a two-button system, but this one is just one button, and you don't even get to make combos—it's just button smashing.”

“This game suffers from a lot of problems. First off, the story (like most Neptunia games) is very bad and has pacing issues. Gameplay is a chore and gets repetitive very quickly, which was always Neptunia's strong point for having fun gameplay and good combat, but this game just doesn't get that part right at all. Item management is a joke, and although the game runs at 60 fps, it feels off at times. The only thing I can really praise is its OST, which is very good.”

“I'm not really surprised that if released such a terrible game, the combat sucks, the graphics are terrible for its time, the enemies are lazy, the towns being 2D, the lack of anything that really makes RPG games good.”

“This game tries to make the graphics more modern, but it honestly ends up just looking like an early PS3 title.”

“The game is an obvious port, the graphics are mediocre at best and there are basically no graphics options.”

“There are multiple settings you can change like music volume (the characters are weirdly quiet, maybe kind of muffled or the music is way too loud).”

“Sadly... as good as these tracks can be, there’s very little variety in music.”

“The sound mixing is horrible even at 60 percent and the voice at 100 the music overpowered everything.”

“Item drop rates from bosses are terrible, so if you want to max out every piece of gear you obtain, it gets grindy; however, there are options to boost drop rates, and you can switch between characters, so it doesn't get too repetitive.”

“Gathering and upgrading equipment was fun at first but became really tedious towards the end because the best weapons required specific drops from certain bosses, which only drop one at a time, meaning grinding is necessary for the best gear.”

“The post-game content is bad, uninspired, tedious, generally not fun, and is hardly worth it; seriously, the post-game is grindy as heck, with only repeated boss fights having increased HP and different color schemes.”

“Poor optimization is evident, with long initial load times and unskippable logos, such as the 2-3 minutes wait on the 'welcome to 4GO' screen.”

“The netcode for this game is so poorly optimized that the multiplayer experience is unplayable and laggy, making it not worth trying.”

“Despite simple visuals, the game suffers from poor optimization, resulting in low frame rates and a performance burden even on older PCs.”

“The controller is really buggy, struggling to move the camera; settings kept changing every time I launched the game; blue screened sometimes; and there are no clear game directions, making it unclear about the current game objectives.”

“The game mechanics are just straight up bad. Dodging is useless because monsters will 360 to where you land and attack you. Blocking is poorly designed with delays or failures, especially during animations. I spent 90% of boss fights stuck under them due to hitbox issues, unable to move except to attack or block. The boss just spams attacks and kills you. Additionally, audio bugs, mismatched cutscenes, long boot times, and frequent crashes further degrade the experience.”

“The multiplayer is barely functional, riddled with glitches and material grinding. The lobby crashes if one person dies instead of allowing revives. Overall, the online mode is very buggy and broken unless you are the host. This makes co-op play frustrating and unstable.”

“There's no multiple endings or branching paths, so there's almost no replay value outside of New Game+, which is just playing again with your current stats and gear.”

“Finally, replayability is nonexistent.”

“Reused and outdated character and monster models remain, obtaining end game gear is laughably bad (almost requiring you to farm mats online) since the drop rate offline is garbage but leads to another issue: connecting to multiplayer is inexcusably broken with poor netcode (stutters and fps drops) for anyone who isn't the host and a few other hiccups (such as when a quest is completed or you fall in battle, the party instantly disbands), there's no New Game+ and therefore a lack of replayability once beaten and no post-game content besides grinding for gear/leveling with multiplayer exclusive quests that go up to level 200 but luckily aren't necessary to do (thankfully none of the achievements are locked behind multiplayer either if anyone was wondering).”

“It is an unusual trend that the turn-based Neptunia games have better stories with higher stakes and more character development, whereas the action spin-offs feel like throwaway, intermediate fluff episodes where everyone is vibing but nothing serious happens.”

“The character development is lacking; just Megadimension is better at this point.”

“Character development is fair but unremarkable.”

“Despite the game's simple atmosphere and looks, the optimization for the game is quite poor.”

“[*] NPCs are aware they are in a game and set a dark atmosphere for the beta players.”

“It really does look like a bit of a cynical cash grab on behalf of the developers compared to their other Neptunia titles.”

“It's missing the personality that many Nep games come with and this just feels like a half-assed cash grab.”