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Nyaa-kuza!!

Nyaa-kuza!! is a solid game paired with a mediocre one. Those with a penchant for puns will love diving into its visual novel segments, but the lack of polish in its action sequences drags the whole experience down.
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58%Game Brain Score
music, gameplay
graphics, story
70% User Score Based on 33 reviews
Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

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Nyaa-kuza!! is a single player hack and slash game with fantasy, romance and comedy themes. It was developed by claude and was released on April 13, 2021. It received neutral reviews from critics and mostly positive reviews from players.

Created by students from the University of Utah's EAE program, Catzooka Studios presents: Nyaa-kuza!! Nyaa-kuza!! is a narrative based fighting game where you play as an ex-yakuza cat, traveling through the outskirts of Japan in order to save your catnapped wife!

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70%
Audience ScoreBased on 33 reviews
music3 positive mentions
stability1 negative mentions
  • The game features charming aesthetics with great dialogue art, music, and a unique cat ninja theme that many players found fun and engaging.
  • It's a free, short adventure with a quality story and pun-filled visual novel segments that players who enjoy cat and mafia drama themes can appreciate.
  • Despite some roughness, the game includes enjoyable combat elements such as weapon variety and interactive environment features, showing promise for a student project.
  • Gameplay is often criticized as dull, unpolished, and unbalanced, with controls that are awkward and a combat system easily exploitable and sometimes frustrating.
  • The game has numerous technical issues including glitches, choppy animations, lag, and poor synchronization between different art styles in visual novel and fight segments.
  • Excessive, poorly written dialogue and cutscenes disrupt the pacing, resulting in too much reading and not enough engaging gameplay.
  • graphics
    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's graphics receive mixed feedback, with some praising the appealing art style, character portraits, and overall aesthetics, while others criticize the outdated and lackluster 2D visuals that feel out of place compared to modern 3D standards. Overall, the visuals are appreciated for their charm and fit within the game's context, despite some inconsistencies in sprite quality.

    • “It's short and sweet, and the aesthetics and feel of the game were really nice!”
    • “Fantastic game with good graphics, and who doesn't want to be a cat warrior with a katana.”
    • “I'd recommend this game, it is an interesting combat story game with nice visuals, simple but effective controls, good fitting music and purfect dialogues.”
    • “The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?).”
    • “Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games.”
    • “Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now.”
  • story
    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story received mixed feedback, with some finding it confusing or lackluster, while others appreciated its simple, fun, and well-flowing narrative enriched by charming cat-themed dialogue and quality animations. Despite being short, many recommend it for its engaging combat story and enjoyable presentation.

    • “However, the game is free, the dialogue art is simply great, the cat puns can get a smile out of someone who appreciates them and the story is simple but fun to follow and made me kinda hope for more at the end of the last stage.”
    • “Thanks to the devs on making the story flow and make for such a good stream.”
    • “Beyond the pun being top-notch, 'Nyaa-kuza!!' offers a quality story complete with animations, a full fledged fighting campaign, and a multitude of locations.”
    • “Could not get past the first boss no matter what; the very first wave of enemies was extremely hard, and I can't make sense of the story.”
    • “Story is lackluster and just gets in the way.”
    • “Basically a very badly made game that put a Yakuza story in a cat skin.”
  • music
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is consistently praised for fitting well with the art style and overall atmosphere, enhancing the aesthetic experience. It is described as good and well-done, contributing positively to the combat story and dialogue presentation.

    • “I'd recommend this game, it is an interesting combat story game with nice visuals, simple but effective controls, good fitting music and perfect dialogues.”
    • “I really like the aesthetic dialogue and music throughout, really well done for a college project.”
    • “Cool game and music is pretty good.”
  • gameplay
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay receives mixed feedback, with some praising it as sweet and enjoyable, while others criticize it for relying heavily on lengthy, poorly written visual novel text cutscenes that disrupt the flow and detract from engaging game mechanics. Overall, the gameplay is seen as dull and lacking interactive depth by some players.

    • “Sweet little game, good gameplay”
    • “The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design: 'show, don't tell.' You'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written visual novel text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time.”
  • stability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game exhibits stability issues, particularly at the third stage where a recurring glitch causes the opponent to vanish, preventing further progress and causing the game to become stuck.

    • “The game glitches every time I enter the 3rd stage; the opponent appears but immediately disappears and never appears again, causing me to get stuck.”
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Nyaa-kuza!! is a hack and slash game with fantasy, romance and comedy themes.

Nyaa-kuza!! is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

Nyaa-kuza!! was released on April 13, 2021.

Nyaa-kuza!! was developed by claude.

Nyaa-kuza!! has received neutral reviews from players and neutral reviews from critics. Most players liked this game for its music but disliked it for its graphics.

Nyaa-kuza!! is a single player game.

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