Penny-Punching Princess
- November 24, 2016
- Nippon Ichi Software
Penny-Punching Princess’ simplicity is its strongest factor, but its lack of polish in narrative, and the price make it hard to recommend to every Switch owner.
Penny-Punching Princess is an isometric brawler that takes place in a world ruled by capitalism, where cash is king. Fight or bribe your way to reclaiming your kingdom from the greedy Dragoloans.
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation
Playstation Vita
Reviews
- grinding4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
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- 100 % negative mentions
- gameplay3 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 67 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- funny2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
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- story1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- graphics1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- replayability1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
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70%Penny-Punching Princess (Switch) Review
Penny-Punching Princess’ simplicity is its strongest factor, but its lack of polish in narrative, and the price make it hard to recommend to every Switch owner.
80%Penny-Punching Princess
To make matters worse, it becomes quite evident that time is of little importance to obtaining the higher ranks and so more time is spent just trying to lure group of enemies together for those big hits and massive combos by running in circles. Personally I think the ranking system would have been much more fun if it was based on how the player chained bribes and attacks together and kept it interesting by bribing different enemies and traps instead of simply using the cheapest, most effective ones again and again. The only way it’s really mixed up at all is with the occasional boss fight or special requirements stage. And whilst the boss fights are nothing more than difficult combat sections, the special requirement stage I recall could only be completed if the player ended the stage with ten thousand gold – not an easy ask. It was something different that pushed the bribe mechanic a little further and had me question whether I should risk spending money on bribing a healing monster to get some much needed health back and risk not making the cut-off. It’s a shame there weren’t more stages like that – or similar challenges to unlock upgrade points instead of the enemy bride-grinding.
60%
