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| | Features | Additional in-game activities and functionality including Broadway performances with AI Stars teammates, in-game photo functionality, secret events and a quiz game.Anime-style storytelling featuring tons of anime movie scenes.Adventure Mode allowing the player to explore New York City and build relationship with in-game AI teammates.A strategy RPG battle system allowing for coordinated control of a team of diverse female fighters, each operating Mech battlesuits that can fight both on the ground and in the air.High replay value through the various different endings possible, each of which hinges on the bonds created between characters in-game.
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| | Description | We have seen many SRPGs in our time. Some were extraordinary and some were not so great. Though most SRPGs make you grind through their battle system to power up your characters, Sakura Wars revolutionizes this by combining Sim elements into the SRPG. No longer shall the game dictate what the player should experience. Instead, Sakura Wars allows the player to choose their own destiny. The player’s human interactions affect the story and power up the characters. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.52 inches | | Product Width: | 5.45 inches | | Product Height: | 0.61 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.25 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.5 inches | | Package Width: | 5.4 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.25 pounds | | Release Date: | March 30, 2010 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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| | Game Information | | Platform: | Nintendo Wii | | Media: | Video Game | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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19 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Great game! Mar 31, 2010
By Derek Vazquez
"DaFynestRican"
Its more about your relationships with the other characters, but this is a great Japanese strategy/dating sim. Im glad they decided to port this to the Wii. The art is wonderful, the characters likable, and the game in entertaining for the most part. Note that action isnt the focus of this game so much as character interaction.
11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Review for Wii version Apr 11, 2010
By Cool Spot
This review is pertaining to the wii version of the game and I'll keep it short and to the point:
Story is pretty good. It doesn't seem too serious, sort of in the same vein as Sailor Moon. The graphics are bright and colorful, mostly consisting of anime sequences interspersed between static 2D backgrounds with anime portraits laid out on top and a lot of spoken and unspoken dialog.
Gameplay consists of fighting 3D battles SRPG-style at the end of each Episode (8 Episodes total) and each episode probably ranged, on average, 2 hours in length (keep that in mind when playing the game--doesn't really go well in short bursts). On the bright side, you can save your game at predetermined checkpoints at certain points during each episode.
**Despite what people think, the game is not in 480p in the wii version. It is 480i and in 4:3 mode (non-widescreen) just to clarify that bit.
Music can get a little repetitive at times, but the overall composition of the tracks are done fairy well and fit the mood perfectly.
Controls, at least on the wii version, when doing quick-time-events during dialog scenes can be frustrating. You have to move the analog (nunchuck) stick and on the wii remote, the dpad arrows a certain way in order to pass the little events. It can be frustrating because the remote dpad doesn't really move well on a smooth axis, if anyone can understand what I mean.
Help support NISA and this game. It's really unique. I bought this version with the hardbound artbook from RosenQueen's website (NISA's official page), and don't regret it. If you can't find the wii version, then get the ps2 version, but the definitive version to get, if you must (and if you own both consoles) is to get the ps2 version because it is in a box set with a poster, and two language track discs (english and japanese).
**The wii version only has the english language track.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Excellent RPG Jul 06, 2010
By A. Villegas
Sakura Wars 5 is a port of an older Japanese RPG for the Wii console.
It combines elements of a turn-based RPG with a Japanese dating-sim / relationship game (if you aren't familiar with those, basically at certain plot points you make decisions on how to advance the plot, and your decisions affect how other characters in the game behave / interact with you). The result creates a game with a great story loosely based on Japanese history and folklore, and exciting turn-based battles in giant robots, based in a fictitious 1920's steampunk New York.
Due to the nature of the relationship-based gameplay, there is no need to grind to level up your characters. You improve your teams offensive and defensive capabilities by building close friendships with the other robot pilots, thus creating more powerful combo-attacks. That way, more of the playtime spent is focused on character development and interaction, and furthering the plot. Bosses are interesting enough that the game doesn't seem repetitive even though essentially it follows the story first, then battle formula in each chapter.
Controls are easy to pick up, this game is compatible with the wiimote + nunchuk, or with a classic controller. Graphics are crisp, but then most of the interactions in the story are in 2D, but battles are in 3D. Game length is around 20-35 hours, with a bit of replay value if you want to do things differently / find all the unlockables.
Defintely a fun game that I would recommend, I kept going back to find out what happens next.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Lights! Curtains! MECHA Action! Jan 13, 2011
By R. P. Jesus
What really makes Sakura Wars special is the Live Interactive Picture System (LIPS). LIPS lets you pick what you say and ultimately change the course of the game to one of six different endings. I know that might not seem so unique now that gamers have been spoiled by BioWare, but since there are no BioWare RPGs on the Wii I think more than just anime fans could find this campy game highly enjoyable.
Of course being an anime fan doesn't hurt. Voltron fans in particular will appreciate the premise but be warned the "MECHA Action!" does take a back seat to the drama. The flow of the game feels reminiscent of Snatcher or Policenauts, except Sakura Wars follows a formula. You'll deal with a new dilemma in each chapter that will end in a tactical battle. But you'll have to navigate over an hour of dialogue before you see any action. (That is, unless you stumble into the hot tub area.)
Although, I found most of the girls in this game scary! (How's that for realism?) I spent my time trying not to say or do anything that would give them the wrong idea (no "hadaka no tsukiai"). I did have a lot of fun dodging them, though. This could be a whole new direction for the series, "Sakura Wars 6: Let's Just Stay Friends."
The combat has been compared to a bare bones Valkyria Chronicles. It's simple enough but if you don't pay attention you can die quickly. Not to worry though, you can simply restart not far from where you failed. Battles can take about 30-45 minutes. So show up to play!
I enjoyed the game with the classic controller. It worked great except I still had to use the Wiimote to point at the screen from time to time (same deal with Monster Hunter Tri). I'm not wild about switching back and forth.
At first I didn't know what to think of Sakura Wars, but after I finished one chapter I was hooked. The next sixteen hours went by too fast for me. It's a good thing this game encourages multiple play-throughs. In fact, there's no way to see everything the first time around. If you're into RPGs or anime and looking for something to enjoy until Last Story gets here, don't miss out on Sakura Wars--it's already becoming harder to find. You have got to experience this awesome game!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Fun and Challenging! Jan 17, 2011
By Emily Luebke
""Hey artists, you got a dolla...? Didn't think so" ~ Rent"
I had to give this game 4 stars, as much as I would love to give it a perfect score. As others have said this game is based much more on the relationship building and dialogue than battle, which I LOVED. I've never played a dating sim before so it was kinda different, but I love games were you can make choices and where the characters are engaging. This had both. I'm also a fan of games with romance and this was chock full of options, from the sweet, down-home country girl, to the Harlem Lawyer, to the transgendered individual.
Sometimes having to answer questions with the time limit they give you can make me a little stressed, and some tasks are very hard. Often you have to flick the control sticks in a correct direction, or spin them a certain amount to complete a task. It is very difficult to get these right.
One of my main gripes, as an tactical rpg player, is that your characters do not level up. They form stronger bonds with you and one another during the time spent outside battle, but this really only powers up the moves you use together in battle. Those moves are basically useless against bosses, so your characters never really get stronger. This makes boss battles frustrating as you cannot go back and train. You always feel under leveled. Some might thrive on this and see it as a challenge, I found it frustrating. Especially seeing as later in the game you fight first on the ground, then in the air, both being extremely tough fights. There is no save in between, so if you can't beat the air battle and want to quit you'll have to do the ground battle all over.
The battle system itself is pretty good, easy to learn, and complicated enough to lend strategy, but the air battles seem a little buggy sometimes. It's really hard to locate your other unites to coordinate attacks in the air battles. The screen does not easily move around to let you orient yourself.
So all in all I give it those 4 stars. Great game for relationships and challenging battles (if you don't mind that they are few and far between), but some of the battles are extremely frustrating.
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