Mugen Souls Z is the 2013 sequel to
2012's Mugen Souls and just like the original, Mugen Souls Z was
mired in controversy upon it's release. You see, both Mugen Souls and
Mugen Souls Z feature very young looking, very sexualized, female
characters that can be put in revealing outfits and in the original
Japanese release be rubbed during a mini-game. Now. I believe in
context being the key to deciding whether or not something is
inappropriate or not, but anyone who thinks that rubbing very young
looking women with bananas as they take a bath would be something
allowed in the US is kidding themselves. The fact that more content
was not altered of flat out removed is amazing and I believe the
people who are complaining about the removed content are too young to
find their kicks elsewhere, because that would be the only reason to
complain about its removal in my opinion.
Controversy aside, Mugen Souls Z is a
deep tactical RPG with a colorful anime art style that still holds up
after 3 years. It's beautiful graphics draw you in almost immediately
and if you were unaware of the controversy surrounding it's original
release you would never imagine their would be much to complain
about. I will say that the anime style is not for everyone, but fans
of the Disgaea series will feel like they are playing some sort of
spin off.
In fact, the storyline of Mugen Souls
Z, a Goddess who rules an entire universe and tries to conquer a
neighboring universe, feels like it could be a Disgaea game. However,
there is a huge wrench thrown into the plans of the Goddess Chou-Chou
within the worst few minutes of the game which changes the plans of
Chou-Chou and company and sets the game off and running. Seeing how
good the story is, I won't spoil any of it here, but just know that
you will be watching the game as much as playing it for the first few
hours although it mercifully allows you to skip cut scenes if you
just want to get to the action.
The controls for Mugen Souls Z work
perfectly with a control pad seeing how it was designed for the PS3,
however it might take a few minutes of layout configuration before
things feel just right if you're using a mouse and keyboard. Once you
get things set up to your liking you will be zipping around the map
and letting loose skills left and right. Speaking of skills, the
skills in Mugen Souls Z are plentiful and very impressive but like
the ones in Disgaea once you seen them once you really have no need
to see them every battle. Thankfully you can turn the battle
animations off which speeds up the battles to the point that you will
be zipping through them.
Mugen Souls Z is the kind of game fans
of the Disgaea series or anime in general will love and be left
wanting more of, however those who do not care for tactical rpgs,
anime art style, or playing dress up with cute anime women should
pass this one by. I myself will be playing this for months and only
hope I can drag myself away to play something else and knock out a
review of it. As always. feel free to comment, like, share, tweet, or
whatever other thing you kids do on your social media these days.
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