Review of Senren * Banka
| Subject | Senren * Banka Senren * Banka |
| By | Helpfulness: 3 Vote: 4Auxiliary on 2024-11-02 |
| Review | I came into Senren Banka having pretty high expectations, seeing how YuzuSoft is such a highly regarded developer. However, the game did not live up to my expectations. Don't get me wrong, Senren Banka has its strengths: the art, the sound track and the gameplay experience is very smooth. However, its shortcomings are too blaring for me to ignore. Firstly, the plot of Senren Banka is incredibly weak. The setting was uninteresting, and the driving force of the plot is weak. Even towards the climax of the common route and the majority of every character's route, the backstory/lore of the plot is not interesting enough and does not deliver on its build-up. However, the biggest problem I have with Senren Banka has to be the characers. Simply put, they are incredibly boring. Most of the characters don't have much personality aside from the typical nice/politeness. I'd usually describe these characters as NPC characters. That aside, the worst offender is the protagonist himself. I understand that he is suppose to go through his character development as the story progresses. However, he is SOOO unlikable at the start of the story (which continues until we enter the heroine routes, only then does he get somewhat better). He has no personality, even for a self-insert character. This made going through his monologue incredibly difficult; its as if a narrator is reading how the story plays out instead of getting some insights on how a character of said story feels. Ultimately, the game is fine as a palette cleanser but personally there are better moeges (Clover days, Marshmellow) who serve that purpose and there are also other games who deliver better on its action/drama (9nine, Ryuusei World Actor). Senren Banka simply doesn't do either very well and ends up being poor in execution. Personal played route order: Yoshino -> Mako -> Murasame -> Lena -> Koharu -> Roka Route Preference: Murasame > Lena > Yoshino = Mako (Koharu and Roka doesn't count as they are smaller routes) Character preference: Mako > Koharu > Yoshino > Murasame >>> Lena = Roka |
| 3 points |