Fan-favorites Yumi, Murasaki, Ryona, and Yomi will be waiting for you after class.
Senran Kagura Reflexions Series Is Ready
Instead, developer HoneyParade Games is taking a softer approach. Here’s the PR statement from XSEED Games, the western publisher:“After brutal melees, rhythmic cooking contests, and shockingly serious water gun fights, the Senran Kagura series is ready to take on the world of interactive storytelling for the first time and give players a chance to get to know the shinobi heroine Asuka in surprising new ways. Senran Kagura Reflexions uses the unique properties of the Joy-Con to employ the art of reflexology and massage. Senran Kagura Reflexions is an Ecchi dating sim game that in reality is a touching and squeezing simulator. The gameplay feels pervy at times, and gets repetitive and boring fairly quickly. There are no visual issues, and motion controls make things more interesting, but it unfortunately isn't enough to make it entertaining.SENRAN KAGURA Reflexions - an interactive adventure simulator in which the player will have to participate in many dialogues about all sorts of things and massage girls who ask for it and languish with the desire to feel The latest game in a truly weird series that has had rhythm cooking games, beat-em-ups, and a water gun shooting game will see its latest release shockingly come to the West on the Switch this summer.SENRAN KAGURA Reflexions makes its debut on PC with robust controller support, HD graphics, and 60 FPS performance.
After a short time, you find yourself holding hands with her and, through stimulating parts of her hands with basic reflexology, trigger certain moods and day dreams.Each of these day dreams takes place in one of seven environments, dependent on which part of Asuka’s left or right hand you massaged, with each palm, thumb, and finger on each hand being potential targets (ProTip: there’s an easy-to-learn pattern). Lucky me!You play an un-named person seemingly from Asuka’s past, encountering her at school one day. She’s also my favourite character of the series. Peach Beach Splash and Bon Appetit changed up the beat ’em up formula, but the fan service remained, of course!Reflexions is all about fan service: it’s the Intimacy Mode of the other games, wrapped up in a light visual novel format.Reflexions focuses on Asuka, of the Hanzo shinobi school and the lead character of many of the previous games. Every time I hear of a new SK game port to PC, my heart beats just a little bit faster.While Senran Kagura was initially a beat ’em up game, right from the get-go it’s included fan service: dress-up features including lingerie and swimsuits, as well as moveable accessories lots of titillating poses and innuendo in the dialog and cutscenes Diorama Mode, in which you’re able to place shinobi in compromising poses for screenshots and the recently controversial Intimacy Mode, in you can touch your chosen ninja girl with independently controllable “grabby hands”.
Keep touching and you’ll be able to enter Glorious Reflexology Mode.Glorious Reflexology Mode gives you one minute to massage one of Asuka’s arms or legs in a specified manner. After you’ve reached a certain threshold, the background changes to reflect Asuka’s major mood. The moods are represented by colours — blue, purple, orange/yellow, red, and green — making it easy to see the effects of your touches.
Though it’s been a few months since I played the other games in the series, it seems to me that the graphics have improved again, with Asuka’s 3D model seeming to be a bit more detailed and better animated. These sequences are entirely fixed, however you’re only able to control the rhythm of the massage and not the camera or direct placement of the massage tool.Gameplay continues through a series of short visual-novel style scenes, day-dream Intimacy Mode, and Glorious Reflexology, until you’ve managed to complete each of the five moods for Asuka, unlocking her heart.As usual, Asuka looks wonderful. Fail and the story simply doesn’t progress.To begin with you’re only able to use your hands to massage her left thigh in Glorious Reflexology Mode, but as you progress you’ll unlock three other implements for use on other areas of her body. If you succeed, then you proceed to another short visual novel segment during which Asuka explains her growing feelings for you in respect of the primary mood/colour established in the previous Intimacy Mode section.
I would have loved to see some more interesting costumes like the gift-wrap swimsuit and the transparent school uniform, but at least I’ve been able to duplicate my earlier Yin-Mode Asuka catgirl, anyway.Other unlockables include title screen backgrounds, images and a video, and background music and menu voices: all pretty standard for the series, but definitely still welcome here. I want more Asuka! UnlockablesReflexions wouldn’t be a proper Senran Kagura game without unlockables, but the number of items here is considerably smaller than in the rest of the series: less than a handful of swimsuits, a dozen or so other costumes, another dozen or so hairstyles, and a collection of accessories comprise the dress-up options for Asuka.I don’t think there’s anything too unusual in any of the dress-up options, but a number of old favourites are here. But even so, I was a bit disappointed when I completed the story. I finished the game with 100% achievements (though with a few costumes left to unlock) within about three-and-a-half hours.That’s not bad given the price of the game, especially considering there’s still some replayability, with further unlockables “Mini-Reflexology Mode” and Diorama Mode. A good size?“When a girl says it’s a good size … ” (Shannon Doherty, Mallrats)If there’s one thing that disappointed me about Reflexions, it’s the length.
If you’ve enjoyed the other SK games, however, then yes, you should definitely buy Reflexions!It’s short and only has a single character, but it’s extremely well made and reasonably priced for the content that’s included. I’d love to see even more characters return for some one-on-one reflexology.So, we’ve reached the all-important question: is Reflexions worth a purchase?If you haven’t played a Senran Kagura game then Reflexions is probably not the best place to start, though I’m sure you’ll have some fun with it, regardless. Launch-day DLCLove it or hate it, DLC has been a part of the SK series for most of its life, and the PC releases are no exception, with only Shinovi Versus and Bon Appetit being DLC-less.Reflexions comes with an impressive line up of 21 launch-day DLC products, including four free character-based costume packs short stories based on four other popular characters: Yumi, Murasaki, Ryona, and Yomi three new Glorious Reflexology techniques and other dress-up options.
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