/nep/ - Hyperdimension Neptunia

An odd mod request, but has anyone though of a full overhaul for Rebirth 1 to swap out the story of the OG? As much as I like rebirth 1, I feel that the original had the strongest story.

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>>7379
Speaking from experience (pics related), I dunno what's left to do. RB2 and RB3 could use another pass but that's not on the horizon anymore with the old group. Things happen.

If anyone modern wants a go, it shouldn't be nearly as godawful today as it was back 10 years ago. Tools are just so much better now than they were in the original Re;Translation days, and the JP script is availible with the game itself. I suppose there's an instituional loss of information about some the weirdness with the game engine, but most of it is documented here. and in similar pinned threads. The main hurdle is figuring out Neptools (which replaced Kitserver). There's a few interesting undocumented features. Also maybe replacing the "new" font is in order...

But there's not much going on with the series other than CH re-releasing Re;Birth every fifteen minutes so there's not much to worry about. There might be some stuff in a year or two but unless something interesting happens...I mean, what was the last Nep game anyone was excited for? 4GO? The Canadian RPG?

>>8842
ohh, we're more similar than i would've guessed.
i probably should've taken after your example and not included the secondary characters, looking back

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>>8840
I like Clara, she's funny and cute. Cute and funny, perhaps.
I like Otsuu as a protag more than Jack. She's more direct and more of a leader while Jack is just kind of there to be support (both literally and story-wise).
Hameln is just really cool, and so is Red.
Thumbelina is there twice because I didn't like her in 2 but I did like her in Nightmares.
>>8841
Most likely, I never saw anyone else ever post Neptune (or any Neptunia/CH character)

>>8843
I'm about to be in the same boat you are. My ISP, the only tethered ISP I can get, is now charging $100/month for some of the worst residential service one could ask for. I rarely hit over 10 MBPS. 

So I'm going with 5G, which of course means that I'm going to be blocked from 4cuck as well. We can be cucked neighbors together.

>>8843
Also I don't know if it helps but I've tried clearing cookies and posting in other threads, and in some threads I'/m blocked from uploading images and others I'm not. I think it's literally just random.

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>>8845
>everyone hates Thumbelina
Good. I hated her even more in 2, actually. Especially when I started liking Cinderella, after Thumbelina was a giant bitch to her the whole game.
On another Mary Skelter-related note, yesterday was Alice's birthday. While I don't dislike Alice, I don't really like her that much either. She suffers too much from what I call "main girl syndrome". That is, she's a fairly bland, inoffensive girl, often a childhood friend, who is treated as the "canon" choice and shoved down your throat constantly. The only thing she's missing is being a healer archetype. Her best moments are when she goes monotone and starts verbally ripping into someone, and her entire role in 2, but throughout the rest of Nightmares and Finale, she's pretty much just the typical childhood friend character among much better options.
That said, I think she works well as an Alice archetype, trapped in a horrific wonderland, constantly questioning the nature of everything around her. Mary Skelter uses its fairy tale motifs extremely well, at least in the first two games. Finale drops the ball there and it's one of the reasons I consider it inferior to the first two.

>>8846
>>8847
Welcome to the club. It's pretty comfy here, actually. No shitposters, no need t

In recent board news, I'm fixing many of the oldest threads that have been broken by the site back end changing over time.

In series news since the last post, many new Nep games have come out. Nep 5 is rumored to be on the way, there's collaboration game with a Canadian company and there's also a Nep phone game (an SRPG) being made.

Also Tsunako left Compile Heart because her parents are sick and she's looking after them. But she's still working on the Nep games.

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I picked this up really cheap inna bargain bin. Worth it?

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>>5995
>Nep 5 is rumored to be on the way
This was all the way back in 2018? Fucking hell. I guess I can understand why Nepfags were/are so frustrated even if I really like what Compile Heart was focusing in during that period instead.
>>8810
Is this just a humblebrag? Of course it's worth it, it's arguably the best game in the series. I would recommend you play HDN PS3 or Re;Birth 3 first, though, as this one doesn't really set up the characters and setting like they do and mostly assumes you're already familiar with them.

>>8813
>Is this just a humblebrag? Of course it's worth it, it's arguably the best game in the series.
I'm more just asking because I fret about possibly getting in on a series when it's on #7. Because yeah, I don't know anything about this setting or characters.

>>8817
>when it's on #7
It's actually more like the fourth, being the fourth mainline game. It's called VII as a joke on it being the seventh game in all (counting the spinoffs) and being a direct sequel to the previous game which was titled V/Victory. It's properly read as V-2, not VII as in Seven.

>>8482
>>Nintendo of America really did suggest giving Pikachu large feminine breasts at one point, Japanese media confirms
I am very sad no design art of that seems to have suvived also NOA was actully not awfull and puritanical at some point?.

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>>7784 (OP) 
https://www.gematsu.com/2025/08/hyperdimension-neptunia-rebirth3-v-generation-for-switch-launches-this-fall-in-asia-with-english-language-support
And here's Re;Birth 3. I do wonder a bit why they announced them all individually instead of at once. Did they think it might inhibit LE sales or something?
>>8482
If anything, this just tells me Nintendo of America was always filled with furfags. Furry content has always gotten leniency from the censors compared to anime girls, which just shows how fake and arbitrary it all is.

>>8503
I gotta wonder how these games are releasing like this, did Nintendo refuse digital but not physical? I'd assume that any game card would need to be authorized by Nintendo, so I gotta wonder where the double standard comes from.

>>8764
Nintendo Of America vs Nintendo Of Asia (English)/Japan (Source of the Asian version). That's it, it's that simple.

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https://www.gematsu.com/2025/11/eastasiasoft-launches-online-store-alongside-american-subsidiary

Eastasiasoft just announced they're opening their own online storefront as well as an American publishing branch. They may start selling these games through their American branch to make them easier to purchase since they don't have to go through PlayAsia. Additionally, they're teasing the idea of selling physical PC games, which may be how they intend to distribute an uncensored version of Tokyo Clanpool since that game got screwed over by both Steam and GOG. At the least, they'll probably host the uncensor patch they've been holding onto through this storefront.

>>8764
Nintendo is pushing significantly different publishing standards for Japanese/Asian SKUs and global SKUs. The Neptunia Re;Birth games were cleared for a Japanese/Asian release but not for a release in the west. This game, Brave X Junction (second pic related), was also similarly release in the Japanese eshop but denied a western release with the reasoning laid out by the publisher as a semi-joke comic. This game released globally without issues on both Steam and Playstation (it's rated 7+ in Europe); only Nintendo is this restrictive with this reasoning. They've gone as far as to

i know this post is almost a decade old but fuck dicksword, it has killed so many communities by siphoning all of their users and turned forums and imageboards into deserted towns.

>>8767
This. The entire thing is probably a ((( gayop ))) designed to do just that.

>>8767
Not really, a lot of forums were already dead long before discuck, and reddit already did what you described before it anyways.

>>8772
It would be foolish to deny the truth, anon. Discock did far more damage to forums than Reddit ever could've hoped for.

>>8773
>It would be foolish to deny the truth, anon.
This. But that's presuming the individual you're talking with is an actual person, and not some niggerpilling kike, for instance.


>Discock did far more damage to forums than Reddit ever could've hoped for.
IMO there's no question that what you say is true. It's probable that it didn't even start out as a glownigger-funded gayop, but only became so after the kikes realized what a goldmine it could prove to be to lock away free discourse from the public eyes (while still leaving the entirety of it all under their ((( watchful eyes ))), ofc). Untold amounts of content have disappeared from the Internets via doxxcord, cloistered away in these little information tombs.

It's pure evil.

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Not in the picture is the U Purple Heart daki cover.

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bought a vita game today!
i went to a game store the other day to buy something, and was surprised to see this behind a glass. Estival Versus was on my list of vita games to eventually buy, but i was under the assumption that it either had an extremely limited or no physical release, since that seemed to also be the case for a ton of other vita games i wanted (and also every other SK game that wasn't Peach Beach Splash or re:Newal to my knowledge), but no, here was the limited edition.
i was torn, though, because it was relatively expensive and there were other things i was saving up to get. but then i started to get anxious...
what if it wasn't there the next time i went...what if someone else gets to it before me...it started to consume my thoughts. i won't let that happen. i won't let anyone take it from me...it's mine. mine.

ahem
but, anyway, i went back today, and it was still there, so i bought it.

>>8238
Nice find. I thought for some reason that the Vita version was missing content from the PS4 version, but from what I could tell it was just an online mode. Other than that and some compromises for a portable, it should be good.

>>8238
Nice, don't let anyone take away what's rightfully yours

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Somehow, for some reason, God saw fit to bless me today because I run across a complete first-run copy of Macross Delta Scramble: Rune Pika Sound Edition at a local store that didn't know what it had and was selling it for ten Freedom Bucks. For those wondering why this is so "special", it's an exclusive "deluxe" edition of the game with an additional 30 songs from the entire Macross franchise.

>>8337
Neat! Have fun, Anon.  :)

I have no idea if this is the best way to go about it but I usually just stick to the pre-set sword, hand to hand and gun routes and set attacks from least powerful to most powerful. I usually put transformation attacks on the last triangle attack and combo link on the last circle and cross attacks. Never had any trouble with this setup.

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>>7836
>set attacks from least powerful to most powerful
I don't think this is a good way to do it. If it's anything like the later games, every combo attack you use adds to your wait time, so you should set your strongest attacks first in line so you can kill the enemy faster and not have to use as many moves.

>>7853
>every combo attack you use adds to your wait time
Honestly I have no idea if it does. At most, it would only be an issue until you get Neptune Break but if it does it has never caused any issues for what that is worth. 
Pretty sure the strongest ones are not able to be set early though, there are some limitations but I do not remember them off the top of my head.

The most helpful thing at lower levels IIRC is to attack elemental weaknesses even if that means using guns most of the time. It's been a few years since I last played but I seem to remember just setting the newest combo attacks and not thinking about it too hard. If you have effective healing and you're hitting weaknesses you should be able to sustain yourself.

>>8165
Definitely worth doing with Compa but Neptune and IF both hit decently hard with physical or whatever the non weapon attacks are called. Pretty sure their gun attacks are weaker than their physicals.