Short Peace: Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day

 PlayStation 3
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 18 Ratings

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  1. Shinji170981
    May 8, 2014
    2
    I've bought Ranko Tsukigime and i regret the purchase actually only for the game part. I completed the game on the first playthrough within 43 minutes +25 minutes cutscenes. The cutscenes were fun and the boss fights were interesting but paying 40€ for the game is way too expensive.
    The animes were awesome. I enjoyed the 65 minutes from start to finish. So if you find the game for a 10er,    I've bought Ranko Tsukigime and i regret the purchase actually only for the game part. I completed the game on the first playthrough within 43 minutes +25 minutes cutscenes. The cutscenes were fun and the boss fights were interesting but paying 40€ for the game is way too expensive.
    The animes were awesome. I enjoyed the 65 minutes from start to finish. So if you find the game for a 10er, buy it for the animes, not the game. Turned the game in for something else on the next day.    … Expand
  2. ryuzaki57
    May 11, 2014
    4
    Difficult to judge a game like Short Peace... because it isn't one! Composed with 4 anime and a little game made by no one else than Suda 51. After finishing the PS3 Blu-ray, I'm kinda crestfallen.

    Rather than a game wih animated sequences, I see Ranko Tsukigime Longest Day (it's the name of the game) more like an anime with gameplay parts. The biggest point of the game is its bizarre    Difficult to judge a game like Short Peace... because it isn't one! Composed with 4 anime and a little game made by no one else than Suda 51. After finishing the PS3 Blu-ray, I'm kinda crestfallen.

    Rather than a game wih animated sequences, I see Ranko Tsukigime Longest Day (it's the name of the game) more like an anime with gameplay parts. The biggest point of the game is its bizarre atmosphere, its weird design and its continuous gags. Suda let his imagination run wild and gave birth to a psychedelic experience that rivals late Satoshi Kon's movies. The story as about Ranko, a not-so-ordinary high school girl leaving at night equipped with a violin in the purpose of killing her own father. Here, I just described you th part of the story that can actually be expressed with words, because the rest is absolutely absurd in the mix of unexpected and unthinkable things that happen.

    Artistically speaking, it remains very interesting. Cut-scenes vary between different styles (classical anime, watercolor, comic, manga) in incredible and spicy events. The game itself is kinda stylish with its paint effects, old-school shooting and a ludicrous final battle in 8-bit. The gameplay is pretty much limited though : it's merely about racing through the few stages as fast as possible while striking monsters with the right timing, so as to shake off the dark forces behind you. The whole thing lasts about 3 hours and trophies aren't exactly exciting.

    I expected better of the various anime. They're certainly worthwhile from a stylistic point of view, but the stories lack substance. The first three are tales related to the Japanese folklore with Youkais and Onis, while the fourth is an SF anime that takes place in an alternative future after world's end. All are definitely too short and the SF one, by far the most interesting, should have really been developed a lot more to present its background and expand its universe. The action and the atmosphere are really cool and it has the potential to be a major SF reference a bit like Pale Cocoon (which was short too but also more meaningful)

    Whatever you may think about those (I'm not here to decide which kind of anime is good or not), one thing is sure : a 2-hour long anime being around 20€ and Ranko Tsukigime looking like a 8-10€ downloadable game, the 50€ that BandaiNamco asks you for this disc are way too much.    … Expand
  3. Steph_Kinn
    Sep 9, 2015
    6
    "Short Peace is well... A short piece, I beat the game portion of the disc in less than an hour, and the story? Pure madness. However, I would be lying if I said I didn't fully enjoy the experience. It has a very Sonic the Hedgehog type feel to it, past paced with each level running you anywhere from two minutes to three making replaying them no problem to hunt for collectables. And you"Short Peace is well... A short piece, I beat the game portion of the disc in less than an hour, and the story? Pure madness. However, I would be lying if I said I didn't fully enjoy the experience. It has a very Sonic the Hedgehog type feel to it, past paced with each level running you anywhere from two minutes to three making replaying them no problem to hunt for collectables. And you WILL replay them. The wacky randomness of the levels and overly dramatic cut scenes got me to smile more than once, and I find myself going back to it again and again. I would say look at some gameplay footage, if it looks like something you'd enjoy, you probably will. Just know it's short going in. I got the import for 19$, and for that price, I would say it's defiantly worth it. If you like that kind of thing that is, which it happens I do. I really, really do."… Expand
  4. frederik1478
    Mar 7, 2022
    6
    This is a game made with love and I can see the love the game is not that fun to play but it is kind of good experience to get through with a I like it. I don't like it. It's worth trying at least and the art style and all the artists in it is worth to see but this is weird .I like to think that this is a parody game because at least the game makes sense that we because the story is kindThis is a game made with love and I can see the love the game is not that fun to play but it is kind of good experience to get through with a I like it. I don't like it. It's worth trying at least and the art style and all the artists in it is worth to see but this is weird .I like to think that this is a parody game because at least the game makes sense that we because the story is kind of anime which you find at the lowest part of my anime list.but the short films are really good so is it worth buying for that… Expand
  5. Onask
    Oct 7, 2018
    2
    Sinceramente, de lo peor que poseo actualmente del catálogo de PlayStation 3.

    No consigo entender como este juego vio la luz siendo además del señor Goichi Suda (Suda 51). Básicamente el juego es una especie de historia en vídeos de anime, con algunas secciones de "gameplay" que se basan en un scroll lateral puramente arcade en la que avanzas y matas enemigos a gran velocidad.    Sinceramente, de lo peor que poseo actualmente del catálogo de PlayStation 3.

    No consigo entender como este juego vio la luz siendo además del señor Goichi Suda (Suda 51). Básicamente el juego es una especie de historia en vídeos de anime, con algunas secciones de "gameplay" que se basan en un scroll lateral puramente arcade en la que avanzas y matas enemigos a gran velocidad.

    Historia de la cual ni me enteraba de lo que pasaba, gameplay simplón a más no poder, duración irrisioria...

    Realmente no se qué más decir, porque, en verdad, no tiene mucho más.

    A no ser que te apetezca pasar un mal rato, no recomendado.    … Expand
  6. riseandshineFF
    Dec 4, 2021
    10
    I know $40 is too much for a 1-hour game, but this game deserve better than this, it's a really short masterpiece.

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 32
  3. Negative: 5 out of 32
  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Oct 17, 2014
    70
    For anime fans, it's literally pulling together some of the brightest minds in the industry and allowing them to run free with a very creative format. Short stories are always less inhibited than full-length projects, and if nothing else, everything that we find in the Short Peace package is very creative indeed.
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  2. Digital Chumps
    Oct 16, 2014
    62
    On its own, Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day is lightweight runner with scant traces of inspiration. As integral part of the dynamic, multimedia Short Peace project, its relative value becomes a bit more manageable. That it's all being packaged and sold as a videogame leaves it feeling heavy on good natured intent, but thin on actual content.
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  3. GameSpot
    Oct 14, 2014
    60
    Come to Short Peace for the variety of content, stay for the imaginative and masterful animation, but leave Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day at the door unless you're in desperate need of something to pass the time.
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