Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online

 PlayStation 4
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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 43
  3. Negative: 11 out of 43
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  1. Cyph3rPunk
    Apr 18, 2018
    4
    Welp, time to but Mymoo on blast - He meant create an account for here.

    Anyways, turn on the game, get hit with 1 minute of unskippable into crap, then a 2 minute load time, then another long load time. I would give it a pass if there were zero load times in the game at all, but I didn't get far enough to find out (more on that in a second). Finally get into the game, and I am met    Welp, time to but Mymoo on blast - He meant create an account for here.

    Anyways, turn on the game, get hit with 1 minute of unskippable into crap, then a 2 minute load time, then another long load time. I would give it a pass if there were zero load times in the game at all, but I didn't get far enough to find out (more on that in a second).

    Finally get into the game, and I am met with what feels like a 13 year old fanfiction of SAO. The story is a mess from the get go, and has just some of the highest levels of cringe I've seen in a game. I gave it a chance and actually tried to read what was being said, but I just couldnt after a certain point. Get to the opening cutscene (which is unskippable like everything else) and just watch it through. Whatever, standard anime stuff. I end up skipping all the next text to see if the gameplay is actually good. First thing is I move forward and all control is taken away at the site of the first mob then more cringe dialogue. Combat just seems bog standard ARPG stuff. End up just saying screw it and deleting the game off my HDD. I paid $15, so my bar was set extremely low for this game. I cannot imagine how someone not a diehard fan of this series would feel paying $50 for this.

    I like my anime and my ARPG/JRPGs to death, but there was only so much I could attempt to stomach before just giving up.

    4 points given because the art style was well done for what they were going for and the voice acting for English was good. Taking 6 off because whomever gave the greenlight for this game needs to be taken out back behind the barn and shot.

    Back to more mindless grinding on PSO2.    … Expand
  2. mitcher78
    Oct 11, 2017
    2
    Ok, I have created an account just to say: WHAAAT??? Seriously? This game is one of the biggest pieces of crap that I have played in my whole life. Repetitive, boring, absurd, with PS2 graphics and terrible gameplay. Stay away!
  3. RepentantSky
    Feb 24, 2018
    4
    This game is bad. There's no two ways about, it's the worst in the entire series. It's not a good starting point for anyone either. The point of the game is obviously to make fun of SAO, and it gets two point for that, but the other two points only come because the game actually looks pretty good and it functions, because no game that functions deserves a zero. If I did believe that, thisThis game is bad. There's no two ways about, it's the worst in the entire series. It's not a good starting point for anyone either. The point of the game is obviously to make fun of SAO, and it gets two point for that, but the other two points only come because the game actually looks pretty good and it functions, because no game that functions deserves a zero. If I did believe that, this game would be a three, because it's just awful. The gameplay is more simple than any of the other action rpgs in the series, and the online servers are total garbage. The lag makes them entirely unplayable. I platinumed this game, but it's one of those where I almost feel guilty about it, because it's so easy to get it, it's hardly worth it. The game is also incredibly short, like shorter than any SAO game I've ever played. I got the platinum in four days and about 25 hours of gameplay. It's really that easy, as is the rest of the game. If the game was meant to be terrible, that would be one thing, but no game should try so hard to be meta that it actually makes the game worse for anyone who buys it, and that's exactly what this game is. I got it for 20 dollars on sale, and I still don't think it's worth it.… Expand
  4. tomvs123
    Aug 30, 2019
    3
    It's not very good.

    The last Hyperdimension Neptunia game I played was Victory (on PS3) and I had a great time with it, primarily due to the large number of console war references and its turn-based combat system. I've become bored of button mashers or supposed "good" action combat systems where you simply need to learn a few moves and repeat them throughout the game. I prefer    It's not very good.

    The last Hyperdimension Neptunia game I played was Victory (on PS3) and I had a great time with it, primarily due to the large number of console war references and its turn-based combat system. I've become bored of button mashers or supposed "good" action combat systems where you simply need to learn a few moves and repeat them throughout the game. I prefer turn-based systems, because even at their worst, they at least require constant thought and basic strategy.

    I'll get into the story and writing first. The story consists of mostly meaningless filler. You play as the main Hyperdimension characters and their sisters while they're playing a basic MMORPG. You do nothing outside of this MMORPG, but do occasionally hear about people doing things outside of it. The MMORPG plot consists of finding magical artifacts to revive the world's goddesses, reviving them, defeating the evil god's minions, and then defeating the evil god. That's all you get from the MMORPG's world. The rest of the game is filled with dealing with a hacker who's trying to interfere with the game and your characters interacting with each other.

    The character interactions aren't horrible, but require that you really like or know these characters. Unlike the last Hyperdimension game I played, there's very few references here. I noted two console war references and a handful of other MMORPG references (Sword Art Online being the most referenced). The writing simply isn't as interesting or clever as Victory. But I got a few chuckles out of the character interactions, so it's not all bad.

    The combat is simply trash. This is the most unsatisfying and simplistic action combat game I ever remember playing. There's almost no audio/visual feedback when you hit something with a weapon. There's no sense of impact; it's like I was cutting through air when damaging monsters. You have a single attack combo (for each character) that you'll be using for the entire game. And if you have carpel tunnel syndrome, beware, as you'll be mashing the square button constantly, as that's the primary strategy for killing all bosses in the game (with the occasional block). Skills are mostly worthless, except when you get a boss into break status, where they take more damage. Then you'll want to use your most basic skills (the ones you start with) as they're the most efficient damage/sp-wise. I couldn't find any reason to use the more powerful, and much more expensive skills.

    And then there's combat bugs and issues. In most boss battles, I either got stuck within the boss (and couldn't move for the entire battle) or my attack/defense commands stopped working (which required opening and closing the menu to resolve). Commanding your team is pointless. No matter what command I chose, I couldn't get them to consistently block or heal, so I just got used to their stupidity. Party positioning AI is stupid. Your battle members want to be right on top of you at all times, ensuring that they all get hit by every attack while simultaneously preventing you from seeing whether your character is blocking. Getting them to stay on one side of a boss while I slowly moved around to the other side became an almost-required skill. And in the last battle, the boss has a repeating attack that kills everyone unless they block. I ended up having to complete that one solo.

    Graphically, the game is a mixed bag. The environments look pretty good, but your characters are strange. Their top-halves are modeled well, though their faces are more rounded their 2d portraits, so they just don't look like the same people. Their bottom halves are a disappointment, given there's a big focus on panty fan service in this game (several of the unlockable cg pictures feature this). Their bottom halves are vita-quality. I found a total of two costumes per main character (not counting their main costume from previous games), with several color variations for each. This isn't great, but I'm surprised we got this much considering the quality of the rest of the game.

    Oh, and the horrendous blur. There's either a blur filter applied over the entire game or it's running at a scaled resolution. This applies to the 3d fighting sections and the 2d story sections. It gets worse in the 2d sections as they frequently move character portraits back and forth, which moves them in and out of focus, showing them off in their full blurry pixelated glory.

    To finish up, I received very little sense of accomplishment after completing this game. It's primarily for people who love the Hyperdimension characters, don't mind filler content, and don't mind horrible action combat systems. Here's hoping VII is better. I'll be trying that in a few months.    … Expand
  5. OneManCast
    Oct 13, 2019
    2
    Awful, AWFUL game! The most INSUFFERABLE version of the main cast, the most AGGRAVATING NPCs and both were so bad that I was rooting for the villains. Which, it is fine to make villains seem a bit sympathetic, but not at Gehaburn point where I hate everything else around it. The OST strangely bleeds into each other. The mechanics are glitchy and awful to the point where I think TamsoftAwful, AWFUL game! The most INSUFFERABLE version of the main cast, the most AGGRAVATING NPCs and both were so bad that I was rooting for the villains. Which, it is fine to make villains seem a bit sympathetic, but not at Gehaburn point where I hate everything else around it. The OST strangely bleeds into each other. The mechanics are glitchy and awful to the point where I think Tamsoft employees need a different career path. The ONLY thing likable about this game are the character designs, the crossovers from SAO and the level design. Other than that, garbage game!… Expand
  6. DARKOBLIVIONGOD
    Apr 27, 2020
    0
    Very grindy to show off its lack of content atleadt it upgraded a bit in showing off more sensualized scenes for normal people and no longer turn based.
  7. Greymon96
    Aug 23, 2020
    0
    My sister stop playing four goddesses online after we found out the game was too unstable, Worst spinoff game ever.

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71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. RPG Fan
    Jan 18, 2018
    74
    If you don't already like the Neptunia series, you will probably be hard-pressed to like this game. It's a pretty typical action RPG, with a ho-hum story. However, as a Neptunia fan, this game does what the Neptunia series is best at: having fun with its cast of characters. For once, these characters are taking a relaxing break from the toils of their daily life and not worrying about getting thrown out of their country by evil forces or thinking about how to best serve their citizens. Gaming has always been one of the great pillars of the Neptunia series. It's just a shame the gameplay in this particular game isn't the best.
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  2. Everyeye.it
    Dec 15, 2017
    73
    The story is still affected by the usual long-winded dialogues that could bore players less accustomed to reading excessive texts, but the witty and crazy gags, the quotes to distinguished franchises, and an exquisitely frenetic combat system will delight any lover of videogames of Japanese production.
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  3. Gaming Age
    Nov 20, 2017
    50
    The battles here are repetitive and uninspired. Again, depending on your feelings towards the series’ other games, you may think that’s nothing new, but here it just feels much more noticeably bland. It never connects. MMOs and faux-MMOs are ripe for parody, which you’d think would make them ideal targets for Hyperdimension Neptunia’s brand of game-centric humour, but as Cyberdimension Neptunia shows, it’s apparently harder than it looks.
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