Hyperdimension Neptunia series
Hyperdimension Neptunia
This unique RPG features game consoles personified as goddesses, CPUs (Console Patron Units), who you can customize visually with equipment to enhance their stats. Players take the role of Neptune and follow…
Hyperdimension Neptunia is an adventure developed by Compile Heart, released 29 July 2010 on PlayStation 3.
What Hyperdimension Neptunia is
Hyperdimension Neptunia is an adventure game developed by Compile Heart and released in 2010. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on PhyreEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story unfolds in Gamindustri, a whimsical world divided into four rival regions, each ruled over and worshipped as a divine goddess known as a Console Patron Unit. For ages these goddesses have been locked in a bitter struggle for supremacy called the Console War. Among them is Neptune, the protagonist, who finds herself overwhelmed when the other three goddesses turn against her all at once. Defeated and cast down from the heavens, Neptune loses consciousness and plummets to the world below. She awakens in the care of a kindhearted girl named Compa, only to realize she has lost all memory of who she is. When word reaches her that monsters have begun running rampant across the land…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series
Hyperdimension Neptunia is the first of 33 entries we hold in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. The next entry was Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 in 2011. Its critic score of 58 is 8 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory at 85.
How it was received
Hyperdimension Neptunia holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Hyperdimension Neptunia launched on 29 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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