Hyperdimension Neptunia series
Neptunia: Virtual Stars
Neptunia Virtual Stars is an action RPG coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Neptunia series. This game follows the CPUs as virtual idols teaming up with Mi and Yu of MEWTRAL to save planet EMO from the…
Neptunia: Virtual Stars is an adventure developed by Compile Heart, released 2 March 2021 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Neptunia: Virtual Stars is
Neptunia: Virtual Stars is an adventure game developed by Compile Heart and released in 2021. It was published by Idea Factory International, Inc.. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Enter Virtualand - a digital world that exists alongside the networks of various dimensions. Within Virtualand lies the planet EMO - a planet faced with extinction due to the a maleficent group of content destroyers known as Anti. In an act of desperation, the digital goddess of the planet Emo, Fair, sends a distress signal to other dimensions in hopes to find a savior of this planet. And the saviors that were reached? The rising VTuber stars, Mi and Yu, members of MEWTRAL, as well as the Goddesses of Gamindustri: Neptune, Noire, Blanc, and Vert! Can MEWTRAL and the Goddesses band together and save planet EMO from complete destruction?
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series
Neptunia: Virtual Stars is the 20th of 33 entries we hold in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. It arrived 2 years after Super Neptunia RPG: Party Member - If. The next entry was Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars - Day One Edition in 2021. Its critic score of 64 is almost exactly the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory at 85.
How it was received
Neptunia: Virtual Stars holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Neptunia: Virtual Stars launched on 2 March 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero and The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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