Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson

Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson is a 3D side-scrolling action game made for the 3DS, and was developed by the same team which created Senran Kagura Burst. New gameplay is included in the form of pair battles…

65 7 August 2014 ESRB M

What Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson is

Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson is a fighting game developed by Tamsoft and released in 2014. It was published by CyberFront. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson is a 3D side-scrolling action game made for the 3DS, and was developed by the same team which created Senran Kagura Burst. New gameplay is included in the form of pair battles, which allows a second character, to which the player can give commands, to fight alongside the player's character. The playable characters in the game are customizable. Outfits, accessory size and position, and hair color can be changed to the player's liking. Augmented reality functionality was also included in the game. The playable characters could be posed against a real-life background in a variety of poses.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Senran Kagura series

Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson is the fifth of 29 entries we hold in the Senran Kagura series. The next entry was Senran Kagura: Estival Versus in 2015. Its critic score of 65 is almost exactly the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash at 76.

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How it was received

Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson launched on 7 August 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux and Metro Redux. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Metro Redux.

Official trailer