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Senran Kagura Burst

Sengran Kagura Burst is a side-scrolling "beat-'em-up" action game for the 3DS. The player assumes control of one of five different female ninja characters. The more the game characters are damaged by enemies…

55 30 August 2012

Senran Kagura Burst is a fighting developed by Tamsoft, released 30 August 2012 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Senran Kagura Burst is

Senran Kagura Burst is a fighting game developed by Tamsoft and released in 2012. It was published by Marvelous AQL. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sengran Kagura Burst is a side-scrolling "beat-'em-up" action game for the 3DS. The player assumes control of one of five different female ninja characters. The more the game characters are damaged by enemies, the more their clothes are torn off. The information for each character's back story, major plot points, and general information on the universe of Senran Kagura is displayed in what is called the "novel", and is structured similarly to a visual novel. The novel is introduced at major plot points in the game story. The main gameplay consists of battling through the world of the story. As the game progresses, the player's character levels up and gains new moves and abilities, and…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view 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 Burst is the second of 29 entries we hold in the Senran Kagura series. It arrived 11 months after Senran Kagura: Shoujo-tachi no Shinei. The next entry was Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus in 2013. Its critic score of 55 is 9 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash at 76.

See all 29 Senran Kagura games in release order →

How it was received

Senran Kagura Burst holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Senran Kagura Burst launched on 30 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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When did Senran Kagura Burst come out?
Senran Kagura Burst was released on 30 August 2012 for Nintendo 3DS.

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