The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love

The Shinsengumi: defenders of the capital. In this game, you can fall in love with a rugged, passionate Shinsengumi captain.

60 18 November 2014

What The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love is

The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love is an adventure game developed by Dogenzaka Lab and released in 2014. It was published by D3 Publisher. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The year is 1864, at the end of the Edo period. A group of men bravely took action to extinguish a burning house. Those men were part of a group called the Shinsengumi. In order to protect the city of Kyoto, they would rush to any place that needed them. The curtain rises on the crusade of the members of the Shinsengumi, whose hearts burn as passionately as a the flames they fight...

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama, historical and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 15 hrs.

What it launched against

The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love launched on 18 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.

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