GameCritics: I thought my experience with Japanese role-playing games (JRPGs) had inured me to their flights of fancy—the bizarre plots, the random settings, the excessively sexualized female characters. I had gotten used to it for the most part. I even began to accept that as I started each new game, I was inevitably going to be submerged in strangeness. There was no use fighting it. Then I booted up Mugen Souls and discovered that I was going to be playing as Chou-Chou, a god not simply satisfied with having created the various worlds of a galaxy, but who also wants the denizens of those worlds to bow before her awesome perfection. How does she intend to go about this? By flirting with them.
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
EastAsiaSoft brings Mugen Souls to the Nintendo Switch. This turn-based JRPG follows the traditional JRPG model of taking a party out into the wild.
Mugen Souls was a PS3 game created by Compile Heart and published by NIS America that gives strong Disgaea vibes and has been updated and ported to the Switch.
