Eugene of Gamerchatter writes, "I’ve spent more time than I thought I ever would playing the Hyperdimension series. Between the main series of games following Neptune and friends or even the side games, it has been a world that I have personally enjoyed and wanted to explore time and time again. Compile Heart and Sting have developed the latest game of the franchise, Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart. But, is it the next best thing to come out of the series?"
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VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "Console wars have been around pretty much since the dawn of videogames, but the Hyperdimension Neptunia series makes light of these arguments by personifying consoles and their manufacturers as cute goddesses and has them battle it out for supremacy. It proved to be a sleeper hit for publisher Compile Heart, who after an initially shaky start with the first entry transformed the series into its most compelling franchise."
Okay, so for the past few years, there's been a franchise known as
Hyperdimension Neptunia. The general conceit is that the games industry is
anthropomorphized as a land called Gamindustri, ruled over by warring
goddesses who have "console wars" to determine supremacy and games
companies are depicted as anthropomorphized anime characters.
Inexplicably, this has grown into a massive franchise of games, one of
which is Hyperdevotion Noire, an alternate universe game where the anime
goddess representing the Sony systems has taken over everything.
It's also not very good.
