GameZone: You have to give credit to the folks behind the wonderful Guild games on the 3DS. Each of them are wildly different from one another, offering glimpses at various gameplay styles, and all at a very affordable price. The only one absent from the full set was Weapon Shop de Omasse, a game so wonderfully meta and so full of character, it's almost not surprising that it took this long for the game to make it over here. Still, I'm glad it finally did.
D+PAD Magazine's review of Weapon Shop De Omasse.
"I don’t know if the Guild games have any potential sequels, the PS Vita continuation of the Liberation Maiden IP is encouraging, but this is a game which has some great ideas I would love to see expanded on in a sequel. Definitely a good game experiment which could have been on the level of a fantasy Papers Please, but in its own right it is great fun apart from the small amount of activities to do and the lack of replayability."
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PixlBit | "It’s hard to believe that a quaint game concept where you play the part of an apprentice arms dealer in an RPG could lead me to a dark place, but it happened. Weapon Shop de Omasse, with its cute exterior, forces you to spend time between intended-to-be-comical character interactions pounding away at the most laborious, repetitive, and malformed rhythm game ever created. Whether the focus of the game’s design was the humor, the rhythms, or the quirky setting, every single piece fails to entertain, engage, or to even make any damn sense.Things start rough from the opening tutorial where there is quite a bit more talking than truly necessary, but this isn’t unusual for a tutorial in a modern game – they can be pretty mouthy. I stayed positive all through my lessons since there were moments that made me smirk too, like the laugh tracks and audience reactions to different characters. But then the teaching was over and I had to start running the shop for real.
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