The Tomodachi Bros. Revue ep 3 - Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation!
In this episode, the Bros. dive into the world of Hyperdimension Neptunia Directed by Masahiro Mukai and produced by Studio David Production.
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The Hipster Snek: [00:00:05] I am suffering from a terrible cold. Apparently that just kind of decided to kick my butt today. I am The Hipster Snek here with my dear, beloved companions and I apparently sound awful. Going to preemptively apologize.
Dietaku: [00:00:21] You sound fantastic, my friend. You should get head colds more often.
Cog: [00:00:25] You do, actually. You should do this more often and actually, everybody else normally has really crappy voices when they sound ill. You sound like an octave deeper.
Dietaku: [00:00:36] Yeah, you sound fantastic.
The Hipster Snek: [00:00:39] Actually, I would normally take that as just like, oh, hey, that's a good tradeoff. But no, I actually just wake up like every two hours during the night coughing. I already took the last Friday off for hopes that I would just get over this. And it just seems worse now. So as I was saying, I'm the Hipster Snek and these are my beloved companions with me today is, of course, world tree cycles.
Dietaku: [00:01:09] Or Dietaku whichever. I answer too many names.
The Hipster Snek: [00:01:14] Oh, I've introduced you my videos as world tree cycles due to your Twitter handle.
Dietaku: [00:01:20] But I am also the Dietaku. I will answer to that, too.
The Hipster Snek: [00:01:23] Over here we have Cog of Cog Sound Engineering Links now and all of my videos for the amazing sound editing work this man has put forth.
Cog: [00:01:37] I appreciate that.
Dietaku: [00:01:38] You know what? You know what? You better be careful after if you put your voice in now into his protocols with your sexy filter, you're just going to be like, it's just going to have the careless whisper. So you better be careful. I'm just saying.
The Hipster Snek: [00:01:56] Ladies the Snek is single.
Cog: [00:01:58] Oh, man. We're off to a banging start today.
Dietaku: [00:02:01] Speaking of banging Neptunia. Yeah? What is it about?
The Hipster Snek: [00:02:07] Hyperdimension Neptunia, the full official title. I actually double checked the official title of this. Anime is actually Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation.
Cog: [00:02:15] Probably for best results.Best to have already watched episodes one through twelve. Plus the episode 13 OVA which is the entire series right now.
Dietaku: [00:02:29] There's actually David Productions is starting a new series based off of V2.
Dietaku: [00:02:35] But right now this is the entirety of the Neptunia animation experience.So what is Neptunia? What is Neptunia? Is it a game? Is it a visual novel? Is it a deep sense of shame that your parents feel whenever they're like, hello Son!...Oh, and they walk away?
The Hipster Snek: [00:02:52] The best part is, it's all that and so much more. You see Neptunia actually started off as a series of PS3 exclusives of JRPGs and the thing that's really maybe not great, but interesting is that first game in particular pioneered a lot of really previously unseen mechanics and how an RPG will run. And I'll talk more about that in the after hours. But to put a fine point on it, it wasn't really what one might accidentally call a good game on account that it wasn't.
Dietaku: [00:03:30] Oh, I think you could accidentally call it a good game because that's not something you intend to do.
The Hipster Snek: [00:03:36] Yeah, it's it wasn't really a good game. Now, what it was, was a thing of interest and clearly.
Dietaku: [00:03:43] Extremely marketable.
The Hipster Snek: [00:03:45] They saw something there that if they polished it and ran with it, they could make something much, much better. In fact, one of the game devs that vouched for Neptunia's authenticity very early on in its life was Keiji Inafune the Megaman guy.
[00:04:02] Yes, because the next game in the series and I'm not I'm not pooping on anybody effectively is Breath of Fire 6 before a Breath of Fire 6 became a thing. It used the same battle system as Breath of Fire 5. And you replace the main characters with dragon people. I mean, that's basically what it would be. The main thing is transformation and using a movement based weird hybrid action RPG standard JRPG thing.
The Hipster Snek: [00:04:34] The thing of beauty is that every game improves upon that which came before it.Then when it got to its third major game Victory, they ended up having a series of rereleases called the Rebirth series. And those are on steam for those who actually want to play them.Am I going to cover Neptune here on the Snek channel? Eventually, but not immediately. Maybe in 2020. However, after those games are released. David Animation's spend all their money making Jojo part 1 and 2 as awesome as possible, so they had to get cash in the direction as minimal effort as possible. So of course, lowest common denominator equals Hyperdimension Neptunia.Now I'm I'm being half facetious, half facetious.
Cog: [00:05:23] It definitely comes across as a budget title.
Dietaku: [00:05:25] I wish I could find it because the backlash after David Productions, you know, hit it out of the park with Jojo and then they saw that they were doing Neptunia to the next season. There were people who were butt hurt. And it wasn't just like the Jojo guys. JesuOtaku I remember this very vividly was like extremely put out by it. She's like, I'm not going to watch this anime porn. Like it looks like cute girls doing cute thing anime. I knew nothing about it at the time.And I mean, I was more or less right. Which just proves to you how how high my power level really is. And, you know, actually having got into this series, because here just for point of reference, I have played all the Rebirth games and V2. I have not done anything else. I did not play the original game, nor really am I going to, because going back to the Rebirth games after playing V2, it's like. I really miss V2's battle system. It's just it's so much better.
The Hipster Snek: [00:06:33] A thing that does help with context a bit is I'm responsible for these guys knowing that an Neptunia exists. And that's because a friend of mine told me about it. And then I complained at great length that Jojo was being put on hiatus on its account to which I was.
Dietaku: [00:06:54] So you were one of the butt hurt guys!
The Hipster Snek: [00:06:55] I was! On the onset, I'll be honest from the onset.I was. And that's when my friend challenged me. And he said, Snek, you have to play it before you knock it. You can't just take a swipe at the series that you know nothing about, or you become just another one of those whining internet guys who doesn't have a basis to stand on it. And I said, fine, that's fair.
Dietaku: [00:07:20] Yeah. He's got you there, dude.
The Hipster Snek: [00:07:22] No, that's fair. That's fair. And then I. And I accepted it. I ran out to GameStop like two days later after that conversation, and I picked up a copy of the first game. I played it. And I was like, that wasn't a great game. This is in no way competition for Monster Rancher 4. But it had my interest and I felt that there was a lot of potential, especially since there are already sequels out. I'm telling the story a little bit of order. I actually play the second game first. The first game I wasn't able to play into later on. And that that puts things in context because like I said mechanically, the first game. It's not exactly great. Mark 2 I played first and I was about halfway through Mark 2 when I got the first.
Dietaku: [00:08:08] Which introduced my favorite girl, which is a very important thing I feel right now. We need. Just before we go, because it's such a central aspect of the series. It's time. It is time for the Dietaku Power Hour.
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