The Neptunia franchise is already approaching its five-year anniversary in North America. It was only a matter of time before Idea Factory and Compile Heart shifted the niche RPG series to the next generation of consoles, following its considerable success on previous-gen Sony hardware.

VII is the best Neptunia game to date. Everything has been drastically improved from the previous installments. Story, music, dialog, and so on. The gameplay is very solid and adds in a couple new features such as Parts Break and formation skills.

Megadimension Neptunia VII does things pretty much by the book, as far as the Neptunia series goes: a zany meme-filled and self-referential plot, attractive personified videogame consoles as 'goddesses,' story-dungeon-story pattern, and a turn-based battle system that will leave fans in a familiar...

It's pronounced Vee-Two Last summer, Destructoid promoted a blog by the magnificent OverlordZetta that asked what the deal was with Compile Heart. The question was a rhetorical one.

'Hyperdimension Neptunia' is a franchise I've wanted to enjoy ever since the first game was brought to the West in early 2011. Unfortunately, I've ended up disliking every single entry.

It may seem like there has been an onslaught of Neptunia games recently and whilst this is true, most of them have been remakes of the original PS3 games which have in turn come to PS Vita and Steam, there actually hasn't been a main release in the series since 2013.

You would be forgiven for reading the latest Neptunia title as the seventh entry in the series, given Compile Hearts' rampant release schedule for these games. However, the VII is in fact meant to be written as "V-2", in what was probably a playful jab at Final Fantasy VII.

Neptune. Neptune never changes. Be it a tasty treat, a lunch time fancy, some gaming with her fellow CPUs, or beating the living hell out of some sort of browser pop-up demon in an alternate dimension, Neptune and her younger sister Nepgear retain that same bubble charm and naive spirit, scantily...

Fluid battle system; Easy to navigate; Simple to learn; play; Intuitive game progression

Lazy design for dungeons; Lengthy; simple cutscenes; Glut of dialogue

Parents need to know that this game has it's perverse moments, like the main character and her little sister along with her friend taking showers and aforementioned little sister taking a bath with the mentioned friend and another dimension-version of the main character, another jaccuzi scene...

Nice mmo game great graphics and nice visuals