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Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love Review:

Sakura Wars is one of those games where you feel like you're playing an anime, specifically in this instance it’s like playing Voltron squished together with Tenchi Muyo. You pilot giant robots trying to save the world while working together with a large group of women who can all act as love interests. Does Sakura Wars: So Long My Love instill me with that wonderful sense of nostalgia I get from watching lion robots all coming together to form a humanoid robot with a weird sword, apparently pulled from the void, or is this a game series that needs to get with the times?

 

You play as Shinjiro Taiga, a new recruit sent to New York by your Uncle to lead a task force of robot pilots in protecting the city. Taiga quickly learns that he isn’t what the New York Combat Revue (as they call themselves) were expecting and they dismiss the idea of someone new to combat becoming their leader. Your job is to prove yourself as a capable leader while simultaneously working out the various emotional problems of your crew. The story has a fair few classic anime clichés and even includes a mandatory scene where the pilots get into their robots (called STARs) complete with a zip line and a slide ala Voltron. Once you delve deeper into the personalities of your crew members you find that they aren’t nearly as two dimensional as they at first appear.

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