Did Senran Kagura deserved to die?

Girls with back stories far deeper than you'd expect, in a setting that could have made for some fun stories.

But nah, lets drop them on the beach over and over again and focus on the blandest girl there is.

The characters were pretty likeable besides their sexyness and the stories were entertaining enough to keep you playing.
Then the beach episode happened...

>These types of games dont sell anymore.
You wish you were right about that.
The reason why Senran 'died' is because they stopped making mainline games and instead focussed on low effort spinoff trash to milk money. Their gatcha shit is still doing well.
This shit has been happening in the entire industry, why invest in an expensive mainline game when you can just milk people with low effort trash? Pokemon masters is the prime example as it is a garbage game and yet made $26 million in the first week. What did it cost to develop such a shitty game? I bet not even a million (excluding license costs).

Yes and no. Decent fanservice game with decent characters but they failed to evolve and improve the games enough. Stuff like varied models for the characters to better reflect their art, better gameplay in general, etc. I know parts of it were limited by them not being big budget games but once you played one of them there wasn't reason to keep buying them, really.

Yes. It's run its course, and the dev insists on sticking with sòyny and it's censorship, so the games will never be the same again. RIP best girl Ikaruga

Sure, it felt like the series was going downhill even before snoy started to interfere with development.

What was mainline?

Yes. Imagine having a series full of girls but only making one attractive (Mirai). Truly retarded.

Takaki's new IP doesn't look promising (PS4 Exclusive with confirmed Yumi & Asuka as guest characters and a tie-in anime by the same studio that made the abomination of Shinovi Master) and Senran Kagura seems more busy doing collabs with other franchises and making more Yumi merch than anything else (where are the 7even news?), I'll say it's just barely alive with the gacha.
I'm just gonna take my wife and leave this sinking ship of titty ninjas.

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1 and 2 were good. everything else was shit. they chose shit spinoffs and killed the series

He has a new one?

I guess for the west it might be considered dead sonce there won't be any new content in the foreseeable future, but between the gacha games and the merchandise un general SK is doing okay right now.
The timimg wasn't exactly the best with 7even still floating around, but with an average of one game per year the series really needed a rest, or at least the console releases.

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Looks bland as fuck.

Despite mixing things up with different kinds of genres, it never did anything more than be about T&A
which is a shame because I've grown to like the characters and want better gameplay over the years

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>I've grown to like the characters and want better gameplay over the years

Join the club.

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You're delusional dude, I love Senran but the games don't sale very well
A series with like 8 games in is barely just pushing pass 1 million series wide sales
gematsu.com/2017/08/senran-kagura-series-worldwide-sales-top-1-65-million

Yes. All the girls have the same body types. The gameplay isn’t great either.

>low budget games
>niche audience
Yes, passing a million is a milestone for a franchise like that.

Yeah that good for niche series but not very good for an overall sales perspective

>that good for a niche series
Exactly, don't know why you would look at it by any other standard when even the company themselves consider ir a success.
Do I need to remind you Senran Kagura wasn't even intended to be a series to begin with?

Extremely weak base for the story, basically forced strange spin-offs to keep itself relevant.
Burst was pretty good.
Shinovi was great.
Estival was great. I swear, best beat-em-up gameplay.
2 was garbage.
And all the side games are unspectacular.

Series needed less Yumi and more... structure? Like wtf demons.

So whats your point? It sold very well for a niche series. SK is a niche series. Why are you comparing it to CoD sales?

u wot m8? PBS was based

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Only shootergames for me are Payday 2 and Unreal Tournament. PBS didn't look like it had the tightness, speed, or feel of those games.

I'd pay for Senran Unreal Tournament.

No I'm saying it's still bad, a series that been running since 2011 and has 8 games within that series was just barely pushing over 1 million all time total combined sales, that's in no way profitable

Shinovi was lame and 2 was amazing.
Some of the side games were great too like PBS. PBS was especially worth it for the music and story/dialogue. The only bad game in the entire series is Shinovi.

>game does mediocre on nintendo
>try on sony
>huge seller
>each one keeps selling bigly
>make another one for nintendo
>flop of course
>go back to sony, once again huge
>instead of sticking with sony who made these games a success, start porting it away
>sony blocks their path for their betrayal
>game dies
They should have remained loyal.

Deep Crimson was awesome fuck you.

>Pokemon masters is the prime example as it is a garbage game and yet made $26 million in the first week
Bruh
People like Masters precisely because it is higher quality game than the mainline at the moment despite being on a cell phone.. You chose a horrible example.

I can't believe Senrans are the cause of PS censorship.

I think 2 is the worst because they tried to mix the 2.5D of Burst with the 3D of Shinovi and it didn't work well, at all. And that tag-team mechanic is atrocious. I can't wrap my head around it. Where's the Aerial Rave?

Granted I only look at 2 things. Gameplay and lewd ladies.

>that's in no way profitable
But it was. Each game was bigger than the last, the series was all over the place with merch, collabs, mobages and even lead to games like Valkyrie Drive.

You're telling me SK became such a huge (in terms of niche) franchise and the whole time it wasn't profitable? You're outta your mind.

If it was a porn sex game with h-scenes or some junk, maybe I'de enjoy it, but the "lewd hentai" games aren't very attractive, mainly because there's not enough to fap to and the actual plot etc is pretty bland.

Deep Crimson is my favorite. That character editor is way better than any equivalent in the series.

Whatever You want to believe user, but even that link posted early says otherwise.

>each one keeps selling bigly
Shinovi Versus was the only game in a sony platform before Deep Crimson, and it's still the best selling game in tbe franchise, after that the sales lowered but were stable thanks to the already made fanbase, with the Burst remake being the lowest one last time I checked.

>Artist is Hanaharu Naruko

fucking based
Maybe with an actual decent artist now I can jerk off to the game rather than putting up with moeblobs with gigantic tits

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not to mention you can unlock weapon cosmetics. even for Crimson Homura

Goddammit I think i'm comming

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Yes that's what I'm saying, trying to sugar coat its lack of major success by using "but it's niche!!!" is only trying circumvent the issue at hand, in-fact I'm sure the series only continued to get new games was because they were just asset flipping stuff from SV, I'm not sure why you're using collabs as talking point, as if some director wanting to add your character into their gacha trash is a marker of success, Yumi getting into BBTAG but the series still remains dead in the water with 7 no where in sight. You know who's always in that game? Akatsuki Blitzkampf and he has had a game since 2003

>Shitty low effort gatcha game
>Literally banned for being a lootbox fest in certain countries
>Higher quality game than mainline
I play gatcha games but please don't pretend masters is better than, also a pile of shit, evee and pikachu.

>>Shitty low effort gatcha game
>>Literally banned for being a lootbox fest in certain countries
>>Higher quality game than mainline
All of that and yet some chink company still putting more effort into it than Gamefreak is Sword and Shield

I don't have to pretend anything. Go to /vp/ and ask them which game they prefer. They'll shit all over S&S and tell you masters is better. Just because its your opinion doesn't mean you get to pretend you're right because you definitely are not.

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You have to be baiting me right? Tell me you are baiting me? Please, tell me you are not saying this seriously.
If this isn't serious then your entire franchise deserves to be destroyed by gatcha cancer on mobile phones.

>trying to sugar coat its lack of major success by using "but it's niche!!!"
There's no sugar coating anything, niche is exactly what it is and it never intended to go bigger than with its intended audience, and is successful under that umbrella.

Just cause you say "gacha trash" doesn't mean those games don't make an endless boatloads of money and want to join forces with another money making franchise. Your opinions don't really matter here.

And nobody is trying to sugar coat anything. It is niche, each game is bigger than the last, and the series makes money. Regardless of how they achieve that by asset flipping or whatever.

>Shitty low effort gatcha game
It's pokemon with an atb system instead of turn base. If it's low effort then all pokemon games are low effort and you're wasting your time arguing about a game series you don't even care about.

poor Rin, deserved better

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>Got a contract with Sony
Yup.

>Literally defending a game that is built around making you spending money in rng pulls.
I've played every single mainline pokemon game and the mystery dungeon spinoff series. Maybe I should indeed stop caring because the franchise has been shitting itself even during the 3ds games.

Only Kusony and California deserve to die