Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online (四女神オンライン CYBER DIMENSION NEPTUNE, Yon Megami Onrain Cyber Dimension Neptune, lit. Four Goddesses Online: Cyber Dimension Neptune) is a 2017 action-adventure video game developed by Compile Heart and Tamsoft and published by Idea Factory International. Despite the title, the game is a single-player game with an online cooperative multiplayer option. This is the first Neptunia game to use Unreal Engine 4, as well as the first spin-off game to be released on the PlayStation 4 rather than the PlayStation Vita. It is also the first game that Erin Fitzgerald is not reprising her role as Noire in the English dub, due to the complications with the SAG Contract, and is replaced by Erica Mendez.
| Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online | |
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| Developer(s) | Compile Heart Tamsoft |
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| Series | Hyperdimension Neptunia |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows |
| Release | PlayStation 4Microsoft Windows
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Setting
editA world known as Gamindustri (ゲイムギョウ界 Geimugyō-kai, a pun on ゲーム業界 Gēmu gyōkai, which is literally "game industry" in Japanese) protected by the divine aegis of the four CPUs (Console Patron Units, the goddesses) and their sisters, the CPU candidates. Most of the game takes place inside "4 Goddesses Online" a recurring fictional multiplayer online role-playing game that has been referenced throughout the series.
The setting of the game is the fantasy land of Alsgard, a vast world surrounded by verdant and gorgeous ocean.
Plot
editThe four CPUs were able to receive an early access code for the newest installment of the popular online game, "4 Goddesses Online", which uses the real forms of the CPUs as official models. Each CPU logs into the game with their own motives for playing the game.
Upon entering the game, they were approached by the guardian spirit, Bouquet, who is one of the game's non-playable characters that is equipped with the game's advanced artificial intelligence. They were told that they are the Chosen Ones that are tasked to save Alsgard from the Demon King Jester by awakening the four divine Goddesses of legend.
Characters
editUnlike the previous Tamsoft-made action games for the series, only the four CPUs, Neptune, Noire, Blanc and Vert, and their sisters Nepgear, Uni, Ram and Rom are the only ones playable, along with the four divine goddesses in the later parts of the story.
Development
editThe game was announced in March 2016.[1] In March 2017, the game was announced for an October 2017 release in English-speaking regions.[2]
Reception and sales
editThe game was the third best-selling video game in Japan during its debut week, selling 42,508 copies.[3]
| Aggregator | Score |
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| Metacritic | 71/100[4] |
References
edit- ^ "Cyberdimension Neptunia Online Announced Date=March 13, 2016". Gematsu. 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online coming west for PS4, PC this winter". Gematsu. March 9, 2017.
- ^ "This Week in Sales: A Week for Everyone with Dragon Quest Monsters, Nioh, and Neptunia - Siliconera". Archived from the original on 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ "Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online for PlayStation 4 Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2019-10-03.