Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love Review:

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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.

Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love Review:

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