It’s not that it’s bad, just merely serviceable. Largely due to the style of gameplay, the story of Sengoku Rance is a minor weak point. The story itself is serviceable, but the characters are very compelling. It’s not going to get you a quality grade if you wrote a history paper featuring these events, but it might be entertaining enough for you to seek out some more serious texts on the matter. Honestly, that aspect of Sengoku Rance ended up being my favorite part of the whole game, which is why I take the time to mention it here. That being said, if you do recognize it as merely a riff on history, it can be fun to suss out the references and subtle details that you may otherwise miss.
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The other games in the series don’t even take place in real countries, so this is truly an outlier. This should be viewed as a comedic representation first, not as historical narrative. That being said, this game takes a great many liberties with the material, even more than other games in the period often do. The Sengoku, or Warring-States, period of Japan happened around 1467-1600 CE, and a great many examples of literature and entertainment have been crafted around it. The remaining characters and locations in Sengoku Rance will ring a lot of bells to anyone who has read anything about this tumultuous period of Japanese history. Names and locations can be a bit familiar, if you know Sengoku history. It’s more than likely that she stays with him because he behaves like Rance, not in spite of his particular quirks. While she likes to complain, it’s fairly obvious that she’s not just with Rance due to unfounded affection, she has quite the masochistic side to her. She is a very powerful mage, and that is true no matter what region they enter. Sill remains his unwavering support and often the true power behind the ego. Rance is still brash and headstrong and doesn’t know the meaning of the word “No”, whether it comes to any of his desires, sexual included. That being said, Rance himself, and his slave-girl Sill, are largely unchanged. So it could also be considered the major turning point, story wise, but not in gameplay style. It’s best just to take this as a entirely independent game from the previous series, although a major event happens towards the end that changes the rest of the games until the end of the series. In fact, there are even fewer characters from the previous games that enter into this title than before. They take a hard turn from Rance VI and never look back. You need not worry about having any previous knowledge of the series in order to fully appreciate the story in Sengoku Rance. Other than the presence of the titular character, this entry seems entirely apocryphal. So this is already a rather beloved game to many, and it is getting its first official translation. Also, as I mentioned in the content advisory, the Rance series has an appeal towards a largely untapped demographic of sexual tastes. It was so widely distributed because it came out in 2006, when file sharing really started to pick up, and because of the more gameplay focused elements. The other reason I was a bit apprehensive is that Sengoku Rance (also infrequently known as Rance VII, or Warring-States Rance) was actually the title that made the series popular in the West, due to a widely distributed fan translation. So I definitely enjoyed the main series entry, but not the seeming side project. But Rance VI totally turned me around on the series and easily makes my top 10 Eroge of all time. As a result, I was not a huge fan of that game and entered into Rance VI -Collapse of Zeth- with a bit of a sour taste. Much like Sengoku Rance, Rance 5D is a main entry in the series that feels like a side entry due to both story and gameplay element decisions. The most prominent reason for hesitation was due to Rance 5D, which was the first game in the series I ever played. It was not without some trepidation that I approached the review for Sengoku Rance. As in any other Rance title, the debatable moral implications do not factor into my review or the score, other than the initial content advisory. As such, even if this title is more game-like than most entries, caution is advised for those who are easily offended by such circumstances, even when fictionally represented. Sengoku Rance, like any other titles in the series, has content for a niche audience and features many instances of non-compliance (rape), monster on human sex, and sex featuring characters of questionable age range.
However, all official links are most definitely NSFW and are 18+. The review is potentially NSFW, but steps are taken to minimize that risk. Sengoku Rance is an Adult Visual Novel Turn Based Strategy Simulation game that is 18+ and for Adults Only.
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