Neptunia Virtual Stars/Gameplay

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Gameplay

Battle System

The battle system is a mixed style of a Third-person Shooter and a Hack 'n' Slash and can swap between the Goddesses and the V-Idols at any time and each have their own unique skills.

V-Skills can be used to defeat enemies with a huge amount of damage and can be combined with regular attacks.

Neptune using a V-Skill

Heart Tune is used when the characters are running low on health and/or out of healing items. Once activated, the character's HP and MP is partially recovered. The longer the activation, the higher the recovery rate.

Vice and Licht healing

Battle Mechanics

Goddesses

Boost: Can be used to evade enemy attacks and go faster.
Tokimeki Flash: Can be activated by continuously shooting the enemy successfully to fill the purification gauge. Once it's activated, players have an advantage of dealing huge amounts of damage, taking less damage from foes, and stunning them on-screen.

V-Idols

Step Charm: Can be activated by evading enemy attacks at the perfect time and will receive infinite MP temporarily.
Execution Finisher: By defeating an enemy with a skill with "OVER FLOW" displayed, the player can finish them off with an Execution Finisher and receive boosts to HP recovery or MP limit.

Field

While on the field, the player is greeted with enemies known as Antis and a group of them must be defeated in order to proceed to the next area. They will also find transfer gates, various SS Boxes that give out a random item on the roulette once stopped at the right time, barricades which can be broken, doors that lead to specific areas, maintenance areas that are unlocked by clearing the field, and monitors that have Vtubers cheering for the idols or screaming for help. Players can receive special items from the Vtubers cheering by attacking or shooting the monitor.

Emotional Overdrive

Emotional Overdrive is activated when the Emote Gauge is filled to max, and allows the player to pulverize enemies with special attacks within a limited amount of time. If the special gauge is completely filled, they can activate a roulette that can award them an item. This is useful for attacking powerful enemies nearby and grabbing items.

Me and You in Emotional Overdrive

BeatTik

BeatTik is a dance system where the player can play a rhythm minigame to get the high score and increase their rank. Dance videos can also be recorded and can be used in the Video Battler to create items.

The Cloud

In The Cloud, the player can visit different areas to explore, view Virtual Memories, save current progress, and speak with Faira, the other CPUs or V-Idols. While speaking with Faira, they can check the current status of Emote, deposit or withdraw Emote Spheres from your Emote Storage, and receive extra items from DLC.

Video Battler

The Video Battler allows players to create items from BeatTik videos that they have recorded or from YouTube videos.* The rarity of the item will depend on the BeatTik score on the recorded video or what video is being generated from YouTube.

Creating items via BeatTik
Creating items via YouTube (JP only)

*Japanese PS4 version only