Re:Newal tidies these lines up, with the revised script remarking about facing death and “mastering the Path of the Shinobi”. In the original translation Asuka makes a comment about feeling like a cornered rat during her dream sequence and mumbles about how she must “walk the Path of the Shinobi… to its end…” before she is woken up.

This is immediately apparent in the prologue. The English translation on the other hand has undergone some rewritings.

As best I can tell, this has remained unchanged since it was originally written. Playing through the Japanese versions of all three games, I did not notice any differences in the script for the main story parts of the prologue and chapter 1. The “good” shinobi girls, Asuka, Katsuragi, Ikaruga, Hibari, and Yagyu, as well as their teacher Kiriya, are the focus of the Hanzo story. The Hebijo arc, which tells a story from the point of view of the “evil” shinobi was not included in Portrait. That is, Re:Newal is not just a remake of Burst’s story-telling but an amalgamation of the two previous versions.įor this comparison I have only played the prologue and first chapter of the Hanzo arc. It may seem silly to even bother comparing Re:Newal to Portrait, but when playing Burst in order to draw comparisons, I found that Re:Newal takes elements from both Portrait and Burst. To avoid constantly typing out the full titles of each game, They will be respectively shortened to Portrait, Burst, and Re:Newal. This is due to the English language release of Burst also using the Skirting Shadows title in some of its assets.Įssentially, this makes Re:Newal the third time the original story has been portrayed in game form. Although some sources quote that game as being called Senran Kagura Skirting Shadows, I’ll be using the literal translation of it’s Japanese title, Portrait of Girls, instead to avoid confusion. This too, was a revised and expanded version of the initial Japan only release.

Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal may not technically be a sequel but it is the latest release in the long running franchise.Īs the name would suggest, Burst Re:Newal is a remake of the original Senran Kagura Burst. The delightful shinobi girls of the Senran Kagura series are still going strong, even if you couldn’t handle looking at them on a tiny 3DS screen. Well, yes and no, anonymous staff writer for the now defunct Official Nintendo Magazine (UK). Is this happening again? A sequel to the T-shirt-straining antics of Senran Kagura Burst?”

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