

That's about where "good balance" ends, however. Pretty much every character and party member you encounter along the way fits into some sort of anime or gaming archetype - Neptune, who represents the fourth (imaginary) console, is the high-energy, childlike protagonist, while Iffy is a smart tsundere who can get quite flustered at times - and Re Birth1 actually does a good job of balancing character versus caricature. Following this idea, Re Birth1 is filled with meta, fourth wall-breaking humor, and a good bit of charming self-awareness.

The best part of the Hyperdimension Neptunia games is inarguably the concept: Four goddesses, each representing a different game system, are waging a “Console War” against one another in a cutesy, high-octane anime fashion.
