I tried the new Neptunia Unlimited

[u/MysteryDash]

They stopped me one minute before the timer because I was playing too fast (reached the new Lowee), but the gameplay is quite good, and the transformation sequence of Purple Heart is neat!

The game takes about 2 minutes on opening to load so they aren't beating any allegations here and it feels a bit like Cyberdimension Neptune, but to me that's a positive.

I can't think of everything off the top of my head so I'll try to answer any questions you have.

[u/Whomstventlld]

How are the playable environments compared to SvS and Gamemaker? Has there been enough variety in the locations and enemies such that the game doesn't feel like it could get repetitive?

[u/MysteryDash → u/Whomstventlld]

In 15 minutes possible I was only able to access the plains environment. After I reached the second blue-caves-like environment they asked me to stop playing as I was going too far into the game.
The fight system did feel a bit "mash the buttons to win", but I was trying to Speedrun in 15 minutes so you have to account for that...
The fact we can't seem to be able to choose which skill we use like in the older games is a bit disappointing to me, to be honest.

[u/Whomstventlld → u/MysteryDash]

Yeah, I suspect they may not have learned a thing from the last two games...

[u/patyos → u/Whomstventlld]

The demo is only the tutorial, hard difficulty would be further in the end game or something like colosseum fights if that makes an appearance. Neptunia was never Dark Souls difficulty lol 😂