A screen at the beginning of Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection implores you to “please enjoy it without thinking too hard,” and it’s a fitting warning. The idol-making simulation features cute anime-girl personifications of modern gaming consoles, but its ham-fisted attempt at fanservice and shallow gameplay corrupt that premise and turn what could have been fun and lighthearted into a dull, pointless venture not worth thinking twice about.
Neptunia starts off with a promising and cheeky idea: Four goddess-like Console Patron Units, or CPUs, rule the realm of Gamindustri, each representing a major gaming console (one of which is fictitious). A suspicious idol group called MOB48 — a play on real-life J-pop group AKB48 — has usurped the CPUs and taken the “shares” of the Gamindustri people’s love. More shares means more power, so the girls decide to become idols themselves to win back the hearts of the people. The key, of course, is you: an average student getting ready for a summer gaming marathon.
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