Stupid Head!

Seriously though, how the hell is this game played? Even the battles seem like nothing but bad cutscenes.

Some of the game mechanics are similar to VALKRYIA CHRONICLES, but VC is much more of a battlefield-oriented game than SAKURA WARS, where the battlefield is only the climax of each "episode" within the game.

Shakespeare strikes me as the sort of person who would have loved anime, had he actually been a real person.

This game is notable for two reasons. It was last major release for the PS2 in North America and it seemed like it would never see a release overseas. I thought none of the Sakura Wars games, like the ones about beetle collecting and pachinko, would never be released outside of Japan just because they are so... Japanesey.

I bought this for my Wii. The combat is ridiculously easy andyou have to do repeat playthroughs if you want all the endings with the different girls. The girls you have to "date" run the anime stereotype gambit. The Texan chick is a classic bimbo, the black lawyer chick is the tsundere/Jekyl & Hyde bitch personality, and the 10 year old Mexican girl for the obvious reason.

On a side note, the Wii version was plagued with bugs and the hardware could hardly process the game during the more demanding boss battles.

This game is a wad. +1 star for the retarded giant realistic handheld shotgun that attaches to the power ranger arm module.