Pretty Girls Panic! doesn’t deviate from this formula anywhere, but features a good difficulty curve that gradually introduces new enemy types and combinations of enemies to deal with as well as creeping the sheer number of enemies on screen at once up and up as the game progresses.
If any of these hit either you or your line while you’re drawing, you lose a life conversely, if you can capture them in an area you’ve surrounded, you destroy them and get lots of points as well as making your life for the rest of the stage much easier.Īnd that’s about it. Starfish bounce around predictably jellyfish have something of an “arc” to their bounces pufferfish home in on you while you’re drawing your line. Naturally, it’s not that simple opposing your efforts are a variety of enemies, each of whom have their own distinctive movement types. Capture 75% of the playfield or more and you win that level.
Make an enclosed area and you uncover whatever was behind that area you captured. You control a… thing of some description (in the case of Pretty Girls Panic!, an octopus) and attempt to draw lines across a playfield.
And I’m sure that won’t be a problem for anyone reading this, though I should probably note here that despite the source material these girls came from, there’s nothing outright explicit in this.Īnyway, you probably know the score by now, but on the offchance you’re still unfamiliar with the Gals Panic formula, it runs like this. You don’t need any knowledge of said visual novels in order to enjoy Pretty Girls Panic! - rather, you simply need an appreciation for pretty girls.
Pretty Girls Panic!, as the name suggests, is a take on Gals Panic based on Zoo Corporation’s loose series of “Pretty Girls” titles, which are actually a bunch of unrelated sexually explicit visual novels developed by the company’s numerous imprints such as Norn, Miel, Cybele and Yumesta.