Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash is a shooter starring the girls of Senran Kagura. Girls, swimsuits, and trading cards are all apart of the action. Heck, even the girls' weapons are present, though they aren't nearly as important here as in other games in the series.
But make no mistake. Peach Beach Splash is all about the water guns. These guns determine how you run, how you jump, and obviously how you shoot. More often than not, it's the gun you choose, not the girl or the cards, that will make or break your chances at victory.
There are a lot of guns. Some are good, some suck, and others are highly situational. Let's break them down by usefulness into the ten basic types.
1. Assault Rifle
The perfect combination of range and power, the assault rifle is the king of the water guns in this game. It shoots fast, shoots for a long time, reloads fast, and grants the ability of flight. Depending on how good you are at reloading in the air, you can flying indefinitely. Range, speed, mobility, this gun has it all. The shots are kind of weak, but the 3-shot function makes up for it. It's the perfect gun, especially for beginners.
2. Twin Pistols
The award for funniest reload animation goes to the dual pistols. The first time you reload, you will laugh and say, "WTF is that girl doing?" Your girl goes crazy. But the gun reloads so fast, it has virtually no reload time. It can fire for a long time if you set it to the Extra Ammo setting. Firepower is the default setting, but it doesn't seem worth it. The Jump Boost you get is pretty shitty because it's so hard to control where your girl lands. You do get some early laughs with an over-the-top slide for the running animation
3. Gatling Gun
The Gatling gun lights up foes nicely, able to mow down multiple foes or any of the main girls in seconds. It also gives its user the ability to fly, enabling you to rain down death from the above. It doesn't have the indefinite(?) flight like the assault rifle and the shotgun, but it CAN fly. If the enemy has one of these, watch out. It does have one crippling weakness, though. It's reload time is a bitch and there seems to be a slight delay, especially when it's completely empty. If you have to reload when an enemy is near, you're up shit creek. If not for the reload time, this would be the best gun.
4. Spray Gun
Extremely deadly at close range. Only close range. This gun has the shortest range and the shots are very weak, but you'll fire off so many, it won't matter. You can use Set to set a trap, which works like a poison cloud, raping any enemy who gets close. It's good if you can sneak up on the enemy or chase them down. It also gives your girl a cool run animation, which resembles someone strumming a guitar. Sadly, you're stuck with the Jump Boost special jump.
5. Grenade Launcher
Sends a water balloon bouncing along the ground that explodes, sending anyone nearby flying, doing nice damage in the process. You can also set it so the water balloons explode on impact, which is good at close range. It features the worst special jump; the Float Down.
6. Pistol
Easy to use, but runs out of water too fast. Also, it has that Jump Boost I'm not a fan of. On the other hand, the shots hurt quite a bit and bounce off walls, hurting any enemy they hit. Overall, it doesn't feel very satisfying to use.
7. Shower Gun
The award for most confusing gun goes to this "gem" of a weapon. It has an unappealing appearance, looking like a garden hose. Also, the game says this gun has the same range as the assault rifle, but that's bullshit as far as I can tell. But it can fly and has an some homing ability, so there's some good.
8. Shotgun
Powerful, but somewhat difficult to use. You have to be fairly close to hit with it. It fires slow, but it does have a homing function and can fly indefinitely with mid air reloading, like the assault rifle. Flying makes everything better...mostly. The sliding run animation returns with this gun.
9. Rocket Launcher
The default setting is a hard-hitting water rocket. The second setting fires multiple homing rockets that are weaker, but still hurt plenty, especially if all three hit. It takes what's good about both the shotgun and sniper rifle and combines them into one glorious gun. However, not all is good. It has that lousy Float Down special jump.
10. Sniper Rifle
Obviously, distance is your best friend with this gun. The sniper rifle has insane range and power, allow you to pick off targets from a fair distance. As you'd expect, though, it runs out of ammo fast. You can only get off two or three shots, before you run out of water and have to reload. Otherwise, it seems inaccurate or like it doesn't always hit, even when it clearly does. It can hit stationary targets or targets moving directly at you just fine. An a game like this, where targets fly and buzz around like flies, you simply aren't going to hit anything, especially not one of the main girls. But when it does hit, the enemy will do some primetime hurting. Honestly, it's pretty worthless against the main girls, unless you're some sort of Peach Beach Splash god. On a good note, you can fly with it, so that adds to the usefulness.
And that's the ten different types of water guns you can use in Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash. You can level the guns up or download guns that look like food, but they all fall into these categories. Some are good, while others are shitty, but they all have their uses. Hopefully, this post is helpful to someone.
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