Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Koro-sensei

Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Koro-sensei
The box art depicts six characters from Assassination Classroom (clockwise from upper right: Irina Jelavić, Tadaomi Karasuma, Kaede Kayano, Koro-sensei, Nagisa Shiota, and Karma Akabane) above a yellow and green striped background, with the game's logo in the upper left corner
Developer(s)Bandai Namco Games
Publisher(s)Bandai Namco Games
SeriesAssassination Classroom
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • JP: March 12, 2015
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer[1]

Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Koro-sensei[a] is a 2015 action video game developed and published by Bandai Namco Games for the Nintendo 3DS. It is based on the science fiction comedy manga series Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui. The game follows a class of middle school students and their homeroom teacher Koro-sensei, an octopus-like superbeing who the students have been tasked with killing.

Grand Siege on Koro-sensei was released on March 12, 2015, and sold over 25,000 copies in the following few days. The game received a more mixed critical response, with the game being criticized for its gameplay, with praise being directed towards the game's style and humor.

Gameplay

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A screenshot of gameplay, showing the player attacking Koro-sensei using a rapid-fire gun, with assistance from another student

Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Koro-sensei is an action game where players control a middle school student of the Kunugigaoka Junior High School.[2] The game is divided into several different missions, featuring different requirements for the missions to be cleared, although they primarily revolve around defeating the student's homeroom teacher, Koro-sensei, within a given time limit.[3] Defeating Koro-sensei is done via the use of different types of firearms and by setting traps, and placing traps in sequence will produce combos, dealing greater damage. If a trap is triggered at a close range, the player will enter "fever time", allowing Koro-sensei to be rapidly shot.[4]

Certain missions sees the player as Koro-sensei, who has to avoid being defeated by the students through the use of different attacks and moves.[5][6]

Development and release

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Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Koro-sensei was developed and published by Bandai Namco Games. Bandai Namco first became familiar with Assassination Classroom through the development of the fighting game J-Stars Victory VS, which features Koro-sensei as a playable character.[7] The game is an adaptation of the Assassination Classroom manga series created by Yusei Matsui.

The game was first announced in October 2014 via an issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump,[8][9] which Assassination Classroom was then being serialized in. Further gameplay and release details were unveiled by Bandai Namco through promotional videos and screenshots in the following months.[10][5][11] The game was released on March 12, 2015, for the Nintendo 3DS, exclusively in Japan.[12]

Reception and sales

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Grand Siege on Koro-sensei received neutral reception from critics. Famitsu, the most popular video game magazine in Japan, rated the game 25/40 and calculated a normalized rating of 6.3/10, based on 4 of their critics' reviews.[13]

The gameplay of missions received a mixed critical response. Namuko Kushida of Famitsu described the game as an easy-to-play, whereas Tsutsumi, also of Famitsu, opined that he experienced it as difficult to tell which characters have certain abilities, making gameplay feel inprecise. Fellow Famitsu writer Jigoro Ashida enjoyed the game's amount of content, but also wrote that the game started to feel "repetitive" after a while.[13]

The game's general style was met with more favorable reception than the gameplay: Tsutsumi voiced a liking to how the game's traps are reminiscent of the Assassination Classroom manga and anime, describing it as "adorable", and Kushida complimented the game's black comedy style and character animation.[13]

Grand Siege on Koro-sensei sold over 25,000 copies in its first three days of release;[14] by June 2015, the game had sold over 83,000 copies.[15]

Sequel

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On December 14, 2015, Bandai Namco announced a sequel to Grand Siege on Koro-sensei, titled Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan.[16] The sequel was released on March 24, 2016, for the Nintendo 3DS, exclusively in Japan. The game features similar gameplay to the first game with some added features, such as being able to train the game's characters to change their statistics.[17]

Notes

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  1. ^ Ansatsu Kyōshitsu: Koro-sensei Dai Hōimō (Japanese: 暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!)

References

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  1. ^ "暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!" (in Japanese). Bandai Namco. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
  2. ^ "『暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!』ゲーム概要やキャラクター情報が到着". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa. November 21, 2014. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  3. ^ "3DS「暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!」武器や罠を駆使して戦う"コミカルアサシンアクション"の遊び方を紹介!". Gamer (in Japanese). Ixll. December 26, 2014. Archived from the original on November 19, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  4. ^ "『暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!』"罠コンビネーション"など殺せんせーを包囲する手段を紹介". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa. March 4, 2015. Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
  5. ^ a b Pineda, Rafael (February 16, 2015). "Assassination Classroom 3DS Game's 3rd Promo Video Previews Gameplay". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  6. ^ "暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!". Nintendo. Archived from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
  7. ^ "Assassination Classroom Game Turns The Manga Into 3D". Siliconera. November 9, 2014. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  8. ^ Hanashiro, Emma (October 16, 2014). "Assassination Classroom Gets 3DS Game". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  9. ^ "Assassination Classroom Stretches Its Tentacles To 3DS". Siliconera. October 16, 2014. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  10. ^ Ressler, Karen (November 10, 2014). "Assassination Classroom 3DS Game's Promo Video Previews Footage". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  11. ^ Romano, Sal (October 21, 2014). "First look at Assassination Classroom 3DS". Gematsu. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  12. ^ "3DS「暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!」が本日発売。クラスの仲間と連携して，担任「殺せんせー」の暗殺を狙うアクションゲーム". 4Gamer.net (in Japanese). Aetas. March 12, 2015. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  13. ^ a b c d "暗殺教室 殺せんせー大包囲網!!(3DS)のレビュー・評価・感想情報". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  14. ^ Hindman, Heath (18 March 2015). "You Guys, Mario Party 10 Just Got Outsold by a PSP Game". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on November 12, 2021. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  15. ^ Romano, Sal (17 June 2015). "Media Create Sales: 6/8/15 – 6/14/15". Gematsu. Archived from the original on November 12, 2021. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  16. ^ Romano, Sal (December 14, 2015). "Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan announced for 3DS". Gematsu. Archived from the original on November 11, 2021. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
  17. ^ "『暗殺教室 アサシン育成計画!!』自分の分身をカスタマイズし暗殺者を育成するメインモードと初回封入特典情報を紹介". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa. January 15, 2016. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
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