Review: Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire – A Romantic and Replayable Shmup

Sister, sister.

The real bummer about Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire is that it has a much better subtitle in Japan. The vertical shmup – inspired by the cult Castle of Shikigami series – goes by the illustrious name Sisters Royale: I’m Being Harassed by Five Sisters and It Sucks. Brilliant. It all plays into the plot, which sees a band of siblings battling for the affection of a strapping young bachelor named Yashin. Our recommendation: turn off the cut-scenes.

Once you get beyond the weeaboo pandering narrative, you’re left with a likeable bullet hell bonanza which is strangely moreish. This is a stripped back experience in every sense of the sentence: there are five stages and five characters, but the longevity comes from high score chasing and unique abilities. Each hero can fire in different patterns, but it’s their Shikigami attack which sets them apart. In the case of one character, this serves as a homing projectile – but at the expense of mobility.

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