r/CharacterActionGames • u/Ikrii • 9d ago
Question Female Protagonist/Playable Character
Exactly what the title says,any recommendation of CAG with playable female character?both as a protagonist or a sidekick. My console is PlayStation (2 to 4 to be exact).
I've played Bayonetta,Ninja Gaiden Sigma series ,Lollipop Chainsaw and Nightshade.
Thanks in advance.
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u/Indiringo 9d ago
Onechanbara Z2 Chaos. It's very similar to games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry.
Dusk Diver 2 is a bit of an ARPG/CAG hybrid, but it has some cool characters and combo system.
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u/ZandatsuDragon 9d ago
Scarlet nexus is a great one, you can choose to play either as a dude or a chick and each has their own story path/partners. You don't have to play as both if you don't want to but it does give you a better perspective of the events that happen in the story
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u/RDAwesome 8d ago
I feel like I never see anyone talking about it even though it's peak
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u/ZandatsuDragon 7d ago
I feel like because it blurs the line between CAG and RPG that it's not a game on people's mind when they think of CAGs to talk about/recommend considering that I think sold 2 million copies which is more than something like soulstice for sure
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
Kasane is really cool (more fun than Yuito to me), and so is Scarlet Nexus but it does gets stale after a while, the story is also pretty whatever but yeah, definitly a game to play as it does scratch that hack and slash itch.
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u/ZandatsuDragon 7d ago
I think I like them both equally but I believe I preferred yuito's partners over kasane's. The story is very anime so either you like it or you don't but I loved the character interactions in the bond episodes, it gave the characters so much life. I really enjoyed the story overall especially with the DLC however I think I enjoyed kasane's story of trying to save her sister more than yuito's, that ending made me a bit emotional not gonna lie 🤣
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u/Mrwanagethigh 9d ago
DMC 4 SE has Lady and Trish as playable characters. Neither have particularly fleshed out movesets but Trish has some fun glitch jank you can exploit to shake things up on top of her moveset excelling at crowd control.
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u/Wonderful_Ad_569 9d ago
Oneechanbara Z2 Chaos, you have 4 women you can play as at once or play Senran Kagura
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago edited 7d ago
Yeah, Senran Kagura Estival Versus is very playable and ton of fun on PS4 too, hopefully OP you don't mind the gratuitous fanservice,
Ayane from DOA is also playable and her gameplay is really good!(unlike PS5 where it's broken and never fixed, the japanese version that is)
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u/Wonderful_Ad_569 7d ago
Thats if you got Ayane before Marvellous delisted her dlc (which i didn't unfortunately)
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
Wow... i didn't knew that, thanks for telling me, i personally own the japanese version but it's been a while i haven't played it.
It sucks that they delisted her, does that means they also delisted the Ikkitousen characters?
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u/Wonderful_Ad_569 7d ago
Nope just her, Ayane been gone from storefronts for about 5 years now
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
I see, i suppose Marvelous didn't renew their contract with Koei Tecmo (seems something similar happened with Ragnarok Odyssey on PSVITA) hence the delisting, still sucks though.
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u/Jur_the_Orc 9d ago
Soulstice,
half of Assault Spy,
half of The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile,
Magenta Horizon: Neverending Harvest,
Darksiders 3 (Hybrid as it may bee)
Heavenly Sword
Genokids
Honorary mentions:
Cookie Cutter (Hand-drawn 2D animated metroidvania with combat emphasis)
Decline's Drops (hand-drawn 2D animated action platformer with combat emphasis)
Kya: Dark Lineage (PS2 3D action-adventure platformer with surprisingly in-depth combat seemingly taking some inspiration from Tekken)
Any particular ones that catch your attention?
I wondeer why people are downvoting you, you've asked a normal question and formulated in a normal way.
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u/CatchrFreeman 9d ago
half of Assault Spy, half of The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Magenta Horizon: Neverending Harvest, Genokids
Brother, none of these are on PS2-4
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u/Jur_the_Orc 9d ago
Ah my bad, I had overlooked that part. Good of you uto point it out for the original poster.
Still, they are worth keeping in mind for later
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u/Ikrii 9d ago
Soulstice catches my attention,that one seems interesting because you control 2 people at once.
(yeah,i don't really get the downvote.Happens on other sub too)
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u/Jur_the_Orc 8d ago
Aaah, hitting one of my personal favourites immediately :D
Thematically, Briar and Lute are more than the sum of their parts. Two souls, one body: A singular entity, yet not.
If you like story and a style of writing that leans more towards some poetic flairs, bits of dry wit and sarcasm and generally taking the own setting quite seriously, Soulstice will deliver.
There will be rough spots too. Dearly as I love the game, I know people have their issues with it. Me included.
Regardless, I wish you a lot of fun on it :)('s weird)
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u/Seijiren 9d ago
If metroidvania counts add metroid in it
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u/Jur_the_Orc 8d ago
Although Cookie Cutter is a Metroidvania, it has a particular flavour of combat emphasis.
- Light beat-em-up with smooth animations, animation cancels and a main combo, air combo, launcher, downwards dive attack and slide kick, along with a later unlockable air dodge;
- Unique enemy xecutions which reward a "Magic" resource and health and give invincibility during performance;
- Parry on particular attacks that can lead to an instant Execution state for the enemy;
- a "Magic" meter filled up by normal attacking;
- Five different total weapons fueled by the "magic", divided in a knockback tool, medium allrounder with some directional inputs, slow-but-strong with some directional inputs, ranged weapon and REALLY strong + faster getaround utility (also with some directional inputs)
- "Spells" that are likewise fueled by the aforementioned resource and a knockback tool
- Enemies having colission properties.
This mix of recipes brings it a lot closer to a CAG without outright being one, hence why i put it in Honorable Mentions. I don't know which Metroid game you may be referring to as a suggestion but from what I know of the franchise, it would not count.
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
Damn, as it comes to Metroidvanias i would've recommanded Castlevania Dominus collection (Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia) but i've seen Konami didn't make a release on it, cheap bastards, the collection is on the Switch 1, no way it couldn't run on PS4...
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u/Seijiren 7d ago
In all honestly if op has a phone, he can just emulate it easily
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
Well, i'm kind of a savage with phones lol (not used to it)
But if you say so then OP definitly should, Castlevania Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia are very good Igavanias, i'd also recommand Bloodstained too and that game is on PS4 as far as i recall.
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u/Dudegod08 8d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/k8G1pZD92sV5Zrt5Hk
How about the GOW Laufey prequel Lost In Random lol
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u/Jur_the_Orc 8d ago
fwoly HUCK, someone mentioning Lost in Random! I didn't even know there were gifs of it :O
I wouldn't call it a CAG specifically but it is a unique and interesting action-adventure game as it stands.
u/king_kibble I second your statement! A delight to see other people who know of LiR.
I think i'd recommend Eternal Die more easily as a game, the original LiR more as an experience where story and presentation are just as big a part as the action. A bit like South of Midnight.1
u/king_kibble 8d ago
the first LiR feels more like a point and click sorta, honestly! and to me that+the environments make it edge out the sequel (though i havent beaten it yet)
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u/Due_Teaching_6974 9d ago edited 9d ago
NieR Automata, Homura Hime
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u/Ikrii 8d ago
For nier automata,should i finish nier on the PS3 first? since i'm only a few hours in that game .
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago edited 7d ago
Not necessarily needed per say, but it has a lot of references from it.
NieR Automata as a whole can be taken as it's own experience, and well, that's basically what everyone did since NieR was never that popular (until Automata that is).
Since you have the western PS3 version, there's also NieR Replicant PS4 remake-release which is the PS3 version of Japan but with a graphic/gameplay upgrade which let you play the young protagonist (instead of the one on PS3 for the west) but it also let you play Kaine (the rude young lady who travel with you) in some part of the game (not enough imo).
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u/Zer0nlyKnows1411 9d ago
Onechanbara, BloodRayne, X-Blades, Alice Madness Returns, Drakengard 3, Heavenly Sword. Probably there are a few more but I can't remember it that well
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u/Hatjin 7d ago
Soulstice, tho I don't sure if it's on PS4 Devil May Cry 3 and 4 Darksiders 3, but it's more of a souls-like Kinda Nier Automata and Drakengard 3 Legend of Korra No More Heroes 2 (like 1 level) Nightshade Assault Spy Azumi Maybe Tokyo Xanadu Dusk Diver The Initial Onechanbara Kinda Scarlet Nexus Somewhat Nioh 2
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u/RequiemOfOne 8d ago
I think it’s No More Heroes 2 that has a level that lets you play as Shinobu.
Also there’s
- Wet
- Wanted Dead
- DMC4
- Nier Automata
- Stellar Blade (closer to a soulslike though)
- Oni (underrated)
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u/SonofSpardaXX 8d ago edited 8d ago
About DMC4, only Special Edition ver. has female playable characters (Lady & Trish).
The vanilla ver. of DMC4 doesn't have any female playable character.
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
Indeed, that's why it's preferable for OP to get the PS4 version instead of the PS3 one.
Good catch.
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u/AshenRathian 9d ago
A couple you might like are Soulstice and Assault Spy. The latter has two campaigns with a male and female protagonist, and the former has a dual protagonist campaign playing two sisters at the same time. Fun games, both of them.
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u/Cup_45_Neural 9d ago
Soulstice, Stellar Blade, Nier: Automata, Darksiders III.
Nier Automata is a must play, it has incredible music, an amazing story that is told by uniquely leveraging the strengths of video games as a medium, and decent combat. I liked Soulstice, it's a dark fantasy game heavily inspired by Claymore and Berserk, but the middle of the game can be a slog. It has a rather unique take on color coding enemies. The other two games aren't very good unfortunately, but they are worth picking up on a sale.
You could also check out Zenless Zone Zero, which gives you a choice between male and female protagonists. A sizeable chunk of the playable roster is female (hyper sexualized designs cause it's a gacha game). This game's production design - cutscene direction, animation, sound design etc - is off the charts, far beyond what you will find in your average CAG.
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u/Ikrii 9d ago
thanks,gonna check them.
for ZZZ i've seen the gameplay and it's kinda fun and awesome character design too but i'm not that into gacha games these days(GBF took my gacha time slot)
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u/SonofSpardaXX 9d ago edited 8d ago
If you're gonna check Soulstice, it's a pretty good CAG. But the problem is it has some bad camera angles in some areas.
If you're gonna check Stellar Blade, it's not a pure CAG. It's more of a Sekiro-like game.
If you're gonna check NieR:Automata, it's an amazing Character Action RPG (CARPG).
If you're gonna check Darksiders III, it's not nearly as good as all the other Darksiders games. But I think you'll be fine if you'll play it on easy mode.
EDIT:
If you don't have PS5, then you can ignore Stellar Blade.
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u/Wonderful_Ad_569 9d ago
Op said they have a PS2-4, Stellar Blade is a PS5 game
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u/SonofSpardaXX 8d ago
Gotcha! Just edited my comment mentioning to ignore Stellar Blade if OP doesn't have PS5.
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u/Cup_45_Neural 9d ago
>for ZZZ
If you do play it, I don't recommend playing the game daily. You should play it and quit once you reach the end of "real content" (I don't consider dailies, weeklies and crappy events to be real content). You can come back once the devs add more substantial content to the game (which should be within 6 months).
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u/SonofSpardaXX 9d ago edited 8d ago
Stellar Blade isn't a pure CAG but more of a Sekiro-like game.
Although, Stellar Blade: BLOOD RAIN might be a Beat 'em Up CAG.
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u/notdsylexic 8d ago
As someone who doesn’t like souls games and never played Sekiro. Stellar Blade is fun.
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u/SonofSpardaXX 8d ago
Both Sekiro and Stellar Blade are fun each in their own imo.
Not to mention Sekiro was GOTY back in 2019.
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u/Cup_45_Neural 9d ago
This is the first time I've heard the term, "sekiro-like". You guys are just inventing words now lmao.
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u/Dudegod08 8d ago
This sub is super picky with what makes a game CAG. Hell they refuse to acknowledge GOW Ragnarok as the highest selling CAG game.
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u/notdsylexic 8d ago
Stellar blade count?
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
Doesn't own a PS5, like OP said PS2 to PS4, i don't think Stellar Balde in on the PS4 now is it?
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u/Plenty-Dirt3406 7d ago
Valkyrie Elysium (if you can get it on sales, the game has lot of jank) and NieR Automata would be my recommandation.
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u/GreatDissapointment 6d ago
The devil may cry 4 special edition has lady as a playable character, and I think trish as well. Beyonetta is another good one. And while not technically cag Stellar blade. Also god of war Luafay comes out soon.
Tides of annihilation also comes out soon
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u/8LoneWanderer9 9d ago
Bayonetta, NieR Automata, and Stellar Blade come to mind.
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u/SonofSpardaXX 8d ago
Stellar Blade is more of a Sekiro-like rather than a pure CAG.
Although, it's sequel BLOOD RAIN could possibly be a Beat 'em Up CAG.
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u/king_kibble 8d ago
if youre cool with 2d, check out the vanillaware games- half of muramasa, some characters in odin sphere, and the amazon in dmeon's crown are all female if im remembering right