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Guruguru Dungeon Nobunyaga (ぐるぐるダンジョン のぶニャが; translated as: "Circling Dungeon Nobunyaga"), officially abbreviated as GuruNyaga (ぐるニャが), is a free-to-play social game and the second entry in the Nobunyaga no Yabou series. It was first announced during Koei Tecmo's Network Business Strategy Conference in 2014. GuruNyaga reuses visuals from its base with different gameplay and an original main narrative based on the Nobunaga Kouki.

Nobuhisa Hiroshige is back as producer and scenario writer for GuruNyaga, a game designed to expand the company's presence in the smartphone and social media market. The game features a 3D dungeon aspect inspired by Minesweeper and slots based on popular social game trends. Plans are underway to release and localize the game in Asia and the West.

Plot[]

Masami, a second-year high school student, meets a mysterious man who transports her to the kitty version of the Warring States period. She becomes kitty-like and armed with a magical war fan. They arrive on the Oda side of Nagaragawa and are recommended to Oda Nobunyaga. Nobunyaga is killed, and the protagonist's magical tea bowl becomes deactivated. He orders her to join him in his fight against fate.

Gameplay[]

Players create a team of character cards and engage in a cycle of expending Energy, leveling up avatar ranks, and using loot for fortification. Ranks determine a player's maximum Energy capacity, potential followers, and team cost rating. Higher ranks are needed for advanced dungeons and missions. Players can join groups, gain bonus Kitty Medals, and foster an off-screen village. Stronger villages offer bonus magic and weekly prizes.

The main menu allows players to edit avatar appearances and outfits, which are modeled on pre-existing 'Nobunyaga' characters. These accessories offer customization options but do not offer special bonuses. The profile menu allows players to change greeting messages and rename protagonists. Gold, purchased using real-world currency, can be used to recover energy, continue from defeated bosses, access rare options, and increase card capacity.

Dungeons[]

The game features main story dungeons with short story sequences, allowing players to tap, auto play, or skip text. The goal is to defeat the map's boss with at least one team member alive. Dungeons are played on a 3D square grid, with players moving their teams and avoiding enemy detection. Ninja traps are hidden:

Shuriken: damages team.
Bomb: decreases team health and relocates them to a random place on the map.
Hurricane: relocates team to a random place on the map.
Rice Ball: restores team health.

Combat begins with contact with an enemy unit and team positioning on the dungeon map. Players can gain initiative by attempting the same conditions. To attack, press the war fan at the bottom of the screen. Standard slots have three spinning reels with colored blocks and numbers. Players must time their taps to earn results, as items regenerate after each turn.

A monochrome block represents one of the five Nobunyaga elements and can accumulated to afford summoning magic. Once its appropriate shade is shining in the bottom interface, the player can tap it before starting their slots to unleash the elemental deity on the enemy party. Rainbow colored blocks are Cat God blocks and automatically grant x9 attack to whoever character is adjacent to it. The player may randomly experience reels entirely blessed by Cat God blocks that lets the entire team attack with x9.

Numbers represent character cards in a game, with participation based on stopping the reel with their corresponding number. Attack power is multiplied by character appearances. Earning two or three in a row activates special abilities, while earning three increases attack power and activates bonus reels. The maximum amount earned is x50. Players must complete maps before the turn counter runs dry, as zero hits the team's health. Mutual followers can restore the counter by five.

Treasure is plopped onto the map and can be found from defeated foes. Occasional treasure thieves can carry rare treasure but can escape the map if the player neglects to find them. Shrines bestow bonus loot and an instant teleporation service. If the player has opened every treasure box and defeated every enemy on the map, the shrine can warp the team directly to the map's boss.

Map exploration expands the mini-map, with bosses as violet triangles, enemy units as red, treasure boxes as golden boxes, and shrines as green. Each map has a secret zone, and players can reveal the entire map for two Golds. Landmarks reveal kitty gravestones, and if defeated, players can use the Corpse Slot to ask for help on social media. They can swap or pay three Golds to resurrect corpse kitty gravestones.

Cards[]

A maximum five cards can be assigned to a given team. Cards still follow the elemental attribute, Cost, and troop type system of its predecessor. Rarity is rated as Divine (天) ⇒ Ultra (超) ⇒ Special (特) ⇒ Rare (上) ⇒ Common (普). Treasure (宝) cards continue to be exclusive to limited time campaigns and are placed between Ultra and Special. Card stats can be seen by tapping on a character icon and are simplified to the following parameters:

Level: current card level. Maximum level capacity is determined by card rarity and reincarnations. Card levels can only be gained by strengthening cards in the card menu. Strengthening requires the player to fuse unused cards to their target and to sacrifice Kitty Coins (in game currency earned from dungeons) to complete the process.
Health: self-explanatory.
Attack: self-explanatory.
Reincarnation: counts the number of times a card has been awakened. Once the card reaches its maximum level, it can be reincarnated in the card menu. The player requires Kitty Coins, an exact duplicate of the card, and the appropriate elemental priestess card(s) to complete the process in the card menu. Resets the fused card's level to one but increases their optimal health and attack ratings. Rarity decides the maximum number of reincarnations available to each card.
Growth Type: regulates the amount of health and/or attack earned per level. Varies between slow (health bias), fierce (attack bias), or standard (balanced).
Special Ability: triggers with at least two in a row in battle. Potency is set by ability level; its level can increase with reincarnations.
Leader Ability: activates if the card is the first card in the team. Certain leader abilities trigger under specifically noted conditions. Leader cards are enemy-targeted and cannot be replaced by player followers. Character cards have flavor text, quotes, and can be petted for new quotes and bonus Kitty Coins. The default card capacity is 30, but players can sell unwanted cards for Kitty Coins. Summoning spells can be altered in the team creation menu. GPS location registration allows drawing from a gacha in Japan.

Related Media[]

Purchase Medyfas cat food with a Oda Nobunyaga sticker on it to receive a serial code for a Treasure Yukimura card. This card can be used in either this game or Nobunyaga no Yabou. Purchase the February 2015 issue of V Jump to receive a Treasure Omiichi card. Use the QR Code at GameDash! to receive a Treasure Toshiie card. Purchase the guidebook for various serial codes.

Prior to the game's public release, a preregistration Twitter campaign was held. Participants who entered automatically received a Rikyu Sen serial code and could participate in slots to earn additional cards. If they received all ten character cards during the campaign, they were rewarded with a Treasure Masiamune card. Players who preregistered by email could receive a Treasure Ogo-nyan card.

It was hyped by Hiroshige and the series mascots along with Nobunaga no Yabou 201X in the March 23 live stream of Appli no Gakkou. Interested viewers can watch a digital archive of the full broadcast on Youtube.

Denjin☆Gacha! featured this title in their Nico Nico Live April 16, 21:00 (JST) broadcast; put in these keywords (電猫ゲッチャ) in-game to receive a coin priestess present. The program is also hosting a series of collaboration quests for players to complete and earn rewards based on the number of participants. During the events' duration, the producer will appear on multiple May broadcasts to present a series of keywords for the game's keyword input section. These rewards will change weekly.

Masiamune shall appear at Tokyo Game Show 2015 and be a part of three stage events that take place September 18, September 19 and September 20 (JST).

Nobunyaga's second idol group collaboration promotes MIRACLE MYSTERY TOUR, the first album made by Earphones. Susume! Otowa Shoujotai will play in both Nobunyaga games for a limited time; in this game, it plays during the player's idle screen and the Earphones dungeon.

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