Update 12/9/22 : As of currently, the game is in a low state. Shift Up's decision to allow Tencent as the publisher of this game is downright stupid. Compensation is unforgiving to the point aquiring tickets for pulls is a painstaking process. Like I mentioned, its a cash grab game both not friendly to whales and f2p. Skins cost $20, not worth it. SSR/SR molds is a joke where it is not a guarantee to aquire NIKKE's of that rarity. Progressing this game will end up as a pay wall. There will be a point where you need more SSR NIKKE's to progress the campaign and others. I am currently stuck on chapter 9 where I don't have enough squad power to move on and the gems to aquire more NIKKE's. The community moderation and the game devs themselves also play a role of the collapse. Censorship is heavily used outside of china and promises were never kept. The art appeal is one of the problems that proves this point. If you still plan on playing, I would advise you not spend any of your money on this game as tencent and Shift Up should never receive profits due to their actions.
Tried this game out for 3 days cause of all the hype thats going on. I will offer my side of the review for this game as a f2p.
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Pros:
-Art (obviously), the main attraction to this game. Its great, and the l2ds are nice.
-Music is alright, each having their own from fighting normal enemies, bosses, and others.
-There is no stamina system which I find this really nice honestly. No need to worry about having to log back on knowing you're loosing extra stamina.
Cons:
-P2w, your only way to progressing the game. You can only earn so little to leveling up your Nikke's after you rinse everything of whats available in this game. At the end, you'll be stuck doing nothing but waiting for the outpost to generate mats just to continue on through campaign, tribe tower, etc.
-Events, first event is lackluster and pretty much unplayable to new players. A grind through having the same result as campaign, gated. Not enough Squad Power? No chance, gotta p2w. Dev's knew about this issue before but was never addressed until now since recent maintenance just finished. Unfortunately, nothing has changed much after that. Normal mode remains the same, though I'm not sure about hard mode. For event currency, you have to complete that level, claim it in missions, and continue beating the next level to earn then repeat. There is no way in earning event currency through grinding the same level. Only things are Nikke upgrade mats or credits which is pointless since you only have 5 attempts. So if you want to clean the entire shop, nope, no way. Scummy event design.
-Bugs, a lot of them. Quite frankly and the most annoying one of them all, errors. "Failed to sync combat information," "system error," and I believe the other is a character information update error. Ran into this many many times. Crashes can happen at some point, as well as booting you back to the main loading screen. Now sure, they had beta testing before, but why is the game still riddled with bugs in the released? After the maintenance, these bugs are still in game.
-Rewards and gacha aren't that great. First login rewards: 20 ordinary recruit tickets, 20 limit summon tickets, 4k or 6k gems for pulls (rewards may change in the future). Either way, you'll end up rerolling for your waifu or better Nikke's cause there's like 44 standard SSR's.
Each SSR catagorizes from their manufacturer listing 4: Elysion, Missilis, Tera, and Pilgrim. Pilgrim, having the best SSR's but with a 0.0833% drop rate for one of the Nikke's. Elysion, Missilis, and Tera with a drop rate of 0.2333% for one of the Nikkes. SSR drop rate in general is 4%. Have fun with that . After 40 pulls in ordinary recruitment, wishlist is unlocked. You might think oh maybe theres still a chance on getting my grill, yes and no. Sure, the option of SSR's is minimized but you still have to pick 15 SSR's with 5 for each from 3 of the manufacturers (Elysion, Missilis, and Terra), not for Pilgrim unfortunately. Your other option through earning SSR's (38) is through high quality mold though SR's are in it as well. 60% SSR drop chance having 1.5760% drop rate from one of the Nikke's. You need to earn 50 of these molds to recruit. As always, gacha luck.
Edit: Forgot to include more info to the gacha and rewards.
Gacha limted banner: 3000 gems is one 10 pull both limited and standard. SSR drop rate in general 4%. Limited Nikke with a 2%, Pilgrim 0.0833%, and Nikke's from the 3 manufacturers (Elysion, Missilis,Tera) 0.0395%. Pity system, every 10 pull you earn Gold Mileage Tickets that don't expire. Aquire 200 of them alows you to earn the Limited Nikke. Same goes for Silver Mileage Ticket but you can only buy whats available in the shop other than a limited Nikke.
Listing of banners:
[Limited Banner]
SSR drop chance: 4%
-Limited Nikke (2%)
-Pilgrim Nikke's (0.0833%)
-Elysion, Missilis, Tera Nikke's (0.0395%)
[Ordinary Banner]
SSR drop chance: 4%
-Elysion, Missilis, Tera Nikke's (0.2333%)
-Pilgrim Nikke's (0.0833%)
Rewards: On average, you may earn 100-40 gems through campaign, leveling up, etc. First event allows you to earn 10 limited tickets from the event shop. The co-op event (2nd event) that was released recently gives you 500 gems upon purchasing.
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I wouldn't hate this game entirely, the art is lovely as well as the music, but the high predatory in p2w, unpolished game, and incompetent devs (community had to push devs to fix bugs), is an insult plus a slap in the face. This game has potential from the looks of it, but deep down, it's another money grabbing machine for the devs, dissapointing. Only time will tell if the problem is fixed, or if they even bother fixing it in the future.
I do love how the characters look in this game especially their voices too but there are a few things that isn't that really great. gameplay seems kinda boring since its just not really that interesting, just a bunch of slapping with swords and hitting in the background noise and a few change of emotions, but activating their powers is fine. there isn't really a lot of animations going on. storyline would be nice if it was translated to English so I can understand. also, could use more characters not just the few ones that are in game but with different looks in different tiers. what's really ridiculous is having to use a VPN for people who are in a different country to allow you to play this game. pretty stupid. byfar this game could use a bit more effort on the gameplay. voice acting and art are well done. where's the English language setting???????????????
gameplay was pretty good. the one that bothers me is that when you meet one of the characters (pull from gacha), they don't have a change of emotions which is kinda weird seeing their original looking face but they do give off their feelings when they are talking (I don't think you understand what I'm saying here). byfar it's a pretty fun game. add a language setting so I can change it to English cause I'm having troubs understanding where your suppose to edit your deck and some other stuff
when you rate 5/5 cause of the details that u saw from the pic were really good and the gaming looks decent or nice yet once you start the game cause you just downloaded, it said it's coming soon .-. (relly m8)
the details, characters, and gameplay is really nice. I'm not a fan of having same different characters to battle with yet you can get different rarity of clothes for them to wear which increase their stats (which is fine yet I really love the outfit look), byfar it's a good game to play.
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE | Global
2.0Update 12/9/22 : As of currently, the game is in a low state. Shift Up's decision to allow Tencent as the publisher of this game is downright stupid. Compensation is unforgiving to the point aquiring tickets for pulls is a painstaking process. Like I mentioned, its a cash grab game both not friendly to whales and f2p. Skins cost $20, not worth it. SSR/SR molds is a joke where it is not a guarantee to aquire NIKKE's of that rarity. Progressing this game will end up as a pay wall. There will be a point where you need more SSR NIKKE's to progress the campaign and others. I am currently stuck on chapter 9 where I don't have enough squad power to move on and the gems to aquire more NIKKE's. The community moderation and the game devs themselves also play a role of the collapse. Censorship is heavily used outside of china and promises were never kept. The art appeal is one of the problems that proves this point. If you still plan on playing, I would advise you not spend any of your money on this game as tencent and Shift Up should never receive profits due to their actions.
. After 40 pulls in ordinary recruitment, wishlist is unlocked. You might think oh maybe theres still a chance on getting my grill, yes and no. Sure, the option of SSR's is minimized but you still have to pick 15 SSR's with 5 for each from 3 of the manufacturers (Elysion, Missilis, and Terra), not for Pilgrim unfortunately. Your other option through earning SSR's (38) is through high quality mold though SR's are in it as well. 60% SSR drop chance having 1.5760% drop rate from one of the Nikke's. You need to earn 50 of these molds to recruit. As always, gacha luck.
Tried this game out for 3 days cause of all the hype thats going on. I will offer my side of the review for this game as a f2p.
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Pros:
-Art (obviously), the main attraction to this game. Its great, and the l2ds are nice.
-Music is alright, each having their own from fighting normal enemies, bosses, and others.
-There is no stamina system which I find this really nice honestly. No need to worry about having to log back on knowing you're loosing extra stamina.
Cons:
-P2w, your only way to progressing the game. You can only earn so little to leveling up your Nikke's after you rinse everything of whats available in this game. At the end, you'll be stuck doing nothing but waiting for the outpost to generate mats just to continue on through campaign, tribe tower, etc.
-Events, first event is lackluster and pretty much unplayable to new players. A grind through having the same result as campaign, gated. Not enough Squad Power? No chance, gotta p2w. Dev's knew about this issue before but was never addressed until now since recent maintenance just finished. Unfortunately, nothing has changed much after that. Normal mode remains the same, though I'm not sure about hard mode. For event currency, you have to complete that level, claim it in missions, and continue beating the next level to earn then repeat. There is no way in earning event currency through grinding the same level. Only things are Nikke upgrade mats or credits which is pointless since you only have 5 attempts. So if you want to clean the entire shop, nope, no way. Scummy event design.
-Bugs, a lot of them. Quite frankly and the most annoying one of them all, errors. "Failed to sync combat information," "system error," and I believe the other is a character information update error. Ran into this many many times. Crashes can happen at some point, as well as booting you back to the main loading screen. Now sure, they had beta testing before, but why is the game still riddled with bugs in the released? After the maintenance, these bugs are still in game.
-Rewards and gacha aren't that great. First login rewards: 20 ordinary recruit tickets, 20 limit summon tickets, 4k or 6k gems for pulls (rewards may change in the future). Either way, you'll end up rerolling for your waifu or better Nikke's cause there's like 44 standard SSR's.
Each SSR catagorizes from their manufacturer listing 4: Elysion, Missilis, Tera, and Pilgrim. Pilgrim, having the best SSR's but with a 0.0833% drop rate for one of the Nikke's. Elysion, Missilis, and Tera with a drop rate of 0.2333% for one of the Nikkes. SSR drop rate in general is 4%. Have fun with that
Edit: Forgot to include more info to the gacha and rewards.
Gacha limted banner: 3000 gems is one 10 pull both limited and standard. SSR drop rate in general 4%. Limited Nikke with a 2%, Pilgrim 0.0833%, and Nikke's from the 3 manufacturers (Elysion, Missilis,Tera) 0.0395%. Pity system, every 10 pull you earn Gold Mileage Tickets that don't expire. Aquire 200 of them alows you to earn the Limited Nikke. Same goes for Silver Mileage Ticket but you can only buy whats available in the shop other than a limited Nikke.
Listing of banners:
[Limited Banner]
SSR drop chance: 4%
-Limited Nikke (2%)
-Pilgrim Nikke's (0.0833%)
-Elysion, Missilis, Tera Nikke's (0.0395%)
[Ordinary Banner]
SSR drop chance: 4%
-Elysion, Missilis, Tera Nikke's (0.2333%)
-Pilgrim Nikke's (0.0833%)
Rewards: On average, you may earn 100-40 gems through campaign, leveling up, etc. First event allows you to earn 10 limited tickets from the event shop. The co-op event (2nd event) that was released recently gives you 500 gems upon purchasing.
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I wouldn't hate this game entirely, the art is lovely as well as the music, but the high predatory in p2w, unpolished game, and incompetent devs (community had to push devs to fix bugs), is an insult plus a slap in the face. This game has potential from the looks of it, but deep down, it's another money grabbing machine for the devs, dissapointing. Only time will tell if the problem is fixed, or if they even bother fixing it in the future.