i rsally wanna like this game, the character designs are amazing, and from what ive heard its f2p friendly and you can get a ton of skins for free. like i really do wanna like this, but i really can't when the auto feature is so in your face. it gets annoying going to a quest destination with auto off and then the auto is automatically triggered, like pls add in a setting or something that turns the feature off for good
basically what an atelier mobile game could be (unlike the other garbage atelier mobile game we got). ive been somehwat following the game ever since it was originally called "A project" back in like early-mid 2020, and the game's actually pretty good ^^
graphics: they're pretty good for a game released right now, the models are really detailed and cool, a few extra details added, and the character models would look like something straight out of a jrpg console game.
sound: the music for the game is really good, the music is something that would come out of an atelier game, one of my favorites is the battle song, it sticks to the calm and laid back vibe of the game without sounding out of place (hopefully i explained that well lmao) but when you start off the game it ends up getting overshadowed by the loud attack sounds and stuff.
gameplay: the game is sorta like an arpg game? each stage is a pretty huge area with monsters, chests, puzzles, and wood and crystals to collect, and outside of the stages, you're in a small little town in the middle of the ocean (literally) and everyone, including you, are chibis, you can walk around, collect stuff, go into some houses and stuff (although the places have a fixed camera angle) and talk with people. the chibi models are pretty detailed, and you can change how you look. and about the gacha, you have to defeat area 2 (the cave with the spider boss) to unlock it. there's a 50x gacha where you get a SSR/5* character on the last 10 pull if you're unlucky (like me). the rates for SSR/5* characters is 2.5 precent which isn't that bad, the character roster is also pretty small (there's only 6 characters, they're definitely gonna add more though, that is if the playerbase is large enough to sustain the game) meaning it's pretty easy to get your favorite character, the game has a ton of other features that i can't really explain since it's in japanese and i can't understand it.
the storyline is n/a and i just explained why in the gameplau section
value: that's up to whoever decides to read this to decide, if you hate tecent though, you might not wanna spend money since the game's published by them basically
final thoughts: this game, imo, is one of the more decent games that came out this year, it's one of those games where i spend hours on it grinding and stuff, and i really like the effort they put into it
ok so first, this review is very subject to change. my only issue is how determined the developers are to keep anyone out of korea to not play the game :/ first is making sure u need a korean phone number for closed betas, and now ip blocking the game and blocking popular vpns. yall advertised a global release, either release the global version soon or get dragged for ip blocking the game
alr i managed to get into the game, i think it was crashing mostly because of maintenance or smth, and there's no vpn required, the real game like this that requires a vpn is konosuba fantastic days, qoo app rlly needs to stop lying like this because it scares away players because of the vpn bs.
it's amazing, it hasn't even been an hour since i started playing and i alr have like 10 3* characters, idk if it's just my luck or,,,
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Morereview i guess
since qoo app doesn't have the taiwanese version of the game on here and I cant review this because i'll have to download it i'll just make a note reviewing the game.
this is problably one of the better bullet hell games out rn for mobile (until thrud comes out of course) and even though I had doubts about the game because i'm not too big on games that don't have a landscape mode, I actually really like the game :) the gameplay is decent and the game is super generous, which makes pulling for SSR or SP characters easier since you can get an ssr character every 80 pulls. you start off with an SR girl, the white haired girl on the app icon and an r girl who has white hair and red eyes who has 2 skins you can get for free. (yeah I didn't bother trying to find out what their names were) and the story is basically that witches are getting persecuted, and you have to fight back from what I could understand.
the graphics are pretty good and the chibi models when you wanna go have the characters play music are super cute and well done
the music is pretty decent it's not just something i'd listen to unironically outside the game.
value? that's completely up to you if you really like the game and you know how to buy stuff in foreign games go ahead if u don't then don't spend anything
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Lapis Re:LiGHTS | Japanese
5.0lets fking goooo