Notation (07.11.2024): Just got back to this game after taking a break for a little bit due to irl stuff and.... Gee, the game sure has changed since I left. It seems there is a main story mode that doesn't use the copy system explained below. It uses your base build instead. Pretty neat for people who want something more straight forward. There are still the individual character story modes that can (I think) still make you copies as the copy system is still in the game. Took me searching though a few menus to find it though. There also a multiplayer co-op mode thing now, which is awesome! (...Though I'm not really one for multiplayer... Not opposed to it or anything just not good at that sort of thing...)
Most of the tips I gave below still seem to stand so I'm not going to delete any of it. I hope people still find it useful.
I'd like to give a proper review when I have to the head space but I'd like to drop a few things real quick.
A tip for those who don't understand how the character system works: You play a stage once as a character you've obtained via the gacha in the main mode. Once you've completed the main mode your character gains a copy of sorts that can be used in (some) other game modes.
It carries any cards and upgrades you got in-game/from that playthrough. The same cannot be said for your base character (the one you play as in the main mode). You upgrade your base characters from the character upgrades menu. Might sound confusing on the surface but hopefully might make more sense once you've played for a bit.
But the copy characters are sort of an interesting gimmick. Since you can play them in other modes you can keep a low level copy to reap the benefits of easy level stages without killing the boss too fast. Though the idea is probably to work your way up to extreme mode so that you can gain even more rewards through understanding how to score and survive harder spell cards (... Exploiting burst and the numerous cards you gain at the end of each stage - specifically the cards that give you a temporary shot type...).
... I felt like mentioning this whole thing because one commenter mentioned something about how you end up becoming too strong to be able to properly gain points from lower levels due to beating bosses too fast. I get that for gameplay it can seem odd, but it really does allow for replayability. And so long as you keep getting new characters, that might not even be a problem as you get to keep working your way up but with different characters and finding what combinations score better together.
... This is coming from someone who's played since day 1 and was stuck with Reimu and Youmu only due to getting a dupe as a third character. I have 5 characters now, but I was stuck with Reimu and Youmu for a good few months. Thank goodness the game gives you a few 'character-only summon tickets' through reading the story [Due to certain changes, I don't know if this is still the same]... So long as you don't forget about it you should be fine. If not, re-roll early if you can. Being stuck with 2 characters puts you at a disadvantage and makes everything way slower than it would be if you had 3 from the jump.
Another tip: This game is sort of generous with the gems/premium currency (the one you exchange real money for)... Don't forget at least to login to get a few from Rinnosuke's shop. He'll give you 10 daily, 100 weekly (I think?) and 500 monthly. This is on top of the free 10 gems you get from the gem shop. Getting 20 by simply login in and checking certain menus might not seem that much considering how much you may need to 10x summon. But it will build with time. And hey, sometimes it's 500+ at the turning of a month. Also, if you sweep certain resource stages that's more gems with just a few button presses.
Edit: Even if your favourite character isn't in the gacha pool yet, that doesn't mean they won't be at some point (unless they're PC-98 but... who knows).They'll come in with time, so long as the game has the longevity to get to them. In the meantime we might get some alt. units of characters already in the game (would be weird if they pulled a Cannonball Koakuma on us though. LW kinda did that too didn't it?*). It let's you play as the same character but with a different elemental... Whether they have a different shot type as well or not, IDK at the moment. But let's hope that we get some new characters soon. (Though I do find it odd that we got Kaguya and Suwako before Meiling or other early stage bosses from the earlier windows titles.) Even though LW releases a character- what, every 2 weeks - it also has as many characters as it does because it's been around for a good few years now... This game just came out about half a year ago (as of editing (16/05/2024)).
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I won't lie. I kinda lost respect for Lost Word, and I miss Touhou Cannonball and Danmaku Kagura a lot. They kinda taught me that we don't seem to appreciate casual games a lot. Either you dig a solid hour or 2 or 5... 10 into a game or what's the point? Though I wonder if I'm the one who doesn't get it. After all Twisted Wonderland is a casual game to some degree and yet it still seems to be doing well. I wonder what it is... Over saturation of gacha games on the scene...? IDK! I just really hope we don't lose this game too... Yes. Even if the gameplay isn't phenomenal.
(TL:DR - I really hope this game with actual gameplay, and great QoL improvements, voice acting, animation/Live2D doesn't suddenly up and become literally inaccessible in contrast with an RPG that is literally mostly JPEGs that didn't even have a pause menu when it started out. Yes. I might have a grudge against LW, my bad.)
Sorry for the rambles! Started out as me wanting to help, ended with me lamenting and ranting about mobile games and stuff. Only typed all this under a review as I kinda doubt most people will see it in the other tab... May delete all this and move it to the other tab later.
(* This did end up happening I think... with Chen, of all characters... There's a card in game of her in her original design, but the recent New Years release is her with a different design. Odd how that works.)
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MoreSo, about 404 Game Re:Set (3)
//Part 3 of 3//
//This is less about the game itself and more about my feelings surrounding EoS in general. As well as a, not so quick thanks.//
In the end, maybe it's for the best that I lose these 'memories' and move on to something else. The game is a hefty 5.9GB on my phone despite everything mostly being gone (maybe I did something wrong).
I've been wanting to get back to Limbus Company for a while and Blue Archive. Put them on hold to keep playing this.
In a way, I guess I feel like I failed somehow. Not to plug or anything but I do have YouTube channel where I "archive" songs from Guns Girl Z/Houkai Gakuen (That one game that Mihoyo fans can't tell how Mihoyo/Hoyoverse feels about it). Songs that Mihoyo hasn't put out onto albums yet or given ways to access outside of the game itself. I started it when they announced that the Global Server for that game was closing. It is, of course closed now. But the JP and CN servers still exist. So I use them to get what I can. Even so, I still used the Global server at the time to screen record what I could. Managed to finish before the servers closed. Just in the nick of time. And even so, I'm still doing it today. Recording and uploading the songs on YouTube today. Because Mihoyo still hasn't done anything apparently… It only took one comment of someone requesting it, not even directed at me for me to give it a shot. And somehow, I'm still going. It's still going. GGZ is still going.
Someone has already gotten pretty much all of the songs from the game uploaded onto YouTube (Thank you Pcah!!!). And there's uploads of other things from the game and stuff for the game are still available on the SEGA JP YouTube channel… Not to mention those who have uploaded other stuff about the game.
But, even so… I couldn't really help to archive it. Not past screenshots anyways (and few recorded boss fights…). I know it's not on me to do anything. I'm not owed anything and technically neither are they. Only the people who need the refunds are owed just that.
But I can still say thanks for a fun time (and the gut-punch) 404 Game Re:Set.
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4.0Notation (07.11.2024): Just got back to this game after taking a break for a little bit due to irl stuff and.... Gee, the game sure has changed since I left. It seems there is a main story mode that doesn't use the copy system explained below. It uses your base build instead. Pretty neat for people who want something more straight forward. There are still the individual character story modes that can (I think) still make you copies as the copy system is still in the game. Took me searching though a few menus to find it though. There also a multiplayer co-op mode thing now, which is awesome! (...Though I'm not really one for multiplayer... Not opposed to it or anything just not good at that sort of thing...)
Most of the tips I gave below still seem to stand so I'm not going to delete any of it. I hope people still find it useful.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I'd like to give a proper review when I have to the head space but I'd like to drop a few things real quick.
A tip for those who don't understand how the character system works: You play a stage once as a character you've obtained via the gacha in the main mode. Once you've completed the main mode your character gains a copy of sorts that can be used in (some) other game modes.
It carries any cards and upgrades you got in-game/from that playthrough. The same cannot be said for your base character (the one you play as in the main mode). You upgrade your base characters from the character upgrades menu. Might sound confusing on the surface but hopefully might make more sense once you've played for a bit.
But the copy characters are sort of an interesting gimmick. Since you can play them in other modes you can keep a low level copy to reap the benefits of easy level stages without killing the boss too fast. Though the idea is probably to work your way up to extreme mode so that you can gain even more rewards through understanding how to score and survive harder spell cards (... Exploiting burst and the numerous cards you gain at the end of each stage - specifically the cards that give you a temporary shot type...).
... I felt like mentioning this whole thing because one commenter mentioned something about how you end up becoming too strong to be able to properly gain points from lower levels due to beating bosses too fast. I get that for gameplay it can seem odd, but it really does allow for replayability. And so long as you keep getting new characters, that might not even be a problem as you get to keep working your way up but with different characters and finding what combinations score better together.
... This is coming from someone who's played since day 1 and was stuck with Reimu and Youmu only due to getting a dupe as a third character. I have 5 characters now, but I was stuck with Reimu and Youmu for a good few months. Thank goodness the game gives you a few 'character-only summon tickets' through reading the story [Due to certain changes, I don't know if this is still the same]... So long as you don't forget about it you should be fine. If not, re-roll early if you can. Being stuck with 2 characters puts you at a disadvantage and makes everything way slower than it would be if you had 3 from the jump.
Another tip: This game is sort of generous with the gems/premium currency (the one you exchange real money for)... Don't forget at least to login to get a few from Rinnosuke's shop. He'll give you 10 daily, 100 weekly (I think?) and 500 monthly. This is on top of the free 10 gems you get from the gem shop. Getting 20 by simply login in and checking certain menus might not seem that much considering how much you may need to 10x summon. But it will build with time. And hey, sometimes it's 500+ at the turning of a month. Also, if you sweep certain resource stages that's more gems with just a few button presses.
Edit: Even if your favourite character isn't in the gacha pool yet, that doesn't mean they won't be at some point (unless they're PC-98 but... who knows).They'll come in with time, so long as the game has the longevity to get to them. In the meantime we might get some alt. units of characters already in the game (would be weird if they pulled a Cannonball Koakuma on us though. LW kinda did that too didn't it?*). It let's you play as the same character but with a different elemental... Whether they have a different shot type as well or not, IDK at the moment. But let's hope that we get some new characters soon. (Though I do find it odd that we got Kaguya and Suwako before Meiling or other early stage bosses from the earlier windows titles.) Even though LW releases a character- what, every 2 weeks - it also has as many characters as it does because it's been around for a good few years now... This game just came out about half a year ago (as of editing (16/05/2024)).
________________________________________________
I won't lie. I kinda lost respect for Lost Word, and I miss Touhou Cannonball and Danmaku Kagura a lot. They kinda taught me that we don't seem to appreciate casual games a lot. Either you dig a solid hour or 2 or 5... 10 into a game or what's the point? Though I wonder if I'm the one who doesn't get it. After all Twisted Wonderland is a casual game to some degree and yet it still seems to be doing well. I wonder what it is... Over saturation of gacha games on the scene...? IDK! I just really hope we don't lose this game too... Yes. Even if the gameplay isn't phenomenal.
(TL:DR - I really hope this game with actual gameplay, and great QoL improvements, voice acting, animation/Live2D doesn't suddenly up and become literally inaccessible in contrast with an RPG that is literally mostly JPEGs that didn't even have a pause menu when it started out. Yes. I might have a grudge against LW, my bad.)
Sorry for the rambles! Started out as me wanting to help, ended with me lamenting and ranting about mobile games and stuff. Only typed all this under a review as I kinda doubt most people will see it in the other tab... May delete all this and move it to the other tab later.
(* This did end up happening I think... with Chen, of all characters... There's a card in game of her in her original design, but the recent New Years release is her with a different design. Odd how that works.)