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Very nice! It also fills an SRPG hole that I was feeling.
As a gacha it doesn't feel very greedy, although it's not crazy generous with the pulls, because it gives you the main characters for free.
I don't feel pressured to do the dailies and finally I found a game where I can just immerse myself in the story and combat, although I have to say that it's taking me quite a while to get past the tutorial/unlocking of features; which isn't necessarily a bad thing but means that I don't really know about endgame yet.
There's sweeping, which should be a given by now, but unfortunately it isn't... so cheers for that. And decent options for low spenders.
I don't know the saga, but I don't feel that this game is doing justice to the story. For example, I found it quite unimmersive to see Lavi wearing her character outfit at the start, where I imagine she was probably wearing a uniform even if she wasn't wearing the helmet.
Then let's not talk about the translations. Character backgrounds have one paragraph using male pronouns, the next using female pronouns.
The character growth system seems to be the Eversoul kind, where you feed lots of dupes and lower rarity to grow one.
The gacha is satisfying and there's a good amount of summons in the beginning.
Some features like the idle "treasure" accumulation use gacha currency... So for the daily "claim three times", you have to spend almost a pull.
Even using friend supports costs gacha currency! I don't know what is wrong with the monetization of this game.
The story is very cute even if you're not into the "third dialog options", and I find the gameplay to be very effective in its simplicity.
The art is gorgeous and the voices too, though it's a pity that the story isn't dubbed.
I wish there was more value in the UI and especially the translation... The messages/gifts and even skills aren't translated at all...
The UI is difficult to understand and some game mechanics aren't explained at all. In battle, for example, I can't find any indication of how a character can move; to find out, I have to move them (and I can't undo the move).
It's a gem for anyone who cares for a good rpg story and cares to read details about lore and about game mechanics. The battle gameplay is simple enough to be fun and complex enough to be interesting. It can be played solo, like a classical rpg, or multiplayer, for example if you're into pvp or need help with a difficult stage. The progression is well designed, there's always something to do to get stronger, and I've never run out of energy.
I can't say I appreciate the weapon system with randomized stats, but I'm not worrying about min maxing and even this is working for me.
The dubbing is superb (and complete), and there's many languages for subtitles.
I'm worried about the lack of a sweep function, but so far I haven't felt the need for it - which means the game doesn't feel like a chore.
The gacha model is quite good in my opinion, not predatory; the gacha is fair, purchasing options are straightforward and to the point. I don't feel like I'm missing out for not spending, and I'm thinking of getting one of the season passes for its value (There's two tiers).
Game is on the expensive side, gacha is brutal so far, and there's a bit of the "click a hundred times every day to claim all these small rewards" syndrome.
But the graphics are quite something, and there's the quality of the original work behind it. I love the comic style of the story, though I find that it's been simplified maybe a bit too much.
I also don't like that character backgrounds aren't available until you pull them... I was looking for them since you have to select a few heroes to up their rates in the gacha, and I normally try to focus my efforts on the heroes that I like, obviously. But this gacha is not designed to give you even one character or weapon of your choice, so I guess there's no point letting you know who you're pulling for.
The tutorial isn't too long, but it doesn't let you out; not even to change the language, so English it is until the end of the tutorial .
Even as someone who's terrible at action games, I'm starting to get the hang of it, but oftentimes having a team of a much higher power level as recommended per a stage won't be enough.
Every little action calls to the server, which at the moment doesn't seem to be able to handle it.
These last two points combine to be very frustrating; I don't know how many times I had to restart the game a couple times because it got stuck trying to load a stage, then miserably failed that stage because the difficulty is not as described.
The fact that I've gotten to the point that I'm not easily getting any summon currency and I only have one SSR weapon makes it look like I won't be getting anywhere without spending, and spending a lot.
In the end I quit because the loading times are ridiculously long and ridiculously frequent. Even if it were the best game in the world, this would kill it.
Low effort game.
It's designed to be played afk to the point that the story runs super fast, too fast to read long texts, and sometimes I think it just doesn't make sense, with unconcluded stories and missing context (but maybe I didn't catch it at that speed).
It relies on the IP and on players knowing or don't caring about the story, and just playing for collecting characters I guess.
The combat is very simple with just two actions, obviously designed for auto play as well; even if you try to go manual, there's a time limit for selecting an action before it goes automatically.
Usually IP games are at least very pretty, but here no high investment went into the graphics either. 3d character models are chunky - Rukia gets very weird at times - and everything else is static.
I'm guessing that as an afk gacha it's (just below) average, but if you're looking for value either than that, you'll be let down .
It looked like a Theme Hospital, but without the fun gameplay (replaced by the idle gameplay).
Usually with these ip games I feel like I'd rather watch or read the story instead (even when iI know it already, sometimes!), but not in this case. It's interesting and cinematic, and it feels a lot like watching an anime; fully voiced, too.
I'm on high-but-not-highest settings and my phone isn't burning, battery is doing fine.
I don't have the words to express my appreciation for the skip and dispatch mechanics, but some of the dailies are a bit too manual for my taste. If I can play for 20 minutes, I don't want it to be on a daily chore.
I'm trying to play without looking at the tier lists, but trying the characters from friends it looks like there's an evident bias.
Lower rarity characters seem to be usable though, and I'm raising and playing regular Asta. Actually, I ended up in a club of Asta fans who are doing the same, somehow. It's more difficult but not impossible, so far.
Tis one of the few games that I've highly anticipated and didn't let me down.
I binged the story, luckily the power progression allowed that, and even binged the first event, even though it was very focused on a character that I didn't care too much about... Until the story made me care.
The world and characters are gorgeous, almost f*lly voiced (even a large part of the event), with quality voice acting, quality art and animations; the translation at times isn't wor*ed very well, but nothing too serious. The main character is actually a character, not the typical amnesiac.
(sorry for the *s but Qooapp has issues with many words).
The gacha is generous and the shop has nice packs for low spenders.
The grind is similar to Arknights, in that you save the clear with the least moves and auto run it at a fast speed. It's good that you can run it once for up to 4x the rewards (and cost), but I hope it's enough because I'm totally done with the auto-farm thing in games.
The only thing I dislike is the (typical) event structure where you have to go through the whole story in order to be able to grind the event. It encourages rushing through it because you want to start the grind as early as possible. But I found the first event to be approachable because 1. it started on a Saturday (uhm I think), 2. simply going through it once I was able to get the most important items from the event shop.
It's a very nice game in a sea of money-grabby gachas.
There is gacha and it's unforgiving, but I don't see it as a game about gacha, where I'm at. What I mean is that I'm playing and I'm not caring at all about that mechanic.
It feels like playing an old rpg and it's very refreshing. Also fully and nicely voiced.
I'm not at the daily routine part of the game (will update), so I hope that I won't be walled by the daily grind, but I noticed that the monthly pack comes with skip tickets and it's good value for money.
EDIT: Unfortunately, "auto-raid tickets" are a paid item that give you the privilege to repeat stages automatically, not skip them.
And you're supposed to let the game grind for hours, to progress.
The game combines the classical hack and slash RPG to the modern mobile MMO and gacha, in that you choose your character out of 5/6 classes, fight like you would a hack and slash, but you have a team of NPCs that you get from the gacha and upgrade (rank progression by feeding duplicates), and there's no world to explore, it's mostly dungeons.
Some aspects I think are really cool (not sure how the feature is called, but I mounted an enemy at some point and controlled it for a while!), but others kind of make me wonder what I'm doing here.
I think you can turn auto progression off, but by default the game plays itself, making you run from one quest point to another, sometimes even starting two automatic tasks at a time that interrupt each other. Then you end up in a dungeon stage without doing anything, and you can play manually, or you can do what the flashing button tells you and let the game do the combat as well for you.
But you can choose to turn auto on or off, so in the end it's up to you. I wouldn't play for the story, though.
Shop has good options for low spenders, but there's some manipulative of*ers of the "pay and get full refund", "spend just one premium currency" kind. They're not too much in your face though, and I recommend the 2 dollars first purchase at least. Also I don't know what's up with spending summoning currency for guild donations.
I wanted to recommend the game to someone I know would like the genre, but I'm afraid the gacha monetization model is not for them.
The Italian language is very rare to find in mobile games, and is much appreciated!
Even though I'm not a fan of the popular tower defense gacha that we know, the gameplay is looking cool. I'm not very far into it, though (will update). For now, I like that KMFs are separate from pilots and expect this to make team composition more interesting.
I am unsure about inserting a character (us, the player) into the story. But I like that story is separated from story missions .
I did get a good roll on my second attempt and I'm going to give it a chance over the popular title that just came out.
Unfortunately, however, it doesn't look like they're trying to impress the global audience too much, what with the sloppy integration of the translated texts (they get cut in places), the unhappy decision to exclude certain markets (I would have spent a dime too, but the "item isn't available in my country"), and to go far and beyond with trying to prevent re-rolling (no guest account and even checking that you're not salting your email; you can delete your account, but there's a 7-day cool down during which you can change your mind; long unskippable tutorial before the re-roll 10x summon).
On top of a difficult reroll, the initial x10 summon is also not weighted, meaning you can get just your guaranteed 4* but you can also get more. I know some people appreciate this, but I'm not one of them.
Then, I'd say on average you get enough currency to go to pity in one of the first 2-3 banners as f2p, but not in this game. I haven't spent anything since the beginning, now we're 3 banners in and I'm half way to "first" pity (there's 2 levels; with 100 pulls you can get the on-banner 3* and with 200 the 4*).
I love the 2d art, and would have preferred just the old style 3d, since the more modern 3d style is more suited to a bigger screen and a more performant machine. It inevitably costs more resources and still looks ugly on mobile.
Even so, overall the performance is good and it doesn't take up an unreasonable amount of storage.
The music is as exceptional as ever.
Battles are looking very much like the original on the surface (but different), and the modern 3d models are growing on me. There's this attack/defense mechanic that was difficult for me to get into; you have to be quick to switch, and it's not what you normally expect from a turn based combat game. Or you can just play auto if that's your thing.
I think that the shop and passes are slightly more expensive than average, but there's a few good options for small spenders. 'Limit*d time offe*s' seems to be a trigger word for qooapp, and yes they are a model that feels a bit nasty to me.
The daily loop will be a time sink with no sweep or skip button, and the entire materia system based on stat rolls and constant synthesizing. I can only speak for myself, but it's 2023 and I'm not going to let my phone or emulator run auto farming. Especially on a game that turns it into a furnace.
I did notice a "consume 3x stamina to get 3x rewards in a single fight" option, but it only means that there's no hope for an introduction of a sweep feature.
The game is actually well made even though there wasn't a big investment on the assets.
It is the kind of idle "business" game where you click to fill the time while you wait for the resources to accumulate. Admittedly I didn't play very long, but I stopped when I realized that I was just following the "!" that were telling me the new improvement that I (?) had unlocked.
I know nothing about the anime or established title, but the game doesn't feel like I'm getting a washed down version of something.
All in all it's been a good experience so far, game is gorgeous and runs well on my phone. The quality of the assets is high and everyone and the story are fully voiced. I haven't encountered any bug either, even playing since launch, except the occasional missing translation.
I'm not usually a fan of Qooapp's account link model, but it wasn't an issue in this game. It's probably an issue if you want to reroll.
The store has some good deals for low spenders.
I have a few peeves even though the general picture is good.
The story is cute but feels pointless. Though I'm not very far along the adventure so maybe I'll be surprised. But so far it's 2 or 3 chapters of "well let's go ask in this other kingdom if they know who you are" (yeah sorry, spoiler).
I don't like the gacha model. You're encouraged to pull once everyday by daily mission and daily discount, but your're not really saving by doing this because it's depleting your resources for "the big banner", or the banner you actually care to pull. Same for the guaranteed 5 stars on your first 10 pulls on any banner; yeah it's good that it's guaranteed and I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it necessarily, but it does limit your hoarding. All of this looks generous on the surface, but it's really just trying to make you spend more.
I'm liking the game because it seems to reward team composition and make it possible to stray from the meta, but as a casual I'm finding it hard and can barely do the easiest difficulty of the most recent raid. Powering up my characters isn't helping me much either, and is also limited by player level, which depends on energy/time/money spent. Of course I don't expect or want it to be so easy that I can just go through it with no effort.
I don't like that the interface is all over the place. Main page is a mess with quest and rewards buttons spread all over, and you're made to look and click everywhere before you find what you're looking for. Also red dots all the time, some of which will never go away because you're not going to give them your phone number on top of your email. And the season pass page has loud annoying music.
I like the feature that allows players to review characters in game, but nobody actually writes anything useful, and being multi-language most of it is not even English. It needs some moderation to work in this context.
Well, I played once, installed an update, couldn't login anymore for a few days.
I don't normally review a game that I don't like unless it's showstoppingly broken in some way, but I'll update the "hey it's broken" review since it exists.
My biggest issues with the game are:
- I can barely tell the girls apart from their portraits;
- I couldn't get into the story at all, it just felt like it was throwing names at me (though game breaking bugs will often ruin the initial immersion that is necessary to get into a new story for the first time);
- I can't believe that games are coming out in 2023 and having you click rewards for claiming one by one, and generally performing daily clicking tasks... I don't need a time waster.
Which is a pity because I had high-ish expectations, and because I liked the combat.
Blue Archive made several brilliant design decisions that most games don't have the courage to, yet look how well it all worked for this one.
This is the only game that I've been playing since launch with few hiccups, but I always come back because it's so high quality but light hearted. You can easily sweep through your dailies while you're having lunch but, you know what, you don't need to. You can usually get those resources through events, and they're more than enough if you're not too hardcore - the game is pretty casual anyway.
The story is separated from the battles, so you can unlock it by fighting when you feel like playing, and read it when you feel like reading.
The gacha is actually good in my opinion, not the most generous but one of the most forgiving, especially with the guaranteed mileage. Just keep a stash of 24k-ish gems and you'll have the unit that you want for sure. You even know what's coming, thanks to the JP foresight.
I don't like that not all units are usable. Maybe after you've been playing for years, you'll be able to make a strong team around a girl that you like, but beginning with a weak team will severely hold you back.
PvP is the worst part of the game, where the meta team wins. Even more of a reason to take it chill, maybe keep it as a second game.
Likeable characters and funny, story makes sense. I'm enjoying it so far. I like the use of amnesia in the story, unlike the usual protagonist who doesn't remember who he is.
I like the main characters and hope they're playable.
Quality graphics and audio, responsive, feels lightweight.
NOT an action game, not sure why they try to present it as such.
Selective summon, but limited selection. I like when the infinite summon includes 2-stars.
Good English dubbing but... English. (Yeah I'm a Japanese/Korean voice person). That said, I'm quite enjoying even the English voices, when they stay below a certain pitch.
3-star summon mileage at 200 summons, 1500 currency for 10 summons means 30k for guaranteed unit, but mileage doesn't carry over.
Receive all rewards with one click (should go without saying but...)
Can switch apps and lock phone, game doesn't crash!
Free welfare units.
Overall expensive but there's some very cheap options, battle pass is less expensive than other games. I'm going to spend a dime if the game doesn't turn out to be super grindy.
As for the negatives:
White flash after battles deserves a warning if you're playing at night.
Have to look up random friend names because the suggestion system doesn't work.
Dailies seem to take a lot of time, and I don't think there's sweeping. Also auto settings seem to be locked behind base upgrades... Just why? Let me enjoy the game ffs, I've already got my job and chores.
Overall I'm loving the game very much, but this is going to make me uninstall it very soon.
Also seeing the shards system awakened disturbing memories...
Not too bad so far! It's definitely high quality in its category.
The initial gacha is generous with an infinite reroll for your first SSR character, two free copies of a healer, and a selector with role suggestions (but you can choose whatever you want).
Characters are collected through gacha or by farming their shards.
It's got several key quality of life features that I consider a must in any game nowadays, but almost none score very high in (except Demian Saga apparently): there's sweeping, collecting all rewards at once, auto progression for speeding through the story (if you don't care too much for it and just want to get it done), auto-equipping and unequipping. Even so, they're missing a toggle for automatic continue of text during story segments and a log of the conversation. I couldn't find a way to replay the story but I haven't looked yet. Also I wish I could upgrade heroes from the battle formation screen.
There's a bit too much going on in the main interface for my tastes, but I think it's still to reasonable levels especially considering I'm at the beginning. I'm talking about being distracted by all sorts of notifications when I'm in the main screen: all the red dots, rewards to be claimed from many different buttons (just give me a single "quest and events" button for god's sake ahah), new quests unlocked, new characters to view, and so on.
I like the story even if it's nothing fancy, or maybe because of it. It's not trying to be more than what it is, and it's holding my interest. I like the pirate theme and the characterizations.
The characters are pretty and I think they're all inspired by existing characters, from various mythologies but also other modern stories. I don't know if this game has an established lore however.
No challenge so far, but I'm not very far into it. The main focus seems to be growing a team with good synergies.
On a bad note, my phone locked while I was doing the tutorial because I was interrupted, and the game died. On restart, I had to start over and choose a different name because the one I had chosen was "taken" even if my progress was lost.
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby | English
5.0Really nice!
There's the gacha goodness, but it's very light on the dailies and generally plays very chill.
But it's also a skilled game, because if you don't have a clue what you're doing, your're going to fail (though there's Uma's that are easier).
But the gacha is expensive. As someone who usually only pulls on banners when I know I can get to pity, well... I haven't pulled on a banner yet, except the beginner banner, and I've filled my roster with the 1* and 2*s.