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4.0
Did I regret everything? No, I did enjoy my time with the game. But I did decide to finally put dơwn this game at the mid of summer event.
Now the review, graphic-wise it is cute and pleasant to look at. The UI is crisp and clean. The chibis are nice and all but it did surprise me at the first time because I am not a fan. Though after giving it more time, the graphic did grow inside me. Nothing much to say about the arts, very beautiful, superb; just look at the abundance of fanworks on pixiv and you know what I am talking.
Gameplay, your trategic tower defense game. Easy to learn but hard to master with its abudance of characters, unique abilities and "pause button". Then again, it is up to you to create your very best strategies to beat the stages, especially on hard difficulty and challenges. Beside, you have a very big dorm to manage which will help you with farming and upgrade materials. And Yes, please give my thanks to the auto system, without it the game would be a chore.
Story? alot of potential with rich lores, yet failed to deliver many aspects due to the subpar writings and questionable dialogues. However, I did enjoy a portion if it, sometime it even tried to pose a philosophical question on wars and morality, a breath of fresh air but left many rooms to be desired. Another aspect I felt lackluster would be the casts themselves. Without proper side stories for them, each character felt as if they were just there for the sake of waifus and husbando. However, at the point of this review, I heard the game did make alot of improvement in the story aspect, which is good thing and I am rooting for the consistency in the quality.
Music? very good, many catchy songs, high quality production. Lungmen Battle was indeed an adrenaline-inducing song fueling you through the nightmare of annihilation 3.
Gacha? ok rates, you have pity system that will carry over to the next banner you decide to roll for. In my experience, I would consider this feature as a double-edged sword. On one hand, you can get shafted and come back with your desire characters. And on the other hand, you will get spooked by dupes at the expense of entire your karma. Becareful for what you are rolling.
Why did I decide to stop playing the game? Well I did got salty over Schwarz whom I spent around 70 rolls and only got 2 ifrit dupes. Secondly, the very core design of the heart surging flame event turned me off completely or maybe I just felt salty. Anyway, I did comeback for the CC, great event encouraging you to push the difficulty further and further. Again, I failed to get another best gurl, Blaze.
Well enough with my ranting. In conlusion, arknight is a great side game with beautiful artworks, engaging gameplay that encourages you to replay with different strategies. If you have not played it already, please give it a try because it is definitely worth your time.
Edit: Finally got both Nian and Blaze, guess I am back!!!
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スパーライス
4.6I've been playing arknights since the game launched and kinda fell into it. its ok f2p, like you can get orundum 3k perweek for gacha, its like 20 pulls for f2p player in a month + awesome events. my personal review Gameplay : Gameplay is amazing, for those who love tactics game, tower defense, gacha system and waifu character, this is your place ( they have cool ikemen though like silverA*s ). My iQ kinda low can i still play this game ? yes, theres some tips and walkthrough in youtu*e if you have low iq :> *im not gonna talk about Sanity (Energy in-game) in here though.* *also with *6 gacha percentage* Voice line Character/Soundtrack : you will love them, trust me. Storyline : Perfect, cant ask more about it. feelsbad some of player skip it, i doesnt mind though they have their own reason. Overall the game is amazing, i dont know if theres a people out there saying the game is bad and suck just because they didnt get Operator that they want in current banner, *cough* *cough* newbie gacha-ers* (i didnt get corona though, well stay safe out there) if you love the game please show them support by reviewing the game or buy the monthly benefit in-game for 5$ (・–・;)ゞ(f*ck off you're not f2p player because you buy the monthly pack. well i buy it because i want to support the game dev, i even didnt buy it every month.) the monthly package is really worth it, not just you get 60 Sanity package per day but with Orundum 200 perday for 30 days.
Ryuubii
5.0To start of, Arknights is a game that has a tower defense system, add in gacha, grinding and a bit of base management. They mixed it well and below is my thoughts. First off, the fact that the characters are all in anime style is already good for me. But still, their CGs are great, nice arts for the characters(with some of them being drawn by well known web artists), and home screen also looks nice with the atypical look, although there might be some who feel awkward towards it. Next is sound, or I guess music. What can I say about this? Their OSTs are great, I even used the store OST as my ringtone. Home screen music gives that peaceful feeling, very nice, and etcetera. As for the character voice, I am not an expert in this field, but even though the storyline gets no voice, I still give it my like since they all sound really nice and seems to fit in character. Gameplay, the game is mainly tower defense, which is how the fight works. If you find it too difficult and play more for the waifu and husbandos, worry not, YouTube has all the guides you need, just grind a bit and you will get strong enough in no time. Furthermore, your free units given during tutorial are usually good enough to get through most of the contents, personally, I only have one 6* that I received from the guarenteed 6* beginner gacha. Farming is also made a bit easier with the auto deploy function, although it could occasionally fail. The gacha is also not bad. It has two systems, recruit and headhunt. Headhunt is basically your typical gacha with tickets and gacha currency. By the way, you can farm for more or less 2000 gacha currency each week, and 10 draws costs 6000 of the gacha currency, so you do not really have to whale unless you really want someone or feeling desperate. As for headhunt, it is like the recruit system in AzurLane and GirlsFrontline, but there is a tag system where you can only get 6* Operator with the Top Operator tag. Otherwise, you will only get a chance of getting 5* and lower operators. More explanation will take too much space, so try searching for newbie guide in YT for more info. Lastly about gameplay, there is the base. At first, micro managing it feels annoying, but as you go on, it would not feel like much. Since I might take too mucb time explaining, I will skip this too. Lastly, storyline. Most people in the game are animal girls or guys. A unique theme, yeah? But that is not all, the story has depth, each character has a story behind them, not told quite explicitly, but still there nonetheless. The world also has an interesting background, but to stop myself from spoiling, I will stop at saying, Amiya is a donkey(not, she is a rabbit, this is confirmed, further donkey jokes are memes) Overall, Arknights is a nice game, has several unique and interesting points, not too gacha heavy, and not too grind heavy. This game feels more like something you do casually unless you decide to use money. As long as the game does not come to a stand still, I will most likely keep on playing.