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4.4
Offline grinding! and game is fairly generous with stamina, including for F2P
Fairly strategic with various different AG setups vs specific enemies + most 5* AG and some 4* being useful, and gearing options
decent storyline
overall good production value and polish
skin currency handouts
PvE content allows infinite free exit/resets of stages, including for the challenge content
Gear substats are not hidden and are upgradeable (with very limited mats, but still)
Notes:
Fairly heavily PvP and PvE leaderboard focused, if you like that
Action bar turn based combat
Fair bit of competitive guild challenge content
Cons:
Not very F2P friendly with pulls and certain upgrade mats being limited for F2P, and a dupe system that is impactful (albeit with a few uni dupe mats + pull currency chara refunds). Not the worst - careful planning allow F2P to compete over time - but certainly not great, especially in a competitive-focus game. Trying to whale can get VERY expensive
Gear substat grind is awful. AWFUL. and it's half the endgame.
A fair bit of accuracy and status accuracy RNG...
Rock-paper-scissors design means many characters need to be built, which gets difficult. The other half of the endgame.
Gradual powercreep on characters, with a number of must-pulls, can make it hard to keep up. Not the worst in genre, but still.
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Appleandroid
3.6TL;DR === Epic Seven with great QoL features,in exchange for very questionable gameplay desgin choices Preface === I think it's well known that AGF and E7 are very similar in combat, character building, and the daily grind. I'm a seasoned E7 player that quit a few years ago because I got bored of the endgame grind, so I'm not sure how much E7 changed since I left. I will be comparing AGF to E7 since they are immensely similar, almost like copying E7 if they didn't add/change some stuff. Only comparing them in the perspective of a f2p player. What AGF has over E7 === - Offline auto-farming Lets you use your device instead of hogging it, might have a negative effect of making the game feel like an idle game - Configurable AI for your characters Makes runs more consistent now that you have control over when to use their skills, and who to use the skills on - Gear substats are pre-rolled when obtaining one No need to enhance a gear and pray it gets good rolls. Substats are unusable until you enhance the gear to certain levels. +3/+6/+10/+15 unlocks 1/2/3/4 substats. Now for the queationable gameplay design choices === - Super accelerated early game If you know what you're doing, you can breeze through the early game and be able to start farming 6 star gear in 3 or 4 days, albeit only for 2 slots instead of all 6. Has a greater effect on feeling like an idle game. - Fodders are hard to get You can only get fodders from clearing stages, no friend summon like E7 does since you can't even have a friend to assist you in battles. - Terrible gold income, given how high the expense is Not factoring other aspect of character building, enhancing a 6 star gear to +15 would need ~150k gold. Most stages give ~600 gold, and a few gives 10k gold. There is a gold resource stage, but it's only worth it with the daily bonus, which gives 50k gold, otherwise its 2k gold. You can get more gold by paying with premium currency, but you won't be pulling gacha unless you're a p2w player. Now this really feels like an idle game. Final thoughts === - Do I recommend AGF? Only for the thrill of the early game. After that, it slows you down by a lot, like trying to crawl out of poverty. Until the devs increase gold income, I can't really recommend AGF past the early game. - Is AGF better than E7? Not by a longshot. The poverty situation alone turns me off.
SeishinnFox
4.25Annnddd... I'm here again. [開心] Let's get the things that what I think is not good on this game first. AI Combat. Introducing the AI Combat! Finished a stage and want to farm but don't wanna tap all the time? Well, you're in luck as we have the AI Combat feature! Real neat! First, select a stage that you have already finished, tap battle, and instead of tapping battle again, tap AI Combat, set how many times you want your characters to combat and then proceed! Now watch as your characters combat the same stage multiple times. Noticed what's weird? No? It's this --> (Now watch as your characters combat the same stage multiple times) What?! I have to watch the same result all the time?! Jeez! I know I have watched Haruhi's Endless Eight like 4 times but don't do this to me on a game! [大哭] Maybe it would be shortened if my characters are a lot more stronger or something but do they really need to do it like that? It takes at least around 4 episodes of anime and 8 dumplings just to wait for it to finish 30 times! It's a lot of time and battery wasted! And get this, if you decide to like tab out of it and open a browser since it's on "low power mode" when in AI Combat anyway, IT WILL DISCONNECT FROM THEIR SERVERS. [發火] Well, no worries, I'll play this on my other phone then. There problem solved. But how about the other players? This thing really is a pickle. 🥒 So what should be a good solution to this? I'll say maybe implement skip tickets. Like on priconne. Skip tickets that you can receive from expired gacha counts or missions and stuff. That should be nice. Or maybe AI Combat will consume a bit more stamina but you won't have to wait for a long time. Or AI Combat will be just a timed feature just like dispatch but you probably won't be able to use your characters on other stages. That way you can do other things or close the game and just come back once done! Saves time, saves battery, saves electricity. Man... This is really long now and it's all just a rant. [開心] Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the game. It's just that it feels like that AI Combat haven't been thought thoroughly. Other aspects of the game feels really nice. The animation is awesome and flashy, the character designs are likable albeit some feels like drawn lazily, and the music if you turn down the sound effects really are good! Too bad the game is muted on that AI Combat. If you're gonna wait, might as well just retain that bg music right? I think Artery Gear can become successful. It has something going for it. And despite that tedious AI Combat? I just kept on playing. Also, I can say that if you're into turned based games with anime flair on it? Try this. [厲害]