English
4.4
You gacha for strong sinners (units name in this game like operators in arknights, raise them, then move them like a pro to pull off faster exact combos. Then enjoy the story and characters, they are well written and easy to digest for 12+
Long answer:
Graphics. really good looking characters, illustrations, cutscenes, trailers and UI. might be one of its top quality to the point lots of player stare at their fave chara in background and spam pokes at em
Sound. dang good, good music, good SFX, no weird catchy bland anime songs but cool and dark OST most of time fitting its theme. Has many dubs and it is REALLY REALLY RARE for me to find a good eng dub like DMC, MG series. You can hear their accents felt natural, no forced intonations that felt like they intentionally add those verbaltics to their sentences unlike most anime cheap loli jp dub, almost all anime eng dub and genshin eng dub that sounds like some random kid reading some script blandly in class when asked.
sorry for the rant but it is just so rare and good. gotta diss something else to elevate it even further for me in terms of voice.
in terms of music/bgm. it is also pretty good. not as memorable, impactful and NEXT LEVEL as Arknights and Counterside but gud stuff is GUD stuff
Gameplay. was hyped for tower defense genre like arknights at first but couldnt be anymore different.
1. You CANNOT rotate your units, they all face right even even when enemies comes up from left to right
2. you dont use some DP or deploy cost, you use 1-7 deployed units at start then move them around with limited ammo/chance/move per stage. no redeploy. This lets you do easier AFK clear most of the time on easier stages
3. due to mechanics on how to pull off combos, the game is pretty much no longer Tower Defense (TD) but mostly action at this point. Move, skill, swap, anim cancel spam, ult spam technique, chief skill, ult, anim cancel spam. Feels like street fighter on new console/map/touchscreen instead of D Pads and stick
4. has a lot of raid options but 2 most important and tedious daily stages cant be skipped nor raid where 1 touch and done.
5. needs more big brain than AK to me if you wanna pull off low rating sinners clear on harder stages. But usually it is dang easy as you start with full characters on the go, no DP problems
6. also seriously need a lot of QoL updates like more skips, less tedious manual, crimebrand presets, etc tho or i might quit after a year or so like i did on genshin sumeru haha
Storyline. what if AK care less about worldbuilding, just hinting them as the genre is mystery based on SCP, and focuses more on characters and events. Feels so ez to digest and enjoyed unless you dont like the hars being focused on it
Value. as of now it feels like a side game with really good graphics. Not much content to be enjoyed once you are done with story and reached highest difficulty dailies. Then bear with the tedious manual-only long ass dailies while waiting for newer events.
I hope they add more skip (oblivion pit),
less manual dailies (instant difficulty III on BFL)
and more modes, say, enemies coming from above like tetris and our sinners faces up. Some abyss with >10 floors and extra optional difficulties for more rewards, etc
a pretty good game to play on semi afk while making ur morning coffee or tea on dead weeks no events
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Dummy-kun
4.0Graphics: its great, especially if you're looking for something different from the usual anime-style illustrations that this industry uses. For the in-game graphics, it's average, I guess. It's 3D, not chibi, so if you're sick of gachas with chibi, then this game also a good choice. Sound: I don't really care for the music, but from what I hear it's nice. Nothing groundbreaking, of course. On the other hand, the voice acting is really nice. It's available in 4 languages: English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. I've only heard EN and JP ones, and what I heard so far is really good. The main story is also fully voiced except SOME of the MC (us) dialogue. Gameplay: well, it looks like tower defense, except we can move our charas, so it's more like RTS rather than TD. Also, the difficulty is not as punishing as Arknights. I've seen some recommending AK instead of this game, but so far this game doesn't force players (not me, at least) to look up stage guides in order to clear a stage like I heard many AK players say. However, there ARE some inconsistencies in difficulty. For example, players will experience a difficulty spike at stage 2-9 (for clearing the challenge) and then the difficulty will decrease again. Another point against Arknights is the fact that this game respects players' time. It has the sweep system, held back only by stamina. So you just need to wait for a few seconds to collect the materials you need, compared to AK which doesn't even have auto repeat. Storyline: well, it's the standard dystopian setting that's popular within this industry. The game also uses many of the usual plot device like "player is amnesiac". However, it uses those plot devices rather skillfully. Two chapters in, I can say that I like the story. I hate the characters that I'm supposed to hate, I like those I'm supposed to like, and I think there might even be some variations of the story since the player is asked to "choose carefully" at some dialogue choices. I don't know how big those variations are, or if they even exist, but it at least gives gravity to our choices. Value: well, the packages look to be fairly priced. There's the usual battle pass, free and premium, with an l2d skin on the premium one. The monthly pass is also standard, $5 for one 10-pull spread across 30 days. I think I'll stay on free though, lol. For f2p, I think it's kinda good? I've been playing for less than 2 days and I've accumulated enough currency for 50+ pulls. That's including the free tickets I got from logins. Apart from that, the launch celebration missions gives you one S-rank, the highest rarity. That S-rank is also allegedly one of the best of all. Oh lastly, there's a discounted beginner banner that only cost 8 tickets to do a 10-pull, and what makes this banner great is that the first 10-pull is guaranteed to give you an S-rank. The con for me so far is something at the start: you're only given access to all the launch gifts after clearing stage 1-4. That makes it harder to reroll. This problem is also exacerbated by the fact that there's not guest login AND a 15-day waiting period to delete your account. This means you have to create a bunch of e-mails (can't use salted e-mails) if you want to reroll. That concludes my review for this game. It's worth a try if you like TD. Edit: for those who want to start, try getting Langley. Dps is king here, killing enemy faster and earlier means you don't have to worry about the stage challenge (no SAN reduced). I settled on Zoya and I kinda regret it cuz she's melee, not ranged lol. There are some stages that forces you to use long range more with only 1 or 2 melee. If you don't want to waste time rerolling then that's okay, EMP is also amazing even if she's only B-rank.
miyo
4.8ohh finally global version [色色] played before at bilibili games but with my kindergarten mandarin i couldn't understand well tha storyline XD !! okay let's talk about tha game ~ so gameplay similar to arknights but 3D characters similar to Time defender also. it's a tower defense game but the difference is you're free to set their positions < inaction > not like other tower defense where they just sit there and APPLE PIE !! or KOKODAYO and retreet ~ graphics emm emm 👌 tha background just nice the 3D animation the skills all of em are wonderful [哇噻] ~ ah grinding important thing in gacha well you can multiply and skip the progress so its not time consuming ~ chara design owalahh they all beautiful you got tha yandere waifu .. tsundere even a kudere [耍帥] but i didn't see lolies might haven't got em ~ storyline UwU interesting indeed they got tha plot armor ~ gacha rate same 2% i didn't got lucky 40pulls just got one S heroes < the highest rarity > but nvr got what i want .. and the pity is at 80 pulls ~ BGM , UI etc all of are good ~ difficulty emm normal i guess doesn't need a einstein IQ THAT'S ALL ~~ overall good games worth to try 👌