Arcana Twilight Reseña(s)
5.0
5.0
the story line is perfection and the characters are very lovable! and don't even get me started on the artstyle... chefs kiss!! 🤧
I think ppl should stop caring of how it looks like obey me and start looking at the good sides of this game. Sure, they took a big inspo of obey me but it's not like the plot, characters relationship and story settings are the same.. 🤷
All in all, my fav boys are,, Vega, Pollux and Spica..
✨️(PLS GIMME THEIR CARDS I BEGGG! especially the vega one that's painting..
❤️)
4.6
» an actually pretty fun and casual game??? i thought it was gonna be a flop but the story has me HOOKED and im blitzing through the stages just to get every last crumb the game has to offer. sure it has a couple of things to fix, but i can see the potential! oh and vega best husbando, with alpheratz being a vvv close second ♡
tho if you ~do~ have the time, why not read my huge brain fart of a ramble right over yonder? i promise you, you WILL regret it ♡♡
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// Ah Sweet, Casual Gameplay! :
» I used to avoid casual games like the plague back when I was a wee lass. Whenever I'd see one, I'd whine about how it's too boring, not enough action, just want to overload stupid teenage brain with a floodrush of serotonins as I drown myself in all the grinding that I can get my grubby mitts on while my phone screen flashes blinky flashy rainbow lights to get the monkey neurons activated in that little chrome dome I call a head. Y'know, regular teenager things.
But now that my back pain problems have arrived just as I hit my twenties, I've gained a newfound appreciation for all the casual games (esp ~casual~ gacha games) out there. They are an absolute GODSEND now that I find that I have too little time to do stupid hour-long grinds like I used to do.
If you'd like an easy comparison for how this game works, look at famous exhibit a-- aka, a little fancy game called Obey Me. It's quite obvious that they're heavily inspired by it, but that's not a bad thing at all! Honey, originality died out a loooooong time ago. You'd be hardpressed to find anything-- and I do mean ANYTHING-- that is 100% as genuine as the scoliosis that I'm otw to developing.
While it may be similar, I kinda... prefer how much easier it is here than in Obey Me ngl? There's definitely less grinding than Obey Me since Arcana offers you the choice to double your rewards by watching a simple seconds-long Ad (wowowow, I get free shit AND my f2p ass somehow contributes to the devs as well? i see this as an absolute win!!!).
When you enter battles, you're first shown a small screen that shows your current team composition, enemy skills, and other neat bite-sized battle info. If you have no time to worry about building an optimal team to decimate hellspawns with, then fear not my fellow simps! You see, the game automatically sets the best units on your team for you! Pretty sweet, huh?
During battles, both your units and the enemies have little bars above them that indicates their skill bar's progress. Once full, you can tap on your characters to activate their skills! After that, you need only to either deplete the enemy's health bar or have more health than them by the time the battle ends. It sounds simple enough, with difficulty only spiking as you need to choose when to best activate your husbandos' skills.
After winning, you may or may not be greeted with a lovely visit from your summoners!~
// Oh Boy, I Sure Do LOVE Min-Maxing the Easy Way! :
» Expeditions exist! Or as Arcana likes to call them, Visits.
Just like other games, Arcana has a system where you can easily gain resources, character affection, and even money while doing absolutely jackshit. You can choose characters to go on these visits and you can just reap the rewards right after! Oh, and did I forget to mention you can double the rewards for the expeditions as well? Crazy amirite?
Another ez way to not-grind is by watching the ad offers on the home screen. I highly reccommend you do this since it's what's helped me blitz through the stages just after two days of playing. Even as you advance more in the game, it always helps to have these guaranteed ex rewards to help lessen the grind.
// Just Your Run-of-the-mill Gacha System :
» Man, I love-hate gacha systems. Mainly because I hate having my soul crushed when I failed to get the character with my meager amount of rolls, but also because I lose interest in anything that isn't a gacha game. (What can I say, I like my men fictional and with a star rarity attached to them).
As for the rates, I honestly can't tell how bad they are since I'm kind of pretty lucky with these things. Anyway, event-feature banners have their featured character and *wishes with a chance of 0.370% drop rate. Event Banners (just like with Obey Me) has rewards for how many rolls you do on a banner.
The regular pool SSRs usually have a drop rate of around 0.040%~0.055%.
Alongside the rolling currency banners, there is the regular gold banner where you can obtain SSR/SR shards, R~N cards, materials, and gifts for the summoners. It has a free roll every day, so don't forget about it!
As for rolling currency, I'd say the game is pretty generous when you're starting out. Completing story stages is the best way to get these gems, but there's also the option of doing gem offers (like completing surveys, playing games-- ykno the drill) on the home screen. Make sure to do your daily missions and event missions as well since they give free rolling currency and/or tickets!
*wishes - wishes are like the memory cards of Obey Me; or in other words, think of them as equipment that gives added stats and skills to the battle.
// Hell Yeah, Pretty Pictures to Be Obsessed With! :
» I like games with pretty art. If it doesn't have pretty art, I'm dropping it no matter how cool the story or fun the gameplay. That's kinda super extremely really shallow of me, you say? Oh, I 100% agree on that.
So as I was saying, art is good! Yes! Feels especially nice to see how fluid the movement of the sprites are! I do have ~some~ issues, but let's save that for the end.
// The Real Question Tho-- How About The Husbandos? :
» As you may have read from the start, I love Vega and Alpheratz. 100% husbando material!
Usually, I'm the kind to completely ignore the rest of the cast once I've found my favs, but surprisingly everyone else was just as good and I looked forward to their interactions with the MC a lot! (Exc for one character, but that's a topic for another day~)
It's plain to see what base foundation of tropes that the characters were written with (ie, the people pleaser, the dependable leader, the slacker, the energetic one, the strict and reserved one, and the mysterious one). But that only makes it easier to know which boy you'll be stanning for and, imo, the dev's actually do well in delving a bit more beyond their archetypes as the story unfolds.
// This Is Not A Drill, I Am Super Invested in the Story Now :
» Short answer is... I like it! Very, very much!
It starts out simple enough with the MC being whisked away by some unknown supernatural force to a different world. Standard opening scene for a magical otome game, right? It gets better from that point on as you get to know the characters more and learn about the world you've found yourself in. The pacing can feel a little fast at times, and I do so wish they'd give a little more scenes to flesh out a couple plot points, but I enjoyed the ride all the same.
This little fantasy plot has certainly got me invested, esp after getting to know the main cast better (Vega and Alpheratz, my beloveds). If you're like me who has a huge amount of love for Isekai stories, then you'll probably like this one as well!
Ah, but there is one problem though, which segways us nicely to the next section of this review!!
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// Hello Google Translate, My Old Friend :
» So you probably guessed it from the title alone-- the translation can suck at times and leave you confused at wtf is actually being said. I've struggled with this esp when completing certain tasks in the Missions Screen (srsly, how was ~i~ supposed to know that "30 gifts from Summon of Sorcerer" meant GIVING items to the husbandos, and not the other way around? It only took a genius breakthrough in the middle of the night for me to realize it)
Luckily, I've long since acquainted myself with MTL'ing foreign novels, so this kind of quality doesn't really faze me at all. Though hopefully the devs can get a better translating team for the job bc it would be a waste to let the story they have in mind be presented with this level of translation!
// Whooo, Gameplay...? :
» I like simple gameplay, but I can see how it can get pretty boring pretty quick for others.
The battle screen leaves much to be desired, especially with how... static and lifeless it feels. The units don't do anything at all except stand there, occasionally switching sprites when hit or a skill gets activated. SSR cards don't have a special animation for their skills, which sucks since it would be nice to see a little extra extra for having a super rare unit on your side. Not to mention, the Fever Mode doesn't feel as exciting when it relies on stars that quickly flashes on the screen and just vanishes just like that. (Don't even get me started about the lil bug where after I hit the enemy, it regains HP despite not having a single healing skill on the enemy team at all???)
Overall, it's too plain and leaves you with the impression that the battle feature was severely neglected and underbaked.
A quick suggestion would be to add animations. Seriously, a little razzle-dazzle, pretty-fying the bars and whatnot, could go a long way to make this ten times more exciting than before! Especially for the Fever Mode! Feels too bland, it needs to ~really~ get me excited bc atm, playing bootleg whack-a-mole with quickly disappearing stars.png on the screen just isn't it chief!
Another suggestion of mine to stand-out from Obey Me would be to add more variations to random events that happens mid-battle. I've noticed the Horoscope Mail Gift thing where they give you little presents to help you with your account throughout the day. The devs could possibly play a little more into the constellations, horoscope, fortune-telling shtick by having this do more in-game!
They could have this thing where the horoscope of the day would be a present, coupled with a temporary buff for battles, to help! It could range from increasing the chances of landing a crit, a chance of getting more rewards, debuffing the enemies, or even giving a haste buff to your characters! In this way, they could make the game a little more fun ~and~ have an excuse to make more challenging content later down the line!
Ofc, I have more ideas other than the Horoscope Daily Buffs thing. They could add different versions to the Fever Mode as well! Like a special event where you can gather as much money as you can at the end of the battle. Or even having special enemies appear at the end for a chance at rarer mats.
As you can see, there's manyyyyyy, many ways to improve upon the battle system. But alas, I'm not even sure if this review will ever get read by the devs so yall will have to read my shmuck instead. d(= v = )
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The game is obv new, so don't expect any groundbreaking gameplay or anything of the sort!
Gameplay is simple and I like that. It just means it doesn't demand too much of my attention, and I highly reccommend it if you're someone who likes casual games like these.
The story can be hard to understand at times-- what with the translation quality and all-- but it doesn't really detract as much from the experience as one might think.
I know it feels similar to Obey Me, but that's not a bad thing. Many great works were born from the impression left by another. Instead of nitpicking it for not being exactly like the game it was modelled after, we should instead be looking forward to whatever new ideas that the devteam might bring to this kind of game.
Anyway, I like simping for 2D Husbandos and this game is definitely one I'm gonna be playing for quite a while! Later, I have an event to grind yall.
4.8
5.0
упд гача не то что бы скупая, но и не щедрая, тут уж как повезет: за восемьдесят круток выпало 6 ssr, причем три (одна из них ивентовый Сириус) выпали в последний тенролл. камни фармить просто, так что, надеюсь, что пляжный Вега скоро вернется домой
упд2 шла 161 крутка Вега так и не выпал (в общей сумме у меня сейчас 12 сср)
упд за 170+ круток Вега так ни разу и не выпал
4.2
upd 6.10. ПОЛЛЮКС ЛУЧШИЙ я ради его новой карточки вернусь в игру хотя она не совсем мне понравилась
5.0
sy orangnya kalo udh punya kartu bagus gaperlu gatcha lagi, bruntung karna pas awal gatcha dpt 3 ssr, jd klo dpt berlian lebih mentingin beli item hadiah/energi sm coin buat up level. asal rajin di upgrade si seengganya tiga itu dh cukup buat naikin story. soal gatcha sy nunggu gratisan dri admin sj, karna tiap stage makin kuat musuhnya jd mending dias dihabisin buat beli item. tiap lawan musuh stu stage dpt 50 dias, jd lumayan lh ya.
buat karakter ya bagus smua si (apalgi vega NGHHEHFHD VEGA ILYSM HUHUUUUSUDHFUSDU). emg ada chat/telpon yg butuh kunci, tp itu gunanya juga skalian ningkatin level intimacy karakter bersangkutan. kunci klo awal dikasi 10. klo beli 10 harganya 900, jd pandai hemat hemat dah intiny di ini game.
klo mau main pke tap screen translate (・ω・)
sekian from me, trimakasih brodi
4.4
jdi kusaranin hal prtama yg hrs kalian lkukan adalah reroll akun minimal bisa dpt 1-2 ssr dlm 1x multi saat prtama kli maen buat bisa survive stage story utama, fokusin buat naikin card ssrnya smbari nabung crystal dan tiket gacha. usahakan klian puasa gacha ampe crystal cukup buat spark satu banner dah mngkn itu aja kli ya saranku. di game ini apalagi yg tipe gacha jangan nafsu smua banner klian gacha (smisal klian whale ya trsrh). buat yg f2p smngt nabung dan nambang crystalnya
5.0
Начнем с плюсов
-Удобный гемплей, в поцессе игры поясняеться где что и как работает
-Рисовка, вы только посмотрите на этих красавчиков,они все такие яркие, да и что может быть лучше прекрасных мальчиков в костюмах?p.s Спика и Арки зайки
-Задний фон, очень красивый мне нравиться однозначно
-Сюжет, досаточно интересный , отдельные диалоги с персонажами отвал бошки
-За рекламу можно получить монетки и другие штуки для прокачки персонажей
-При звонке слышно голос персонажей и боже это рай для ушей
Из минусов могу отметить
-Иногда подлагивает при выборе ответов или при прохождении уровней
-Мало ключиков!!! Самая большая проблема и это мало ключиков, ведь они открывают диалоги и звонки с персонажами повышая их симпатию но их так мало дают, что грустно
-Гача работает на рандом на одном аккаунте у меня 6-8 карт SSR за 100 круток на другом 4 а у кого-то еще меньше что печально.
-Бои вообще странная штука потому что нужно персонажей качать сильно, а если не хватает и их прокачики, то можно использовать звездочки, которые увеличивают силы, но лучше не тратить их и оставииь на более серъезные уровни .
4.6
5.0
Все мальчики очень симпатичные, не знаю кого из них я люблю больше они все запали мне в душу!
Добавили английский язык теперь все диалоги и сюжет легко понять.
Рисовка и локации очень красивые , особенно дизайн персонажей нравиться,типо блестящие волосы напоминает мангу Страна самоцветов.
Сюжет достаточно интересный, диалоги разнообразные, нужно подбирать еще что б персонаж оценил.
Кстати в сообщениях прикольные смайлики с мишками, а еще диалоги в смс напоминают обычную переписку с друзьями!
Помимо всего прочего в приложении много разных приколюх есть, так что да давайте присоединяйтесь, всех люблю
5.0
5.0
3.0
Unbiased, without looking at it through rose-tinted lens.
Just a realistic review to weigh the pros and cons.
(TLDR at the end).
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[ CONS: ]
First, let's get the glaring issues out of the way.
This is kind of an Obey Me copycat game. Everything from the UI of the summons, home screen, chats, cards, etc are the same as Obey Me, even down to the same colours and their own version of Devilgram and Jobs.
The battles are the same system as OM, yet become unreasonably difficult far too quickly, making it extremeky hard to progress to the story.
If you were expecting something similar to Obey Me, though, don't expect the quality of the game to be the same. Even putting aside its nigh impossible gacha rates... This game has nowhere near the amount of polish and care that Obey Me has.
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Let me elaborate.
In particular, the absolute worst offender in this game is the awful translations.
Especially in the chats, the translations are so bad that I have no idea what I'm reading. Almost all of the dialogue options in the game are so poorly translated that I have to guess the intentions of the phrase.
I am a native English speaker. I can vouch that this is not my misconception.
It's severely immersion-breaking to try and understand the story while constantly being hit with phrases that were clearly mistranslated, or obnoxious grammatical mistakes, or sometimes even phrases that are still in Korean.
It would be good to either translate and localize this game properly, or better yet, to simply hold off on the English release until it is done.
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Everything feels janky. Maybe I'm just too used to the silky smooth, perfect-transition UI of Obey Me.
It feels.... How do I put this? Crude. Maybe blinky? Just... Not great. It doesn't feel satisfying.
I can't quite put my finger on the problem, but everything about this game just feels unpolished. Like it's still in pre-release.
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[ PROS: ]
Though, I will admit the reason why I'm so worked up on writing such a long review is in part due to this game's positive side.
The visuals are gorgeous. In particular, the designs of the characters are all amazing, and their personalities are all different and fun.
Each character is distinctive and interesting, which is rare in these sorts of games.
The voice acting and BGM are also very nice.
I can see that the worldbuilding is very good as well- maybe a tiny bit cliche, but it would even be great as an anime setting.
I find myself very interested in this world and these characters. This is hard to come by, in a market dominated by the same 4 cliche types of charactets.
I am aware these pros sound very short compared to the giant rant of cons above.
Do keep in mind, however, that these aspects were enough to keep me playing through all the cons and bad translating.
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CONCLUSION:
I want to love this game. Really, I do. These characters are so endearing and interesting, and it's been a while since I've seen a new promising otome game like this. This game has incredible potential.
But.... It all goes downhill from there. From its copied UI and battle system to its Google-translate dialogue, this game feels very unfinished.
It feels like the team poured their heart and soul into the characters and story, then chucked the rest to the cash-grab quick-marketing department.
If you go into this game with low expectations (i.e., a typical quick cash-grab otome isekai), it may be quite good. But if you wanted a well-rounded, polished and localized game.... Maybe try The Arcana (similar premise of magic), Obey Me (the game that this game is copying), or Mystic Messenger (Korean otome focused on chats) instead.
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[ TL;DR: ]
Good characters and story. God awful translations and gameplay.
Basically Obey Me copy otherwise.
Go play Obey Me instead.
4.8
graphics are great, so is the voice acting (they have xiao's kr VA for arcturus, han jumin's for spica, thoma's kr for sirius, and aether's kr for pollux!), and i'm absolutely in love with the characters and the lore, i didn't expect i'd be so attached to them. unnecessary, but my favs are alpheratz and vega.
translation is.. not good, but understandable most of the times. it's not hard to progress, and i think they're pretty generous with the rewards for completing chapters. i've been playing for around 2 weeks and have gotten like 7 ssrs from gacha. unfortunately they don't seem to be active with the events, there hasn't been one going on for quite a while i think. not even for pollux's birthday even though i saw on their twitter there was like a campaign for alpheratz's. pretty sad for the boy, all he got was a chat. (oh! the bday gift just came in today ww i guess it might've been a timezone difference. happy birthday once again, poll!)
i wish they'd give more efforts and care into it, it has a potential :(
4.0
4.4
pengen nikahin di tempat pokoknya. Buat suara karakter juga bagus, cocok semua. Anw, Pollux, nikah yuk?
4.6
sometimes it stops working but overall it's quite an awesome game in my opinion !
edit: it's working just fine now !
5.0
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