this franchise is slowly sucking out my soul. this franchise is hell and heaven on earth. this franchise is everything you could ever ask for.
it's so addicting to be into such an amazing franchise, in which characters have so much space for character development. you'll get to watch them grow as people and you'll experience first hand how beautifully the characters are all written, and how amazingly well this is all done. this is definitely my favourite thing about aaside - seeing as these characters will be able to come to understand things around them and how situations can impact them so much.
argonavis means the whole world to me and i can't wait to see what will happen in the coming days, months, years. i want to see so much from this franchise and i can only think of the positives.
please give this a chance if you're looking for a new game in which you can easily get attached to the characters, all while enjoying amazing music and a wonderful rhythm game! 🙏🙏
edit: the updates of this game solved all of my problems when it was first released so i'll be changing my reviews now, but my new problem is that the events are too hard for everyone to catch up to and that the game will soon die if they keep going on like this. i saw quite a lot of complaints from japanese fans about the game's events being hard, which i agree on. hopefully the devs come up with a new type of event and switch between two or more types of event tiering, much like A3! and Enstars.
the game is a huge disappointment,,,,
the gameplay is laggy ,the notes in the live sessions are too small and can't be adjusted , the gacha rates aren't too bad but the graphics are .the photos are low quality and they look like they just copy and pasted the transparent pngs from the characters' wiki pages .the game overall seems half-assed ,big disappointment .if the devs needed more time we could've waited longer .the game feels really rushed and all that excitement i had was wasted for nothing .i feel like this game is gonna die soon unless they fix everything in the next update ,which i hope they will .i really love the franchise and seeing the game like this saddens me .
oke!! now that ive played it for quite a long time, im gonna give my review!! (p.s. i play using nokia 5.1 plus)
tl;dr: its great overall, but sure needs some more improvement.
★gameplay
its good and easy to understand! and the gacha is, well, pretty good i suppose? its very hard to get a 4* (i mean, i rerolled 5+ times for shu) but then again i dont really expect much.
★graphic
pretty great but absolutely, and i mean absolutely needs more improvement. it has a tons of bugs (at least for me). the ui is rather simple, and honestly im fine with it. i really like the card designs tho!! very neat:)
★storyline
very interesting!!! i love it!!! also oot but fuurai angst hurts me so bad</3
★conclusion ig?
in conclusion, the franchise is slowly sucking me in.//oi.
the overall game is fantastic! i do hope all the bugs get fixed soon tho (cuz seriously, my phone restarts almost every time after playing it) :(
im also looking forward to play all the songs (including covers) when everything got added!! AND special thx to shu for coming home, ily babe<3
I've been playing this game for a good 15 minutes. (Only 15 because my eyes started to hurt.) So i have a general idea of what's happening. I've played a handful of gacha rhythm games so by far this has to be at the bottom.
The UI is just lazy. Gacha result screen and profile screen are just plain white background. No effort and to me it's too bright. It's like the same effect you get from using Discord light mode.
Gameplay. The notes are god awful tiny. This is the reason why my eyes started to hurt because i have to stare really hard to even see the notes. You have the option to use 3d MV or something else but because my phone can't really handle 3d MVs I just went with using card art. I recommend using dark cards as a backdrop to see the notes a bit better.
Music is really good. I enjoyed a few of them like Manifesto, Cynicaltic Fakestar and Kyouran Hey Kids.
Storyline idk, I haven't seen the Anime yet and i can't read Japanese so you guys can be the judge of that.
Other stuff I want to put out is that I don't like how there's an expiration date on the Navistones (free Gacha currency). My only 2 guesses why they did this are that they want to pressure players on doing pulls before they expire and spend more money or they want to prevent reroll accounts (those accounts with a lot of gacha currency with only the tutorial played. they get it from logins or random campaigns) being sold on ebay or something. Hope they change that soon. Also I think you need a dupe to train/evolve/idolize a card. I haven't done that yet though, only played the songs.
Anyways that's my take, there's definitely a lot of space for improvement so I hope they fix things up before the first event.
I actually played the game now and uh, here's my actual review (lol)
Idk about the other reviews about half assed UIs but uh, Its not really half assed? ARGONAVIS' color palette is literally white and blue so I can see why they would use white and blue as a main palette for the game. just because it's white doesnt mean its basic. Atleast it isnt that god awful shade from D4DJ (It honestly makes my eyes hurt) of course it could still in improve since the game isnt even out for a damn week.
Graphics are...it could need some improvements specifically the mouth and more diverse hand (?) movements—that could easily be fixed dw.
Gameplay is nice, uh, for the note adjustment I cant really say anything but All I know that theyre gonna add a note adjustment so calm your tits lmao theyre listening. It is nice that they added a low res 3d mode for players who still wanna play 3d but cant 2d live can use some...fixing but hey, Enstars is basically the same but I cant see you all complaing smh.
Storyline is GREAT, Perfect mix of angst and fluff, especially the angst in this game is jusy agh chef's kiss.
Navistone expiring is...shitty I know but we have a spark system so eh, plus Theyre really REALLY generous on the stones or am I just grinding too much? They literally gave us 200 last stream because masa completed a challenge lmao. but still the system is shitty I hope they remove it.
EDIT: THEY REMOVED THE NAVISTONE EXPIRATION BLESS THE LORD ‼️
Gacha art is beautiful and you guys could fight me for that. (Except for the one and 2 star cards im sorry but the initial 1 and 2 star is...just no...they shouldve just used the splash art ngl. )
So far the game is Average but not super average and the game has potential. Bugs and glitches are there but the hell, the game just release, Project sekai bugged a lot on my device but Im not complaining since its somewhat new.
all i wanna say is calm down lmao. And if you have problems jusy contact DeNa. And stan Gyroaxia.
I felt the game is unfinished or half-assed so kinda disappointed tho.
Graphics:
The artstyle is not too click on me (despite looks good) and surprisingly UI actually decent.
But the main problem that using 3D in conversation talk is kinda off (mainly shu's neck and hair is a bit too big?) and I hope they use Live2D instead (i have not problem in 3Dlive so it's okay i guess).
I hate that they use generic cover art for almost all original song. But also why using logo and card art for 2D while there is no options for chibi.
Sound:
The best songs goes to gyroxia. Believe me.
Otherwise is not bad i guess.
Gameplay:
The daily life part is great (although gatekeep you from finishing live if you don't have strong cards in each team) but the rhythm part is main problem that it lack costumization and annoying swipe notes in middle of slide notes which always break the combo. Also there is no multi live which i guess will be added in future. Beatmaps also felt okay although few of the them are off-sync.
Storyline:
So far I like the character interaction the most. The main story also decent (though I still don't like angst factor in the main story).
Value:
Oh my god. 2.5% rates is okay because it'll balance the best spark in the game (as only saving grace). But the biggest insult is that the navistones has expiration date and it has dupe system for some reason which makes you rolls at least 20 pulls to card plus idolization each card (if you lucky).
I also hate this game eats 4.0 gbs for only 3Dlive sake
I hope DeNa updated these problems in the future so not to disappoint fans any further. Thank you.
Okay, this should be very long. and this might be helpful to future Navigators who would like to join in this crazy band hell lol. Please note english is not my main language so grammar errors ahead!
So yeah, welcome to ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream: AAside. The male franchise of BanG Dream or most known Bandori.
In terms of the game, there are pros and cons.
• Storyline, If you like real sht angst and based from real life experiences from bands. Then AAside has it. The stories are superb despite the current bad animation of the 3D models. If you watched or not the anime "ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream" the story of the game flows from five bands named Argonavis, GYROAXIA, Fantôme Iris, Fujin RIZING and εpsilonΦ participating in a music festival to fight head on named Live Royal Fes or LRFes for short.
Each band has their own story as they progress to strive to win at LRFes.
As I played this game from the very release last January 2021, I must say all of the stories are promising and superb. And I get hooked by it each event just to read it. Just imagining every new discoveries from the characters, a vocalist having an asthma singing hard rock music, a 13 year old vocalist who sees the world as his toy, a drummer almost died due to an accident and yeah there are many more lol
• Gameplay, well in terms of the rhythm game, it really lacks the excitement like challenging beatmaps y'know. Even I can clear the hard and expert modes easily. The daily tasks are quite simple and can be done in a hour which is good for me since I'm low energy playing games. And the event modes of every event has only two which is kinda plain too.
But in terms of unlocking achievements like unlocking new character stories and area convos of the characters in the mini map are quite challenging. Coz you need to depend on the weather in game and whether there's the character you need to meet in order to unlock those achievements.
ah yes there are different modes for live sessions which are 3D mode, and 2D mode.
Original songs has their own 3D live MV while Cover songs has only a recycle animations. (yeah sorry to hear that.)
2D mode is where you can play choosing a card as your background while playing the rhythm game.
• The loading time? usually took 10 secs (?) since AAside just only opened their multilive mode last May. and the servers are unstable as of now. There are chances they you might get disconnected in the middle of it. With future updates I hope they'll lessen the loading time and stabilize the servers. But the first release was much worse, it usually took 1-2 mins for the game to load so yeah kudos for improvement i guess?
• The gacha? You see AAside has a dupe system with a spark of 100 pulls maxed. You can exchange your desired card at the exchange shop.
• Is it farmable? Big yes. AAside is very farmable and generous with the free Navistones (gacha currency) every event and the tasks and game achievements. kudos to that and I hope they will stay being generous lol
• Music or yeah the sounds (?) THEY ARE FCKING ALL SUPERB AND BEAUTIFUL. just imagine some original songs has their own song stories?? Like you will know the story behind the songs and there's a specific character focus for that song.
And yes both Original and Cover songs are absolutely superb. I recommend Kuchizuke Diamond and Kyouran hey kids.
• How large is the game? For me I have an Android phone and it's 5GB now yeap you need a large storage for this game and a high performance phone for this sadly which is one of the reasons some Navigators/Players can't play coz they can't meet the phone specs needed.
Honest thoughts? this game deserved better improvements and promotions. Well I can't blame the game devs for having short money and b/shi focusing on their sister franchise instead. But yes with proper improvements, upgrades, promotions etc. This whole project is a gem I swear they deserve the best.
The characters, the seiyuu casts, the songs and the whole Argopro staff. I salute them by making this far and I hope in the future it will sky rocket once the game will get the deserved upgrades and promotions.
If y'all have any questions and concerns please feel free to ask! but I will not entertain aaside slanders coz yeah coz of the toxic sister franchise fans around there 👀
Have a good day!
I was very happy when i knew this game was finally going to be released today, after years of waiting i could finally play the game. I did have a log of expectations about this game but i really need to be honest rn. The gameplay so far is good, the music, the chsracters, the system, the gacha rate, so far all of that is good but there's a problem about the rhythm game. The buttons are too small which makes me hard to click on and keep on missing. I tried accessing the settings menu to see if i can change the size but no, there isn't any (i hope it'll be added in the next update). The next one is the side flicker in the long notes. I don't really like the idea of putting side flickers on long notes as it makes things harder to play. I don't want them to remove it though since it makes this game unique.
overall this game didn't exceed my expectations. I was a bit disappointed though, i hope they fix these problems.
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