Played since the launch of the game and thus i will blessed thy innocent soul a small brief of what happen.
1. Blue Archive came out a little janky and buggy which is a huge turnoff to some people due to incompatibility with a lot of device. Almost all of the bug has been fixed now and the gameplay is alot smoother.
2. Due to EN player mostly have little to no resources to work around at the start of the game, Its quite hard for new player to be playing blue archive (EN Beta Tester are a god send). Nowadays, Blue Archive community discord have alot of that covered ranging from translation, storyline and guides. https://discord.gg/JHePAmPp
3. During launch the gacha are pretty horrid, but rerolling and looking for certain char will made this alot easier. I can easily breeze through content with certain char and role to fill. Nowadays, its F2P friendly and the reward from events, boss raids and daily gives alot more than it used to.
Lastly, Hina is best girl. I don't use VPN for this game, i don't know why some of you guys use VPN to play. Maybe because im living in Asian region.
I don't understand Japanese, but i find this game very interesting and fun. Somehow i figured out the game, even with the Japanese tips, the tips really help with the images or pictures they put showings you what to do. The character designs are very nice and cute, each character has their own special design and trait which makes them all likeable. The game play is good, it very unique. Overall i have to say this game is good, its very fun to play, quite glad that there making a English version, I'll just be able to injoy the game more.
Blue Archive a pretty decent game to play imo tho im still early in the game (played for 2 days) anyways here's my review of the game, hope it can help you^^ (please note that english is not my first language;;)
STORAGE: It eats up 2.46GB of my phone's storage rip but the graphics are pretty nice and not laggy so I guess worth the storage lol for the record I still have plenty space in my phone so it didnt lag for me, better to have more free space before downloading it
STORY: The story is decent, it revolves around the player being a teacher being assigned to be the head of different schools and lead all these highschool girls. With the advisor went missing mysteriously, players are also acting as the advisor of the student council and have to investigate what happened. Some of the story dialogues are just a huge yikes from me because they sounded a tad creepy lmao
(theres this one dialogue about MC bumping into a new girl who was riding a bike, he asked her to let him ride her bike with her (he's too injured to walk or sth) she declined cuz it can only carry one person and he was like ok then carry me
and im like wHAT?!?!)
GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is good, I think it's rather enjoyable. You can put 4 girls as your frontline team (Striker) and 2 as backup helpers (Special). There are 4 classes as well including Supporter, Healer, Attacker and Tank (i think thats it) During the battle, you can activate skills through using up charges, the charges will recharge eventually throughout the battle. There are a few things to check on before sending your team to battle like the terrain of the battefield cuz it could affect your team's attack. So far, I only have the basic stuff unlocked so I wont comment on the other game modes yet. Maybe I'll update my review when I get there?
GACHA: I think it's a pretty decent gach rate, after the compulsory 10 free pulls, I got another 3 star after 30 pulls (yes the highest rarity is 3 stars). 3 star rates are 2.5%, 2 stars 18.5%, 1 star 79%. Pretty good rates I'd say (this is coming from a struggling FGO player) 1200 diamonds for 10 pulls, the game gives you about 6000 diamonds right at the start(dont remember the exact amount sorry) You can get 40 diamonds from reading main story, 20 from each mission, you can also get additional diamonds from beginner's mission so it's not really a grindy game.
SOUND: The voice acting is great, I really like Yuuka's voice for some reason lol Unfortunately, the game does not offer voice overs to the main story (rip have to read all the japanese my brain hurts) But hey, at least the bond stories are partly voiced:') BGM sounds quite nice but upon first entering the game, the bgm is so loud that i couldnt hear some dialogues from the prologue;v;
Overall, it's a pretty good game so far, hope this review could help some of you to get some insights of the game, ty for reading so far!
I've played for only short time, and still have the game with me.
I can't compare my experiences to the other players, that have put their time in this game more than me.
So I'll just say what i enjoy in this game.
• Battle Gameplay - i really don't know what it's called but, it's cute and surprisingly amazing (not the word i want to say I can't find the word i need to say).
• Rerolling - can also be done the same as how you reroll in Arknights, I didn't reroll since i got lucky in my first pull as well as my second pull.
that's all i can literally say here, and since this is made by Yostar (CMIIW). The degeneracy sure is almost the same as Azur Lane (no harm included).
and Asuna reminds me of Belfast.
THIS GREAT GAME BUT WHY WHEN I DOWNLOAD THE MAIN DATA. THIS GAME SUDDENLY CLOSE IT SELF? please HELP ME HOW CAN IT BE? not like game before u made yostar this game is absolutely not recommend for low spec mobile?. that was so disappointed maybe i gave u 3 smile of all but this game are to amazing and to shame verry very. there is so much bug in this game and that are really annoying is . this game is always close by itself whenever i do gacha or something. anyway i do gacha but the result are not show up and that ping on bottom icon that show chara never got disappear. this worst bug u must fixed immediately or else this game is even worst. can u imagine that. its only bug but if u underestimate it. this game will absolutely broken. Can u just imagine this bug are big problem . And then if are this game got more worst problem like SO MANY CHEATERS?. U CAN IMAGINE IT DID YOU?. SO PLEASE THIS GAME PERFECT BUT NOT THAT PERFECT ENOUGH. Abseloutly not perfect if u don't fix that issues
so gameplay is your typical gacha game, wait MP point then use skill other than that is auto depending on your a.i.
arena is full auto, a massive turn back. when china gacha game competing with bringing real time pvp with manual control or other thing to make the game more enjoyable, this game use full auto with a full copy of princess connect's arena meaning BOT or A.I opponent everywhere what a stupid decision or otherwise this is just their CASH-MILKING game.
this game also have a lot of game breaking bug, energy didn't increase even 1 in half a day, still at 8/115.
game stuck after every arena fight.
color broken without any trigger, complete random.
crash at stage screen then need to start from beginning.
worth ?? nope, this is a typical game that will dying in 6 months.
reason publisher or developer don't care about the game status, and this game's progression is a sad copy from princess connect game with alot of hole. what they care only release new banner n new character that nothing to do with the story at all. ah money money money
well the event release right now also a complete copy from priconne with less reward and stage.
been playing since release, and so far it seems really good. the game lacks abit on the content side, but game just came out, so i guess it is to be expected. the simple gameplay might not be everyones cup of tea, but it is a game that is easy to play in your own tempo. the game has skip ticket system that instead of having to rely on actually having tickets, it uses stamina costs instead. the negative thing about the stamina in this game is that it is really limited without spending gems on refils, and that the auto refil rate is 1 per 6min. i guess it makes abit more sense considering what type of game it is, but grinding without spending gems on stamina refils can feel like a chore since some of the items from stages seems to have somewhat of an low drop chance . also, the character skill upgrades takes quite some time to grind for. you can grind for items you need from a skill upgrade item stage, but its really sparse with how much it gives you per run and you can only run them twice a day. might be something i have missed that might make it easier, so it might not be that big of a deal. character pool is somewhat limited, and the characters looks abit simplistic in their designs. however, i really like the in game chibi 3d models of the characters, really cute looking. really casual game, and perfect as a side game.
the only problem is the horrid shard grind. you get them from hard mode maps, and you can do them 3 times a day. to add insult to injury, its NOT GARANTEED drop. i mean, if you only get 3 tries a day, it makes no sense to not make the shards a garanteed drop for each try. this is one of the reason why most people despise character shard systems, and this is no diffrent. that being said, its not enough to make me hate the game, but it does put some damper on my experience when i get shafted at times when i grind for them. hope they change the rate further down the line, because right now its just frustrating and horrid to deal with it.
i can't really make any comment on the story as my japanese is really poor, but it seems to be lighthearted . the game is not fully voiced like priconne is. its not really a dealbreaker, but so far the VO in the game seems abit lacklusting. so far this is a keeper for me, hope yostar plans on bringing this game to global :)
pretty much a fun game. graphics looks great, sounds are great. i just cant read story yet coz i cant read japanese. im quite curious about the stories, especially the one tied to each character when u raise their bond.
the one bad thing about this game, is in a way one of the best thing about this game in my opinion. the auto function in this game, is hot garbage. the ai would just randomly activate skills when they're ready, and place them very inefficiently as well. like a skill could have a huge aoe, but the ai would just drop it dead center on the main target, instead of manipulating the radius to cleave as much enemies as possible, which you can do in manual.
that being said, i really feel the need to play this game in manual. therefore, i can actually.. play the game. and even when i don't have much time to play, there is a skip system after you 3* the stage, which only cost the stamina system that most gacha game has anyway. this is a big brain move by the devs.
following the trash talk on the auto ai, there is only 1 mode in the game that forces you to play in auto. the one mode i don't care about.. pvp. yes there is pvp in the game, its basically another crystal (premium currency, can be used to do pulls) income. but, with a great sheer amount of luck, i was able to obtain every character i wanted anyway without thinking about the pvp much. granted most of the units that i wanted were 2*s.
aside from the preciously mentioned crystals, the pvp also gives u these "pvp tokens". which you can spend to buy, from what i see at best, specific "character tokens" in the shop. the tokens are used to increase the character's star. every character can be ascended to a 5*. at 3*, they get a new passive skill.
now on a positive note. the l2d background that you get from raising the characters to a specific bond level is very nice. one annoying thing is probably the way to increade your characters bond level is quite rng based.
This is my review after a week play
Graphic : Cute
Sound : This my reason im play this game, they make amazing soundtrack
Gameplay : well actually good but bad for consumption RAM, seriously i'm playing just 2 hour and this game consumption almost 1,5gb RAM ( maybe that's reason some player playing this game on emulator )
Story : well actually good if this game back again not consumption RAM too much
Value : well this game suitable with whaler because 1% SSR chance and 0,5% SSR rate up chance, so if you a whaler this game is good for you
Well i dont care about meta character because for me " waifu more than meta " but as long as they dont fixed consumption RAM i will not play this game
I love this game not because of hype train nor because I'm a fan of Yostar. I love it because of how it is, I don't know why I'm seeing a lot of complains about the gameplay being boring, but in my humble opinion, the gameplay is great too when you are already familiar with it, I also play Girls' Frontline, so maybe it's just that we have different kinds of preferences in playing games. Talking about the OST, it's perfect! The graphics? it is sooo amazing! I really love the art style, the scenery are fascinating! So yup! that's it, I love and enjoy playing this game! ^_^
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