Princess Connect Re:Dive (Priconne for short) was ahead of its time when it came out about 2 years ago, and almost nothing thats come out since its release has even held a candle to it when it came to production values.
Enter Red: Pride of Eden.
Ok so it isn't actually the "Priconne Killer" myself and others were hoping it'd be, but it's still a standout title in the Priconne-like group of games that have been releasing as of late. If you haven't tried Priconne, unless you really like animal features on your anime girls, just play that instead.
The game looks pretty, with a wide variety of character designs all themed after animals. Some of the chibi animations look awkward, as if the chibi was a sort of rag doll, but is mostly fine otherwise. The anime fantasy setting it goes for is colorful, but lacks some of the visual flourishes that Priconne has to stand out among the crowd of fantasy-land gachas out there.
Honestly the sound quality is lower than I'd like, but most people aren't gonna be using expensive earphones while playing this game, so that gets a pass. The music itself is whimsical and relaxed, unlike Priconne's more lively soundtrack.
The game itself is focused on powering up your waifus, so nothing new here. Progression here is not just based off individual character levels and whatnot, but your whole roster. There are a lot of global stat bonuses you can get from upgrading your whole roster, which actually makes the gacha feel a little better than usual, as any new character means a stat boost for your favorites.
My japanese is horrible, but there were some lines that made me laugh, I guess.
As far as the in-game economy goes, it doesn't seem horrible yet, but no new units have released yet. Will have to update this section in the future.
There you have it, a animal-themed Priconne-like that's actually pretty solid on its own.
it kinda looks like Princess Connect in many aspects. there are great things that make this game enjoyable as well:
1. heroes' diversity,
2. amazing graphics and arworks,
3. full screen skill animations,
4. catchy storyline,
5. reasonably generous towards all players,
6. bullet fast UI.
all the things considered, it shows that the dev team is totally aware of what they're doing and have played anime rpgs alot!
things i feel needs to be addrressed in future updates:
1. the skill gauge fill time to cast a special is too long which makes the battles less exiting.
2. campain stages can be a bit rebalanced. i might be wrong but i feel that the difficulty ramps up a bit too much from chapter 3. again, that is my idea.
Animations are great and unique to each character. Chibi sprites are crazy cute. Never really liked the full size live2d but I think this game doesn't have it bad.
Characters are voiced, BGMs are nice though it could be louder, SFX is great.
Gameplay feels like a turn based game made automatic, since there's a certain time a character will move. Skills are always automatic but special moves can be used manually. Special moves disturb the turn based aspect because they can be activated immediately regardless of that character's turn. That puts special-spamming characters in a quite special place, but also the status effects completely countering them.
(still gameplay) There's some kind of time limit to each battle, which is the number of rounds, shown at the top left of the screen. One round ends after all characters in the battle, including enemies, have moved at least once. One round can be quite long considering almost every ally seems to chase/follow other characters' moves. Usually a battle can have 10 rounds limit, but I've seen one with 5 round. Never really hit the limit so I don't know what will happen lol.
(even more gameplay) There are good variety of game modes to be played, with different types of stamina so players have a lot of things to do and can actually do them.
Can't comment on the story.
Value is crazy high for f2p since you can farm SSR frags and raise low rarity to higher. Mind you, rarity increase gives quite crazy amount of stats so keep grinding and make those already useful R characters overpowered. For whales? I don't really pay attention to the packs sold in the game, but surely the PvP and guild feature cater to them for being able to raise their characters' rarity faster by simply rolling more.
Dont listen to people saying this game plagirizes - they don't understand what that word means. Out of all the characters in this game, 2 share similar ultimate animations - that's it. it isnt a copy paste, it isnt an elemet lf gameplay, its just similar movements for TWO characters.
I love E7, but the fanatics are either dumb or spreading lies.
Eden is a great game - lots of QOL, great art especially if you like monster girls, and pretty generous with currency. There are a lot of guides on the discord for non-japanese speakers and it isnt too hard to navigate after awhile.
Awesome game
Live 2d art with 60fps. Can be easily log in and reroll. The characters balance well and supports for free player. Has original soundtrack. The system was well made can be calculated and has Strategy puzzle mixed in. The arena can be watch any time how you lost or win. Has many way to build up your team even not to pull the gacha. The shop was more useful than another game. Feel more like to use gem on many things more than gacha, but the gacha rate still low as another JP mobile game. Storyline was so so. With nearly full voice so it's a forgiven.
this game actually family friendly gacha for f2p because the rate is actually higher than the other gacha game. good art, story, and there's many secret about the girls that make me curious and the gameplay is good like girlsxbattle2 that i played too.
overall i give this game is perfect rating for me.
And for those who are not lucky enough in gacha, you can farm SSR shard like monika and sara that possibly can get 2 shards at the most everyday which you need 55 shard to summon 1 ssr character.
Purikone aside, i think this game is fun to play. The graphics are superb, the character art is lovely, all the l2d's are facinating, the voice acting is good, and the SD animation is what i love the most. Although the story is not too serious, it's fun to see the dynamics between the characters.
The gacha rate can be a pain in the neck but they are quite generous with the free gems. It will took you at least 30 minutes to roll your first 10 summon using gems (not the free 10 summon from the mailbox)
tl;dr stop comparing this to purikone and just enjoy the game as it is
Pricon with animal ears as i can say. I might not deserve to play Pricon or something but i value this F2P than pricon. I will compare about this 2 game since they are likely (won't go about characters design or ui looking since it up to people)
1. "Direct Farm"
Pricon: Getting stage looking for components and RNG (I ever spent 300 skip ticket and got 3/5 for fuking gold sword) // ps. this happened about 1-2 years ago if they fix this already tell me
Red: Getting stage looking for components and guarantee get what you need
2. "Position Flexible"
Pricon: Lock character position made some stage actually need some specific character to handle it
Red: Free move character that you seem it possible to succeed
3. "Skip...sort of"
Pricon: "Show me your ticket!!!"
me:
Red: "Do you want me to sweep for you?"
me: Yes, please.
This only 3 topic made me very angry to pricon other they are fine about both of them PVP, Tower, Guild Boss, event and etc THEY ARE FINE. expect this 3 topic.
PS. I'm very love their ost.
The battle is extraordinarly long and it is a waste of time. For comparison, Princess Connect Redive storyline or pve battle max duration with 2x acceleration usually takes no more than 30 seconds, while this game can last more than 7 mins with 2x acceleration on.
The pvp system is also broken, with the power level does not update in real time.
The power level between SSR and SR are huge and even in the ssr ranked characters, the character with fragment obtainable in game are substantially weaker than the ssr characters only obtainable through getcha.
Also the game is not generous as they dont want to give out free stuff, and you will run out of stamina ranking up characters on your first day so you have to use crystal to refill and not save it for getcha.
Almost every aspect of this game requires you to spend crystals. the best example is the guild lantern which cost more than 400 crystals in total per round, and what you are looking for is just a damn character fragment.
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