its so good! chocola is so adorable and i love the easy to follow story line. ive seen nekopara all over tiktok for the jojifuku and nekomimi community and i always wanted to play it but didnt want to spend money. this is a huge help and thanks for the amazing gameplay hehe (≧▽≦)
Update: It fixed a lot of the bugs and glitches of the game but the main point are still there so I'm just changing it a bit more of the rating.
From just 4 days of playing this is what I can gather for yall.
The Good Part:
The game captured the style of Visual Novel both graphic and storyline from the original game very well which actually made me enjoy reading through the story, so that is a nice check from me.
The gameplay is morely based on the story as you read the story to unlock more content of the game. So you will have a fairly chill time playing the game. (Until the bad part arrives...)
Also the game is fairly simple with auto and idle mechanics PVE and slowly upgrading and customizing your cafe to your liking.
So if you are just a casual player and want to understand the story of NekoPara it can help you introduce yourself to the NekoPara world.
However that is all the good thing I can mention as the current state of the game is not great. It feels like I'm playing a very early alpha test of the game so here we are gonna move into the bad part.
The Bad Part:
Due to how the game is very buggy and feel like rushed the gameplay is also downgraded a lot which affected a lot of issues that I've found from just playing normally.
Mission Board is completely broken along with the achievement system inside it as it is completely blank even though it said you have mission completed number count claim.
Even the PVE aspect of you open a shop versus NPC stage level are also somewhat bugged from small issues from UI elements bugging up to mechanic problems like Chocolate just walking to the customer table and stuck there doing nothing and because of that I lost the stage.🥀
In story reading, after I have completed a story and accidentally got back the same one so I tried to use the skip and the game got softlock as the toolbar disappeared and the story won't progress no matter what you do.
Beside the buggy and broken mess of the game, I do feel that the game greed is also one of thing that is a bit too much as the gacha currency requirements that you need to pull is 3000 for 10 pulls which is way higher than the gacha game standard of 2000≤ for 10 pulls as this made the game grinding is pretty much feel like more of a chore just to get as each main quest levels you passed only give you 20 (not counting the material level as they give you 100 but have a high rating requirement for each level passed) and the main story only give you 100 for each story part. So after all that time grinded not counting the daily login I just farmed like only able to farm for 30 pulls throughout those 4 days. (Keep in mind that I played like 3h-4h each day for a new game to fully review this.)
Not to mention the dev actually locks automatic level progress to VIP 3 (Yes you are forced to pay money to actually use it.) And while you are playing, they will just constantly shove deals and offer down your throat whenever you achieved something in the game like limit break your 5* units and other features constantly.
Oh I didn't realize that the amount of dupes required for limit break is pretty insane as the full limit break level is 7 which is way higher than other gacha game standards.
Due to the VIP system exist, it is kinda obvious that it is P2W if you want to climb to the leaderboards and also more chances to grind easier then F2P like automatically go to the next stage function can auto once you get VIP 3 or higher.
In the end my rating for this game is meh but sad. As it has potential but is kinda ruined by the current state of the game as it is no different from being an Alpha Test version due to how buggy it is and the rampant monetization that it is showing right now. So if you want to play, then I can only recommend playing it to enjoy the story as the game currently is still very unpolished for any extra content or gameplay as they currently don't even have any events to try right now.
I love it overall, especially the cute, easy-to-follow story and stunning Live2D art that makes my favorite nekos adorable!! The rest though?
The gacha system is solid and fun, but the gameplay needs more polish. HONESTLY. The load times are painfully long (sometimes up to 2 minutes between stages), which gets frustrating even when playing on EN2 without a VPN
I really hope the devs optimize it soon so I can enjoy my girls without the downtime
I really like the game, all the cat girls are super cute and it was refreshing to see a bunch of new faces in the nekopara verse! However, the game is a little clunky and takes long to load, but I'm a sucker for gacha games in general so it's serviceable enough to power through.
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