Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link - Accessory Grinding (The Worst Feature in the Game)

TLDR: Overall loving the game so far but the Accessory Levelling System is not good and hopefully gets reworked before the game releases.
To clarify how getting Accessories and levelling them works, you need to:
1. Obtain Area Coins by defeating Area Enemies or Area Bosses
2. Area Enemies are fairly common and hunting down Area Bosses is quite fun although a bit time consuming since you run across the in game map of your country to find them.
3. You usually receive a decent amount of Coins from this to then exchange for Accessories in the shop.
4. This is the frustrating part, levelling them. There is a chance that when melding an accessory together to level it, it will simply fail and you lose the accessory you just bought. And this chance increases dramatically the higher the level. It ended up being about an hour of hunting Area enemies to get 1 upgrade successfully done.
00:00 - Area Boss Battle (FUN)
01:46 - Accessory Grinding (Not Fun)

[@livenishikireaction]

knowing them, it isn't gonna change at all

[@StellarArcturus]

Yikes. It’s definitely a trope of mobile games to have you fail an upgrade multiple times to incentivize you to play more and use more currency, but losing the item altogether? That’s brutal.

[@Craft_Mesa]

Wow this looks painful.

[@KinodeVGM]

What the heck is the point of making being able to level up an accessory be luck based!?

[@starrinyte5323]

Bruh it’d be fine they made it so that it’s luck based. That’s a mobile staple as sad as that is..but you lose the item for every fail? Fuck that dude that’s a terrible system. At least make it so that the item stays the same, or that adding multiple increases the odds of a successful upgrade. Literally almost EVERY game that has this feature doesn’t do that to you, it’s a scummy thing of the devs to do that when this game is already grindy enough to fight all the world enemies and bosses just to get the coins

[@xaviarsly]

wait i need the weekness numbers explained to me does negetive mean that it ice is thier weeknes?

[@DiveHearts]

Yep that’s right, if it’s negative they are weak to that type of attack, if it’s positive they are more resistant to it

[@NamelessNathan]

I'm just going back through and rewatching through Missing Link footage, and I realized I missed this video. Damn, I can't believe they added a garbage mechanic like this. This is the type of stuff you see in overly grindy Korean MMOs that everyone hates. I sincerely hope they remove or change the feature, and that testers gave significant feedback about it. Being a gacha game is enough RNG for me.