@@mr.protagonist5639They deleted the accounts of people not logging in enough. People lost a lot of money due to their built accounts they put down for a month suddenly deleted. Any search will get you the controversy.
I mean, we are talking about literal gambling machines that are cosplaying as videogames… Not a lot of them actually have the videogame part done right… But yeah, to addicts, it can seem like people just hate gacha when reality is that most of them dont even reach the gaming standards as they were 10 years ago… While they ask for more money than literally any other game type.
The argument you said about the game being skill based is so true for example I played sword of canvalaria last week I thought the same thing and got really hyped for a skill based game but after some chapters you realize that no matter how skilled you are you can't beat a stage because of the time limit which limits the skill factor may be skill only game can't be a gacha game
Rip to Alchemist Code, it didnt have turn limits and was the only good trpg gacha for a long time. However, i do think it is somewhat unfair to use this definition of skill based for the trpg genre, cuz of the nature of turn based games, where the number of possible scenarios of victory have been massively reduced compared to something like arknights. Theres a hard limit to the number of actions u can take every turn, whereas ak ur limited only by either the game engine itself or ur own actions per minute. Theres only so many tiles your lvl 1 unit can occupy b4 the enemy catches up, barring the scenario where u r ranged, have higher movement range, and the enemy is only using 1 tile range attacks. Put any elden ring boss fight onto a grid and only allow x moves/turn and the chance of victory becomes significantly more unlikely unless x exceeds the actions/min of the og game. Turn based inherently limits ur actions b4 any additional "clear in x turns". Ofc thats not to say it isnt skill based at all. Its definitely more engaging than most mobile turn based. Each event also has stgs where a predetermined roster is given to u, so you are guaranteed that victory is not limited by stats, the skill is if you can figure out the puzzle (some of the extra conditions can be kind of tricky too)
@scentofink2952 E7 is a pretty weird nod, given how character/gear dependent it is for skill expression. Because RTA, is definitely a skill based mode, but you aren't experiencing content at that level as a new player.
Arknights is skill based, there is literally a culture of self imposed restrictions within the community called “nicheknights” , people will either follow or create their own niche and I’ve seen all sorts of weird ones going from only playing with characters of the same species or same class to stuff like only playing with characters born on a certain month or with art draw by a certain artist.
As someone who is a massive Ni No Kuni fan, the moment I saw that Netmarble were doing this game I didn't want to go anywhere near it. The Ni No Kuni Crossworlds game they was genuinely terrible
@@-Seaheart- The OP isekai protagonist type with no actual weakness, doesn't face consequences and had unfleshed personality shift from coward to stoic, and absolutely made for the self-inserting readers who crave power fantasy for whatever reason. Definitely far from special and deep in the Gary Stu territory.
@@GodSejeong yeah, the whiplash between his former self and later self was something that bothered me a lot too. I do think people should be allowed to like whatever they want, but for this series I really don’t get where the hype came from, the anime at least had the animation quality to carry it but before that people were already hyping it. You could try to explain it with the power fantasy thing but even that is the most cliche thing ever in shounen. Everything has its fans, what baffles me is how popular it is somehow.
@@-Seaheart-The market for these kind of protagonist and writing is surprisingly big. It's the very reason why a lot of Manhwas have a similar base plot.
I've been playing daily since the global launch of the game and thought I'd give my 2 cents on the stuff you covered The gameplay imo is really fun, and all the characters and weapons are diverse enough that it doesn't feel repetitive The progression is worse than you think, the further on you go the more gank you have to deal with. In one of the latest chapters you have to survive about 2 minutes waves of enemies that spawn in around 10 second intervals. In addition to that, there are enemies shooting at you from a distance you cannot kill. It took me a few hours to get past that level and i only did it by ignoring the enemies that were spawning and trying to anticipate the long ranged ones i could not kill. I get that they want to prevent players from reaching the end of the current story update and loose players until they update it, but by god that feels like a reach considering that the daily grind at minimum is 2 hours. For instance and encore dungeons, initially you could've only spent 1-2 keys at a time f2p, and the subscriptions would get you up to 4. As you can see now they increased f2p up to 4, but then the subscription to 8. The artifact grind looks bad because it is bad. There is a stat called "Healing Given Increase" for artifacts, and it does what the name implies, make healing skills better. The issue? The meta is pumping all your stats into strength for jin woo to maximize damage output since being able to tank any enemy hits doesn't matter if you only have 3 mins to kill them all. That artifact stat has been the bane of this grind's existence as it can make getting the perfect drops an RNG nightmare. It was complained about so much that the devs said that they will remove "Healing Given Increase" as a sub-stat entirely, restricting it to only come up as a main stat Another thing is that all the rings are based on elemental damage, so if the main stat doesn't align with the character you equip it to, its basically useless e.g. Light hunter equipped with a ring whose main stat is Wind Damage % will not add any damage, so you have to keep grinding main stats while keeping in mind that you are also looking for specific sub-stats The separate weapon banner is a new addition from the last update, and are the rarest tickets to get at the moment so it makes sense to me that they keep weapons in the custom banners for now TL;DR: This video perfectly describes the SLA experience, however, as you get closer to the end game the experience gets worse.
Another arise player here and speaking of progression, I am still currently questioning the devs' decision of putting hidden chapter 1 and 2 in between the previous update's chapters and the new ones, it could've been made a side story of sorts and yet they decided to make put it in the main story. Whilst on the topic of hidden chapter, I might as well make an example of why progression is a problem in this game, the boss level of hidden chapter 1 has a huge jump from the previous level: if you were able to at least make decent damage to the enemy on the previous level, normal enemies in the boss level take "tanky" to a whole different level.
As another player I do agree with most of this, but that new mission isn't as hard as you make it out to be. Put on the extra dodge talent, the fire aoe skill that I forget the name of, the health steal talent, and immortal talent just in case and I cleared it first try just by running/dodging around and killing everyone with the fire skill and using basics to kill any stragglers on 1 hp
This game lags as hell on my phone and freezes and it ain't my mobile because I can play WuWa, HSR, Snowbreak, Reverse 1999, PGR and aether gazer without any lags
@@fnaffan-js9nc same. Mine is the annoying crashes on my iPhone, I can’t stand it anymore and every update has made it worse. Complained to customer support more times than I can count but nothing, just excuses and empty promises.
@@Mugiwara_no_luffy0 You shouldn't need to play game for a month to start liking it, it should be good enough for you to be happy playing it from the get go
Pseychie, I picked up NIKKE after watching your content after I'd _very briefly_ played at launch. You should really warn people that it's a pretty painful game to play if you're wearing pants.
What made me uninstall (just a few days ago) after playing for 2-3 months is that quality of life functions like sweeping and using up all your keys is locked behind a paywall. It takes way too long to clear dailies. I travel far to work and by the time I get home, Im not going to spend my few hours of free time to play the game and not feel like I missed clearing something.
@@pancake2203to complete every single thing that refreshes daily, sure about 1 hour, do you need to clear every single thing daily as f2p? hell no takes about 30 minutes
You were brave to make an honest review on this game. But I'd still look over my shoulder and barricade my house just in case the fandom decides to stab me with a knife carved out of the manhua.
Yea, I knew this the instant I see "Netmarble" logo. This is coming from someone used to play a few Netmarble games and experienced first hand how greedy they are. I also never trust an IP game if the game is coming from anime/manga/LN. This game however seems to have a better quality compare to the rest of Netmarble IP, probably due to how big Solo Leveling is
Lol this game truly Free to play friendly they giving lots of rewards or code's free 4 summer skin's Emma, Cha, Nobara, & Seo the Emma is the hottest you just saying that because you didn't play this game since beta version im currently lvl 86 and got 650k TP Free to play no spend and the daily log-in when you reach day 7 they giving free tickets.
I'd just like to make a correction that the series actually does have a continuation after the main story ended. There's some epilogue chapters that follow various characters and what happened to them afterwards. Also, some slight spoilers for those that don't know, but the author is making a sequel where it follows the MC's son, iirc
Author became a one trick pony at this point. Sad hill to die on. Series got carried by the illustrator rather than the author if we're gonna be honest here.
Need an update on this video: Gate keys now are 15 and you can now refresh gates (no cooldown needed) Encore and instance dungeons are both 6 keys + 2 keys from the shop (mana exchange shop) There are also other dungeons such as Battlefield of Trials (spiral abyss version on genshin), Battlefield of Time (boss clearing), Battlefield of Chaos (where you get gems) ,Power of Destruction (can get multiple rewards base on your score), Workshop of Brillant Light (can get higher gears here that cannot be found on encore and instance) Does the second rate-up guarantee carryover across banners as well? The answer is YES. There's also another catch in the gacha system here. If a character banner ends, the character will go the standard banner after the next banner ends. Meaning you can have another chance on getting it (25% if you select it as 1 of your 4 rate up character/weapon on the standard banner) If you are a f2p like me, you can just get an A0 character on the limited banner and then get the get the other copies once they go to the standard banner. Guild system was the latest update (typical guild system just like on every games) Devs are also generous on giving rewards. Almost everyday they give rewards.
as a f2p player with approx. 3 months of playing the game, i'd say it is quite enjoyable and there are enough ways to get new characters and the developers do make good qol changes and listen to complaints (SOMETIMES). its def one of the better gacha games and there is still a lot of skill expression involved, even if their is the statcheck factor. I havent looked into the monetization at all tho, which is where all gachas turn evil anyway. staying f2p is always the best option imo, and in this one it doesnt take any fun away
Netmarble is notoriously bad with monetization. I used to play one of their non gacha games, Marvel Future Fight, and it just got worse and worse over time. It wasn't as bad with 7 Deady Sins Grand Cross, but still definitely felt greedy at times even more than other gacha games from other publishers. I also tried Solo Leveling and left because how annoying the monetization was. And endgame content also gets to a point where it requires not only good gear and leveling, but dupes in order to reach the Battle Power requirements. Feels really scummy when I need multiple copies of the limited characters to feel like I can progress properly. Maybe I just sucked at the game, but the Stat requirements made me feel otherwise
I play alot of gachas f2p to keep me from spending. Im going to keep playing solo leveling arise. But this video is beyond accurate. Brodie cooked and told no lies
@@ExaltedRivenI think it's pretty clear the point was that this type of info should be properly displayed in the explanation of gacha rates and mechanics regardless if it's actually there or not. I shouldn't need to ask someone else or go to another site to know if my pity carry over or not.
i tried solo leveling arise when it was still early access, i gave it a try for about a week and dropped it right after, i saw the amount of paywalls that you have to do just to progress in this game, the battle pass is also absurd since it has 2 ways for you to pay and get the rewards, its screaming p2w.
Day 1 light spending player until the latest patch. You are right with your assessment, and it gets worse in the late game when you cannot progress without spending more. Lastly, the game takes up too much time to clear all repetitive content on a daily basis.
Played for 2 months, Gameplay solid, but dailies are 1+hour for f2p, sub packs make it 30 minutes for like $20 a month. Microtransactions is incredibly aggressive but gacha system is fair and they are generous with pulls and currency, some events even straight up give you a S-Rank. As much as people shit on this game, I have to give credit where credit is due, this game is incredibly fun for the first 10-20 hours all the way up until progression gets severely hard capped to f2p's because your resource strained and lvl strained. This game also has a very high skill ceiling which not many people are willing to reach. Overall its not a "bad" game, its just egregiously monetized and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
I wholeheartedly agree with that time limit statement. Stage with time limit is never a skill-based. It's always DPS-check, no matter how cope people says. Also, it's Netmarble. I remember spent more time installing and updating the game rather than playing it. My personal experience with this game is, they have a mouse cursor in the center of the screen. Yes, a MOUSE CURSOR. And every menu got joystick button shortcut. I never uninstalled a mobile game faster than this.
the answer to the question 'if you lose the pity on rateup banner 1, does the pity guarantee carry it to rateup banner 2' is yes. you can easily see that because the rateup history counts both banners' pity rate as the same. i tried it before when I lost the first coinflip on charlotte's banner, but I still managed to get harper with the same banner using that loss.
What stopped me from playing was the paid multi summons they had, i was baffled that they waited until you did all the summons to charge you, thats when i quit.
The only thing that you haven't mentioned is that even though monetization in this game is absolutely terrible, you actually can play it without every paying completely fine. Arise gives a lot of resources for free. And compared to many other gachas, they actually give insane amount of rewards. Like to the point where good F2P players can complete the same content as whales. You can get all SSR hunters as a F2P. And you definitely can get all the necessary ones without much issue. This game is very F2P friendly, though in a very passive-aggressive way.
@@aimman12319 he didn't say it, because he hasn't played far enough to notice this. He hasn't competed with whales in any way and hasn't experienced end-game content. Which is why I thought it made sense for me to say, since I'm F2P in this game and I am in the end game.
I think they balance the freebies they give with an atrocious monetization. Not to mention the upgrade mats... The cost is so high that F2P needs to also prioritise what gear and things to upgrade first. Personally imo, if you don't have time to spend, don't play the game, it's too time consuming to do the dailies not to mention we have 15 gates to finish. It's not even a joke, to the point it will bore you to death.
I have been playing the game since the official release of the game (May 2024) and I am an entirely F2P player. I do agree with some of the points mentioned here, but you can actively choose to ignore the pay to win features totally. I am currently rated top 8 in my server even as a F2P and I have accepted the the fact that I can't reach any higher than that. But the content and challenge of the game has drawn to me to the game a lot more. Micromanaging the resources and creating best use of my current items has helped a lot. It might be frustrating at first for a very new player, but the resources come by very easily if you are JUST REGULAR at the game and do the dailies properly.
Should've been a real game instead of mobage. I'm tired of anime IPs being locked behind live service microtransactions type of games. Most gacha never last unless they're one of the top 5 revenue like Mihoyo or directed by some nerd (in a good way) who just want to make games/story like Sunborn/Mica (GFL) I absolutely loathe live service type of games. Once they're gone, it's gone.
been playing this games since day one, if you do it for fun only,not pursuing anything but to enjoy the vibes, story gameplay, graphics etc, it's a good game, this game is slow paced games, means you need to invest your time or even your money to be able to finish the content, yes, this is p2w games and not skilled based games, but overall it's good, don't skip it but Try it yourself, then you decide it's worth it or not. me personally, thinks this game is good and I happily play this games everyday , the developer are very generous, the community is good and pretty active, the issue is this game has so many bugs yet the developer quickly addressing the bug and fixing it even tough there's still plenty,.. one last thing I can say, The developer loves this game I can tell
I originally wanted to use this game as a training ground for Wuthering Waves, but looking at how predatory it is, as well as how some parts of the gacha are... yeah that idea went to Pgr. This is my first Netmarble game ever, and now i understand why people hate it.
Hate is a strong word I wouldn't say that people hate it they just don't like it but that's not all people I for one love this game I've been playing since early access.
@@cptninja7890I'm genuinely curious what makes you think this? The devs have admitted that they've already made back the development cost, and money isn't as important as it was to them now. It's extremely f2p friendly. I'm really open to hearing you out though.
Maybe Im alone in this, but I would've preferred if were just a random hunter whom is rising up through the ranks. From beginner and professional. Our story then would intertwine from time to time with the MC. So we would have a different perspective on how the entire world building and story develops. We would have quest when we would join Jinwoo and other canon characters and build bonds with them which can rewards us with items and stuff once we get them high enough
11:40 If I had to do the same for HSR gear I’d just drop it. The only reason I play some strategy type games is because at the very least: There is never a gear system for characters.
Considering Solo Leveling has such infamy for being a mahwa with a story so bland and repetitive as the cast of characters itself and whose only redeeming quality is the art and bombastic action I knew where this was going...
I'm satisfied with 4 star Chang'e / 2 star Flame girl Tank / and The book guy healer 2 star, the result is I'm F2P, win win boys and I uninstall I got no more content to finish, I'm retired now, great game actually.
I spent at launch foe the first month. Wasn't bad but I started seeing alot of things changing and decided it wasn't worth my money. I played as f2p up until the anniversary and the f2p experience is absolutely garbage, so many Qol locked behind paywalls. The way characters are dropped is terrible. Here's a (insert element here) dps...the next character to drop will be a dedicated support for that dps. Here's a fun thing you didn't mention or might not have noticed about the timers. You can kill the boss and watch the timer continue on for 5- 10 seconds before you get the actual clear flag. Real fun. Cash grab, countless bugs that have been there since launch , new content centered around the element of the new character they will drop. Everything about this game is shit.
Player since launch day, while I can't say I'm fully F2P since I tried the 2 monthly subscription versions but after that month I stopped any thoughts of spending. I could say that progression is definitely steep, one must better buckle up to fail and fail some more. You have to grind for weeks if needed, the relic rng is just so livid. You have to also brace yourself in low rewards in some events/modes which whales flap around (understandable). The game is good in bare minimum level and what keeping me is probably the gacha rate and rewards a F2P received, up till this point I have never gone down from 30k gems and I pull every unit. I give them credit with that, heck they even put a whole 10 pulls in codes or randomly give one in mails. I know its paywall and fomo inducing but it really is decent, I run in auto and clear everything... well progressively (still farming to prepare in getting lvl80+ relics). I know IP is also a factor I like this, watching my Cha get maxed Breakthrough and cleave enemies is great or seeing a celebrity turned hunter is also exciting. It is also astonishing they gave 4 skins almost 4 months since launch, not saying too generous but they definitely know how to give carrots. Anyway, overall if you are finding a casual game, this could give a few high (knowing that vertical progression is not easily seen pass Ch9), so gamer patience advised. If competitive and f2p, well you can still try but know that it'll be a steep climb that allows few to no mistakes and a world of depression. The top rewards ain't that worth to pursue anyway. if spending, heck no get the hell out if you can't deal well with FOMO or has zero financial stability. GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER! Sidenote though this is just side gacha in the bg, I play Alchemy Stars, Path to Nowhere, Aether Gazer, Snowbreak, HSR, Rev1999 and WuWa with this (and yes I still get to have a life and work, heck I'm even studying in college). Again, is it good to play?Maybe. Is it good to spend, no and NO!
I would be so interested in his opinion of Warhammer Tacitus. The obvious downsides are IP based, not a great story, and (currently) no pity system. However, it's leveling system is very F2P, no pulling for gear, lots of content, frequent events and updates, and the fact you don't need SS/legendary characters to progress. Some of the best characters are common/uncommon/rare, and all characters can be converted to legendary.
Make a good existing anime IP gacha challenge: impossible. It’s too bad the most recent SAO gacha is down because it was a MESS and would make a good video. They shit it down only months after launch because it was just that bad. They say they are working on improving it with plans to rerelease, but that’s been postponed multiple times.
This game had so much potential man, but unfortunately with all of there shitty monitization tactics I don't think the game is worth a shot because of how bad they effect the dam main game FUCK NETMARBLE WHY!!!
The game is EXTREMELY fun, I've played it 3months straight every single day because it has the most fun combat in any gacha I've ever played(Haven't tried PGR yet), it has a high skill ceiling. I was already a fan of solo leveling before, read the novel and manga multiple times so experiencing the boss fights ingame is great, I suggest you watch the 12episode anime as an introduction to the story at least. Yes, the game is annoying constantly giving you flash sales and tempting you with value offers. BUT, this is also the most F2P friendly gacha at the same time, they give you absolutely INSANE amounts of free pulls constantly, and new characters have events where you can get them for free as well. You really only start to experience any negatives at endgame, where resources are scarce and there's a limit to how much you can grind for gear each day, but it's the thing that keeps you playing, slowly getting decent gear, upgrading characters and getting your combat power up to do more content. I won't call it pay 2 win, if you want to beat the new endgame content that comes out sure it's only for the whales, but you can do it later when they nerf it for everyone else or you catch up. One of my favorite things about the game is the competitive aspect, you compete with other people in your server on challenges which are basically speedruns, but the great thing is there are also modes where gear is standardized so it's not just whales getting the top ranks. The devs are really good as well, they listen to the community and constantly add QOL improvements. This game isn't a skip at all, it holds my attention MUCH longer than any other gacha ever did.
I’ve been playing the game before global release. The 50/50 guaranteed on the banner does carry over from previous limited banners. I’ve encountered this scenario a few times. Hope that helps👍.
Quick rebuttal to the "skill based" argument. Solo levling is what i call a "skill-based Dps check". You can be around the ball park of damage requirer to clear a certain stage but without the skill/know-how of the stages and bosses mechanics as well as which weapons to pair with which skills, youll almost always eat dirt. Take "battlefield of time" for instance. The difference between you clewring it in 1min vs 3 mins isnt based on combat power but rather the boss of the stage, where the mobs spawn, WHICH mobs spawn, positioning ,weapon choice ,the element required (which also depicts the skill combinations you pick) etc etc. Even instance and encore dungeons have a great level of "skill vs brawn" ratio to them. Im currentpy at 500k cp clearing 600k and up dungeons. Yes, the game is a gacha and the whole point of the manhwa is to level up so youre bound to partake in typical gachaisms. But out of the ARPGS ive played (with the exception of maybe Pgr) solo levling definitely fits thr bill for "skill based".
and that is why arknights is the best gacha in my eyes. no stupid timers, endgame content is legit clearable with 4* units (max rarity is 6*), it just takes a lot of skill (no crazy relics, eidolons or weapons). I'm never gonna stop posting about ak under his vids, one day he will try it even tho its a tower defense
@@panjinurfadillah2489 it's a game that plays for itself (you don't need to lift a finger) it has way too much fan service, the game barely gives you the materials to gamble and it has a stamina system. the only redeeming qualities are the original storyline and the events, they are really good.
Well, me personally I did enjoy enjoy the game, I was worrying about you personally just insulting it because it’s a gacha game, since this is the first video, I am watching about you. I am subscribing after this, so don’t worry. I am quite proud of you for making valid points. Just another comment said I had some troubles of the game lagging, even though I had many other gacha take up more space but don’t lag like this game. The only point that I have to disagree with you is the skill part where it comes to the levels because I have to argue that it is quite necessary, especially since for most of these games it’s a base game so it wouldn’t make as much sense for you to be weak as hell, but still challenged those bosses. I personally believe that the requirements is absolutely necessary, I will agree with you on the timer, which is something I absolutely hate, and that removes much skill and it makes it more harder to beat the content because you have a pacific time limit. Altogether though this is a well formatted video and I’m quite proud of you for making this video and trying to go so far while trying to make the review and you earn my respect.
iam a solo leveling manhwa fan, played the gasha game. i like how the story is presented, i like the gameplay the monetization is annoying and i stopped playing because the dailies takes a lot of time 1h+
Please try Guardian Tales! It's such an underrated hidden gem of a game that deserves more players. I'm definitely recommending it to everyone so please try it!
Finally someone that has a good take. Tried of people saying this game is good when it has many flaws. Tried of these RUclipsrs shilling the game like DFree. Bro really needs that paycheck 😂
What I don't understand is why they didn't go away from the main story and maybe choose another region. They could tell an interesting story in this very cool world and it would create no problems creating characters that didn't exist before. That they just retell the main story, and you play as the main character just shows you how it is a cash grab instead of a creative project.
As soon as I heard this was from netmarble, I instantly knew to skip. Have already been burned twice by them (knight's chronicle and the Nino Kuni gacha) so i knew no matter how fun the game looked, it would be infested with predatory monetization...
I have been playing the game from the begining of this years summer and my overall impression is that you can only do a certain amount of thing as in story progress, items, hunters, skils ect as a free-to-play player. I watch other YT channels who play the game on a very high level and are all decked out with gear and all, but those dudes spend an absurd amount of cash on the game in order to progress so far ( for example the latest update of the game with Demon King Baran chapter). Overall its fun to play if you just want to invest your time in a manhwa related game. I am a huuugee fan of the novel, manhwa. anime and the new Ragnarok version so I do like playing it!
Gosh darn. This got reccomended to me right after i downloaded it. Well i wont just delete it now since i just downloaded. First look at the shop and bam 97% of the things are bought by money. But i love solo leveling and i just have to play it. Much love❤ and remember, if you like the source material alot, then it is bearable
video 10 of asking psy to play guardian tales: yeah i kinda knew that the game would be more predatory than epsteins island as soon as a i heard that net marble was developing it. they dont have a necessarily good track record when it comes to good player experience. this game feels less like a gacha game and more like one of those games that you would see ads for on a random youtube video that when you go to play immediately tries to steal your wallet. no wonder why the overall gaming community hates mobile games.
From my experience, No. The game become too much of a pay to win at this point, you can't continue higher level without certain characters. For a gacha game I recomended is limbus company, There are only 12 sinners (Characters) you can play but have different identity, The game focus much on the story aspect of each characters and has the most word in a gacha game, the story is peak, The gameplay is bit tricky, But i highly recommend it.
4:35 This is why I quit WuWa, Thinking it would give me a different experience to Genshin on that aspect, I was expecting it can be all skill on the bosses and game modes but I found out the majority of it still contained stat check with timers. Like what I want is to slay level 100 bosses with level 10 characters if I had the skill and trained for its timing and dodges, I dont give a f*** if it takes me 10 hours to do so.
you did it wrong then. the gacha games are not the place for you to tryhard by skill only. all of them are cash grab for more damage. if you want to grind an hour just to tryhard survive with difficult bosses there's a lot AAA game you want to test
@@WadeWontson i have played it recently and yes it has EN now but the translation sometime wrong but it just minor issue and you can still read the skill and story like normal and it is on steam for any PC player.
I have been playing this game since day 1 of release. I’m still enjoying it but I understand it not for everyone, I’m f2p and been playing it casually. It a pve game so don’t rush and eventually as your level going up, you will beat almost all the challenges of the game.
One reason I avoid this type of game is the Battle Power (BP) system. Essentially, if you spend a lot of money, you can clear difficult content on auto mode, while free-to-play (F2P) players have to work much harder. This ties into another issue: endgame modes where you compete against other players in rankings. While I can't say for sure how much reward differences there are between rankings, it's obvious that whales, who can kill bosses faster, dominate the top spots since the best rewards go to them. I've also noticed new gear tied to a new game mode, which further exacerbates my dislike for the BP system. In some games, developers continually add more ways to increase BP. Just when you think you're catching up to the whales, they introduce new mechanics that make it easier for high spenders to stay ahead, while F2P players struggle to keep pace. As for the gacha system, it initially seems promising since new characters are added to both the limited and standard banners after one month and we have a wish list. But here's the catch: dupes provide a significant advantage and increase BP. So, even if you manage to pull a new character, you need duplicates to maintain or boost your BP. To make matters worse, the game now introduces two limited characters at once, so not only do you need to spend to get both, but you also have to shell out more to get the necessary dupes.
To answer the question of does the guaranteed rate up carry over to the next banner if you lost your last pull and didn't pull anymore, yes it does. They do a poor job communicating alot of things in this game for sure, and we've learned through trial and error on that one. I appreciate all your criticisms of the game here, its nice to see reality checks to keep the brain pan screwed on straight.
I been forgetting to try this one out. Gameplaywise it doesnt look bad and I really like Solo Leveling, but ever since Wuwa came out its really hard for other hack slash gachas to interest me. I feel like with gachas like NTE and Project Mugen coming out soon we are entering a new era of gacha, where devs will really have to put effort if they want their gacha to make money or even survive against the competition at all.
Babe wake up another bad gacha game relying on existing IPs to flop by day by day is getting dogpiled on
Don't worry, the gambling addicts will keep them alive for another four years.
That's true, but not all of them are bad. We have this Naruto mobile, although only in China.
This didnt flop though.
this one might be shit too but isn't flopping at all lmao, it's making ten mil monthly thanks to the IP, just like the DBZ gachas
laughs in Fate Gay Orgy's atrocious droprates
It is Netmarble, better stay away from that company's games. I learned my lesson after playing Nino kuni mobile.
What happened with that?
So that's why It felt oddly familiar. No wonder I hated it, I got catfished by nostalgia once again
@@mr.protagonist5639 they add nfts into the game on global server
@@mr.protagonist5639 it was a crypto and nft play to earn cash grab
@@mr.protagonist5639They deleted the accounts of people not logging in enough. People lost a lot of money due to their built accounts they put down for a month suddenly deleted.
Any search will get you the controversy.
The Monarch of IP Gacha Games Hater has Return.
More than a Hater, a tester of how bad are almost all of them Hahahha
@@DarenKajiWolfJust so much, like just listing them all would probably take 30 minutes with how much there is.
I mean, we are talking about literal gambling machines that are cosplaying as videogames…
Not a lot of them actually have the videogame part done right…
But yeah, to addicts, it can seem like people just hate gacha when reality is that most of them dont even reach the gaming standards as they were 10 years ago… While they ask for more money than literally any other game type.
@@markedone494 Right, but the player get nothing but a classic nft
The fact that EA still exists shows that every part of gaming industry, gacha or not, is fucked. No genre is better than the other.
The argument you said about the game being skill based is so true for example I played sword of canvalaria last week I thought the same thing and got really hyped for a skill based game but after some chapters you realize that no matter how skilled you are you can't beat a stage because of the time limit which limits the skill factor may be skill only game can't be a gacha game
Rip to Alchemist Code, it didnt have turn limits and was the only good trpg gacha for a long time. However, i do think it is somewhat unfair to use this definition of skill based for the trpg genre, cuz of the nature of turn based games, where the number of possible scenarios of victory have been massively reduced compared to something like arknights. Theres a hard limit to the number of actions u can take every turn, whereas ak ur limited only by either the game engine itself or ur own actions per minute. Theres only so many tiles your lvl 1 unit can occupy b4 the enemy catches up, barring the scenario where u r ranged, have higher movement range, and the enemy is only using 1 tile range attacks. Put any elden ring boss fight onto a grid and only allow x moves/turn and the chance of victory becomes significantly more unlikely unless x exceeds the actions/min of the og game. Turn based inherently limits ur actions b4 any additional "clear in x turns".
Ofc thats not to say it isnt skill based at all. Its definitely more engaging than most mobile turn based. Each event also has stgs where a predetermined roster is given to u, so you are guaranteed that victory is not limited by stats, the skill is if you can figure out the puzzle (some of the extra conditions can be kind of tricky too)
@yria7255 I definitely agree at the end of the day it's still a live service game it needs you to play every day
Path to nowhere, dragalia, epic 7 come pretty close to being a skull based game
@scentofink2952 E7 is a pretty weird nod, given how character/gear dependent it is for skill expression. Because RTA, is definitely a skill based mode, but you aren't experiencing content at that level as a new player.
Arknights is skill based, there is literally a culture of self imposed restrictions within the community called “nicheknights” , people will either follow or create their own niche and I’ve seen all sorts of weird ones going from only playing with characters of the same species or same class to stuff like only playing with characters born on a certain month or with art draw by a certain artist.
the fact that they still make a good chunk of money during monthly gacha revenue wars is not unexpected but annoying to see
Almost all from skimpy costumes
Blame coomers
There are too many dumb rich people who pay for it coz of the name alone
As someone who is a massive Ni No Kuni fan, the moment I saw that Netmarble were doing this game I didn't want to go anywhere near it.
The Ni No Kuni Crossworlds game they was genuinely terrible
Solo Leveling’s supporting cast really sux. I already knew this wasn’t going to work out as a good gacha
The MC is nothing special either…
@@-Seaheart- The OP isekai protagonist type with no actual weakness, doesn't face consequences and had unfleshed personality shift from coward to stoic, and absolutely made for the self-inserting readers who crave power fantasy for whatever reason. Definitely far from special and deep in the Gary Stu territory.
Yes finaly someone that agrees@@GodSejeong
@@GodSejeong yeah, the whiplash between his former self and later self was something that bothered me a lot too. I do think people should be allowed to like whatever they want, but for this series I really don’t get where the hype came from, the anime at least had the animation quality to carry it but before that people were already hyping it. You could try to explain it with the power fantasy thing but even that is the most cliche thing ever in shounen. Everything has its fans, what baffles me is how popular it is somehow.
@@-Seaheart-The market for these kind of protagonist and writing is surprisingly big. It's the very reason why a lot of Manhwas have a similar base plot.
When there's a popular IP, some company will milk it to death with a gacha game
I've been playing daily since the global launch of the game and thought I'd give my 2 cents on the stuff you covered
The gameplay imo is really fun, and all the characters and weapons are diverse enough that it doesn't feel repetitive
The progression is worse than you think, the further on you go the more gank you have to deal with. In one of the latest chapters you have to survive about 2 minutes waves of enemies that spawn in around 10 second intervals. In addition to that, there are enemies shooting at you from a distance you cannot kill. It took me a few hours to get past that level and i only did it by ignoring the enemies that were spawning and trying to anticipate the long ranged ones i could not kill.
I get that they want to prevent players from reaching the end of the current story update and loose players until they update it, but by god that feels like a reach considering that the daily grind at minimum is 2 hours.
For instance and encore dungeons, initially you could've only spent 1-2 keys at a time f2p, and the subscriptions would get you up to 4. As you can see now they increased f2p up to 4, but then the subscription to 8.
The artifact grind looks bad because it is bad. There is a stat called "Healing Given Increase" for artifacts, and it does what the name implies, make healing skills better. The issue? The meta is pumping all your stats into strength for jin woo to maximize damage output since being able to tank any enemy hits doesn't matter if you only have 3 mins to kill them all. That artifact stat has been the bane of this grind's existence as it can make getting the perfect drops an RNG nightmare. It was complained about so much that the devs said that they will remove "Healing Given Increase" as a sub-stat entirely, restricting it to only come up as a main stat
Another thing is that all the rings are based on elemental damage, so if the main stat doesn't align with the character you equip it to, its basically useless
e.g. Light hunter equipped with a ring whose main stat is Wind Damage % will not add any damage, so you have to keep grinding main stats while keeping in mind that you are also looking for specific sub-stats
The separate weapon banner is a new addition from the last update, and are the rarest tickets to get at the moment so it makes sense to me that they keep weapons in the custom banners for now
TL;DR: This video perfectly describes the SLA experience, however, as you get closer to the end game the experience gets worse.
Another arise player here and speaking of progression, I am still currently questioning the devs' decision of putting hidden chapter 1 and 2 in between the previous update's chapters and the new ones, it could've been made a side story of sorts and yet they decided to make put it in the main story. Whilst on the topic of hidden chapter, I might as well make an example of why progression is a problem in this game, the boss level of hidden chapter 1 has a huge jump from the previous level: if you were able to at least make decent damage to the enemy on the previous level, normal enemies in the boss level take "tanky" to a whole different level.
@@randomcat1151same i agree my acc lvl is like 43 of that part of leveling could be ez the game would be way better😭
As another player I do agree with most of this, but that new mission isn't as hard as you make it out to be. Put on the extra dodge talent, the fire aoe skill that I forget the name of, the health steal talent, and immortal talent just in case and I cleared it first try just by running/dodging around and killing everyone with the fire skill and using basics to kill any stragglers on 1 hp
This game lags as hell on my phone and freezes and it ain't my mobile because I can play WuWa, HSR, Snowbreak, Reverse 1999, PGR and aether gazer without any lags
Same too
I remember playing on launch and habing same problems, was kinda hoping they will take care of it
@@fnaffan-js9nc same. Mine is the annoying crashes on my iPhone, I can’t stand it anymore and every update has made it worse. Complained to customer support more times than I can count but nothing, just excuses and empty promises.
It's not the game blud it's the update new 2.0 update from that this issue coming and I'm a mobile player too without any lag until this update
@Mugiwara_no_luffy0 that shiit has been laggy since it came out
Enjoyed the anime. Tried out the game on the first day, quit on the first day.
You and me both, log into the game and netmarble stares disrespectfully at your wallet
Probably didn't even try for a month
@@deltadark5748 y'all don't like dungeon gachas. Thats cool, but this is still the best gacha in the market HANDS DOWN. Not even remotely close
@@ragnarmeh8156 ?????????????????
@@Mugiwara_no_luffy0 You shouldn't need to play game for a month to start liking it, it should be good enough for you to be happy playing it from the get go
It's a good day when pseychie drops a video
Pseychie, I picked up NIKKE after watching your content after I'd _very briefly_ played at launch. You should really warn people that it's a pretty painful game to play if you're wearing pants.
Pseychie's wallet : _I'm tired boss_
Pseychie's:We're done when i say we're done, Then we moved on to the next Gacha games.
What made me uninstall (just a few days ago) after playing for 2-3 months is that quality of life functions like sweeping and using up all your keys is locked behind a paywall. It takes way too long to clear dailies. I travel far to work and by the time I get home, Im not going to spend my few hours of free time to play the game and not feel like I missed clearing something.
Exactly this. This game doesn t respect your time, which to me, is like spitting on your face.
People say it takes 1 hour-2hour to complete dailies and that my limit
@@pancake2203to complete every single thing that refreshes daily, sure about 1 hour, do you need to clear every single thing daily as f2p? hell no takes about 30 minutes
You were brave to make an honest review on this game. But I'd still look over my shoulder and barricade my house just in case the fandom decides to stab me with a knife carved out of the manhua.
Yea, I knew this the instant I see "Netmarble" logo. This is coming from someone used to play a few Netmarble games and experienced first hand how greedy they are. I also never trust an IP game if the game is coming from anime/manga/LN. This game however seems to have a better quality compare to the rest of Netmarble IP, probably due to how big Solo Leveling is
they are worse
Lol this game truly Free to play friendly they giving lots of rewards or code's free 4 summer skin's Emma, Cha, Nobara, & Seo the Emma is the hottest you just saying that because you didn't play this game since beta version im currently lvl 86 and got 650k TP Free to play no spend and the daily log-in when you reach day 7 they giving free tickets.
I'd just like to make a correction that the series actually does have a continuation after the main story ended.
There's some epilogue chapters that follow various characters and what happened to them afterwards.
Also, some slight spoilers for those that don't know, but the author is making a sequel where it follows the MC's son, iirc
Author became a one trick pony at this point. Sad hill to die on. Series got carried by the illustrator rather than the author if we're gonna be honest here.
skill up type title
Paying up as well
GAMERS!
shill up my beloved
Awesome, you just saved me a few hundreds hours since this one was on my to-do list, thank you!
hahah pathetic ..cannot enjoy life nor the game itself. the games saves itself from u heheeh
I really liked your video : You went over every details and as a player that tested the game for months, you re on point on everything. Good job.
Need an update on this video:
Gate keys now are 15 and you can now refresh gates (no cooldown needed)
Encore and instance dungeons are both 6 keys + 2 keys from the shop (mana exchange shop)
There are also other dungeons such as Battlefield of Trials (spiral abyss version on genshin), Battlefield of Time (boss clearing), Battlefield of Chaos (where you get gems) ,Power of Destruction (can get multiple rewards base on your score), Workshop of Brillant Light (can get higher gears here that cannot be found on encore and instance)
Does the second rate-up guarantee carryover across banners as well? The answer is YES.
There's also another catch in the gacha system here. If a character banner ends, the character will go the standard banner after the next banner ends. Meaning you can have another chance on getting it (25% if you select it as 1 of your 4 rate up character/weapon on the standard banner) If you are a f2p like me, you can just get an A0 character on the limited banner and then get the get the other copies once they go to the standard banner.
Guild system was the latest update (typical guild system just like on every games)
Devs are also generous on giving rewards. Almost everyday they give rewards.
as a f2p player with approx. 3 months of playing the game, i'd say it is quite enjoyable and there are enough ways to get new characters and the developers do make good qol changes and listen to complaints (SOMETIMES). its def one of the better gacha games and there is still a lot of skill expression involved, even if their is the statcheck factor. I havent looked into the monetization at all tho, which is where all gachas turn evil anyway. staying f2p is always the best option imo, and in this one it doesnt take any fun away
Netmarble is notoriously bad with monetization. I used to play one of their non gacha games, Marvel Future Fight, and it just got worse and worse over time. It wasn't as bad with 7 Deady Sins Grand Cross, but still definitely felt greedy at times even more than other gacha games from other publishers.
I also tried Solo Leveling and left because how annoying the monetization was. And endgame content also gets to a point where it requires not only good gear and leveling, but dupes in order to reach the Battle Power requirements. Feels really scummy when I need multiple copies of the limited characters to feel like I can progress properly. Maybe I just sucked at the game, but the Stat requirements made me feel otherwise
As a f2p player i agree with most points but i still somewhat enjoy the game
Exactly
same
same here too
you gotta see the p2w stuff every possible time and thats so annoying
@@alexixman722 yeah especially when its still loading so you have to hit the x multiple times. im on mobile so the loading is a big issue
I play alot of gachas f2p to keep me from spending. Im going to keep playing solo leveling arise. But this video is beyond accurate. Brodie cooked and told no lies
Tbh as a F2P it's very interesting to me to play SLA as they are giving so much free stuffs to progress
14:20 the carryover for banners is there
Yea, for this info I highly doubt he went to check with people who actively play this game
@@ExaltedRivenI think it's pretty clear the point was that this type of info should be properly displayed in the explanation of gacha rates and mechanics regardless if it's actually there or not. I shouldn't need to ask someone else or go to another site to know if my pity carry over or not.
@@Larkian it should be very clear, as long as they use the same history page system, the pity carries over. This is common for many gacha
the really scummy thing is that it gives you a STARTER selector then only after you're done with your pulls it asks for payment
Uhmm, your pulls from there is meant to be paid...
i tried solo leveling arise when it was still early access, i gave it a try for about a week and dropped it right after, i saw the amount of paywalls that you have to do just to progress in this game, the battle pass is also absurd since it has 2 ways for you to pay and get the rewards, its screaming p2w.
I'm F2p and I'm at pretty much endgame. It's also single player, lol.
wrong im f2p and im up there keeping up with all the new content
you are poor. thats a fact.
U just suck
@@carlmahilum5231 bro did only matter the paywalls and BP stuff not exactly knowing the point of the game itself.
Day 1 light spending player until the latest patch. You are right with your assessment, and it gets worse in the late game when you cannot progress without spending more. Lastly, the game takes up too much time to clear all repetitive content on a daily basis.
Played for 2 months, Gameplay solid, but dailies are 1+hour for f2p, sub packs make it 30 minutes for like $20 a month. Microtransactions is incredibly aggressive but gacha system is fair and they are generous with pulls and currency, some events even straight up give you a S-Rank. As much as people shit on this game, I have to give credit where credit is due, this game is incredibly fun for the first 10-20 hours all the way up until progression gets severely hard capped to f2p's because your resource strained and lvl strained. This game also has a very high skill ceiling which not many people are willing to reach. Overall its not a "bad" game, its just egregiously monetized and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
I wholeheartedly agree with that time limit statement. Stage with time limit is never a skill-based. It's always DPS-check, no matter how cope people says.
Also, it's Netmarble. I remember spent more time installing and updating the game rather than playing it. My personal experience with this game is, they have a mouse cursor in the center of the screen. Yes, a MOUSE CURSOR. And every menu got joystick button shortcut.
I never uninstalled a mobile game faster than this.
18:55 The artist died.
You know there's another gacha game when Pseychie uploads
the answer to the question 'if you lose the pity on rateup banner 1, does the pity guarantee carry it to rateup banner 2' is yes. you can easily see that because the rateup history counts both banners' pity rate as the same. i tried it before when I lost the first coinflip on charlotte's banner, but I still managed to get harper with the same banner using that loss.
What stopped me from playing was the paid multi summons they had, i was baffled that they waited until you did all the summons to charge you, thats when i quit.
"I'm not a Manhwa discussion Channel"
*Processed to dissect said Manhwa and explain the reason as to why it's so popular*
I mean, he's only done that with this single video?
The only thing that you haven't mentioned is that even though monetization in this game is absolutely terrible, you actually can play it without every paying completely fine. Arise gives a lot of resources for free. And compared to many other gachas, they actually give insane amount of rewards. Like to the point where good F2P players can complete the same content as whales. You can get all SSR hunters as a F2P. And you definitely can get all the necessary ones without much issue. This game is very F2P friendly, though in a very passive-aggressive way.
he did say it. but he also said to brace for over the top flash sales and fomo ads
@@aimman12319 he didn't say it, because he hasn't played far enough to notice this. He hasn't competed with whales in any way and hasn't experienced end-game content. Which is why I thought it made sense for me to say, since I'm F2P in this game and I am in the end game.
Keep coping sl fanboy, game is awful simple as that even if it's playable even without paying
I think they balance the freebies they give with an atrocious monetization. Not to mention the upgrade mats... The cost is so high that F2P needs to also prioritise what gear and things to upgrade first. Personally imo, if you don't have time to spend, don't play the game, it's too time consuming to do the dailies not to mention we have 15 gates to finish. It's not even a joke, to the point it will bore you to death.
@@Kokodesuyoooo funny thing is I don't even need to do 15 gates, just 10 is enough
My friend dropped Wuthering Waves for this.
what an idiot, this game is garbage and horrible gacha system, Kuro way nicer when it comes to their gacha games, wish wuwa was similar to PGR though
Pro tip- find new friends
Legend tip- you have diamond friends
wuthering waves is trash and a dead game
@@barcodious4097 true imao
I have been playing the game since the official release of the game (May 2024) and I am an entirely F2P player. I do agree with some of the points mentioned here, but you can actively choose to ignore the pay to win features totally. I am currently rated top 8 in my server even as a F2P and I have accepted the the fact that I can't reach any higher than that. But the content and challenge of the game has drawn to me to the game a lot more. Micromanaging the resources and creating best use of my current items has helped a lot.
It might be frustrating at first for a very new player, but the resources come by very easily if you are JUST REGULAR at the game and do the dailies properly.
Should've been a real game instead of mobage.
I'm tired of anime IPs being locked behind live service microtransactions type of games.
Most gacha never last unless they're one of the top 5 revenue like Mihoyo or directed by some nerd (in a good way) who just want to make games/story like Sunborn/Mica (GFL)
I absolutely loathe live service type of games. Once they're gone, it's gone.
been playing this games since day one, if you do it for fun only,not pursuing anything but to enjoy the vibes, story gameplay, graphics etc, it's a good game, this game is slow paced games, means you need to invest your time or even your money to be able to finish the content, yes, this is p2w games and not skilled based games, but overall it's good, don't skip it but Try it yourself, then you decide it's worth it or not.
me personally, thinks this game is good and I happily play this games everyday , the developer are very generous, the community is good and pretty active, the issue is this game has so many bugs yet the developer quickly addressing the bug and fixing it even tough there's still plenty,..
one last thing I can say, The developer loves this game I can tell
The amount of hate in the comments is hilarious, keep up the good work Pseychie!
I originally wanted to use this game as a training ground for Wuthering Waves, but looking at how predatory it is, as well as how some parts of the gacha are... yeah that idea went to Pgr.
This is my first Netmarble game ever, and now i understand why people hate it.
Hate is a strong word I wouldn't say that people hate it they just don't like it but that's not all people I for one love this game I've been playing since early access.
Lol wuwa is much more predatory then sla....
@@cptninja7890I'm genuinely curious what makes you think this? The devs have admitted that they've already made back the development cost, and money isn't as important as it was to them now. It's extremely f2p friendly. I'm really open to hearing you out though.
One of us! One of us!
Maybe Im alone in this, but I would've preferred if were just a random hunter whom is rising up through the ranks. From beginner and professional. Our story then would intertwine from time to time with the MC. So we would have a different perspective on how the entire world building and story develops. We would have quest when we would join Jinwoo and other canon characters and build bonds with them which can rewards us with items and stuff once we get them high enough
An Yo Dawg meme in 2024?? 10/10 video, masterpiece.
Every time I feel like playing a gacha, I just look at the cash shop and cry the uninstall
11:40 If I had to do the same for HSR gear I’d just drop it. The only reason I play some strategy type games is because at the very least: There is never a gear system for characters.
This game has ALL of the gacha red-flags, impressive!
Considering Solo Leveling has such infamy for being a mahwa with a story so bland and repetitive as the cast of characters itself and whose only redeeming quality is the art and bombastic action I knew where this was going...
I'm satisfied with 4 star Chang'e / 2 star Flame girl Tank / and The book guy healer 2 star, the result is I'm F2P, win win boys and I uninstall I got no more content to finish, I'm retired now, great game actually.
I spent at launch foe the first month. Wasn't bad but I started seeing alot of things changing and decided it wasn't worth my money.
I played as f2p up until the anniversary and the f2p experience is absolutely garbage, so many Qol locked behind paywalls. The way characters are dropped is terrible. Here's a (insert element here) dps...the next character to drop will be a dedicated support for that dps.
Here's a fun thing you didn't mention or might not have noticed about the timers. You can kill the boss and watch the timer continue on for 5- 10 seconds before you get the actual clear flag. Real fun.
Cash grab, countless bugs that have been there since launch , new content centered around the element of the new character they will drop. Everything about this game is shit.
Player since launch day, while I can't say I'm fully F2P since I tried the 2 monthly subscription versions but after that month I stopped any thoughts of spending. I could say that progression is definitely steep, one must better buckle up to fail and fail some more. You have to grind for weeks if needed, the relic rng is just so livid. You have to also brace yourself in low rewards in some events/modes which whales flap around (understandable).
The game is good in bare minimum level and what keeping me is probably the gacha rate and rewards a F2P received, up till this point I have never gone down from 30k gems and I pull every unit. I give them credit with that, heck they even put a whole 10 pulls in codes or randomly give one in mails.
I know its paywall and fomo inducing but it really is decent, I run in auto and clear everything... well progressively (still farming to prepare in getting lvl80+ relics).
I know IP is also a factor I like this, watching my Cha get maxed Breakthrough and cleave enemies is great or seeing a celebrity turned hunter is also exciting.
It is also astonishing they gave 4 skins almost 4 months since launch, not saying too generous but they definitely know how to give carrots.
Anyway, overall if you are finding a casual game, this could give a few high (knowing that vertical progression is not easily seen pass Ch9), so gamer patience advised.
If competitive and f2p, well you can still try but know that it'll be a steep climb that allows few to no mistakes and a world of depression. The top rewards ain't that worth to pursue anyway.
if spending, heck no get the hell out if you can't deal well with FOMO or has zero financial stability. GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER!
Sidenote though this is just side gacha in the bg, I play Alchemy Stars, Path to Nowhere, Aether Gazer, Snowbreak, HSR, Rev1999 and WuWa with this (and yes I still get to have a life and work, heck I'm even studying in college).
Again, is it good to play?Maybe. Is it good to spend, no and NO!
I would be so interested in his opinion of Warhammer Tacitus. The obvious downsides are IP based, not a great story, and (currently) no pity system. However, it's leveling system is very F2P, no pulling for gear, lots of content, frequent events and updates, and the fact you don't need SS/legendary characters to progress. Some of the best characters are common/uncommon/rare, and all characters can be converted to legendary.
The series is called solo leveling, jin woo being the only person that can level up is the whole premise of the manga!
Make a good existing anime IP gacha challenge: impossible.
It’s too bad the most recent SAO gacha is down because it was a MESS and would make a good video. They shit it down only months after launch because it was just that bad. They say they are working on improving it with plans to rerelease, but that’s been postponed multiple times.
This game had so much potential man, but unfortunately with all of there shitty monitization tactics I don't think the game is worth a shot because of how bad they effect the dam main game FUCK NETMARBLE WHY!!!
The game is EXTREMELY fun, I've played it 3months straight every single day because it has the most fun combat in any gacha I've ever played(Haven't tried PGR yet), it has a high skill ceiling. I was already a fan of solo leveling before, read the novel and manga multiple times so experiencing the boss fights ingame is great, I suggest you watch the 12episode anime as an introduction to the story at least. Yes, the game is annoying constantly giving you flash sales and tempting you with value offers. BUT, this is also the most F2P friendly gacha at the same time, they give you absolutely INSANE amounts of free pulls constantly, and new characters have events where you can get them for free as well. You really only start to experience any negatives at endgame, where resources are scarce and there's a limit to how much you can grind for gear each day, but it's the thing that keeps you playing, slowly getting decent gear, upgrading characters and getting your combat power up to do more content. I won't call it pay 2 win, if you want to beat the new endgame content that comes out sure it's only for the whales, but you can do it later when they nerf it for everyone else or you catch up. One of my favorite things about the game is the competitive aspect, you compete with other people in your server on challenges which are basically speedruns, but the great thing is there are also modes where gear is standardized so it's not just whales getting the top ranks. The devs are really good as well, they listen to the community and constantly add QOL improvements. This game isn't a skip at all, it holds my attention MUCH longer than any other gacha ever did.
I’ve been playing the game before global release. The 50/50 guaranteed on the banner does carry over from previous limited banners. I’ve encountered this scenario a few times. Hope that helps👍.
Quick rebuttal to the "skill based" argument. Solo levling is what i call a "skill-based Dps check". You can be around the ball park of damage requirer to clear a certain stage but without the skill/know-how of the stages and bosses mechanics as well as which weapons to pair with which skills, youll almost always eat dirt. Take "battlefield of time" for instance. The difference between you clewring it in 1min vs 3 mins isnt based on combat power but rather the boss of the stage, where the mobs spawn, WHICH mobs spawn, positioning ,weapon choice ,the element required (which also depicts the skill combinations you pick) etc etc.
Even instance and encore dungeons have a great level of "skill vs brawn" ratio to them. Im currentpy at 500k cp clearing 600k and up dungeons.
Yes, the game is a gacha and the whole point of the manhwa is to level up so youre bound to partake in typical gachaisms. But out of the ARPGS ive played (with the exception of maybe Pgr) solo levling definitely fits thr bill for "skill based".
I literally got an ad for this game when i clicked on this video
and that is why arknights is the best gacha in my eyes. no stupid timers, endgame content is legit clearable with 4* units (max rarity is 6*), it just takes a lot of skill (no crazy relics, eidolons or weapons). I'm never gonna stop posting about ak under his vids, one day he will try it even tho its a tower defense
not me getting an ad for solo leveling: arise 😭
Just wait until bro sees the eminence in shadow gacha game
On a scale 1-10 how bad is the game compared to Solo Leveling Arise, (I never heard of it)
@@panjinurfadillah2489 it's a game that plays for itself (you don't need to lift a finger) it has way too much fan service, the game barely gives you the materials to gamble and it has a stamina system. the only redeeming qualities are the original storyline and the events, they are really good.
Well, me personally I did enjoy enjoy the game, I was worrying about you personally just insulting it because it’s a gacha game, since this is the first video, I am watching about you. I am subscribing after this, so don’t worry. I am quite proud of you for making valid points. Just another comment said I had some troubles of the game lagging, even though I had many other gacha take up more space but don’t lag like this game. The only point that I have to disagree with you is the skill part where it comes to the levels because I have to argue that it is quite necessary, especially since for most of these games it’s a base game so it wouldn’t make as much sense for you to be weak as hell, but still challenged those bosses. I personally believe that the requirements is absolutely necessary, I will agree with you on the timer, which is something I absolutely hate, and that removes much skill and it makes it more harder to beat the content because you have a pacific time limit. Altogether though this is a well formatted video and I’m quite proud of you for making this video and trying to go so far while trying to make the review and you earn my respect.
still waiting for that Guardian tales video :(
iam a solo leveling manhwa fan, played the gasha game. i like how the story is presented, i like the gameplay
the monetization is annoying and i stopped playing because the dailies takes a lot of time 1h+
Most of the "problems" can be avoided by the events they give a bunch of stuff with
(the event is paying cash)
@@ymir6843 tf? I'm level max f2p and I can tell you events are really helpful
@@ymir6843 Bruh Solo Leveling is f2p af in therms of getting charactors
Hilarious that throughout this video not only one but TWO solo levelling ads played for me lmfao
>Solo Leveling
>Gacha Characters Level as Well
Please try Guardian Tales! It's such an underrated hidden gem of a game that deserves more players. I'm definitely recommending it to everyone so please try it!
18:55 I'm pretty sure Solo levelling is getting another season featuring his son, It's called Solo Levelling: Ragnarok.
i want you to review more korean games again (especially Cookie Run: Kingdom)
this is a very informative video, and i want to see more like this
Finally someone that has a good take. Tried of people saying this game is good when it has many flaws. Tried of these RUclipsrs shilling the game like DFree. Bro really needs that paycheck 😂
What I don't understand is why they didn't go away from the main story and maybe choose another region. They could tell an interesting story in this very cool world and it would create no problems creating characters that didn't exist before. That they just retell the main story, and you play as the main character just shows you how it is a cash grab instead of a creative project.
As soon as I heard this was from netmarble, I instantly knew to skip. Have already been burned twice by them (knight's chronicle and the Nino Kuni gacha) so i knew no matter how fun the game looked, it would be infested with predatory monetization...
it was a shame that it got developed and published by one of the greediest company (in my opinion).
I have been playing the game from the begining of this years summer and my overall impression is that you can only do a certain amount of thing as in story progress, items, hunters, skils ect as a free-to-play player. I watch other YT channels who play the game on a very high level and are all decked out with gear and all, but those dudes spend an absurd amount of cash on the game in order to progress so far ( for example the latest update of the game with Demon King Baran chapter). Overall its fun to play if you just want to invest your time in a manhwa related game. I am a huuugee fan of the novel, manhwa. anime and the new Ragnarok version so I do like playing it!
Gosh darn. This got reccomended to me right after i downloaded it. Well i wont just delete it now since i just downloaded. First look at the shop and bam 97% of the things are bought by money. But i love solo leveling and i just have to play it. Much love❤ and remember, if you like the source material alot, then it is bearable
video 10 of asking psy to play guardian tales: yeah i kinda knew that the game would be more predatory than epsteins island as soon as a i heard that net marble was developing it. they dont have a necessarily good track record when it comes to good player experience. this game feels less like a gacha game and more like one of those games that you would see ads for on a random youtube video that when you go to play immediately tries to steal your wallet. no wonder why the overall gaming community hates mobile games.
But do you recommend cookie run kingdom?
From my experience, No. The game become too much of a pay to win at this point, you can't continue higher level without certain characters.
For a gacha game I recomended is limbus company, There are only 12 sinners (Characters) you can play but have different identity, The game focus much on the story aspect of each characters and has the most word in a gacha game, the story is peak, The gameplay is bit tricky, But i highly recommend it.
4:34 Thank you, I have heard so many times games like Star Rail (a game I love) being labelled as Skill Based, while they are mostly DPS checks
Someone who uses OSFE music is a cultured individual
I completely agree with your assessment on this gatcha game and it’s a shame too about the game
4:35 This is why I quit WuWa, Thinking it would give me a different experience to Genshin on that aspect, I was expecting it can be all skill on the bosses and game modes but I found out the majority of it still contained stat check with timers. Like what I want is to slay level 100 bosses with level 10 characters if I had the skill and trained for its timing and dodges, I dont give a f*** if it takes me 10 hours to do so.
you did it wrong then.
the gacha games are not the place for you to tryhard by skill only.
all of them are cash grab for more damage.
if you want to grind an hour just to tryhard survive with difficult bosses there's a lot AAA game you want to test
@@kulonstep69real, invest in some paid games and it'll save you money
I'm a simple person. I see an honest gacha review, I upvote.
Can't wait for Seven Knights. The original one.
also, one of the biggest whales in the game, Natto had quit SLA because of SLA being repetitive and end game content is just grinding artifacts
If you have time, please try Morimens, one of my favourite after Reverse99
I've seen that on Play Store a few times and wanted to try it, but no EN localization was a dealbreaker. Has that changed?
@@WadeWontson i have played it recently and yes it has EN now but the translation sometime wrong but it just minor issue and you can still read the skill and story like normal and it is on steam for any PC player.
He has reviewed it already
Just check his channel
I'll never understand why people like "the weakest but am actually strongest lmao" trope nor a game where it's just endless farming.
I have been playing this game since day 1 of release. I’m still enjoying it but I understand it not for everyone, I’m f2p and been playing it casually. It a pve game so don’t rush and eventually as your level going up, you will beat almost all the challenges of the game.
That Xzibit bit took me back.
One reason I avoid this type of game is the Battle Power (BP) system. Essentially, if you spend a lot of money, you can clear difficult content on auto mode, while free-to-play (F2P) players have to work much harder. This ties into another issue: endgame modes where you compete against other players in rankings. While I can't say for sure how much reward differences there are between rankings, it's obvious that whales, who can kill bosses faster, dominate the top spots since the best rewards go to them.
I've also noticed new gear tied to a new game mode, which further exacerbates my dislike for the BP system. In some games, developers continually add more ways to increase BP. Just when you think you're catching up to the whales, they introduce new mechanics that make it easier for high spenders to stay ahead, while F2P players struggle to keep pace.
As for the gacha system, it initially seems promising since new characters are added to both the limited and standard banners after one month and we have a wish list. But here's the catch: dupes provide a significant advantage and increase BP. So, even if you manage to pull a new character, you need duplicates to maintain or boost your BP. To make matters worse, the game now introduces two limited characters at once, so not only do you need to spend to get both, but you also have to shell out more to get the necessary dupes.
To answer the question of does the guaranteed rate up carry over to the next banner if you lost your last pull and didn't pull anymore, yes it does. They do a poor job communicating alot of things in this game for sure, and we've learned through trial and error on that one. I appreciate all your criticisms of the game here, its nice to see reality checks to keep the brain pan screwed on straight.
I learn my lesson from 7 knights and I will never touch any game from Netmarble.
Bro speaking of IP based gachas, I have a request. If you can, please review Dragon Ball Legends. Love your blunt reviews man
I been forgetting to try this one out. Gameplaywise it doesnt look bad and I really like Solo Leveling, but ever since Wuwa came out its really hard for other hack slash gachas to interest me.
I feel like with gachas like NTE and Project Mugen coming out soon we are entering a new era of gacha, where devs will really have to put effort if they want their gacha to make money or even survive against the competition at all.
I liked Wuwa's combat, then I tried SLA and immediately quit Wuwa...
Always appreciate your content.
This is the first video of yours i am watching and i love the content ❤🎉