Not to be confused with the iconic FPS everyone knows in case the name sounds too similar to some people. With more than 854 hours playtime, you would think this game is long due for writing a review on, especially with how much I'm in tune with it. But as it goes, I just generally don't write reviews for games whether I like them a lot or not unless it really warrants one and I just happen to be in the mood for it. And with this game being a gacha-game there's going to be mixed commentary on it regardless of what I say. But let it be known, that it's not my or anyone's place to convince others to change their mind and play the game. Take any review with a grain of salt and especially mine as I do tend to emphasize the good over the bad unless there's a big shift of balance between the two.


It's a gacha game, what more is there to say. Take that as you will, but I'm going to gloss over most of the pre-conditioned opinions people tend to have about the genre. Yes, there are micro-transactions but no it doesn't feel pay-to-win for the most part. But I know that will be very subjective to each and everyone as the definition of P2W nowadays seems more widespread than ever before. I will just shorten it down by the fact that there is no inherent paywalls to progress and that cash mostly translates to luxury of skins, more materials, and possibly more pulls for awakened banners (which is your SSR+ tier units) than the usual weekly/monthly tickets you gain over time. There are of course packages and value deals, but it should come to no surprise really. At least there are no zerg of random pop-ups, breaks or ads that will try to get you to buy some value-town time-limited deals.

Progression and everything can be gained through just playing over time, as it is with most gacha games. There will be an influx of things to do in the beginning and gradually flatten down to where you'll need to grind a bit to get over difficulty bumps and doing your daily activities to get more efficiency out of your units, squads and save or prepare yourself for new updates and content.

Combat is basically just 'tug-of-war' in a real-time setting, where you wait for deployment points, time your units and ultimate skills. Or let's face it, mostly have it on auto where all you need to do is just set the order of deployment to make logical sense for the type of squad or battle. And after '3-starring' the stages just skip/sweet it for purely the spoils. Simple and time efficient cause any 'gacha gamer' knows how tedious daily activities can get within the genre.

Not much more I can say to anyone who is already familiar with the gacha scene. Personally, I am liking the game very much for just the setting and lore which feels very reminiscent of Arknights. Especially with how grim and melancholic most of the stories tend to be. It's all neatly packaged into a stylish looking game with it's flashy skills, cool OST, real-time battles and combat sprites that aren't deformed chibis of all the badass waifus and husbandos. There's no need to get dupes for limit-breaking your units, and they nowadays just serve as 'potential' small stat upgrades like in Arknights. And I would really emphasize that system over the too mainstream 'constellation system' of Genshin Impact because most people will know how overpowered and imbalanced those can be to the point where dupes will feel necessary to make a unit viable even.

Really every time it gets brought up amongst gacha players, I would always refer to this game as a combination of Arknights meets Epic Seven combat, with a little dash of Azur Lane perhaps. For the most part, the team behind the development and publishing of the game feel pretty in touch with their community in terms of promoting the game and listening to feedback of any newly released content like the big overhaul to 2.0.

I know there's a lot of players that might beg to differ with me on this, and I'll say I can understand and agree to a certain point as even small changes can feel negative already, let alone big overhauls. But for me personally, this game just hits the most if not all of the sweet spots of what I want from a gacha game and I have good faith in the team behind it to tweak and update it as it goes. I would definitely put it up with the other notable 'friendly' gachas like Azur Lane and Arknights and wish nothing but to see it grow in splendor.

If nothing else, it it to be said that it still is free to play, free to try and free to quit if you don't like what you see.

Either way it's still a 10/10 for me in all consideration of it being a gacha game.
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