Recent reviews by Sorry Ito Lang Ako

Unexpectedly great

First SAO game, and the gameplay is very enjoyable and entertaining that I didn't notice I played this amount of hours straight lmao

Downloaded to check what's up, did not expect to get hooked by the gameplay. Not your typical gacha game, very generous and doesn't really care about the gacha aspect anymore. It's main form of monetization are skins, and you can easily get the characters that you want to have especially starting out. 11/10 recommended to friends!

Holy ******* **** this game is milking us af. IMAGINE having to pay for a ******* stage lmao. Not to mention, the TRASH ITEMS they have on the Battle Pass which costs as much as a ******* DLC LOL! Sure, the game is fun. It's Tekken. But is this just a Fighting game anymore? Even Gacha games won't cost you as much as this ******* game LOL! And it's just the FIRST ******* YEAR!!!


ALSO, IMAGINE HAVING TO PAY TO GET COSMETICS FROM OLDER TEKKEN GAMES?!?!?!??! ++++ NOT TO MENTION, COSMETICS ON TEKKEN 8 IS REAL ****! Playing Tekken 7 feels like a downgrade now graphics wise, and cosmetics peaked on Tekken 6! We're basically hostaged with Tekken 8!!!

Great game, unexpectedly loved this one

A gacha more generous than others, it is a very good game with good rates as well. Contrary to what others are saying, this game is actually better than a lot of gacha games out there. Playing this, Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis, and Honkai Star Rail, I'm actually getting more productive on work and in life as they are super easy to manage and are pretty chill. Y'all should try this, the devs put in a lot of effort in it. It's close to a triple A game, but gacha so you can play it indefinitely without end. :)

A laid-back gacha game, very F2P friendly. Don't listen to all those negative comments, they're basically just hating on all gachas. The game is very generous and seems to be meant to just pass time. Whenever a paid item pops up, just close it and they won't force it on you.

Reminiscent of their old Mobius Final Fantasy game, this one is great to pass the time by whenever you finish Remake/Rebirth and in a state of loss and longing afterwards. Also, bring back Mobius!

Best game, but basically blue balled while waiting for Rebirth to come to steam. No wonder Cloud is an edge-lord. ;)

Wanted to try getting into it on Steam version, as Grandchase keeps getting disconnected, but alas, Elsword disconnects me more! Can't even move past 1st dungeon as after a bit of clearing it just says no response from server. And I have very good internet.

Let's get one thing out of the way first. I LOVE Grand Chase and it is the game I played the longest in my entire life. I played it from 2009-2015 religiously, and is now just getting back into it for about 2 weeks. It still hasn't changed, I love the game and since the original server shut down, I've just been itching to play it again and no other game has successfully scratched that itch.

17 days of playing, and I already have 5 level 85 characters, 3 of them are 100k TA (Total Attack, which is basically your characters power level) and 1 220k TA. My other characters are also already on their 3rd/4th job quests, which says a lot. Yes, I have again played this game religiously like I did way back. They made a lot of changes, sure. Some I'd say great, and some I dislike. But in the end, it still basically is the same game, aside from the bugs and disconnection issues.

But why? Why am I not recommending this game? I just said that I love the game so much, and showed proof by already racking up the hours in a small amount of time. Am I crazy? Am I trolling? The answer is simple - the way they manage the game. I will list them down here to summarize the issues I noticed that is plaguing the game.

- Updates. As a few week old player, I haven't really encountered any major update, until yesterday. There is a new dungeon called Dimensional Chaser. For those unfamiliar, that is the name of the phone game they released way back in July 2018 internationally, which I have supported for maybe a year since its release. That being said, you expect it to have new stuff for you. A new challenge, and maybe, new enemies. But NO. EVERYTHING is recycled. The stages, the enemies, the boss. They are all from other parts in the game that already exists, like Kricktria and ToD. It feels like you are just running the same dungeon. The enemies are all trash, even in hard mode. Everything dies so fast, and it just feels like you're doing the literal same dungeon you were doing daily, but with only 3 stages with only 1 wave of enemy each. Remember, this is coming from a 200k TA player, and playing a dungeon like that will definitely not be fun for end game players, and definitely not enough for new players.

- Bugs/Crashes. As a VERY OLD game that did not receive any major graphic updates, or updates, in general, since the old days, you would expect the game to be very stable. No. Getting disconnected every other minute, fps drops, lags, connectivity issues with other players. Again, with the developers being lazy and just copy pasting stuff and calling it new content, and especially with the low gpu/cpu requirement of the game, you would assume that this game would be stable, with no crashes, no lags, and think that the developers should at least have a lot more time checking bugs and errors in the game and making sure that the game they are releasing is stable as they are apparently not putting in any effort at all in making new contents. But no. In my small time of playing, I honestly think that they just resuscitated the game as a cash grab for nostalgia. Sure, they made updates, sure they made some balancing stuff, but with the state of the game no matter how delusional or in love you might be with the game, you cannot help but notice all these flaws as you play. I'm not looking for a perfect game, and by no means am I looking for a game that will be "f2p friendly". It's just that, all these issues something you can't really ignore and affects game-play as it happens all too frequently. The game is grindy enough, we don't need more issues to TAKE UP MORE TIME.

- Gameplay. Now, as an old player this isn't really much of an issue, but for NEW players of the game, they might get turned off by this rinse and repeat grinding. Ok, dungeons are WAY easier now, characters are free now and you don't need to quest to unlock them anymore, job change quests are very easy too which, if you are an old player, you would know that you will spend ages in Outer Wall of Serdin getting those Orc medals which maybe drops about 2-4 per run, then finally killing the orc boss for 3/5 medallions which probably wont drop even once after 5 runs. BUT. Even after all this, you are kind of required to level up all the 21 characters to 85, or at least unlock all their 4th jobs for account wide stat bonuses to add to your TA, and not everyone has the time/energy to do that much repetitive grinding. Not to mention, for end game, you just do 3-4 dungeons once a day on all your characters and transfer the loot through storage to the character you are building to be able to craft that Equipment Set to get those stats. I like it, though, as you can control how much time you will need to spend per day, but I don't see a lot of new players being attracted to that kind of grind fest with literally no sense and direction at all since ALL contents can be cleared with just 300-400k. Reaching 500k+ just makes it faster.

- PvP. This is also a gameplay issue. The pvp in this game is literally dead. With the balancing updates they made on the game, most players just decided to abandon ship. It made it less enjoyable, honestly. The best time for PvP was way back 2010-2011 where the game still does not care about stats and just skill. I remember being a level 8 Elesis or a level 16 Jin and beating those level 50-60+ players (it is super hard to level before) which says a lot since when the game was updated with stats you won't even do a dent or a scratch to those players anymore. Classic changed that by "balancing" stats so you and your enemy both have the same stats, but them limiting what your character can do by adding tons of cds on skills make it seem like they just enabled noobs/casual gameplay more than tryhards, which actually are the ones grinding PvP. Sure, it was "unbalanced" before. Sure, there were lots of spammable moves before. But we adapt, we improvise, and we overcome. That is the beauty of PvP. You find ways to win. And they killed that very aspect.

- Roadmap. The game has no direction. At least, that we know of. There is no roadmap, no update, no datamining, no player-developer relationship. Nothing. Basically you will know that there is an update probably a week before they release an update, and that's it. We have no way of knowing what the game plans to do, what it wants to do, what its direction is in at least even half a years time, what its goals are, and, most importantly, if it will STAY. We just have no way of knowing. They might just shut down suddenly like they did 9 years ago, who knows. We just don't have that security, and they don't give a fk. That's one of the reasons players will hold off from spending, even if you want to support the game even just a little bit.

The P2W in this game doesn't really matter anymore, and isn't that much big of a deal anyway since they give out free premium currency per character you level up to max, which can be enough to probably not min-max your main character, but equip it with gacha sets. But honestly with rng, it will never be enough. But with PvP dead, it does not matter. In my opinion, it is better now since they can just carry you in dungeons by 1 tapping stuff and its just make your dailies a whole lot faster.

All in all, I love the game, but again, I do not recommend it. Unless the developers step up and really show that they care and love this game as much as we do, or ideally, more than us, I will never be able to recommend it to others. I am just in too deep, and it is ingrained so much into my childhood and adolescent years that I will just continue to play it no matter what happens until it closes down again. I'm not spending though, unlike other games I played. They have not yet gained my trust back, and they are not showing any signs that they care about the player base.