In defense of Honkai: Star Rail having a similar UI to Genshin, it gives a sense of familiar to some new players, as Hoyoverse likely knows that a lot of people that play genshin will try out Star Rail. Plus, different games having similar UI isnt really new, for example the Soulsborne games, they have pretty much the same UI but I've never really seen anyone complain about them.
Even with all the similarities to genshin (the loading screen, main game ui, the teleport system, which by all means genshin didn't invent, the gacha and many more) for someone like me who worked genshin since the beginning of the job, I can't call it playing or a game anymore, HSR felt very much like a new game, a new experience, new characters, new story, new places and views to explore, it's tangents to hi3, the comedic relief, the QoL improvements. I've never felt more refreshed in a while. There is no strict comparison between the two, since they are different genres of games, but star rail got me hooked right now. Almost makes me forget my pain farming for genshin for 2 years straight.
@@AromaticViolet I have to admit that the characters are shallow, but for someone like me who isn't bothered by that, I quite like the characters that we get to meet and play as, and the fact that the game also sprinkles some lighthearted jokes now and then.
@@cezarsoba Curious which characters you guys consider as shallow? The Landaus companion quest was really well-written and fleshed out the siblings so much. Almost all of the Belobog companion quests were character-driven and with the main quest with Bronya and Seele, we focused on each of the characters there a lot. I can agree with the maybe the Xianzhou chars but it's not right to judge it yet when we are not done with its arc yet. Like with Jing Yuan. Only after the 1.2 quest that you see more of him in the story.
The UI may not look original but it still looks nice. But the gameplay itself is so boring for me, I really tried to like the game but man it was so boring even if it has a unique turn-based gameplay.
In FGO: "I already uninstalled it" As someone that has been in the FGO JP as a Gachawhore for 5 entire years... FGO made me realise that I'm a masochist... Can't stop playing.... Still an F2P after 5 years... Who knows what will happen next.
Meanwhile, me already play for 8 years and still unable to stop playing FGO. Everytime I want to stop playing they just shove my favorite character and it keep repeating until now🤣
I uninstalled FGO around 2 years ago My brother after playing it for 3 years. And i literally got a job within those 2 years, after getting no job before it. I just realized now how big my life is after i uninstalled FGO
Honkai Impact's appeal is definitely in its story. It starts really rough but figures itself out and becomes an amazing piece of art and imo is the best story they've created yet. Some events are really fun and enjoyable with stories woven into them, but most of the time its a battle simulator and while its not BAD, its repetitive at some point and tiring. Such as Chip Space, it sucks. Honkai Impact though is getting an engine update that will probably change the game completely, as the game engine is really showing its age now. Star Rail is good right now. It's such a polished product that I have yet to find one BIG complaint about it. Its just really good. Dunno about Genshin, quit around a year ago. But, I think all the Hoyo games are good. In one way or another, they outshine one another and are all games which are great.
Chip space is already removed tho and it isn't something people cared much about, they are still testing new game modes and content to give pri arm mats more and chip space was one such experiment. Engine update is far away, possibly a year. And in my personal opinion it might make hi3 lose it's identity as some footage showed it may become fully open world instead of the confined modes like apho, but still I'm looking forward to it nevertheless
@@kurogane1594 I dont think it will become fully open world. I just think it is like the stages we have now with Kolosten the moon etc. I mean it is kind of imposible maiking the whole world open world. How do you put the moon next to the ER next to Barbilon tower. I just think more stages like APHO and maybe rework of older stages.
@@AromaticViolet Part 1.5 definitively is better than the moon ark. I haven’t played chapter 39 yet, but by what I can tell they are building up a new enemy and also go in to the sky people, to build up APHO. Everyone who says that everything after chapter 25 was utter garbage (Otto ark, ER and moon ark) that I know really likes part 1.5.
Tbh. Very fair assessment for FGO. If you play it. Don't play it as a gacha game, play it as a visual novel with a sprinkle of stages which you can easily clear with F2P characters (just gonna take a while)
The problem with FGO is that to clear stages with F2P units you need to have them maxed or close to max, and the farming in FGO sucks so much not many people will have the patience to put up with it and, rightfully, spend their time with something else.
@@StellaTheBoymoder you can shit around with skill level grinding with rare prisms. Exp is and will never be a problem unless you play 1 hour a month. And trust me pal. Fgo has it the best for F2P clearing content. Like Arknights? You actually gotta think, and too be honest one of the best ones in terms of just not being a DPS check. (The farming in arknights is also cancerous in my opinion). Blue archive, hard locked by level. Genshin, uhhhh why would you play Genshin for the story? Well it's one of the worst gacha game for straight up low investment playing same with HSR.
@@TrapConnoisseur. The problem is mostly with skill levels and cooldowns, not exp. I have done more than enough low star CQ clears to know that the difference from a 7 turn cooldown evade from a 6 turn one is massive and will cost you many battles. The problem is that skill leveling sucks, not only you need lores to max stuff you also needs a ridiculous amount of gold gems and materials that you will not be able to get unless you happens to play when a lottery event is happening and have the time to waste doing said lottery.
@@StellaTheBoymoder you're not gonna do CQs with f2p servants. I literally just said play it as a visual novel with some gameplay sprinkled in. CQs is completely optional alongside events in general
@@TrapConnoisseur. I'm sorry, but when I play a game I expect it to have a good gameplay loop that I can have fun with. Saying that FGO can be enjoyed just by the story is just pure copium.
Arknights stuck to me the instant I found it to be an anime tower defense in an apocalyptic setting. You can find so many themes while playing this game The music is fantastic. The story is eh in the beginning but event stories are entertaining to read. Note that you can always skip the story It's always exciting to see how Arknights world continues to expand on the world building of Terra's inhabitants. From exploring the dense forests of Sargon, to fighting the Mafia of Siracuse and bloodbornesque waifus slay monsters from the depths of the ocean in Stultifera Navis while the OST the golden age will return again plays in the background. I can't find the words to describe the hype when a new event comes out. You would just have to play the game to find out
Still playing AK til this day. I got back into it during the invitation to wine event but sadly missed the r6 collab 😭 you don’t understand how much I regret that
@@sushiwooshi3965 Don't worry about it too much. I can understand it is frustrating for collectors but Ash is the only "strong" operator out of the collab units and you can always borrow her from support if you want to try her out. Just make sure you don't miss the upcoming Monster Hunter collab.
@@sushiwooshi3965 It happens. I had to take a break from Arknights for about six months and came back during the Kazimerz event. I missed plenty of events but now I'm catching up but by bit
For me, I feel like there is a weird connection between Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Even though the core mechanic is different, the game still looks kinda similar. The thing is, some problems that Genshin has, don't exist in Star Rail, and vice versa. I loved how Star Rail has so much better user experience in terms of doing your daily tasks and simply navigating through menus. The interaction with the world (I mean the trash can, street lamps, etc.) is so much fun. The town feels so much livelier than Genshin even though you can only do so much in this type of game. The dialogues are so much more interesting, and in some cases felt like our choice matters, unlike the weird dialogue choices in Genshin. However, in terms of actual play of the game, Genshin naturally takes the crown in my heart. The thrill of exploration and finding places where the scenery looks beautiful are the things that Star Rail just can't replicate. It's not like the world and scenery in Star Rail sucks, but I believe it's because of how the game and its map exploration works that I don't notice much of the background there. I love both games but each is problematic in its own way. I really wish that hoyoverse would just integrate the goods of their games to each other.
I also feel the same and I feel like the events are similar to genshins.I think Honkai star rail will end up in like genshin where there is nothing to do after you completed everything.The daily’s and weekly’s don’t feel that much different than genshins.They both feel like a chore.The storytelling in Honkai star is better than genshins but the medicine thing was a little weird.They both feel similar but Honkai star does something better than genshin and genshin does something’s better than Honkai star rail
@@pipeywastaken876 I think both the daily's and weekly's are way better and very different in HSR compared to Genshin for sure cuz u can just choose autoplay and do something else while the Ai does all the work for u so it really isn't that big of a chore compared to Genshin.
- Fun fact : in the end of aranara quest you will have too choose between killing alphonso or let him free. What ever you choose he will died, but if you choose to free him, he will get killed and eaten by riffhound, basically a brutal death, i choose to let him free and when i read the final message he leave before he died, it gave me chill.
Bro the disrespect for FGO is unbelievable 🗿 we got top tier story with massive worlds building and all you mention is the bad gacha rates ( i mean, it's the truth, but that's not everything that's to it)
It's funny since mihoyo tried their best to balance all characters that they give in any game through artifacts or stigmata, but people had an issue of that in every single game. It's funny since people said it's pain to gacha for stigmata as well, so when they introduced artifact grinding so that everyone can have a chance to get proper artifacts, people still had issues. It's not like hi3 isn't any different,instead of stigmata, now you're grinding the material to make those stigmata, nothing different. But the only and major difference is that the resin at least be stored in hi3,and now they're implementing that in hsr
As a fgo player on both global and jp, i wish you would mention the story. It's kinda mid until E Pluribus Unum but after that Nasu took over the writing and it became godly. If you're willing to grind through the first part (which if you rush and skip the story may take maybe 2 or 3 days) the experience is worth it.
@@alsparkproductions7849except for FGO it is, after nasu took over the story became more fleshed. Sure the gameplay may be a bit repetitive at times but it does have a charm to it
If you want a different turn-based game that feels nostalgic at the same time, play Another Eden. It's by the creator of Chrono Trigger, and the story is kinda similar. Very entertaining, the battles are really good because you can save your last move or just choose to reset every turn to the regular attack (that doesn't consume MP).
Was kinda disappointed in the end when u talked abt nikke. Cause their story is really good. Infact people were surprised that their is even a story but damn its good.
Honkai Impact 3rd has, by far, the best Story in my Opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if it became an actual anime considering the shorts they put out are literally better then most Anime produced and carry so much emotional weight with them that i can't help but just cry at half of them.
Absolutely this. Everyone though the Flamechasers was going to be absolutely terrible at the start since they introduced 13 new characters after everyone's already bonded with the St. Freya gang for like 5 years so no one would feel any connection to them. Lo and behold, not even a year after we're introduced to them everyone is saying glory to the 13 and bawling their eyes out when we saw Elysia's fight in Because of You. That is god-tier story telling right there and I fucking love Honkai because of it. Glory to the 13.
Na it aint PGR, guardian tales, arknights, fgo Have MUCH better stories, it's not even a competition Not saying hi3 story is bad or anything, it's good, but like Nowhere even NEAR the best among othee gacha games
_Genshin_ 's focus is certainly the exploration. Because of all the RNG everywhere, and the lack of a challenge once you get certain characters, it is my least favourite of Mihoyo's games. At least _Honkai: Star Rail_ doesn't have quite as much RNG, but I still winced when I saw we were dealing with a total of 6 relics per set. At least the story and characters so far are enjoyable. And we get another version of Himeko before the Archon Murata shows up in _Genshin_ . My favourite right now, though, is certainly _Honkai Impact 3rd_ , with the lowest RNG, generous rewards and gacha, great characterization and story, and of course, the music. There is no convincing me Mihoyo is _not_ a music-producing company that does games on the side, even if they did revolutionize gacha gaming. I also played _Counter-Side_ for a bit to check it out, but quickly got bored. It's also the reason I never bothered with _NIKKE_ .
Counter-side was actually really fun while it lasted. I'll be real, the RTA PvP was absolutely freaking addicting and possibly one of the most fun PvP experiences I've had in any gacha game. And then New Origins happened and everything turned to shit literally overnight. Even disregarding the fact that they basically shafted F2P and low spenders as hard as they can, the fact that they merged the NA server into the KR server despite the fact that the KR server has access to collab units that NA could not obtain and then allowed the collab units to be used in PvP. This was all on top of the fact that B-Side literally stated before the New Origins update that "nope, the PvP queues will be separate for NA and KR so KR can't use the collab units on the NA people". Some people might ask if NA had any collabs that KR didn't get since if both sides had unobtainable characters things would even out and the answer to that was yes, NA did have a collab that KR did not have and it was the only collab we had at the time. However, that collab was for the Vtuber gacha game and it was skins only with no new characters which was not the case for the KR collabs. Oh and before I forget, the stupid collab was actually set to rerun sometime soon after I quit so KR should already have access to the collab skins as well by now. B-Side has been the only gaming company in my decades of gaming to make me ever wonder if Nexon was actually the good guys since B-Side pre-leaving Nexon was doing an absolutely fantastic job of managing the game and the moment they left Nexon the dropped the New Origins update and fucked everything up.
I played Arknights for almost 3 years now as an f2p, started in the Stories of the Afternoon event, I have an entire art gallery's worth of maxed 6* and I could say for a fact that grinding for materials never ends as long as you get new operators. > Gameplay-wise it is pretty simple but has the potential to be very complex. It can be easy as killing enemies in a choke point, to planning out an entire operator rotation to deal with a boss with multiple phases along with the peons. For me, I like the casualness of farming easy stages, but also the challenge the extremely hard content the game provides me, since I have lots of the best operators in the game, I breeze through every event, but of course every now and again I get stumped and actually have to think. (If you are stuck in a particular level, there are tutorials for each level here using low-end units) > The Gacha is pretty forgiving, you get your 6* at around 50-60 pulls, and in a lot of the limited banners they give everyone a free 10 pulls as well as free 1 pull everyday up until the banner ends. Every now and then they give out free event 5* but sometimes when a major event comes around, they give you a free 6* along with their potentials (stats increase and talent upgrades when you get dupes) It is also pretty easy to save up Orundum which you get from annihilations, dailies, maintenance compensation, events associated with limited banners, and Originite Prime (there are probably more but I forgor). > Originite Prime is your premium currency and it is incredibly abundant in this game. You get them as long as you finish a stage without losing a life. There are about 12 main story episodes, Intermezzis (past major events), Side stories (also past events), these are ever increasing so I don't worry about running out of OP anytime soon. For f2p players that are just starting out, they can use OP to restore stamina to farm more, but oftentimes for whales and sometimes even f2p players in the very endgame, they save and use OP for banner pulls. > When it comes to the operators, I absolutely love how they all look, every operator 4* - 6* have 2 arts, (the base art and the E2 art.) E2 art is more flashier and in the case of limited operators, it makes their art go from static base art into live 2d art which is really cool to see. Skins are also really well made, even as an f2p I have a lot of skins because of the abundance of OP the stages give every new event. When it comes to operators, most operators are viable and can be used, (yes even the low rarity ones). While I wouldn't say, waifu over meta, you definitely need to have a balanced lineup with really effective operators first, before you go on forfeiting everything on a specific 5* character, (but if your waifu IS meta, then why not? go ahead :) ) > Events and the story are really well fleshed out, but I'm not really the type to read as a hobby so this praise doesn't really hold that much merit, but I have read event stories and the main story a couple times here and there. My personal favorite storyline was the Near Light event, because it had the main story, a couple of unlockable news articles about the main story, diary entries of an operator who attended in the setting of the event, and piecing the story together was really fun for me. > When it comes to talking about Arknights, it would be a sin to not talk about the music. They dabble in a lot of genres, from heavy metal to classical music, (I believe every 6* has a theme associated to them) I, for one, was not aware that AK had such OSTs up until I was reading risks in the event lobby of Contingency Contract #1 and suddenly the lobby theme dropped on me like a load of bricks, ever since then I was really updated on new music and themes. > Overall, there a lot more I want to say about Arknights that I can't put into words, it is one of the reasons why I wanted to pursue art as a lifelong occupation. Will I continue 5 years and even 10 years into the future from now? As long as the developers keep their edge in making the game in the quality they always have created it, of course I would still play. While I have my own criticisms of the game, (some alter operators, powercreep, 300 pull spark system) I will continue playing the game as I enjoyed playing it for years now. (sorry for the long comment, I really enjoy the game)
"Ständchen" is my favorite song! you could say it's a neo-classical progressive metal, i don't know, whatever, it's cool czcams.com/video/6BL_kNVBZGs/video.htmlsi=Z7VXGI8P82uFNvqc
I know you said to take this video with a grain of salt, but man did you do FGO dirty. I have only played 3 Gacha games for a long time: Arknights, FGO and Genshin. Out of those 3 FGO has the best story, hands down, and it's sad to see so many people just hate on it. And it definitely doesn't have the worst gacha system, that title goes to Genshin. You complained that the game is too expensive or that enemy mechanics can be BS, but the game is actually quite easy if you understand the mechanics. You can beat the entire game with just F2P characters no problem. The game definitely has many issues that other games don't have, but there is a reason why so many people are still loyal to it. No hate on the video, just wanted to say my opinion.
aight, genshin gacha being worse than fgo is cap as fuck but I agree with everything else. Also this mf yoink ch 10 ORT fight to back his point at how "unfair" the boss is in this game, I fucking can't.
You can't just talk about having "the same character but in different classes" and then show characters that might look similar but are completely different characters, some having characterization and story strong enough to rival the original story Like, there were literally 5 or 6 artorias you could've picked that would make me go "yeah, thats a lot of artorias"
Pure F2P on FGO JP and NA ever since 2018. I don't mind the terrible gacha rates since the content is clearable with lower rarity regardless of difficulty in the end game, unlike some other games... (especially NIKKE and GBF). Basically don't treat it as a waifu collection game because it's impossible (unless you're Airmong or Touhousniper98) and the main hook in this game is story. Wish you gave it a more in-depth review, just like the others.
@@pondypoohonako green does low rarity servant clear videos and doesn't always use the same characters, so you can prob get some variety specially if you're not restraining yourself to not use 4* and 5* (And isn't Paracelsus bad for hard quests with his long ass cooldowns?)
It's so funny to me how the only thing you mentioned for FGO is the gacha and completely ignored the other aspects. If you don't mind me asking, when did you quit playing? I do agree that the gacha is terrible but the story is so good that I'm just hooked.
Because "FGO wrost gacha look at those rates and no pity hehehe" despite the game having better rates than Genshin and a pity. And since he skipped the story in Genshin then no way in hell did re read FGO's story.
4:40 grind in arknights is super tedious, but it does get better later on as stages consume more sanity per run and you dont level up as often or ever again. I actually started using an autoclicker on my new alt since i need to do the same stages SO. MANY. TIMES. OVER AND OVER.
@@Jyxero not really. It's not worth it unless you're hellbent on sparking an operator for the completely abysmal 300 pulls cost and stopping your operator building for the entire time you're farming orundum. Can't even farm orundum during events either since the event system is so bad (can't farm anything but event stages since they're the only ones that drop event shop currency, which that and the stage material drops are extremely better and efficient to farm.
Bro talk about how the character in fgo are copy paste of saber while in honkai there are literally like 10 variations of many same characters. The gacha rate might be bad but getting only one doesn’t lock the character skill behind getting dupes like other games(e.g. hutao c1 make her not use stamina while using skill). just only having slightly weaker np damage. F2p characters is also good.
Oh yeah, I just figured it out as well. Why haven't I noticed it right away 😅. And also, your point makes a lot of sense with the duplicate character's stuff. I think my review is not deep enough in explanation and comparison for some stuff. I will keep these in mind in the future. Thanks. And welp, maybe I got fed too many gacha games too in these past few months.
But it makes sense having 3+ variations of the characters, it’s called battle suits. During the story, lot of things happen and characters gain new powers etc. And even with that, hoyoverse upload new playable characters so no
@@Guan968 Most of the hoyoverse games has similar characters base model with changes in hair style and costume. Compare it to fgo which people like to crap on for having many saber but actually having hundreds of servants more with different and unique model. Saber having different version also make sense, saber lily, artoria lancer, artoria caster are all different timeline of saber which make sense because the story of fgo is going into singularity and lostbelt which is like alternate history.
Mihoyo and their designs are legitimately terrible. Every character tends to be overdesigned but somehow manages to end up boring, nothing breaks the general character formula or the same template models they use. Genshin surprisingly had some great examples but HSR is a disaster so far. FGO on the other hand has pretty diverse and distinct character designs. We can all point to specific servant art and laugh, but characters in FGO are often very different and aren't just the same generic anime girl/male/potato with varying hair color/style/bust size. The un-homogenized art direction of fgo is one of it's strengths that I believe is often overlooked. It's a hit or miss yes, but I vastly prefer it over a generic homogenized one. You might get some really terrible art but would you really trade occasional bad duds in exchange for a style that might as well be AI generated?
Well, you clearly haven't played Honkai then, if you have such an awful take. In Honkai Impact, other variants are battlesuits, that show character's growth from the story. They still are the same characters. There are some alternative dimension characters that look like main cast tho. But usually there is no more than 1 for each. In FGO it is complete opposite, there are a lot of different dimension characters with alternatives who got summer variant. If you want to bash Hoyo, bash Star Rail and Genshin, where they use the same 3-4 models so it looks like reskin lmao.
I've stopped playing Hoyoverse games honestly, because they've become stale. I can see the budget though, especially for Honkai: Star Rail. Hoyo-Mix does very great tracks, though. My most favorite gacha right now, though, is Punishing: Gray Raven.
Star Rail is really fun though. It basically fixes the issues I had with genshin, dailies and the grind takes no time at all. Story is surprisingly fun despite the simplicity, and the combat system is fun to play around with. Only issue I have right now is how expensive it is to upgrade traces.
So here's my rundown of the gachas I tried thou some might not be super accurate: FGO - Love their servants. Drop rates are a lie. Story picks up on Camelot towards Lostbelt. Turn-based gameplay is fine but feels outdated. Okita, Ryougi, Scathach are my jam. Samurai Remnant game soon. Arknights - Banger music. Skins are classy. Drop rates are generous. Dark story just like FGO's but could be all over the place at times. Tower defense gameplay that needs big brain & probably guides. Angelina, Blue Poison, Mudrock are my jam. Season 2 anime confirmed. Azur Lane - Good lord their kansens & skins are ungodly. Drop rates are super generous. Story has historical cues, & could get dark at times. Bullet hell gameplay as usual. Pretty much a waifu/kansen collector game. Iron Blood & Royal Navy Supremacy. Queen E OVA soon. Priconne - Characters feels so moe & bubbly for some reason. Gameplay def feels outdated & fleet arrangement dictates your game. Drop rates are generous. Story is definitely not as dark as FGO & Arknights. Makoto, Jun & Christina are my jam. Definitely a waifu collector game. GBF - Havent tried it for too long to understand the story. Their skins are definitely nice. You might as well be a farmer with this game. Gameplay & UI definitely feels medieval. Grea enjoyer here. GBF Relink EN soon. GFL - Skins nearly as good as the ones in Azur Lane but I hate their skin gacha ffs. Drop rates are generous. Great lore, story has depth & has good character development. Bullet hell gameplay that is outdated yet has that tactical feel to it. Pretty much a waifu/raifu collector game. Heckler & Koch Supremacy. Idolm@ster Shiny Colors - Story focuses on the idol's journey & their personalities. Drop rates are generous. Gameplay is strategic but for the most part, meh. Also, Oshi No Ko collab is still accessible. Sakuya, Chiyuki, Natsuha are my jam. 2024 anime soon. Idolm@ster Starlight Stage - Story focuses on the idol's journey & their personalities. Drop rates are slightly less generous than Shinym@s. Rhythm-focused gameplay but with 3D model. Kaede, Ranko & Rin are my jam. PGR - Same dystopic appeal as NieR Automata but the story is all over the place but has good lore. Hack & slash gameplay is fine, it is well-optimized & has sharp graphics. Drop rates are super generous. Vera & Bianca are my jam. Wuthering Waves when? HI3rd - Good lore, story has depth with hints of EVA & good character development. Hack & slash gameplay is fine & the colors pop much more than the subtle colors of PGR. Drop rates are generous. Skins look good too. Elysia, Bronie, Fu Hua & Sushang are my jam. HI3rd needs an anime (not that cooking show). HSR - Story-wise, it is still picking up pace & has good lore. Turn-based gameplay is fine but doesn't feel outdated as FGO's & has good ult animation. Drop rates are not that generous. Lots of easter eggs & meme references. Kafka & Jing Liu pls come home. Skins when? Haven't tried Blue Archive, NIKKE & Aether Gazer. Not interested in Genshin. Autoplay in HSR, GFL, Azur Lane & Arknights are a godsend.
HI3rd Wouldn't call drop rates in HI3rd generous, considering you need a character, their full stigmata set and their unique weapon, to be useful. Not to mention that rank upgrade for character can give you a very strong boost. FGO Not only outdated gameplay, but also outdated UI and poor optimization. In general don't see the budget going back into the game nowadays. Arknights Good story, but bad pacing with walls of unnecessary text (just like HI3rd tbh, CN writers moment, I guess). See a lot of love and appreciation going back to the community from the devs. Music company for a reason. Blue Archive advertisment incoming: If you want more lighthearted but still very deep story, try Blue Archive. Funny enough, although the story is heartwarming, it is the only gacha game besides Honkai impact, that made and still makes me cry. And it is THE ONLY ONE that makes me laugh with every event/every new story. I like the gameplay, but it can be not for everyone. The characters are amazing, each one has their own mini story that you can read and understand them better. Music is great as well, has quite some bangers, but imo it's just a standard for good gacha game nowadays. And cause you mentioned autoplay, BA has something even better called skip. You just need to beat a stage once with 3 star rating and then you can farm it by pressing one button. Gacha is pretty good as well, not only developers are very generous, but the game has spark system. Basically if you rolled certain amount, you can just buy that character. Sadly it doesn't retain rolled amount between banners, if it did, I would be confident to call it the best gacha system ever. Rates are 3%, every half a year we get a fest banner with boosted rates up to 6%. Oh, and when you got one copy of SSR, you are basically done, more copies give you stat increase, but instead of pulling more copies, you can just straight up buy fragments of those characters with currency you get from rolling gacha.
@@arthorias06 for me hi3 lore is actually easy to understand if you read the manga and visual novel(need to connect it with in game storyline). Although there are some mistranslations,it's not as bad as Ggz (ggz lore still lit though)
Honkai impact 3rd is one of those games I'd download every 2 months or sum just to check-in on my acc and not be too far behind, like its nice when u see all the things you grinded your soul out actually doing dmg with copium weapons but it is what it is also yes the story is goooood just pay attention and you'll understand
If you want fast paced gacha game that has a lot of puzzles and has a good story while you suffer from the difficulty and some parts of the story the game I recommend for you is guardian tales and it is underrated like literally
As a person who like grinding, i like Nikke more for resource grinding because this is easier for me to get a lot of resources. you can get a lot of resources and xp depend on your outpost defense level which is you have to play the story mode as far as you can go. I like this outpost defense system.
Ooh ! Personally, I like Genshin a lot, yeah, despite the fact that getting good artifacts takes a lot of time, I appreciate the story, the character design and the music. Exploration ? Even if it's looong, as a player since October 2020, I really love to walk in Teyvat. Gacha ? Yeah rip when you lose the 50/50, but you can still get the character after, and don't worry, I got Venti one year after his release. Some world quests are so long but...well, if you manage your primogems and resources well, you can end up getting what you want. It was one of my first RPG game, I'm not disappointed. But it would be nice to have more primogems-and free skins(haha). Arknights : I was afraid I wouldn't pass the levels, but with practice, you get used to it. The character design is beautiful, and with 3-4 stars, you can pass any level (well, it depends, but overall, yes). The music : very very good, same for story. English is not my native language, and thanks to Arknights, I improved my English ! The gacha ? Well, I got characters I love, I'm happy with my operators ! As a f2p player, I'm happy to buy outfits of my favorites operators without having to pay (not like Genshin haha). And they are generous for rewards (anniversary content, tickets to get free orundums). And it's still a game where you can get a free skin (it happened at an event) and an excellent 6* operator (Lumen). YES. Genshin will never do that lol😂 Star Rail ? It's perfect for relaxing at evening, the turn-by-turn combat is cool, and you can do a break when you want to do something else. The story is nice, the gacha ? Well I didn't get Luocha buuuut, I know he'll come back and it's nice to give 10 tickets when a new banner come. The rest ? (maybe FGO one day if i'm not lazy)Well not my style, honestly, the gacha I suffered the most : Project Sekai. Man, if you really really want a card, you need to save up for months and pray to throw 300 pulls (~60k crystals approximately)and the 4* with his/her costume/hairstyle. It's a rythm game, so, a little different.
I really wanna play Arknights more but damn the grind is just a chore to do since it takes forever with auto. They already have a system where you can skip annihilation runs which I wish they would add to normal stages.
Yeah i want that too but there are so many people against it cause "it's gonna ruin Arknights 😭😭😭" just play IS or SSS if you wanna something that is not skippable man
@tukangtitipsendal616 Hi, I am one of those people of "its going to ruin Arknights" because it most definitely does. It defeats the entire purpose of auto deploy and each mission, which is why a farming system like PNC or Reversal:1999 would be much better.
@@blazi7560 yeah and thanks to that, my time playing Arknights is like 90% grinding and not having fun, log-in>do daily mission>log-out>repeat i never touch IS3 or SSS and barely touch IS2 because the grinding and i simply have no time to play it, i have work to do irl
@@blazi7560 3 taps? You forgot some minutes in between that and a chance to fail the stages because of the speed/tempo of the stages or some other reason
Oh wow, Takt Op mentioned. I tried the game on release and, although it needed some improvements, core game is pretty cool. But I haven't seen anybody talking about it, so I left one month after starting the game. Can't see the future for it sadly, no revenue equals end of service announcement soon. Maybe it is doing better nowadays tho, idk?
genshin exploration is fun but they really started losing me with all the underground stuff in sumeru. hopefully the new underground map brings back the fun of exploration or better yet just make less underground exploration. you nailed arknights on the head. if anyone is thinking of playing, try it.
Oh i was expecting a "I came for the PLOT, but stayed for the actual plot" joke when you talked about Nikke since it's what most players would agree on, and the music is such a banger tho. Although FGO is a hellscape the story is incredibly good.
I love HI3. The story is amazng and its the onlu game thats ever made my cry. I am never bored cause there is always something to do./. I love the charactres./ And there really are free ones, like a lot. Just gotta grind. Sometimes you dont evemn have to if they are asterite characters. Even then they are easy to get. The gacha is a lot more genours and the rewards a lot better. But what I really like, is that you grow with the characters. Sure, you do in every game. But ypu see the mc go through her entire life and it makes you feel like youre with them. Same with the flamechasers, I cried so much during trUE and a lot of their story. And the fanbase is very wholesome
I totally agree with you It's like watching a child grow up and become a mature adult This is also one of the only games that has made me cry more than once. The Hi3 fan base is probably the best fan base hoyo has, everyone is nice and there's never anything going on, it's just people posting fan art, memes and whatever else they want, you don't get judged for your builds or your team. It's pure fun and that's why I love it
You should really try "Path to nowhere. " It,s sound design, UI, Skin , character designs, Story, visuals everything is in a different level compared to most other gancha game. It is also quite mature and dark. Not your typical anime style. It is really good.
I love honkai star rail for its characters and story ( it keeps getting better ) , the turn base game play isn’t that big but I love how much easier it is to clear content and do dailies. I love the dynamic of the main characters the trio
My unrequested thoughts on some of these games Genshin Impact was my first gacha game and it really surprised me with it's quality. Especially with the world exploration, because holy shit, that's the best part of this game by far. I also like the elemental based combat, I can consistently 36* the abyss so I don't care that much on building new characters unless I think the gameplay is fun. My most hype moments with Genshin is when new areas are added. I started playing Honkai Impact 3rd because of genshin and it quickly became my favorite MiHoYo game. The story is amazing, fucking love the characters, the music is one of the best and the combat is also pretty good. This game legit lives rent free on my head. I gave it a try to Honkai: Star rail because of HI3rd. It was tons of fun during the first month but after that it became pretty boring. I'm not really a fan of turn based RPG (Unless it's GBA pokemon at 4x speed). The systems look way too much like genshin, which is good for the familiarity but also may limit them on trying something new. I now only plan to login into this game during story patches, and the only reason I'm still interested is because of the direct connections with HI3rd. I tried Blue Archive purely because of the characters, I read so many doujinshi of it that I thought I would just give the game a try. The gameplay was way more fun then I was expecting, but I still haven't played enough to judge it's story or the overall feel of the game long term. You didn't talk about it on the video, but Punishing Gray Raven is also a pretty fun game. I only started playing a month ago when I saw that they had released a PC version. The combat system is pretty fun, it's basically HI3rd combat on steroids, still haven't played a lot of the story to judge it though.
I think the main difference between Genshin and HSR is that HSR is: -A lot more generous for f2p players, they gave out more free pulls in 4 months than Genshin in 3 years lmao -The story actually go places and the dialog doesn't stall, Genshin dialog can go for way too long, the story is already miles better than Genshin had up to 1.2 -The farming is not tedious thanks to autoplay and 2x speed -Has more endgame options compared to Genshin -The gameplay is speed up considerably and has a lot more QoL -Archives (some) events -Doesn't prevent you to continue a quest because of a NPC being "busy" in another quest the only negative on HSR compared to Genshin is the insane ammount of materials to build a character, and I'd argue that relic farming is actually worse than artifact farming
I almost dropped every other gacha game beside FGO, if you don't have a big reason to keep playing them it's hard to justify logging in every day. FGO has probably the best story in this category of games so every negative part about it is ultimately irrelevant to the whole experience.
4:48 to add to this, I'm a F2P arknights player for abour roughly 2 years. I have NEVER spent a single cent on this game and yet I have MOST of the rarest and limited operators in the game (including all of the Rainbow Six siege and Monster Hunter Collab operators). It is VERY generous in giving away the premium currency and its gacha rates, every week they even allow you to farm a fixed amount of the premium currency.
The fact that you skipped over characters as the highlight of HI3, what blasphemy. But I'm happy to see someone else call out Hoyo for copypastinig Genshin Star Rail. After having seen all of their games, I can say with certainty that miHoYo and Hoyoverse are very much differenty entities, and while I adore the former, the latter has been disappointing. HoyoMix is goated in all their projects though.
I was going to review the characters as well but I think I forgot to mention it and focused more on the experience of the game instead lmao But yeah, thanks for reminding me about that.
I'd say the story is the weakest part of Genshin but it excels on pretty much everything else. As for repetitive gameplay, that's kinda the draw or downside depending on the type of player you are. As an old-school gamer, I'm used to repetitive gameplay so it's really not a thing for me and as one of the older players as far as time spent with the game, I already have teams that can make short work of the mob enemies to the point where I can clear the daily commissions, grinding artifacts, and even a bit of farming on the side in roughly 15 minutes (or less if I'm rushing). Which gives me time to do stuff I really want to do like clearing world quests, event missions, or just wandering the landscape which is frankly one of the biggest draws for a former gamer turned part-casual like me. As for HSR, I say your points are valid but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't do anything new but what it does do, it does very well because the game has refined every aspect of itself based on the developer's experiences up to this point. Jaded players might find it a bit lacking but newer players should definitely enjoy this.
Play Limbus Company, I promise you will have a great time. Even the gacha is generous with odds and currency. Heck, you don't even have to gacha, you can grind for characters you want. Plus no Constellation/Duplicate upgrade bullshit.
U can try Epic 7, its turn based, anime style, grind too, like honkai and genshin, but E7 is here longer then both of these games, u have there pvp , guilds , guild wars, 4 characters in team, 3 skills on all of them, rly good for starter players, and more :)
Every other gacha: The gacha is shit, but this thing is good which makes the overall experience pretty good FGO: The gacha is shit therefore I hate this trash for less meme, FGO's gacha is really not that terrible when compared to Genshin and Star Rail, at least from my experience. Also yea there are a lot of saber faces but ummmm Honkai has like a shitton of units all being different versions of the same 5(?) characters of so, while Genshin has 5 body types, 3 most use, and everything looks very similar in their in-game model, so I don't think having some Saber faces and the rates are fair as a dealbreaker when talking about this game selection. also no word of the story. I would've taken if you waid smt like "I played x singularities and they were all terrible" if you didn't get to the interesting ones, but talking about 2/3 games being essentially carried by story and then not saying a word about FGO story is pretty weird ngl
@@Teabreak-venerate so around 3-4 dupe units per character instead of FGOs 22 Saber faces with 384 total units, but those other characters have at most 2 versions, most don't
@@Teabreak-venerate at least you can get units that work in that game unlike genshin's "ho nooooo I got 6 of the newest 4 starts and the 5 star I got in Dehya/Diluc/Keqing/Klee/Mona etc etc etc" 💀 Also we actually get things for special occasions instead of a fucking drawing on twitter lmao 🤣
@@bombames at least in honkai S ranks guaranteed in just 100 pulls no 50/50, we get like 3 free S ranks per year,A new farmable S rank one, tons of free outfits(at least 1 per patch), tons of free pulls, nice spending events, and old chatacters becomes farmable
I think the reason why HSR didn't click with you is because I think you missed that it's the Culmination of Everything that they had learned in their previous games combined(Aside from Tears of Themis since I don't haven't played that game yet), and the opinion that their Turn Based gameplay is different from the rest is pretty weak imo, I also don't notice alot of Difference aside from a Few Gimmick and a few unique features. Aside from that the other is the Music, Music in Hoyoverse games are some of the best imo especially in both the Honkai games, you've mentioned about AK and Blue's Music but you didn't mention anything about the Hoyo Music which in my own Biased opinion is a Crime 🤣, those 3 game for me are in my Top 3 best Music in Gatcha games specifically and Hoyo games and Arknights are so fucking Close in my Top 1 that I often have a hard time picking but I'm going with my Biases again and so my Top 3 goes like 1. Hoyomix, 2. Arknights and 3. Blue Archive, but aside from that totally Biased spill 🤣 I agree with everything you've said in the Video especially about FGO, that shit was a Nightmare for me. 🤣🤣
Genshin does lack endgame, 50/50, Stingy rewards, Artifacts, and Community (Honestly amazing But it almost has a drama/problem every month or more) But Genshin shines cuz it improves on things you wouldn't think a gacha would, simply said its one of the few gachas that feels more like a Game with a gacha than a Gacha that has a game. Exploration, Lore, World Building, The Elements system, actually feels fully F2P, YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAIN A CHARACTER, one of the best Housing system for a gacha, TCG (I'm serious) and Fan Content Simply said a mediocre gacha, but an amazing Game.
Mid game, bad gacha An honest review from an ar 60 player It's just plain bad. What's the point of maining a character when the character is bland, boring, generic, and lacks personality? The lore is decent, but that's it The world building is fine, but the world is EMPTY Etc..
@@vincdraws4742 Yes but in Genshin it's especially worse because it doesn't even fit in the game. "Wishing" Makes no sense in the world of genshin. It's obviously just added to just make more money.
You need to elaborate more on FGO than only negative on the gacha part, it is actually one of the most f2p game that ever existed where you dont need to rely on 5* to complete contents, there are tons of 3* - 4* star unit that can dominate the meta and yet there is a “win button” every 3 days for those who just want to casually chill and clear the story content and hardcore bosses easily. Its not as grindy as other games where there are random stat gearing mechanic but fixed stat so all your grind efforts aren’t all wasted over getting stronger which is more chill than most repetitive gacha games. This game is top 1 gacha app for a reason
"Random stat gearing" maybe I'm reading this too deeply, but it also applies to genshin, so I'll answer. From what I heard from you, fgo is just a genshin, all the content is passed by the start characters, 5 * just destroy all living things, and 4 * meta characters. You also don't need to invest a penny to get any 5* you just won't be able to get all the characters in the game. So what is the difference between genshin and fgo? And no offense, but where is fgo the top 1 gacha app? Wherever I look, genshin is in the first place 😅 (no offense, please don't get mad) It's funny that apparently one studio makes anime for these two so similar games 🥰
@@iosis9324 fgo had their history being top 1 app way before genshin exist for very long time since it is fate franchise which is a classic brand that really has huge amount of community, had a history getting most tweet than fortnite which triggers the popularity further and random stat gearing dont exist in fgo like genshin does which is more chill that you wont disappoint on the grind over rolling stats you dont want since each units in the game is fixed stat just by grinding level up and skill level materials and the units already fully playable
@@iosis9324 anniversary This was a joke don't come at me Also if you want my opinion on the comparison to fgo and Genshin, I am willing to tell been playing both games since their launches.
@@iosis9324 in genshin cases, it would be artifacts, yes you can clear genshin with the characters and weapons you get for free but the rng involved in artifact farming makes it worse compared to farming materials in FGO to level up a skill at a fixed %
@@iosis9324hey there, I think OP meant something else. Where genshin has 4 star characters, the lowest rarity in fgo is 1 star, technically. The game is balanced in the sense that even 1 star characters have their roles. The best f2p starter farmer is a one star and that one person can carry you into the current content of the game. The best unit in terms of bang for buck is a 3 star and we have a way to level even the 1 stars up to the same level as the 5 stars if we want, though stat wise it's obviously not going to compare to 5 star stats, they need to make money after all. Fgo is pretty high up there not in a gaming sense but rather every so often they shoot up in sales when a new character shows up and they reclaim best grossing and profit based gacha😂. Kinda stupid I know
From my experience playing nikke from day 1 and being a light spender/casual player, the gacha is very generous. There's only a handful of characters I haven't gotten, but if you manage your resources it's quite fair if u ask me. And yeah you might say I'm quite lucky, but the rates of nikke are genuinely good and the pity is universal so that's really nice
As a person who has played almost all of the games in this video, I can confidently express my opinion that Genshin Impact is one of the best games I have ever played. It's not repetitive at all since every update brings you a whole new storyline, and the 3.8 update, which many haters categorise as 'filler' brought one of the best events ever! A WHOLE MAP and an amazing storyline too, with one of the most fun explorations! Definitely recommend to everyone that likes open-world, story-based games and, haters, steer clear. P.S: I can write a lot more about how the game is so amazing, but gotta keep it short :>
@@biazacha As I mentioned, I left out a lot of stuff. And yes, you're right, honestly for me, I've never heard better soundtracks in any game at all, and I'm talking about big AAA games as well. Furthermore, the fact alone that they have literally over 19+ hours of OSTs is absolutely crazy. My heart goes out to the team behind Genshin Impact.
I think most people can agree that just because these games has gacha mechanic, that doesn't make them fall into the same category. For example hoyoverse games, specifically genshin should be played in pc/ps for a full experience. Yes you can play it on mobile but that would reduce the experience of the game, like the exploring and story aspect. Meanwhile a game like fgo is specifically created to be a light mobile game that you could play any moment when you have a free time. Of course fgo would look like trash compared to genshin. It is unfair to compare these 2 games let alone all of the games mentioned because they all have different charm and medium, and of course difference audience. That being said, I mostly agree with you tho
I feel like a possible explanation as to why HSR didn't feel innovative to you, might be because it's more of a sequel to HI3. Tears of Themis, Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero, are all completely stand alone games. HSR on the other, hand is closely connected to HI3, which is why it has similar plot points and even similar characters.
Memes aside tho, FGO is actually the only gacha game that still makes me play. HI3? Uninstalled because of gameplay style. Genshin? Uninstalled because of how badly optimized it is for mobile. Arknights? Nothing really stood out for me. Honkai Star Rail? Playing it for now and I'm really enjoying it so far. The rest didn't even made me feel interest about it
Honkai Star Rail is the real Kiseki/Trails mobile game we English fans never got. Honestly, the gameplay was fine. It's still more manageable than full blown Trails game (mostly because you can needlessly complicate it or if you play on Nightmare). But yeah, the gameplay, character, and lore? It was practically Kiseki in Space, with a little bit of Alicesoft-ish insanity dropped into it.
as a trails fan i agree and disagree with you, mostly because the story is comparative to the cold steel games (which being plain, is the worst of the series in my opinion) and didnt impress me even after reading parts of the lore. Though part of that is how low im expecting of it after my own experience with Genshin and in turn im not expecting much of it.
@@Violetenist I think the main story and character stories are good, but the books and codex are much boring even compared to the worst of Trails. Side quests are a mix bag - some are interesting, others are pretty meh. And I do feel like the daily text message emulates that feeling of characters having life that goes on after you're done with their story.
Others: Hey lets do side scrolling gacha game Mihoyo (2016 pepega budget): we are done with side scrollin, let shall make some Devil May Cry type sh*t.
Try playing Cookie Run: Kingdom. It's a gacha turn based game too and devsis (developer) are really really generous. I'm fully f2p, had been playing for 2 years and still have enough cookies cutter to get the characters i want. Most of the event are really long so even if you missed a day or two it didn't affect anything. Doesn't take too much time to play but, like it's name, it's cookies running a kingdom so there's no fan services, unless if you consider voice is under that category.
I highly recommend to play Azur Lane. It's veeeeery f2p friendly and the EN anniversary is going live in a couple of days. Also the probably biggest event, the JP anniversary, is coming next month and because Azur Lane shares the content between the servers, there is a lot to do in the coming weeks and we will also be granted with many rewards.
I stopped playing Honkai ever since I got a job and small business. I mean the game will literally take your personal time, kinda reminds me of Korean MMOs where the game became your part-time job. When I tried to go back after 2 years I got overwhelmed just like opening your office full of pending workloads to do. So yeah I never get back again and I don't think I could. I do appreciate games that will respect your personal time instead of taking it from you. Although I do agree that would be a great game for people who had nothing else to do.
I still don't understand, its 2023 and Mihoyo still not give player infinite reroll for new player. They very strict about getting 5* character player wanted. Its like "if you want 5* character you want, pay or keep praying". Just tired doing the same activity just to get very little amount of gems to pull. Arknight and some chinese game is very hard to read. Its like rough google translate. Tbh, im tired of sci-fi genre. Almost every chinese gatcha now is about sci-fi. I like fantasy more. Maybe bcuz sci-fi is not relatable for our era since its too modern. If only there is gatcha like Nier, that somehow they can mix sci-fi with fantasy. Traditional swords, modern robot with guns, and still giving player beautiful natural scenary. My current favorite for now is Epic Seven, Brown Dust 2, Outerplane, and probably im gonna reinstall Alchemy Stars. They are the only gatcha i know that make the MC as OP as other 5 star characters which is pretty good and rare to see this in gatcha that usually make the MC as trash as possible and that doesn't make sense since usually in the story the MC is supposedly OP (lore wise).
You seem to be confused. Gacha games are primarily to generate profit, not for consumer enjoyment. Hence why the Free characters are often worse than what you'll get for participating in the Gacha. Also lore is just extra bits tbh. What most people would care about are the combat, and what role they need to fill.
@@aronmigeuldollente8324 im not confused, i played gatcha since 2000s MMO on PC.. im primarly playing for the lore and with other people if there is feature that make it possible.. I never spend a single money on gatcha especially mobile gatcha.. people spend more money on non-permanent skin/item on PC game back then.. (for example some my friend spending over 1k just to get gun skin on CSGO that doesn't give stat or make his character better whatsoever a.k.a pointless spending a.k.a, in their deffense, "emotional support" spending) Lets take an example, Azur Lane for example, doesn't have lore. The main story literally ended just a few stages after the tutorial completed. No continuation. After that i uninstalled the game. Simple as that. And the gameplay also outdated.
@@aronmigeuldollente8324 for me, one of many indicator that important for me when you choose mobile gatcha is the MC. If they make the MC useless 3 star, or just garbage starter character. Then it just money grab and really bad mobile gatcha. Just imagine you played as MC, and the MC is so weak it can't survived the gameplay but in the story it survived and will become stronger and probably the strongest. Does that make sense? Does that feel good? Of course not.
I agree with genshin, I have a really big passion during earlier stage of the game, but now I'm very tired of playing it, I didn't even do the main story for over one year.
One thing that I love from _NIKKE_ which rarely been done on other games (except _Genshin_ and _Honkai Star Rail_ because they use 3d cutscene. _P:GR_ too because they still haven't voiced the cutscene and skit), is that they VOICED the skits, and even in ENGLISH dub. As someone who loves to watch _Tales of_ gameplays, what _NIKKE_ has done makes me happi :)
I have the opposite experience of Genshin because I started very late when sumeru story was already finished. Basically infinite new content I barely had time to worry about artifacts and stuff. I imagine it will only gets better for new comers in the coming years
Having played, all the hoyoverse games to end game like Honkai Star Rail, Honkai Impact, and Genshin, Honkai imapct being my first gacha game all these games are great just grindy asf when you start especially genshin like holy crap it took my a month to full build one character.
honestly by far my favorite part of star rail is it's dialogue. it is quite interesting, along with being very funny at times, its truly the shining light of the game.
In Star rail also there are a lot of same thing with Genshin in character leveling, like the relics and eidolon. Im already tired of that kinda thing, now my gacha game is only Honkai Impact
I've tried all this game except Heavens Burn Red and I have to say all these games have their ups and downs, I am not biased on gameplay, music on most of these games are great. The main issue I have with these games is the ridiculous wall of texts, I am fine with reading but jesus fucking christ, I dont want to read a 20 minutes worth of dialogue just to play the next damn stage/fight. Second issue is the community of these games, its either they are overly parasocial about fictional character or, love referencing their favorite game's character to another game's character, not treating them as their own character ahem -typical genshin players- But heres my top pick. For music it is HI3/Genshin/Blue Archive For story FGO/HI3 For animations HSR/HI3 For Gacha rates Blue Archive/Nikke For community, it sounds dumb but Blue Archive is the best aside from the uwoogh 😭 part. There are also other games but I just cant be bothered to try them out because they are remotely similar to a existing game.
I haven't played Blue Archive enough to know if characters are farmable... As for Arknights, characters are obtained using premium currency, event currency, recruit vouchers and free recruit gacha. (Characters are capped to five dupes. When you receive your sixth dupe u can trade it for gold tickets that can be used to buy a six star) You need 34 pieces of premium currency to pull 10x, or 6000 free grindable currency that you can obtain from weekly annihilation (You are rewarded one piece of premium currency after you 3 star a level)
@AlexanderPerez-nj6zc I wanna try some of them out but I already struggle to keep up with the 2 gacha games that I have. Adding more feels like a bad idea
@@nicholasmogiba6361 I understand what you mean. While the gameplay is intuitive, if you can't afford to spend time learning the nuance of completing every single stage, it is very frustrating. If you do play the game, refer to guides or websites. Take your time to learn which character to pull for and most of all enjoy the game
@@nicholasmogiba6361Arknights in comparison to other gachas doesn’t really ask for commitment. Anything that does is usually just login events and the novel-long stories. So you could be gone for half a year and you won’t feel like you’re left behind (for semi-exception of limited banners)
@@nicholasmogiba6361For Blue Archive. In standard gacha fashion, it has hard stages where you can farm specific characters “elephs.” You’ll need 120 total elephs of said given character to redeem them. This could easily take about 2 maybe even 3 months at most because the drop rate for these elephs is bit of a mixed bag, meaning RNG, you only have 3 chances to farm said hard stage (character specific stage mind you.) a day, you can of course use the games gacha currency, “pyroxenes” to renew your attempts and sweep said hard stages again but again it’s all RNG to obtain those elephs. Other then that…there is characters that you can buy via the raid/pvp shop with the given raid/pvp currency you obtain when participating in those modes.
This isn’t an OG gacha game but one that is based the infamous 7DS. It’s my favourite mobile game. The Gauhati rates are decent and the game is probably the most awarding game I’ve played. Just by doing dailies and logging in every day, you can atleast do 1 full rotation on fest banners and splurge some gems on limited banners of characters you like. The turn based gameplay is amazing and it has some of the greatest card/ult animations I’ve ever seen. It also adapts s3, 4 and 5 better than the anime imo. I recommend checking it out
fun fact: you CAN skip star rail dialogue but only if it's not the first time you see it. (I found this out when I fought Kalfka and lost due to not having a healer on my team but I was able to skip the cutscene and dialogue)
I've played nikke since the game came out. It turned out to be a porn game. As of now it's terrible, they just steal your money, time and dignity so you can look at pretty PNG's. If you ever think about playing this game, don't. And if you already do, please stop.
Your review of Fate Grand Order skips out a lot of details that makes me think you aren't familiar with either the characters story or financial aspects of the game, as this point the base units given to the players is enough to clear the game, the gacha system rework now has it a lot better then before, way more than some on this list even, and the characters that you complained about differ quite significantly, overall a terrible review
Im disappointed about the Nikke review, didn't even talk about the campaign! Such an amazing story complimented with comedic bits sprinkled in, but not being afraid to show the player how much of a dark reality it is.
@spymadmax584 you're not wrong, but I like to believe that even us F2P still enjoys the game for their characters' stories and very well developed cast of characters!
Nice video overall only two gripes that I have is you didn't talk about Genshin OST which was a but sad but also the mention to endgame, that term never made sense to me when talking about Genshin because story wise we are barely over half way in the game so how can there be endgame content?? Yes there is abyss but I would only count that as half endgame (weird I know), because it was made to test out different team compositions and it doesn't really feel like it's part of the end of the game, just a hard mode. Rant over you should try FEH and Pokemon Masters and review them
when he says Nikke is a porn game I feel that. the boss fight and story sometimes slaps though fgo thought, the story side was one of the best but everything else was bad. as end game user that only do 2 gssr definitely not recommended for a new player
I dont know what to say, I only play 1 game, I don't know how some people can play so much games to the point they can judge and compares all of them (not that I've a problem with that, just wondering, ) but they often forget that the term *'fun'* is subjective, no need to force and attack someone just because you have different opinion with them, (I was talking about people on the comment section btw,)
In defense of Honkai: Star Rail having a similar UI to Genshin, it gives a sense of familiar to some new players, as Hoyoverse likely knows that a lot of people that play genshin will try out Star Rail.
Plus, different games having similar UI isnt really new, for example the Soulsborne games, they have pretty much the same UI but I've never really seen anyone complain about them.
Even with all the similarities to genshin (the loading screen, main game ui, the teleport system, which by all means genshin didn't invent, the gacha and many more) for someone like me who worked genshin since the beginning of the job, I can't call it playing or a game anymore, HSR felt very much like a new game, a new experience, new characters, new story, new places and views to explore, it's tangents to hi3, the comedic relief, the QoL improvements. I've never felt more refreshed in a while.
There is no strict comparison between the two, since they are different genres of games, but star rail got me hooked right now.
Almost makes me forget my pain farming for genshin for 2 years straight.
Cuz ppl who complains about having same UI are rtarded af End of story.
@@AromaticViolet I have to admit that the characters are shallow, but for someone like me who isn't bothered by that, I quite like the characters that we get to meet and play as, and the fact that the game also sprinkles some lighthearted jokes now and then.
@@cezarsoba Curious which characters you guys consider as shallow? The Landaus companion quest was really well-written and fleshed out the siblings so much. Almost all of the Belobog companion quests were character-driven and with the main quest with Bronya and Seele, we focused on each of the characters there a lot. I can agree with the maybe the Xianzhou chars but it's not right to judge it yet when we are not done with its arc yet. Like with Jing Yuan. Only after the 1.2 quest that you see more of him in the story.
The UI may not look original but it still looks nice. But the gameplay itself is so boring for me, I really tried to like the game but man it was so boring even if it has a unique turn-based gameplay.
In FGO: "I already uninstalled it"
As someone that has been in the FGO JP as a Gachawhore for 5 entire years...
FGO made me realise that I'm a masochist... Can't stop playing.... Still an F2P after 5 years... Who knows what will happen next.
Wow. Salute to you, soldier.
Meanwhile, me already play for 8 years and still unable to stop playing FGO. Everytime I want to stop playing they just shove my favorite character and it keep repeating until now🤣
I uninstalled FGO around 2 years ago My brother after playing it for 3 years. And i literally got a job within those 2 years, after getting no job before it. I just realized now how big my life is after i uninstalled FGO
So... Was the anni your last straw or?
AHahahha
Honkai Impact's appeal is definitely in its story. It starts really rough but figures itself out and becomes an amazing piece of art and imo is the best story they've created yet. Some events are really fun and enjoyable with stories woven into them, but most of the time its a battle simulator and while its not BAD, its repetitive at some point and tiring. Such as Chip Space, it sucks. Honkai Impact though is getting an engine update that will probably change the game completely, as the game engine is really showing its age now.
Star Rail is good right now. It's such a polished product that I have yet to find one BIG complaint about it. Its just really good. Dunno about Genshin, quit around a year ago.
But, I think all the Hoyo games are good. In one way or another, they outshine one another and are all games which are great.
Chip space is already removed tho and it isn't something people cared much about, they are still testing new game modes and content to give pri arm mats more and chip space was one such experiment. Engine update is far away, possibly a year. And in my personal opinion it might make hi3 lose it's identity as some footage showed it may become fully open world instead of the confined modes like apho, but still I'm looking forward to it nevertheless
Yeah no, good story but making it open world ruined it.
@@kurogane1594 I dont think it will become fully open world. I just think it is like the stages we have now with Kolosten the moon etc. I mean it is kind of imposible maiking the whole world open world. How do you put the moon next to the ER next to Barbilon tower. I just think more stages like APHO and maybe rework of older stages.
@@AromaticViolet Part 1.5 definitively is better than the moon ark. I haven’t played chapter 39 yet, but by what I can tell they are building up a new enemy and also go in to the sky people, to build up APHO.
Everyone who says that everything after chapter 25 was utter garbage (Otto ark, ER and moon ark) that I know really likes part 1.5.
@@AromaticViolet i don’t think it is bad, but certain people think that. And I would say 1.5 is really good.
Tbh. Very fair assessment for FGO. If you play it. Don't play it as a gacha game, play it as a visual novel with a sprinkle of stages which you can easily clear with F2P characters (just gonna take a while)
The problem with FGO is that to clear stages with F2P units you need to have them maxed or close to max, and the farming in FGO sucks so much not many people will have the patience to put up with it and, rightfully, spend their time with something else.
@@StellaTheBoymoder you can shit around with skill level grinding with rare prisms. Exp is and will never be a problem unless you play 1 hour a month. And trust me pal. Fgo has it the best for F2P clearing content. Like Arknights? You actually gotta think, and too be honest one of the best ones in terms of just not being a DPS check. (The farming in arknights is also cancerous in my opinion). Blue archive, hard locked by level. Genshin, uhhhh why would you play Genshin for the story? Well it's one of the worst gacha game for straight up low investment playing same with HSR.
@@TrapConnoisseur. The problem is mostly with skill levels and cooldowns, not exp. I have done more than enough low star CQ clears to know that the difference from a 7 turn cooldown evade from a 6 turn one is massive and will cost you many battles.
The problem is that skill leveling sucks, not only you need lores to max stuff you also needs a ridiculous amount of gold gems and materials that you will not be able to get unless you happens to play when a lottery event is happening and have the time to waste doing said lottery.
@@StellaTheBoymoder you're not gonna do CQs with f2p servants. I literally just said play it as a visual novel with some gameplay sprinkled in. CQs is completely optional alongside events in general
@@TrapConnoisseur. I'm sorry, but when I play a game I expect it to have a good gameplay loop that I can have fun with. Saying that FGO can be enjoyed just by the story is just pure copium.
It's clear mihoyo is a revelutionizer in gatcha
You think hmmmm I don’t think so
@@joaquinnevarez2509it is mihoyo is the biggest gacha company in the world
@@joaquinnevarez2509you think hmmm i think like op too
@@xeros672 we somehow is succeeding very slowly but soon it will increase more then you think
@@joaquinnevarez2509lol look at the most popular/most lucrative mobile games , and see the truth.. Mihoyo rules the top..everytime
Arknights stuck to me the instant I found it to be an anime tower defense in an apocalyptic setting. You can find so many themes while playing this game
The music is fantastic. The story is eh in the beginning but event stories are entertaining to read. Note that you can always skip the story
It's always exciting to see how Arknights world continues to expand on the world building of Terra's inhabitants. From exploring the dense forests of Sargon, to fighting the Mafia of Siracuse and bloodbornesque waifus slay monsters from the depths of the ocean in Stultifera Navis while the OST the golden age will return again plays in the background. I can't find the words to describe the hype when a new event comes out. You would just have to play the game to find out
Still playing AK til this day. I got back into it during the invitation to wine event but sadly missed the r6 collab 😭 you don’t understand how much I regret that
@@sushiwooshi3965 Don't worry about it too much. I can understand it is frustrating for collectors but Ash is the only "strong" operator out of the collab units and you can always borrow her from support if you want to try her out. Just make sure you don't miss the upcoming Monster Hunter collab.
@@sushiwooshi3965 It happens. I had to take a break from Arknights for about six months and came back during the Kazimerz event. I missed plenty of events but now I'm catching up but by bit
For me, I feel like there is a weird connection between Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Even though the core mechanic is different, the game still looks kinda similar. The thing is, some problems that Genshin has, don't exist in Star Rail, and vice versa.
I loved how Star Rail has so much better user experience in terms of doing your daily tasks and simply navigating through menus. The interaction with the world (I mean the trash can, street lamps, etc.) is so much fun. The town feels so much livelier than Genshin even though you can only do so much in this type of game. The dialogues are so much more interesting, and in some cases felt like our choice matters, unlike the weird dialogue choices in Genshin.
However, in terms of actual play of the game, Genshin naturally takes the crown in my heart. The thrill of exploration and finding places where the scenery looks beautiful are the things that Star Rail just can't replicate. It's not like the world and scenery in Star Rail sucks, but I believe it's because of how the game and its map exploration works that I don't notice much of the background there.
I love both games but each is problematic in its own way. I really wish that hoyoverse would just integrate the goods of their games to each other.
I also feel the same and I feel like the events are similar to genshins.I think Honkai star rail will end up in like genshin where there is nothing to do after you completed everything.The daily’s and weekly’s don’t feel that much different than genshins.They both feel like a chore.The storytelling in Honkai star is better than genshins but the medicine thing was a little weird.They both feel similar but Honkai star does something better than genshin and genshin does something’s better than Honkai star rail
@@pipeywastaken876 I think both the daily's and weekly's are way better and very different in HSR compared to Genshin for sure cuz u can just choose autoplay and do something else while the Ai does all the work for u so it really isn't that big of a chore compared to Genshin.
@@pradyumnavarma3542it's auto play but still it'll get repetitive like genshin quickly
They announced that they will change daily's in Genshin for better way
- Fun fact : in the end of aranara quest you will have too choose between killing alphonso or let him free. What ever you choose he will died, but if you choose to free him, he will get killed and eaten by riffhound, basically a brutal death, i choose to let him free and when i read the final message he leave before he died, it gave me chill.
Bro the disrespect for FGO is unbelievable 🗿 we got top tier story with massive worlds building and all you mention is the bad gacha rates ( i mean, it's the truth, but that's not everything that's to it)
It's funny since mihoyo tried their best to balance all characters that they give in any game through artifacts or stigmata, but people had an issue of that in every single game.
It's funny since people said it's pain to gacha for stigmata as well, so when they introduced artifact grinding so that everyone can have a chance to get proper artifacts, people still had issues.
It's not like hi3 isn't any different,instead of stigmata, now you're grinding the material to make those stigmata, nothing different.
But the only and major difference is that the resin at least be stored in hi3,and now they're implementing that in hsr
a shame that g3 and g4 stigmas take nearly a year or more to farm
As a fgo player on both global and jp, i wish you would mention the story. It's kinda mid until E Pluribus Unum but after that Nasu took over the writing and it became godly. If you're willing to grind through the first part (which if you rush and skip the story may take maybe 2 or 3 days) the experience is worth it.
Good and old "it gets good after xyz"
@@alsparkproductions7849 look theres a valid reason this time
@@alsparkproductions7849 if it's bad it will never get an anime adaptation.
@@alsparkproductions7849except for FGO it is, after nasu took over the story became more fleshed. Sure the gameplay may be a bit repetitive at times but it does have a charm to it
@@alsparkproductions7849 yeah but its the truth
If you want a different turn-based game that feels nostalgic at the same time, play Another Eden. It's by the creator of Chrono Trigger, and the story is kinda similar. Very entertaining, the battles are really good because you can save your last move or just choose to reset every turn to the regular attack (that doesn't consume MP).
Finally, someone said it
Was kinda disappointed in the end when u talked abt nikke. Cause their story is really good. Infact people were surprised that their is even a story but damn its good.
Dorothy's JP voice actor killed it in her event
Honkai Impact 3rd has, by far, the best Story in my Opinion.
I wouldn't be surprised if it became an actual anime considering the shorts they put out are literally better then most Anime produced and carry so much emotional weight with them that i can't help but just cry at half of them.
Kiana becoming Herscher of Void still gives me the chills to this day.
Both Honkai games have some of the greatest stories ever
Absolutely this. Everyone though the Flamechasers was going to be absolutely terrible at the start since they introduced 13 new characters after everyone's already bonded with the St. Freya gang for like 5 years so no one would feel any connection to them. Lo and behold, not even a year after we're introduced to them everyone is saying glory to the 13 and bawling their eyes out when we saw Elysia's fight in Because of You.
That is god-tier story telling right there and I fucking love Honkai because of it.
Glory to the 13.
Na it aint
PGR, guardian tales, arknights, fgo
Have MUCH better stories, it's not even a competition
Not saying hi3 story is bad or anything, it's good, but like
Nowhere even NEAR the best among othee gacha games
@@Mehieddin7yeah FGO’s Lostbelt 6 is an actual masterpiece
_Genshin_ 's focus is certainly the exploration. Because of all the RNG everywhere, and the lack of a challenge once you get certain characters, it is my least favourite of Mihoyo's games. At least _Honkai: Star Rail_ doesn't have quite as much RNG, but I still winced when I saw we were dealing with a total of 6 relics per set. At least the story and characters so far are enjoyable. And we get another version of Himeko before the Archon Murata shows up in _Genshin_ . My favourite right now, though, is certainly _Honkai Impact 3rd_ , with the lowest RNG, generous rewards and gacha, great characterization and story, and of course, the music. There is no convincing me Mihoyo is _not_ a music-producing company that does games on the side, even if they did revolutionize gacha gaming.
I also played _Counter-Side_ for a bit to check it out, but quickly got bored. It's also the reason I never bothered with _NIKKE_ .
Say that to Hypergyph that making AK. Actual music company
I'd say genshin's main thing is story, but exploration and combat to compliment it from time to time
Counter-side was actually really fun while it lasted. I'll be real, the RTA PvP was absolutely freaking addicting and possibly one of the most fun PvP experiences I've had in any gacha game.
And then New Origins happened and everything turned to shit literally overnight. Even disregarding the fact that they basically shafted F2P and low spenders as hard as they can, the fact that they merged the NA server into the KR server despite the fact that the KR server has access to collab units that NA could not obtain and then allowed the collab units to be used in PvP. This was all on top of the fact that B-Side literally stated before the New Origins update that "nope, the PvP queues will be separate for NA and KR so KR can't use the collab units on the NA people".
Some people might ask if NA had any collabs that KR didn't get since if both sides had unobtainable characters things would even out and the answer to that was yes, NA did have a collab that KR did not have and it was the only collab we had at the time. However, that collab was for the Vtuber gacha game and it was skins only with no new characters which was not the case for the KR collabs. Oh and before I forget, the stupid collab was actually set to rerun sometime soon after I quit so KR should already have access to the collab skins as well by now.
B-Side has been the only gaming company in my decades of gaming to make me ever wonder if Nexon was actually the good guys since B-Side pre-leaving Nexon was doing an absolutely fantastic job of managing the game and the moment they left Nexon the dropped the New Origins update and fucked everything up.
RNG is less in star rail, say that to my E1 welt
@@hongfeiwei2710 rng less in star rail. Say that to no Energy regen chain after few weeks
I played Arknights for almost 3 years now as an f2p, started in the Stories of the Afternoon event, I have an entire art gallery's worth of maxed 6* and I could say for a fact that grinding for materials never ends as long as you get new operators.
> Gameplay-wise it is pretty simple but has the potential to be very complex. It can be easy as killing enemies in a choke point, to planning out an entire operator rotation to deal with a boss with multiple phases along with the peons.
For me, I like the casualness of farming easy stages, but also the challenge the extremely hard content the game provides me, since I have lots of the best operators in the game, I breeze through every event, but of course every now and again I get stumped and actually have to think.
(If you are stuck in a particular level, there are tutorials for each level here using low-end units)
> The Gacha is pretty forgiving, you get your 6* at around 50-60 pulls, and in a lot of the limited banners they give everyone a free 10 pulls as well as free 1 pull everyday up until the banner ends. Every now and then they give out free event 5* but sometimes when a major event comes around, they give you a free 6* along with their potentials (stats increase and talent upgrades when you get dupes)
It is also pretty easy to save up Orundum which you get from annihilations, dailies, maintenance compensation, events associated with limited banners, and Originite Prime (there are probably more but I forgor).
> Originite Prime is your premium currency and it is incredibly abundant in this game. You get them as long as you finish a stage without losing a life. There are about 12 main story episodes, Intermezzis (past major events), Side stories (also past events), these are ever increasing so I don't worry about running out of OP anytime soon.
For f2p players that are just starting out, they can use OP to restore stamina to farm more, but oftentimes for whales and sometimes even f2p players in the very endgame, they save and use OP for banner pulls.
> When it comes to the operators, I absolutely love how they all look, every operator 4* - 6* have 2 arts, (the base art and the E2 art.) E2 art is more flashier and in the case of limited operators, it makes their art go from static base art into live 2d art which is really cool to see.
Skins are also really well made, even as an f2p I have a lot of skins because of the abundance of OP the stages give every new event.
When it comes to operators, most operators are viable and can be used, (yes even the low rarity ones). While I wouldn't say, waifu over meta, you definitely need to have a balanced lineup with really effective operators first, before you go on forfeiting everything on a specific 5* character, (but if your waifu IS meta, then why not? go ahead :) )
> Events and the story are really well fleshed out, but I'm not really the type to read as a hobby so this praise doesn't really hold that much merit, but I have read event stories and the main story a couple times here and there.
My personal favorite storyline was the Near Light event, because it had the main story, a couple of unlockable news articles about the main story, diary entries of an operator who attended in the setting of the event, and piecing the story together was really fun for me.
> When it comes to talking about Arknights, it would be a sin to not talk about the music. They dabble in a lot of genres, from heavy metal to classical music, (I believe every 6* has a theme associated to them)
I, for one, was not aware that AK had such OSTs up until I was reading risks in the event lobby of Contingency Contract #1 and suddenly the lobby theme dropped on me like a load of bricks, ever since then I was really updated on new music and themes.
> Overall, there a lot more I want to say about Arknights that I can't put into words, it is one of the reasons why I wanted to pursue art as a lifelong occupation. Will I continue 5 years and even 10 years into the future from now? As long as the developers keep their edge in making the game in the quality they always have created it, of course I would still play. While I have my own criticisms of the game, (some alter operators, powercreep, 300 pull spark system) I will continue playing the game as I enjoyed playing it for years now.
(sorry for the long comment, I really enjoy the game)
"Ständchen" is my favorite song! you could say it's a neo-classical progressive metal, i don't know, whatever, it's cool
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Yes, Hypergryph truly is a Music Company.
I love turn based combat! Its so much more relaxing! My heart has never been healthier after playing Honkai Star Rail :D
I know you said to take this video with a grain of salt, but man did you do FGO dirty. I have only played 3 Gacha games for a long time: Arknights, FGO and Genshin. Out of those 3 FGO has the best story, hands down, and it's sad to see so many people just hate on it. And it definitely doesn't have the worst gacha system, that title goes to Genshin. You complained that the game is too expensive or that enemy mechanics can be BS, but the game is actually quite easy if you understand the mechanics. You can beat the entire game with just F2P characters no problem. The game definitely has many issues that other games don't have, but there is a reason why so many people are still loyal to it.
No hate on the video, just wanted to say my opinion.
aight, genshin gacha being worse than fgo is cap as fuck but I agree with everything else. Also this mf yoink ch 10 ORT fight to back his point at how "unfair" the boss is in this game, I fucking can't.
You can't just talk about having "the same character but in different classes" and then show characters that might look similar but are completely different characters, some having characterization and story strong enough to rival the original story
Like, there were literally 5 or 6 artorias you could've picked that would make me go "yeah, thats a lot of artorias"
Pure F2P on FGO JP and NA ever since 2018. I don't mind the terrible gacha rates since the content is clearable with lower rarity regardless of difficulty in the end game, unlike some other games... (especially NIKKE and GBF). Basically don't treat it as a waifu collection game because it's impossible (unless you're Airmong or Touhousniper98) and the main hook in this game is story. Wish you gave it a more in-depth review, just like the others.
Yes but clearing every stage with cu, para, xifu is so goddamn boring
@@pondypoohonako green does low rarity servant clear videos and doesn't always use the same characters, so you can prob get some variety specially if you're not restraining yourself to not use 4* and 5*
(And isn't Paracelsus bad for hard quests with his long ass cooldowns?)
@@pondypoo you could say that to evrything in the list
Genshin: national comp
HSR+HI3: meta slave
@@Gnolte Why would you use Paracelsus in CQs & Story boss fights. He's like a C tier budget farming support
@@JackWasntGone that's what I was what I was thinking
It's so funny to me how the only thing you mentioned for FGO is the gacha and completely ignored the other aspects. If you don't mind me asking, when did you quit playing? I do agree that the gacha is terrible but the story is so good that I'm just hooked.
Because "FGO wrost gacha look at those rates and no pity hehehe" despite the game having better rates than Genshin and a pity.
And since he skipped the story in Genshin then no way in hell did re read FGO's story.
4:40 grind in arknights is super tedious, but it does get better later on as stages consume more sanity per run and you dont level up as often or ever again. I actually started using an autoclicker on my new alt since i need to do the same stages SO. MANY. TIMES. OVER AND OVER.
Forget story, 1-7 IS the engame
@@Jyxero not really. It's not worth it unless you're hellbent on sparking an operator for the completely abysmal 300 pulls cost and stopping your operator building for the entire time you're farming orundum. Can't even farm orundum during events either since the event system is so bad (can't farm anything but event stages since they're the only ones that drop event shop currency, which that and the stage material drops are extremely better and efficient to farm.
Bro talk about how the character in fgo are copy paste of saber while in honkai there are literally like 10 variations of many same characters.
The gacha rate might be bad but getting only one doesn’t lock the character skill behind getting dupes like other games(e.g. hutao c1 make her not use stamina while using skill). just only having slightly weaker np damage.
F2p characters is also good.
Oh yeah, I just figured it out as well. Why haven't I noticed it right away 😅. And also, your point makes a lot of sense with the duplicate character's stuff. I think my review is not deep enough in explanation and comparison for some stuff. I will keep these in mind in the future. Thanks.
And welp, maybe I got fed too many gacha games too in these past few months.
But it makes sense having 3+ variations of the characters, it’s called battle suits. During the story, lot of things happen and characters gain new powers etc. And even with that, hoyoverse upload new playable characters so no
@@Guan968 Most of the hoyoverse games has similar characters base model with changes in hair style and costume. Compare it to fgo which people like to crap on for having many saber but actually having hundreds of servants more with different and unique model.
Saber having different version also make sense, saber lily, artoria lancer, artoria caster are all different timeline of saber which make sense because the story of fgo is going into singularity and lostbelt which is like alternate history.
Mihoyo and their designs are legitimately terrible. Every character tends to be overdesigned but somehow manages to end up boring, nothing breaks the general character formula or the same template models they use. Genshin surprisingly had some great examples but HSR is a disaster so far. FGO on the other hand has pretty diverse and distinct character designs. We can all point to specific servant art and laugh, but characters in FGO are often very different and aren't just the same generic anime girl/male/potato with varying hair color/style/bust size. The un-homogenized art direction of fgo is one of it's strengths that I believe is often overlooked. It's a hit or miss yes, but I vastly prefer it over a generic homogenized one. You might get some really terrible art but would you really trade occasional bad duds in exchange for a style that might as well be AI generated?
Well, you clearly haven't played Honkai then, if you have such an awful take. In Honkai Impact, other variants are battlesuits, that show character's growth from the story. They still are the same characters.
There are some alternative dimension characters that look like main cast tho. But usually there is no more than 1 for each.
In FGO it is complete opposite, there are a lot of different dimension characters with alternatives who got summer variant.
If you want to bash Hoyo, bash Star Rail and Genshin, where they use the same 3-4 models so it looks like reskin lmao.
I've stopped playing Hoyoverse games honestly, because they've become stale. I can see the budget though, especially for Honkai: Star Rail. Hoyo-Mix does very great tracks, though.
My most favorite gacha right now, though, is Punishing: Gray Raven.
i was wondering where PGR is on this video
Yeah, PGR is amazing. Both it and HI3 are my favorite gacha games rn.
@@AI7428Same
@@AI7428 Yeah same. I just like their fast-paced combat, QTE system, and story
Star Rail is really fun though. It basically fixes the issues I had with genshin, dailies and the grind takes no time at all. Story is surprisingly fun despite the simplicity, and the combat system is fun to play around with. Only issue I have right now is how expensive it is to upgrade traces.
So here's my rundown of the gachas I tried thou some might not be super accurate:
FGO - Love their servants. Drop rates are a lie. Story picks up on Camelot towards Lostbelt. Turn-based gameplay is fine but feels outdated. Okita, Ryougi, Scathach are my jam. Samurai Remnant game soon.
Arknights - Banger music. Skins are classy. Drop rates are generous. Dark story just like FGO's but could be all over the place at times. Tower defense gameplay that needs big brain & probably guides. Angelina, Blue Poison, Mudrock are my jam. Season 2 anime confirmed.
Azur Lane - Good lord their kansens & skins are ungodly. Drop rates are super generous. Story has historical cues, & could get dark at times. Bullet hell gameplay as usual. Pretty much a waifu/kansen collector game. Iron Blood & Royal Navy Supremacy. Queen E OVA soon.
Priconne - Characters feels so moe & bubbly for some reason. Gameplay def feels outdated & fleet arrangement dictates your game. Drop rates are generous. Story is definitely not as dark as FGO & Arknights. Makoto, Jun & Christina are my jam. Definitely a waifu collector game.
GBF - Havent tried it for too long to understand the story. Their skins are definitely nice. You might as well be a farmer with this game. Gameplay & UI definitely feels medieval. Grea enjoyer here. GBF Relink EN soon.
GFL - Skins nearly as good as the ones in Azur Lane but I hate their skin gacha ffs. Drop rates are generous. Great lore, story has depth & has good character development. Bullet hell gameplay that is outdated yet has that tactical feel to it. Pretty much a waifu/raifu collector game. Heckler & Koch Supremacy.
Idolm@ster Shiny Colors - Story focuses on the idol's journey & their personalities. Drop rates are generous. Gameplay is strategic but for the most part, meh. Also, Oshi No Ko collab is still accessible. Sakuya, Chiyuki, Natsuha are my jam. 2024 anime soon.
Idolm@ster Starlight Stage - Story focuses on the idol's journey & their personalities. Drop rates are slightly less generous than Shinym@s. Rhythm-focused gameplay but with 3D model. Kaede, Ranko & Rin are my jam.
PGR - Same dystopic appeal as NieR Automata but the story is all over the place but has good lore. Hack & slash gameplay is fine, it is well-optimized & has sharp graphics. Drop rates are super generous. Vera & Bianca are my jam. Wuthering Waves when?
HI3rd - Good lore, story has depth with hints of EVA & good character development. Hack & slash gameplay is fine & the colors pop much more than the subtle colors of PGR. Drop rates are generous. Skins look good too. Elysia, Bronie, Fu Hua & Sushang are my jam. HI3rd needs an anime (not that cooking show).
HSR - Story-wise, it is still picking up pace & has good lore. Turn-based gameplay is fine but doesn't feel outdated as FGO's & has good ult animation. Drop rates are not that generous. Lots of easter eggs & meme references. Kafka & Jing Liu pls come home. Skins when?
Haven't tried Blue Archive, NIKKE & Aether Gazer. Not interested in Genshin.
Autoplay in HSR, GFL, Azur Lane & Arknights are a godsend.
Try BA its really good~
Leakers say that 1 skin we get will be March 7 but it's questionable
Blue Poison enjoyers W
HI3rd
Wouldn't call drop rates in HI3rd generous, considering you need a character, their full stigmata set and their unique weapon, to be useful. Not to mention that rank upgrade for character can give you a very strong boost.
FGO
Not only outdated gameplay, but also outdated UI and poor optimization. In general don't see the budget going back into the game nowadays.
Arknights
Good story, but bad pacing with walls of unnecessary text (just like HI3rd tbh, CN writers moment, I guess). See a lot of love and appreciation going back to the community from the devs. Music company for a reason.
Blue Archive advertisment incoming:
If you want more lighthearted but still very deep story, try Blue Archive. Funny enough, although the story is heartwarming, it is the only gacha game besides Honkai impact, that made and still makes me cry. And it is THE ONLY ONE that makes me laugh with every event/every new story.
I like the gameplay, but it can be not for everyone.
The characters are amazing, each one has their own mini story that you can read and understand them better.
Music is great as well, has quite some bangers, but imo it's just a standard for good gacha game nowadays.
And cause you mentioned autoplay, BA has something even better called skip. You just need to beat a stage once with 3 star rating and then you can farm it by pressing one button.
Gacha is pretty good as well, not only developers are very generous, but the game has spark system. Basically if you rolled certain amount, you can just buy that character. Sadly it doesn't retain rolled amount between banners, if it did, I would be confident to call it the best gacha system ever. Rates are 3%, every half a year we get a fest banner with boosted rates up to 6%.
Oh, and when you got one copy of SSR, you are basically done, more copies give you stat increase, but instead of pulling more copies, you can just straight up buy fragments of those characters with currency you get from rolling gacha.
@@arthorias06 for me hi3 lore is actually easy to understand if you read the manga and visual novel(need to connect it with in game storyline). Although there are some mistranslations,it's not as bad as Ggz (ggz lore still lit though)
Honkai impact 3rd is one of those games I'd download every 2 months or sum just to check-in on my acc and not be too far behind, like its nice when u see all the things you grinded your soul out actually doing dmg with copium weapons but it is what it is
also yes the story is goooood just pay attention and you'll understand
If you want fast paced gacha game that has a lot of puzzles and has a good story while you suffer from the difficulty and some parts of the story the game I recommend for you is guardian tales and it is underrated like literally
Guardian Tales is a masterpiece. But why did nobody warn me of what the story evolves into?
@@rudatkatzn9171 who doesn't like a nice and wholesome story?
@@ksir119 Yeah, Nice and *wholesome*
@@Sam-je2xj then don't believe it
@@ksir119 haha I was talking about the wholesome and nice part, surely the story will have a darker turn
As a person who like grinding, i like Nikke more for resource grinding because this is easier for me to get a lot of resources.
you can get a lot of resources and xp depend on your outpost defense level which is you have to play the story mode as far as you can go. I like this outpost defense system.
Ooh ! Personally, I like Genshin a lot, yeah, despite the fact that getting good artifacts takes a lot of time, I appreciate the story, the character design and the music. Exploration ? Even if it's looong, as a player since October 2020, I really love to walk in Teyvat.
Gacha ? Yeah rip when you lose the 50/50, but you can still get the character after, and don't worry, I got Venti one year after his release. Some world quests are so long but...well, if you manage your primogems and resources well, you can end up getting what you want. It was one of my first RPG game, I'm not disappointed. But it would be nice to have more primogems-and free skins(haha).
Arknights : I was afraid I wouldn't pass the levels, but with practice, you get used to it. The character design is beautiful, and with 3-4 stars, you can pass any level (well, it depends, but overall, yes). The music : very very good, same for story. English is not my native language, and thanks to Arknights, I improved my English ! The gacha ? Well, I got characters I love, I'm happy with my operators !
As a f2p player, I'm happy to buy outfits of my favorites operators without having to pay (not like Genshin haha).
And they are generous for rewards (anniversary content, tickets to get free orundums). And it's still a game where you can get a free skin (it happened at an event) and an excellent 6* operator (Lumen). YES. Genshin will never do that lol😂
Star Rail ? It's perfect for relaxing at evening, the turn-by-turn combat is cool, and you can do a break when you want to do something else. The story is nice, the gacha ? Well I didn't get Luocha buuuut, I know he'll come back and it's nice to give 10 tickets when a new banner come.
The rest ? (maybe FGO one day if i'm not lazy)Well not my style, honestly, the gacha I suffered the most : Project Sekai. Man, if you really really want a card, you need to save up for months and pray to throw 300 pulls (~60k crystals approximately)and the 4* with his/her costume/hairstyle.
It's a rythm game, so, a little different.
I really wanna play Arknights more but damn the grind is just a chore to do since it takes forever with auto. They already have a system where you can skip annihilation runs which I wish they would add to normal stages.
Yeah i want that too but there are so many people against it cause "it's gonna ruin Arknights 😭😭😭" just play IS or SSS if you wanna something that is not skippable man
@tukangtitipsendal616 Hi, I am one of those people of "its going to ruin Arknights" because it most definitely does. It defeats the entire purpose of auto deploy and each mission, which is why a farming system like PNC or Reversal:1999 would be much better.
@@blazi7560 yeah and thanks to that, my time playing Arknights is like 90% grinding and not having fun, log-in>do daily mission>log-out>repeat i never touch IS3 or SSS and barely touch IS2 because the grinding and i simply have no time to play it, i have work to do irl
@@tukangtitipsendal616 It's like 3 taps each time, don't see the issue honestly as I'm also busy myself.
@@blazi7560 3 taps? You forgot some minutes in between that and a chance to fail the stages because of the speed/tempo of the stages or some other reason
Takt Op got an anime to introduce the game, so you need to try it and there's a yandere characters there, that's a plus points for me hehe
Oh wow, Takt Op mentioned. I tried the game on release and, although it needed some improvements, core game is pretty cool. But I haven't seen anybody talking about it, so I left one month after starting the game. Can't see the future for it sadly, no revenue equals end of service announcement soon. Maybe it is doing better nowadays tho, idk?
I loved his comment on Nikke. Best quote ever "Nikke's meta is; the bouncier the ass the better the character"
genshin exploration is fun but they really started losing me with all the underground stuff in sumeru. hopefully the new underground map brings back the fun of exploration or better yet just make less underground exploration. you nailed arknights on the head. if anyone is thinking of playing, try it.
They're bringing an update to actually only show underground maps, now you can switch between overground and underground map
I actaully like underground exploring!
Also they added underground maps
Blue Archive character stories are pretty fun and you can get attached to them easily
Oh i was expecting a "I came for the PLOT, but stayed for the actual plot" joke when you talked about Nikke since it's what most players would agree on, and the music is such a banger tho.
Although FGO is a hellscape the story is incredibly good.
I love HI3. The story is amazng and its the onlu game thats ever made my cry. I am never bored cause there is always something to do./. I love the charactres./ And there really are free ones, like a lot. Just gotta grind. Sometimes you dont evemn have to if they are asterite characters. Even then they are easy to get. The gacha is a lot more genours and the rewards a lot better. But what I really like, is that you grow with the characters. Sure, you do in every game. But ypu see the mc go through her entire life and it makes you feel like youre with them. Same with the flamechasers, I cried so much during trUE and a lot of their story.
And the fanbase is very wholesome
I totally agree with you
It's like watching a child grow up and become a mature adult
This is also one of the only games that has made me cry more than once.
The Hi3 fan base is probably the best fan base hoyo has, everyone is nice and there's never anything going on, it's just people posting fan art, memes and whatever else they want, you don't get judged for your builds or your team. It's pure fun and that's why I love it
Guardian tales THE BEST gacha mobile game gang
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You should really try "Path to nowhere. "
It,s sound design, UI, Skin , character designs, Story, visuals everything is in a different level compared to most other gancha game. It is also quite mature and dark. Not your typical anime style.
It is really good.
I love honkai star rail for its characters and story ( it keeps getting better ) , the turn base game play isn’t that big but I love how much easier it is to clear content and do dailies. I love the dynamic of the main characters the trio
i just wanna say, genshin and honkai star rail are both story games. so if you skip the voiced story you can't rate them bad in my opinion.
My unrequested thoughts on some of these games
Genshin Impact was my first gacha game and it really surprised me with it's quality. Especially with the world exploration, because holy shit, that's the best part of this game by far. I also like the elemental based combat, I can consistently 36* the abyss so I don't care that much on building new characters unless I think the gameplay is fun. My most hype moments with Genshin is when new areas are added.
I started playing Honkai Impact 3rd because of genshin and it quickly became my favorite MiHoYo game. The story is amazing, fucking love the characters, the music is one of the best and the combat is also pretty good. This game legit lives rent free on my head.
I gave it a try to Honkai: Star rail because of HI3rd. It was tons of fun during the first month but after that it became pretty boring. I'm not really a fan of turn based RPG (Unless it's GBA pokemon at 4x speed). The systems look way too much like genshin, which is good for the familiarity but also may limit them on trying something new. I now only plan to login into this game during story patches, and the only reason I'm still interested is because of the direct connections with HI3rd.
I tried Blue Archive purely because of the characters, I read so many doujinshi of it that I thought I would just give the game a try. The gameplay was way more fun then I was expecting, but I still haven't played enough to judge it's story or the overall feel of the game long term.
You didn't talk about it on the video, but Punishing Gray Raven is also a pretty fun game. I only started playing a month ago when I saw that they had released a PC version. The combat system is pretty fun, it's basically HI3rd combat on steroids, still haven't played a lot of the story to judge it though.
I think the main difference between Genshin and HSR is that HSR is:
-A lot more generous for f2p players, they gave out more free pulls in 4 months than Genshin in 3 years lmao
-The story actually go places and the dialog doesn't stall, Genshin dialog can go for way too long, the story is already miles better than Genshin had up to 1.2
-The farming is not tedious thanks to autoplay and 2x speed
-Has more endgame options compared to Genshin
-The gameplay is speed up considerably and has a lot more QoL
-Archives (some) events
-Doesn't prevent you to continue a quest because of a NPC being "busy" in another quest
the only negative on HSR compared to Genshin is the insane ammount of materials to build a character, and I'd argue that relic farming is actually worse than artifact farming
ye but its easier to get the main stat u want in hsr than in genshin due to the resin model thing at the battle pass once you reach lvl 40
I almost dropped every other gacha game beside FGO, if you don't have a big reason to keep playing them it's hard to justify logging in every day. FGO has probably the best story in this category of games so every negative part about it is ultimately irrelevant to the whole experience.
4:48 to add to this, I'm a F2P arknights player for abour roughly 2 years. I have NEVER spent a single cent on this game and yet I have MOST of the rarest and limited operators in the game (including all of the Rainbow Six siege and Monster Hunter Collab operators). It is VERY generous in giving away the premium currency and its gacha rates, every week they even allow you to farm a fixed amount of the premium currency.
The fact that you skipped over characters as the highlight of HI3, what blasphemy. But I'm happy to see someone else call out Hoyo for copypastinig Genshin Star Rail. After having seen all of their games, I can say with certainty that miHoYo and Hoyoverse are very much differenty entities, and while I adore the former, the latter has been disappointing. HoyoMix is goated in all their projects though.
I was going to review the characters as well but I think I forgot to mention it and focused more on the experience of the game instead lmao
But yeah, thanks for reminding me about that.
arknights objectively has the best music of any gacha
also i think that honkai star rail is a masterpiece and better than genshin
About Genshin, there's a fk huge open world, and some ppl just focus on domains and grinding. That's strangely amazing.
Because the open world is E M P T Y
I'd say the story is the weakest part of Genshin but it excels on pretty much everything else. As for repetitive gameplay, that's kinda the draw or downside depending on the type of player you are. As an old-school gamer, I'm used to repetitive gameplay so it's really not a thing for me and as one of the older players as far as time spent with the game, I already have teams that can make short work of the mob enemies to the point where I can clear the daily commissions, grinding artifacts, and even a bit of farming on the side in roughly 15 minutes (or less if I'm rushing). Which gives me time to do stuff I really want to do like clearing world quests, event missions, or just wandering the landscape which is frankly one of the biggest draws for a former gamer turned part-casual like me.
As for HSR, I say your points are valid but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't do anything new but what it does do, it does very well because the game has refined every aspect of itself based on the developer's experiences up to this point. Jaded players might find it a bit lacking but newer players should definitely enjoy this.
Need some Limbus Company content!
Play Limbus Company, I promise you will have a great time. Even the gacha is generous with odds and currency. Heck, you don't even have to gacha, you can grind for characters you want. Plus no Constellation/Duplicate upgrade bullshit.
nah bro the FGO review was so dirty, why did you even include it if you were gonna be so disingenuous
This, lmao. I know FGO has its problems but come on.
U can try Epic 7, its turn based, anime style, grind too, like honkai and genshin, but E7 is here longer then both of these games, u have there pvp , guilds , guild wars, 4 characters in team, 3 skills on all of them, rly good for starter players, and more :)
Every other gacha: The gacha is shit, but this thing is good which makes the overall experience pretty good
FGO: The gacha is shit therefore I hate this trash
for less meme, FGO's gacha is really not that terrible when compared to Genshin and Star Rail, at least from my experience. Also yea there are a lot of saber faces but ummmm Honkai has like a shitton of units all being different versions of the same 5(?) characters of so, while Genshin has 5 body types, 3 most use, and everything looks very similar in their in-game model, so I don't think having some Saber faces and the rates are fair as a dealbreaker when talking about this game selection.
also no word of the story. I would've taken if you waid smt like "I played x singularities and they were all terrible" if you didn't get to the interesting ones, but talking about 2/3 games being essentially carried by story and then not saying a word about FGO story is pretty weird ngl
There are like 18 characters in honkai and about 70ish battlesuits
@@Teabreak-venerate so around 3-4 dupe units per character instead of FGOs 22 Saber faces with 384 total units, but those other characters have at most 2 versions, most don't
@@bombames 384 total units 💀
@@Teabreak-venerate at least you can get units that work in that game unlike genshin's "ho nooooo I got 6 of the newest 4 starts and the 5 star I got in Dehya/Diluc/Keqing/Klee/Mona etc etc etc" 💀
Also we actually get things for special occasions instead of a fucking drawing on twitter lmao 🤣
@@bombames at least in honkai S ranks guaranteed in just 100 pulls no 50/50, we get like 3 free S ranks per year,A new farmable S rank one, tons of free outfits(at least 1 per patch), tons of free pulls, nice spending events, and old chatacters becomes farmable
I think the reason why HSR didn't click with you is because I think you missed that it's the Culmination of Everything that they had learned in their previous games combined(Aside from Tears of Themis since I don't haven't played that game yet), and the opinion that their Turn Based gameplay is different from the rest is pretty weak imo, I also don't notice alot of Difference aside from a Few Gimmick and a few unique features.
Aside from that the other is the Music, Music in Hoyoverse games are some of the best imo especially in both the Honkai games, you've mentioned about AK and Blue's Music but you didn't mention anything about the Hoyo Music which in my own Biased opinion is a Crime 🤣, those 3 game for me are in my Top 3 best Music in Gatcha games specifically and Hoyo games and Arknights are so fucking Close in my Top 1 that I often have a hard time picking but I'm going with my Biases again and so my Top 3 goes like 1. Hoyomix, 2. Arknights and 3. Blue Archive, but aside from that totally Biased spill 🤣 I agree with everything you've said in the Video especially about FGO, that shit was a Nightmare for me. 🤣🤣
Genshin does lack endgame, 50/50, Stingy rewards, Artifacts, and Community (Honestly amazing But it almost has a drama/problem every month or more)
But Genshin shines cuz it improves on things you wouldn't think a gacha would, simply said its one of the few gachas that feels more like a Game with a gacha than a Gacha that has a game. Exploration, Lore, World Building, The Elements system, actually feels fully F2P, YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAIN A CHARACTER, one of the best Housing system for a gacha, TCG (I'm serious) and Fan Content
Simply said a mediocre gacha, but an amazing Game.
It's an amazing game honestly, but it's not a good "gacha" game, which is fine since genshin is more than "just a gacha game"
Genshin would have been better without any gacha.
@@aizeroth8858 any gacha would be better without the gacha
Mid game, bad gacha
An honest review from an ar 60 player
It's just plain bad.
What's the point of maining a character when the character is bland, boring, generic, and lacks personality?
The lore is decent, but that's it
The world building is fine, but the world is EMPTY
Etc..
@@vincdraws4742 Yes but in Genshin it's especially worse because it doesn't even fit in the game. "Wishing" Makes no sense in the world of genshin. It's obviously just added to just make more money.
You need to elaborate more on FGO than only negative on the gacha part, it is actually one of the most f2p game that ever existed where you dont need to rely on 5* to complete contents, there are tons of 3* - 4* star unit that can dominate the meta and yet there is a “win button” every 3 days for those who just want to casually chill and clear the story content and hardcore bosses easily. Its not as grindy as other games where there are random stat gearing mechanic but fixed stat so all your grind efforts aren’t all wasted over getting stronger which is more chill than most repetitive gacha games. This game is top 1 gacha app for a reason
"Random stat gearing" maybe I'm reading this too deeply, but it also applies to genshin, so I'll answer. From what I heard from you, fgo is just a genshin, all the content is passed by the start characters, 5 * just destroy all living things, and 4 * meta characters. You also don't need to invest a penny to get any 5* you just won't be able to get all the characters in the game. So what is the difference between genshin and fgo?
And no offense, but where is fgo the top 1 gacha app? Wherever I look, genshin is in the first place 😅 (no offense, please don't get mad)
It's funny that apparently one studio makes anime for these two so similar games 🥰
@@iosis9324 fgo had their history being top 1 app way before genshin exist for very long time since it is fate franchise which is a classic brand that really has huge amount of community, had a history getting most tweet than fortnite which triggers the popularity further and random stat gearing dont exist in fgo like genshin does which is more chill that you wont disappoint on the grind over rolling stats you dont want since each units in the game is fixed stat just by grinding level up and skill level materials and the units already fully playable
@@iosis9324 anniversary
This was a joke don't come at me
Also if you want my opinion on the comparison to fgo and Genshin, I am willing to tell been playing both games since their launches.
@@iosis9324 in genshin cases, it would be artifacts, yes you can clear genshin with the characters and weapons you get for free but the rng involved in artifact farming makes it worse compared to farming materials in FGO to level up a skill at a fixed %
@@iosis9324hey there, I think OP meant something else. Where genshin has 4 star characters, the lowest rarity in fgo is 1 star, technically. The game is balanced in the sense that even 1 star characters have their roles. The best f2p starter farmer is a one star and that one person can carry you into the current content of the game. The best unit in terms of bang for buck is a 3 star and we have a way to level even the 1 stars up to the same level as the 5 stars if we want, though stat wise it's obviously not going to compare to 5 star stats, they need to make money after all.
Fgo is pretty high up there not in a gaming sense but rather every so often they shoot up in sales when a new character shows up and they reclaim best grossing and profit based gacha😂. Kinda stupid I know
From my experience playing nikke from day 1 and being a light spender/casual player, the gacha is very generous. There's only a handful of characters I haven't gotten, but if you manage your resources it's quite fair if u ask me. And yeah you might say I'm quite lucky, but the rates of nikke are genuinely good and the pity is universal so that's really nice
As a person who has played almost all of the games in this video, I can confidently express my opinion that Genshin Impact is one of the best games I have ever played. It's not repetitive at all since every update brings you a whole new storyline, and the 3.8 update, which many haters categorise as 'filler' brought one of the best events ever! A WHOLE MAP and an amazing storyline too, with one of the most fun explorations! Definitely recommend to everyone that likes open-world, story-based games and, haters, steer clear.
P.S: I can write a lot more about how the game is so amazing, but gotta keep it short :>
The fact that he didn’t mention Genshin OST when is arguably one of if not the best gacha soundtrack I ever heard…
@@biazacha As I mentioned, I left out a lot of stuff. And yes, you're right, honestly for me, I've never heard better soundtracks in any game at all, and I'm talking about big AAA games as well. Furthermore, the fact alone that they have literally over 19+ hours of OSTs is absolutely crazy. My heart goes out to the team behind Genshin Impact.
funny that you categorise the people that did not like the game "haters" which goes to show that target audience of this pos game 😂
@@revivemefellas9637 when did I do that? You seem to have a habit of making things up.
I don't know what you're talking about Honkai has given me better luck than genshin ever would.
Are you drunk, dude? The only games developed by MihoYo in the list are Honkai, Genshin and Star Rail
I think most people can agree that just because these games has gacha mechanic, that doesn't make them fall into the same category. For example hoyoverse games, specifically genshin should be played in pc/ps for a full experience. Yes you can play it on mobile but that would reduce the experience of the game, like the exploring and story aspect. Meanwhile a game like fgo is specifically created to be a light mobile game that you could play any moment when you have a free time. Of course fgo would look like trash compared to genshin. It is unfair to compare these 2 games let alone all of the games mentioned because they all have different charm and medium, and of course difference audience. That being said, I mostly agree with you tho
I feel like a possible explanation as to why HSR didn't feel innovative to you, might be because it's more of a sequel to HI3. Tears of Themis, Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero, are all completely stand alone games. HSR on the other, hand is closely connected to HI3, which is why it has similar plot points and even similar characters.
Memes aside tho, FGO is actually the only gacha game that still makes me play. HI3? Uninstalled because of gameplay style. Genshin? Uninstalled because of how badly optimized it is for mobile. Arknights? Nothing really stood out for me. Honkai Star Rail? Playing it for now and I'm really enjoying it so far. The rest didn't even made me feel interest about it
Basically you're a turn-based enjoyer seeing as you stuck with FGO and HSR
@@rovinteyvat4706If you're enjoying gameplay in HSR, you probably haven't played a single decent turn-based game in your life
Honkai Star Rail is the real Kiseki/Trails mobile game we English fans never got. Honestly, the gameplay was fine. It's still more manageable than full blown Trails game (mostly because you can needlessly complicate it or if you play on Nightmare). But yeah, the gameplay, character, and lore? It was practically Kiseki in Space, with a little bit of Alicesoft-ish insanity dropped into it.
as a trails fan i agree and disagree with you, mostly because the story is comparative to the cold steel games (which being plain, is the worst of the series in my opinion) and didnt impress me even after reading parts of the lore. Though part of that is how low im expecting of it after my own experience with Genshin and in turn im not expecting much of it.
@@Violetenist I think the main story and character stories are good, but the books and codex are much boring even compared to the worst of Trails. Side quests are a mix bag - some are interesting, others are pretty meh. And I do feel like the daily text message emulates that feeling of characters having life that goes on after you're done with their story.
Others: Hey lets do side scrolling gacha game
Mihoyo (2016 pepega budget): we are done with side scrollin, let shall make some Devil May Cry type sh*t.
Try playing Cookie Run: Kingdom.
It's a gacha turn based game too and devsis (developer) are really really generous. I'm fully f2p, had been playing for 2 years and still have enough cookies cutter to get the characters i want. Most of the event are really long so even if you missed a day or two it didn't affect anything. Doesn't take too much time to play but, like it's name, it's cookies running a kingdom so there's no fan services, unless if you consider voice is under that category.
Nikke isn't my cup of tea but I'm noting your words 17:44 ・ิ▽・ิ
also I like your reviews about every gacha in this video.
I highly recommend to play Azur Lane. It's veeeeery f2p friendly and the EN anniversary is going live in a couple of days. Also the probably biggest event, the JP anniversary, is coming next month and because Azur Lane shares the content between the servers, there is a lot to do in the coming weeks and we will also be granted with many rewards.
I stopped playing Honkai ever since I got a job and small business. I mean the game will literally take your personal time, kinda reminds me of Korean MMOs where the game became your part-time job.
When I tried to go back after 2 years I got overwhelmed just like opening your office full of pending workloads to do. So yeah I never get back again and I don't think I could.
I do appreciate games that will respect your personal time instead of taking it from you.
Although I do agree that would be a great game for people who had nothing else to do.
Love the vid, if ya doing a part 2 I recommend trying out and reviewing outerplane and I guess maybe e7 too.
I still play fgo 😂
The story build different for me
I still don't understand, its 2023 and Mihoyo still not give player infinite reroll for new player. They very strict about getting 5* character player wanted. Its like "if you want 5* character you want, pay or keep praying". Just tired doing the same activity just to get very little amount of gems to pull.
Arknight and some chinese game is very hard to read. Its like rough google translate.
Tbh, im tired of sci-fi genre. Almost every chinese gatcha now is about sci-fi. I like fantasy more. Maybe bcuz sci-fi is not relatable for our era since its too modern. If only there is gatcha like Nier, that somehow they can mix sci-fi with fantasy. Traditional swords, modern robot with guns, and still giving player beautiful natural scenary.
My current favorite for now is Epic Seven, Brown Dust 2, Outerplane, and probably im gonna reinstall Alchemy Stars. They are the only gatcha i know that make the MC as OP as other 5 star characters which is pretty good and rare to see this in gatcha that usually make the MC as trash as possible and that doesn't make sense since usually in the story the MC is supposedly OP (lore wise).
I also mean useful MC...
i use to play epic seven it was my favourite game i had 3 collab characters great game tbh
You seem to be confused. Gacha games are primarily to generate profit, not for consumer enjoyment. Hence why the Free characters are often worse than what you'll get for participating in the Gacha.
Also lore is just extra bits tbh. What most people would care about are the combat, and what role they need to fill.
@@aronmigeuldollente8324 im not confused, i played gatcha since 2000s MMO on PC.. im primarly playing for the lore and with other people if there is feature that make it possible..
I never spend a single money on gatcha especially mobile gatcha.. people spend more money on non-permanent skin/item on PC game back then.. (for example some my friend spending over 1k just to get gun skin on CSGO that doesn't give stat or make his character better whatsoever a.k.a pointless spending a.k.a, in their deffense, "emotional support" spending)
Lets take an example, Azur Lane for example, doesn't have lore. The main story literally ended just a few stages after the tutorial completed. No continuation. After that i uninstalled the game. Simple as that. And the gameplay also outdated.
@@aronmigeuldollente8324 for me, one of many indicator that important for me when you choose mobile gatcha is the MC.
If they make the MC useless 3 star, or just garbage starter character. Then it just money grab and really bad mobile gatcha.
Just imagine you played as MC, and the MC is so weak it can't survived the gameplay but in the story it survived and will become stronger and probably the strongest. Does that make sense? Does that feel good? Of course not.
Played all of these and Azur lane as well. Honestly my favorite is honkai impact. For now I'm excited for wuthering waves
I agree with genshin, I have a really big passion during earlier stage of the game, but now I'm very tired of playing it, I didn't even do the main story for over one year.
One thing that I love from _NIKKE_ which rarely been done on other games (except _Genshin_ and _Honkai Star Rail_ because they use 3d cutscene. _P:GR_ too because they still haven't voiced the cutscene and skit), is that they VOICED the skits, and even in ENGLISH dub.
As someone who loves to watch _Tales of_ gameplays, what _NIKKE_ has done makes me happi :)
I have the opposite experience of Genshin because I started very late when sumeru story was already finished. Basically infinite new content I barely had time to worry about artifacts and stuff. I imagine it will only gets better for new comers in the coming years
Having played, all the hoyoverse games to end game like Honkai Star Rail, Honkai Impact, and Genshin, Honkai imapct being my first gacha game all these games are great just grindy asf when you start especially genshin like holy crap it took my a month to full build one character.
honestly by far my favorite part of star rail is it's dialogue. it is quite interesting, along with being very funny at times, its truly the shining light of the game.
In Star rail also there are a lot of same thing with Genshin in character leveling, like the relics and eidolon.
Im already tired of that kinda thing, now my gacha game is only Honkai Impact
I've tried all this game except Heavens Burn Red and I have to say all these games have their ups and downs, I am not biased on gameplay, music on most of these games are great.
The main issue I have with these games is the ridiculous wall of texts, I am fine with reading but jesus fucking christ, I dont want to read a 20 minutes worth of dialogue just to play the next damn stage/fight.
Second issue is the community of these games, its either they are overly parasocial about fictional character or, love referencing their favorite game's character to another game's character, not treating them as their own character ahem -typical genshin players-
But heres my top pick.
For music it is HI3/Genshin/Blue Archive
For story FGO/HI3
For animations HSR/HI3
For Gacha rates Blue Archive/Nikke
For community, it sounds dumb but Blue Archive is the best aside from the uwoogh 😭 part.
There are also other games but I just cant be bothered to try them out because they are remotely similar to a existing game.
As a person who likes grinding, i love grinding on my Nikkes-- i mean grinding on Nikkes-- i mean grinding on the game Nikke...
Are there any farmable characters in Blue Archive and Arknights?
btw, as a vet impact 3rd player, I agree with your points. Great review!
I haven't played Blue Archive enough to know if characters are farmable...
As for Arknights, characters are obtained using premium currency, event currency, recruit vouchers and free recruit gacha.
(Characters are capped to five dupes. When you receive your sixth dupe u can trade it for gold tickets that can be used to buy a six star)
You need 34 pieces of premium currency to pull 10x, or 6000 free grindable currency that you can obtain from weekly annihilation
(You are rewarded one piece of premium currency after you 3 star a level)
@AlexanderPerez-nj6zc I wanna try some of them out but I already struggle to keep up with the 2 gacha games that I have. Adding more feels like a bad idea
@@nicholasmogiba6361 I understand what you mean. While the gameplay is intuitive, if you can't afford to spend time learning the nuance of completing every single stage, it is very frustrating.
If you do play the game, refer to guides or websites. Take your time to learn which character to pull for and most of all enjoy the game
@@nicholasmogiba6361Arknights in comparison to other gachas doesn’t really ask for commitment. Anything that does is usually just login events and the novel-long stories. So you could be gone for half a year and you won’t feel like you’re left behind (for semi-exception of limited banners)
@@nicholasmogiba6361For Blue Archive. In standard gacha fashion, it has hard stages where you can farm specific characters “elephs.” You’ll need 120 total elephs of said given character to redeem them. This could easily take about 2 maybe even 3 months at most because the drop rate for these elephs is bit of a mixed bag, meaning RNG, you only have 3 chances to farm said hard stage (character specific stage mind you.) a day, you can of course use the games gacha currency, “pyroxenes” to renew your attempts and sweep said hard stages again but again it’s all RNG to obtain those elephs.
Other then that…there is characters that you can buy via the raid/pvp shop with the given raid/pvp currency you obtain when participating in those modes.
This isn’t an OG gacha game but one that is based the infamous 7DS. It’s my favourite mobile game. The Gauhati rates are decent and the game is probably the most awarding game I’ve played. Just by doing dailies and logging in every day, you can atleast do 1 full rotation on fest banners and splurge some gems on limited banners of characters you like. The turn based gameplay is amazing and it has some of the greatest card/ult animations I’ve ever seen. It also adapts s3, 4 and 5 better than the anime imo. I recommend checking it out
fun fact: you CAN skip star rail dialogue but only if it's not the first time you see it. (I found this out when I fought Kalfka and lost due to not having a healer on my team but I was able to skip the cutscene and dialogue)
Is that all you got but you forgot just one you haven’t played and ranked
Next you're gonna review every gacha game you've played (not limited to mobile games) and it's gonna include LIMBUS COMPANY
2:03 bro letting it all go
I've played nikke since the game came out. It turned out to be a porn game. As of now it's terrible, they just steal your money, time and dignity so you can look at pretty PNG's. If you ever think about playing this game, don't. And if you already do, please stop.
Your review of Fate Grand Order skips out a lot of details that makes me think you aren't familiar with either the characters story or financial aspects of the game, as this point the base units given to the players is enough to clear the game, the gacha system rework now has it a lot better then before, way more than some on this list even, and the characters that you complained about differ quite significantly, overall a terrible review
Was upset not to see PGR or Epic seven but I guess its fine since Blue archive was included. Part 2 would be loved and appreciated ❤.
Im disappointed about the Nikke review, didn't even talk about the campaign! Such an amazing story complimented with comedic bits sprinkled in, but not being afraid to show the player how much of a dark reality it is.
But a pain in the ass for f2p
@spymadmax584 you're not wrong, but I like to believe that even us F2P still enjoys the game for their characters' stories and very well developed cast of characters!
@@ppeko I understand, that's why I don't bother playing story at all I'll watch it on yt. But I will roll for good looking characters
There's no way you just described the best story in gaming history in a single short sentence 😭
Nice video overall only two gripes that I have is you didn't talk about Genshin OST which was a but sad but also the mention to endgame, that term never made sense to me when talking about Genshin because story wise we are barely over half way in the game so how can there be endgame content?? Yes there is abyss but I would only count that as half endgame (weird I know), because it was made to test out different team compositions and it doesn't really feel like it's part of the end of the game, just a hard mode. Rant over you should try FEH and Pokemon Masters and review them
Bro u should try PGR great game too
Its funny how the fgo you just mention the gacha and done with it while other game very too much explaination LOL
when he says Nikke is a porn game I feel that. the boss fight and story sometimes slaps though
fgo thought, the story side was one of the best but everything else was bad. as end game user that only do 2 gssr definitely not recommended for a new player
Honestly wish Heaven Burns Red was released in english that game looks dope af.
I dont know what to say, I only play 1 game,
I don't know how some people can play so much games to the point they can judge and compares all of them (not that I've a problem with that, just wondering, ) but they often forget that the term *'fun'* is subjective, no need to force and attack someone just because you have different opinion with them,
(I was talking about people on the comment section btw,)
This mas when trying FGO: Play-> skip story-> get SQ-> gacha-> get a bad luck-> "Nah, this game is shit!"
Repeat the cycle all over again because in the true words of a certain red Archer "That's hell your walking into"
I wish FGO had better RNG rates for the gacha I did enjoy it when I was playing but the rates suck so bad it’s not even worth being a light spender.