Decent

The game's gacha itself is decent, people who complain the rates are low are just purely unlucky, it's a gacha game, some characters are bound to be pity pulled, not all characters are supposed to be obtainable when it first releases if you aren't going to spend for it. If someone complains about needing 200 pulls to get a character vs a person who gets it in 50, some are luckier than others. People also complaining about this game's gacha should be trying Fate if they REALLY think it's bad. The story is definitely mediocre, definitely better games with better story and lore. This game passes as a side game and not as a main game where you should be so heavily invested in, if you haven't started during week of release you'll be finding yourself in a struggle to keep up with people who are running around with meta if you aren't going to be tossing money like candy. Overall I like the game for it's art and cuteness, I don't invest myself in the game for hours like others to finish up dailies, some events are weak in rewards and could definitely be improved. If you genuinely dislike the game, go join a group so you may/may not see the game in a different light.

I want to give this 5/5 stars but…

I love this game. Everything about it. The characters, gameplay, story, events everything is perfect. And the dev team behind this game really do care about the game and I thank them for that. I thank them for listening to the player base, most recently being a certain line about a princess being fixed, which made the fan base very happy. But the only thing that is stopping me from giving the game a 5 out of 5 is the issues with the English translation/localization that show up with new content added to the game. The most recent example is a character named Aris who describes her self as a “yuusha” a Japanese word for “hero”. But was translated to “warrior” in the global release, which is completely the wrong meaning for her character and actions she takes entirely. And is leaving a bad feeling amongst part of the player base. It has even reached the Japanese player base who are now confused that the JP server and the Global server are different versions of Aris, or that the regions have different meanings of the term “Yuusha” and has spread some confusion. I do hope they change the translation to “Hero” for the Aris we all know and love I do love this game and want it to be the best it can be and I know it can be. Thank you for your time reading this. If the dev team have fixed issues mentioned in this post, please see this review as 5 out of 5 stars. And Sensei’s, please enjoy Blue archive!

Cash grab that plays decent

Honestly not a bad game. Put alot of work into the story (whether people like it or not), but the rates are trash. Honestly feels like they are baiting you with first few pulls getting decent rewards, then your next 15 x10 rolls you get nothing. Get rates like ML Adventure to be successful, they actually care about their players not just their wallets =\ EDIT: tried to continue playing and i just cant do it. Saved up a ton of gems to try pulling again to have same thing happen. The rates are the worst ive seen in a gatcha game >.< nexon lives up to its reputation unfortunately. Dropped from 2 to 1 star since u cant progress in game when u get no players to use. Raising back to 2 star due to active response team. As for a suggestion, put in a better system that increases rate of higher character the more you fail to pull the highest tier characters, then resets back after you gain one. Since gatcha is all about random chance, some people may still get many bad rolls in a row, but when a 10x roll costs a decent amount of money (for those who pay for cash shop items/gems), pulling 150 to get no higher tier characters is a severe let down as well as feeling like you just burned all your money you have nothing to show for it. ALL IN ALL, a better safety system for better chances of not getting screwed would be huge. That is the 1 fix that would bring a player like myself back to game. Thank you for the reply!

Fantastic Game, Currently Unplayable

Let me begin by saying that Blue Archive is in my top 3 mobile games of all time and I thoroughly enjoy this game so this review comes from a place of love. Just like others in these reviews and on Reddit, since the January update, this game has become virtually unplayable. For specs., I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max and prior to this update, my game rarely crashed. I would say MAYBE once during an hour of playtime. After the January update, the game consistently crashes over short periods of time. Just yesterday, over the course of a 30 minute period, the game crashed 5 time. This is absolutely unacceptable. I have plenty of free space on my phone, I have zero apps running in the background and I have tried every single fix the developers and other players have posted in the reviews and on Reddit etc. At this point, I could not recommend this game to anyone until the crashing is fixed. Maybe it really is that my phone is incapable of running the game, but as a developer, I would be very concerned if a phone that was released 3 years ago was unable to consistently run my game for more than 10 minutes at a time. As I said previously, I love this game and I hate that I cannot give Blue Archive a 5 star review. Hopefully a fix is released soon. Thank you.

The game is fun but the gacha setup is outdated and exploitive

Some have made reviews talking about it being gacha and people shouldn’t complain about rates. They have completely missed the whole picture. The rates are pretty bad, which isn’t an issue on its own, but when you combine it with a terrible pity system and short cycle rotation it becomes completely a problem. When banners are often a week and the pity resets every banner, the rates become a major factor. You can in a sense do 100 pulls get nothing and it resets for the next banner. That is a system that has long become outdated with games utilizing a better pity system that doesn’t reset. The game also gives low premium currency rewards for regular play. Completing enough dailies gives 20 when you need 120 for a single pull is kind of a joke. They do though give much more for events, etc. For the game itself, it is fun and dailies can be quick and easy to complete. There is a nice set up for maxing characters Atleast once you get one. There are lots of characters in the game. The game also has some strategy to it while also being simple enough to not become overwhelming. All in all I’d say the game is enjoyable but the gacha/pity system setup is outdated and more predatory than others nowadays.

Pulling rate is a scam

I started the game saving up all my currency for a pull to come around that I liked to literally not get 1 out of the 5 characters out of 100 pulls. I’ve been playing nikke alongside this and even summoners war in which I got all the event characters I wanted despite just starting. This game is nexon greed at its finest, which is a dealbreaker is not actually being able to participate for free and and even get a chance to get atleast one character I wanted. Oh also you have to get the same character like 100 times for the first upgrade instead of you know once or twice, Nexon said “nah”. I’m confused on where the reward is since 8000(after looking in to it 24,0000 is the safe bet to get a garuntee,which makes the “rate up” just a scam) gems is expensive when it comes to real money and I can’t help but feel bad unless the game has an ACTUAL pity system for those who spent money on this disappointing game. I want to love this game but literally getting nothing for my first pulls is literally “gacha 101” to get people hooked and I want to be hooked but then see that my time will not be rewarded with them taking the raid shadow legends route and decided to make so your chances of pulling someone good if your f2p as least likely as possible.

Okay game

Giving it three stars because the art is very gorgeous and a lot of it is animated, and a lot of voice acting. The little system where some characters actually say the name you put is also neat, first game I’ve played that had that. Character designs are also nice but as far as the story and characters personality goes… just another average gacha game pushing for you to like the latest tsundere girl and roll for her. I’ve rolled like only twice so I can’t say anything about the rates and why everyone is complaining about them, but what I can say is that the art is really the only thing this game has. I tried to give it a chance and I found myself forgetting I even have this downloaded. Really pretty art and amazing character designs, but a boring story and stale, typical personalities. I guess if you just wanna look at pretty characters then this is your game, because the story and gameplay is definitely not worth it. Maybe I’m just too picky, but genshin and arknights have far better stories. In fact, I’d recommend arknights over this to anyone any day (and if you’re like me and don’t like games that limit to one gender, arknights will definitely be a better fit. It’s this game but better and not afraid to have some men thrown in)

Gross negligence

Blue Archive is a beautiful game with a rich story and world. The characters, their stories, their quirks are full of love and each interaction makes you really appreciate the detail put into a gacha game. But sadly, this nuance is lost on the Global server. Time and time again the higher ups at Nexon have failed their player base. Each update presents a wide array of problems, the most egregious being the terrible state of the translation. Every patch is riddled with typos or mistranslations of dialogue while other regions outside of global rarely encounter this issue. The developers have responded to this issue in the past, but only with the bottom of the barrel efficiency such as taking literal years to fix some lines or waiting for a patch to be over so the dialogue cannot be viewed after. Like many others, this is a game I love with the bottom of my heart, but seeing this beautiful game treated like this is like having the developers spit directly in your face. At the end of the day the Global population is a small minority of the total Blue Archive player base so change is nigh impossible. I hope that this review doesn’t get a botted automatic reply, as that will cement the fact that Nexon is nothing but a greedy corpo. I can only dream of a time where the state of this game is handled with basic decency, but we do not live in a world where miracles exist.

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