Fix the starting screen and the gacha system

When tapping start, theres a bug where if you do not have app purchases available there will be a pop out saying, “Purchase, In app purchases are not allowed.” It makes it more annoying to have to click OK to proceeded onwards. My concern is to why the pop up appears and why there is a purchase when clicking the start on the starting screen. Also, the loading screen then goes black for a good 15 seconds after clicking start, which the loading screen should not take that long because I have a lot of storage and an Iphone 14. The game concept is overall great but fix the loading screen. The gacha system is really bad. There is a humongous difference between the f2p players and spenders are too large, which makes the game too imbalanced. There should not be a paid banner and regular banner. Instead there should just be one banner for the players in which using the “payed” gems just increases the chances of getting the SAME character on the banner so that there would not be any characters that are almost “unobtainable” if you do not pay for. The value of both the payed gems and earned gems are just too big, which later on will make the f2p players quit because its to unfair and the spenders to quit later on after acquiring everything. Make the gacha system with the paid and earned gems more balanced because this will make me quit the game and a lot of others because of the unfairness.

Addicting and fun but severe greediness and bad pacing.

I have a lot of fun collecting the characters, interacting with them, and seeing all the cool abilities. It’s clear the game had a lot invested in it. That being said this is the most pay to win F2P I ever saw. The game hands out laughable rewards for clearing milestones, 10 gems, that’s the reward you get for pretty much all the milestones. You need 2,800 for a ten pull on gacha. Despite events and everything else that gives you more you’re likely to run out constantly for characters you want. You have to pay to really get what you want and sometimes you won’t even get the characters unless you spend hundred of dollars on just a single banner unless you want to grind 6 months to a year to get a guaranteed. To top it off the game has terrible pacing. About once a month there’s a level cap increase and new missions which means new gear. It doesn’t leave you time to upgrade your current characters effectively so you’re more likely to have more than a few characters lag behind to upgrading. Despite my review I do love this game but there needs to be serious overhauls on gem rates, gacha, and pacing.

Fun gameplay and great graphics but slow AI loading

This game is fun in it's own way but the AI loading screen is very slow (takes around 15 seconds to transition from finishing a stage to the next stage). There is also no skip functionality regarding the skill animation so you have to sit there and watch the whole skill animation and at two times speed it's still around five seconds per skill. nonetheless the graphics are very well designed and the gameplay is fun where you can auto most of the stages where in some niche situations, you can manual to surpass more difficult stages. My recommendation to the developers is to first add a skip button for the skill animations and then to speed up the AI loading screens, whether it's for leveling up characters or loading between stages; there are so many different loading screens that it really makes the gameplay slow down way too much. For example, from the moment I press start on a stage, it takes 11 seconds until my characters start attacking, and from the moment I kill the last monster, it takes 16 seconds until I can click onto the next stage. That's close to half a minute that I simply just wait to progress per stage (not including however long it takes me to clear that stage). Quality of life is important for players who like their games fun and fast-paced (:

Ok. Could be better

Fun game. Love the anime so this is a nice companion. This game suffers from a huge problem with balance though. You have to be overwhelmingly stronger than your opponent to actually win since the battles are limited to 1 minute. so skill takes a back seat to raw power. The PvP stuff is all automatic but would be nice if you had option to just autocalc since it spends so much time just spamming the attack CGI that after the first few days you’re sick of seeing them. Back to balance, it’s pretty obvious that most people left playing after only the first few weeks have dumped a ton of money into the game. Most people in the matchmaking have three full sets of maxed out characters while I have been playing since day 1 F2P and don’t even have half of one. There are also a lot of bugs in the app that are annoying. It’s too easy to brush the edge of the screen while activating an attack, which pauses the game and causes the battle to hang. That’s been acknowledged for over a month now with no fix, but there have been a lot of content drops so it becomes abundantly clear where the priorities lie. Overall, I’d recommend this game to kill some time in a waiting room or on the john for a few weeks, but I wouldn’t expect to leave this installed for the longer term from what I’ve seen.

Great game if not broken

The game reaches the point where you’re past 1-5 and it frees you up a bit instead of the forced tutorial. You click to go to the next objective. The gang forcibly redirects you, saying character boosting has been unlocked and opening the character menu with an arrow pointing to the main character. At that point you can click nothing except for the main character; thoroughly tested. When you click the main character, the arrow disappears and the only things you can click are the locked tabs top-left and top-right, both of which say to complete 1-6 to unlock. You can click nothing else, can’t return to the main screen, and can only get out of this by closing and reopening the game. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled twice. I submitted an inquiry about it, to which I’ve received no reply. They had a long maintenance today to add more gacha content, and this game is still UNPLAYABLE and BROKEN. When it’s impossible to play the game without encountering an error that is also insurmountable, it’s considered game breaking. I had high hopes for this game and high hopes for the fact that they had a very long maintenance. Given that I’m stuck, can’t play and therefore can’t earn gems for the TIME LIMITED gacha characters, I kinda don’t even want to play now. Thanks for reading! Edit: I’ll be posting this on every form of social media available to me.

Great game with huge issues

This game introduces a lot of story that ties in with the anime. The characters are beautiful and the customization is great. HOWEVER the loading times are terrible even on a new phone with many pointless delays or transitions. The biggest issue is the cost to summon a character is absurd. For $100 you can attempt the 10x Gacha (the one with the best odds) 3 times. You are guaranteed the character on the 200’th pull (20 10x Gacha’s). That means to get a character for sure you have to spend nearly $700. I would say about 1/3 of my characters required all 200 pulls to get. It gets worse, they release characters 2 or 3 at a time. So if you want all characters you are spending up to $1800 every 2-4 weeks. That does not include other store purchases like more energy or items to level up all these characters. The greed of these developers is absolutely insane. Play this game only if you are well off and love The Eminence in Shadow and want more content or if you are one of the rare few who can enjoy these games for free without collecting most characters.

Officially Done

After coming back to this game several times over the past two years, I have to admit it: while the character design and story are absolutely phenomenal, the gacha system is an unforgivable pay-to-win trap. The art is stunning, the lore is immersive, and each character feels uniquely crafted both in personality and abilities. But getting those characters? You’re never going to experience them fully unless you’re willing to spend way more than even whales would be comfortable with. The rates are abysmally low, and while the game dangles shiny new units in front of you, it quickly becomes clear that no amount of grinding will realistically get you the characters you want without forking over a hefty sum. It’s frustrating because the game has so much potential, but the sheer cost required to keep up ruins the experience. Honestly, there are better games that strike a much healthier balance between paid and free-to-play players. I highly recommend OUTERPLANE and EverSoul if you’re looking for similar gameplay without the wallet-draining stress. Both offer fantastic character design, engaging stories, and fair systems that won’t make you feel like you’re throwing your money into a black hole.

Fun but not f2p friendly

Aside from crashing issues, summoning is unfair. 2800 gems for a multi but only getting max 50 per lvl. And the game just released so there isn’t that much that you can farm up. I’m already more than half way done with the main and side story but have only summoned 5-6 times excluding the free summons. And since character lvl is based on your lvl you get to a point where your stuck and just have to wait until the next day to get exp from the daily missions to continue through the story. Not only that the game has only been out for less than 2 weeks and there’s already 3 banners that people want to summon on but there’s just barely enough story’s and events to even get to try on all three. What’s the point of playing a gacha game if you can rarely do the main thing that gacha games are for. And I get that there’s not that many characters but it’s still absurd how much you need to summon compared to how much you get. I want this game to be fun because I like the anime and gacha games but it feels like Crunchyroll is just trying to make more profit from the anime, and they know people are willing to spend money for the novelty of having an anime game for a new hot anime.

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