A Japanese mobile game directed by Yoko Taro. It is developed by Pockelabo and published Square Enix.


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Actually fun lil mobile game then again I'm a massive fan of dark fantasy and Yoko Taro

The NieR man got me to like Pinocchio

I really love this game's art style and overall storytelling. The idea of taking characters from fairytales and giving them all the goal of meeting their author to change some aspect of their story (or in Cinderella's case, to just kill him), but with a dark thematic twist on all the characters is genuinely incredibly interesting. I love stuff that takes mythology, fairytales, or lore and spices them up with a unique and interesting lens, so this game is basically right up my alley.

Unfortunately, it's a mobile game, and that tells you everything you need to know about it. It's grindy and repetitive, the fun story is told exclusively through text on either a black screen or a png of the character of that story, and having other players come in and one-shot every enemy you fight makes it feel like you're not even doing anything. I played this game for about two or so months straight, but after that, I just gave up. When I got a new phone I didn't bother transferring my data.

Overall, a really neat idea held back by it's medium. If this were a console or PC game, I could see myself getting really into it, but as a phone game, it leaves me mostly frustrated, Hopefully the manga will help satisfy my interest in this game's world.

I'm conflicted on what I should rate this since I played it for a day like two years ago and absolutely hated it but at the same time fucking over whales is the most Yoko Taro move anyone could ever make

SINoALICE is a pure example of Yoko Taro being a hack once you remove the fanboyism glasses due to Automata/Drakengard 1/3.
The gameplay is absolute garbage with barely any redeeming qualities and the writing is your typical poorly written edgy story as expected from Taro(Woah, humans are the true monsters and that innocent girls are actually fucked up? How totally not reused from your previous works or even original, Taro.)

It's not even F2P friendly as most of the guilds are just whales and will kick you out once they find out you haven't spent over thousands of dollars on this gacha.
Even the summon rate is dogshit, possibly worse than FGO since you will barely summon anything you want.

Some people will try to defend it because "It's intentionally bad" like how people say Drakengard/Nier gameplay is bad on purpose, but I don't think that's a reasonable excuse at all.

Otherwise, don't bother.