This game is really good. It's easy to turn off your head and just totally get into the flow of the game, the art is nice, the music is good, it's very pleasant to play when I'm not in the mood for something that requires me to think much. I try not to talk about a game's price (unless it's predatory monetization) but the fact that this game is free is frankly absurd.
I'm not big into Hololive, I occasionally watch Callie but that's about it. I only mention that so nobody thinks this game is only for hardcore Hololive fans and gives it a pass because of that.
Of course the game isn't perfect either. The balance around healing is a bit wonky, if you aren't playing a character built around healing you're gonna need the Nurse Horns.
I also dislike the meta progression. The upgrades feel like they barely matter and just lead to people who played the game a bunch getting slightly higher scores.
Unlocking characters is cool, but doing it through gacha is such a weird choice. I played for 5 hours and wasn't able to unlock all of the characters while getting a lot of duplicates, which was very frustrating. The way the banners are split is also weird, I just never saw a reason to pull on the banner that only has units I already have, a tiny boost in power did not feel worth it.
What's even the point of stage mode? The couple hundred coins you get for clearing it? It would be much cooler if the game tracked which characters you beat stage mode yet and if there were actual higher stages to unlock.
Many character-based games like this struggle with making each character feel unique. Not this game, everyone plays very differently from one another. Instead, the game struggles a bit with making each individual run of a single character feel unique. Maybe this could be solved by having a small chance to gain skills (and maybe even weapons) from other characters because you could do some pretty interesting builds with that (think IRyS with Guardian Tree).
This has turned into yet another review of a game I enjoy a lot that mostly talks about negatives, sorry about that. I really love this game, give it a try.
Edit: The few issues I had were mostly fixed with the update, it's even better now
I'm not big into Hololive, I occasionally watch Callie but that's about it. I only mention that so nobody thinks this game is only for hardcore Hololive fans and gives it a pass because of that.
Of course the game isn't perfect either. The balance around healing is a bit wonky, if you aren't playing a character built around healing you're gonna need the Nurse Horns.
I also dislike the meta progression. The upgrades feel like they barely matter and just lead to people who played the game a bunch getting slightly higher scores.
Unlocking characters is cool, but doing it through gacha is such a weird choice. I played for 5 hours and wasn't able to unlock all of the characters while getting a lot of duplicates, which was very frustrating. The way the banners are split is also weird, I just never saw a reason to pull on the banner that only has units I already have, a tiny boost in power did not feel worth it.
What's even the point of stage mode? The couple hundred coins you get for clearing it? It would be much cooler if the game tracked which characters you beat stage mode yet and if there were actual higher stages to unlock.
Many character-based games like this struggle with making each character feel unique. Not this game, everyone plays very differently from one another. Instead, the game struggles a bit with making each individual run of a single character feel unique. Maybe this could be solved by having a small chance to gain skills (and maybe even weapons) from other characters because you could do some pretty interesting builds with that (think IRyS with Guardian Tree).
This has turned into yet another review of a game I enjoy a lot that mostly talks about negatives, sorry about that. I really love this game, give it a try.
Edit: The few issues I had were mostly fixed with the update, it's even better now