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After playing this for almost a year I feel like I’m basically done with this game (I’ll still come back for main and even stories) so here’s a more detailed review than the one I cobbled together after finishing the main story that was available at once. I didn’t spend any money on this game but played it enough to be among the top players each pvp season.
Let’s address the elephant in the room first: This is a free to play pay to win gacha mobile game and that sucks. Personally, I was never tempted to spend money on this game, but that wasn’t because of how kind it is to f2p players but because of how incredibly expensive even the tiniest thing is. A 10x summon costs you 2000 gems. In the shop you can get 1540 gems for 11.99€. You do get a decent amount of free gems though so you can get new characters every now and then.
If you want to be good without spending obscene amounts of money on this game (and probably also if you do spend money), you’ll need to grind a lot. This is my first (and probably last) gacha game so I don’t really have a frame of reference, but I’ve heard from others that even for a gacha this game requires a lot of grinding.
While the regular pve is an incredibly boring auto-battler, the game gets quite interesting in the challenging abyss towers, the pvp, and the subjugation battles.
But obviously the reason people care about this game isn’t the gameplay, it’s that it’s a nier game, so how’s the story?
The main story is pretty alright, but the game is more about its various side stories. Those range from somewhat bad to really really good. The combined story of Akeha is probably among the best writing in the entire Nier series.
The art is also gorgeous, and the music is… well it’s keiichi okabe what do you expect. Just listen to this.
So, should you play this game? If you haven’t been playing from launch it gets even more difficult to ever reach the high-power content so I wouldn’t recommend trying for that, but if you just want to do the main story and the even stories, like I will do going forward, you’re probably going to have a lot of fun with that.
Let’s address the elephant in the room first: This is a free to play pay to win gacha mobile game and that sucks. Personally, I was never tempted to spend money on this game, but that wasn’t because of how kind it is to f2p players but because of how incredibly expensive even the tiniest thing is. A 10x summon costs you 2000 gems. In the shop you can get 1540 gems for 11.99€. You do get a decent amount of free gems though so you can get new characters every now and then.
If you want to be good without spending obscene amounts of money on this game (and probably also if you do spend money), you’ll need to grind a lot. This is my first (and probably last) gacha game so I don’t really have a frame of reference, but I’ve heard from others that even for a gacha this game requires a lot of grinding.
While the regular pve is an incredibly boring auto-battler, the game gets quite interesting in the challenging abyss towers, the pvp, and the subjugation battles.
But obviously the reason people care about this game isn’t the gameplay, it’s that it’s a nier game, so how’s the story?
The main story is pretty alright, but the game is more about its various side stories. Those range from somewhat bad to really really good. The combined story of Akeha is probably among the best writing in the entire Nier series.
The art is also gorgeous, and the music is… well it’s keiichi okabe what do you expect. Just listen to this.
So, should you play this game? If you haven’t been playing from launch it gets even more difficult to ever reach the high-power content so I wouldn’t recommend trying for that, but if you just want to do the main story and the even stories, like I will do going forward, you’re probably going to have a lot of fun with that.