I normally don't high rate gacha games unless they have something special and make me actively >want< to play the game. Punishing Gray Raven does that in such a cool way: the gameplay is SO COOL and I can't stress this enough: this is the only gacha game that has skill expression of the player.

Sure, if you just started playing, the bosses are easy, the story stages are easier and you can breeze through almost any content until... some point. As a nature of gacha games, they have an endgame and you'll need to grind eventually to reach its high peak: but you can do this with any character you want.

Of course, if you're playing for meta-reasons, there's a chance where the character you like isn't the most optimal choice: but who cares? People are soloing endgame bosses with a support character they like a lot and invested into. You can use only one builded character to pass through some content, but the game still requires to build multiple teams and build more characters.

Some gacha players look for big numbers on screen, beautiful ladies, handsome men and PGR has it all with an extra: YOUR SKILL actually matters. For some, this sucks: after all, if you play FGO because of its clicking cards nature and you're just looking for a chill game to collect your .pngs, this game probably will not hype you up. But I suggest you at least give it a try.

This game also is really F2P friendly and, by design, it's made to you have the debut S-rank in patch (you can, of course, skip them if you want). If you're a dolphin, it's actually super cheap (~5 USD-ish...? Not sure). But again: only spend if you have money to spend, it's STILL a GACHA GAME.

It's important to say that every character plays differently and the OST is a banger. A massive banger. If you like anime action games overall, you should give it a shot.

Reviewed on Jan 17, 2023


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