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How Gacha Games Control You
Can't believe these silly anime games are trying to take my money, what a truly messed up world we live in.
Wanted to talk about some of the more common dark patterns in gacha games. Not a complete breakdown, there's almost certainly more sneaky stuff hidden beneath the surface. I mean, companies literally have departments now solely focused on finding ways to manipulate players into spending, what a waste it'd be if all they'd done was so easily avoided by just being conscious.
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pointlessly rambling about my year old Honkai: Star Rail account
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Lower your expectations further than they already are, prepare for some lengthy dull slop content. Thirty minutes of me talking as if I have any clue how to do so, spewing out a torrent of words about my account to whoever will listen. I can barely get sentences out after so long of not communicating to people regularly without a script, luckily editing makes me sound much more coherent.
Reverse: 1999 - The New Player's Experience
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Some information in this video becomes obsolete mere hours after posting, as a result of my impeccable skills at doing things promptly. I very much enjoy spreading misinformation.
Arknights - The New Player's Experience
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Yet another shallow "review" of a gacha game, with little to no purpose than to siphon time out of your day. Apologies for anyone who happens to sit through the 15 minutes of my congested, nasally voiceover.
What is Burst Witch?
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Short video on the new bullet hell gacha game Burst Witch, not the premium steam version of the same game. Currently out as a soft launch for SEA.
What is Girls' Frontline: Neural Cloud?
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UPDATE: 23rd Sept Release clearly not happening at this point, likely that we'll be waiting until November now with the new dates from dates given from the app/play stores. A short video overview of the main aspects of the upcoming Girls' Frontline game, Neural Cloud. PREREGISTER LINK: 42lab-us.sunborngame.com/index GFL STORY/LORE GUIDE: www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/uwdiro/version_3...
CounterSide - Link account to Steam
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Quick tutorial on how to link an existing mobile CounterSide account to a steam account, or vice versa.
Azur Lane - The New Player's Experience
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A very general look into how the game is for a new player as of August 2022, hopefully helping in deciding if this game is worth playing or not. Alternatively, a good waste of a good few of my hours diving into a new account on Azur Lane that wlll be left to rot away, then a couple more in editing this mess together. Not sure what to call this video. A scuffed review? Some messed up low-effort ...

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  • @KonKrom
    @KonKrom 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hahhaa 😂 wtf is this poorly made game

  • @youredad10yearsago91
    @youredad10yearsago91 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    this game made me mad like playing league of legends but i still love it lol and cuz i have something to read since i love visual novels

  • @mrduck1490
    @mrduck1490 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My brain trembles.

  • @PintFlinger
    @PintFlinger 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you Ninja Kiwi for not turning BTD6 into an IAP fest. With reasonable unlock progession. And balancing everything around modes (CHIMPS/Ranked) that take away all advantages gained from IAPs.

  • @itsrin868
    @itsrin868 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I stopped playing a week ago after getting into the middle of chapter two. its too hard and not worth it. I don't enjoy the fact that it's a puzzle game first and a tower defense second. I would rather play bloons

    • @giatuanle6756
      @giatuanle6756 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I don’t think that you should even play tower defense games if you don’t like it as a puzzle.

  • @hungryhungryhenry8608
    @hungryhungryhenry8608 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Crazy seeing this review now 6 months later especially after watching a different video lol, gotta say it’s amazing production I’m surprised your channel was so small great starting out! Anyway reverse!! I love reverse was excited to see a review of it cause it’s sometimes hard to find content outside of it. I must say my favorite aspect of it has been the story and community. The events are definitely a big focus due to them being historical and interesting. Obviously it has issues and bugs but I must say the team is very responsive and the community in the discord community is good. Idk if you ever found out but yes the duels came back they use them other times for fun story nodes. I might be bisas abt this game as I entered a cult of sorts around certain characters that is very exclusive- Anyway keep up the impressive work and also I recommend checking out morimens it’s not perfect but it’s interesting with the big focus on cosmic horror

  • @grimreaper7948
    @grimreaper7948 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you so much man was so scared about my account lmao o7

  • @MontgomeryDBurns
    @MontgomeryDBurns 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I watched all your videos and they are very good, keep it up

  • @Kyle81290
    @Kyle81290 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Guards do damage"... And tank, heal, nuke, CC.

  • @junkname9983
    @junkname9983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it just looks like a bunch of anime girls running around doing girly things.

  • @Sell_Sec
    @Sell_Sec 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    honestly i dropped it too, but mostly cuz i wanna play WuWa and Arknights

  • @merczake4748
    @merczake4748 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bruh i just played for the goofy and hard hitting events XD

  • @Zorahime29
    @Zorahime29 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i stopped at around the yato alt banner....got burned out doing 1-7 hahahaah

  • @AliAli-hg9nj
    @AliAli-hg9nj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nah id stick to btd6

    • @Sergazz
      @Sergazz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      btd6 is boring

  • @AsterWi
    @AsterWi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i want to say the story is interesting and pretty cool, but its also kind of confusing sometimes so i end up not really understanding…The game is neat but my brain got overwhelmed so i left

  • @Ninakoru
    @Ninakoru 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After 4 years of gacha operators, the game's under severe pressure of powercreep, there are operators that trivialize roles or perform several roles exceptionally well, and some damage dealers that ignore any conception of arts damage/phys damage and AoE, they just blow up anything in their skill range.

    • @Kyle81290
      @Kyle81290 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, the early game of Arknights was really good, but they ruined with with Guardknights and the increasingly bullshit and unfun mechanics that they keep giving to bosses and stages. *Civilians* The Harold boss fight was the one that finally pushed me to quit the game. haha, snowballs go brr

  • @flasterbangingshit
    @flasterbangingshit 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I started 11 days ago, cool tho

  • @karimsonsafehold9233
    @karimsonsafehold9233 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a 4 week account, i love arknights. Cleared rs 8 event at 2 weeks old account

  • @AW-ht1ly
    @AW-ht1ly 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The problem is that Hypergryph either has a small team of programmers or they have too many of them and not enough QA and lead technical reviewers to bug test in a rigorous manner. Every new event in the Chinese version has some weird bug or glitch which has to be patched in on live servers/production rather than on a test server/pre-release, and then it's never patched in the global release 6 months later, or is patched with new, undocumented bugs. The way in which this has been handled recently (and seemed to have been getting worse in the past year) leads me to believe that the more senior employees have been assigned away to other projects or have left the company/headhunted away and are working elsewhere. In my opinion, for their 5th Anniversary, they should have overhauled the game engine, and worked to resolve the bugs and they could also have streamlined the story. This is just pure laziness on their part, not investing in new player experience, as well as making some fundamental improvements to the systems and mechanics. All they've done in the past 5 years is some light cosmetic changes to the UI and home screen, and introducing new operators designed to outright replace existing meta or even deprecate existing archetypes for new hybrid ones in order to milk the whales. Half of all new operators do not need to exist and the existing ones are sorely in need of improvements (Frostleaf anyone?). Arknights will continue to have support, but it is trending away into the dustbin as more and more new games are coming online, and will eventually fade away, being kept on life support by whales and diehards who have sunk too much money to give up (sunk cost fallacy).

  • @Clockwork_Doll
    @Clockwork_Doll 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The unskippable paragraph of text when pulling operators is only really a problem in Global. In CN/TW, the Chinese text zooms by pretty quickly because there are far fewer characters the game needs to print. Probably why HyperGryph never thought it was a problem.

  • @juicyjuustar121
    @juicyjuustar121 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Honestly, Arknights is the only gacha game Ive been able to stick with for more than a month or so, and its purely because the dailies are so trivial to do. For auto deploy, I dont actually have to DO anything, I basically just need to launch the game, which admittedly would be a hassle on my phone, but I play the game through a PC emulator, so its no issue for me. On top of that, its just really generous. Annihilation alone can get you enough orundum for a 10 pull once a month, so as long as you save your orundum for characters you actually want, you should be able to get a really solid lineup pretty quickly. I personally have saved almost exclusively for limited banners, and been able to nab every single limited operator that released since I started playing the game (notably, you get something like 20 to 30 free pulls on every limited banner, maling it even more likely youll get the limited characters). But most of the reason I play the game comes down to two things: the strategic gameplay, which is extremely satisfying and has a lot of optional challenge you can choose to interact with, and the incredible heights the story reaches later down the line. Admittedly, the story kind of really sucks at first, but it gets so good as you progress through it

  • @juicyjuustar121
    @juicyjuustar121 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Correction: its a 200 hour visual novel. Yes, I counted.

  • @TeTe-dv3hg
    @TeTe-dv3hg 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No, Story mode in this game are pure hot garbage they just keep adding anime girls in story for no reason and those girls not appear in story anymore once you clear EP, AK story clearly just for coomer bait.

  • @anorangebanana6690
    @anorangebanana6690 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don't mess with us arknights players, we don't even know how to play the game. We just watch kyotinv

  • @dennit.firmansyah5079
    @dennit.firmansyah5079 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn....welp time to do my dailies

  • @M3trix_8
    @M3trix_8 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just one more ten pull cant hurt...

  • @sanyapridurok5594
    @sanyapridurok5594 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    man, you’re way too underrated... i hope more people find your channel soon!

  • @sanyapridurok5594
    @sanyapridurok5594 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    haaaii :3

  • @anuchakurabus1335
    @anuchakurabus1335 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you so much!!

  • @Lendario0X
    @Lendario0X 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:24 I know for a fact that the first pull is not garanted to be a 5 star I got Cuora as my first operator (a 4 star)

  • @lettersboi1926
    @lettersboi1926 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    no game isnt worth playing. playing game are for fun and if you enjoy playing it then its worth your time even the game is not on the hype or become "dead game" and its ain't worth your time if you didn't enjoy it anymore even the game is still new,fresh and on the hype

  • @Traceryuk
    @Traceryuk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've never played the game, but your account seems good

  • @Traceryuk
    @Traceryuk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello I'm back I'm gonna watch the new kids your doing great I love your voice 💗

  • @GrizzlyLord
    @GrizzlyLord 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Same here. Light spender. Express pass and battle pass are indeed worth getting. Resource management is sooo much easier. You have enough to build your desired characters (with some priority of course, not all at once). Beside that it's really not worth spending. Even with the first time bonus, 100$ for 80 pulls... Not even guarantees you the desired character if you're unlucky and lose 50/50... Thats.... 20-30% more than an AAA game ... with double bonus...

  • @n7creed629
    @n7creed629 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I started playing at launch. Still going strong tho have taken the odd month break a couple of times (mainly work related time constraints). This is the only phone game Ive played consistently for more than a couple months.

  • @idoltrash2353
    @idoltrash2353 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A note on skip tickets for general content. If your strat only just about worked because you got lucky with an rng mechanic then auto play might fail a lot. Skipping entirely would remove the criteria of needing to clear the stage with a secure strategy

  • @darkomiku8902
    @darkomiku8902 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👍👍

  • @sanyapridurok5594
    @sanyapridurok5594 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i could listen to your voice for hours lol

  • @zu4rth289
    @zu4rth289 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    none of your relics are locked......

  • @Yoshi-wz7fh
    @Yoshi-wz7fh 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i think this is the most accurate account representation for any "normal" person decently ~~addicted to~~ invested into the game. A lot of half-leveled relics on abandoned characters, no real reason to continue farming but we do so anyway. Somehow being able to clear most rotations to prove that we can (why). I have no idea why I watched this but it was strangely comforting. How do I learn to change my voice to something close to yours? I can't? Well, too bad. I'll go back to withering away in the relic mines I guess. edit: Love the bit about preferring "asthetic" numbers above optimal ones. More people need to think that way (so I can justify to stop farming for characters).

  • @t.k.1487
    @t.k.1487 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You have an angelic voice my guy

  • @solarenity
    @solarenity 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you got a nice voice homie (no homo)

  • @sagnikmaulik
    @sagnikmaulik 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks good. Not a lot of spending honestly (light spender level) considering how long you play the game. 3 new AAA game might cost you more than that depending on what version you purchase. Heck even tarkov has a 200$ bundle. Gaming in general has become a really expensive hobby and a shit hole with how the companies try to milk every player regardless of what game you are playing (There are exceptions of course) .

  • @wifinais
    @wifinais 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    real

  • @andreeapeng6278
    @andreeapeng6278 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So if I link my Steam account I can keep my mobile account (which is the account I have leved up) and I can play on both PC and phone with the same account? That sounds really cool, because the mobile version crashes when I play on raids and PVP! I just have a question though... If I log off from my phone, will it let me log back in with my Steam account? I just want to make sure I understood correctly

  • @brinthstacey
    @brinthstacey 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a new player of arknights I really don't like the game I'm mostly staring at my screen most of the time and it gets bored pretty fast, the grinding like any other games already showing up early I didn't even get to feel the game but it's already farming simulator (it's common for gacha but not this early) and also in all my gacha games I've never encountered this expensive pull 6k? That much?? is getting a premium currency fairly easy or what?

    • @nyr1015
      @nyr1015 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Early game is slow ( story and gameplay ) It's way different later. it will pick up As for premium currency the game is f2p friendly 6k is just a big number unlike "1600" You can get 100 from dailies = 700 And 1800 from weekly Also special events give you around 50 pulls overall throughout the event duration.

  • @ori5278
    @ori5278 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video is so well produced, ngl was shocked it only has 460 views rn