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I took a break for like 4-5 months. Took a peek at the tierlist while thinking of returning. Saw absolutely everything I had worked on was in trash tier and Immediately decided not to return. If my entire account progression goes from "Alright" to "gg your collection is ass" in just a few months worth of units, then yeah, trash design. Even without touching the game again I could tell power creep was a major concern and thats usually what separates a good gacha from a bad one. Which is unfortunate cuz I really loved this game on release and only took a break cuz of life and back then the future of the game looked bright and everything was going well in my opinion.

What a genius Fortunately, such people can remove themselves from the Internet without anyone's help

I kinda feel bad for these product nikkes since they are criminally underrated since they seem to be less popular than most nikkes i feel like these products should get more love and there own stories instead of being just side characters

Subscribed the channel after watching asmon video but damn, i guess you can still play another games like wuthering waves or something but good luck 🤞

4:17 I am sorry but HOW MANY MONTHS!?

The releases are being pressed into a deadline, but some cults from Genshin, preventing future fixes.

Lol we did quit it shortly before the collaboration came out, still have it around to play the main story and explore from time to time, basically playing it like a solo game, but active play time is over after nearly 2 years, it will be remembered by many as the only true mobile phone co-op game made to this day. I found many new friends there and know many people that also found lots of new friends, a bunch even found love there, that is something no other gacha will ever manage, bringing people together instead of keeping them alone even more. On a side note - back then I told most people that Lin's time would be over quick, should have picked Saki or Lyra (which stayed active in the meta for over a year, with Lyra keeping her place in certain teams to this day), but all the TH-camr's talked about Lin as if she was the absolute must pull, so everyone and their dog pulled her to a6 xD

Mate u deserve a lot more subscribers than you have. You should expand your "Best game you shouldn't play!" series into proper games (Console/PC). You gonna get a huge influx of viewers for sure.

with wuthering waves dropping this games in trouble its sad to see too because the character creator and the mobility i thought were cool ways to improve the formula of these types of games but even on release i very quickly noticed how grindy and horrible combat felt with certain units and thats just not a good idea for any game, especially one with action combat and unique weapon types forcing you to use crap you dont care about. not to mention the combat still has issues its not nearly as skill based as it should have been and wuthering waves is definitely scratching that itch for me and many other people while still being more fair and fun tof is taking a large L unfortunately it would be nice to see this game relaunch and overhauled to work more like wuthering waves when it comes to balance and difficulty and then improve on the exploration adn stuff so its more interesting and unique for the games strengths rather than copying genshin with a way more mobility they shouldve made things from the ground up to be mroe unique truly a waste of potential and im tired of seeing games do stuff like this and ruining otherwise good games

Beautiful game but so many issue on the game itself and the relationship to player. AR59, sometimes i have to train myself to not doing dailly, resin, event.but just strolling around teyvatt. Because somehow i become too reward oriented, i care it more than may own enjoyment

hey i just heard that tof is getting a ff14 style remake , have you heard? surely that's something you'd love to make a video on yes?

Great video

I guess i'm the only one playing it because it's fun and not for the gacha

I laughed waaay too hard when the boss fell off the cliff😂😂😂

it's joever

what game is that at 6:39 where you are talking about playing other games?

When I had a PS4 trying to play TOF, it kept kicking me out of the game and then my whole system shutdown & restarted. NOW I have a PS5. I'm overwhelmed with everything to do. So many beautiful worlds to explore. 5/24/2024 Main Story DONE. I love this game & highly addictive.

Ironically I don't play ggame because my characters are too overpowered. I can come back 6mo or 1 year later and still face roll content. I can oneshot stuff for about an hour before I'm like, "This is useless." I have nothing to play for. I don't even need any of the new weapons or characters because my Raiden comp is just tooooo op and I built it two years ago. I got furina cuz it was complementary and then never played again. I'm literally just waiting to buy the grass fairy girl then I'm done done because I've managed to miss her banner multiple times.

powercreep is why i quit despite spending quite alot on it for some a6 units

The fact this game is not in EOS yet, is what amazes me.

The game is still amazing after 1000+hours and im not spend lot money in this game. These days you dont need more than a0 or a1 to be good cause new simu are alrdy rly powerful. There is lot of ppl playing these days and the game is alive rly good.

The thing that killed the game for me was the mediocre UI and god awful controls on PS5.

Great video. You know it’s a good review when the fanbase comes frothing at the mouth to defend it. Particularly the Drake fan base Lmaooo

Time for you to play Wuthering Waves

They spend more time creating gacha outfits than fixing bugs. Even the 4.0 update will bring a $100 vehicle gacha and $10-$100 vehicle skins for it.

Kinda late to the party and a lot has changed since but here's my 2 cents. First off, the 160 wall is a pretty big problem i would agree. (Started playing nikke in release week, only got past the 160 wall at 1st anni - but i had a hiatus and missed getting mcb rei). To be relatively "fair" however, when i went into the game not knowing what is to come, i focused on getting as much nikkes as possible instead of focusing on a few. The game itself strongly encourages the wishlist system on normal pulls (once you unlock it, every time you roll normal banner without setting your wishlist the game explicitly states that you dont have it set and asks are you sure you wanna roll). This of course doesn't fix the problem itself, but it atleast lessens it. The biggest problem is lack of information on this system itself for new players (have to gain that knowledge out of game), because if you go into nikke knowing the system, you can better plot your course towards getting past that wall (with mileage/wishlist). They are also appearently making giving mcb ssr's every major event a thing (specifically anniversaries), which can help push people through the wall. Second would be main story progression, especially as a f2p. It does slow down heavily near/at late game when compared to the start (though imo thats more just general gacha honeymoon period stuff), and it is certainly harder to get invested in the story when it can take multiple days between cutscenes. Jumping the 160 wall does alleviate this for a bit - once again it is persistent/returns in endgame - but reaching endgame also expands the focus of how you invest into a nikke, since mechanically, bond level, skill level, recycle room levels, equipment (level, overload stats), and cubes and their level also come into play and provide an avenue to increase said power level (plus playing into elemental damage and stage weapon type damage bonuses to lessen the under rec pw penalty). The biggest problem with this is once again informational, since the game frontloads these mechanics in the tutorial and never really mentions this again (unless you go looking), basically making you forget about the system/how to utilize them. This also ties into the recommended power level system and how it works. They lessened the penalties at some point, but the system itself is percentage based not solid number based, meaning that it's much more strict in early/midgame than it is late/endgame, which in general means that the "sweetspot" you mentioned in your vid also becomes more prevalent the further you go into the game. For dailies, the full process you mentioned in your video is far more than actually required to get 100 points. For example, doing 1 stage in tribe towers, 1 arena, 1 interception, etc is enough to fulfil that requirement, not to mention that - as in many gacha daily systems) they give you more options for dailies, so if you want, you can skip certain dailies and still get the full daily reward (like skipping arena for example) in general you can get your dailies down to 10-15 mins. There are tricks here and there that new players might not know about to lessen the overall time needed for dailies, but once again, informational problem and you are still required to navigate the menus. As for objectification of nikkes and things not being explained but being talked about like you should know about them, a lot of the "worldbuilding" aspect of nikke is delivered through outlets other than the main story. For example, Rapi's and Anis's bond episodes, lost relic messages and events (ala overzone/red ash). That isnt to say that the main story has none of course, but most of the main story is the character drama/story and the worldbuilding bits are really just touched upon unless relevant to the main character based story. The reasons why nikkes are females, the reason for why they are portrayed the way they are and not as 50 feet mechs or overlty tactical looking (albeit i actually agree with you i would like to see more nikkes like the Rikkes), etc are explained or atleast touched upon. You could say that it's an issue that they arent spelled out in the main story itself but in logs/whatever else and i would partially agree with you, but imo that's part of the incentive to "get involved" with the game itself and not only the main story/specific characters. (Also as someone mentioned but wrongly named the character, it's Eunhwa that was a former commander that got turned into a nikke and her failure/trauma is partly why she's so uptight with you.) The whole "everyone falls in love with you/harem" thing is common gacha practice (just look at the gfl2 drama), but i don't necessarily think it's a bad thing in this context, considering you have a relatively wide scale of affection towards the protag - from straight up physical lust, through tenuous romantic interest to just being thankful in general - and the bond stories are somewhat removed from the main storyline (aka exotic). For tierlists and whatnot and you rerolling for alice - im not a fan or rerolling but i can understand - Aria carried me for a long long while in the campaign (up to nihilister's chapter exactly). While there's a clear line of seperation between OP ssr's and not OP ssr's, a lot of them can be made to work if you build your comp around them. (For example my friend is a fan of guilottine's character and built a ehole team around her skill mechanics.) Following tier guides makes it easier to progress and can be a good initial guide, but if you understand/look into who synergizes with who and how, you can make even a nonmeta team viable, even in endgame. I think (in general) that the practice of just aiming to get godmeta comp via a guide and auto roll through from that alone is something that i think will influence your general attitude regarding any game and it's mechanics itself and make you less interested in them (though thats a personal opinion). All in all, i think it's also fair to mention that shiftup is pretty open with communication and feedback from the community. Recently they reworked advising a bit so now its 100-120 points instead of 50-100, and advising a nikke 5 times unlocks auto advising so you dont have to sit through advises if you dont want to. The new anniversary story event is also pretty rich in character based story and lore/worldbuilding tidbits, not to mention the (currently) lategame-ier story chapters. They also introduced a "loaned character" system where you have access to certain level 200, max skill level and decently equipped nikkes to play/push certain content with (another crutch for progression).

I was close to swiping for daily pass quite a few times in this game. Thankfully, I didnt. I’d have regretted spending even $5 on this game.

The reason I quit ToF is because of how buggy the game is, and the dev team simply ignored the issues. They didn't even fix them after a year when I came back and quit again.

I love the feeling of unlocking a new ability i can spam non stop

is butterfly boss got nerf or something? I never have problem dealing with her, it's a freaking executioner bit*h that down me more than 20 times. Though, now I get use to her pattern and got death less compare to when I start... Maybe because I spent sometime in dept grinding those cure poison gift so her poison never a problem to me as I alternate between my gun shot, flame magic and melee to restore icor. I wish people still play co-op cause sometime I just wanna do it but can't find any player :(

I am the opposite. I went from Genshin to TOF for 1 reason is that I invested to coop viable unit because I had fun during version 1 and suddenly they stop releasing such event (the boss rush/hypostasis). They eventually rerun them but not like before and it took 2 years where my friends are already left the game for gameplay being repetitive. HSR even has better qol and end game for a 1 year game than Genshin fr. So here I am in TOF, the major problem is the powercreep. Even matrices get to increase each rotation like why not just make the initial effect as standard values for all so it can be reused. I also get A6 Lin and 3s Matrices knowing that it will save Flame but turns out to be the worst one effect of all the element it buffs in global. Why I cant quit TOF yet because I have someone to play with (and yes we are Genshin players and still playing but we cant do the same coop here from there).

Eh, i mean genshin still does that speechless dialogue a lot with their characters, their recent event and new map is a good example. But for me its the power creep, my characters constantly feel like they're always becoming irrelevant the moment a new character of a similar element comes out . I used to run A6 lin that girl with the fire umbrella and ruby and i was extremely comfortable with it until the 2nd altered element character came out .

Dude I am using Tsubasa as my main dps. You dont need the new stuff.

cant play on mobile because it so lag haha

What sets Hoyo Gotcha games apart from ToF is that Hoyo games 4-star characters are not trash. In ToF, all four stars are trash and have no reason to be there. But like in Genshin, even a 4-star can compete in terms of DPS with a 5-star character or often become more important than a 5-star character. The 5-star character can use a 4-star- or even a 3-star weapon and still become viable. It's sad because I was really hopeful for TOF, but it's so sad with its state now.

That’s cool and all but am keep playing 🥱

Isn’t the characters in this game just skins or are they their own characters?

Third time I watched this review and I agree, ToF is not a good game but, I still like it a lot.

also true to the afk game style approach they take to your resource, you can just buy them from the absolutely loaded cash shop, and that the daily free cash shop gift is practically there to remind you of that fact. (it only give you 10 crystal, you need 3000 to do one 10x pull) the amount of time it take and the slog you have to get through to get to the good part/interesting thing the game has to offer is enough to make me go "well imma just watch the story/event on youtube then", only coming back anytime the game give free pulls and stuff to give my gachabrain the dopamine it always crave before retreating back to my cave. for a game that seems like a blatant horny bait, the story and the soundtrack does have more to it than what you might have initially assumed. (the story has it moments and yeah a lot of the song is banger, event the time limited event one) but really tho if what pulls you in is the story and/or the soundtrack then i would just recommend to watch it on youtube and spare yourself the long and slow daily grind that sometime feels unrewarding due to how little it gives you compared to how much you need.