It's my favorite game right now so I wouldn't rate it. For those interested, I should say, PtN gave me a horrible first impression because I thought the gameplay was not very deep. Everything was too easy. I actually quit the game after trying it maybe 2 day when it came out in global. I don't usually go back to a gacha but my wife started playing it on her own without me knowing and she asked me to give it a second chance. Boy I'm glad. The difficulty ramp up a bit in chapter 7 and really gets going in the middle of chapter 9. You really have to know the mechanisms of the game to just pass with an imperfect score. That's when the gameplay side became really fun. The story side, it was a little intriguing in chapters 1 and 2 but it becomes really good from chapter 3 onward. As for what gacha next, how about you keep playing PtN? 😅 It's not a large time commitment I promise.
Some of the best music are in the events. You gotta play it long term. Yeah, I know as a content creator, you're not going to, but this game seriously respects your time. Anything that you beat once can use sweep en mass.
I’m so happy you covered this game. The balancing is so good. Nox (a free character you get early on) still hasn’t fallen off in meta. Even some B Ranks are sometimes needed in endgame. This is different from S Ranks with limited stats in Arknights. The vast majority of S Ranks will be useful and B Ranks will be useable despite having less stats and multipliers. One of the endgame teams, Bleed, uses a B Rank sinner just to apply more bleeds on enemies. That’s how a kit can change their usefulness. The quality of life has gone to an insane level with instant raids after doing a level once, and not having to do monthly bosses weekly to get their rewards (attempts even count towards rewards). The only problem was early advertising (they better fire those bastards) and how 3D games has been reigning recently. This is the only gacha that makes staying feel rewarding. Unlike others that give me a billion S Ranks I will never build. Ever.
Thanks for watching!! I'm in shock at how this game isn't more popular given how phenomenal it looks and feels. It's such a fun, high quality game, easily a top 10 in every category!
@@StixPlayx I noticed you were using Serpent in some stages. My advice is to build Labyrinth instead (if you haven’t already). She regains her Ult every Core Break with two charges in total, and movement Ults don’t cost towards the counter. If you having a hard time with enemies that have cores: Use her. Regardless of how many they have (since using S Ranks can sometimes mitigate progress). I was actually surprised how necessary Che and Labyrinth become due to how important it is for core breaks. Serpent is a higher rank sinner but usefulness sometimes can be worse than Labyrinth in stages with less places to move on and many core enemies. Basically… Not building these two is wasting the account somewhat (since they’re endgame units, with labyrinth being absolutely essential).
@@JamesLianCanadamy gosh I’m a head of a secret society but mine never gets too far up (we do get there just enough to get gold stuff tho). I have been kicking dudes left and right last ToA. Edit: My secret society’s called Dissonance btw.
lmfao what? Limited stats on arknights? What are you yapping, all units in arknights can literally be used to clear all stages whether endgame or earlygame
I started this game yesterday and i was instanly captivated by this artstyle and story. This is exactly my cup of tea, i love everything about the worldbuilding. So, even if i don't hava any experience with the Tower Defense-Genre i am willing to get myself into it for this game. I pulled Coquelic today after 55 pulls. Now i can sit back and watch her banner disapear in peace. Just the event i will probably not able to finish in time because the level cap is just too high for a now 24 hours old account.
@@moonlestrange9114 welcome! If you wanna rush the game, skip all the event stories and do the levels. The level requirements for event story is very low. The story will be archived for your account if you've successfully completed it. You should definitely go back to watch after the event is closed. Don't worry about the extra challenges where you might not pass. They don't affect the story.
@@JamesLianCanada The Main Problem is, that i will probably don't have a team of Level 40 Charakters for the Boss Fight against Garofano until the Event disappears next day. I really want to enjoy the event story, but it is just nearly impossible to beat all of the event level 2 days before the event ends as a new player, who dosen't spend money. At least i was able to snack myself a Garofano. I like the design.
@@moonlestrange9114 okay don't worry. They do event reruns. Some early events like the Stargazer and Serpent ones have already rerun twice. Looking at it, I think if you play it for maybe 1.5 years, you would see all past events. It's just that rerun events are often at the same time as new events, so if you have to do both, it will be a busy time. Rain burst and Flora Unfurl, those 2 I can guarantee they will rerun next year around same time.
@@JamesLianCanada I wasn't able to finish the event sadly, have to wait for a rerun. But i was able to pull Shalom today after only 20 pulls, so i am not so sad.
@@adroitws1367 Same. I regret it, too, haha. Luckily they changed the reward system for it. High Risk Area was actually fun playing every week, slowly getting better, but the dificulty spike in DZ is insane. Not really fun anymore.
Yeah Dark Zone stopped being fun... if you look any DZ clears on YT, people are doing like 3 actions per second, and one misclick = run failed, do everything from the beginning. It shifted from just requring planning to requiring planning + needing to do like 3 times more actions during the same amount of time, otherwise your characters get slaughtered.
The terrible advertising is laughably bad because of how outsourced it was. It's clear from how poorly done the 2D animation of Ariel in the example advert that the devs had no part in it. The actual 2D Liveart in the game has been gorgeously well done from the start with the original roster of sinners. The devs probably had no choice but to resort to outsourcing since they were already tight on budget. Fun fact: the beta version called "Project Dark" had a top-down exploration system similar to Hoyo's games. However, it was way too time-consuming and expensive for the devs to go through with, and thus it was scrapped. They also were going for a more "sexual" tone with the sinners. They had more risque outfits and poses in their splash arts. It was definitely a good idea to replace the sexy factor with more dynamic characterization, while still retaining some of that appeal in the more "forward" sinners. Luckily for me my first exposure to the game was with one of the less lewd ads. It still teased the interrogation feature like the one in the video, but leaned more into the grimdark aspect of the actual game content. Luckily, the devs are now relying more on the trailers for their main story and limited events, which are cinematic as hell. They even go so far as to make entire songs just for the trailers for their story chapters(check out Black Halo & Loving La Vie En Rose). As basically a day 1 player on global version(joined in about 3 days after launch on 28th October 2022), I can guarantee that you'll have a good time for the rest the game has to offer.
If you do find this comment, I also would like to enlighten you about the guild event: Tide of Ashes. ToA(for short) is never available during the runtime of limited events or story releases, as it actually is considered as an event in itself. So, it's unlocked when there's a 3 week long wait for the next event. The mode features a guild cooperative, in it you work together to take down smaller enemies and get to the final boss that will accumulate rewards with every defeat. It used to be more complicated with every tile having a battle, but got simplified to only include the minions, the boxes of rewards, and the big boss itself. It's very fun but does require an avtive guild as new players will have to be supported by others to do good in the ToA. Every ToA has a unique boss that has different abilities that make it hard to defeat in one go. This incentivises you to build up teams of sinners that work with each other while stayin in the confines of the boss' abilities. The game has also gladly added a guide feature that suggests specific teams of sinners that could work well. Not to worry as you can borrow your friends' and guild members' assist sinners. There's even a beginner friendly team in the guide that uses a very meta limited sinner that some of your guild members should have. Besides that though, that's really all there is to guilds here. Though newly created guilds can slowly upgrade themselves, there's nothing else with it after it fully upgrades. Though I do believe that the ToA is more than enough to incentivise joining guilds, you do still have to focus on other game content to not face thedry spell.
Thankyou for covering this game. Truely a hidden gem! Stories, events,voice acting, animations, arts, characters,soundtracks, f2p stuff, pity system, quality of life features etc etc everything is top quality. Love this game.
It's ptn's 2nd anniversary. The new sinners 000( zero) and moore has lots of flashy colourful abilities as you mentioned. Plus the new event story is great. Hope you'll have a chance to pull them and enjoy the gameplay.
…A second rewatch really shows misunderstanding of the game meta. It’s true that most B Ranks will fall off endgame but not even mentioning Che and Labyrinth (endgame B Ranks) is just crazy to me.
@@usmansubhani7482 I would say, Labyrinthe, Che and Pepper never fall off. Joan is still very useful in the Oblivion pit. Macchiato, well I really hope you get a better healer by the end game, but still usable.
Overall, PtN is just so well done and polished and the women and men in this game are so fantastically designed I don't know how there's not more people playing this. The English voice cast are probably the best performances I've heard in a Gacha game. Out of the S-rank Sinners I have; Dreya, Bai Yi, Shalom and Coquelic are my favourite designs. I like how PtN differs in that instead of having all the characters simp for the player, they're mostly either out to kill or kidnap you at first and eventually simp for you after legitimate character and relationship development. And the story is just amazing from the get go and hits hard in the feels. Also gotta mention this game has plenty of Yuri fanart courtesy of the community, which I think is pretty great.
@@Istas_WR yep. I feel like every time a char simp for our MC, it's well earned. Unlike most other gachas. I mean I finished WuWa 1.3 main story around a week ago. I feel like The Shorekeeper, while I really like her personality and visual design, she started simping for us too easily.
@@JamesLianCanada I think the thing with Shorekeeper is that there's already history between her and Rover but we haven't experienced that personally so it comes off unnatural to us because their relationship is pre-established but new in our eyes. Kuro likes making all their characters into player simps however but they're good enough to stand on their own when they aren't simping. PtN they feel like their own characters with their own motives and Chief works to build that trust and become an integral part of their lives.
The reason why people sleep on this is because ptn doesn't gives you tonnes of events at the same time like usually other gacha games do. So, once you complete the story chapters you'll probably have to just focus on side hustles like battle frontline, upgrading your sinners, etc. And, that's why most of the creators stopped making videos on ptn because they want constant content to make vidoes on. Ptn is moving with their own pace. And, I actually quite like it. It will only receive more light if creators like you start covering it time to time to let the audience know.
Now I wanna see a blooper reel with all the takes you had to cut/edit due to laughing from "my coque" 😂 Awesome seeing PtN, its one of those games that really flys (flew?) under the radar but deserves more attention. My guess is the tone/style not being bright and bubbly, or characters not being balloon tittied jiggly, and/or overall darker setting/pallette, it's not a lot of ppls cup of tea. Coupled with the fact that the gameplay requires you to pay attention (not always 100% but still requires your attention), even though I love it, I can easily see why it's slept on.
lmao I'm a professional, this is all done in one take *cough* It really shouldn't have flown as under the radar as it has, it's such a damn good game! More people should play this!
Day 1 player, and still playing. The gameplay is... okay. But I'm hooked because of the story, writing, characters, art and music. The folks at Aisno really know how to channel their creativity. Excellent voice acting, in any language, helps. A bonus that it has some of the more generous gacha, I'm a low spender (just get the battle pass) and have been able to collect every unit. But oh man... those cringe ads when the game first came out... they must have drove away more potential players than they brought in. I probably would have passed on the game if I had seen one of those ads first. I hope whoever approved those ads was fired.
Quack quack! Quack quack quack. Quack quack! Quack quack quack quack. Quack quack quack quack quack! (Path to Nowhere! I am so glad you're covering this. It is a game well worth your time! There is one thing that you did not mention. New accounts have a 14-day quest that will also reward them with a free S-rank character!)
17:00 I just gotta mention. 2% for S class is the highest I've seen, on par with Nikke. But Nikke has no pity. I went to 200 pulls on Crown and still only got a single copy of her in the shop.
if you are talking about gacha rate then im pretty sure Limbus and Blue archive is 3%. On anni banners, the rate of getting 3star/Srank get doubled into 6%. Anni in Blue archive are times to get alot of units
@@dissidius13 yeah, I realize that after I read about the 160 wall. I would still have continued playing if the game didn't take so much of my time. I don't know why Stix keep saying it take 5 minutes for dailies. I mean there is so many daily tasks it takes me 30 minutes. Maybe it's because I care too much about optimizing and would play stages that are optional. Don't people do all the stuff like Interception, simulation training, etc...
@@envixous_402 I got her after 20 pulls. I already love her. Even if i wasn't able to finish the event, because i was not able getting my charakters level high enough for the boss.
9:10. Naw, some B sinners are the most powerful in game. If you never used Labyrinthe and Che, you're gonna struggle later on. Joan and Kelvin have their niche in late game. EMP, Macchiato and Demolia are pretty useful in early game but fall off. Pepper is part of the very Meta bleed team. The Flora can be part of the Meta attack speed team. Lisa can be used early on wihtout any investment early on.
I started playing it two months ago and it's almost my most played gacha game, even though tower defense isn't a genre i like very much. It's one of the few gacha games that i really enjoy and pay attention to the main story (the events are amazing too) and i absolutely love the character design and ost. The amount of QoL in this game is insane too, players of others games would kill to have them.
Ulpianus : Max HP +20%, ATK +170%. Immediately throws an anchor forward, stopping when hitting a target or reaching the max distance, dealing 130% of ATK as Physical damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 6 seconds. If the anchor stops on a tile he can deploy on, Ulpianus will Move to that tile Skill can be manually deactivated; when skill ends, Ulpianus returns to his original position My coq : first time?
14:00 I know you're a busy content creator, but if you can, get the story to the end of chapter 12. Rain burst and Flora Unfurl is the continuation of the story from Chapter 12. The events are self contained, so you should not have too much difficulty understand it, but you're gonna wonder why so many sinners are grieving our chief.
@@StixPlayxbuild Labyrinth. I am imploring you my friendly TH-camr. Also remember to not over-cap on Chief energy when using her (because she will break a lot and if you break more than necessary it will waste the charge).
When it comes down to gacha. The gacha itself is often very generous. I managed to get S5 Zero. It was worth to spend 72 arrest warrants and like 27k hypercubes. And 1 Nox copy and 2 Shaloms. There was a time were I went on a break from a game. I missed two events (was beating myself over it a bit). I feel like getting a break from ptn is an occurrence that a lot of people playing went through. (Not speaking for all) Myself included. One of the reasons why I’m still on the game is the fact that is that gacha is that generous.
I played since Oct 2022, I think about two weeks after the global release ... ever since, I tried to stop playing it, but I couldn't. Those crazy mommies need to be ARRESTED!
One funny but cool thing is that even the B-rank sinners r insanely viable & cracked. For example: Labyrinth: B-Rank sinner that is insanely broken for core breaks, which is far better for serpent in terms of what she needs to do EMP: A B-rank ranged sinner that has like one of the longest ranges out of any sinner, also a broken ability But at the end of the day, there's no PVP, no need for meta teams, sooo use whichever waifus u want
I think you can't properly judge the difficulty until you get to Broken Frontline Dark Zone. That's where you need multiple distinct, specialized teams to hit the max points every week. In the most recent season, they totally changed how Dark Zone works because it was essentially too hard for a lot of casual players.
Gacha system in this game is decent. It should be possible to get all new S-ranks with just the monthly pass option, unless you get really unlucky. Of course, the usual problem of "the later you start playing, the more characters you have already missed" remains.
Nice to see PtN getting the recognition it deserves... ❤ Unfortunately, I don't play it anymore. Still, a good game nonetheless... Thx for the nostalgia, Stix
Base mgmt was a friggin hassle for me in Arknights (which is exacerbated by the fact that it's not entierly optional: M3'ing the operators requiring it) so I for one, do NOT miss the extended utility of base. The extreme ease of grinding mats with just a few taps is why I am playing PtN but no longer playing Arknights.
The only thing held me back to play this game is the lack of cc who cover this game especially for guide type content even pgr or AK have some very good dedicated cc and website
All those puns and jokes about "your Coq" really made the video that much more enjoyable. I had a good laugh. However, not the kind of game for me. I have a hard time finding a 2nd-3rd gacha that pleases me, been trying a few, but nothing stuck to me. My current main gacha is the idlegame Eversoul, a generous gacha idlegame, but not much gameplay. Just fun if you enjoy waifus and seeing numbers go up each day/week/month as the limit is sky high. You could take a look at it in one of your videos.
Lmao thank you! I just couldn’t help myself. She was one of my most used units and I kept referring to her as “Coq.” I do really enjoy Eversoul as well! I was one of the OG sponsored CCs for it at release day!
I wish they’d add a function to reset characters so I could use those materials elsewhere😢(I want to reset my Bai yi so I can use those materials on 000)
Isn't this one of the gachas that you're always playing lol. It's crazy how few people know of this game though; their anniversary livestreams and songs (and everything else honestly) have so few views it makes me depressed
Actually no! The Gacha games I play regularly are NIKKE, Blue Archive, Arknights, Punishing Gray Raven, Wuthering Waves! More people need to play PTN! It's such a damn good game!
Thanks for covering PtN. It's currently my favorite game. I never felt depressed with PtN. The feel I have is that while the world is really messed up, the MC is a beacon light and hope. This is the only game the MC has a huge fan base.
I wish I liked tower defense games, I feel I would really enjoy PtN if I did. The only real complaint I have about the game is the femc is allowed to have gay romances but the male mc isn't.
My problem with PtN is their colorizing makes me very dizzy, when i tried to play it back when it first releases. shame cause i like Arknights and i thought i would like this game too
Check out Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: War of the Visions. It was the first gacha I played and I didn’t even know what a gacha was back then. Have you heard of Horizon Walker?
As someone who has been playing the game for a year and has multiple S rank sinners Just 2 problems i have is in rating the difficulty and world First there is a huge difficulty spike in the broken frontline starting from high risk and in daro zone (i am still scared to try dark zone) The world is much expanded upon in the eternal nightmare gamemode,the events and the interrogation of different characters peading to a rich and diverse scenario for each case and the main world building starts after chapter 11 from wherein many secrets re revealed
As much as you love your Coq, looking at the gameplay, it doesn't seems you know how to play her.😅 It's fine at that difficulty, but you're gonna get slaughtered later on.
LMAO true. I'm not the best at playing with my Coq. Good games continue to get more difficult as things move along, and that's when you truly learn how to play them. I wasn't at that point yet.
PtN is good, had potential, sadly the tower defenses gameplay to me not exciting as Arknights is, to simple, while i'm not a pro with strategical, but i like the challenge that Arknight gave where PtN didn't deliver it right for me ... the art and 3D is beautiful, as gatcha game is not that bad, the gameplay is the downside to me
@@StixPlayx this game has a HUGE following of lesbians (hence the characters like Cinnabar, Deren, Shawn, Tetra, Zoya, and all the gay innuendo and ships)
What I im going to say is going to ruffle a lot of feathers but, my only gripe about this game is the lack of playable male characters and the horrible EN voice acting. I know a lot of people like this game because of it's story, but I've read better stories with the same premise and the events aren't really helping my engagement either. This is all I will say because the other thing that grinds my gear about this game is it's toxic community when it comes to valid criticism. Overall, I would give this game a 4 out of 10, because even though some parts of the games story had me wanting to leave the game again, Zoya chapter and Donald chapter have me wanting to stay. I wish they did more with the available male characters we get in the gacha pull like Fate Grand Order, Punishing Gray Raven, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, Arknights, and many other games that have male playable characters in them, but that's fighting a losing battle with this games community and devs. The art is amazing along with the sound track, but the blatant appeal for one specific group of people is what makes me and others not want to continue playing the game. Again, this is mine and probably many others opinion, to each their own.
@@StixPlayx I'd even say it would be good if you could play it from Google Play Games PC (requires Win11, that's it), that counts, but many MANY games dont even bother with that.
@@Xovian I would respectfully disagree for PtN in particular. Action games like WuWa yes, but I think mobile is just perfect for PtN. Hopefully you still give it a try.
What would YOU rate Path to Nowhere out of 10?
Also, what Gacha should I play next?!
It has western agenda and woke shitt and is strategy so less action so I would give it 1-2 out of 10
It's my favorite game right now so I wouldn't rate it. For those interested, I should say, PtN gave me a horrible first impression because I thought the gameplay was not very deep. Everything was too easy. I actually quit the game after trying it maybe 2 day when it came out in global. I don't usually go back to a gacha but my wife started playing it on her own without me knowing and she asked me to give it a second chance. Boy I'm glad. The difficulty ramp up a bit in chapter 7 and really gets going in the middle of chapter 9. You really have to know the mechanisms of the game to just pass with an imperfect score. That's when the gameplay side became really fun. The story side, it was a little intriguing in chapters 1 and 2 but it becomes really good from chapter 3 onward.
As for what gacha next, how about you keep playing PtN? 😅 It's not a large time commitment I promise.
9/10
I've been at this for a couple of weeks but, Guardian Tales!❤
BOOOOO NO REVERSE 1999 VIDEO YET!!!!!
PtN is so slept on it's crazy. Great story, awesome art, awesome characters. Ty for giving it some light.
Absolutely no problem! This game is unbelievably good, and really should be more popular!
That true.
I love the appreciation to PtN's story, music, and voice acting! It's truely underrated and hopefully this will help it get the exposure it deserves.
It's unbelievably well done! I wish this game were more popular!
Some of the best music are in the events. You gotta play it long term. Yeah, I know as a content creator, you're not going to, but this game seriously respects your time. Anything that you beat once can use sweep en mass.
I’m so happy you covered this game. The balancing is so good. Nox (a free character you get early on) still hasn’t fallen off in meta. Even some B Ranks are sometimes needed in endgame.
This is different from S Ranks with limited stats in Arknights. The vast majority of S Ranks will be useful and B Ranks will be useable despite having less stats and multipliers.
One of the endgame teams, Bleed, uses a B Rank sinner just to apply more bleeds on enemies. That’s how a kit can change their usefulness.
The quality of life has gone to an insane level with instant raids after doing a level once, and not having to do monthly bosses weekly to get their rewards (attempts even count towards rewards).
The only problem was early advertising (they better fire those bastards) and how 3D games has been reigning recently. This is the only gacha that makes staying feel rewarding. Unlike others that give me a billion S Ranks I will never build. Ever.
Thanks for watching!! I'm in shock at how this game isn't more popular given how phenomenal it looks and feels. It's such a fun, high quality game, easily a top 10 in every category!
@@StixPlayx I noticed you were using Serpent in some stages. My advice is to build Labyrinth instead (if you haven’t already). She regains her Ult every Core Break with two charges in total, and movement Ults don’t cost towards the counter. If you having a hard time with enemies that have cores: Use her. Regardless of how many they have (since using S Ranks can sometimes mitigate progress).
I was actually surprised how necessary Che and Labyrinth become due to how important it is for core breaks. Serpent is a higher rank sinner but usefulness sometimes can be worse than Labyrinth in stages with less places to move on and many core enemies.
Basically… Not building these two is wasting the account somewhat (since they’re endgame units, with labyrinth being absolutely essential).
@@usmansubhani7482 you're obviously a veteran of the game. Looking for a guild to join? We finished ToA40 with around 4 days left last few time.
@@JamesLianCanadamy gosh I’m a head of a secret society but mine never gets too far up (we do get there just enough to get gold stuff tho). I have been kicking dudes left and right last ToA. Edit: My secret society’s called Dissonance btw.
lmfao what? Limited stats on arknights? What are you yapping, all units in arknights can literally be used to clear all stages whether endgame or earlygame
I started this game yesterday and i was instanly captivated by this artstyle and story. This is exactly my cup of tea, i love everything about the worldbuilding. So, even if i don't hava any experience with the Tower Defense-Genre i am willing to get myself into it for this game.
I pulled Coquelic today after 55 pulls. Now i can sit back and watch her banner disapear in peace. Just the event i will probably not able to finish in time because the level cap is just too high for a now 24 hours old account.
@@moonlestrange9114 welcome! If you wanna rush the game, skip all the event stories and do the levels. The level requirements for event story is very low. The story will be archived for your account if you've successfully completed it. You should definitely go back to watch after the event is closed. Don't worry about the extra challenges where you might not pass. They don't affect the story.
Another Coq lover! Welcome to the club!
@@JamesLianCanada The Main Problem is, that i will probably don't have a team of Level 40 Charakters for the Boss Fight against Garofano until the Event disappears next day. I really want to enjoy the event story, but it is just nearly impossible to beat all of the event level 2 days before the event ends as a new player, who dosen't spend money.
At least i was able to snack myself a Garofano. I like the design.
@@moonlestrange9114 okay don't worry. They do event reruns. Some early events like the Stargazer and Serpent ones have already rerun twice. Looking at it, I think if you play it for maybe 1.5 years, you would see all past events. It's just that rerun events are often at the same time as new events, so if you have to do both, it will be a busy time. Rain burst and Flora Unfurl, those 2 I can guarantee they will rerun next year around same time.
@@JamesLianCanada I wasn't able to finish the event sadly, have to wait for a rerun. But i was able to pull Shalom today after only 20 pulls, so i am not so sad.
Dark Zone players: man, i miss when this game still a tower defense.
I regret going to the dark zone ... and havent touch broken frontline since lmao
@@adroitws1367 Same. I regret it, too, haha. Luckily they changed the reward system for it. High Risk Area was actually fun playing every week, slowly getting better, but the dificulty spike in DZ is insane. Not really fun anymore.
Yeah Dark Zone stopped being fun... if you look any DZ clears on YT, people are doing like 3 actions per second, and one misclick = run failed, do everything from the beginning.
It shifted from just requring planning to requiring planning + needing to do like 3 times more actions during the same amount of time, otherwise your characters get slaughtered.
@@Drolnevar what reward change? how to claim if not playing dz?
The terrible advertising is laughably bad because of how outsourced it was. It's clear from how poorly done the 2D animation of Ariel in the example advert that the devs had no part in it. The actual 2D Liveart in the game has been gorgeously well done from the start with the original roster of sinners. The devs probably had no choice but to resort to outsourcing since they were already tight on budget.
Fun fact: the beta version called "Project Dark" had a top-down exploration system similar to Hoyo's games. However, it was way too time-consuming and expensive for the devs to go through with, and thus it was scrapped. They also were going for a more "sexual" tone with the sinners. They had more risque outfits and poses in their splash arts. It was definitely a good idea to replace the sexy factor with more dynamic characterization, while still retaining some of that appeal in the more "forward" sinners.
Luckily for me my first exposure to the game was with one of the less lewd ads. It still teased the interrogation feature like the one in the video, but leaned more into the grimdark aspect of the actual game content.
Luckily, the devs are now relying more on the trailers for their main story and limited events, which are cinematic as hell. They even go so far as to make entire songs just for the trailers for their story chapters(check out Black Halo & Loving La Vie En Rose).
As basically a day 1 player on global version(joined in about 3 days after launch on 28th October 2022), I can guarantee that you'll have a good time for the rest the game has to offer.
If you do find this comment, I also would like to enlighten you about the guild event: Tide of Ashes.
ToA(for short) is never available during the runtime of limited events or story releases, as it actually is considered as an event in itself. So, it's unlocked when there's a 3 week long wait for the next event. The mode features a guild cooperative, in it you work together to take down smaller enemies and get to the final boss that will accumulate rewards with every defeat. It used to be more complicated with every tile having a battle, but got simplified to only include the minions, the boxes of rewards, and the big boss itself.
It's very fun but does require an avtive guild as new players will have to be supported by others to do good in the ToA. Every ToA has a unique boss that has different abilities that make it hard to defeat in one go. This incentivises you to build up teams of sinners that work with each other while stayin in the confines of the boss' abilities.
The game has also gladly added a guide feature that suggests specific teams of sinners that could work well. Not to worry as you can borrow your friends' and guild members' assist sinners. There's even a beginner friendly team in the guide that uses a very meta limited sinner that some of your guild members should have.
Besides that though, that's really all there is to guilds here. Though newly created guilds can slowly upgrade themselves, there's nothing else with it after it fully upgrades. Though I do believe that the ToA is more than enough to incentivise joining guilds, you do still have to focus on other game content to not face thedry spell.
Thankyou for covering this game. Truely a hidden gem! Stories, events,voice acting, animations, arts, characters,soundtracks, f2p stuff, pity system, quality of life features etc etc everything is top quality. Love this game.
It was an incredible experience over the 2 months I played!!!
It's ptn's 2nd anniversary. The new sinners 000( zero) and moore has lots of flashy colourful abilities as you mentioned. Plus the new event story is great. Hope you'll have a chance to pull them and enjoy the gameplay.
…A second rewatch really shows misunderstanding of the game meta. It’s true that most B Ranks will fall off endgame but not even mentioning Che and Labyrinth (endgame B Ranks) is just crazy to me.
@@usmansubhani7482 I would say, Labyrinthe, Che and Pepper never fall off. Joan is still very useful in the Oblivion pit. Macchiato, well I really hope you get a better healer by the end game, but still usable.
I don't play meta in Gacha games. I play them to have fun.
@@StixPlayx
> I don't play meta in gacha games
> Talk about meta anyway
Just take the L and move on
Overall, PtN is just so well done and polished and the women and men in this game are so fantastically designed I don't know how there's not more people playing this.
The English voice cast are probably the best performances I've heard in a Gacha game.
Out of the S-rank Sinners I have; Dreya, Bai Yi, Shalom and Coquelic are my favourite designs.
I like how PtN differs in that instead of having all the characters simp for the player, they're mostly either out to kill or kidnap you at first and eventually simp for you after legitimate character and relationship development. And the story is just amazing from the get go and hits hard in the feels.
Also gotta mention this game has plenty of Yuri fanart courtesy of the community, which I think is pretty great.
I don't know how it isn't more popular, given the enormous success of Arknights.
@@Istas_WR yep. I feel like every time a char simp for our MC, it's well earned. Unlike most other gachas. I mean I finished WuWa 1.3 main story around a week ago. I feel like The Shorekeeper, while I really like her personality and visual design, she started simping for us too easily.
@@JamesLianCanada I think the thing with Shorekeeper is that there's already history between her and Rover but we haven't experienced that personally so it comes off unnatural to us because their relationship is pre-established but new in our eyes. Kuro likes making all their characters into player simps however but they're good enough to stand on their own when they aren't simping.
PtN they feel like their own characters with their own motives and Chief works to build that trust and become an integral part of their lives.
Great to see more recognition for PtN, played this since Day 1 and I love everything about this game.
It's unbelievably good! Who's your favorite Sinner?!
@@StixPlayx Cabernet for me, love my toxic cannibal lol
14:30 you don't need to login twice a day. As long as you login late in the day, you can login once a day. Even the stamina is 24hours
The reason why people sleep on this is because ptn doesn't gives you tonnes of events at the same time like usually other gacha games do. So, once you complete the story chapters you'll probably have to just focus on side hustles like battle frontline, upgrading your sinners, etc. And, that's why most of the creators stopped making videos on ptn because they want constant content to make vidoes on. Ptn is moving with their own pace. And, I actually quite like it. It will only receive more light if creators like you start covering it time to time to let the audience know.
Now I wanna see a blooper reel with all the takes you had to cut/edit due to laughing from "my coque" 😂
Awesome seeing PtN, its one of
those games that really flys (flew?) under the radar but deserves more attention. My guess is the tone/style not being bright and bubbly, or characters not being balloon tittied jiggly, and/or overall darker setting/pallette, it's not a lot of ppls cup of tea. Coupled with the fact that the gameplay requires you to pay attention (not always 100% but still requires your attention), even though I love it, I can easily see why it's slept on.
lmao I'm a professional, this is all done in one take *cough*
It really shouldn't have flown as under the radar as it has, it's such a damn good game! More people should play this!
9:03 just realized, Blud doesn't have Nox! Where is your free Nox, Stix?
Its time limit event I also don't get free nox...i played that game when it released then quit
I never got Nox!
@@onii3146 paid. If you PAY for it. They did that last anniversary too.
@@onii3146what?? when???
@@izuvy no bro it's paid i thought they gonna give it free
Day 1 player, and still playing. The gameplay is... okay. But I'm hooked because of the story, writing, characters, art and music. The folks at Aisno really know how to channel their creativity. Excellent voice acting, in any language, helps. A bonus that it has some of the more generous gacha, I'm a low spender (just get the battle pass) and have been able to collect every unit.
But oh man... those cringe ads when the game first came out... they must have drove away more potential players than they brought in. I probably would have passed on the game if I had seen one of those ads first. I hope whoever approved those ads was fired.
Yup. Pretty much the same reasons I think it's good. The ads I saw were atrocious - typical "scam game" vibes. Glad they're no longer present.
@@khandimahn9687 I am glad i saw Stix' video before these strange adds, otherwise i probably whould have evade it.
Quack quack! Quack quack quack. Quack quack! Quack quack quack quack. Quack quack quack quack quack!
(Path to Nowhere! I am so glad you're covering this. It is a game well worth your time! There is one thing that you did not mention. New accounts have a 14-day quest that will also reward them with a free S-rank character!)
Oh I'd completely forgotten about that! Whoops!
17:00 I just gotta mention. 2% for S class is the highest I've seen, on par with Nikke. But Nikke has no pity. I went to 200 pulls on Crown and still only got a single copy of her in the shop.
the higher SSR rate in Nikke is an illusion to compensate for the fact that you need 4 copies of each units to make the best out of them.
if you are talking about gacha rate then im pretty sure Limbus and Blue archive is 3%.
On anni banners, the rate of getting 3star/Srank get doubled into 6%. Anni in Blue archive are times to get alot of units
@@dissidius13 yeah, I realize that after I read about the 160 wall. I would still have continued playing if the game didn't take so much of my time. I don't know why Stix keep saying it take 5 minutes for dailies. I mean there is so many daily tasks it takes me 30 minutes. Maybe it's because I care too much about optimizing and would play stages that are optional. Don't people do all the stuff like Interception, simulation training, etc...
Also, I don't think you mentioned that they're starting their 2nd Anniversary tomorrow on global, so it's a pretty good time to start playing.
@@unrankedchevron742 True, i got a lot of pulls which gave me some S-Ranks.
True dat, a lot of good banners r out with - hopefully - good sinners. Shalom's also getting a rerun (FINALLY) and I intend to S5 her
@@envixous_402 I got her after 20 pulls. I already love her. Even if i wasn't able to finish the event, because i was not able getting my charakters level high enough for the boss.
9:10. Naw, some B sinners are the most powerful in game. If you never used Labyrinthe and Che, you're gonna struggle later on. Joan and Kelvin have their niche in late game. EMP, Macchiato and Demolia are pretty useful in early game but fall off. Pepper is part of the very Meta bleed team. The Flora can be part of the Meta attack speed team. Lisa can be used early on wihtout any investment early on.
haha it was just a joke. :P
I started playing it two months ago and it's almost my most played gacha game, even though tower defense isn't a genre i like very much. It's one of the few gacha games that i really enjoy and pay attention to the main story (the events are amazing too) and i absolutely love the character design and ost. The amount of QoL in this game is insane too, players of others games would kill to have them.
Ulpianus : Max HP +20%, ATK +170%. Immediately throws an anchor forward, stopping when hitting a target or reaching the max distance, dealing 130% of ATK as Physical damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 6 seconds. If the anchor stops on a tile he can deploy on, Ulpianus will Move to that tile
Skill can be manually deactivated; when skill ends, Ulpianus returns to his original position
My coq : first time?
14:00 I know you're a busy content creator, but if you can, get the story to the end of chapter 12. Rain burst and Flora Unfurl is the continuation of the story from Chapter 12. The events are self contained, so you should not have too much difficulty understand it, but you're gonna wonder why so many sinners are grieving our chief.
I cleared 7 before doing this video. I'll push through more ahead of another look next year and hopefully clear 12!
@@StixPlayxbuild Labyrinth. I am imploring you my friendly TH-camr. Also remember to not over-cap on Chief energy when using her (because she will break a lot and if you break more than necessary it will waste the charge).
When it comes down to gacha. The gacha itself is often very generous. I managed to get S5 Zero. It was worth to spend 72 arrest warrants and like 27k hypercubes. And 1 Nox copy and 2 Shaloms. There was a time were I went on a break from a game. I missed two events (was beating myself over it a bit). I feel like getting a break from ptn is an occurrence that a lot of people playing went through. (Not speaking for all) Myself included. One of the reasons why I’m still on the game is the fact that is that gacha is that generous.
I played since Oct 2022, I think about two weeks after the global release ... ever since, I tried to stop playing it, but I couldn't. Those crazy mommies need to be ARRESTED!
Oh trust me, I understand. ;)
One funny but cool thing is that even the B-rank sinners r insanely viable & cracked. For example:
Labyrinth: B-Rank sinner that is insanely broken for core breaks, which is far better for serpent in terms of what she needs to do
EMP: A B-rank ranged sinner that has like one of the longest ranges out of any sinner, also a broken ability
But at the end of the day, there's no PVP, no need for meta teams, sooo use whichever waifus u want
I think you can't properly judge the difficulty until you get to Broken Frontline Dark Zone. That's where you need multiple distinct, specialized teams to hit the max points every week. In the most recent season, they totally changed how Dark Zone works because it was essentially too hard for a lot of casual players.
In my opinion the advertisement nearly killed this game i think it's one of the reasons it's so underrated
I rate it 8/10. One of my favorite games just under Arknights and snowbreak. You should play epic 7 next!
I'm slowly working through E7! haha
Gacha system in this game is decent.
It should be possible to get all new S-ranks with just the monthly pass option, unless you get really unlucky.
Of course, the usual problem of "the later you start playing, the more characters you have already missed" remains.
Nice to see PtN getting the recognition it deserves... ❤ Unfortunately, I don't play it anymore. Still, a good game nonetheless... Thx for the nostalgia, Stix
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!! :D
Base mgmt was a friggin hassle for me in Arknights (which is exacerbated by the fact that it's not entierly optional: M3'ing the operators requiring it) so I for one, do NOT miss the extended utility of base. The extreme ease of grinding mats with just a few taps is why I am playing PtN but no longer playing Arknights.
Wow, a gacha ive never heard of! nice vid, you've earned my sub :)
Thanks, hansholst!
The new rating system is much better and detailed
Thank you! Glad to hear that!
Character designs and style in PtN are my favourite among all gacha games, and probably in top 10 of all games I've played in general.
Who's your favorite character?
@@StixPlayx hard to name just one. I'd say Adela, Serpent, Labyrinth
I had to try it after falling in love with raven and oak casket, if you like gothic girls, this is the game for you
Finally PtN getting air time!
Yessss! Hopefully it didn't disappoint!
The only thing held me back to play this game is the lack of cc who cover this game especially for guide type content even pgr or AK have some very good dedicated cc and website
2:35 Wait what?💀🙏
You know, I enjoy my Coquelic! I enjoy playing with Coquelic on my phone, between both my hands, every day! You don't?
@@StixPlayx 😭
All those puns and jokes about "your Coq" really made the video that much more enjoyable. I had a good laugh. However, not the kind of game for me. I have a hard time finding a 2nd-3rd gacha that pleases me, been trying a few, but nothing stuck to me. My current main gacha is the idlegame Eversoul, a generous gacha idlegame, but not much gameplay. Just fun if you enjoy waifus and seeing numbers go up each day/week/month as the limit is sky high. You could take a look at it in one of your videos.
Lmao thank you! I just couldn’t help myself. She was one of my most used units and I kept referring to her as “Coq.” I do really enjoy Eversoul as well! I was one of the OG sponsored CCs for it at release day!
But I’ll definitely be adding it to the list. Every Gacha game will be!
Great review!
Thank you! Appreciate that ryu!
Love this game. Easy 9.5/10 and currently my favorite and main game. Unfortunately whoever was responsible for marketing/ads f'ed up really badly..
The title of the video almost fools me hahaha 😅 *Slowly put away his machete
My favorite gotcha game, I play it religiously everyday and I run a Secret Society…
PTN is amazing
Agreed!!
Actually played it on release. But I was in my Arknights burnout days, so it didn’t last. Maybe will pick it back again one day.
You'll have to let me know what you think if you ever do!
I wish they’d add a function to reset characters so I could use those materials elsewhere😢(I want to reset my Bai yi so I can use those materials on 000)
Wow I didn’t know path of nowhere had English va . May check it out . I have hard time playing games that have zero va
Yeah, the entire game is fully voiced, it's phenomenal.
4:49 love your what Stix? 🤨
You know, my Coq! Coquelic!
Sadly PTN is not for me, but great review as always!!!
Path of we are f**D LOL GOT ME ROLLING
That's how I felt.
Isn't this one of the gachas that you're always playing lol. It's crazy how few people know of this game though; their anniversary livestreams and songs (and everything else honestly) have so few views it makes me depressed
Actually no! The Gacha games I play regularly are NIKKE, Blue Archive, Arknights, Punishing Gray Raven, Wuthering Waves!
More people need to play PTN! It's such a damn good game!
I love my coquelic too, any tips on who best to pair with her?
i start this game on 19th becouse i saw anniversary is close..been gteat experience all character is been great!
Right? It's so much fun!
Thanks for covering PtN. It's currently my favorite game. I never felt depressed with PtN. The feel I have is that while the world is really messed up, the MC is a beacon light and hope. This is the only game the MC has a huge fan base.
You're welcome! It's a phenomenal game that really should be more popular!
saying that with Coque's name is just FOUL for me🤡😭🤣
I wish I liked tower defense games, I feel I would really enjoy PtN if I did. The only real complaint I have about the game is the femc is allowed to have gay romances but the male mc isn't.
Wdym isnt allowed lmao
@@yejubrando272
The femc has the ability to romance at least some female units, the male MC cannot romance any of the male units.
Lmao cap @@midnightroyal8953
Path to Trust Issues
My problem with PtN is their colorizing makes me very dizzy, when i tried to play it back when it first releases. shame cause i like Arknights and i thought i would like this game too
What Gacha should I play next?!
Check out Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: War of the Visions. It was the first gacha I played and I didn’t even know what a gacha was back then. Have you heard of Horizon Walker?
battle cats ,one of the og gacha games
Bleach: Brave Souls
Nueral cloud
@@StixPlayx I've been saying this for a while but Guardian Tales.
As someone who has been playing the game for a year and has multiple S rank sinners
Just 2 problems i have is in rating the difficulty and world
First there is a huge difficulty spike in the broken frontline starting from high risk and in daro zone (i am still scared to try dark zone)
The world is much expanded upon in the eternal nightmare gamemode,the events and the interrogation of different characters peading to a rich and diverse scenario for each case and the main world building starts after chapter 11 from wherein many secrets re revealed
As much as you love your Coq, looking at the gameplay, it doesn't seems you know how to play her.😅 It's fine at that difficulty, but you're gonna get slaughtered later on.
LMAO true. I'm not the best at playing with my Coq. Good games continue to get more difficult as things move along, and that's when you truly learn how to play them. I wasn't at that point yet.
Only reason I stopped playing PtN was the dailies. I am sick of dailies. They serve no purpose other than draining 20 minutes from my day.
Wdym, dailies give cubes and take 5 minutes max...
you are a Sim for coquelic 😂 welcome to the club
lmao glad to be here.
BOOOOO THIS GUY LETS RIOTNLADS NO REVERSE 1999 VID YET
i have the same problem on this game with azur lane, i love everything except the gameplay
If the gameplay was more refined, I think it would've been one of the best games in the gacha world for sureI
PtN is good, had potential, sadly the tower defenses gameplay to me not exciting as Arknights is, to simple, while i'm not a pro with strategical, but i like the challenge that Arknight gave where PtN didn't deliver it right for me ...
the art and 3D is beautiful, as gatcha game is not that bad, the gameplay is the downside to me
Great game I very much doubt its a bad game
It's a fantastic game!
Path to Nowhere is right
This game is good, the story, the characters, everything.
My only complaint is there a lot of angry lesbians gatekeeping this game lol
LMAO wait what? That's a thing?
@@StixPlayx Sadly yes, especially in X (Twitter) lol
@@StixPlayx this game has a HUGE following of lesbians (hence the characters like Cinnabar, Deren, Shawn, Tetra, Zoya, and all the gay innuendo and ships)
What I im going to say is going to ruffle a lot of feathers but, my only gripe about this game is the lack of playable male characters and the horrible EN voice acting.
I know a lot of people like this game because of it's story, but I've read better stories with the same premise and the events aren't really helping my engagement either.
This is all I will say because the other thing that grinds my gear about this game is it's toxic community when it comes to valid criticism. Overall, I would give this game a 4 out of 10, because even though some parts of the games story had me wanting to leave the game again, Zoya chapter and Donald chapter have me wanting to stay.
I wish they did more with the available male characters we get in the gacha pull like Fate Grand Order, Punishing Gray Raven, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, Arknights, and many other games that have male playable characters in them, but that's fighting a losing battle with this games community and devs.
The art is amazing along with the sound track, but the blatant appeal for one specific group of people is what makes me and others not want to continue playing the game.
Again, this is mine and probably many others opinion, to each their own.
WTF is this AD XD
What a load of crap for a click bait title😅
How is it a clickbait title? It's a video series name, with the objective of the series to try and find the "worst gacha ever."
I'd try it if it had a PC client.
Not sure why "well received" games don't make this a priority to get out.
Right? PC would help skyrocket this game!
@@StixPlayx I'd even say it would be good if you could play it from Google Play Games PC (requires Win11, that's it), that counts, but many MANY games dont even bother with that.
@@Xovian I would respectfully disagree for PtN in particular. Action games like WuWa yes, but I think mobile is just perfect for PtN. Hopefully you still give it a try.
@@JamesLianCanadaBoth platforms being available brings more players. I, and possibly many others, enjoy gaming on bigger screens.
@@MahaXad sure, there is no harm in it. I just wouldn't personally play PtN on PC even though I consider myself primarily a PC gamer.