One of the best stories Maeda-san has ever worked on. Chapter 3's event left me bawling like a kid, and musically, Maeda has peaked as a musician probably, the OSTs are INCREDIBLE. Please play HBR, the VN means a LOT.
Heaven Burns Red (commonly referred to as HBR or ヘブバン) is a mobile RPG that has drawn significant attention for its grand narrative and richly developed characters, created under the guidance of 麻枝准(Maeda Jun), a figure well-known for his work at Key. Since its release in Japan in February 2022, the game has enjoyed explosive popularity, earning numerous awards such as the Google Play Best of 2022 and achieving over 200 million USD in annual revenue within just one year of launch. The story is set on Earth, which teeters on the brink of annihilation following the invasion of mysterious enemies known as cancer(キャンサー). Players take on the role of a commander leading the special unit known as the Seraph Squadron(セラフ部隊), composed of young women endowed with extraordinary powers. Amidst the struggle against the cancer, you will experience the unique backstories of each character. Filled with both laughter and tears, their personal narratives and interactions drive home a sense of growth and deep bonds among the cast. In particular, the main storyline brims with conflicts, emotional struggles, and evolving friendships that profoundly resonate with players.
Character design is handled by Yu-gen(ゆーげん), known for his delicate touch and gorgeous color palettes from the Atelier series, and these designs are faithfully translated into 3D by Graphinica(グラフィニカ)’s cutting-edge technology. Through a technique referred to as cinematics, Graphinica breathes life into every character’s expressions and gestures, creating a striking sense of presence. This meticulous attention to detail, especially during pivotal story moments, amplifies the emotional impact and immerses players even further in the narrative. Adding to the appeal is the game’s commitment to full voice acting in all story events and dialogue scenes. This extensive voice work infuses each character with even greater charm and depth, making the world of Heaven Burns Red feel truly alive. Music also plays a major role in the game’s allure. Maeda Jun, renowned for his songwriting and composition skills, crafts a broad array of exceptional tracks performed by talented artists such as Yanaginagi(やなぎなぎ), Suzuki Konomi(鈴木このみ), and XAI(/saɪ/). These songs elevate the impact of the story’s most moving moments. The in-game live performance scenes are especially breathtaking. From Chapter 4 onward, the budget and production values increase, and with Graphinica’s involvement, these concert sequences soar in quality-so much so that they feel like attending a live event yourself. Moreover, real-world live concerts have been held nationwide across Japan, generating enthusiastic responses from fans.
On top of the main narrative, the abundance of event stories (Side Story) and character interaction episodes also deserves praise. With over fifty characters, each boasting distinct personalities, players continually discover new favorites. It’s frequently said among fans that “every new event story adds another character to your list of favorites.” The game’s quality and richness of content have rightfully become a hot topic. Heaven Burns Red, with Maeda Jun’s accumulated expertise on full display, offers not only the tear-jerking elements he is famous for, but also deft humor, compelling drama, and astonishing production values. For those seeking a deeply moving story and unforgettable characters, this masterpiece is truly a must-experience title.
Ruka is one of the best protagonist I have seen in a VN, always being proactive instead of reactive during character interaction is rare for a VN protagonist.
@@TheAugustHail true! Its becuase most gacha game protags are bland character inserts just standing there waiting for player input. Thats why from a storytelling perspective ive been loving ruka and niki from infinity nikki, cause they actually have personalities
@@ragnaxbloodedge well partly i meant story wise most of his other work are supernatural but still based in a working society while this one is way different from all of his other works in that is his first post apocplyce story also with an all female cast so it just something he hasn't wrote before
Great game, i started somewhere in december and have been hooked to the music and story. I'm not exactly wow'ed by the combat due to how limited it really is in terms of skills to use and slots which you can only unlock by reversing a character with some bell items and then you also actually need to have another memoria with some skill you dont have. Still, I hope more people flock to the game and stay more for the story rather than the uhhh.... ground breaking combat system...
I downloaded it after hearing "Burn my Universe" in a game ad a year later after I heard it first in FGO amv and liked it a lot. It feels like meeting an old good friend and be besties after the reunion.
There's an event after you finish chapter 3 (won't spoil obviously), but it made me just actually bawl my eyes out for a good hour and just sitting still silently when it was over. Game has all the good (and sometimes bad) of a KEY visual novel and Jun Maeda. Also all I've been listening to for the past month is the games music, it's so damn incredible.
I play a ton of cultured gachas, but HBR is my 2024 GOTY despite the game having literally zero fan service. Easily simultaneously the funniest and the saddest game in the gacha space. The entire plot is character driven, not banner or monetization driven. And if you're a F2P, the game is very F2P friendly and you can easily clear the story without ever spending a penny. And unlike the majority of Chinese and Korean anime gacha games mimicking Japanese culture, this is 100% Japanese with Japanese cultural references, wordplay, and voice acting.
@@SeaweedAK In the context of Japanese anime styled games, no. "Fan service" is when the game provides scenes that exist primarily or exclusively to provide visually erotic images. It's not head canon fuel. It's not suggestive dialogue. It's not romantic heartwarming scenes. It's tits and ass and if you say otherwise, you're lying to yourself or the audience. The bath scenes in HBR don't even show characters let alone erotic or suggestive images.
Alright this is Going near The "Limbus Company" Box..... (F2P Gatchas Boxes) (Btw why gatchas are so Underrated and hated if someones make their job right...)
Everybody should play it especially if you like key studios work or jun maeda's it's had fun characters and VA performance And if this game get a lot of profit probably we will had 2nd beats visual novel And more real game project get funding Just like the nikke games becoming funding for stellar Blade
Thank you for covering this! ♥I live for every HBR exposure I hope Yostar keeps supporting the global version the storytelling, VA's and pacing is so good imo
@@TheAugustHailnice,thanks for info. I honestly don't mind gacha games (because i use modded apk's and oneshot everything anyways lmao),so I care only about story. If story is good then this can be even most p2w gacha
Unlocking all the characters is extremely easy but the game has different styles for them that offer different things for combat. Getting all of those without spending money would be tough but you can definitely get a good amount. Experiencing all the story without paying is very doable: some points may require a bit of grinding to progress but nothing too excessive. I would highly recommend giving the game a shot.
Yeah that's what I said before I play it But you should play it it's had fun characters and VA performance And if this game get a lot of profit probably we will had 2nd beats visual novel And more real game project get funding Just like the nikke games becoming funding for stellar Blade
I dont even know shit about what buff to use, etc. Just slap any SS char you got and max level them. Use auto equip and done. Lol. Story mode wont be that hard actually. Unless you want to get high score in challenge
There, one of my reasons why I didn't get this. I am a fan of Visual Novels, but I do not have that much time to actually grind for a Visual Novel. As much as I wanted to get this too.
Jun Maeda's anime often did feel as though he was restrained by the tight seasonal anime format. It's why I always felt it was better for him to shift to a visual novel format, so he can flesh out his ideas better. He's the sort of author that's better at a slow roast. A shame those Angel Beats visual novels didn't continue past 1st beat. We coulda seen some of the best episodic nakige vns of the prior decade. A shame. At least we have his work on this new gacha game. Now he can slow roast for as long as the game doesn't get EOS. Maybe he might even finish Angel Beats(cope)?
Dammit I might download this sooner rather then later. I've only played a couple of Key VN's so far and that's been enough to start collecting the physical versions on Switch.
I feel like the story needs to take itself seriously a little bit more often. Maybe I just don’t get it but the serious moments have no impact when it’s constantly bookended with everyone being whacky all the time. Obviously that might be why it’s enjoyable because it’s not super gloomy, just a bunch of silly girls fighting monsters. Honestly I kinda feel like it’s a bit of BanG Dream mixed with NIKKE… but i dunno. Not sure what I was expecting. Also maybe a bit sad this wasn’t a magical girl rpg that someone told me it was. Lol
the only bad thing about this game that it's a gacha game, with a very bad gameplay and tedious grinding too i like the story, i love all the cast, but i dont have the will to continue to play the game :(
Well... I won't argue against the gameplay being bad, but once you unlock remeberence battles you can probably reach close to max level withim an hour or soif you leave your characters auto-battling the highest difficulty they can, and just refresh the stage / stamina when you need to. (If you can defeat the top difficulty stage, a single clear consuming 5 stamina will instantly bring any level 1 character in the team to above level 80) After that, you never have to grind or worry about the gameplay again, and you can auto pretty much all stages and just enjoy the story. (Or, even before unlocking the rememberance bosses, you can leave your characters offline auto-grinding in the Arena and shut-down the app. When you come back after 10 hours or so, everyone will be at least level 40.) Which is too say... Yeah, the combat is kinda boring, but this has to be one of the least grindy gacha games / RPGs I've ever played.
@@joaomarcoscosta4647 i stopped playing after i finished the Chapter 4 Part 1, my CP is around 17k at that time Still i find myself struggle to play quite the amount of content, even an farming or event map give me alot of hard time, left alone some content like the Time Tower and such
@@kratine8610 Oh, in that case, I 100% agree with you. Yeah, once you finish the story and all that's left is the end-game grind... Well, all that's left is the end-game grind. ^^; If that's the case, putting the game on hold until more story content comes out is not a bad plan. Or just burn your 5 stamina every day to get the daily minutes done withim 2 minutes and log off. (it's what I've been doing.)
I've only played up to chapter 4 part 1 day 3, so I can't speak about afterwards, but I feel like the slice of life sections of the story is really a slog to get through. When the story gets good it actually gets really good, but these sections get sandwiched between hours of slice of life that I feel wouldn't have made much of a difference if it was removed or reduced instead.
I only this wasn't gacha. I'm already playing Genshin and Star Rail. I don't have enough time to invest in leveling up characters and fighting. I just want something to read on a mobile phone and practice Japanese. And the characters being all girls is also a turn off for a VN with gameplay elements.
Welll... It will definitely stick around for at least an year or two, at least. Probably more. All live service games shut down eventually, but Yostar rarely abbandos a new game quickly. And since HBR is still going strong on JP, there is no need to worry about the original servers shutting down any time soon either. Plus, there is a previous game from the same developer called "Another Eden", which has similar gameplay and even more niche appeal and it is still sticking around since 2017 in Japan, and 2019 worldwide. (And it is still getting updates. I believe they somewhat recently had an Atelier Ryza collab on Global) So... Yeah. I don't see HBR blowing up in the west, but I don't see it shutting down anytime soon, at least. Plus, who knows, with the recent trend of keeping some gacha games available through an offline version after their inevitable end of service, but HBR will have the same treatment one day.
@@chaserseven2886 I assume its implied. Even if you remove that, it still, very much is generic gatcha garbage, like, I'm not even trying', but like what he describes in the video is what a lot of the gatchas have for the plot. The way he describes the characters can be applied to 99% of anime characters. At the end of the day, I just obviously dont like him parading this gatcha game as a visual novel everywhere he goes, when he has obvious bias towards it.
Thanks for your thoughts! And yeah, I like KEY/Jun Maeda's writing, and I also like gacha games. I play a fair amount of them. That's the truth. I'm also more flexible when it comes to defining titles as a visual novel (ie. Ace Attorney, 13 Sentinels, Demons Roots). Mainly because the strict classification on what is or is not, doesn't bother me. I wanted to make a video because I liked what read in Heaven Burns Red and I wanted to share that sentiment.
@@avendurree Tell me you haven't played the game without telling me you haven't played the game. >_> I play a ton of gacha games and HBR shits all over all the copy paste Chinese and Korean gachas. This is character driven and you can complete the entire plot without spending a penny. You have a surface understanding of the characters and te game. The yuri part of the game isn't contrive bait inserted to drive banners like in Mihoyo games. Romance is not even one tenth of the plot, and there's literally zero fan service.
Play Heaven Burns Red now!
▶ bit.ly/theaugusthail
One of the best stories Maeda-san has ever worked on. Chapter 3's event left me bawling like a kid, and musically, Maeda has peaked as a musician probably, the OSTs are INCREDIBLE. Please play HBR, the VN means a LOT.
“Whoopsie Gravy”
Heaven Burns Red (commonly referred to as HBR or ヘブバン) is a mobile RPG that has drawn significant attention for its grand narrative and richly developed characters, created under the guidance of 麻枝准(Maeda Jun), a figure well-known for his work at Key. Since its release in Japan in February 2022, the game has enjoyed explosive popularity, earning numerous awards such as the Google Play Best of 2022 and achieving over 200 million USD in annual revenue within just one year of launch.
The story is set on Earth, which teeters on the brink of annihilation following the invasion of mysterious enemies known as cancer(キャンサー). Players take on the role of a commander leading the special unit known as the Seraph Squadron(セラフ部隊), composed of young women endowed with extraordinary powers. Amidst the struggle against the cancer, you will experience the unique backstories of each character. Filled with both laughter and tears, their personal narratives and interactions drive home a sense of growth and deep bonds among the cast. In particular, the main storyline brims with conflicts, emotional struggles, and evolving friendships that profoundly resonate with players.
Character design is handled by Yu-gen(ゆーげん), known for his delicate touch and gorgeous color palettes from the Atelier series, and these designs are faithfully translated into 3D by Graphinica(グラフィニカ)’s cutting-edge technology. Through a technique referred to as cinematics, Graphinica breathes life into every character’s expressions and gestures, creating a striking sense of presence. This meticulous attention to detail, especially during pivotal story moments, amplifies the emotional impact and immerses players even further in the narrative.
Adding to the appeal is the game’s commitment to full voice acting in all story events and dialogue scenes. This extensive voice work infuses each character with even greater charm and depth, making the world of Heaven Burns Red feel truly alive.
Music also plays a major role in the game’s allure. Maeda Jun, renowned for his songwriting and composition skills, crafts a broad array of exceptional tracks performed by talented artists such as Yanaginagi(やなぎなぎ), Suzuki Konomi(鈴木このみ), and XAI(/saɪ/). These songs elevate the impact of the story’s most moving moments. The in-game live performance scenes are especially breathtaking. From Chapter 4 onward, the budget and production values increase, and with Graphinica’s involvement, these concert sequences soar in quality-so much so that they feel like attending a live event yourself. Moreover, real-world live concerts have been held nationwide across Japan, generating enthusiastic responses from fans.
On top of the main narrative, the abundance of event stories (Side Story) and character interaction episodes also deserves praise. With over fifty characters, each boasting distinct personalities, players continually discover new favorites. It’s frequently said among fans that “every new event story adds another character to your list of favorites.” The game’s quality and richness of content have rightfully become a hot topic.
Heaven Burns Red, with Maeda Jun’s accumulated expertise on full display, offers not only the tear-jerking elements he is famous for, but also deft humor, compelling drama, and astonishing production values. For those seeking a deeply moving story and unforgettable characters, this masterpiece is truly a must-experience title.
2:42 tons of WAKKIE supporting characters
Ruka is one of the best protagonist I have seen in a VN, always being proactive instead of reactive during character interaction is rare for a VN protagonist.
Honestly she feels like a breath of fresh air for me compared to most gacha game protagonists
@@TheAugustHail true! Its becuase most gacha game protags are bland character inserts just standing there waiting for player input.
Thats why from a storytelling perspective ive been loving ruka and niki from infinity nikki, cause they actually have personalities
Ruka reminded me of Deathpolca from Demons Roots both blondes with right side bangs.
Thanks for this video the game and story are so underrated and it one of maeda-san most challenging works
yeah, I guess because it's a gacha game
@@ragnaxbloodedge well partly i meant story wise most of his other work are supernatural but still based in a working society while this one is way different from all of his other works in that is his first post apocplyce story also with an all female cast so it just something he hasn't wrote before
Great game, i started somewhere in december and have been hooked to the music and story. I'm not exactly wow'ed by the combat due to how limited it really is in terms of skills to use and slots which you can only unlock by reversing a character with some bell items and then you also actually need to have another memoria with some skill you dont have.
Still, I hope more people flock to the game and stay more for the story rather than the uhhh.... ground breaking combat system...
Its the teheperinko but this works too
Leaving a comment to fuel the algorithm, Heaven Burns Red needs more attention!
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i played hbr randomly like i just idk bored and decided to download it. i coming in with zero clues who jun maeda or key is. but im glad i did
I downloaded it after hearing "Burn my Universe" in a game ad a year later after I heard it first in FGO amv and liked it a lot. It feels like meeting an old good friend and be besties after the reunion.
This game is such i blast i em loving it so far just wow
I hate that the game isn't available on my country.
Same
You guys need to find a way to play it tho, it's a masterpiece storywise
Great video, ive been trying to sell this game to my friends but i couldnt find the right words to gain thier interest. So thank you
and then she said "whoopsie gravy"
funniest shit ive ever seen
YAMEROOOOOOOOOOO 😂
There's an event after you finish chapter 3 (won't spoil obviously), but it made me just actually bawl my eyes out for a good hour and just sitting still silently when it was over. Game has all the good (and sometimes bad) of a KEY visual novel and Jun Maeda. Also all I've been listening to for the past month is the games music, it's so damn incredible.
That last part about listening to the game's music is SO true.
I play a ton of cultured gachas, but HBR is my 2024 GOTY despite the game having literally zero fan service. Easily simultaneously the funniest and the saddest game in the gacha space. The entire plot is character driven, not banner or monetization driven. And if you're a F2P, the game is very F2P friendly and you can easily clear the story without ever spending a penny. And unlike the majority of Chinese and Korean anime gacha games mimicking Japanese culture, this is 100% Japanese with Japanese cultural references, wordplay, and voice acting.
I'm sorry but fan service could take many many form and hbr definitely have lots of them
@@SeaweedAK In the context of Japanese anime styled games, no. "Fan service" is when the game provides scenes that exist primarily or exclusively to provide visually erotic images. It's not head canon fuel. It's not suggestive dialogue. It's not romantic heartwarming scenes. It's tits and ass and if you say otherwise, you're lying to yourself or the audience. The bath scenes in HBR don't even show characters let alone erotic or suggestive images.
@araarashinigami There is fan service but it is really rare when it happens
Uh theres fan service but they don't show it for no reason, the fan service has some connection to the story too 😋
Alright this is Going near The "Limbus Company" Box.....
(F2P Gatchas Boxes)
(Btw why gatchas are so Underrated and hated if someones make their job right...)
⚠️⚠️Beware of the spoilers in this video, don't watch it unless you cleared chapter 2 entirely ⚠️⚠️
3:43 KUSUNOKI TOMORI?????????? THE VA OF KANADE FROM PROSEKAI AND PREVIOUSLY SETSUNA FROM LOVELIVE NIJIGAKU?!
i just played this last month.. glad you cover this too
Everybody should play it especially if you like key studios work or jun maeda's it's had fun characters and VA performance
And if this game get a lot of profit probably we will had 2nd beats visual novel
And more real game project get funding
Just like the nikke games becoming funding for stellar Blade
I wish it was avaible in my country, i am a big fan of key
The HBR story reminds me of a song from Never Fade Away by Samurai. It is too poetic and similar.
try reverse 1999, it's free and has a great story and visual. its a vn and i think you should try to review it!
I'm curious : how many ( former ) military with Ruka-like persona ( MMORPG ) are there here, watching this video ? 🥴
isn’t metaphor a visual novel aswell?
metaphor refantazio review when?
By your logic Persona is also a visual novel which it isn’t.
One of the best gacha game in term of story. Maybe behind Limbus and Arknights.
The main protagonist is voicing Firefly in HSR
Please review dead days
GREATEST!! CANT WAIT FOR CH4 PART 2. LOVE LOVE LOVE MAEDA JUN
Thank you for covering this! ♥I live for every HBR exposure I hope Yostar keeps supporting the global version the storytelling, VA's and pacing is so good imo
You're welcome! I hope they do too!
How would you rate it on tier list?
Low A-Tier / High B Tier, although your experience may be dulled if you don't like gacha game as a medium for story's or Jun Maeda's writing
@@TheAugustHailnice,thanks for info. I honestly don't mind gacha games (because i use modded apk's and oneshot everything anyways lmao),so I care only about story. If story is good then this can be even most p2w gacha
This game is free to play and a gatcha, so do i need to so spend real money to unlock all the characters to experience the full story?
@@KarribuWurst Don't worry about the Gacha aspect it is very unintrusive.
Unlocking all the characters is extremely easy but the game has different styles for them that offer different things for combat. Getting all of those without spending money would be tough but you can definitely get a good amount. Experiencing all the story without paying is very doable: some points may require a bit of grinding to progress but nothing too excessive.
I would highly recommend giving the game a shot.
I was going to play this but someone at my job stole it... well time to spoil myself the storyline due to my supposed negligence.
I swear August posts a specific video from my backlog when im just on the verge of breaking free of vns and get back to real world.
Too bad they made this a gacha game :/
it sucks its a gatcha game otherwise i might play it
The Gacha parts pretty much doesn't even matter. It's so incredibly easy you barely even notice it.
It makes more money that all the key vn combined
Yeah that's what I said before I play it
But you should play it it's had fun characters and VA performance
And if this game get a lot of profit probably we will had 2nd beats visual novel
And more real game project get funding
Just like the nikke games becoming funding for stellar Blade
I dont even know shit about what buff to use, etc. Just slap any SS char you got and max level them. Use auto equip and done. Lol. Story mode wont be that hard actually. Unless you want to get high score in challenge
There, one of my reasons why I didn't get this. I am a fan of Visual Novels, but I do not have that much time to actually grind for a Visual Novel. As much as I wanted to get this too.
Jun Maeda's anime often did feel as though he was restrained by the tight seasonal anime format. It's why I always felt it was better for him to shift to a visual novel format, so he can flesh out his ideas better. He's the sort of author that's better at a slow roast. A shame those Angel Beats visual novels didn't continue past 1st beat. We coulda seen some of the best episodic nakige vns of the prior decade. A shame. At least we have his work on this new gacha game. Now he can slow roast for as long as the game doesn't get EOS. Maybe he might even finish Angel Beats(cope)?
All the Girls dead monster girls backgrounds finished with the new collaboration event in heaven burns red btw
@user-gy9ih6ym9o the world is healing
The Angel Beats Collab events is basically Angel Beats 2nd Beat
is the event permanent? Might get into this game but I just don't have the time this month
@@air_sejok6852 all events are permanent as they are stored in an archive, you can start playing them anytime
I wish I could install this but it not available in my country.
"and I wanna break down-"
Well, its Key/Jun Maeda, so you came to the right place 😭😢
"-and tell you all about the qualities..."
.....oh
Dammit I might download this sooner rather then later. I've only played a couple of Key VN's so far and that's been enough to start collecting the physical versions on Switch.
This is Danganronpa without the battle royale.
All the character art being done by Yuugen, my favorite Atelier artist, only makes this game more tempting but I cant let myself play a gacha game
Aoi.... ;-;
I feel like the story needs to take itself seriously a little bit more often. Maybe I just don’t get it but the serious moments have no impact when it’s constantly bookended with everyone being whacky all the time.
Obviously that might be why it’s enjoyable because it’s not super gloomy, just a bunch of silly girls fighting monsters. Honestly I kinda feel like it’s a bit of BanG Dream mixed with NIKKE… but i dunno. Not sure what I was expecting.
Also maybe a bit sad this wasn’t a magical girl rpg that someone told me it was. Lol
the only bad thing about this game that it's a gacha game, with a very bad gameplay and tedious grinding too
i like the story, i love all the cast, but i dont have the will to continue to play the game :(
Well... I won't argue against the gameplay being bad, but once you unlock remeberence battles you can probably reach close to max level withim an hour or soif you leave your characters auto-battling the highest difficulty they can, and just refresh the stage / stamina when you need to. (If you can defeat the top difficulty stage, a single clear consuming 5 stamina will instantly bring any level 1 character in the team to above level 80)
After that, you never have to grind or worry about the gameplay again, and you can auto pretty much all stages and just enjoy the story.
(Or, even before unlocking the rememberance bosses, you can leave your characters offline auto-grinding in the Arena and shut-down the app. When you come back after 10 hours or so, everyone will be at least level 40.)
Which is too say... Yeah, the combat is kinda boring, but this has to be one of the least grindy gacha games / RPGs I've ever played.
@@joaomarcoscosta4647 i stopped playing after i finished the Chapter 4 Part 1, my CP is around 17k at that time
Still i find myself struggle to play quite the amount of content, even an farming or event map give me alot of hard time, left alone some content like the Time Tower and such
@@kratine8610 Oh, in that case, I 100% agree with you.
Yeah, once you finish the story and all that's left is the end-game grind... Well, all that's left is the end-game grind. ^^;
If that's the case, putting the game on hold until more story content comes out is not a bad plan. Or just burn your 5 stamina every day to get the daily minutes done withim 2 minutes and log off. (it's what I've been doing.)
It has all the key tropes, probably everyone is going to die and get revived at the end but with a bittersweet explanation.
I've only played up to chapter 4 part 1 day 3, so I can't speak about afterwards, but I feel like the slice of life sections of the story is really a slog to get through. When the story gets good it actually gets really good, but these sections get sandwiched between hours of slice of life that I feel wouldn't have made much of a difference if it was removed or reduced instead.
I only this wasn't gacha. I'm already playing Genshin and Star Rail. I don't have enough time to invest in leveling up characters and fighting. I just want something to read on a mobile phone and practice Japanese. And the characters being all girls is also a turn off for a VN with gameplay elements.
so what are the chances of this reaching end of service in the west? i want to read the plot dont have time to play the game
Welll... It will definitely stick around for at least an year or two, at least. Probably more.
All live service games shut down eventually, but Yostar rarely abbandos a new game quickly. And since HBR is still going strong on JP, there is no need to worry about the original servers shutting down any time soon either.
Plus, there is a previous game from the same developer called "Another Eden", which has similar gameplay and even more niche appeal and it is still sticking around since 2017 in Japan, and 2019 worldwide. (And it is still getting updates. I believe they somewhat recently had an Atelier Ryza collab on Global)
So... Yeah. I don't see HBR blowing up in the west, but I don't see it shutting down anytime soon, at least.
Plus, who knows, with the recent trend of keeping some gacha games available through an offline version after their inevitable end of service, but HBR will have the same treatment one day.
Okay, so it really does boil down to you being a mindless Key fan as the reason for why you're preaching this gatcha yuri garbage as a visual novel.
Eh there really isn’t much Yuri here
@@chaserseven2886 I assume its implied.
Even if you remove that, it still, very much is generic gatcha garbage, like, I'm not even trying', but like what he describes in the video is what a lot of the gatchas have for the plot. The way he describes the characters can be applied to 99% of anime characters.
At the end of the day, I just obviously dont like him parading this gatcha game as a visual novel everywhere he goes, when he has obvious bias towards it.
Thanks for your thoughts! And yeah, I like KEY/Jun Maeda's writing, and I also like gacha games. I play a fair amount of them. That's the truth.
I'm also more flexible when it comes to defining titles as a visual novel (ie. Ace Attorney, 13 Sentinels, Demons Roots). Mainly because the strict classification on what is or is not, doesn't bother me.
I wanted to make a video because I liked what read in Heaven Burns Red and I wanted to share that sentiment.
@@avendurree i was kinda joking with the yuri part but its a shame that its a gatcha it would make a neat persona like game
@@avendurree Tell me you haven't played the game without telling me you haven't played the game. >_> I play a ton of gacha games and HBR shits all over all the copy paste Chinese and Korean gachas. This is character driven and you can complete the entire plot without spending a penny. You have a surface understanding of the characters and te game. The yuri part of the game isn't contrive bait inserted to drive banners like in Mihoyo games. Romance is not even one tenth of the plot, and there's literally zero fan service.
This Is a disappoint Game, I said😢 the worst work from Jun Maeda
Maybe just your trash taste, sorry to hear that 😢