orb system is the most genius battle system I have ever seen, it make the combat so much fun and most importantly feels so much faster than CD abilities
The game itself is forced to be on a mobile platform, however the devs encourage emulators for pc and console cuz the ping system is harder to use in those platforms
One thing no one talks about is their camera work. They utilize it so well in selling attack impacts and ultimates. For example with Ember, without her Core active the camera shakes super subtly but when it's active it shakes much more prominently but not to the point it gets distracting. Another one is Verity and Hypnos when their Core activates the camera goes into this tunnel vision effect. And probably the best implementation for me personally is Rosetta's ult. I just love how towards the second half of her ult it zooms in to simulate her first person perspective. Her ult is very simple but man that camera work trickery is just _chef kiss_
OMG it's so true. How a 3D action mobile game has a so perfect camera I never realised how good is it because you don't think about it, because there is zero problem. Good catch
OH YES. PGR IS SO FAR, THE MOST DIFFICULT MOBILE GAME TO BE MASTERED. FUCKING ANNOYING, YET, SATISFYING. And the enemies, EXTREMELY STRONG. Like, almost impossible to beat in some modes. Well, if you're a masochist, PGR is for you. WHALES : "MONEY CAN DO MANY SHITS, DUDES !" PGR : "Nah. You'll get your ass kicked without your real skill." And another best part : CAMERA WORKS. It's much better than any other game out there.
I swear I can't remember much before the corrupted space station bc that's when the story started getting good for me. A question tho, are they slower with updates on global??
No it has not. PGR's world and lore are interesting, yet the story itself is dragged, naive and just plain boring way more times than I'd wish it to be.
The thing they've also done great is the diverse set of characters and the fact that you don't need big booba waifus to get players going but even husbandos with unique attack pattern and amazing mechanic that made them stand out. Next, the fact the they made the first set of villains as playable characters as Transcendent(Of course except Gabriel, that piece of garbage) and that's already amazing thing for me. Especially, when Roland has his trailer (in the server I'm playing at) the hype was real man. And don't forget that pulling for any Transcendent you want only cost 10 pulls. They're really generous. And then considering the story mode, of course it may not have any impact to some of you but the first time I've experience taking control of some of the bosses in hard mode I really feel excited then I thought, "Holy sheeesh, that's new to me! What the hell is that health?! Too OP!" I never thought I'll be that excited over letting us be in control of it. I might be spoiling your next video and I'm sorry for that.
I agree on everything but playing as the bosses. Its a cool idea but they arent well fleshed out in my personal opinion. Im glad you enjoyed it though. Also, don't worry you didnt spoil anything. Though I want to have some more pgr content on here eventually, I plan to do more videos like this on other games I enjoy (mainly jrpgs and character action but maybe ill cover some others as well) since its hard to go this in depth on one game that many times. If you have any suggestions on a game I should talk about ill be glad to hear it however, note that itll take a bit before my next big video like this because I want to upgrade my mic
As much as I love the waifus, yes, the husbandos are really great too. Kuro is pretty inclusive on that front bc they leave the Commandant gender-neutral. They do need to work on the bosses in the Hidden Story modes bc they still feel wonky to control, but it's a super fun concept to be able to play as them, and get their PoV of the story.
I think they did not hire a proper writer for the story at the early stage of the game due to budget issue. But the quality of the narrative of later chapter just went sky rocketing it even make me cry a few times
As someone who played stuff like DMC3SE-5, Assault Spy, Gunvolt 1-2, Katana Zero, and literally any game... That specifically needs me to observe and adapt while doing actions quick during a fight. I couldn't help but smile at PGR being a thing, it was a godsend among all mobile games. While it has its flaws, one thing it does best is its COMBAT, I mean: Parrying? Ping orbs? Limited evasions? Counter skills and finishing skills? On paper... It may seem like it's just another Gacha game, but it knew what it means to have depth, fun and passion. It knew what adaptive and fast-paced action players desire. To learn and evade the patterns of our foes, to strike when the time was right, to parry a strike, to parry when another strikes, to make use of what we have. These things are what make Kuro (Developer) stand out amongst many mobile and Gacha games, people can shallowly laugh at it for the fact that the Global Launch was notoriously a god damn b¡tch (Oh boy am I glad I didn't play at Launch.) But the facts now of what Punishing Gray Raven is? It's a peak action mobile Gacha game, and that will never change.
The launch wasn’t even thattt bad. 1 dollar extra and 10,000 bc mistake was all bad but was it as bad as a game with no anniversary. A lot of companies make dumb mistakes like this.
@@NoanIsHere Okay let me tell you all the launch problems. In CN the first launch was a big mistake. Stupid mistake tbh lol. At launch if you got the game the first few hours the game came out you would get 10,000 bc as a reward. This was a mistake it was supposed to be 1000 bc (lol). So they put the game on maintenance and changed it back to 1000. Even so, there was a huge problem. The people who got the 10,000 bc still has it. So basically the people who waited to play the game felt left out. So they gave everyone a free S rank selector. This one Imo was really bad because the people who got the game on launch still got both. Now the global version is the one that’s not that bad. The only bad things that happened to global was the 1 dollar extra, karenina skin costing a lot when CN doesn’t even have that skin, and lastly CN getting a little bit extra for the beginner missions but why does that matter when global can still get alpha f2p guaranteed.
@@sh1r0_zenkai30 Christ that one was quite a debacle, but I'd say it was too farfetched to call that much of a big problem. But rather, it's better off called a very dumb one lmao.
@@NoanIsHere Plus you wanna know why it’s 1 dollar extra. It’s because google play and Apple Pay services. Kuro has to pay extra for transactions so they increase the price. It wasn’t like they were being scammy on purpose. On top of that they communicated immedietely and added another monthly pass that doesn’t force you to pay an extra dollar. The skin event was literally something CN didn’t get. They had no skin or extra bc from that event. It was global exclusive. So I don’t see why people are complaining about how expensive it is if CN didn’t even get a chance to buy it.
As someone that just played couple month ago yeah PGR is definitely on the harder side. Unlike other mobile action rpg game, the much simpler atk-skill-ult button is definitely easier to memorize thus making newbie feel much more welcomed. Even me despite having played a lot of action rpg game require solid 1 month of playing to build muscle memory to play pgr smoothly. I still remember at my first month where I struggle to dodge because I had to stare a good seconds at to manage my signal orbs. And the banger bgm and flashly char movement doesnt help I cant focus lmao. I end up staring half of time looking at bottom right(orbs) than middle screen. But once you build that memory muscle ngl the game literally changes. Making combos feel satisfyibg
True, if you get used to playing PGR with orb system + dodge + not bang your head to the soundtrack game gets really fun to play, I had similar story at start where i'd look at orbs 24/7 and getting destroyed in the process.
Couldn't agree more. The combat in this game is so smooth that I ditched Honkai, the game that it's supposed to "copy." When I started playing it, I did not expect the 3 ping system and how I would enjoy it so much, the extremely F2P gacha system and rates, and the godly music and lore. I just hope that they add more cutscenes or at least voice acting.
@@bryannaing6316 it's always has been f2p since launch, you play for 3 months you get S rank. BC S rank is released every 2-3 months and you can all S rank of you save all yout BC from start of the to end of the month
Voice acting in cut scenes will just make the game files a lot bigger and one selling point of the game is that it is potato phone friendly so even a good 500mb will risk a considerable large playerbase.
@@bryannaing6316 it have always been F2P friendly you just never notice or play long enough to notice it you could grind enough to get every single S rank in game when they get released and the pity is only 60 which is lower than basically all current famous gacha game
@@bryannaing6316 currently in one of the missions they give you two free multis and a free s tier which is very good all you gotta do is reach rank 52 and boom free s tier
I'm very impressed that you actually went through the nuances of the orbs and dodge/matrix system. But more importantly the flow of the combat where no mechanic seems like it's thrown in for fluff but rather have purpose as an integral part that is essential in the whole system. I have seen very very rare cases of players fully able to comprehend the intricacies of each element of it. Very good review! Also a fellow trails fan too
Yeah, tbh I've barely played the trails games but they are some of my favorites! ill probably do some stuff on xb3 before getting to the trails stuff though, script was recorded back in June outside the future content part. Hopefully the 30 sec recordings work on launch 3 cuz i dont have a capture card yet, ill get one in October though. Glad you enjoyed the video!
I like how the combat and difficulty just mesh so well together and the bosses always keep you on your toes. Hell, even some enemies later on get more difficult to predict. The only real way to even cheese the system is to have A2 bc she basically just cannot die in regular and somewhat harder content and I find that hilarious tbf. I always await what new things they release on CN so I can look forward to it on Global (currently craving Vera - Flare, Liv - Solaeter, Selena - Capriccio and Lee - Hyperreal).
wow you basically read my mind. Been playing PGR for more than a year and it was the very reason i quit Genshin.haha. It opened my eyes that a passionate indie dev can create an evolving masterpiece!
Game is so addictive and flawless. Played it for almost 4 or 5 days now just got to level 40 doing the Nier events now. So far it's amazing. Never played a mobile game as crazy as this
For some reason chapters are not working correctly, but the timestamps are still in the description. Edit 6/8/22: Just checked them again and they are up and running now! no idea what took so long...
So many mobile games don't play to the strengths of the platform, and just try to 100% immitate console/PC games. That's why I think the ping system in PGR is just so refreshing. It actually makes more sense using touchscreen than with traditional controls. I do use a Razer Naga controller when playing for basic attacks, dodging, movement, and camera controls... but even then, I still use the touchscreen for pinging, QTEs, and signatures. I honestly couldn't see myself playing it any other way tbh. It just works so well, and is so satisfying!
Kuro learnt a lot things from Honkai 3rd, unlike some of the companies, they didn't copy whatever they learnt 100%. They tried to add some different systems and mechanism. Although some of them make their games much difficult than honkai 3rd, many PGR players like this. That's y I played from the first day it released until today. XD
i agree with ya but they did not just copy or inspired by one game(honaki) also from other games like NieR,DMC,Honkai and MGR i mean lore wise is like NieR since NieR also had a virus ,combat is kind of DMC with NieR combine and alpha is just Vergil (waifu edition)
I hope Kuro does the same thing with Wuthering Waves. Right now, it's a little too similar to Genshin Impact, which is a pretty good game IMO but I don't want GI 2.0. I hope they work on differentiating the combat and game mechanics in WW to be it's own thing. They did it once with PGR, I know they can do it again with WW.
@@barewheels5730 changes will definitely coming to WW, u may not know, but PGR demo test was literally Honkai 2.0 the memories was gacha that time. Plus WW trailers in bilibili was flooded with CN feedbacks and recommendations lol XD
@@gakuto4575 Wow, history repeats itself it seems, which I hope means WW will turn out unique and amazing. I did see early alpha gameplay of PGR and boy, it looked janky compared to what we have now. Kuro has definitely come a long way
As F2P since day 1.. I keep playing it cause Nier Collab was announced and I was hype when her banner was released.. I was gonna quit cause I didn't drop 2B but in the end I managed to get her with 1 last pull.. So I so much love it
I don't really like Gatcha games but I'm playing PGR for about one month and I think it's awesome. You get exactly what they told you. One A Rank for 10 pulls, one S rank for 60 pulls.
Wow this review is awesome man, a lot of reasons you loved this game are the same as a lot of mine as well. Some additional things I love about this game includes them actually caring about character balance, and how every character is super awesome to play (whereas in genshin there are characters whose gameplay range from super good like itto to clunky af like yae miko) Another thing I love is how they encourage players to get and build as many characters as possible with their extremely f2p friendly model and multiple team endgame modes like Babel and Norman. While in genshin pyro dps like yoimiya can be redundant because spiral abyss only requires two teams of four, these modes reward you for having as many teams as possible. So dark Watanabe doesn't feel redundant even with Luna for instance
This is the best pgr review video I have seen in TH-cam so far. The editing was great, the points where absolutely correct and beautiful explained. Hope this video gets a lot of views so that people can know how good pgr is as a mobile game :)
That’s one of the best reviews I’ve seen about the game, appreciate the effort and thought you put into it. New channel, new sub! It isn’t high on most people’s list of reasons they play PGR (it goes 1: Gameplay and 2: OST) but personally I feel that the story, while less expansive, is better than Genshin’s, and almost as good as Honkai’s; perhaps even better with future updates. Sure, there’s a lot more to unpack in Genshin due to the non-linearity of its world-building, but the interludes, side stories, and everything post-chapter 8 in PGR feel more personal to me. Unfortunately, most of the content is presented visual-novel style which, coupled with some localization errors, can be a turn off for those who prefer the abundance of animated cutscenes from Mihoyo’s IPs. Like you said, it also takes a while before it really gets going. A shame, really, because there are more than a few occasions where I get misty-eyed, especially from the side stories.
Absolutely agree. I'm a newbie in global and still have a single chapter left until the Luna chapter. The visual-novel style hurts the story for me as well. It sure helps but majority of the time, I felt like being bombarded by hundred-words essays specially in the beginning. I think adding at least, voice acting could make it better. But I decided to read nevertheless because I was genuinely intrigued by the narrative. Also agree that the story is better than Genshin.
@@tempust394 well for me it's understandable. No wonder why pgr is very optimize, or maybe bcoz of low budget. But as long as it's is a god tier gameplay, all sacrifices are still worth it. Can't wait to fight the twin boss mutants It's so sick
you're so right in every aspect. everything is just accurate as they can be. One that I liked the most is the fact that Kuro optimized this game so good, even with low end phones. I'm seriously playing on a potato phone, and with just medium graphics everything is smooth, except when my phone heats ofc. I wish more people could appreciate pgr more.
GG! I completely agree with you in every point you make! I just fell in love with this game the second i saw and played it. Banger music, absolutely incredible fast paced combat system and the constructs OHHH BOIII are they gorgeous/badass and fun to play! I really hope PGR is getting a lot more attention, because it honestly deserves it. Really good review, keep it up my man! ^.^
I started PGR around the echo aria event but I actually started playing after the Nier rerun event. I became interested because I saw vanguard’s narwhal ost on my yt recommended. Anyways after reading echo aria I became interested in the story but I was content blocked so I stopped playing. Then after giving it a final try I managed to reach chapter 10 I fell in love with the game. I’m now lvl 101 lol, I’m glad I started late cuz I get savor the more recent content and to everyone that is wondering if they should play it. Give it a shot, it might be boring at first but I promise a roller coaster ride of emotions is waiting for y’all!
Couldn’t agree more. Just started playing a month ago and I’m enjoying the hell out of it. Also the fiancé loves hearing the soundtrack when I’m playing.
Awesome review. I really think that this video did amazingly well in showcasing the game. You sir, gained yourself a new subscriber and I'm looking forward to more content from you in the future.
Thank you so much! Im currently working on trying to save for a better mic so that my future videos are higher quality though im not sure how long it will take, I don't have much spare money rn...
Love the editing in this video! Only thing is the mic quality but otherwise an awesome video! Yes I agree with you that I really love the depth of the boss fights in PGR compared to other gacha games (other gacha games mostly have you try to complete the boss fight in a short time limit or do the most damage whereas in PGR there are videos of people doing no-hit runs, etc.) It really shows how much thought the Kuro put into the bosses when there are videos dedicated on breaking down boss' movesets! And yeah the music is just GOD TIER
This is a great PGR review, I'm glad you reviewed the combat system and the soundtracks. Kuro outdid themselves with PGR, but although I think they did an amazing job with the lore as well, it tends to get confusing at times with all the expansions. New sub
Yeah, I can relate. Back after about the JP server release, I fell in love with the footage I was seeing. I hadn't been able to afford 8th or 9th gen hardware specs and I really wanted to play DMC5. This was the only practical way I could play an actual action game that captured that spirit I was looking for. You know, the spirit of having mechanical depth along with intimidating bosses worthy of knowing the boss' moveset, animation frames, and hitboxes so well that other people see your no damage boss run and say _"not for me, bro."_
PGR's soundtrack just hits different. Last Resort and Narwhal are a banger to listen to especially when fighting bosses. This is by far one of the best PGR review's out there keep it up! 👍
Warzone is where all the 3 pings, core passives, and skills really are good for practicing how to master the combat system. Then babel is where you exceed your limitations and surpass the previous skills. It's where I learned a lot more about conservations, timing dodges/3 pings, core passive activations, and also when to use the ult. PGR far exceeds all that is in a gacha game, because it's a bonus to far surpass your current skill levels. I love pgr even though it becomes very stale at the end game. But babel really does tests your skills.
This is a great video to recommend to your friends to force their fall into the PGR rabbit hole lol you really nailed conveying the important and unique gameplay mechanics and the good features of the game. Great job, dude! 👍
SUCH A GOOD VIDEO!!!! pgr is my favorite mobile game by far but its so criminally underrated globally. it really needs so much more attention so thank you for this!
I'm just gonna say this. People who said that every gacha game is garbage is no different than saying all religion is man made. It's very ignorant and close-minded.
Even after a year since global release, alpha is still one of the most technical characters in PGR (Although that should have belonged to changyu since he's a martial artist and what not). I have heard that all the base characters along with some others are getting reworked now, and the fire god can use more than 2 percent of his power.
I've played this game since day 1 (on global) and I really enjoyed the video, I would just like to mention something about it, I can hear your mic poping from time to time but other than that I have nothing else to say except it's really good. And as per usual AHH Kimochi Yokata!
I've been keeping an eye out for this game for while to the point that I was stoked to find out that it will come out in Global to the point that I was one of 20 (I think) who played the game in it's closed beta. Upon release it was..... Quite a Punishing time (pun intended)..... But, knowing Kuro, they listen and think for the players, so they manage to fix it once they found out. So from release, stopped when Fallen Star to Eternal Engine was out (I was also playing Honkai and Genshin and other gacha games, I have problems :) ), came back in the KCC event up to today, I'm always eager for the rush of getting my ass whooped or perhaps malding to drain my sanity. All I'm saying is: gotta get'em waifus and husbandos.
Really cool review! The ping system is huge. Really puts a unique spin on the hack n slash action game genre that makes me expect more from these type of games now. Adding to the negatives is the serum... I really love this game but the amount of serum we get is abysmal. I want to play and grind PGR all day but I can’t and I’m limited to malding in WZ or messing around in the 0 serum memory rescue challenge events and I’m not even sure if memory rescue will be a permanent feature. In another mobile game I play there are so many ways to gain serum and there’s even a VIP system where big spenders will recover the serum equivalent faster, resulting in being able to have a good few hours of a grinding session. To add to the positives the characters and coatings are amazing. PGR has a wonderful taste in character and moveset design and I’m always willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money just to get new cosmetics for my favorite characters. I currently own every character except for S Lee! I love them all. To comment on the first statement about gacha games being cash grabs sure most are but the advantage gacha and f2p games have over AAA games is that their shelf life is indefinite and content just keeps flowing whereas when you finish a regular game you’re done with it.
Subscribing because i feel like it still pretty rare to see someone who enjoy single player games like persona and xenoblade also cover and enjoy pgr. most of channel i've found only focused on playing the other gacha games like Genshin or Honkai
I feel this tbh. Good to know there's people who are watching this who are the same as me in that regard. I was worried PGR fans wouldn't be interested in the other content I want to do (especially after my xb3 first impressions kinda flopped although that could be down to it being lower effort and shorter as well) since a lot of people are subbing from this video, so this comment helped me stop worrying a bit. Thanks!
When i first installed Pgr 1 month after it's global release it got me confused abt it's combat mechanics you'll need to have muscle memory to master enemys attack patterns(especially roland that mf annoys me with his surprise attacks) And not only that! they're giving you a free S rank construct of your own choice is an awesome way to start playing the game, i picked Karenina Ember in my main account and Lee Entropy in my second account. As for the story I'd say it's great thought the early chapters kinda bores me but in the middle part where kamui got infected by roland whichs leads to Camu's existence(well it's based on my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong) thats where the things became interesting in the story. the bgm in Pgr is absolute top tier i can't choose which my fav of all of them. And yeah the downside for me is the serum regeneration. it's production is too slow if you only clear stage in the stories then it's good but doing other stuff like clearing interludes,some stages in events,grinding in resources cost alot of serum they could've atlease limit the serum capacity to 250-300 that way players can really enjoy to do other stuff cuz grinding for 6 star memory is a whole pain.
@@bamboozed6727 Yeah i remembered he's only active in high viral density places which where kamui cooperate with gray ravens on their mission at the chapter
Another one bite the dust in this depth cave filled with hidden diamond welcome commandant Also this is probably one of the best Review of this game check all the good stuff in PGR ahd to offer .. you need more subs and view
To be fair, I did just make this channel so its going to take time to build subs, and thanks. Im planning on doing reviews like this on a lot of different games in the future, mixed in with easier to edit videos because this one took forever. To be honest, half of the reason i made this was to convince my friends to play pgr lol.
Amazing video! Honestly does what it was meant to do and more. This game has inspired me to want to make lore vids about it and no game has ever inspired me to do that. Thank you for this vid! I hope to see more down the line.
Thanks so much! I'm planning on making more videos like this about other games, and maybe a few more about PGR in the future, but I want to upgrade my microphone first so it doesn't sound so horrible.
I honestly detest gacha games but Ofcourse Pgr being an exemption. I waited for it to be released in global and got into it on the very first day it was released. And I can say that I never grew tired of it and I'm still playing up until now. The combat mechanics most especially the matrix and core passives are my favourites, and what I truly tried to master. I remember struggling to do the perfect dodge on the first month of playing but now I can say that I mastered it somehow. It's just so rewarding that I can do the perfect dodge oftentimes just by listening to the attack prompt of the enemies, which is so satisfying. And the game is f2p players friendly, so I got to collect most of the characters at each event.
Omg pgr content. This game deserves more attention really. I invite all of my friends to try it out and hopefully they like it!! Thanks for the content!!
While this may not at all be a Review or anything like that, more like a love letter to PGR, i do want to address my own responses to your video, as being few months a player of the game myself (a general new player perspective, i guess). So, sorry if this looks like meaningless comment dumping, or a decent textwall, but i am glad i have come to reflect on my experiences with the game, due to this video. again, thank you very much! Pros about PGR: > The gameplay is absolute fire as you said. It's not like some gacha games that may look boring and uninteresting to someone that is just watching the game being played, without understanding the mechanics and appreciating the player's playstyle/talent, this is both flashy, complex and glamourous. absolute amazing, and like 30% of why i really wanted to play PGR myself (seeing pro-Wanshi players just solo bosses was the final straw lol) > The music. enough said. Actually 70% the reason for wanting to play PGR (to me). Rarely ever does a piece of media have this consistently great music in all it's OST size. > There's a lot to do in PGR, and events/side content occasionally swap, letting a breath of fresh air from time to time. aside from that WZ and PPC are always there, so a player does not get bored. this is great way to keep the players from not being bored or bummed out (although i have issues, later stated) > The game is not at all grindy if you know what you are doing and only want to progress to the basics of everything (though that usually doesn't involved getting a lot of rewards for your efforts). I really like this aspect about PGR, as it feels genuinely Free-to-Play in that regard. Both content and character collection wise. Pity counters are decently high, and even goes as far as guaranteed during events, gacha are neatly separated into Weapon and character (WHICH IS A HUGE PAIN IN THE GACHA COMMUNITY), and aside from the starter A/B rank constructs, almost everyone has not direct upgrade, everyone is still relevant in a squad setup (aided by the not as huge character roster.. yet) They do it much better than it's sister HI3, with the alters of charcters sometimes just feeling like a polished up ver. of the original character and just thrown in the game. They all have very distinctive feeling to them, and i love it!! (like my personal favourite examples of this, is the two Watanabes'. Both feel just so different from one another, even aside from the elemental attribute standpoint) Cons about PGR: > My primary complaint about PGR, is the amount of time you need to spend with it a day, if you actually want to make an effort to progress further than the basics. This is fairly true for many gachas already, (and while i myself used to hate gacha games before.... before i played a certain game called Arknights :] ), it sometimes creeps into FGO levels of painful, during certain events. Aside from draining the daily serum, which is super quick to do now because of Auto-ing, there is WZ, that you can honestly do just twice a week and forget about, but if you want a better consistent reward, you need keep an eye on, to make sure demotion doesn't happens. then there's PPC, with the daily 4/8 Stamina uses, on boss rotations per week, that may or may not be painfully slow or just utterly boring to keep fighting, due to some bs they get at lower floors.... like poison, even if it doesn't thematically fit the boss itself (yes yes, auto clear is a thing, but the points loss is too much to succumb to, at the lower floors). Then we have the Maze (now truncated) with the stamina meter too, Norman (event based) with it;s daily stamina charge stacking, whatever the event specific minigame might be, which also needs it's own daily time investment to do.... and if you care about it, dormitory missions. That is a lot of timesink, padded with unnecessary menu navigation and clicking (this is coming off of someone who held at one point, upto 8 accounts on Arknights simultaneously... and does dorm management X_X). Overall, it might be good for the student with short bursts of break/class/study sessions, with some time to play inbetween, but for someone who might, say, have a strenuous working life (and may or may not play more than 1 gacha), that is quite the time investment.... PER DAY mind you. i do wish your need for participation was not this intricate per day, and more or less spread between a week, so still keep on top of things and progress to a pleasant PGR standpoint. Yes, the point of WZ/PPC is challenging you and pitting you with other players, but pile all of it together, and you get a constant steady brain drain of doing things to the point of sometimes annoyance (i more or less left PPC after a point, because of the daily headache). You are missing out a lot if you dont have a constant participation going on each week/day, and that additive loss hursts, especially if F2P with a mindset of not being very casual about the game. > The 2nd thing is, something i'd argue about your observation on the gacha aspect of the game. While yes, the pity system is nice and the gacha is serviceable.... and you can even avoid most of the gacha headaches if you dont want to reach for the high rank/numbers in the weekly leaderboards in various modes..... You should have still pointed out that comparatively to many other gachas, earning pull currency is fairly slow in PGR. Sure it may only be 60 pulls for a guarantee onbanner in the event banners, bu that 60 pulls take a long time to save. even a 10 pull can take a while to collect. It strikes a balance for the F2P to hold, but it still means that the Gacha pain is still there very much so, just in a different flavour. In other games, you would need like 100+ pulls to not even get the onbanner (F though), while here, you can't even 60 Pulls back to back because the low pull savings in a short period, especially with the almost back to back events we're getting in Global (or whaling, but that's.... gacha staple) > Something else i actually dislike is the amount of information overload when starting the game. both in-combat and off-combat. there is so much things constantly happening, pages popping up and locked pages, with the clarifications not doing a great job of explaining how things works. Even the tutorial doesn't really "end" because you arent really always told what you need to do to unlock more stuff/gameplay sections, and they themselves are very wordy, often mixing up lore with the help guides. It really devolves into blindly clicking on several pages, and being confused with the new source of information overload, or stare at a notification that state that "you need to clear XX to unlock this", yet you can't reach that node, because you still haven't unlocked YY stage, things that the game should be more clear about. (an example being, several of the high numbered resource stages being locked behind story progression, and you would be mistaken to assume that you would just unlock them by completing the previous stage, but noooo... or the fact you have no idea how many promotions you can actually give your characters, until you do it the whole way that first time) Thankfully they help it somewhat with the Newbie mission page, that points on what you should do, but they should really redo the tutorial of the game, it feels overwhelming. Just directing players to the info page doesn't always help with realizing what you are supposed to end up doing in any specific page. You really need a community/friend who can guide you through the game... unless you want to make some really bad 'account damage' worthy mistakes starting out in PGR, which is funny, because you actually have the resources to do that right as you start the game, which is something not usual in other gachas. Whew! that was my spiel laid out bare, but make no mistake. i absolutely LOVE and ADORE this game! I just knew that i HAD to play it, after several of folk in my own community were regular players of it, and being a huge music appreciator, i can't ignore it. I do my best to take whatever time of the day i can spare in my tired and addled brain and body (usually due to work pressure) to do as much as i can everyday, and it's super worth it still. i would say like a 9.5/10. This game solidified my stance on gacha games in general... that... "They are not all just virtual gambling simulators". Both PGR and AK are some of the best games i have ever come across. And i see that steady rise in sub count. Goodluck to you, hopefully you can afford a better headset soon and stay safe 👍
I may respond with a longer reply later because I only really skimmed this comment lol, but thanks for the response. The reason I didnt mention the slow gain is because it still is enough for a f2p to get all the s ranks, and a lot of people i know are used to genshin and honkai where that isnt possible. Genshin also has some really slow income as well, slower than pgr in endgame imo.
Also while i cant afford a better headset JUST yet I did find a way to make it sound at least as good as it does in this video, tho the workaround is a pain in the ass it works till i can get a new one
@@tempust394 oh i know that audioset pain, the amount of takes i sometimes had to discard because of weird reverb or random background noises :( but true, it's still very f2p friendly in that regard, just i may have been spoiled by gachas that demand a little less of your daily time everyday, so it feels even more painful to recieve a slow income for what feels like 15mins to 45 mins minimum a day spent doing the same thing everyday... more if there is an event ongoing.
Tbh the only point I disagree with is the lore presented in light novel-ish style, I like that more than UNSKIPPABLE cutscenes in certain game(s). If I feel like I want to read, I'll read the story, if not I can just press the skip button and I'm all fine
I am so glad that someone actually talked about the difficulty and skill required to master this game especially when alot of people have the misconception that u can win the game just by button mashing.
As much as the gameplay is fun I hesitate to recommend this game because of how hard it is for new players. The game is not new player friendly at all despite all the rewards they give it's still a struggle to form and build a coordinated team, The gameplay is only really fun if you're a long time player but for a starter the bosses can be frustrating, I struggled a lot when I was starting I barely finish the Pain Cage since they have system that only makes you use one character 5 times as a starting player you'll focus on one attacker type of hero, also how even the weapon depends on RNG. If you want to check it out be ready for a really hard grinding and bring patience as well cuz you have to wait for rewards to come.
Also if you have a second semi-leveled DPS, you can clear first 2-3 stages in PPC with them alone, just put your built character memories on them for this, then swap back (this applies only to earlygame when all you have is 1, maybe 2 units that you're building)
You know I'd normally make a joke in the lines of "Haha. Gacha player" or something along those lines but this is genuinely a really well made video. Keep it up man
The ones who play FGO like me and have a severe distrust in gacha for obvious reasons, PGR gacha is 100% F2P friendly you WILL have all the characters eventually even not wasting a single coin, the only place you have to waste real money is in some skins for characters that is totaly optional
Fell in love with it when I saw it maybe a year before release. I looked so good. Nowadays I have my Rank 105 GL account and Rank 80 JP and TW. And I FREAKING enjoy playing all 3 accounts. The visuals, story, combat, THE MUSIC. *Chef´s kiss*
I just got it today and I'm loving the game so far but its sad knowing my fav character has their banner up rn but I've got 0 chance of getting it as I have literally no currency to pull. Even if I grind the story I doubt ill even get enough for 20 pulls so I hope reruns don't take too long to come around
If you don't mind me asking, which character? If its an S rank there will be more S selectors in the future (second ani has one) and rotations don't take too long for the 70% I find, although I don't pull on that banner so I don't know for sure...
@@tempust394 lucia : crimson abyss The banner ends in 3 days and so far I've only gotten enough for 5 pulls. I ended up pulling on the fate version of the banner as I know there is no way In hell in going to get 60 pulls for pity so I decided to try my luck with the higher S rank chance but with a longer pity
@@wolfhunted7702 alpha gets reruns quite often so I would have done the 60 then just waited since the pity transfers, the 80~100 chances arent high enough to make it worth it imo.
It is out on global but it may not be available in your region, you still have options though such as downloading it from taptap or making a play store account for a different region, the former is probably easier.
I'm lvl 100 on the global version of pgr and mostly a f2p and every session i go through i wished i could play more but late game is just rince and repeat until a new event/major update release and ill be playing for hours trying to complete as much as i can until im unable to continue.
One of the interesting things about of the Orb system, its an awful system on early game since u cant have any control of the system at all and u are just using 1 character on the field vs on late game when all urs characters have gear and if u are fucked with the RNG u just swap to the tank or support. Thats why on the Wuthering waves debate (next kuro games game) some people that tried PGR dont want the orb system because of the RNG, but people that are hardcore or at least played pgr with 1 full team really want the orb system on wuthering waves because we know it gives a fast and seamless action gameplay.
I am going to have to disagree a bit here. I think having access to matrix and how relatively fast you gain orbs makes it fine, otherwise solo runs wouldn't be as popular as they are.
@@tempust394 u have to think, the solo run like rexlent one are with weapon with 2 or full reso, reso gives access to few extra skill like more orb every few second or more stamina dodge. Even so, i think they added new skill between the SSS and SSS+ that i think one are more orbs on X situation. Except few characters that can kinda handle low orb gameplay with good rng, like veritas theres a lot of character that are complete screw without orb like alpha, plume, kamui tenebrion and others. I mean just think at the "support" character they are design to go to field and do something not just qte. Kuro has design everything to the combat feel smoth.
@@tempust394 A well invested Dawn is comparable to a F2P Bianca in terms of damage output, but unlocking and levelling the buffs requires a lot of serum
@@mob5990 Thing is my problem is with her moveset not with her damage output. Id explain but I am planning on making a smaller video on it in the future and it'd ruin the surprise.
i just wanna add something, PGR is not immune to having the game feeling like a chore (the dailies and stuff), though people that enjoy the characters and combat like me wouldnt mind it, its best to keep in mind that this could turn off quite a bit of people, especially since the current patch untold naraka is one of the least content packed event the game offered
This is true, but I forgot to mention it. I sort of touched on it when I said "the non combat modes aren't great" and "game modes get reused" but I didn't outright say it. Still this is a problem that most gachas have to some degree so I don't feel like it was a horrible omission. Thanks for the comment!
yep, there's no game that is perfect and somehow everygame will always have a downside. the downside of this game is it focuses on combat, and so it can't be open world, and so they need to use a system that is balanced enough for the game which is the SERUM system. because every character is so well designed I'm assuming the content gets robbed by some of the budget. I've accepted this flaws and downsides, and now I enjoy the game to it's fullest
maybe the gatcha is good, i feel like its super difficult to actually grind black cards. especially since it gives you relatively so little. doing daily missions gives you what 25 cards? out of fucking 2500? that does not seem like a lot. and the combat is nice, when im not doing what feels like chip damage to some eniemes because my battle power(i forget what their actually called) is so little becuase i have literally 8 things to upgrade for one unit. the unit itself the weapons and the six cards
oh and also the story did not stay with me at all, after watanabe showed up, it went down hill for me. And they didnt have the fucking characters of neir automata, in the fucking collab even though it SHOWED THEM TOGETHER.
@@HellaurIMJaCe4256 Its more square than Yoko Taro. Remember that cloud was only allowed 2 songs initially when he got into smash until Sephiroth happened and ig they realized how much smash boosts sales. Pretty much square doesn't let anyone do anything with their IPs. As a Xeno series fan, this hurts when you realize no blade game will ever have a gears cameo.
The one thing I hate about the game is the hidden story mainly because of its put story progression to a MASSIVE halt and can be VERY ANNOYING at times if your really invested into the story and the BP just straight up spikes out of now where
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orb system is the most genius battle system I have ever seen, it make the combat so much fun and most importantly feels so much faster than CD abilities
Agreed. Its one of the most creative combat systems in a character action game.
The game itself is forced to be on a mobile platform, however the devs encourage emulators for pc and console cuz the ping system is harder to use in those platforms
Playing candy crush in dmc
@@adamsalik7389 a pc client was confirmed on the last dev stream
@@insideyoribcage the question is when
One thing no one talks about is their camera work. They utilize it so well in selling attack impacts and ultimates. For example with Ember, without her Core active the camera shakes super subtly but when it's active it shakes much more prominently but not to the point it gets distracting. Another one is Verity and Hypnos when their Core activates the camera goes into this tunnel vision effect. And probably the best implementation for me personally is Rosetta's ult. I just love how towards the second half of her ult it zooms in to simulate her first person perspective. Her ult is very simple but man that camera work trickery is just _chef kiss_
OMG it's so true. How a 3D action mobile game has a so perfect camera I never realised how good is it because you don't think about it, because there is zero problem.
Good catch
OH YES. PGR IS SO FAR, THE MOST DIFFICULT MOBILE GAME TO BE MASTERED. FUCKING ANNOYING, YET, SATISFYING. And the enemies, EXTREMELY STRONG. Like, almost impossible to beat in some modes.
Well, if you're a masochist, PGR is for you.
WHALES : "MONEY CAN DO MANY SHITS, DUDES !"
PGR : "Nah. You'll get your ass kicked without your real skill."
And another best part : CAMERA WORKS. It's much better than any other game out there.
DMC players : Hmmph! You need more motivation to become strong
@@hito-sama funny you say that, we got vergil daughter in this game(not blood related, but her moveset is similar)
@@solowing9544 That's why i said that lol
Whales still can win everything with little to no effort lmao
@@As-traythey have the advantage early game no douth, but without skill, they gonna have their asses kick with mid to late game unit
After Echo Aria, PGR has proven itself as one of the mobile games with the best written story
feels like i saw you in one of Wuthering Waves topic review
I swear I can't remember much before the corrupted space station bc that's when the story started getting good for me. A question tho, are they slower with updates on global??
@@breaddancing9007 More like faster. I think some people start complaining.
@@boboverlord1 fr? But why tho, isn't that a good thing?
No it has not. PGR's world and lore are interesting, yet the story itself is dragged, naive and just plain boring way more times than I'd wish it to be.
What I really like about this is the core passive. Activating it mainly tells you that you're playing your character right.
The thing they've also done great is the diverse set of characters and the fact that you don't need big booba waifus to get players going but even husbandos with unique attack pattern and amazing mechanic that made them stand out.
Next, the fact the they made the first set of villains as playable characters as Transcendent(Of course except Gabriel, that piece of garbage) and that's already amazing thing for me. Especially, when Roland has his trailer (in the server I'm playing at) the hype was real man. And don't forget that pulling for any Transcendent you want only cost 10 pulls. They're really generous.
And then considering the story mode, of course it may not have any impact to some of you but the first time I've experience taking control of some of the bosses in hard mode I really feel excited then I thought, "Holy sheeesh, that's new to me! What the hell is that health?! Too OP!" I never thought I'll be that excited over letting us be in control of it.
I might be spoiling your next video and I'm sorry for that.
I agree on everything but playing as the bosses. Its a cool idea but they arent well fleshed out in my personal opinion. Im glad you enjoyed it though. Also, don't worry you didnt spoil anything. Though I want to have some more pgr content on here eventually, I plan to do more videos like this on other games I enjoy (mainly jrpgs and character action but maybe ill cover some others as well) since its hard to go this in depth on one game that many times. If you have any suggestions on a game I should talk about ill be glad to hear it however, note that itll take a bit before my next big video like this because I want to upgrade my mic
As much as I love the waifus, yes, the husbandos are really great too. Kuro is pretty inclusive on that front bc they leave the Commandant gender-neutral.
They do need to work on the bosses in the Hidden Story modes bc they still feel wonky to control, but it's a super fun concept to be able to play as them, and get their PoV of the story.
I think they did not hire a proper writer for the story at the early stage of the game due to budget issue. But the quality of the narrative of later chapter just went sky rocketing it even make me cry a few times
As someone who played stuff like DMC3SE-5, Assault Spy, Gunvolt 1-2, Katana Zero, and literally any game... That specifically needs me to observe and adapt while doing actions quick during a fight.
I couldn't help but smile at PGR being a thing, it was a godsend among all mobile games. While it has its flaws, one thing it does best is its COMBAT, I mean: Parrying? Ping orbs? Limited evasions? Counter skills and finishing skills?
On paper... It may seem like it's just another Gacha game, but it knew what it means to have depth, fun and passion. It knew what adaptive and fast-paced action players desire.
To learn and evade the patterns of our foes, to strike when the time was right, to parry a strike, to parry when another strikes, to make use of what we have.
These things are what make Kuro (Developer) stand out amongst many mobile and Gacha games, people can shallowly laugh at it for the fact that the Global Launch was notoriously a god damn b¡tch (Oh boy am I glad I didn't play at Launch.) But the facts now of what Punishing Gray Raven is? It's a peak action mobile Gacha game, and that will never change.
The launch wasn’t even thattt bad. 1 dollar extra and 10,000 bc mistake was all bad but was it as bad as a game with no anniversary. A lot of companies make dumb mistakes like this.
@@sh1r0_zenkai30 so that was basically it? Christ, people really exaggerate this crud lmao.
@@NoanIsHere Okay let me tell you all the launch problems. In CN the first launch was a big mistake. Stupid mistake tbh lol. At launch if you got the game the first few hours the game came out you would get 10,000 bc as a reward. This was a mistake it was supposed to be 1000 bc (lol). So they put the game on maintenance and changed it back to 1000. Even so, there was a huge problem. The people who got the 10,000 bc still has it. So basically the people who waited to play the game felt left out. So they gave everyone a free S rank selector. This one Imo was really bad because the people who got the game on launch still got both. Now the global version is the one that’s not that bad. The only bad things that happened to global was the 1 dollar extra, karenina skin costing a lot when CN doesn’t even have that skin, and lastly CN getting a little bit extra for the beginner missions but why does that matter when global can still get alpha f2p guaranteed.
@@sh1r0_zenkai30 Christ that one was quite a debacle, but I'd say it was too farfetched to call that much of a big problem. But rather, it's better off called a very dumb one lmao.
@@NoanIsHere Plus you wanna know why it’s 1 dollar extra. It’s because google play and Apple Pay services. Kuro has to pay extra for transactions so they increase the price. It wasn’t like they were being scammy on purpose. On top of that they communicated immedietely and added another monthly pass that doesn’t force you to pay an extra dollar.
The skin event was literally something CN didn’t get. They had no skin or extra bc from that event. It was global exclusive. So I don’t see why people are complaining about how expensive it is if CN didn’t even get a chance to buy it.
As someone that just played couple month ago yeah PGR is definitely on the harder side.
Unlike other mobile action rpg game, the much simpler atk-skill-ult button is definitely easier to memorize thus making newbie feel much more welcomed.
Even me despite having played a lot of action rpg game require solid 1 month of playing to build muscle memory to play pgr smoothly. I still remember at my first month where I struggle to dodge because I had to stare a good seconds at to manage my signal orbs. And the banger bgm and flashly char movement doesnt help I cant focus lmao. I end up staring half of time looking at bottom right(orbs) than middle screen.
But once you build that memory muscle ngl the game literally changes. Making combos feel satisfyibg
True, if you get used to playing PGR with orb system + dodge + not bang your head to the soundtrack game gets really fun to play, I had similar story at start where i'd look at orbs 24/7 and getting destroyed in the process.
Couldn't agree more. The combat in this game is so smooth that I ditched Honkai, the game that it's supposed to "copy." When I started playing it, I did not expect the 3 ping system and how I would enjoy it so much, the extremely F2P gacha system and rates, and the godly music and lore. I just hope that they add more cutscenes or at least voice acting.
idk if I missed something but I used to play PG:R around release and the gacha didn't feel very F2P friendly. Did they change it?
@@bryannaing6316 it's always has been f2p since launch, you play for 3 months you get S rank. BC S rank is released every 2-3 months and you can all S rank of you save all yout BC from start of the to end of the month
Voice acting in cut scenes will just make the game files a lot bigger and one selling point of the game is that it is potato phone friendly so even a good 500mb will risk a considerable large playerbase.
@@bryannaing6316 it have always been F2P friendly you just never notice or play long enough to notice it
you could grind enough to get every single S rank in game when they get released and the pity is only 60 which is lower than basically all current famous gacha game
@@bryannaing6316 currently in one of the missions they give you two free multis and a free s tier which is very good all you gotta do is reach rank 52 and boom free s tier
I'm very impressed that you actually went through the nuances of the orbs and dodge/matrix system. But more importantly the flow of the combat where no mechanic seems like it's thrown in for fluff but rather have purpose as an integral part that is essential in the whole system. I have seen very very rare cases of players fully able to comprehend the intricacies of each element of it. Very good review! Also a fellow trails fan too
Yeah, tbh I've barely played the trails games but they are some of my favorites! ill probably do some stuff on xb3 before getting to the trails stuff though, script was recorded back in June outside the future content part. Hopefully the 30 sec recordings work on launch 3 cuz i dont have a capture card yet, ill get one in October though. Glad you enjoyed the video!
You play PGR because you are good at hack and slash games, I play PGR because I have over 3000hours in Candy crush we are not the same
Lmao
Bold of you to assume I'm good at games
You can't separate the 2 ends of a duality -my science teacher
You know what's hilarious, I downloaded PGR upon discovering the music that someone used in their incorrect video essay.
Max0r is Based.
I like how the combat and difficulty just mesh so well together and the bosses always keep you on your toes. Hell, even some enemies later on get more difficult to predict.
The only real way to even cheese the system is to have A2 bc she basically just cannot die in regular and somewhat harder content and I find that hilarious tbf.
I always await what new things they release on CN so I can look forward to it on Global (currently craving Vera - Flare, Liv - Solaeter, Selena - Capriccio and Lee - Hyperreal).
I actually left Genshin for this game, said my farewells to Diluc, my first 5 star and the lovely Lisa and never looked back.
wow you basically read my mind.
Been playing PGR for more than a year and it was the very reason i quit Genshin.haha.
It opened my eyes that a passionate indie dev can create an evolving masterpiece!
Game is so addictive and flawless. Played it for almost 4 or 5 days now just got to level 40 doing the Nier events now. So far it's amazing. Never played a mobile game as crazy as this
The pgr soundtrack is honestly some of the best soundtracks I've heard in my entire life it's so amazing
For some reason chapters are not working correctly, but the timestamps are still in the description.
Edit 6/8/22: Just checked them again and they are up and running now! no idea what took so long...
So many mobile games don't play to the strengths of the platform, and just try to 100% immitate console/PC games.
That's why I think the ping system in PGR is just so refreshing. It actually makes more sense using touchscreen than with traditional controls.
I do use a Razer Naga controller when playing for basic attacks, dodging, movement, and camera controls... but even then, I still use the touchscreen for pinging, QTEs, and signatures. I honestly couldn't see myself playing it any other way tbh. It just works so well, and is so satisfying!
Kuro learnt a lot things from Honkai 3rd, unlike some of the companies, they didn't copy whatever they learnt 100%. They tried to add some different systems and mechanism. Although some of them make their games much difficult than honkai 3rd, many PGR players like this. That's y I played from the first day it released until today. XD
i agree with ya but they did not just copy or inspired by one game(honaki) also from other games like NieR,DMC,Honkai and MGR i mean lore wise is like NieR since NieR also had a virus ,combat is kind of DMC with NieR combine and alpha is just Vergil (waifu edition)
I hope Kuro does the same thing with Wuthering Waves. Right now, it's a little too similar to Genshin Impact, which is a pretty good game IMO but I don't want GI 2.0. I hope they work on differentiating the combat and game mechanics in WW to be it's own thing.
They did it once with PGR, I know they can do it again with WW.
@@barewheels5730 have u seen the gameplays? Its way better than GI . Its fast its like an open world pgr
@@barewheels5730 changes will definitely coming to WW, u may not know, but PGR demo test was literally Honkai 2.0 the memories was gacha that time. Plus WW trailers in bilibili was flooded with CN feedbacks and recommendations lol XD
@@gakuto4575 Wow, history repeats itself it seems, which I hope means WW will turn out unique and amazing.
I did see early alpha gameplay of PGR and boy, it looked janky compared to what we have now. Kuro has definitely come a long way
As F2P since day 1..
I keep playing it cause Nier Collab was announced and I was hype when her banner was released..
I was gonna quit cause I didn't drop 2B but in the end I managed to get her with 1 last pull.. So I so much love it
I don't really like Gatcha games but I'm playing PGR for about one month and I think it's awesome. You get exactly what they told you. One A Rank for 10 pulls, one S rank for 60 pulls.
Wow this review is awesome man, a lot of reasons you loved this game are the same as a lot of mine as well.
Some additional things I love about this game includes them actually caring about character balance, and how every character is super awesome to play (whereas in genshin there are characters whose gameplay range from super good like itto to clunky af like yae miko)
Another thing I love is how they encourage players to get and build as many characters as possible with their extremely f2p friendly model and multiple team endgame modes like Babel and Norman. While in genshin pyro dps like yoimiya can be redundant because spiral abyss only requires two teams of four, these modes reward you for having as many teams as possible. So dark Watanabe doesn't feel redundant even with Luna for instance
This is the best pgr review video I have seen in TH-cam so far. The editing was great, the points where absolutely correct and beautiful explained. Hope this video gets a lot of views so that people can know how good pgr is as a mobile game :)
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely phenomenal summery the only two points I'd add is the choreography especially Pulao's and the sound and visual feedback in combat 👍
That’s one of the best reviews I’ve seen about the game, appreciate the effort and thought you put into it. New channel, new sub!
It isn’t high on most people’s list of reasons they play PGR (it goes 1: Gameplay and 2: OST) but personally I feel that the story, while less expansive, is better than Genshin’s, and almost as good as Honkai’s; perhaps even better with future updates. Sure, there’s a lot more to unpack in Genshin due to the non-linearity of its world-building, but the interludes, side stories, and everything post-chapter 8 in PGR feel more personal to me.
Unfortunately, most of the content is presented visual-novel style which, coupled with some localization errors, can be a turn off for those who prefer the abundance of animated cutscenes from Mihoyo’s IPs. Like you said, it also takes a while before it really gets going. A shame, really, because there are more than a few occasions where I get misty-eyed, especially from the side stories.
I agree but sadly the presentation really hurts my enjoyment of the story. It is well written though. Thanks for the feedback!
Absolutely agree. I'm a newbie in global and still have a single chapter left until the Luna chapter. The visual-novel style hurts the story for me as well. It sure helps but majority of the time, I felt like being bombarded by hundred-words essays specially in the beginning. I think adding at least, voice acting could make it better.
But I decided to read nevertheless because I was genuinely intrigued by the narrative. Also agree that the story is better than Genshin.
@@tempust394 well for me it's understandable. No wonder why pgr is very optimize, or maybe bcoz of low budget. But as long as it's is a god tier gameplay, all sacrifices are still worth it.
Can't wait to fight the twin boss mutants
It's so sick
you're so right in every aspect. everything is just accurate as they can be.
One that I liked the most is the fact that Kuro optimized this game so good, even with low end phones. I'm seriously playing on a potato phone, and with just medium graphics everything is smooth, except when my phone heats ofc.
I wish more people could appreciate pgr more.
Please continue this kinda in-depth reviews, I loved it! 🙏😍
GG! I completely agree with you in every point you make! I just fell in love with this game the second i saw and played it. Banger music, absolutely incredible fast paced combat system and the constructs OHHH BOIII are they gorgeous/badass and fun to play! I really hope PGR is getting a lot more attention, because it honestly deserves it. Really good review, keep it up my man! ^.^
100% agreed!
I too fell in love with this game. Recently uninstalled genshin switched to PGR and I'm not looking back. This is a REAL game
I started PGR around the echo aria event but I actually started playing after the Nier rerun event. I became interested because I saw vanguard’s narwhal ost on my yt recommended. Anyways after reading echo aria I became interested in the story but I was content blocked so I stopped playing. Then after giving it a final try I managed to reach chapter 10 I fell in love with the game.
I’m now lvl 101 lol, I’m glad I started late cuz I get savor the more recent content and to everyone that is wondering if they should play it. Give it a shot, it might be boring at first but I promise a roller coaster ride of emotions is waiting for y’all!
Couldn’t agree more. Just started playing a month ago and I’m enjoying the hell out of it. Also the fiancé loves hearing the soundtrack when I’m playing.
Awesome review. I really think that this video did amazingly well in showcasing the game. You sir, gained yourself a new subscriber and I'm looking forward to more content from you in the future.
Thank you so much! Im currently working on trying to save for a better mic so that my future videos are higher quality though im not sure how long it will take, I don't have much spare money rn...
Awesome video. Thank you for you support on PGR !
Love the editing in this video! Only thing is the mic quality but otherwise an awesome video!
Yes I agree with you that I really love the depth of the boss fights in PGR compared to other gacha games (other gacha games mostly have you try to complete the boss fight in a short time limit or do the most damage whereas in PGR there are videos of people doing no-hit runs, etc.)
It really shows how much thought the Kuro put into the bosses when there are videos dedicated on breaking down boss' movesets!
And yeah the music is just GOD TIER
Sadly I can't afford a better mic at the moment and wont be able to for a bit. Eventually I'll get a better one. Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@tempust394 Yup, totally understand! Love your editing style. Looking forward to your next vids!
This is a great PGR review, I'm glad you reviewed the combat system and the soundtracks. Kuro outdid themselves with PGR, but although I think they did an amazing job with the lore as well, it tends to get confusing at times with all the expansions. New sub
Iam playing this game now this is really great combat simulator 💙
Yeah, I can relate.
Back after about the JP server release, I fell in love with the footage I was seeing. I hadn't been able to afford 8th or 9th gen hardware specs and I really wanted to play DMC5. This was the only practical way I could play an actual action game that captured that spirit I was looking for.
You know, the spirit of having mechanical depth along with intimidating bosses worthy of knowing the boss' moveset, animation frames, and hitboxes so well that other people see your no damage boss run and say _"not for me, bro."_
PGR's soundtrack just hits different. Last Resort and Narwhal are a banger to listen to especially when fighting bosses.
This is by far one of the best PGR review's out there keep it up! 👍
Both are great but I personally love revelation. Thanks!
Warzone is where all the 3 pings, core passives, and skills really are good for practicing how to master the combat system. Then babel is where you exceed your limitations and surpass the previous skills. It's where I learned a lot more about conservations, timing dodges/3 pings, core passive activations, and also when to use the ult. PGR far exceeds all that is in a gacha game, because it's a bonus to far surpass your current skill levels. I love pgr even though it becomes very stale at the end game. But babel really does tests your skills.
Great review dude, you did justice to the gameplay and explained it perfectly although new players hearing that might be a little bit overwhelmed.
This is a great video to recommend to your friends to force their fall into the PGR rabbit hole lol you really nailed conveying the important and unique gameplay mechanics and the good features of the game. Great job, dude! 👍
That was a part of the reason i made this video lmao
SUCH A GOOD VIDEO!!!! pgr is my favorite mobile game by far but its so criminally underrated globally. it really needs so much more attention so thank you for this!
Thank you for giving the game a fair review! I'll use this video to make my friends play PGR!
I'm just gonna say this.
People who said that every gacha game is garbage is no different than saying all religion is man made. It's very ignorant and close-minded.
Even after a year since global release, alpha is still one of the most technical characters in PGR (Although that should have belonged to changyu since he's a martial artist and what not). I have heard that all the base characters along with some others are getting reworked now, and the fire god can use more than 2 percent of his power.
I love how the first song you put is revelation. A lot of people don’t appreciate that song much.
Bro the lyrics coming on is so hype.
I’m downloading and this video has got me so excited to start
I've played this game since day 1 (on global) and I really enjoyed the video, I would just like to mention something about it, I can hear your mic poping from time to time but other than that I have nothing else to say except it's really good.
And as per usual AHH Kimochi Yokata!
Yeah I've lost my pop filter, I'm trying to get a better mic before my next big video since this one did so well but I need to save a bit.
I've been keeping an eye out for this game for while to the point that I was stoked to find out that it will come out in Global to the point that I was one of 20 (I think) who played the game in it's closed beta. Upon release it was..... Quite a Punishing time (pun intended)..... But, knowing Kuro, they listen and think for the players, so they manage to fix it once they found out.
So from release, stopped when Fallen Star to Eternal Engine was out (I was also playing Honkai and Genshin and other gacha games, I have problems :) ), came back in the KCC event up to today, I'm always eager for the rush of getting my ass whooped or perhaps malding to drain my sanity.
All I'm saying is: gotta get'em waifus and husbandos.
I also played honkai but the stigma gacha is stressful and f2p options take years to farm. PGR is super F2P.
Really cool review! The ping system is huge. Really puts a unique spin on the hack n slash action game genre that makes me expect more from these type of games now. Adding to the negatives is the serum... I really love this game but the amount of serum we get is abysmal. I want to play and grind PGR all day but I can’t and I’m limited to malding in WZ or messing around in the 0 serum memory rescue challenge events and I’m not even sure if memory rescue will be a permanent feature. In another mobile game I play there are so many ways to gain serum and there’s even a VIP system where big spenders will recover the serum equivalent faster, resulting in being able to have a good few hours of a grinding session. To add to the positives the characters and coatings are amazing. PGR has a wonderful taste in character and moveset design and I’m always willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money just to get new cosmetics for my favorite characters. I currently own every character except for S Lee! I love them all. To comment on the first statement about gacha games being cash grabs sure most are but the advantage gacha and f2p games have over AAA games is that their shelf life is indefinite and content just keeps flowing whereas when you finish a regular game you’re done with it.
Subscribing because i feel like it still pretty rare to see someone who enjoy single player games like persona and xenoblade also cover and enjoy pgr. most of channel i've found only focused on playing the other gacha games like Genshin or Honkai
I feel this tbh. Good to know there's people who are watching this who are the same as me in that regard. I was worried PGR fans wouldn't be interested in the other content I want to do (especially after my xb3 first impressions kinda flopped although that could be down to it being lower effort and shorter as well) since a lot of people are subbing from this video, so this comment helped me stop worrying a bit. Thanks!
Bro, awesome review! This game is so good it became my life...
The fact that you can get all the Characters if you played since launch by doing weeklys is insane
As an avid mecha waifu enjoyer, I approve 200% of PGR. It is soo fuckong good.
My favourite girl is Rosetta. She is awesome. Miyuki Sawashiro based.
When i first installed Pgr 1 month after it's global release it got me confused abt it's combat mechanics you'll need to have muscle memory to master enemys attack patterns(especially roland that mf annoys me with his surprise attacks) And not only that! they're giving you a free S rank construct of your own choice is an awesome way to start playing the game, i picked Karenina Ember in my main account and Lee Entropy in my second account. As for the story I'd say it's great thought the early chapters kinda bores me but in the middle part where kamui got infected by roland whichs leads to Camu's existence(well it's based on my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong) thats where the things became interesting in the story. the bgm in Pgr is absolute top tier i can't choose which my fav of all of them. And yeah the downside for me is the serum regeneration. it's production is too slow if you only clear stage in the stories then it's good but doing other stuff like clearing interludes,some stages in events,grinding in resources cost alot of serum they could've atlease limit the serum capacity to 250-300 that way players can really enjoy to do other stuff cuz grinding for 6 star memory is a whole pain.
I agree with everything you said
As for Camu, he's always been there, most of the time he just sleep and doesn't do much
@@bamboozed6727 Yeah i remembered he's only active in high viral density places which where kamui cooperate with gray ravens on their mission at the chapter
If you wanna hate gabriel more you can always read Selena's story.
Another one bite the dust in this depth cave filled with hidden diamond
welcome commandant
Also this is probably one of the best Review of this game check all the good stuff in PGR ahd to offer .. you need more subs and view
To be fair, I did just make this channel so its going to take time to build subs, and thanks. Im planning on doing reviews like this on a lot of different games in the future, mixed in with easier to edit videos because this one took forever.
To be honest, half of the reason i made this was to convince my friends to play pgr lol.
Amazing video! Honestly does what it was meant to do and more. This game has inspired me to want to make lore vids about it and no game has ever inspired me to do that. Thank you for this vid! I hope to see more down the line.
Thanks so much! I'm planning on making more videos like this about other games, and maybe a few more about PGR in the future, but I want to upgrade my microphone first so it doesn't sound so horrible.
@@tempust394 keep improving! That's all you can do!
I honestly detest gacha games but Ofcourse Pgr being an exemption. I waited for it to be released in global and got into it on the very first day it was released. And I can say that I never grew tired of it and I'm still playing up until now. The combat mechanics most especially the matrix and core passives are my favourites, and what I truly tried to master. I remember struggling to do the perfect dodge on the first month of playing but now I can say that I mastered it somehow. It's just so rewarding that I can do the perfect dodge oftentimes just by listening to the attack prompt of the enemies, which is so satisfying. And the game is f2p players friendly, so I got to collect most of the characters at each event.
That's a good explanation, I wish more players play this..
Wow this is a complete review of PGR every point are mentioned just right. You sir, deserve my subscribe happy malding💀💀💀
Orb system is fun yet hard, but this is what make PGR have a really cool fast paced combat, you dont have to wait a skill to cooldown
what is the most selling points in pgr for me , that its 90% skill based game and 10% the power of the construct that u play with
you earned a sub :)
Omg pgr content. This game deserves more attention really. I invite all of my friends to try it out and hopefully they like it!! Thanks for the content!!
Cool video! I love this game too!
one of my favourite thing is sound design and PGR is one that knows how to make things sound good
While this may not at all be a Review or anything like that, more like a love letter to PGR, i do want to address my own responses to your video, as being few months a player of the game myself (a general new player perspective, i guess). So, sorry if this looks like meaningless comment dumping, or a decent textwall, but i am glad i have come to reflect on my experiences with the game, due to this video. again, thank you very much!
Pros about PGR:
> The gameplay is absolute fire as you said. It's not like some gacha games that may look boring and uninteresting to someone that is just watching the game being played, without understanding the mechanics and appreciating the player's playstyle/talent, this is both flashy, complex and glamourous. absolute amazing, and like 30% of why i really wanted to play PGR myself (seeing pro-Wanshi players just solo bosses was the final straw lol)
> The music. enough said. Actually 70% the reason for wanting to play PGR (to me). Rarely ever does a piece of media have this consistently great music in all it's OST size.
> There's a lot to do in PGR, and events/side content occasionally swap, letting a breath of fresh air from time to time. aside from that WZ and PPC are always there, so a player does not get bored. this is great way to keep the players from not being bored or bummed out (although i have issues, later stated)
> The game is not at all grindy if you know what you are doing and only want to progress to the basics of everything (though that usually doesn't involved getting a lot of rewards for your efforts). I really like this aspect about PGR, as it feels genuinely Free-to-Play in that regard. Both content and character collection wise. Pity counters are decently high, and even goes as far as guaranteed during events, gacha are neatly separated into Weapon and character (WHICH IS A HUGE PAIN IN THE GACHA COMMUNITY), and aside from the starter A/B rank constructs, almost everyone has not direct upgrade, everyone is still relevant in a squad setup (aided by the not as huge character roster.. yet) They do it much better than it's sister HI3, with the alters of charcters sometimes just feeling like a polished up ver. of the original character and just thrown in the game. They all have very distinctive feeling to them, and i love it!! (like my personal favourite examples of this, is the two Watanabes'. Both feel just so different from one another, even aside from the elemental attribute standpoint)
Cons about PGR:
> My primary complaint about PGR, is the amount of time you need to spend with it a day, if you actually want to make an effort to progress further than the basics. This is fairly true for many gachas already, (and while i myself used to hate gacha games before.... before i played a certain game called Arknights :] ), it sometimes creeps into FGO levels of painful, during certain events. Aside from draining the daily serum, which is super quick to do now because of Auto-ing, there is WZ, that you can honestly do just twice a week and forget about, but if you want a better consistent reward, you need keep an eye on, to make sure demotion doesn't happens. then there's PPC, with the daily 4/8 Stamina uses, on boss rotations per week, that may or may not be painfully slow or just utterly boring to keep fighting, due to some bs they get at lower floors.... like poison, even if it doesn't thematically fit the boss itself (yes yes, auto clear is a thing, but the points loss is too much to succumb to, at the lower floors). Then we have the Maze (now truncated) with the stamina meter too, Norman (event based) with it;s daily stamina charge stacking, whatever the event specific minigame might be, which also needs it's own daily time investment to do.... and if you care about it, dormitory missions. That is a lot of timesink, padded with unnecessary menu navigation and clicking (this is coming off of someone who held at one point, upto 8 accounts on Arknights simultaneously... and does dorm management X_X). Overall, it might be good for the student with short bursts of break/class/study sessions, with some time to play inbetween, but for someone who might, say, have a strenuous working life (and may or may not play more than 1 gacha), that is quite the time investment.... PER DAY mind you. i do wish your need for participation was not this intricate per day, and more or less spread between a week, so still keep on top of things and progress to a pleasant PGR standpoint. Yes, the point of WZ/PPC is challenging you and pitting you with other players, but pile all of it together, and you get a constant steady brain drain of doing things to the point of sometimes annoyance (i more or less left PPC after a point, because of the daily headache). You are missing out a lot if you dont have a constant participation going on each week/day, and that additive loss hursts, especially if F2P with a mindset of not being very casual about the game.
> The 2nd thing is, something i'd argue about your observation on the gacha aspect of the game. While yes, the pity system is nice and the gacha is serviceable.... and you can even avoid most of the gacha headaches if you dont want to reach for the high rank/numbers in the weekly leaderboards in various modes..... You should have still pointed out that comparatively to many other gachas, earning pull currency is fairly slow in PGR. Sure it may only be 60 pulls for a guarantee onbanner in the event banners, bu that 60 pulls take a long time to save. even a 10 pull can take a while to collect. It strikes a balance for the F2P to hold, but it still means that the Gacha pain is still there very much so, just in a different flavour. In other games, you would need like 100+ pulls to not even get the onbanner (F though), while here, you can't even 60 Pulls back to back because the low pull savings in a short period, especially with the almost back to back events we're getting in Global (or whaling, but that's.... gacha staple)
> Something else i actually dislike is the amount of information overload when starting the game. both in-combat and off-combat. there is so much things constantly happening, pages popping up and locked pages, with the clarifications not doing a great job of explaining how things works. Even the tutorial doesn't really "end" because you arent really always told what you need to do to unlock more stuff/gameplay sections, and they themselves are very wordy, often mixing up lore with the help guides. It really devolves into blindly clicking on several pages, and being confused with the new source of information overload, or stare at a notification that state that "you need to clear XX to unlock this", yet you can't reach that node, because you still haven't unlocked YY stage, things that the game should be more clear about. (an example being, several of the high numbered resource stages being locked behind story progression, and you would be mistaken to assume that you would just unlock them by completing the previous stage, but noooo... or the fact you have no idea how many promotions you can actually give your characters, until you do it the whole way that first time) Thankfully they help it somewhat with the Newbie mission page, that points on what you should do, but they should really redo the tutorial of the game, it feels overwhelming. Just directing players to the info page doesn't always help with realizing what you are supposed to end up doing in any specific page. You really need a community/friend who can guide you through the game... unless you want to make some really bad 'account damage' worthy mistakes starting out in PGR, which is funny, because you actually have the resources to do that right as you start the game, which is something not usual in other gachas.
Whew! that was my spiel laid out bare, but make no mistake. i absolutely LOVE and ADORE this game!
I just knew that i HAD to play it, after several of folk in my own community were regular players of it, and being a huge music appreciator, i can't ignore it. I do my best to take whatever time of the day i can spare in my tired and addled brain and body (usually due to work pressure) to do as much as i can everyday, and it's super worth it still. i would say like a 9.5/10. This game solidified my stance on gacha games in general... that... "They are not all just virtual gambling simulators". Both PGR and AK are some of the best games i have ever come across.
And i see that steady rise in sub count. Goodluck to you, hopefully you can afford a better headset soon and stay safe 👍
I may respond with a longer reply later because I only really skimmed this comment lol, but thanks for the response. The reason I didnt mention the slow gain is because it still is enough for a f2p to get all the s ranks, and a lot of people i know are used to genshin and honkai where that isnt possible. Genshin also has some really slow income as well, slower than pgr in endgame imo.
Also while i cant afford a better headset JUST yet I did find a way to make it sound at least as good as it does in this video, tho the workaround is a pain in the ass it works till i can get a new one
@@tempust394 oh i know that audioset pain, the amount of takes i sometimes had to discard because of weird reverb or random background noises :(
but true, it's still very f2p friendly in that regard, just i may have been spoiled by gachas that demand a little less of your daily time everyday, so it feels even more painful to recieve a slow income for what feels like 15mins to 45 mins minimum a day spent doing the same thing everyday... more if there is an event ongoing.
Tbh the only point I disagree with is the lore presented in light novel-ish style, I like that more than UNSKIPPABLE cutscenes in certain game(s). If I feel like I want to read, I'll read the story, if not I can just press the skip button and I'm all fine
Parry is up in Mother Structure battle on the current update. Enjoy!
Yep. I need to catch up on the story tho lol
I am so glad that someone actually talked about the difficulty and skill required to master this game especially when alot of people have the misconception that u can win the game just by button mashing.
Button mashing is the quickest ticket to get your ass kicked in this game
@@hexfizgamingch Especially when someone would try to dodge-mash 24/7, well, good luck to those
I'll try it out
Brah, theres video of wuthering waves out there, you excited for it? Cant wait to see what kuro will do with it
Yeah, although I've stopped keeping up with news recently.
As much as the gameplay is fun I hesitate to recommend this game because of how hard it is for new players. The game is not new player friendly at all despite all the rewards they give it's still a struggle to form and build a coordinated team, The gameplay is only really fun if you're a long time player but for a starter the bosses can be frustrating, I struggled a lot when I was starting I barely finish the Pain Cage since they have system that only makes you use one character 5 times as a starting player you'll focus on one attacker type of hero, also how even the weapon depends on RNG. If you want to check it out be ready for a really hard grinding and bring patience as well cuz you have to wait for rewards to come.
New players can use weaker characters for the first few levels of each PPC then their stronger ones on the last 5.
New players can always pick liv as the first 6 star, She makes the game easier till you can get the hang of it.
Also if you have a second semi-leveled DPS, you can clear first 2-3 stages in PPC with them alone, just put your built character memories on them for this, then swap back (this applies only to earlygame when all you have is 1, maybe 2 units that you're building)
You know I'd normally make a joke in the lines of "Haha. Gacha player" or something along those lines but this is genuinely a really well made video. Keep it up man
Thanks
The ones who play FGO like me and have a severe distrust in gacha for obvious reasons, PGR gacha is 100% F2P friendly you WILL have all the characters eventually even not wasting a single coin, the only place you have to waste real money is in some skins for characters that is totaly optional
Me buying the plume skin: "I shouldn't do this, but that doesn't mean I won't!"
You like Kamui too? Nice!
Whoever doesn't doesn't know what "taste" is.
Fell in love with it when I saw it maybe a year before release. I looked so good.
Nowadays I have my Rank 105 GL account and Rank 80 JP and TW.
And I FREAKING enjoy playing all 3 accounts. The visuals, story, combat, THE MUSIC.
*Chef´s kiss*
I just got it today and I'm loving the game so far but its sad knowing my fav character has their banner up rn but I've got 0 chance of getting it as I have literally no currency to pull.
Even if I grind the story I doubt ill even get enough for 20 pulls so I hope reruns don't take too long to come around
If you don't mind me asking, which character?
If its an S rank there will be more S selectors in the future (second ani has one) and rotations don't take too long for the 70% I find, although I don't pull on that banner so I don't know for sure...
@@tempust394 lucia : crimson abyss
The banner ends in 3 days and so far I've only gotten enough for 5 pulls.
I ended up pulling on the fate version of the banner as I know there is no way In hell in going to get 60 pulls for pity so I decided to try my luck with the higher S rank chance but with a longer pity
@@wolfhunted7702 alpha gets reruns quite often so I would have done the 60 then just waited since the pity transfers, the 80~100 chances arent high enough to make it worth it imo.
@@tempust394 fml I guess
Well its only 5 pulls so its not the end of the world.
Ty for the help
My personal fav soundtrack in pgr is hikari
crimson abyss be like: I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
Pgr is truly underrated
Kuro Games deserves all the love that they are getting
the only downside is no voice acting in the story lol
so much agree about this game 🎯
Is it out global? I heard of this game for a while but I can't find it on play store yet. All I found was a assist app for the game.
It is out on global but it may not be available in your region, you still have options though such as downloading it from taptap or making a play store account for a different region, the former is probably easier.
It's an amazing game. I really like it. But it's so depressing...
I'm lvl 100 on the global version of pgr and mostly a f2p and every session i go through i wished i could play more but late game is just rince and repeat until a new event/major update release and ill be playing for hours trying to complete as much as i can until im unable to continue.
may I ask what's the full size of the game now?
@@justineeman7317 7.5gb the google playstore is showing me
The best gacha game ever I played, imagine you can get every S rank if you can manage the currency
One of the interesting things about of the Orb system, its an awful system on early game since u cant have any control of the system at all and u are just using 1 character on the field vs on late game when all urs characters have gear and if u are fucked with the RNG u just swap to the tank or support. Thats why on the Wuthering waves debate (next kuro games game) some people that tried PGR dont want the orb system because of the RNG, but people that are hardcore or at least played pgr with 1 full team really want the orb system on wuthering waves because we know it gives a fast and seamless action gameplay.
I am going to have to disagree a bit here. I think having access to matrix and how relatively fast you gain orbs makes it fine, otherwise solo runs wouldn't be as popular as they are.
@@tempust394 u have to think, the solo run like rexlent one are with weapon with 2 or full reso, reso gives access to few extra skill like more orb every few second or more stamina dodge.
Even so, i think they added new skill between the SSS and SSS+ that i think one are more orbs on X situation.
Except few characters that can kinda handle low orb gameplay with good rng, like veritas theres a lot of character that are complete screw without orb like alpha, plume, kamui tenebrion and others.
I mean just think at the "support" character they are design to go to field and do something not just qte. Kuro has design everything to the combat feel smoth.
Lucia Dawn actually got upgraded in china
I am aware, but I have yet to play her with those upgrades so I have no idea if they fix my problems with her.
@@tempust394
A well invested Dawn is comparable to a F2P Bianca in terms of damage output, but unlocking and levelling the buffs requires a lot of serum
@@mob5990 Thing is my problem is with her moveset not with her damage output. Id explain but I am planning on making a smaller video on it in the future and it'd ruin the surprise.
@@tempust394
Ah, I see. Welp, at least her buff keeps her ult when switching out so that's something?
Melody name at 0:30 ?
Holy moonlight
The one mobile gacha game that i played for long time
i just wanna add something, PGR is not immune to having the game feeling like a chore (the dailies and stuff), though people that enjoy the characters and combat like me wouldnt mind it, its best to keep in mind that this could turn off quite a bit of people, especially since the current patch untold naraka is one of the least content packed event the game offered
This is true, but I forgot to mention it. I sort of touched on it when I said "the non combat modes aren't great" and "game modes get reused" but I didn't outright say it. Still this is a problem that most gachas have to some degree so I don't feel like it was a horrible omission. Thanks for the comment!
yep, there's no game that is perfect and somehow everygame will always have a downside. the downside of this game is it focuses on combat, and so it can't be open world, and so they need to use a system that is balanced enough for the game which is the SERUM system.
because every character is so well designed I'm assuming the content gets robbed by some of the budget.
I've accepted this flaws and downsides, and now I enjoy the game to it's fullest
maybe the gatcha is good, i feel like its super difficult to actually grind black cards. especially since it gives you relatively so little. doing daily missions gives you what 25 cards? out of fucking 2500? that does not seem like a lot. and the combat is nice, when im not doing what feels like chip damage to some eniemes because my battle power(i forget what their actually called) is so little becuase i have literally 8 things to upgrade for one unit.
the unit itself
the weapons
and the six cards
oh and also the story did not stay with me at all, after watanabe showed up, it went down hill for me. And they didnt have the fucking characters of neir automata, in the fucking collab even though it SHOWED THEM TOGETHER.
sorry im really pissed at that event, god what a shit collab, characters were fun to play tho
@@Christian-gr3gu Yoko taro didn't allow Kuro to add a story where Yorha Characters are included so you can't blame Kuro for that issue
@@HellaurIMJaCe4256 Its more square than Yoko Taro. Remember that cloud was only allowed 2 songs initially when he got into smash until Sephiroth happened and ig they realized how much smash boosts sales. Pretty much square doesn't let anyone do anything with their IPs. As a Xeno series fan, this hurts when you realize no blade game will ever have a gears cameo.
@@tempust394 oh sorry it's Square Enix my bad
I forgot
9:06
Where is this from please tell....
The song is called initialize, the footage I used was from the "endless war" trailer.
Not entirely sure which you meant.
@@tempust394 Oh thanks!
I meant the footage, I thought there was a video or something they released about the outbreak and such that I missed lol
Heh, just waiting for Norman update to mald)
Just waiting for nier event to end so we can have content again...
The one thing I hate about the game is the hidden story mainly because of its put story progression to a MASSIVE halt and can be VERY ANNOYING at times if your really invested into the story and the BP just straight up spikes out of now where
But overall my favorite game of 2023
Waiting for pc port
Apparently one got trademarked a bit ago so there is a good chance we will get one soon.