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I guess this means it’s still at least another week b4 ur ready to talk about Azur Lane? I’ll continue to be waiting patiently for that vid of ur thoughts and opinions on my all time fav game AL.
Started playing because I really liked the characters, having seen nothing of the gameplay. Kinda jarring at first. Thought it would be boring, but it's actually pretty fun. Love it.
Alchemy stars is one of the most generous gacha games I have ever played. Every month gives you like 50 pulls above. The rates can be depressing at times but it does gives alot of freebies on every event that ranges from 20 to 40 pulls within the 20 day time limits. I say it is one of the best gacha games in terms of uniqueness and innovating mechanics imo. The game can get boring bc of ded week like arknights but Im still gonna stay for it since the event stories are very interesting and fun to read and new aurorians can be sometimes pretty good combat and art wise.
As some1s introduction to gacha games being Azur Lane i disagree with ur statement on 50 pulls a month being a lot. In AL u get approximately 40 builds a week if u play around 1 hour a day, in other words casuals. While hardcore players can get 70+ builds each week, well u wud need to grind for like 8+ hours a day but u can definitely do it. I’ve been lucky b4 with my cube urgent commissions and managed to get upwards of 100 builds a week and only spending 70 builds a week on the event build pool. In non-UR events the average number of builds needed to get every new shipfu is 70 builds. Sometimes u’ll be lucky and get them all much earlier while other times u won’t be so lucky and will be spending much more. But 70 is the average. In UR events the average is around 100 builds give or take. Normal major events last 14 days, UR events last 21 days, and mini events last 7 or 14 days. So u need to be beyond unlucky to not get every new shipfu as a F2P as the event comes around and not having to wait for the rerun. I’ve been playing for over 3.5 years and only twice have I ever not gotten every new shipfu that came out in that same event. I had to wait for there rerun to get them which I obviously did, 1 year or so for 1 and nearly 2 years for the other. For me 50 pulls a month isn’t very much but compared to really greedy gacha games like GI it is kinda a lot.
@@baileydombroskie3046 well Im talking about the lumambers if you pull on focused banners, but the standard/rerun banners with yellow crystals can be easily farm in spire and old seal once you have high level aurorians that can range to 200 pulls plus attendance for 500 days and achievements. Morever, beginners can get alot of gacha currency from story and events aside from the 30-50 pulls every month. Dailies can also give you 100-180 lumambers that includes the dispatch Alchemy stars isnt as grindy as azure lane unless you are a beginner but there is qol in this game which makes it easier to farm
@@baileydombroskie3046 the thing with AS is, there is no need to really grind lol. what i agree with a lot of players is that there are dead weeks, when you complete an event and have nothing else to do after it, aside from lvling up your aurorians or going for spire/calamity codex/or any other standard dungeon that resets each week. to me, 50 is really a LOT, idk anything about AL but in alchemy stars you're ALWAYS guaranteed a 6* in featured and normal banners, because they're keep over time and the pity doesn't disappear. i dont play as much as i did in the begin, but it's a nice game and in which i don't have to grind hours every day to get characters.
@@catterpieces7154 it sounds like alchemy stars tries to keep the players busy steady but not grindy. Which I think is fair and reasonable. In AL we don’t really get dead weeks ad especially not now more then ever. Cuz whenever there isn’t a major event to grind there r things that u wud than instead allocate all that spare time to. Whenever I’m not busy grinding an event I’m grinding main story for that juicy experience to continue raising more shipfus to max lv, and when I run out of oil to do that I’m in OS grinding for valuable materials. Ever sence OS came out like 1.5 years ago I’ve never had nothing to do in AL. I can play for 10 hours a day and still have shit to do.
Alchemy Stars is one of my favorite games, I literally play it everyday for the past year. There's always things going on, a ton of stuff given away, and it's really just a fun game. System isn't hard to learn, not a ton of extra things to learn or level up or farm, like other games.
I played this game since first day of release and I TOTALLY LOVE IT. Although the gameplay is a bit repeated but the the storyline is good for both main story and event story. LOVE IT
I think that is what kill me, the story is amaizing, the waifu is amaizing and the characters were amaizing, but the gameplay, it is so repetitive, i feel i was doing the same thing over and over again and i can take repetitive but it become too much, is a good game but dont know
calamiy code: it is like the spiral abyss in genshin, but has a different aspect. every week there is a boss that has infinite amount of hp. you get more points as you deal more dmg to the boss and game gives you a rank. at certain ranks you gain access to more groups to challange the boss. the damage dealt with the grps are cumulative. (you start with 1 grp at silver you get another one, gold another, diamond another etc.) it rewards you with premium currency and chests. these chests may contain various rewards. including free rolls, gifts for affection, upgrade mats etc.
It's a game that might be hard early game, but once you play a certain amount of time you just breeze through mostly everything. There are try hard stages but they're not mandatory either. Just like high risk CC runs on AK. With the QoL it has you never really have a true "burn out" because much of the contents doesn't feel like a chore because they're not that important in big picture. You can play, quit, come back and not really missing much
As an AS level 80 player I would say that there are dead weeks, but I prefer infinite times to play this F2P friendly game that allows you to upload the characters you want without rushing to a game where every week there are so many things to do that you don't have time to spend on it. Besides, I am quite comfortable with the game, the stories are interesting, they give you a lot of materials and the end game that there is is fun (but they should add more) Besides the best thing about this game, without a doubt, is that there is no PvP, I hate PvP in games since they are only limited to playing the meta repeatedly without innovation, apart from this, this causes that in AS there is a healthier community than the average of games
I love the story! Some characters are really interesting. Well thought in terms of background/story. The world building is also super cool. I'm a scifi fan, so I'm totally a lore simp when it comes to AS. The game is also very generous, you get many pulls. Being free to pray gets you a lot~ also the rates are crazy?? Although idk exactly how they work imma be honest hahahah I have been playing it for a year now and I definitely see myself playing for a long time.
Play for the art, stayed for the art as it is quite beautiful. The gameplay is fine tbh but can be quite rng which can grind my gears. It is generous for a gacha really f2p friendly. I think it needs a bit more events as dead no event days/weeks are a turn off to those hardcore gacha addicts, for the dailies kind of player not so much.
@@35PHaaton yall need to stop saying that.. Most of us that plays gacha games for hours have no friends or has social anxiety i wanna go outside too but i just can't do it. By playing games, i forget about those things and still have fun even inside my house.
i recently started alchemy stars, absolutely love it in every way, the combat and all game mechanics were easy to understand and really interesting. the character designs are kits are really well made and makes the game very fun
One of the best F2P gacha i had started playing , with one of the best examples of a fair battle pass , i can't agree with r/gachaming about the collab characters when their point are to be just collectibles , since most aren't game changing or meta , that place really has a lot of negativity going on
For real, r/gachagaming said that AS was bullshit RNG based / bad game, whereas I think it's one of the best gacha out there. Story, characters, design, challenges, devs listen to feed back...I never stopped playing since I started in June 2021.
one thing i like about this game is that your yellow flares are still valuable, they arent used just for the regular banner, you can use them for rerun banners. Azure one of the best units in the game, had her rerun banner a while ago. you can also use them for class or element concentrated banners.
I've been playing this game since release and I still do to this day. The art is so beautiful, the story events are so good, especially the current event right now. Sure the game may feel repetitive for some but I somehow really dig it. I too play Genshin since the first day but I feel burned out lately and haven't been playing it for a few weeks now, unlike Alstars. I don't know why. Nevertheless I hope you all enjoy it!
haha, that's because I played it casually, and kinda just.. enjoyed having fun in it as opposed to doing extensive research on proper team composition.
The advised group composition for beginners would be to run a single color team (all blue only for example). The 5 members would be 2 dps, 2 tile converters that will change the color to your 2 dps, and 1 flex spot (dps, converter, healer etc).
I've played so many games that i should start a youtube channel. This is probably the best side game i ever played. F2P friendly., doesn't take much to finish your daily tasks, 10 min or less. I have pretty good teams but i still find myself wanting more heroes because it's fun to have a variety of them and make different strategies. There's no PVP, so no pressure for meta units. The only downside is that it takes quite a bit to upgrade a character to max level. I have characters i'd like to build but lack resources.
I'm still playing this game since the first day release. Tbh, dev is generous like guardian tales(Kong studio), really f2p game and not competitive game. I'm looking more big update right now.
See told you this one good... tho for me iam just sad that i dont have enough luck to pull any collab unit... specially now i just burned all my pull chances for joker AHAHAH still no luck.. tho aside from that the game is Gooooooood^^
I tried it out a while back cos people said it’s like Arknights when it’s really just a similar aesthetic It’s kinda fun but I didn’t feel attached to anything, combat looks funny too with the whole running in a single-file line around a room
Re: what do you do in the game.... After a while, events is the main focus. They come every 2 weeks, sometimes with new characters, and typically with new story stages, new challenges and new rewards. It's a pretty chill game, but I've found there are typically a lot of things to do during the week. No need to spend on refills though, just take your time and save your currency for actual summons. At one point you'll need 8+ built characters of each element, with the new Pandora stages. But this is not something a new player has to worry about. Just save and pull new waifus/husbandos.
Have you ever checked about seeing The Alchemist Code? It appears to be similar in nature and would enjoy seeing professional opinion on the game I played as one of the first players in America
I started six months ago as a f2p player and I'm able to consistently make it onto the top 1000 leaderboard on the Calamity Codex for the Global server. That's when I decided that this game is actually pretty fair if a person with a sixth months since launch disadvantage could still claim all the max rewards after only a month or two of gameplay. Seven months in and I'm still going strong, I even decided to buy some of the cheaper packs cause I didn't need them to actually enjoy the game, I wanted to support the game.
I played raid shadow legend and experienced it's player hospitality (treat you like trash) first hand for 2 years. If raid shadow legend represents the worst of gatcha games, alchemy stars is the best version of gatcha games you can get on android. This game is actually fun and it compels you to play hands on to maximize its fun factor rather then letting it run on auto pilot like every other gatcha game that exists. I would rate it a level above arknight because the characters are fully animated in the menus as well as in game. You get to know all the characters through small conversations and interview dossier in the game so they all have back stories, personalities and habits (example, you will start facepalming every time jomu chat shows up because he is an annoying Con artist merchant). This game gives me hope for gatcha games as it does not try to bog you down with microtransactions. If you want to progress faster the store is stocked with extra upgrade packs as well as extra character skins drawn spectacularly so you get more eye candy bundled with a short story to go with it. I like this approach to microtransaction because if you cannot purchase or refuse to purchase from the store you won't miss out on any critical part of the story or gameplay (just slower progress and not experiencing the awesome custom skins and extra side story content) if this is not being player friendly environment, I don't know what is? Certainly not raid shadow legends that left me wondering why I was tormenting myself in a game where I only managed to max out just one character in 2 years of 6 hour grind sessions. I love this gatcha game for the same reason I love jrpg: an immersive story set in a very detailed and vibrant world. And a game that can be played multiple ways with multiple outcome based on your skills as a chess game strategist.
Hey, Stix! I was wondering: Did you ever cover Fate Grand Order? It's currently my number one favorite Cellphone Gacha Game and I can really recommend it!
I like the story, like the characters, like the design(both in game and characters) but I don't like the gameplay. It's too tedious for me. One Epic Seven is enough for my soul. Unless they have an auto farming system that can go on even if you're offline like with Alchemist Code.
dude why don't you ever play an actually well known to be bad gacha? the closest you got to it was a mid one in like episode 2 or smth "controversial" like tower of fantasy but why don't you make a vid on like raid shadow legends or dislyte or cookie run kingdom or something
well tbh i played AS for a year until i quit bcoz i had more commitment on Azur Lane :P i personally quit AS b4 the Persona 5 collab which consider by others as a wierd collab
I personally like Alchemy stars. The only thing that sux that lit. all the husbandos which are a minority yet again and lots of old bearded ones.... are mostly inferior to waifus QAQ but meeh~ At least it doesn't feel too stingy, so completing stuff feels satisfying enough
It's definitely not a bad game. Love the art and the designs for the waifus. Total of 12 6*s so i consider myself lucky, and about triple the amount of 5*s. I dont really think it's necessary to remember boss mechs cuz every stage has monster descriptions, and then i just pick the right elements with converters and DPS. Even if you're in a stage you can click on mobs/bosses to see where they'll attack so you can dodge em. Good timing cuz P5 collab hapenning right now. I pulled Fox, and his duplicate, but no Queen yet.
Also having a healer is really good cuz it gives survivability. My team consist of 2 DPS (Sharona and Bethel), 1 Sniper, 1 Converter and 1 Healing Support (the best luckily which is Novio)
6 months late but as a former Grand Summoners player, it's true. There are way too many flaws that GS has that makes it insanely terrible and it even contains TWO of the BIGGEST flaws any gacha game would have, those two being: 1- Little to no generosity in summoning currency whatsoever 2- Batshit gacha rates, even in character banners
As a concept all gatcha are the worst, it’s only that we fool ourselves with the gameplay and the “plot” that no one cares about, that said the the scale of generosity and content I find alchemy stars to be really good and fun. But it’s still a gatcha, I’d rather get myself a full product rather than a bankruptcy scheme
This game and countereide suffered a lot from poor marketing in the west. AS also has a global server and an american? which doesn't cross with each other which be feel pretty bad . Gameplay early on can be pretty snooze. Though they seem to be wanting to spice it uo adding new mechanics for chars and enemies and some map obstructions.
@@Justin_0241 think counterside would have been better if it was more Japanese than Korean. The devs/pub had the choice they chose korean and I think it cost them quite a bit. Sad to say because it is a KR game but like AK which is technically a CN game they should have just made it more like other jp gachas.
@@404Kiwi i decided to quit Counter:Side in KR server and instead i just focused on both Azur Lane and Arknights ( these 2 games are more like Nicorette gum to me while Counter:Side is more like an addictive cigarette )
Love the game, but what kill me, the story is amaizing, the characters are amaizing and the artstile nice, but i think what kill me was the gameplay, it start really good, but as time, pass it become repetitive, and sometimes you depend a lot in luck, and like you sometimes i have an idea, other times, it is me running around begging, and when it start becoming repetitive i dont know, to be honest the gameplay in the last parts becoming repetitive and when you arrive to the last chapters of the story, because i dont know now but the story was shorter when i play and i like the story but the alst bosses were kind of too hard and to be hoenst i was tired of repetitive battle
I think that biggest problem of alcemy stars is non-existent late game. I still login sometimes, do dailys and weekly boss that's it. I have full upgraded teams for each of 4 elements, most of them are 6*, case gacha here is generous and resources farm is realy unnesesary.
Reached a point where you have a really strong team, and the only thing left to do was clearing spires and do high scores in the calamity codex. I felt like I already cleared the game and uninstalled. Edit: Can't say that with most gachas out there, and it's definitely a good thing to be "done" with a game.
@@eriponchi i did clear all spires and now I'm just doing daily, secret territory, and calamity codex. Glad it's not pvp game so I can play without pressure to gacha all characters.
Played this game for almost a year. I loved it. But my only complain is the breakthrough. If they gave us equivalent material to breakthrough to earn like the seals have then it would be really great. But getting doubles in this game is not that easy. Its easier to get to multiple 6 stars then to get multiples of the same. That is the problem with this game on the long term. That is why i left this one to Azur Lane. Late game is better then Alchemy Stars.
The game is pretty, i loved its art style and the general design. But the gameplay didn't click with me, the fact that your moves are completely dependant on the randomly generated colored grid (even if some heroes can change the color, although at a cooldown) made the gamelplay tedious and limiting.
Have you ever played a TCG? I think that the "too much randomness" criticism that people often make about AS is very similar to what a beginner might experience when playing a TCG for the first time. If you have few cards available and little knowledge of deck building, you will probably build a poorly balanced deck and end up relying too much on drawing the right card at the right time. (For example, a beguinner might feel that Magic the Gathering is tedious and limiting because the spells you can cast are completely dependant on the randomly drawn terrain cards, or something like that.) But the more options you have, and the higher your knowledge of deckbuilding, (and about the game in general) the more consistent your performance becomes. (It probably won't take long before you realize that building an MGT deck with four different elements may not be a good idea.) The same aplies to AS, imo. If nothing else, AS actually has a lot less RNG when compared to most TGS - even if the tiles are random, the active skills you have available are not. Although whether or not you find it fun is a separate matter. ^^;
There's a three star named Pepi who can teleport you to any of the 8 adjacent tiles and has no cooldown unless you activate her skill right before aurora time. The range increases by 1 tile next turn if you don't activate her skill during the current turn. She's not strong at all but she's prolly one of the best quality of life characters you can get since she makes the tile system way less tedious and more fun
alchemy stars still one of the most strategic game on the mobile platform. AK, AS, LANGRISSA, ALCHEMISTY CODE AND FINAL FANTASY WAR OF VISION. fire emblem heroes maybe🤔
I don't think you gave the combat of alchemy stars any justice here, you have no idea how satisfying it is to successfully set up tiles around a boss and just see its HP bar meltdown It's one of the reasons a side from the waifus that's made me comeback to this game twice, because there were periods where I had to uninstall this because I had to focus on some IRL stuff. It just shows how good this game is because usually once I uninstall something I usually go looking for something different due to maybe I missed some meta breaking units and may make the game harder to get back into but alchemy stars isn't that because the best units are already in the game most especially converters you just have to wait for their Rotating banner to get a chance at them.
you didn't get lucky with your 5* waifu's. Alchemy Stars is EXTREMELY generous in every aspect. Gacha pulls, both in rates and ability to pull multiple 10-pulls in rapid succession, generally provides a decent challenge but not overly difficult most of the time, as you mentioned it has amazing art on all the waifu's and husbando's and ALL of them are live 2D etc. i've been playing since almost launch and i'm completely free to play and i've gotten dozens of 5*'s and many 6*s as well.
Sometimes i question if any logical person would do such stuff, like why the f*&k does that vine church lady can eat anything like rocks/sand but couldn't take a bite off a carrot??
New player here. I've been playing for 3 days and grinded pretty nice and I've gotten 2 6 stars, and around 8 5 stars. Maybe I'm just lucky but that's still really generous compared to a stingy game like gemshin where you get a quarter of a pull a day whilst you get multiple a day on this game. Awesome
My development in Arknights & Alchemy Stars are like: >Play because character looks good >Stay because the story Same as Azur Lane with addition of "🥵🥵🥵"
game started off so strong! i thoroughly enjoyed it, and then the abysmal 6 month anni came along. nerfed the most hyped unit in the game Beth, changed her breakthroughs, and she became BT3 dependent to reach a fraction of what she was. and on top of that, after the game had not been releasing limited banners, she was limited! dragon maid collab was boring, bland, uninspired, and units were not good. the 1 year advertised 100 rolls! "aha better than genshin!" and then 20 were locked to a limited banner, half were locked to the large pool of standard banner, and the rest were in story lmao. oh and the skin gacha for carleen, abysmal. and now the uninspired worse persona 5 collab, EOS soon.
Playing the game from day 1, quit, back again after 7month and quit again. The gameplay is fun at first and slowly draggin my mood out to continue playing the game. The story is good, it just the gameplay kinda... idk man. Maybe my expectations are higher to expect it like Arknights at the starts.
Bro your opinions on Gacha games, you need to stick to mmos that’s what you are good at, your reviews on gacha games are very scuffed, you’ve been putting on half baked reviews
horrible pity and rates on pulling the limited character but the main story and how they fledge out the character’s personality, backstory or servant as a whole is what makes the game appealing to hardcore fans and a TON of simps through other fate franchise..
Man the amount of half truths or straight lies fans will tell for a gacha never ceases to surprise me literally hard stuck at 13-14 where i either have to grind endlessly or whale to get the units i needd to clear it. Game went from a solid 6 to a 3 in my opinion
Boring after some time . With some PvP it would have been better. When it first released I spend arround 400€ but I layed it down after a few weeks . Just tiring
PvP would just ruin the whole experience of the game , since it would come with random stat equipments , that would just make the game grindy , boring skill trees and P2W
pvp is literally the worst thing for AS when lots of aurorians best utility is through their breakthroughs. whales with lot of breakthrough six 6* will win every time, and it's not even worthy for people to whale because it's just a waste of resources. what i think we need is guilds, raids, and more gamemodes.
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I guess this means it’s still at least another week b4 ur ready to talk about Azur Lane? I’ll continue to be waiting patiently for that vid of ur thoughts and opinions on my all time fav game AL.
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Worst Gacha game Arknights vod when? By the have you player new IS2 mode
Started playing because I really liked the characters, having seen nothing of the gameplay. Kinda jarring at first. Thought it would be boring, but it's actually pretty fun. Love it.
Alchemy stars is one of the most generous gacha games I have ever played. Every month gives you like 50 pulls above. The rates can be depressing at times but it does gives alot of freebies on every event that ranges from 20 to 40 pulls within the 20 day time limits. I say it is one of the best gacha games in terms of uniqueness and innovating mechanics imo. The game can get boring bc of ded week like arknights but Im still gonna stay for it since the event stories are very interesting and fun to read and new aurorians can be sometimes pretty good combat and art wise.
As some1s introduction to gacha games being Azur Lane i disagree with ur statement on 50 pulls a month being a lot. In AL u get approximately 40 builds a week if u play around 1 hour a day, in other words casuals. While hardcore players can get 70+ builds each week, well u wud need to grind for like 8+ hours a day but u can definitely do it. I’ve been lucky b4 with my cube urgent commissions and managed to get upwards of 100 builds a week and only spending 70 builds a week on the event build pool. In non-UR events the average number of builds needed to get every new shipfu is 70 builds. Sometimes u’ll be lucky and get them all much earlier while other times u won’t be so lucky and will be spending much more. But 70 is the average. In UR events the average is around 100 builds give or take. Normal major events last 14 days, UR events last 21 days, and mini events last 7 or 14 days. So u need to be beyond unlucky to not get every new shipfu as a F2P as the event comes around and not having to wait for the rerun. I’ve been playing for over 3.5 years and only twice have I ever not gotten every new shipfu that came out in that same event. I had to wait for there rerun to get them which I obviously did, 1 year or so for 1 and nearly 2 years for the other.
For me 50 pulls a month isn’t very much but compared to really greedy gacha games like GI it is kinda a lot.
Try Guardian Tales
@@baileydombroskie3046 well Im talking about the lumambers if you pull on focused banners, but the standard/rerun banners with yellow crystals can be easily farm in spire and old seal once you have high level aurorians that can range to 200 pulls plus attendance for 500 days and achievements. Morever, beginners can get alot of gacha currency from story and events aside from the 30-50 pulls every month. Dailies can also give you 100-180 lumambers that includes the dispatch
Alchemy stars isnt as grindy as azure lane unless you are a beginner but there is qol in this game which makes it easier to farm
@@baileydombroskie3046 the thing with AS is, there is no need to really grind lol. what i agree with a lot of players is that there are dead weeks, when you complete an event and have nothing else to do after it, aside from lvling up your aurorians or going for spire/calamity codex/or any other standard dungeon that resets each week. to me, 50 is really a LOT, idk anything about AL but in alchemy stars you're ALWAYS guaranteed a 6* in featured and normal banners, because they're keep over time and the pity doesn't disappear. i dont play as much as i did in the begin, but it's a nice game and in which i don't have to grind hours every day to get characters.
@@catterpieces7154 it sounds like alchemy stars tries to keep the players busy steady but not grindy. Which I think is fair and reasonable. In AL we don’t really get dead weeks ad especially not now more then ever. Cuz whenever there isn’t a major event to grind there r things that u wud than instead allocate all that spare time to. Whenever I’m not busy grinding an event I’m grinding main story for that juicy experience to continue raising more shipfus to max lv, and when I run out of oil to do that I’m in OS grinding for valuable materials. Ever sence OS came out like 1.5 years ago I’ve never had nothing to do in AL. I can play for 10 hours a day and still have shit to do.
Alchemy Stars is one of my favorite games, I literally play it everyday for the past year. There's always things going on, a ton of stuff given away, and it's really just a fun game. System isn't hard to learn, not a ton of extra things to learn or level up or farm, like other games.
I played this game since first day of release and I TOTALLY LOVE IT. Although the gameplay is a bit repeated but the the storyline is good for both main story and event story. LOVE IT
I think that is what kill me, the story is amaizing, the waifu is amaizing and the characters were amaizing, but the gameplay, it is so repetitive, i feel i was doing the same thing over and over again and i can take repetitive but it become too much, is a good game but dont know
calamiy code: it is like the spiral abyss in genshin, but has a different aspect. every week there is a boss that has infinite amount of hp. you get more points as you deal more dmg to the boss and game gives you a rank. at certain ranks you gain access to more groups to challange the boss. the damage dealt with the grps are cumulative. (you start with 1 grp at silver you get another one, gold another, diamond another etc.) it rewards you with premium currency and chests. these chests may contain various rewards. including free rolls, gifts for affection, upgrade mats etc.
Eww your opinion always base on genshit
It's a game that might be hard early game, but once you play a certain amount of time you just breeze through mostly everything. There are try hard stages but they're not mandatory either. Just like high risk CC runs on AK. With the QoL it has you never really have a true "burn out" because much of the contents doesn't feel like a chore because they're not that important in big picture. You can play, quit, come back and not really missing much
As an AS level 80 player I would say that there are dead weeks, but I prefer infinite times to play this F2P friendly game that allows you to upload the characters you want without rushing to a game where every week there are so many things to do that you don't have time to spend on it. Besides, I am quite comfortable with the game, the stories are interesting, they give you a lot of materials and the end game that there is is fun (but they should add more)
Besides the best thing about this game, without a doubt, is that there is no PvP, I hate PvP in games since they are only limited to playing the meta repeatedly without innovation, apart from this, this causes that in AS there is a healthier community than the average of games
I love the story! Some characters are really interesting. Well thought in terms of background/story. The world building is also super cool. I'm a scifi fan, so I'm totally a lore simp when it comes to AS.
The game is also very generous, you get many pulls. Being free to pray gets you a lot~ also the rates are crazy?? Although idk exactly how they work imma be honest hahahah
I have been playing it for a year now and I definitely see myself playing for a long time.
Play for the art, stayed for the art as it is quite beautiful. The gameplay is fine tbh but can be quite rng which can grind my gears. It is generous for a gacha really f2p friendly. I think it needs a bit more events as dead no event days/weeks are a turn off to those hardcore gacha addicts, for the dailies kind of player not so much.
I think that was mi problem, the gatcha was good, the art was beautiful, but the gameplay was so repetitive
The game has had events after events every three weeks since launch, what dead days? what are you on about?
This game has less dead weeks than arknights. I think you just need a life outside of games.
@@35PHaaton yall need to stop saying that.. Most of us that plays gacha games for hours have no friends or has social anxiety i wanna go outside too but i just can't do it. By playing games, i forget about those things and still have fun even inside my house.
I started play this game 1 year ago when it release, and then well ...
i still play it till this day, probably to day when the server finally close
i recently started alchemy stars, absolutely love it in every way, the combat and all game mechanics were easy to understand and really interesting. the character designs are kits are really well made and makes the game very fun
One of the best F2P gacha i had started playing , with one of the best examples of a fair battle pass , i can't agree with r/gachaming about the collab characters when their point are to be just collectibles , since most aren't game changing or meta , that place really has a lot of negativity going on
For real, r/gachagaming said that AS was bullshit RNG based / bad game, whereas I think it's one of the best gacha out there. Story, characters, design, challenges, devs listen to feed back...I never stopped playing since I started in June 2021.
one thing i like about this game is that your yellow flares are still valuable, they arent used just for the regular banner, you can use them for rerun banners. Azure one of the best units in the game, had her rerun banner a while ago. you can also use them for class or element concentrated banners.
What do YOU think of Alchemy Stars?
Cool game i guess
I've been playing this game since release and I still do to this day. The art is so beautiful, the story events are so good, especially the current event right now. Sure the game may feel repetitive for some but I somehow really dig it.
I too play Genshin since the first day but I feel burned out lately and haven't been playing it for a few weeks now, unlike Alstars. I don't know why. Nevertheless I hope you all enjoy it!
Glad to see you showcase this game but my god your team building is absolutely terrible
haha, that's because I played it casually, and kinda just.. enjoyed having fun in it as opposed to doing extensive research on proper team composition.
I was thinking the same thing lol
Love your content bro
Appreciate that, KD
The advised group composition for beginners would be to run a single color team (all blue only for example). The 5 members would be 2 dps, 2 tile converters that will change the color to your 2 dps, and 1 flex spot (dps, converter, healer etc).
exactly
I've played so many games that i should start a youtube channel. This is probably the best side game i ever played. F2P friendly., doesn't take much to finish your daily tasks, 10 min or less. I have pretty good teams but i still find myself wanting more heroes because it's fun to have a variety of them and make different strategies. There's no PVP, so no pressure for meta units.
The only downside is that it takes quite a bit to upgrade a character to max level. I have characters i'd like to build but lack resources.
I'm still playing this game since the first day release. Tbh, dev is generous like guardian tales(Kong studio), really f2p game and not competitive game. I'm looking more big update right now.
I wish they add guild system where you can raid daily and ofc get more lumambers to pull 😋
i started to play just recently for persona 5 characters~! its been a very friendly journey i will say...
Im glad i got back to this game just today, I've been playing this game for 4 months since it launched
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I wonder why I can't get anymore 6 stars ops in arknights
You already got them all? haha
@@Stixxy please don't make me cry
I started playing during the Anniversary, and I'm very happy I did! I really like the whole world that's been created for these characters.
6:42 does sound like a skeleton
I do not use strategy since i got my full kobayashi maid collab team they have been carrying me through the game with ease
See told you this one good... tho for me iam just sad that i dont have enough luck to pull any collab unit... specially now i just burned all my pull chances for joker AHAHAH still no luck.. tho aside from that the game is Gooooooood^^
Most gacha friendly game i have ever played and the mechanics are awesome. I love it
I tried it out a while back cos people said it’s like Arknights when it’s really just a similar aesthetic
It’s kinda fun but I didn’t feel attached to anything, combat looks funny too with the whole running in a single-file line around a room
Re: what do you do in the game.... After a while, events is the main focus. They come every 2 weeks, sometimes with new characters, and typically with new story stages, new challenges and new rewards. It's a pretty chill game, but I've found there are typically a lot of things to do during the week. No need to spend on refills though, just take your time and save your currency for actual summons. At one point you'll need 8+ built characters of each element, with the new Pandora stages. But this is not something a new player has to worry about. Just save and pull new waifus/husbandos.
Have you ever checked about seeing The Alchemist Code? It appears to be similar in nature and would enjoy seeing professional opinion on the game I played as one of the first players in America
This game is pretty generous tho. Unlike the most stingy gacha game i known.
I started six months ago as a f2p player and I'm able to consistently make it onto the top 1000 leaderboard on the Calamity Codex for the Global server.
That's when I decided that this game is actually pretty fair if a person with a sixth months since launch disadvantage could still claim all the max rewards after only a month or two of gameplay. Seven months in and I'm still going strong, I even decided to buy some of the cheaper packs cause I didn't need them to actually enjoy the game, I wanted to support the game.
i want the look of the old map back
I played raid shadow legend and experienced it's player hospitality (treat you like trash) first hand for 2 years. If raid shadow legend represents the worst of gatcha games, alchemy stars is the best version of gatcha games you can get on android. This game is actually fun and it compels you to play hands on to maximize its fun factor rather then letting it run on auto pilot like every other gatcha game that exists. I would rate it a level above arknight because the characters are fully animated in the menus as well as in game. You get to know all the characters through small conversations and interview dossier in the game so they all have back stories, personalities and habits (example, you will start facepalming every time jomu chat shows up because he is an annoying Con artist merchant). This game gives me hope for gatcha games as it does not try to bog you down with microtransactions. If you want to progress faster the store is stocked with extra upgrade packs as well as extra character skins drawn spectacularly so you get more eye candy bundled with a short story to go with it. I like this approach to microtransaction because if you cannot purchase or refuse to purchase from the store you won't miss out on any critical part of the story or gameplay (just slower progress and not experiencing the awesome custom skins and extra side story content) if this is not being player friendly environment, I don't know what is? Certainly not raid shadow legends that left me wondering why I was tormenting myself in a game where I only managed to max out just one character in 2 years of 6 hour grind sessions. I love this gatcha game for the same reason I love jrpg: an immersive story set in a very detailed and vibrant world. And a game that can be played multiple ways with multiple outcome based on your skills as a chess game strategist.
Best gacha game so far aint no one telling me otherwise
Hey, Stix! I was wondering: Did you ever cover Fate Grand Order? It's currently my number one favorite Cellphone Gacha Game and I can really recommend it!
I haven't yet, no! haha
@@Stixxy I really recommend it! It's my absolute favorite Cellphone/Gacha game and trust me, I played tons and tons of those! ✨️😎✨️
Devs should add skippable resource farms...then i will go back
I like the story, like the characters, like the design(both in game and characters) but I don't like the gameplay. It's too tedious for me. One Epic Seven is enough for my soul. Unless they have an auto farming system that can go on even if you're offline like with Alchemist Code.
dude why don't you ever play an actually well known to be bad gacha? the closest you got to it was a mid one in like episode 2 or smth "controversial" like tower of fantasy but why don't you make a vid on like raid shadow legends or dislyte or cookie run kingdom or something
Bcuz he dumb...all the good game he try to denied that is good...
He probably doesn’t want to spend 25 to 40 hours playing a shitty game lol idk just guessing
@@CvntForceDrama is he even still doing these? and i mean he decided to call it worst gacha ever and search for the worst one so
Old post. My apologies
well tbh i played AS for a year until i quit bcoz i had more commitment on Azur Lane :P i personally quit AS b4 the Persona 5 collab which consider by others as a wierd collab
I personally like Alchemy stars. The only thing that sux that lit. all the husbandos which are a minority yet again and lots of old bearded ones.... are mostly inferior to waifus QAQ but meeh~
At least it doesn't feel too stingy, so completing stuff feels satisfying enough
It's definitely not a bad game. Love the art and the designs for the waifus. Total of 12 6*s so i consider myself lucky, and about triple the amount of 5*s. I dont really think it's necessary to remember boss mechs cuz every stage has monster descriptions, and then i just pick the right elements with converters and DPS. Even if you're in a stage you can click on mobs/bosses to see where they'll attack so you can dodge em. Good timing cuz P5 collab hapenning right now. I pulled Fox, and his duplicate, but no Queen yet.
I lost my account and i tried to write developers but they don't give a.....
Also having a healer is really good cuz it gives survivability. My team consist of 2 DPS (Sharona and Bethel), 1 Sniper, 1 Converter and 1 Healing Support (the best luckily which is Novio)
Yeah, I really needed one! haha
just 1 converter, try two converter and 1 healer🤷♂🤷♂
@@uchenna8885 I mean I'm still developing some of my Converter Aurorians so for the meantime that'll be my set-up.
I have a whale account in this game, but I don't even play anymore. Wish I could give it away some days.
why did u stop playing?
Will i don’t think alchemy stars is the worst try watching the opening 🤔👍 and it looks 😌
Hello Stix. Can you make a video about Grand Summoners?
They say It's the worst gacha game.
Eventually, yes!
6 months late but as a former Grand Summoners player, it's true. There are way too many flaws that GS has that makes it insanely terrible and it even contains TWO of the BIGGEST flaws any gacha game would have, those two being:
1- Little to no generosity in summoning currency whatsoever
2- Batshit gacha rates, even in character banners
As a concept all gatcha are the worst, it’s only that we fool ourselves with the gameplay and the “plot” that no one cares about, that said the the scale of generosity and content I find alchemy stars to be really good and fun.
But it’s still a gatcha, I’d rather get myself a full product rather than a bankruptcy scheme
good or not , if that game dont say to you:,, come tomorrow again'' is meh.
This game and countereide suffered a lot from poor marketing in the west. AS also has a global server and an american? which doesn't cross with each other which be feel pretty bad . Gameplay early on can be pretty snooze. Though they seem to be wanting to spice it uo adding new mechanics for chars and enemies and some map obstructions.
welp looks like Counter:Side at Global server will get an all time low then
@@Justin_0241 think counterside would have been better if it was more Japanese than Korean. The devs/pub had the choice they chose korean and I think it cost them quite a bit. Sad to say because it is a KR game but like AK which is technically a CN game they should have just made it more like other jp gachas.
@@404Kiwi i decided to quit Counter:Side in KR server and instead i just focused on both Azur Lane and Arknights ( these 2 games are more like Nicorette gum to me while Counter:Side is more like an addictive cigarette )
I dont know how can you review a game after so little time spent on it...
Mrs.Stix
Yessss
Chapter 10 is when the skill gap spikes up.
Has great lore.
Rule 1, run a mono element comp.
Waifu Siobhan has no equal.
Really hated the fact that a character is not at full power without a dupe.
Love the game, but what kill me, the story is amaizing, the characters are amaizing and the artstile nice, but i think what kill me was the gameplay, it start really good, but as time, pass it become repetitive, and sometimes you depend a lot in luck, and like you sometimes i have an idea, other times, it is me running around begging, and when it start becoming repetitive i dont know, to be honest the gameplay in the last parts becoming repetitive and when you arrive to the last chapters of the story, because i dont know now but the story was shorter when i play and i like the story but the alst bosses were kind of too hard and to be hoenst i was tired of repetitive battle
Then build a team to manipulate the RNG and think ahead to what you're going to do to plan for future moves.
I think that biggest problem of alcemy stars is non-existent late game. I still login sometimes, do dailys and weekly boss that's it. I have full upgraded teams for each of 4 elements, most of them are 6*, case gacha here is generous and resources farm is realy unnesesary.
Reached a point where you have a really strong team, and the only thing left to do was clearing spires and do high scores in the calamity codex.
I felt like I already cleared the game and uninstalled.
Edit: Can't say that with most gachas out there, and it's definitely a good thing to be "done" with a game.
@@eriponchi yeah, maybe, but i would like to spend more time upgrading characters, now i can insta 0-80 any of them with full equip upgrade.
@@eriponchi i did clear all spires and now I'm just doing daily, secret territory, and calamity codex. Glad it's not pvp game so I can play without pressure to gacha all characters.
Does anyone know why my game only works with Wi-Fi?
Played this game for almost a year. I loved it. But my only complain is the breakthrough. If they gave us equivalent material to breakthrough to earn like the seals have then it would be really great. But getting doubles in this game is not that easy. Its easier to get to multiple 6 stars then to get multiples of the same. That is the problem with this game on the long term. That is why i left this one to Azur Lane. Late game is better then Alchemy Stars.
Can you do a video about Revived Witch it's a really good underground gacha that's very f2p
Nit anymore . . . 😏✨️
The game is pretty, i loved its art style and the general design. But the gameplay didn't click with me, the fact that your moves are completely dependant on the randomly generated colored grid (even if some heroes can change the color, although at a cooldown) made the gamelplay tedious and limiting.
Have you ever played a TCG? I think that the "too much randomness" criticism that people often make about AS is very similar to what a beginner might experience when playing a TCG for the first time.
If you have few cards available and little knowledge of deck building, you will probably build a poorly balanced deck and end up relying too much on drawing the right card at the right time. (For example, a beguinner might feel that Magic the Gathering is tedious and limiting because the spells you can cast are completely dependant on the randomly drawn terrain cards, or something like that.)
But the more options you have, and the higher your knowledge of deckbuilding, (and about the game in general) the more consistent your performance becomes. (It probably won't take long before you realize that building an MGT deck with four different elements may not be a good idea.)
The same aplies to AS, imo. If nothing else, AS actually has a lot less RNG when compared to most TGS - even if the tiles are random, the active skills you have available are not.
Although whether or not you find it fun is a separate matter. ^^;
There's a three star named Pepi who can teleport you to any of the 8 adjacent tiles and has no cooldown unless you activate her skill right before aurora time. The range increases by 1 tile next turn if you don't activate her skill during the current turn. She's not strong at all but she's prolly one of the best quality of life characters you can get since she makes the tile system way less tedious and more fun
@@AdamantPetra I always Level Pepi First.
One if the best tactical and one of the best gacha game.
It deserves more attention
Tbh I just started playing this game for the past 22 days ago and man so far I'm having a good time with it.
Same here!
alchemy stars still one of the most strategic game on the mobile platform. AK, AS, LANGRISSA, ALCHEMISTY CODE AND FINAL FANTASY WAR OF VISION. fire emblem heroes maybe🤔
yes , I never got my sharona .... F*CK YOU RNG !!
i fail to get 4 persona member SHEEEEET
I don't think you gave the combat of alchemy stars any justice here, you have no idea how satisfying it is to successfully set up tiles around a boss and just see its HP bar meltdown It's one of the reasons a side from the waifus that's made me comeback to this game twice, because there were periods where I had to uninstall this because I had to focus on some IRL stuff.
It just shows how good this game is because usually once I uninstall something I usually go looking for something different due to maybe I missed some meta breaking units and may make the game harder to get back into but alchemy stars isn't that because the best units are already in the game most especially converters you just have to wait for their Rotating banner to get a chance at them.
5:16 Mf have Philisy but leveling Zoya instead...
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Bruh wat wit that tile color even I don like FF tactics it tile much better
the one that i dont really like about this game is Ai combat......
Thought this was josh for a sec, phew
Nope! But he did tell me to do this series! haha clips.twitch.tv/OpenBelovedFalconKAPOW-rTfjcN6BLh07rnjH
you didn't get lucky with your 5* waifu's. Alchemy Stars is EXTREMELY generous in every aspect. Gacha pulls, both in rates and ability to pull multiple 10-pulls in rapid succession, generally provides a decent challenge but not overly difficult most of the time, as you mentioned it has amazing art on all the waifu's and husbando's and ALL of them are live 2D etc. i've been playing since almost launch and i'm completely free to play and i've gotten dozens of 5*'s and many 6*s as well.
You think this game is so bad you most have never heard about Guardian Tales
no, not even in slightest
POV: the title says it the worst but the comments say otherwise 🥴
You make even FGO feels like a fckn childs play and has good gacha rates
Is it Tencent's garbage writing or the TL is just snorting crack? Idk but some parts of the story just leaves my literate braincells flabbergasted.
Sometimes i question if any logical person would do such stuff, like why the f*&k does that vine church lady can eat anything like rocks/sand but couldn't take a bite off a carrot??
the game does look pretty interesting
Gameplay is one of the best parts of alchemy stars
New player here.
I've been playing for 3 days and grinded pretty nice and I've gotten 2 6 stars, and around 8 5 stars.
Maybe I'm just lucky but that's still really generous compared to a stingy game like gemshin where you get a quarter of a pull a day whilst you get multiple a day on this game. Awesome
right now persona is worst gacha collab in my opinion lol
Bro said Waifus are better than Husbandos
My development in Arknights & Alchemy Stars are like:
>Play because character looks good
>Stay because the story
Same as Azur Lane with addition of "🥵🥵🥵"
you really unironically said waifu and husbando multiple times in this video...... jesus lord
literally cringe as hell
game started off so strong! i thoroughly enjoyed it, and then the abysmal 6 month anni came along. nerfed the most hyped unit in the game Beth, changed her breakthroughs, and she became BT3 dependent to reach a fraction of what she was. and on top of that, after the game had not been releasing limited banners, she was limited! dragon maid collab was boring, bland, uninspired, and units were not good. the 1 year advertised 100 rolls! "aha better than genshin!" and then 20 were locked to a limited banner, half were locked to the large pool of standard banner, and the rest were in story lmao. oh and the skin gacha for carleen, abysmal. and now the uninspired worse persona 5 collab, EOS soon.
Playing the game from day 1, quit, back again after 7month and quit again.
The gameplay is fun at first and slowly draggin my mood out to continue playing the game. The story is good, it just the gameplay kinda... idk man. Maybe my expectations are higher to expect it like Arknights at the starts.
Better than arknight thoo
cap
Worst gacha
Yo
Hey!
Almost unsubscribed when i read the title of this video lol
haha, it's just a series title!
Bro your opinions on Gacha games, you need to stick to mmos that’s what you are good at, your reviews on gacha games are very scuffed, you’ve been putting on half baked reviews
Noice
Worst Gacha Ever? Is very misleading. Its simply going through popular and well recieved games and reviewing them
We're looking for the worst Gacha ever!
@@Stixxy I'd say it's Fate grand order because of its horrible pity ultra P2W, but it has a lot of fans
horrible pity and rates on pulling the limited character but the main story and how they fledge out the character’s personality, backstory or servant as a whole is what makes the game appealing to hardcore fans and a TON of simps through other fate franchise..
Man the amount of half truths or straight lies fans will tell for a gacha never ceases to surprise me literally hard stuck at 13-14 where i either have to grind endlessly or whale to get the units i needd to clear it. Game went from a solid 6 to a 3 in my opinion
Sounds like you have Converter problem 👉🗿
Boring after some time . With some PvP it would have been better. When it first released I spend arround 400€ but I layed it down after a few weeks . Just tiring
Well it is a casual gacha game that you play at your own pace like arknights. Pvp might be good but I dont think it is needed
@@ShiroKage-h8v atm i just play league of legends wild rift. Gachas kill their own for me arm because they have no balance.
PvP would just ruin the whole experience of the game , since it would come with random stat equipments , that would just make the game grindy , boring skill trees and P2W
@@lovelessshoot883 Counter:Side is one example of a gacha game with a horrid PvP
pvp is literally the worst thing for AS when lots of aurorians best utility is through their breakthroughs. whales with lot of breakthrough six 6* will win every time, and it's not even worthy for people to whale because it's just a waste of resources. what i think we need is guilds, raids, and more gamemodes.
The game was alright, the type of gameplay wasn’t my style personally
What do you prefer?
Looks like Fire emblem Heroes