Gacha games are kinda bad, like really, really bad. I've been playing Genshin Impact over on my twitch channel. As a game it is very fun and looks fantastic. With colorful characters, sketchy voice acting, and so anime in style it hurts.
The concept of a gacha game is to entice the player to use money in order to buy bags of in game currency. Then use these virtual money to draw random equipment and heroes from the slot machine. A true and tested formula that is commonly associated with mobile gaming, such as Raid Shadow Legends, Langrisser, and almost every Nutaku game on their site.
The thing that really grinds my gear is how bad and boring the equipment and the drop rate is. Loot is ranked by stars, five, or six is usually the best tier. However the one armed bandit can pick anything between three and five stars. Low star items are practically worthless fodder used to enchant gear. Which is fair enough, however three star stuff is generic vendor trash found in chests and dropped by mobs. Which spoils the fun of actually investing anything but in game resources to hit that lever. I simply hate getting yet another worthless three star pieces of refuse yet again.
The other terrible aspects of this types of games is the grind fest. The upper level always requires an obscene amount of materials, resources, and not to mention time. In the end this process only increases stats in a myriad of ways. Practically every upgrade boost stats and nothing more. For some this is not an issue, for me it is boring and tedious. There is nothing exciting about equipping a new stabbing implement with some virtually unnoticeable passive set bonus.
The other issue is that almost every other game of this nature is a boring turn based game that plays itself. Something these games actually do, by adding an autopilot function, which plays the game for you. Making the game even more pointless to play.
To summaries the basic loop I always undergo in a gapcha game. Play through tutorial, use the resources to get myself some four and five star characters. Then level them up as much as possible. The watch as the new hero plowed through any enemy that stands in the way of progress.
Å game of this nature that breaks from the mold in the gameplay department is
Genshin Ompact. Which combines exploration, action based combat, and a beautiful world to exploit. Combat is fairly simple but very engaging. So far every hero has three abilities. A basic attack that often can be charged up, a special attack that has a cooldown timer, and a super attack that can be used when enough special attacks have been performed. Most damage is negated by using the sprint key to dodge, or by moving to the side. The thing that really spice this up is the elemental synergy. Wet enemies are easy to electrocute, and simple to freeze. While fire can evaporate water and melt ice. Yes, elemental attacks kick ass and I couldn't be more happy.
Ice has one extra benefit outside of combat and that is to freeze water, which allows me to traverse any body of water by freezing the path ahead. Traversing the terrain is done by climbing and glorious gliding. Missions are surprisingly varied and actually entertaining. I did not expect this much variety in mission objectives and exploration. Unfortunately all the treasure chests on the way are filled with low star trash. However I need those to upgrade my adventure level, the one stat that gatekeepers progress.
The music is fairly chill and does nothing wrong in my ears, I can't say the same for the pint sized thing that follows me around, but that is due to the terrible voice actress pretending to be a little girl with a high pitched voice. Yes the game is fully dubbed and voiced by English voice actors. As mentioned earlier the game is painfully anime for better or worse. I'm fairly sure some of the characters in Genshin would put me on a creep list. Aside from that the plot is okay I suppose and the banter is actually entertaining. All in all I can't complain much outside of the stupid cacha insisting on giving me trash gear way too often.
Zaceron Signing out
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