Generic and Cheap feeling Gatcha, not what you expect from Mihoyo
So after much hype and fanfare the game released, and it is probably the worst game I've seen from Mihoyo (Hoyoverse) yet. Even the now 10-year old Gun Girl Z (shut down now) looked and felt less cheap and generic than this.
Let's start with the not so bad, the combat is ok-ish, it's not truly bad but doesn't feel great either. The Characters are well-developed, and and the story is well written. But that is pretty much where the good ends unless you want to nitpick at little scenes like when General Chop cooks a meal , the cut scene is truly enjoyable. And the Bangboos are cute.
But that is where any enjoyment ends, the gameplay-style is a mix of visual novel and small area limited combat. To me it does not feel good, but that might be personal preference.
The UI is terrible, it looks like Game boy Color rejected it in the 90s but someone very stubborn really wanted to re-use it. Everything looks overcoloured , overly "pop-art" and overall like 15 different Graffiti fought for dominance in menus , character screens, and pretty much everywhere. Its just not nice to look at. Why we have tiny writing in some menus , giant "mobile" optimized selection prompts in the middle of the screen overlaying everything in other scenes, i don't understand the choices , nothing feels like it has a coherent theme and it doesn't make sense.
Everything in the game felt the way you imagine a cheap generic mobile gatcha would feel like if all clichés were true. I have no idea what went wrong with Mihoyo and this game , Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail and even Honkai Impact 3rd all manage to not feel like generic cheap rushed mobile shovelware, this game fails to feel like anything but that.
While it is of course a live service game that will receive updates, i don't see how the fundamental feeling of "cheap mobile garbage" can at any point be overcome by this game. I uninstalled it and i don't intend to give it another try.
Let's start with the not so bad, the combat is ok-ish, it's not truly bad but doesn't feel great either. The Characters are well-developed, and and the story is well written. But that is pretty much where the good ends unless you want to nitpick at little scenes like when General Chop cooks a meal , the cut scene is truly enjoyable. And the Bangboos are cute.
But that is where any enjoyment ends, the gameplay-style is a mix of visual novel and small area limited combat. To me it does not feel good, but that might be personal preference.
The UI is terrible, it looks like Game boy Color rejected it in the 90s but someone very stubborn really wanted to re-use it. Everything looks overcoloured , overly "pop-art" and overall like 15 different Graffiti fought for dominance in menus , character screens, and pretty much everywhere. Its just not nice to look at. Why we have tiny writing in some menus , giant "mobile" optimized selection prompts in the middle of the screen overlaying everything in other scenes, i don't understand the choices , nothing feels like it has a coherent theme and it doesn't make sense.
Everything in the game felt the way you imagine a cheap generic mobile gatcha would feel like if all clichés were true. I have no idea what went wrong with Mihoyo and this game , Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail and even Honkai Impact 3rd all manage to not feel like generic cheap rushed mobile shovelware, this game fails to feel like anything but that.
While it is of course a live service game that will receive updates, i don't see how the fundamental feeling of "cheap mobile garbage" can at any point be overcome by this game. I uninstalled it and i don't intend to give it another try.
- Honodi
- Jul 3, 2024