Arknights

This is the first time I’ve ever left a review for a game. It’s that good. There’s a lot of strategy and even some chance involved when trying to obtain rare/high star characters that happens outside of the actual tower defense part of the game. The waves are all different in every level and require different strategies and team compositions. The levels start out pretty easy to help you learn the game but progressively become more challenging. There is a story component too, but the developers give you the option to skip it. You run out of “sanity” after playing a bunch of levels and you have to wait for your sanity to regenerate or else spend resources to increase it. This means you can’t play all day...which is a good thing because the game is addicting! You can also interact with friends in the game although you can’t directly play or chat with them. There’s a store where you can exchange items earned in the game for other items you might need. The game is generous with rewards for game play, especially at first, but it’s still challenging to earn resources. Special events occur periodically that make limited edition characters available or provide extra rewards. You also have a base that you can build, level up, decorate, etc. This game literally has everything AND IT’S FREE. (The game does let you make in-app purchases to help with leveling up your characters and your base but it’s not necessary to play the game.) The only potential downside to this game is that you need WiFi or data connection to play.

Well I’ve been play Arknights for about a week now and I’m sadly hooked on this tower defense/Tactical group deployment strategy game. Sadly though I do have a few problems starting off with the rate of six star drops to let’s say five star, four star, and three star drops six star and five star of course are supposed to be exceedingly rare and difficult to get, but once you hit what is now mid game, but their are very few ways to get them at this point because you will eventually hit a roadblock and sadly the only quickest way of purchasing them is from the orichalum store and unless you are rich or very foolish buying these will not guarantee you good units so you will most . There is of course weekly annihilation which will allow you to get a whopping 1200 orichalum, but once you hit that limit you are done for the week and their is very little incentive to continue. So eventually the Orichalum will become a measly daily trickle of 100 via daily drops and to get a drop of 10 characters with the higher chance of you getting a six or five star you will need 6000 orichalum or 3000 if it’s a special event. This is all a real shame because the story is really quite interesting and all units especially the 5 and 6 star units are incredibly unique and can totally change how you play your game hopefully later on the game will figure out a good way to balance all this out, but right now it’s still a really good game.

Ok so I want to start off with wow this game is good. I found it when I got bored and I was trying out tons of games to see if I liked any. This game was one of the only games I actually enjoyed and kept on my phone. At first I thought it was one of those dumb games that advertises “cute anime fighter girls” and that was gonna be 100% of the game, and when I saw the fallout shelter-like ad for it I thought it was another game that was false advertising. I was actually pleasantly surprised though, the game has a lot of fun elements, like how you really have to pay attention to how your team is built, and how every character has different elements. Something else it does super well is how it isn’t destroyed and made super easy by how you can get high level operators at a very low level. Okay last thing, but it also does have that fallout shelter like play but it doesn’t have that “you have to constantly play or everything goes horribly wrong” problem. Amazing game, for real good job. Okay now for the problem, honestly it’s pretty small but it’s pretty annoying, whenever I recruit operators I like going for 7 hours and 40 minutes to try and get the 3-5 star operators. Maybe I just have incredibly bad luck but I’ve gotten 3 starts every time I’ve done this, even the few times I could’ve gotten a 2 star. This has happened like 12~ times now and I wanna make sure that it’s not a legit problem. Besides that annihilation doesn’t have the n at the end when you play an actual match lol. Thanks for the amazing game!