GIRLS' FRONTLINE 2: EXILIUM

While I used to be an avid player of the first game for years, I eventually quit after losing interest. This game improves on every category that comes to mind. Battles are more interesting and engaging now by taking a turn-based strategy approach. Cutscenes, while occasional, are beautiful and the inclusion of almost fully voiced dialogue is honestly such a welcome and impressive addition. A unified art style for all characters is a solid choice; visuals in general are amazing in this sequel. Even the sound design and musical score has become so much more professional and artistic. Last but not least, the gacha mechanics in this game I feel are very fair. The game is constantly giving players opportunities to accumulate currency that is used to buy passes/tickets to roll for characters/equipment. Even if choosing a not to pay-to-win approach, players can fairly and easily accumulate enough currency to roll for characters if they play enough. I cannot recommend this game enough to fans of the original game and even newcomers.

Edit: spoke too soon. Now there are guilds. I hope it’s not interactive. Made a guild. Loads of hunters joined even though I said join at ur risk as I’m very casual. Must be the name? XD o.oa. I play on mini iPad 6 with latest updates and the game still crashes when there are too many enemies on the field or when there are a lot of debuff tiles in gameplay. Their discord is a mess aka “too many cooks in the kitchen” making it super chaotic. At this point I’m just in there for game codes. They end their events 7 days in advance. The timing is not clear (I thought it would end server reset but the game has two resets which were also not made clear!) so I missed the last event battle. As title says, wish it had an English dub. My review was 4 stars but now it’s 3 stars. I did spend money on the subscription and an outfit so I’m not truly f2p but not going to support any more. Never played the first one because I don’t like sprites and chibi arts. **** I also like that the game doesn’t force you to join guild or have another competitive aspect. I’m tired of joining guilds and most top guilds are active but requires so much out of you as a casual player. Casual guilds have members that login but don’t talk and most don’t even have the same time zone. What’s the point? I rather do my dailies and logout earlier.

The game is really beautifully done well I definitely enjoyed watching the cutscenes they’re incredible I can’t get enough watching the cutscenes it’s like I’m watching a actual movie instead of a video game and I enjoy playing with the auto play feature it’s really useful if you want to see how your team works together when you deploy different characters on the battlefield and how they can contribute to the team dynamics and how they work together against the enemy team and bosses however I do wish that the game subtitles had the option of appearing instant instead of appearing a normal speed because the character would already be done talking before the words finish appearing on the screen I hope that maybe in the future if possible the game could have a english dub version to understand the storyline and characters interactions better overall the game is really captivating and I hope the game will make its way on game consoles too it would definitely look awesome on tv especially on 4K TV’s that way people will be able to stream contents of there favorite moments in the game.