ASTRA: Knights of Veda

If you are familiar with Vanilaware titles such as Dragon’s Crown then you’ll feel right at home with the aesthetic direction of this game. The voice acting is amazing and the story writing and atmosphere is dark and gritty like a “souls game” but without the gitgud part. The game allows you to be completely in full control, but you may enable 2 types of auto-combat. The first is akin to World of Warcraft where you still manually choose abilities and your character will handle basic combat themselves. Or if you prefer you can go or full auto if all you want is to watch numbers go up. This feature is also handy for testing your party to see if they are leveled enough for the contest t you are trying to run. If they wipe in full auto then you need to level. I used to hate the automatic feature (I’m looking at you League of Angels) but I’m beginning to enjoy the convenience of having options.

The game is amazing, I love that it isn’t like those idle game in which it does everything for you and all you do is click in just one spot. You actually have to have skills to dodge and counterattack at your own instincts, the story is amazing as well. It’s definitely f2p friendly as like I said before it’s all about your own skills, the characters are only as good as you can play them. So low tiers can actually be high tiers and visa-versa. The thing is I made an account and it automatically put me on a Europe server without warning me. I don’t regret that because I actually have two 5* characters that I love. The other thing is that I made another account for the America server and everything went well and all but just yesterday (April 5th) I tried login in on both accounts but it says that the email login is temporarily unavailable. I get that the game is new and there’s issues with it but I just hope temporarily doesn’t mean a long time because I also bought 2 monthly passes in which you have to log in daily to receive rewards. Other than that I would also like to know if it’s possible to bind an account to another login info such as facebook. Because in case I can’t login with just an email I might be able to with facebook or another login.

I played Dragon Blaze for years, when I saw the trailer for this game I couldn’t be more excited. I am enjoying my gameplay experience for far. I just hit adventure level 2 at the time of this review and can’t wait for what’s more to come. The art style is amazing, the music is incredible, and the gameplay doesn’t feel demanding, intrusive or pay to play like other mobile games out there right now. I got lucky on my initially pulls and only have one 5 star character and their 5 star weapon right now and truthfully I think it’s the only one I’ll need for a while. Obviously you can spend to progress faster and having all top tier characters doesn’t hurt, but you can progress just fine as a ftp when you invest in your core team. Arena fights in this game are actually fun since it is a true control based game and not just clicking an auto button and out speeding and AOE blasting your opponent to death. I have not reached the tower mode yet but that also seems cool and rewarding. Can’t wait to see what the future of this game brings. Overall great experience!