KonoSuba: Fantastic Days

I’ve played a lot of Gacha mobile games and a lot of them are fairly good. Some will offer spending 0.99 for a decent SSR or UR character, which this game does not, but it does provide ample draws and free diamonds while you play which I can’t complain. But the one thing that conflicts me is that there are draws that promote buying diamonds especially collaboration events. Right now the Shield Hero Season 3 event is going on and I have made hundreds of draws from paid to free and have not once drawn any shield hero character. In other games that have these events I at least get one or two in the first couple draws Grand Summoner for example I have gotten Nafumi, Rimaru, and several Milims with only spending like $20 while the rest being free event draws. The devs really need to make the draw rate better during events or stop promoting diamond purchases without providing a character during collaborations, it’s wild I got all basic characters I already have and some SSR/UR that I’ve already have gotten.

This is a decent mobile game with plenty of content, and it works well with very few glitches or crashes. The translation quality on recent content has gone down since they switched publishers, but you can at least get the idea of what they’re trying to say through typo-moments. Gameplay is smooth, and the humor is fun and entertaining as expected. The paid summon system is the worst I’ve come across myself and nearly killed the game for me. Not only is it extremely expensive, costing as much as a full AAA game for a (very short) round of summons, but paid summon material doesn’t even get you any better chances of a featured character! I’ve put in $40 so far, which some gacha gamers will likely see as only small pocket change and probably laugh hysterically at me for it, but the thing is that I’ve gotten nothing for it. On top of that, the pity system requires at least 250 individual summons to activate, which can take more than half a year’s worth of daily material savings! It was a total waste, frustrating enough to nearly make me want to delete the game! I decided to keep it after the frustration and disappointment wore off, but I’m not going to spend another penny on this game. It’s not worth it.

I hate pretty much all gacha games. I’ve always thought the gameplay loops were boring and the ground was horrific, and don’t get me started on the predatory micro transactions which really come into play after playing for a couple weeks. I love Konosuba so I decided to give this one a try and it far exceeded my expectations. I may be biased since I love Konosuba, but the gameplay isn’t actually bad. It can be fun at times, it’s not too advanced, if you want to have it run while you do something else it can, and if you want to play the game yourself you can. They have plenty of events and quests to keep you interested. Not only is the gameplay good, but they are so generous with their paid currency and the micro transactions aren’t really predatory. You could play for free and have fun, obviously your teams won’t be as powerful as someone who pays money, but you can still survive easily if you just log in every day. I haven’t spent a dime on this game yet and they’ve given away so much paid currency, which is called Quartz, that you would never see in a game like Genshin. If you love Konosuba or Gacha, this is the game for you. The devs are thankful to their players and deserve every download and dollar sent their way.