I've been playing this all week on the ps5. It's a free-to-play "Gacha" style RPG. But I don't know what other people think of when they hear "Gacha". I haven't played a "gacha" game in 15 years, and that was on an old smartphone. So this is was completely different experience. In fact, it's closer to a factory/farming sim, with production locked behind some story progression. I'd say I've spent the most time building production lines.
>>3927828The rpg mechanics seem complicated at first, but the combat is pretty simple. There's only a dozen or so units, and progression seems to be broken up into 5 tiers every 20 levels that requires exchanging some kind of currency or items you've picked up along the way. The writing is kind of...bad. The first couple hours were pure kino. I had no idea what was going on and it all seemed so cryptic and cinematic. I was pretty interested in where it was all going. But then day 2, after researching it online, I find out "Arknights" was a mobile game from 10 years ago. A tower defense game, I think. I had never heard of it. Apparently there are novels to go with it. Again, I have never heard of it. I'm guessing it's not distributed outside of Japan or China or wherever this game hails from. There's nothing in the game's database that tells you it's part of a series. Although I'm getting to parts of the story where new characters are implying a history with the Player Character who has amnesia. I don't understand how that works. Is it something from the books? Another game? Are the characters lying about it? There's definitely a lot of worldbuilding going on. It's wide; but shallow.
