Grimlight 12+

I’ve played a huge amount of Gacha style games. Normally I gravitate towards the mature, busty or mech style games. I decided to take a chance on this game. I am glad I decided to try it. The art is beautiful, the English localization is very well done as well as for the first time in years I actually care about the story of a gacha. It’s fun trying to collect and build up a party of characters from fairy tales, folklore, and famous fiction around the world. The game has multiple areas of gameplay. You can grind out materials to level up gear, skill trees, stat trees and characters. There is also a *10 chance to refill pull near the beginning 10 times to try to get a character you want. The game is generous with keys in the beginning but once you run out you will be at the mercy of time. I find myself painfully waiting till my energy is restored so I can dive deeper into the adventure.

My only gripes are I wish energy recovered slightly faster, there was a dungeon or endless tower I could grind for rewards or gear as gear has its own pull banners and it’s hard to come by in stages. Would be nice if there were prismatic memory shards you could earn through questing or grinding as once you get a 5 star character of your liking the odds of getting another copy/memory shard of them is unlikely.
Please keep up the Amazing work and writing you’ve done on this game.

Turned into a “the last straw” moment with the game and finally uninstalled after playing since launch. The artwork is beautiful, and the devs really seem to care a lot about this game, so I would definitely check it out. Be warned, the Gacha rates are abysmal.

Played since launch and I never managed to pull any new 5 star banner characters. My 5 star team all came from the vindicated spirits banner, which does not contain new characters. I had been stuck for almost a month on the Halloween event, despite a nearly full level 70 squad. That took an extremely long time, because leveling any character in this game basically means you put all of your resources that day towards this one character that you’re working on. You can’t really experiment with many other characters because of this.

Actual last straw was pulling five times from a special Gacha, which promised a five star within five pulls and the pool included new five stars that I did not have. Pulled 5 times, no five star. I thought this was a bug and went to the discord to report it, but apparently within five pulls actually means the sixth one after you do five. When I finally did receive the five star from that gacha, it turned out to be a dupe of one of the old ones from the old banner that I did not even use.

I want to start with the game itself is very fun. What little amount I did get to play it was enjoyable. Unfortunately as everyone is pretty aware the game has had an awfully rough launch. The thing is this kind of stuff does happen. Our world isn’t perfect. My reasoning for the 5 stars is because the developers have been 100% transparent and VERY quick to give updates on what’s going on. They didn’t sugar coat it or just give a half made apology. They did not sleep and tried their very best to correct the issues. They also even had an amazing compensation for this situation. With all the hate they are getting they do deserve the positivity. Stuff happens and I think based on their situation they handled it better than most companies who just leave their consumers in the dark for days!! We appreciate the communication and the humanity!! It reminds us the developers are people too!