Imagine if ships were literally transformed into female form; that's the basis of AL and it requires that first suspension of disbelief to enjoy it. The second is the way combat works, as your fleet has up to three heavy units in the rear and three lighter units in the vanguard, which is the bit you directly control as the girls zip around the screen firing guns and launching torpedoes. There are over 400 ships in the game to built, collect, equip, level, and promote. Ultimately it's a numbers game, and mid-game requires the typical farming routines of doing the same maps over and over again. It's easy to start and difficult to master. There is a lot of information to understand, and many external guides to help you, some better than others, and new players should definitely investigate some beginners guides to understand everything. Early choices are not that serious as eventually you'll get everything you want. But treat Gems as precious. You get some for clearing maps and others for collections, and they are needed for a lot of the premium side of the game; that includes cosmetic skins for the truly devoted, and also base infrastructure. While you can f2p just fine the grind becomes much easier when lubricated with cash, otherwise mid-game the lack of infrastructure starts to bite, particularly Dock space (which starts at 150...when there 414 shipgirls)! Although there is no p2w in the traditional sense: all ships are useful in the game and historically older ships are not power crept by younger ships. What matters is having the resources to maximise the utility of the better ships you do have, and form teams that work well together. Lastly, a word of warning: like most Chinese games AL is optimised for peak times and a clear day/night cycle that hasn’t translated very well into a global EN server, based on US Mountain time (UTC -7). Which means occurrences timed for the late evenings happen in the middle of the night in the UK.

I absolutely ADORED this game in the long time I had it for! Amazing visuals, great women, everything as advertised. Albeit the actual gameplay is a tad repetitive, but you can for the most part after the start of the game leave it to run by itself and do other stuff with your device on charge, so that doesn’t matter.Unfortunately, I made the decision to delete it after a long time, because of the issue of the dockyard capacity - where you keep your waifus. In order to get more space for more women, you need to purchase (using gems, in game currency) further expansions from Akashi’s shop. I’ve expanded my dockyards a few times before, but issue: getting gems is really difficult without spending money. The last time I got ahold of any for free was during a one off collab event, where they let us get some through login: generous.I’ve put small amounts of money into the game, perhaps £15 or so by now. I got the monthly trade license with all of these purchases, which do give gems alongside some nice bonuses. Even with this small amount, it’s hard - I either want to spend the gems on skins, or it’s just literally too difficult.I don’t want to delete some of my lower tier waifus just so I can fit in more of the higher tier waifus. I lock one copy of every girl in my dockyard to have as large a collection as I can, but even after retiring all the copies or using them to limit break the locked copies it isn’t enough space. Otherwise, good game, loved it! Honestly tempting to just redownload and buy space.

Its been a year since I have first downloaded and played this game and I will cover some of the aspects of the game I explored in that time.First off, the ships, the waifus, the Azur Lane. The game is loaded with top tier waifus which are not only visually amazing (YEP), but are also quite fun to progress with as you unlock new dialogues and explore their personalities.When I started, the amount of resources you get was decent - oh boy is it different compared to now! A new player at this point won’t probably have any issues with resource management because you just get. So. Many. Resources. You can just focus purely on waifus and getting them in your collection.I think the game play is okay, sometimes it’s more interesting during events with the mechanics and whatnot, but it is pretty underwhelming majority of time.Last but not the least it’s the skins and spending. With the ability to obtain quite a bit of premium currency and skins through just playing the game, you need NOT to spend any money at all on this, which in my opinion, is one of the best aspects of this game, making hunting for waifus that much more enjoyable.So that’s it, won’t make it too long.Great game, I love Atago <3

It’s a great game! But I’m annoyed at the lack of British ships seeing as during WW2 it had one of the largest fleets. I hope you continue to add ships such as the Vanguard etc as well as more French and British submarines. It’s very easy to find information on the world war 2 British fleets. It’s a glorious game keep up the good work!This game has great potential and plenty of routes to expand on with all the different classes of ships available such as dreadnoughts (and pre). I hope you continue to add new ships because like I said previously I noticed a lot of British ships missing. For example the HMS Hood was one of four Admiral-class battlecruisers.More variety in skins for all ships would be nice as well.Couple spelling errors. USS Cleveland has her name spelt Clevelad and Queen Elizabeth’s first speech says something along the line of ‘peasant I didn’t give you permission to speak’ but speak is missing the ‘s’