BrownDust2 - Adventure RPG 17+

It's surprising that this game doesn't get more attention. Don't let the some reviews sway your opinion, they ragequit from pulling from their reviews. I've been playing for over a year, and I can confidently say that the hand-drawn art style is stunning. The world is well made you can traverse towns similar to 90s style rpg which is immersive interacting with npc. The UI is minimal and design is aesthetically pleasing from a design perspective. The battle system is refreshingly innovative, offering a strategic depth reminiscent of SRPGs, but on a more compact grid. The transitions from 3d pixel art special moves to animation is well done. The drop rates are exceptional for a gacha game; I've managed to pull over 20 five-star characters and countless 5 star weapons from single daily free pulls alone. The premium currency is quite generous, thanks to events and daily logins which is very frequent. While the pity system is standard, you can trade for the units you desire once the banner ends (points conversion). The developers are responsive to the community and actively implement changes based on feedback. This game is truly a hidden gem, amongst the best premium game apps in the store—don't let anyone convince you otherwise.

After playing quite a few main and side chapters as a free to play player, I can tell you that this game is unforgiving in the sense that you’ll have to replay battles quite often to find the combo of knock around a that both deal damage to who they hit, but also put the knockee in a spot for Area damage to be cast on them.
Even after landing quite a few ultra rare weapons for characters, I still had a challenge in the main boss fights, prioritizing who has what ability instead of their stats. Quite a few of my 4* heroes get play and I switch between them because I unlocked upgrades for their skills (costume dupes)
However, you won’t be able to use characters you want in some of the side stories, forcing you to learn different ways of playing the game if you don’t have that characters costume and can level them faster.
I dislike the need for gacha in this game to upgrade costumes/skills. It’s needed for acquiring weapons faster as well, though upgrading weapons/armor, restarting, using abilities, etc, just cost gold or ability pills. Which are both easy to come by unless you lose your +9 wep over 150 times ._. So if you get the same outfits for a character over and over, you’re probably going to utilize them a bit. But having the ability to level our skills/unlock outfits a different way would make this game go a lot further, though I understand the need and am fine with slow playing the gacha system :P

this game is god tier to say the very least in a nutshell... im not going to waste words explaining whats great about the game cause clearly the devs know already what their doing ill just say "KEEP IT UP YOU GUYS ARE AN AMAZING DEVELOPMENT TEAM"...... there's one nag that i really hate though it truely bothers me everytime i think about it and thats not being able to battle against my friends... you guys give us all these packs and all this content but you left out a mode that allows people that are friends in real life to play the game together.. maybe me and my friends want to flex our teams and battle one another... just saying, you guys drop an update every 24hrs anyway lol, how about giving us a mode/pack that allows players to host a private room/party where 2 players can duel against eachothers teams... im not petty so i wouldn't rate the game any less than 5 stars for this nag of mine but again it does make me really bummbed out that i can only brag about my team with friends but not actually battle them .. just some food for thought