I absolutely ADORE the dynamics in this game. That’s one of the pros. You can get a favorite character, duo, trio, and or group the more you play, and the voice acting helps to maintain your attention. The VA’s did amazingly!! Proud of them and their hard-work! The idle aspect is also useful. Life gets too busy for its own good, so seeing small, but effective, material grinds make coming back all the more worth it. Of course, there’s the debate with the AI backgrounds. Honestly, as long as the characters themselves weren’t used by AI, that’s tolerable. I suggest one day going back and maybe drawing the backgrounds out - if that’s remotely possible. Another thing is the financial gain. It’s pretty hard to grind the game around chapter 3, for me personally! It’s smooth sailing once you’ve completed the required Galaxy Express needed to continue - but when you’re stuck: you’re just stuck. That’s why theres a small gratefulness for the idle concept. It still HELPS despite that blockage. Overall, a fun, investing story! I love the story and the complexities of the houses, the art (during the story) along with the Warding/Character cards. Amazing VA’s, and overall a silly, cat-filled experience.

As much as I enjoy playing this game every day, I find myself disappointed with the amount of ads I get of this game with fake gameplay. The story is interesting, I do find that you’re pretty much forced to play every day to progress since at a certain point it becomes painstakingly slow to beat levels and grow your characters unless you are whaling money into the game (or consistently logging in to do all the daily check in activities across the span of multiple days to gain a singular level) . Even when you do put money into the game for pulls you still face really rough drop rates with little reward. There isn’t a clear distinction on how far off you are from beating levels either. Granted gameplay in that aspect is nonexistent. Aside from the music levels which are fun, albeit few and far between. Those levels offer no reason to replay after receiving the initial rewards. Unless you just want to replay it for the sake of replaying it. I still find myself engaged because I’m curious to see the characters stories. I think this game has potential, but currently it’s standing in its own way by falsely advertising interesting gameplay only to result in minimal actual gameplay that is completely different than the ads. I recommend if you like idle games and gatcha pulls. At this point I keep seeing cool ads then get disappointed when I see this games title attached to it. EDIT: even the photos on the store are of fake game play.

Tokyo Debunker has a really good storyline. It has very interesting characters and the first two episodes are very well written. The third and fourth however fall short. They feel rushed and take away the players agency and importance. As the main character you really don’t have much to do and don’t do your job very well. The MC takes verbal beatings without the option to deny, refute, or stand up for herself. I think this game is very fun and is a great example of an idle game. A similar game would be Disneys: twisted wonderland. I think that the marketing is a problem for many but many similar games have bad marketing (such as obey me). I think a huge problem however is the gatcha system. It is nearly impossible to get character cards higher than an R rating. I am on episode 5 and have 1 Sr and SSR card for respectively (the SR was the free card from the beginning of the game).You can only set those cards as home screens as well and have to pay diamonds for pfps in game. I’m f2p btw. I have done multiple ten pulls which claim to always give and SR or higher card however this includes warding cards when it really shouldn’t. They do not have the same value and should be treated as such. It makes the game incredibly difficult when you can’t get proper character cards because of the warding cards.

The story and characters are great but it’s pretty bad gameplay wise, as the battles are auto run with RNG sometimes determining who wins. Mainly caused by attacks and some effects being uncontrollable so you can’t choose who your guys attack. I wish there was a way to see each monsters abilities/weaknesses as there isn’t a big reason to pick physical vs special attacks and other ways to figure out how to beat a case. The lack of strategy also means that I skip the battles and everything feels very monotonous . The cat rhythm game is fun but easier to beat with the audio off sometimes (still enjoyable most of the time tho) and the idle campus thing is fun I guess? Guild cats are cute but the nightmare raid, guild/fishing points, and arena shop rewards don’t feel very rewarding at “endgame” so it’d be nice if they offered better rewards even if they are 10x more than everything else. It would be good if they had more information to make gameplay and lore easier to understand. Maybe integrate it as the main character taking lessons with the other students about the world.Itd be nice if pity could be shared between banners like in other games.Most of the time it’s just grind dailies until next story release but at least it doesn’t take too much time