Very well put ! AK is my side game now since I am a endgame doctor already, but it will become my main game when a new event pops out...

Vergil dub LOL

Storytelling is Pros ;)

Yup. I could feel the quality and love of the developers in this game. I've played Honkai Impact for 4 years and was a top 100 player in the global. Genshin for 2.5 years and I grind the fck out of everything wasting my time like a loser in life. I'm so done with Hoyoverse and their shit. Now I'm stable with a job but not much time for gaming, Arknights is the only mobile game worth playing.

I'm the guy who looks up guides for almost every stage, and it's mostly cause I don't have time to try and beat it on my own, and o really regret it cause for me this game just became character collecting simulator. Still love it, and I can't wait when I get the time for it to try and beat some hard stages on my own

dying at “christian dubstep”

"arknights loves to DOUBLE down on making difficult content" ahhh yes that one event when you have to face multiple bosses at one stage ( vigilo event VI-7)

I think since most gacha player before genshin just stems from people who only enjoyed simple touch and do stuff ui like fate or ak, many people not really interested in gacha games because of the gameplay aspect. This is untill genshin impact dropped and lots of people are coming into the game. Even though it's a gacha game, it was painted with exploration and gameplay aspects that attract wider side of audience I mean, we all love genshin when it came out but overtime it gets more and more insufferable to play End game is just hp sponge with annoying enemies that you need to spend a lot of time grinding for your character gear to deal good damage. In the end the game become just like gacha game as the gameplay aspect really doesn't really different in endgame. "Skill issues"? Yeah, this isn't dark souls or elden ring type of gameplay. All you need to do is pay more to get better

4:24 it's a fictional label in Arknights world but it exists irl with BANGER music LMAO

Arknights UI looks so bad can't they make look more modern soon it will look like fate grand order

Sorry but no. The OST has been pretty mid lately. Actually Shu's event is definitely a winner on that front but still.

1:42: i know that feeling

Lol, give WuWa a few years or months. They will start recycling animations too.

Totally agreed with this vids, been playing AK for one full year and i've been experiencing all the stuff i've never felt in other gachas, the challenge, music, operator voices, CC event, IS, art, and main story just perfect. F2P is very viable, the gap between CN and Global is kind of a win to me because we can save for 6 month but the "slow start" is almost the reason why other player stop playing AK

Not to mention in WuWa some boss even able to parry the player. I guess Scar is like a sneak peek of a more complex Boss mechanic we may get in the future. Who knows maybe it gonna be like PGR's bosses.

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Your Vergilius voice made me doubt my masculinity and speaking qualities It's just so beautiful

That's so true the time limit: 1:53

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am glad i was F2P in genshin. and yes WUWA is miles ahead.

Skipping the story is a big no no

Love your implementation on subtitles!

BLASPHEMYYYYYY I SAY. Bagpipe exist so it's 10/10.

4:50: That sounds terrible

Genshin feels so dull now that i play wuwa too And all these qol actually being locked behind gacha is just so annoying to me In wuwa i don't need to pick between a combat team and a exploration team - the graple is always there, inferno echo can be put on everyone and so can the little dollector that also heals when in combat, i can run up the wall & what i love most is that dodging is an intended mechanic and not players taking advantage of s & parry is not limited to 2? Maybe 3? Characters

im totally agreed with all your points. the crazy thing is we use sanity to play, not only in the game but in irl too.

Arknights have probably become my favorite game, and i've spend like 1000+ hours over the past 15 month playing and reading through all the stories and stages in the game. I've never stuck with a single game for more than 200 hours before, so that says a lot. Integrated Strategies is the greatest gamemode ever and they should never get rid of that

For high storage you can largely blame the custom animations, rigs, models and textures. Pre-rendered cutscenes are the cheap option when compared to in-game animations, and as you mentioned it also lets their animators show more expression on their characters. For the more subjective opinions, I’m sorry you don’t enjoy the game but it has been presented incredibly well. I don’t think this game’s primary audience is young, I think they’re looking to draw in players that can understand and feel nostalgia for things like vhs and analog television. The combat isn’t the hardest out there, but I kind of don’t give a shit, this game has a lot of style to it and enough combat depth to have fun with it. In a lot of ways this video reads like someone who’s super into thrasher metal shitting on people who like mastodon. So all I can really say is that one day you’ll grow up and get over that superiority complex.

Absolutely great video, not much I can say that others haven't already. Hope you'll do one for Limbus Company one day.

Best gatcha game with good music is dislyte no cap

This game is the most fun i've had with any gacha game so

准确的，一针见血的

I started playing Arknights almost two weeks ago, before i only listened to music from this game and when i discovered gameplay i was a bit frustrated coz its not my type of genre, but my curiousity took over me and i decided to give it a try, downloaded nox on my pc and started the game, at first it was kinda easy and everything was obvious, then i hit my first little wall when i tried to complete mission on 3 stars and i couldn't, i pulled some banners, got 3 6 stars i don't know if i'm lucky but they helped me to clear stages. I thought that if i lvlup my Archetto i'll be able to clear any stage. And i hit THE WALL on 2-7. I wasted an hour in attempts of preventing those flying cheaters rushing through my defences and all in vain. Game forced me to go to farm some resouces and upgrade my operators. After entire day of lvling and adjusting my team comp i was ready to beat this stage and i did after 5 tries or smth. Thats when i fell in love with Arknights. Finaly some simple but challenging game in the same time. Second big wall was a 3-8, without few days of grinding and promoting my operators i couldn't live this boss stage, i had to get good healer and i got lucky in recruitment with 5 star Paprika that carried my ranges. So far now i'm stuck on simple missions(can't complete on 3 stars) and i'm not rushing my progress, trying to upgrade my operators, waiting for next banners, still need good second healer and aoe dmger. So far enjoying the game <3

Personally my thing with guides is that I only watch them if I just absolutely don’t know what to do and have attempted the same stage like a dozen times with no progress. And even then when I do watch a guide, I don’t try to mimic it cuz tbh at the end of the day, it’s too big of a hassle to fully replicate their video, so instead I use guide videos as inspiration to see what works and try implementing some of the strats from the guide in my own clear.

Is it just me or do GI characters feel like WuWa NPCs ? 😅

ww designer have high ego then they think they better make game harder challenger abc xyz then their player number still low. We make game for many people play not for some edgy boy burn all daytime to play game. That why they success, game for people not for group of people. Zelda is capsual game too, not much challenge but still fun, so ww is better zelda because they harder, combat better ? i think you have answer

Damn, that’s really deep voice Can’t even add more to this one, good job

*sees meteor on main screen* yep thats a 1.0x speed

Holy Vergilius jumpscare what the hell

Bro wtf Your voice Rawr Wtf Also i'm a dokutah Gimme Młynar 😭

Just started playing Arknights a couple of months ago. It's such a slow progress that I'm still building my characters and I can't really play the harder contents yet. But it might be also my fault cause I am building 500 characters at once and trying to max out my main, Thorns, first. I don't look up guides 95% of the time as I love figuring things out by myself, although one time I had to look up why certain enemies were so tanky... and I discovered arts damage lol. For guides, I broke away from my stubborn self and would look up guides _only_ for time-limited events if they're on their last day and the weekly annihilation thing (which I put on hold for a long time cause I thought my characters were too low-leveled). I don't really like wasting too much time on the weekly thing, I'd progress as far as I could get only to get fricced by some random type of enemy that I had no idea about. Guides are kinda con, but they help players like me understand some mechanics of the game or enemies. I don't even follow them 100% most of the time. Plus, it's the players' choice anyway.

I tried to play Arknights a couple days ago but towards the end of the final download i ran out of storage on my phone (64 fucking gigs😭) and gave up but after watching this I’ll just delete my downloaded songs on spotify. The main thing that sold me was difficulty and fuck ton of story cause long ass dialogues are for some reason really enjoyable to me

After playing WuWa I went back to Genshin cuz waifus and the combat isn't absolutely terrible, as I enjoy the elemental reactions a lot, but man it definitely isn't as satisfying as WuWa combat. I can grind for hours in WuWa and have fun with, but in Genshin I already sigh after I beat up a few enemies for the dailies.

Difficulty, to get a better grasp on the 'difficulty' of the game. go into eckogen's channel and check out his hand holding live streams, for a hard event like Lone trail or dolly. he's got like 18 hours for Dolly event. and like 30 hours for the Lone Trail one. Eckogen knows what he's doing. he might not be the sweaty players that do e0 clears or whatever, but he knows how to play. and you see him struggle thru and eventually win with viewer accounts, you could watch the actual streams or just judge by their LENGTH. of how hard the game is. he does eventually win. the story yeah, its a music company for a visual novel with a tower defense minigame. I personally find someone to read me the story while I play something else and it goes in the background. you can clear IS2 ED1 with a start of orchid, ansel and thorns. and just using 3 stars. I did it. leaked 8 lives on lucien (had a temporary silence alter, but mainly the +attack and defense for every guard in my squad, and melantha with blade dance cut him like a fish.) but you can clear IS2 day 1, I had more of an issue passing 3-8 day 1. but I did that to. fun times.

The thing that I love about Arknights is their level design. As Kylo had shown, even 3-star operators *remains viable* to defeat even boss stages. While META and certain niche operators can make a stage laughably easy, you are actually pushed to use both your brain, creativity, and also challenging your intimate knowledge of the game's mechanics to clear their most challenging stages. But they did it in ways that allows 3-stars and 4-stars operator to clear it (even if it requires several trial and errors). Oh, and another thing is Arknights' approach to their affection rate, or 'Trust', with your operators. Where other gachas would have their characters fall over heels romantically with the player, Arknights did not. There are operators who may show hints that they like you, but most of the time they open up more about themselves to you. Their troubles, their secrets, and other things that only those they *Trust* are privy to. It feels more... organic, ya know? It shows that these operators has their own 'lives' and preferences, not everyone will automatically like the players romantically.