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Echocalypse Review 2023

Echocalypse Review 2023

REVIEW Echocalypse First Released Oct 20, 2022 Android, IOS Echocalypse is a gacha collection RPG published by Yoozoo on mobile. Info Info Overall Rating : Positive Type : RPG Category : Free to Play Contains Ads : Yes Micro Transaction : Yes Country : SEA Content Rating : Teen,Violence, Fantasy, Suggestive Themes 

Idle Angels: Realm of Goddess Review 2023

Idle Angels: Realm of Goddess Review 2023

Idle Angels: Realm of Goddess REVIEW First Released Sep 21, 2019 Android, IOS Info Info Overall Rating : Negative Type : Idle, RPG Category : Free to Play Contains Ads : Yes Micro Transaction : Yes Country : Global Content Rating : Mature 17+,Violence, Blood, Sexual Themes, Partial Nudity Mode : Single Player Published by: MUJOY GAMES 

Darkest Afk Review 2022: Is it a good game?

Darkest Afk Review 2022: Is it a good game?

Darkest Afk is an idle Rpg game inspired by the famous roguelike Rpg game Darkest Dungeon. Although they share similar art style the game is different from the original game. Let’s find out more about this mobile game.

Story

Strangely the game did not have any intro which kinda ruin the expectation of the Darkest dungeon vibes. Sadly you will know part of the story through a mediocre dialogues between characters. So basically you don’t know who you are and why are you going to fight. All these question will remain answered.

How is the Game play of Darkest Afk?

Darkest Afk will start in the middle of a conversation between heroes. Then you will engage a battle between your heroes and a demon boss. It’s the the type of fight where they give high level character fighting against some last boss of the game. Just to show you what kind of ability your heroes have and of course to show a bit about the game itself. So after your crushing defeat where you were not able to kill the boss and got separated from your allies, stripped from all your levels, gear and power. You will start with a level 1 character with nothing as the second part of the tutorial.

The tutorial will show you the basics about leveling, gearing, using abilities, fighting monsters and collecting idle rewards from your Mimic. Once you have progress enough in the story and have obtained your 3 heroes. In the castle, you will have access to buildings where you can summon heroes and spells. Access to shops, dungeons, labyrinth and tower. As usual here’s a short description of important buildings;

  • Market – Four shop where you can buy a variety of items with different type of currency
  • World Split – Spell summoning
  • Recruitment Point – Hero summoning
  • Forge – Refine your gear
  • Magic Tower – Upgrade your spells
  • Tavern – Obtain or remove traits
  • Temple – Merge, Reset and Purify(Dismiss) your heroes
  • Mines of Abyss – Send your heroes to explore to obtain various type of currency
  • Tower of Darkness – Climb the tower while fighting on each floor for better rewards
  • Arena of Doom – PVP fights
  • Utopia of Dragons – Deal as much damage to obtain better rewards against a dragon
  • Labyrinth of Madness – The closest things that can be associated with Darkest Dungeon as the game play is nearly similar with a torch system, traps, buffs, camps, different path and death of heroes but only in this mode. You won’t lose your hero and you can always reset the labyrinth if things goes bad. If you manage to clear all 3 Tier, you will be rewarded with a specific currency and other goodies.

Combat

In Darkest Afk, you can put only 3 heroes in your roaster to fight. Choose 3 heroes of each class namely Support, Tank and DPS. Position the Tank in only front position and give your support and DPS the 2 back row position. Once preparation are done, you can start combat, the fight will look much like a brawl where enemies and heroes will hit each other in real time. After reaching enough energy they can use their skills either automatically or by you activating the skills for them.

Basically you go stage by stage to defeat enemies, note that each 5 stage will have a boss at the last wave. Do the same till you complete the chapter and repeat the same process again in the other chapter. Combat is really simple in this game, combat remain similar in other game mode, only the enemies will change. You may obtain positive Traits(Buffs) while on winning streak and also obtain negative ones if your on a losing streak.

Gear and Heroes

As already mentioned, you will have 3 specific class of heroes with different role. Those heroes can be level up and upgraded to higher rarity if you have enough copies of them. Leveling will be capped on a certain level that’s why you will need to upgrade the heroes to a higher quality in order to continue leveling. You will have only 4 piece of gear for each type of heroes, they can be refined to a certain amount of star depending the rarity. In order to refine your gear you will need to sacrifice other unused gear and some gold.

What kind of Graphic does Darkest Afk have?

If you are here because of the similar art style of Darkest Dungeon, you will definitely love Darkest Afk graphic. A dark gothic fantasy in 2D, unique to genre of Darkest Dungeon. Animation wise, it look a bit janky, the movement seems a bit odd.

The character seems to move like controlled puppets attached to strings. Heroes does look very different from each other, plus the fact that you have different race such as human, elves, dwarf, troll, vampire, demons, goblins and the list go on. Skill has simple animation with just a glow or something appearing out of nowhere.

How is the Controls of Darkest Afk?

You can just mange your equipment and heroes, change their position before combat and use their ultimate during combat if you are not using auto. You can also use spells from time to time but it can also be set in auto. The only thing left is for you to collect the idle rewards from your mimic.

Sound & Music

Darkest Afk has only 3 background music which goes on endless loop and is mostly annoying the more you play the game. The sound effect is one of the weirdest sound i’ve heard, the heroes growl and grunt when using their skills.

How is the Game Length of Darkest Afk?

As any idle game, Darkest Afk does not ask much of your time. It takes less than 10 min to complete your daily quests. However you need to come and collect your rewards every 8 hours which i feel a bit forcing my hand just to connect to the game for that. Progression is slow and will become slower the more you advance. The amount of reward collected on a day gives only enough resources to upgrade 1 heroes to 3 to 5 levels only. Remember your team is compose of 3 heroes, so i will the math to you for you to have an understanding of how slow things are.

Is Darkest Afk Free to play?

Yes, Darkest Afk is totally F2P, no paywall or content locked behind VIP. For the VIP, you can obtain free VIP points by progressing through the game for free as you progress. Of course progression will be going to be slow but the game gives you enough gems daily for you to summon enough to be able to progress with a bit of RNG and patience.

Is Darkest Afk Pay to win?

No, Darkest Afk is not P2W. Even that game does have some P2W element like VIP but they only gives you a slight boost. At a certain point you will reach a wall where only patience will help accumulate enough resources to upgrade to go further. Also don’t forget that summoning heroes is random, so it does not guaranty you to obtain the hero you wanted no matter how many gems you will spend.

Ads

No ads beside it’s own advertisement of some package that may pop up from time to time.

Microtransaction

The Darkest Afk shop is rather very simple. You will have the weekly and monthly subscription cards, the gems packages, completion rewards and of course the VIP packages. Price vary between $0.99 to $99.99, as usual be responsible when spending.

What is the Life span of Darkest Afk?

In all honesty, i don’t believe much that any idle game can last long enough and Darkest Afk is one of it. The game sadly does not have any element that may keep a player interested to play or spend money. No waifu collection, no thrill in the game play, no fun events, overall the game feels dull and boring. If the game were to have some element of rogue like Darkest Dungeon then the game may pick interest of players. Other than that, i would say good luck to the team to keep the game alive so far.

Benefits

Darkest Afk comes with a small management as an RPG with little amount of heroes, gear and resources to manage. Making it one of the easiest idle game with simple management system for beginners. It’s always good for beginners to start game like this as it’s not complicated or complex to understand. Beside it’s a good side game that you can play from time to time.

Community

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Suggestions

  • Increase the reward of idle time
  • Lower the cost of upgrading heroes
  • Add different formation for combat
  • Increase the idle time cap to 12h instead of 8h
  • Add unique item for each class
  • Enhance the skill animation
  • Let you see which Debuff and Buff in battle
  • Make labyrinth more like Darkest Dungeon
  • Additional effect when raising the grade of heroes instead of having only a frame color change
  • Change the weird sound effect
  • Add a pity system on the summon
  • Choose specific banner that rotate every month

Updates

Bug fixes only i guess.

Should you play?

Yes, Darkest Afk is a nice little idle game with very simple mechanics. The game have similar art style of Darkest Dungeon but it is not the same kind of game. Progression is a bit too slow even for an idle game, things does get boring once you reach a certain chapter in the game. So far it have the weirdest sound effect i have heard in the mobile games. Overall if your going to play this game, you should consider playing an entirely new game and forget about it being the Darkest Dungeon on mobile. If you do so, you will find a nice little idle game. In the other hand any association beside the art style of Darkest Dungeon, will only bring a big disappointment to it’s fan.Thank you for reading till the end, i will see you in another review.

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General Information

  • Overall Rating : Positive
  • Type : Idle RPG
  • Category : Free to Play
  • Contains Ads : No
  • Micro Transaction : Yes
  • Country : Global
  • Content Rating : Violence Blood
  • Mode : Single Player
  • Published by: Three wishes slot machines game studio

Technical Information

  • Google Play Score: Early Access
  • Installation Size : 141 MB
  • Full Size : 365 MB
  • Platform :5.0 and up
  • Emulator friendly : Emulator friendly
  • Connection : Online
  • Available on : Google Play, App Store
Grimlight Review 2022: a waste of good potential?

Grimlight Review 2022: a waste of good potential?

Grimlight is an RPG on mobile platform that have characters inspired from fairy tales, with the help of the Dreamstone, summon them to fight the Dreamless and the corrupt memories. The game had a bad launch and was rated poorly for some reason that we 

Artery Gear Fusion Review 2022: Is it the best RPG?

Artery Gear Fusion Review 2022: Is it the best RPG?

Artery Gear Fusion is a turn based RPG on a mix of anime theme and kantai(mecha and girls together). Form a team of 4 units to battle against the enemy known as the puppets. The game is said to be as good as Epic Seven, 

Dark Nemesis: Infinite Quest Review: Is it good?

Dark Nemesis: Infinite Quest Review: Is it good?

Dark Nemesis Review of a game which is instance base MMORPG in a Dark Fantasy world. Where you will fight your way through horde of monster and equip yourself with the best gears and pets. The game trailer look very promising so let’s take a look at the real game.

https://youtu.be/U8_51WNVPts

What is the Story of Dark Nemesis?

We slowly began to forget the old prophecy…We cling to foolish hatred, embodied by war. Mortals blindly rush towards their own doom, blissfully unaware of what the Goddess of Light has in store for them. The Crystal of Light, separated from the Goddess, drifted listlessly through the timeless abyss. The Deepfrosts found the crystal, and displayed it in their museum…Yet the Raven Cult, covetously eyes the crystal from the shadows…Once again, the flames of war shall burn!

That’s all that being told about the story. We don’t know who we are and why we came to the museum? Maybe more will be told in the future…maybe they forget to add the part where you fit in this story.

How is the Game play of Dark Nemesis?

You starts the game by selecting between 4 class. Don’t worry we will comeback in more details about the classes later on. For now let’s focus on the main plot. After you choose your class, you will have a little cinematic of you making an impressive entry in the museum. The museum is already under attack and it seems the crystal has already been taken. This is your tutorial where you will learn movement, skills, dodge and learn about different type of enemies including a boss.

Once you beat the mini boss, you will enter the lobby aka Mirror City. From now on you will go on a roller coaster of chain quests, the game will guide you through mini tutorials each time you unlock a new content. Dark Nemesis is the type of game that unlocks more content as you level up. The main quests will guide you to instances who represent the core of the game. Which consists of moving from point A to point B in a map while completing the main objectives.

The instances are rather short and some stage will have a boss at the end of it. But Dark Nemesis isn’t all about just fighting instances, it has a role playing part where you will have to look after your character and equipment. This is where the game starts getting complicated as you will unlock more and more ways to increase your battle power. I will try my best to give as briefly as possible a description on those “complicated” things but first lets check out the classes.

Classes

As mention before you will have 4 classes but things are a bit different in Dark Nemesis. As you can switch between 3 subclass before any instances. They are normally between 3 categories namely for PVE and PVP. The 3rd class is a more supportive subclass for both PVE and PVP. Here are the 4 classes.

  • Assassin – Melee DPS with high mobility
  • Warrior – Melee Tanky with CC(crowd control)
  • Gunslinger – Range DPS with high mobility
  • Mage – High Burst Aoe with high mobility

If you pick the wrong class, you will have the option to switch to another class for free later on. So no need to restart the game or create another character if you messed up. Also i noticed that it doesn’t really matter as long as your power level are ok. Of course that doesn’t apply for PVP contents.

Set

You can combine and awaken your set of armor here. Note that you have 8 part of different equipment to upgrade and awaken. Gear will have different Tiers, the game currently stop at Tier 13. Good luck on combining your gears.

Forge

This is where you can enhance, refine, augment, enchant, inlay gems, infuse your gears. It’s a complete and solid forge compared to other game in my opinion.

Spirit

Spirit are your mount and also your weapon form. Your mount transform into a weapon form when you fight. Here you can put Inscription, Morph, Resonance and upgrade your mount. Some mount have synergy with other mount but you will need to unlock them for that.

Companion

Those are your pets, they can assist you during battle and will follow everywhere. They offer passive buffs and active skills. You can upgrade them and set a group of them in a synergy formation depending on your build. The more your unlock the better passive stats you will obtain.

Wings

Have similar function as your pets. Get additional stats as you unlock more of them. You can upgrade to get evolution points to unlock passives on them.

Skill

You have 3 basic skill and 1 ultimate skill, the ultimate has up to 3 phase which you charge up during battle. Early release will trigger different reaction depending on how much charge it has. You can level up your skill, change style, choose talent, level up guild passive skill and awaken a skill.

Squad

Join or create a squad of 5 people which you can participate in events together.

Artifact

Summon and unlock treasures, those relics will help you obtain more passives. Relic can be redeem and will have different grades. Complete those collection in order to get better stats that other player.

Outfit

This is basically your wardrobe where you can choose which skin you want to wear. You can select different part of a set to wear them as long as you have unlocked them.

Antiquity Set

A powerful set of equipment which grant a huge amount of stats increase. Complete specific instances to get Dragon Stones to unlock and upgrade the set.

Reputation

Obtain Reputation for 4 different faction by completing quests or simply donating. Higher rank in donation better items can be obtained by the factions.

Arena

Your PVP instances where you can show your skill and fight other player. Arena has 5 different instances:

  • Arena – 1 vs 1
  • Solo Expedition – Challenge solo mode
  • Abyss Hunting Ground – Group PVP mode with different objectives and bosses
  • Battle Royale – Survive different phase of a classic battle royale
  • PVP Battleground – Group PVP like capture the flag

Modes

All your PVE content is in here:

  • Campaign – Main story mode
  • Trial of Destiny – Boss fight mode
  • Dream Realm – Instances with different stage and bosses
  • Journals – Quest with different type of mission
  • Material Dungeon – Self Explanatory
  • Bounty – Another Boss fight mode!?
  • Wild – An instances where you can dig treasure, do quests and kill world boss
  • Ether Trip – Labyrinth mode
  • Squad Expedition – Clear different boss with 3 a group of 3 people
  • Oligopoly – Roll the dice and move on different case to obtain reward
  • Exp Dungeon – Self Explanatory

Guild

Join a guild, to help each other during PVP event to obtain more point and rewards. You can sign in, donate, upgrade tech tree for passives, buy from guild shop and participate in special time event inside the guild like banquet and kill some monster or collect materials.

Graphic

A good 3D graphic with a good amount of details on armors and pets. Nearly every equipment has glow effect so you won’t be disappointment in terms of graphic. The Interface is terrible, i felt like Tony Stark entering the Iron man suit without Jarvis to help me understand all the red dots and option available. After 2 week i managed to get a grasp of everything but i doubt some people would wait so long. You can’t zoom in and out or change camera angle which is a bummer, why?

Controls

Dark Nemesis has auto play function for most of it’s content. Although you can play manually and that the control are rather easy. Movement joystick on the Left and Skills on the Right, you will also have a dodge and 1 ultimate. The rest i would not call it control as it’s mostly tap a button to upgrade or equip or merge. Some instances require you to control your character manually as it’s power level requirement is high. So to avoid losing time and avoid dying with a stupid AI jumping in the middle of the boss telegraph attack, just play the game manually.

Sound & Music

Another game with a repetitive background music playing in loop. Even the music is epic but you will turn it off after some hours of hearing it again and again. At least they do change the music when you go in instances but again it is the same music for all instances. The sound effect are good from slashing sounds to monsters different sounds. You do have some voice acting at the start of the story which were not that bad, shame they did only the first chapters of the story. Voice acting will always get your attention no matter how senseless or boring the story is.

What is the Game Length of Dark Nemesis?

Prepare yourself to spend at least several hours to clear the quests. Note that the daily quests does not takes around 30 min to complete but the list of quests for events does stack up later on. The more you level up, the more content will be unlock and the things to complete daily as you have limited entry per day. The events is the game is like old school MMO, it starts in specific time of the day. So if you want to keep up with the game, you will need to stay on the game or log in during the specific time.

Is Dark Nemesis Free to play?

If the game had only PVE contents, Dark Nemesis would have been a very F2P game. But it is the case, despite giving a lot of ways of earning ingame currency(diamonds). It does not really match up in terms of power level for PVP contents. You will have a very bad time in PVP modes where a player can 1 shot you with a skill. So this game is not F2P at all.

Is Dark Nemesis Pay to win?

Yes this game is where you will P2W. From VIP levels, battle pass, exclusive SS pets and spirits(mount) that will boost your battle power as long as you pay. The higher the battle power, the higher chance of winning in PVP contents. You can also carry other people in PVE contents and be rank top 3 in boss battle, etc, etc. I think you got the idea, the game is designed for spenders so it’s a very P2W game.

Ads

No ads.

Microtransaction

As mentioned above, the game have a large amount of options for spenders. Some package are worth buying but others are mostly gambling. As many packages and events are chance base which means your not guaranteed to obtain your ss pet or spirit. Those are the packages available in the shop, VIP, Battle passes, tickets, diamonds, new comers package, daily, weekly and monthly package. The shop is a real mess scattered around the game with different currency which is very confusing when your looking to buy something specific.

What is the Life span of Dark Nemesis?

In all honesty, Dark Nemesis has already doom itself in many ways. The game is a real mess with too much different currency, heavy P2W aspects, locking progression through your level, specific time event make things even harder for players to keep up. Dark Nemesis is trying to do too many things at a time and here is the results. The game had potential to be a really cool game but i don’t think any big change will happened.

Benefits

Managing your character and equipment has always been a good thing. You will learn a bit more about it in Dark Nemesis as you will spend quite a good amount of time doing it. The team up aspect is also nice, specially when your helping other players to clear instances. The Guild is a good place to meet and help new people around the world and learn some other language if you have foreign friends.

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Suggestions

  • Remove the specific time event as many player can’t stay connected all
  • Change the amount of entry for essential materials
  • Put power level cap for PVP, for example 100k power will only fight 100k power opponent
  • Too many different currency making it confusing for new players
  • Add more instance where player can play together or do something when they finish all the daily quests
  • Put higher tier of equipment in the Gacha
  • Remove time limited event for Pets
  • Add different Talent to classes as they tend to do the same thing as all classes
  • Continue to add more quality of life to the game
  • Please let us control the camera
  • Tone down a bit the amount of things you can obtain via cash shop
  • Let all pets, spirits and wings available for farming as F2P later on in the game

Updates

Bug Fixes and more gacha events.

Should you play Dark Nemesis?

To be fair with Dark Nemesis, i would say at least try it if you like those kind of game. The game is fun at the start and have a huge amount of content. But too much content can turn against you specially in a mobile game. The game does offer a good amount of QOL to help clear those lengthy grind but locking most of content behind limited entry per day is a bad move. I really like the spirit, mount and glowing stuffs but the game became boring pretty quickly.

PVP was a nightmare to play, most are unplayable for F2P unless your a masochist who like watching getting killed again and again. Clearly there’s no balance between F2P and spenders, the gap between them is way too big. So in the end i would advice a skip if your not into overloading yourself with contents to grind everyday. For me it was not a bad game but it was poorly organized, let’s hope we can see something better later on.

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General Information

  • Overall Rating : Negative
  • Type : MMORPG
  • Category : Free to Play
  • Contains Ads : No
  • Micro Transaction : Yes
  • Country : Global
  • Content Rating : Teen Violence, Blood
  • Mode : Single Player, Multiplayer
  • Published by: Nuverse

Technical Information

  • Google Play Score: 2.5
  • Installation Size : 930 MB
  • Full Size : 2.04 GB
  • Platform :5.0 and up
  • Emulator friendly : Emulator friendly
  • Connection : Online
  • Available on : No longer available
Angel Legion Review 2024?

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Mobile Legends Adventure Review: Is it good?

Mobile Legends Adventure Review: Is it good?

Mobile Legends Adventure in an idle RPG based on the famous MOBA game “Mobile Legends Bang Bang“. You collection a variety of heroes and goes on an adventure. The game is still popular, so i wanted to do review on it. Let’s find out more 

Epic Seven Review 2022: Is it still the Best?

Epic Seven Review 2022: Is it still the Best?

Epic Seven is one of the most complete RPG available on mobile. With a good Anime theme and clever mechanics the game mark itself from other RPG on the market. Why is Epic Seven is considered to be one of the best of Anime RPG game? We shall look for the answer by simply playing the game and hope E7 will reveal all it’s secrets.

What is the Story of Epic Seven?

After watching this nice intro, you will understand that your going to follow the adventure of the Heir of the covenant known as “Ras”. I won’t reveal too much of the story to avoid too many spoiler and so that you can enjoy the story as i did during my play through.

How is the Game play of Epic Seven?

After the intro cinematic, you start in the middle of conversation between some characters who is fighting a war against the Archdemon. This is basically your tutorial, hidden in this intro story, you will notice while learning the basics. That the game is a Side Scroller where your character will run one side to another and enemy will always be the opposite side.

It’s a turn base game where speed determine who will get to go first. The next thing you will see is a Soul Bar and your hero skills. All character will have 3 skills and each skill you use, will charge up the Soul Bar. Defeat the enemies and you will have another nice cinematic animation.

At last, you will learn is how to use your Soul Bar, you can either summon a Guardian ability or use it to enhance your hero skill. The Guardian is like your summons similar to Final Fantasy, you call something big and strong to inflict massive damage to enemies. The final cinematic animation of those heroes fighting the Archdemon and congratulations you finished the tutorial.

Waking up in an Inn and having a funny conversation with the owners, you can start your adventure on the world map. Classic RPG always starts in an Inn where are alone at first, then start looking for your companions. You will have mini tutorial that will pop up when something new appears but now you have some freedom to check a bit around.

Combat

The main part of Epic Seven will be focus on combat, you will be fighting monster and boss everyday. So let’s get started, you can only bring 4 heroes on adventure. So basically you will have 4 slot available, this is a fix formation with two in front line will most of the time receive damage and two at the back line. Basically the game is teaching you positioning with Tanks/Warrior in front and Support/Mage at the back.

If one of your character dies during battle, a support character will automatically take his position. Support character can be a player or the computer itself which you can choose before combat. Also the character gets injured and will need healing by either waiting or paying a little amount gold. Another important thing the game is showing you the importance of having a healer aka Soul Weaver in your team.

Next you will notice is that you can continue to the next stage without having to go back on the world map. A very convenient method to just go through the story without a hassle. Stage have 3 requirements that if you complete them, you will be obtain Skystones(ingame currency). Completing all stages in a chapter will reward you even with more goodies, the rewards will varies between chapters.

Character & Summon

In the middle of chapter 1, you will be given the opportunity to get new heroes for free in a Selective Summon. This will allow you to pick 1 pull among 30 summon pulls, note that you can only obtain one 5 star character per pull. You should check guides and tutorials before deciding which pull should you keep and which one should you skip.

The summon rate are not that bad, they do have a pity system to help those unlucky people to get their favorite character. Or course this applies only if you have enough gems to reach the pity pull(around 120 summon). You will have other type of summon with different currency such as

  • Specific Hero Banner Summon – 5 covenant bookmarks per summon, for the artifact and hero of the banner
  • Mystic Summon – 50 mystic medals per summon, a group of selected hero and artifact including moonlight heroes.
  • Moonlight Summon – 5 moonlight bookmarks, summon light and dark heroes only.
  • Friendship Summon – 5 friendship bookmarks, summon for fodder
  • Elemental Summon – 1 Elemental Connection, summon a hero of specific element
  • Selective Summon – Free summon given to you after you complete the episodes

Don’t try to pull on every single banner to collect all heroes in the beginning. Avoid pulling on character that you don’t need, keep your Skystones and Bookmarks for heroes that will make your account progress. Again i strongly advice you read the ability of your heroes and focus growing them that spending your resources into multiple character that you won’t use. Summoning too much hero will make you lose focus and waste a lot of time.

Character in Epic Seven does have different class but is don’t need specific gear. The class are

  • Soul Weaver – Healer and Support
  • Warrior – Good Offense and Defense
  • Tank – Meat shield
  • Thief – Fast Single target
  • Ranger – Debuffer and Support
  • Mage – AOE skills or Support

Artifacts

While summoning you may come across those cards with a beautiful illustration known as Artifacts, they also have a star grade as heroes, that is star are between 1 to 5. Artifacts are very important as they can give you not only additional stats but also strong passive. A good example is the “Daydream Joker” Artifact will make your hero do % health damage on an enemy which will be very useful in Boss fights.

You can equip only 1 artifact per character and they do have class restriction on them. The best to obtain them is via summoning but you can also exchange them in some shop or during events. Don’t sleep on them as they maybe a game changer for your play through. Artifact can be enhanced and can limit break up to 5 times to increase it’s maximum level.

Gears

Gear are divided into 6 parts, the 3 parts on the left will always have same Main stats and the 3 parts on the right Main stats may vary. The amount of substats on a gear depends on the grade, the grade are:

  • CommonNo substats
  • Uncommon1 substats
  • Rare2 substats
  • Epic3 substats
  • Legendary4 substats

When you upgrade a gear, it will obtain a random stats upgrade at each 3 levels. As those upgrade are completely random, this could either make a gear even better or completely useless. So substats at the end of an upgrade is extremely important if you want to min max your gear. You can upgrade a gear up to +15, meaning you will have 5 times to upgrade a substats in total.

Now to avoid wasting gold, you should upgrade +3 each time and see how things are going. To upgrade you can either use charms or gear that you won’t be using as fodder. Note that the main stats will increase and this is why it’s important to know what main stats you will need on the right side. If you are completely lost go check some guides online so that you don’t mess up and end up wasting too much resources.

Crafting

If you end up with bad RNG on your free gear and need a fresh pair of speed set. Then you need to start doing your Hunts to start collecting materials for crafting. Materials grade will determine what level of gear you can craft. Crafting does have rng but will always guaranty a rare gear at worst and a legendary gear at best. RNG can really mess you up sometime, specially when your looking specific substats on your gear. Substats can appear with min value or max value when crafting, adding even more complexity for gears.

So the whole process of crafting takes time but is rewarding once you obtain what you were looking for. The hardest parts to craft are the right side gears(necklace,ring and boot) as they add another layer of RNG in their main stats. That is why you always craft them last to avoid wasting too much gold and resources.

Later you will have access to Reforging that will let you increase the max level of your level 85 to level 90. Equipment will need to be +15 and level 85 in order to reforge. You will also need Reforging materials that drops between the Stage 11 to 13 in Hunts.

You can also craft charms, crafting materials, equipment conversion, catalyst, exclusive equipment and modification gems conversion. Those are advance crafting that you will touch much later in the game.

Upgrade

Epic Seven hero upgrade uses the pyramid system, meaning the lower tier unit will be sacrifice as fodder in order to upgrade a hero.

  • 2 star
  • 3 star – 2 Star + 2 Star
  • 4 star – 3 Star + 3 Star + 3 Star
  • 5 star – 4 Star + 4 Star + 4 Star + 4 Star
  • 6 star – 5 Star + 5 Star + 5 Star +5 Star + 5 Star

So we will need a large amount of fodder to upgrade a unit to 6 star. And to add even more trouble to that you will need to max a unit before you can upgrade it. All that is troublesome but luckily the game does offer you units that are already maxed known as Phantasma and also Penguins can be used to level a unit quickly. Making the whole process much easier than before, thanks for this update Epic Seven.

You can also imprint your units if you have multiple copy of them. Imprinting give your hero a Team Buff, that is very useful making gearing your hero easier. The best imprint buffs are % one and only 4 and 5 star nats have those buffs.

Last thing you can awaken a hero if that hero has reach a certain level. Each 10 level you can awaken a hero, up to a maximum of 6 times. For that you will need a specific resources known as Runes that drops from Spirit Altar and Catalysts that drops on normal stages.

Pets

Pets are the latest addition in Epic Seven, they are here to help in your adventure or in the Lobby. They are divided in 2 category,

  • Lobby Pets – Give you random gifts after a certain amount of time
  • Battle Pets – Allow repeat battle option and give additional rewards

You can upgrade your pets and synthesize them for better pets later on. Pet can be adopt via the Pet House, you will need a Pet Adoption Ticket for that. You can display a certain number of pets in your pet House.

Orbis

In the Sanctuary, you will find a mini city builder mode. The place is called Orbis and you are going to rebuild it to it’s former glory. In order to upgrade those buildings, you will need to obtain Breath Of Orbis from your adventures. Each building have 3 different upgrade section that you can upgrade 3 times, they give a different bonus to your buildings. Here is the list of buildings:

  • Heart of Orbis – Free source of Gems and Gold
  • Forest of Souls – Grow Molagora, Penguins and Phantasma
  • High Command – Dispatch missions for different type of coins
  • Steel Workshop – Craft and Reforge gear
  • Alchemist’s Steeple – Crafting for charms, exclusive weapon and catalyst

Guild

If your not in a Guild yet, you missing out on a lot of thing. The guild is not only a place for a group of friends to meet but also let you collect specific currency only available in guilds. Those currency can be spend in the Guild Shop for strong artifacts, catalysts and other goodies. Your guild members can also contribute and help you obtain catalyst daily but abuse it by always asking for Epic Catalyst.

Weekly quest are also available for guilds which i strongly recommend you to complete, they are rather easy to do and give you a fair amount currencies. You can also donate gold and Proof of valor for more currencies. The rest of things that you can do in a guild is Guild wars, World Boss and Ancient Inheritance which i listed below.

Arena

The Arena is the PVP section of Epic Seven, if you want to test how strong your heroes are against other player. Well this is the place to climb ranks and reap weekly rewards but Epic Seven also give you a PVP training against NPC. Beating then will grant you Conquest points and gems, luckily you can fight them again when they are not on cool down but beware they become stronger each time you defeat them.

Other game modes

Epic Seven has many other game modes, i will only list them and put a small brief description of them.

  • Side StoryEvents or story of heroes
  • Spirit AltarRunes farming dungeon
  • AbyssA reverse challenge tower
  • HuntMaterials and gear farm dungeon
  • LabyrinthA maze where you battle to obtain specific currency
  • Automaton TowerChallenge tower for gear and charms
  • Halls of TrialsExclusive equipment dungeon
  • Guild WarPVP between guilds
  • World BossBoss Raid with guild members
  • Ancient InheritanceReal time dungeon with guild members

What kind of Graphic does Epic Seven use?

Epic Seven uses a 2D animation and transition between anime cut scene and 2D game play. The background is a static 2D background with some light animation on them. As you start the game, your normally waiting in the Inn. The Inn in Epic Seven is one of the best place to observe the amount of detail they have put into it. After you pleasure your eyes contemplating every single animation like character waiting for you, bartender cleaning a glass, connection character waiting for you and the light particles flying around.

Character

Every single character is a piece of art, from elf, nuns, demons, school students, knights, idols and so much more. Epic seven have you covered and that’s not all, they did a great job on showing you a complete different version of the character in Moon Light version. Moon Light (ML) is a light and Dark version of a rainbow character(standard character). They are a stronger version with new animation and look.

Also let’s not forget about Specialty Change where a 3 star will become stronger and will also change in appearance after you complete some specific requests. Epic Seven even went a step further in the animation, you will notice the each of them will have a hair, clothes, face expression and some will have lots of fan service animation(bouncing and jiggling).

Story and Cut scenes

The whole story is shown in terms of Dialogues between characters, you can pause or skip any part of it. Story or dialogues which you can always replay in the Journal. Epic Seven offers the finest of cut scenes and animation in par with good Anime movies. Some are short and other a bit longer but they are always nice to watch. They also does an excellent transition between the character movement to the animation itself, specially when they are doing their skills.

How is the Controls in Epic Seven?

As a side scroller, Epic Seven doesn’t offer much in terms of control. Beside moving your character left or right and selecting a direction when playing labyrinth mode, you don’t have much control over your characters. The only part where some manual gameplay is required, will be the using the Burn on the soul bar before using a skill. Some hero may need a manual use of their skill specially in PVP where you don’t want to waste a cleanse when you only have 1 debuff on your team.

Sound & Music

The music is very good, you won’t be disappointed leaving the music on while playing.Voice acting in different language for all characters, voice line when they are using their skills, grunts when attacking or receiving hits. Good sound effects, a sword hit will sound like a sword slash, so no weird sound effect in here.

How is the Game Length of Epic Seven?

Epic Seven is the type of game that requires all your time and attention, it’s feel like a roller coaster going full speed all the time. The more time you give Epic Seven the more it rewards you in progression. As an objective game where you need to have certain character or gear in order to pass a blocking point, you can’t only do daily and call it a day or else your account will stay behind. Staying behind is not good as you will miss a large part of the weekly reward in PVP.

Sometime the game absorb me so much that i fail to notice i have been playing for more than 3 hours already. As energy is easily obtainable at least early on, you won’t stop because you run out of energy but more because your phone battery is down. Whether you grind or play the story, we must all agree that playing Epic Seven require a large amount of time daily.

Daily quests, this will take you around 40 min only, it’s not recommended unless you want to progress at a crawling speed. Events of side story is another time dump when you are doing it for the first time. So you have been warned about it, just be careful the game is highly addictive.

Is Epic Seven Free to play?

It’s F2P, everyone would agree on this. They are generous enough to give you free currency, character and gear to help you catch up. Multiple ways to obtain gems to summon frequently, you have access to all type of summon. All content are playable and you can easily get the strongest PVE characters with Specialty change of 3 star heroes.

The season pass can be upgraded with gems, no VIP or Paywall. Events are doable as F2P and gives very good rewards, gear are obtainable via farming. F2P will get a solid account if they dedicate enough time for the game daily. The only advantage of cash shop is having more summons and faster progression which is fair.

Is Epic Seven Pay to Win?

As for the P2W aspect of the game, it’s no surprise that is the PVP section of the game. With the current Meta, ML 5 star heroes rule arena and if your unlucky to have the right one in PVP as F2P. You will have a hard time beating the other team, so PVP is very unbalance for the moment and let’s hope for a fix soon.

Ads

No ads.

Micro transaction

The standard cash shop that includes packs like events packs, Rank up packs, Summon packs, new adventurer packs, skill packs, Moonlight Summon Packs, Monthly Packs, daily summon packs, Stamina packs, gold packs, charm packs and Skin Packs. They also sell gems separately and the price varies between $1 to $100. No VIP, No endgame gear packs and no Cash only Season Pass. The packs are a bit pricey and only gives you more opportunity to summon.

How long is the Life span of Epic Seven?

Epic Seven has a lot of content and by the time you will manage to catch up, new content will be already available. Also having RNG on summons and gear adds a lifeline for them, adding even more heroes and sets will make them last even longer. They deliver new heroes and content fast enough to keep the player on going in both F2P and Cash player. Collection of heroes and the lore of Epic Seven has already a fan base.

Fan Base for either the beautiful Anime character or even the lewd part of it is good. Making Epic Seven having a very solid player base and make it last for at least 3 to 5 years easily. So it’s like a sure bet that player can play the game without fearing of server shutdown or lack of content.

Benefits

Epic Seven gives you a real taste of a full RPG game, you will learn to manage your team and gear if you want to get good at the game. You will seek information and try different strategy with a big hero pool. You will learn what is RNG, grinding, materials and collection. Learn about the lores and story of each character and maybe become a fan of a character. Careful about the amount of time your playing as a grindy game, Epic Seven will require lots of time. Don’t get addicted and spend all your money in summoning new heroes.

Community

Official Site

Facebook

Youtube

Twitter

Instagram

Stove

Reddit

Suggestions

  • Voice Over for the dialogues in story
  • Skip animation button
  • Battery saver mode or a Screen saver mode
  • Auto Refill of Stamina when farming
  • Add hero suggestion for early content in the tutorial(for example wyvern)
  • Events that last a bit longer(at least 1 additional week)
  • Inventory slots can be bought with gold
  • Reduce the gold cost of switching equipment
  • Reset unit and get back all resources back

Updates

Epic Seven updates almost every 2 weeks with new banners, events, balance patch and changes to the game. They notice you clearly before going in maintenance mode and put a patch notes to show you the changes made or event that are coming. You will also get Collabs from other game or anime and events on special days like valentine, Christmas and Halloween.

Should you play Epic Seven?

Yes, this game is a real piece of work. It’s one of the best game for multiple reasons, good story, good character design, good music, good mechanics and good community. It’s not a surprise to see people returning or starting to play Epic Seven today, many other game are sometimes a disappointment and a waste of time.

But that doesn’t make Epic Seven the perfect game, many player still complains about RNG or the amount of grinding to obtain catalyst and other hero balance issues. Epic Seven requires a lot of time and attention and not all people will have enough time to play it.

Too much content to do, burnouts or not enough time to play are reasons people quits the game, i noticed many inactive accounts in PVP. These account have 6 star max awaken heroes in the lowest league of arena which was quite a surprise for a beginner. Also it was very hard to find an active guild, maybe it was me but for it was the grey area of the game.

As stated above the game is very F2P, progression is not too slow, no real shortcut P2W to endgame. Overall Epic Seven is a very good game, i had some difficulty at the start to keep up with everything as so much things to assimilate as a beginner but i loved the character, the game play and even the Fan Service part of the game. Thank you for reading the whole article.

General Information

  • Overall Rating : Positive
  • Type : RPG, Collection
  • Category : Free to Play
  • Contains Ads : No
  • Micro Transaction : Yes
  • Country : Global 
  • Content Rating : Teen, Blood, Suggestive theme, Violence
  • Mode : Single Player
  • Published by: Smilegate Megaport

Technical Information

  • Google Play Score: 4.5
  • Installation Size : 67 MB
  • Full Size : 4.24 GB
  • Platform : 5.0 and up
  • Emulator friendly : Emulator friendly
  • Connection : Online
  • Available on : Google Play, App Store
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