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Vincentdante said:
If anyone is going to join me in Heaven Runs Red I got an invite code ptn32itgrntznmf4 for an extra 1000 qaurtz
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How are you finding it so far? I heard it was really good from a character writing and banter perspective with the cast.

I am not sure if I want to get another game running though, between SOC/HSR and Nikke I am keeping busy enough probably lol.

I got Aventurine sort of ready now, he's got OK relics (nothing special but not bad) and I got him and his LC to 80, done all the outer traces so just working on getting the internal ones up a few levels. I'd say he's probably good enough to run now over Natasha.

I got MoC to 33/36 stars, and it's the first time I completed the 12th level even though it took too many rounds and I only got 1 star on it!

I can see he's not perfect and the Fribbels thing seems to agree. This tool will be really useful for seeing what relics I should look at improving upon first!

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Acheron is a bit better built but also needs improvement.

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Classic school slacker March 7th getting an F 🤣

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Asta with my only S so far for some reason.

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Lordhippos said:
How are you finding it so far? I heard it was really good from a character writing and banter perspective with the cast.
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So first impressions are very positive, I delayed starting it because I was tired of anticipating the generic Gacha game opening sequence of "the world is screwed, you have amnesia, go pull waifu's to fight back." Even the best written games in the genre still use this trope or parts of it to open up their world building. But shockingly that isn't what happened in this game. The opening chapters have quite a bit of comic relief and introduce their characters like it's a SOL anime, which is another trope but is still a breath of fresh air for me. The world is still screwed and you still have to pull waifu's to save it but it introduces the threat a little bit later on, but not so far later that you get bored reading the story.

tl;dr I am pleasantly surprised. Gameplay is pretty solid as well and has a few more strategic options beyond "when do I want to time my ultimate."
 
Vincentdante said:
So first impressions are very positive, I delayed starting it because I was tired of anticipating the generic Gacha game opening sequence of "the world is screwed, you have amnesia, go pull waifu's to fight back." Even the best written games in the genre still use this trope or parts of it to open up their world building. But shockingly that isn't what happened in this game. The opening chapters have quite a bit of comic relief and introduce their characters like it's a SOL anime, which is another trope but is still a breath of fresh air for me. The world is still screwed and you still have to pull waifu's to save it but it introduces the threat a little bit later on, but not so far later that you get bored reading the story.

tl;dr I am pleasantly surprised. Gameplay is pretty solid as well and has a few more strategic options beyond "when do I want to time my ultimate."
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I'll sleep on it see how I'm feeling on it tomorrow, if I start I'll use your code though.

The actual game and characters and things look great, but the combat to me looks like the weakest part visually.

I was planning to play Frostpunk 2 this week but it's disappointed me vs how good FP1 was, so I'm on the hunt for something else to play whilst I'm just farming materials in the 3 games above and awaiting updates and events and things.
 
Yeah I play no more than 2 at a time
I dropped FGO for this one, I will give it a few days to see if I want to stick with it or not. That's the thing with these games is you want to avoid getting attached. One day the servers will stop or we will move on. If you want to avoid this one there is no harm.
 
Vincentdante said:
Even the best written games in the genre still use this trope or parts of it to open up their world building. But shockingly that isn't what happened in this game.
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Probably because Heaven Burns Red is more of a VN that happens to have gacha elements than a straight-up gacha game. Discussions from people that have played the JP version that said there's not a whole lot of FOMO in it helps. Plus, you know, the fact it's written by Jun Maeda.

I played the prologue and the first day or two of chapter 1 and really enjoyed the writing, but as with many things, I just don't have the time to play it right now on top of everything else. Maybe sometime in the future.
 
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