Ash Echoes Global 12+

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Just a quick one here. I read a few reviews about how great this storyline was/is and was intrigued. I play epic7, fire emblems, and Honkai star rail for reference. So, although I don’t exactly LOVE the tower defense style, I tried to slug through the gameplay as best I could. It seemed manageable except I finally realized that, gameplay aside, after half an hour in, I still had no idea what was going on in the story! 😂. It’s seriously no wonder though, as truth be told, there are SO many names, titles, and alerts flying around, and all of them randomly appear in [square brackets] for some reason….that I can’t follow any of it! Not to mention the ever-frequent flashes of weird warning signs (you’ll see) which, while they may be part of the plot, nevertheless take away from an already bizarre convolution of events. In fact, I’m genuinely thinking I missed something and that this must be the third or fourth installment in an already-charted storyline. Is that what this is? That would explain it. I’m thinking it is a culture thing so I’ll also say that maybe I just don’t know HOW to enjoy this one? It’s true it has good graphics in the animations and I can see that the creators took time and effort. I WANT to like it, but I just don’t.

I played this game since launch and will say that in the beginning it really is a lot to get through. So many different buttons and events ongoing it was very overwhelming and I’m surprised I stuck around for this long considering all the issues. This game is not like other gachas where you just level your character and skills, there is a confusing nexus system that you need to do in order to enter battles. I still don’t completely understand how it even works (not many people do either, the scores you get are mostly rng). The gameplay is tower defense, which got really boring and stale pretty quick combined with the nexus system.

The games strongest point is the story not the gameplay. The prologue is hard to understand because they just lore dump everything in the beginning (they even have a dictionary for all their terms). After the prologue though, the story is pretty solid. Most people play for the story only anyway. Although I will say the event stories are a bit lacking, this is expected after all but the quality between main story and event story is quite drastic, other games are able to put good event stories as well. For example, Baili and Scarlett’s event story could have been so much better had they delved more into how the characters grew up after the lab mission, really disappointed we didn’t get that because I was hyped after seeing the Code Pandora prologue (wasted potential for a great event story). I also noticed that the recent stories translations (for example, Uni and Thea’s event story) have been getting sloppy, many grammatical mistakes and questionable phrasing. The story is the main appeal so I’m not sure why they are slacking on the translation.

As for the good parts about this game is it gives a ton of currency, very F2P friendly. Also very pretty art and models. In the beginning, there is quite a learning curve to go through. This is ironic that the game is advertising itself as “The gacha with real gameplay” in its title. If they put as much effort into the gameplay and event story as they did with the main story, this game would have been perfect.

Edit: Ended up quitting this game since the recent translation for stories is just bad and they don’t seem to care to improve it.