My honest quick first impression after playing in CN server for 5+ hours
I jumped in the game right after launch today and played none stop for over 5 hours. Here is my honest, first impression of the game so far.
I have never played previous Beta, and I play on PC at 2K with RTX 3070. I am native Chinese speaker so I understand all the story/plot
Start with good:
Graphic. The game has rich color, beautiful city designs and some really astonishing sightseeings to show you how beautiful the game is. However, some of the textures is quite generics and can feel cheap. But overall I’m very pleased with the graphic.
Cinematic & Vibe
The game uses a very traditional Japanese anime-style art direction. Overall, it has a lighthearted, humorous tone, with many cutscenes and moments that can bring a smile to your face. While the story itself is relatively simple, the presentation includes quite a few surprising and delightful touches making it enjoyable to watch
Open world. This is probably the first city based gacha open world. I spent good amount of time driving and walking around the city and I think that it feels like a live city but interesting things going on around different corners. I have only experienced a small part of the whole map so far but I enjoyed what I seen so far
Neutral:
Combat. Very generic 4 player team swap style combat. It has a mixture elements of wuwa, Genshin and ZZZ. Some characters have cool attack animations, but overall the hit feels really soft, and combats so far are pretty easy and you are just spamming light attack and use skills on cooldown.
Optimization. Overall the game feels smooth to play. There are frame drops occasionally but nothing game breaking. And I have never encountered any serious bugs or crash so far. I haven’t tried on Mobile but I heard it is not running well on Mobile….i hope they can make it better
Bad:
Character Design. Every single character I have seen so far is very mid and visually doesn’t look good in game. There are some characters that I like their personality, but visually none of them are attractive. It honestly doesn’t look like 2026 game especially when comparing to competitors like wuwa or endfield.
Plot. At least imo the main story is really boring, like I said there are funny scenes here and there but I don’t feel hooked to story at all. I don’t want to spoil here too much so will leave it for you to experience next week.
Conclusion: overall 7/10 so far. Will continue to play and experience the game but not sure yet if it would become one of my main game.