Arknights Player Reacts To Blue Archive PVs! PART 1 

I'm thinking of playing Blue Archive for the first time on Twitch on May 28 (CT). I don't have the exact time, but it'll be after I finish playing Lobotomy Corporation! Hope to see you there~ TWITCH: www.twitch.tv/trailblazerririna (I'll be streaming Blue Archive for the first time on Twitch!) DISCORD: discord.com/servers/trailblazer-ririna-1097679395231113226 (Let's chat about Blue Archive together~) YT MEMBERSHIP: ru-vid.com/show-UCXIcWBkYpOSwleic06QO97Ajoin SHOP: ko-fi.com/trailblazer_ririna/shop BACKUP CHANNEL: www.youtube.com/@TrailblazerFoxRirina

PV4 comes out of nowhere with a steel chair to the back of the head every time someone watches it for the first time lmao

Lots of love for Blue Archive lately. Shiroko is the poster girl of the game and the blue haired girl with pink highlights is Arona, the game's mascot, who plays the role as the Operating System of Sensei's tablet. For some story context, yes, the girls have halos. Those are what give the character's their durability to withstand bullets as well as any superhuman abilities they may possess. While they have high durability, that doesn't make them impervious to damage or death. The setting is in a place called Kivotos which is described as an Academy city with many Academies within. In terms of the story, there are 4 main academies: Abydos (a School populated only by Shiroko and her 4 friends who take it upon themselves to pay off the school's massive debt), Millennium Science School (A technology and Science based school and also one of the newest schools), Gehenna (A school where most of the students have demon traits, as such, the school has the most chaos and anarchy) and Trinity General School (Taking inspiration from Christianity where most students have angel like traits). There are other various schools like Shanhaijing (Based on China), Hyakkiyako (Based on Japan), Red Winter (based on Russia), Valkyrie Police academy (The general Police force), SRT Academy (Spec Ops), and Kronos School of Journalism. There are others, but they haven't been touched on much in the Global version of the game. Kivotos itself is run by the General Student Council. Sensei works for an Independent club within the General Student Council that largely has autonomy (with certain restrictions) to act as an advisor throughout Kivotos. For Gameplay, the game largely plays itself. Player interaction is more tactical based in choosing when to use a student's EX skills. They will attack on their own and use their normal skills as soon as they are able to. You have 4 characters on the field and 2 off the field. The main goal is building the best team for any given piece of content so you'll want the best combination of damage dealers, tanks, healers, support, etc. Each student has different attributes that can make them good or bad at any piece of content. Students have terrain ranks that modify their stats based on terrain type as well as attack types and armor types (this is like a Rock Paper Scissors type effectiveness). Types of weapons (Pistols, Shotguns, Sniper, etc.) have certain attributes too, but those are largely trivial and not exactly worth considering in most cases. For costumes, there's not really any costumes for units themselves. Thus far every costume is it's own separate character with different skills. Most costumes have to be obtained from the gacha, though some have been rewarded as welfare/free characters. Relatedly, the gacha's not terrible, but it is far from ideal. You can guarantee a banner character in 200 recruitments. On Average, for a free to play player, that's about once every 2 months when all the permanent sources dry up. The base 3* rate is 3% and the rate for a Banner character is .7%. Every Anniversary and half anniversary a Fes banner (With the banner character being a very good character) will appear with double rates making the 3* chance 6%. Many people save for these because it's a great time to not only pull an amazing character, but to also fill out one's roster with missed students. You mentioned events, thus far, the current pattern is that events will rerun a year after it happens and then will be immortalized on the following year. Immortalized events are freely able to be done on your own time. Around this time is also when limited units related to the events run on banners. So far, the only student that has not received a rerun is Miku (The To Aru characters may or may not suffer that same fate, no one's sure on that just yet). As A fun bit of bonus trivia, the Bunny Chasers on Board event saved this game from fading to obscurity. After it's troubled launch in Japan, that event garnered so much attention (largely from Asuna and Karin) that it completely revitalized interest in the game and was able to propel the game to where it is today. Anyway, I think this is a big enough essay. lol. Hope you enjoy the adventure if you decide to become a Sensei!

Blue Archive has some of the best chibi models in gacha games imo. Very expressive and adorable. Gameplay-wise, it's sort of an auto-battler style game. Your team consists of 4 strikers and 2 supports, and you can control their EX skill activations and place their AoEs, but your units will auto-attack and move between cover on their own.

Rare Blue archive reaction,Thank you.

I remember people joked that Blue Archive is some kind of spin-off to Arknights becuase of all those halo girls with guns that really resemble Sankta and their love for firearms (and for sweets!), xD

Welcome to Blue archive new sensei. Hope you enjoy the game. There were quite a lot of PVs missing from that playlist it would seem, mainly PV 3 and PV 5.

14:34 The Blue Archive anime is literally airing this season lol. 6 episodes so far (12 episode season). Would recommend checking out the OP and ED of the anime because they look amazing.

7:32 nope. Tsurugi is the poster child for gap moe. Incredible levels of violence to her enemies, but a shy wreck twoards sensei.

Love the video! I was speechless after the 4th PV too 😭

If you want a basic explanation for Blue Archive, imagine that reincarnation is a thing and all humans are reborn as different animals in each of our next lives. Now imagine that reincarnation also happens for Gods, religions, and supernatural creatures, and in this particular afterlife they’re reborn as schoolgirls with halos. They’re practically unkillable so everyone casually wages war mainly just for fun. It’s incredibly crazy, chaotic beyond belief, and at times super serious and tragic. The community and devs are also very degenerate, passionate and based. If you can find yourself clicking with the comedy you’ll absolutely love the story in this game.

I’m glad you digged the vibe! Game’s really cool! Some of the questions you had: Game is half a visual novel and half this semi auto rpg. It’s kinda like xenoblade where characters auto-attack and you manually activate their special skills at the opportune moments. As for the story and world. The girls with guns and their halos gets sort of explained. But it’s not really depressing per se, it does have a lot of emotional moments for sure but for the most part it doesn’t leave you with a pit in your stomach. Hope you like the game, looking forward to more videos!

oh new sensei~ more PV in the JP channel, and also CN PV in bilibili, should be here somewhere too. gacha is fairly f2p friendly but it's recommended to pull only when you have enough for guarantee (spark), and since global is 6 months behind jp we know what banners to save for

Definitely going to look forward to your blue archive stream! I don't suppose you'll have the vod uploaded on youtube?

Don’t know why I’m just seeing this reactionary post for BA’s PV’s. As someone that’s been playing the game since GL launch, it’s rare to find a F2P gacha game like Blue Archive that is super generous, and gives off wholesome vibes with its amazingly likable characters on top of the fantastic character design and the music. But anyways wanted to point out… 10:13 Thankfully you can head pat every character’s L2D in the game.

You definitely have to try i love the story and characters so much! ❤

Welcome New Sensei! Hopefully you will a good time here♥️

Shiroko is the "poster girl" character for the game. I'm partial to Millenium myself, Yuuka and Noa ^^ Gameplay is good (its something you can easily pick up and drop) but I really stay for its story which is awesome. It has a healthy balance of slice-of-life, melancholy/sadness and hope-triumphs-above-all all rolled into one. As for the gacha: rate up is a lie XD Pull for whoever you think is cute. Welcome to Kivotos, Ririna-sensei. :)

So about sensei's design, there is no "canon" design for sensei, every official adaptation makes a new look for them and in game they never show them, nor directly call them a guy(atleast in the jp & kr versions), that's why fan art has a bunch of different interpretations of how they look. As for the game itself, it's pretty light hearted and while there is darker moments, things usually turn out all right. I think that's why it blew up in japan, most gacha now tend to go full edgelord for their story's, so a gacha that does the opposite ends up standing out. I'd say if you do try it out, that it would be a good idea to try and atleast beat volume 3 to see if you like it or not story wise, since that's generally what people think is the best story chapter alongside volume f.

1. It's actually 4 frontlines and 2 backlines 2. We have student variants not skins. Like Shiroko have her Cycling and Swimsuit version as a separate character (which you can actually bring together in one party by the way)

Events have rerun in one year, and in the second year become "immortalised", so you can access its story and get event characters, but you can't farm it Exception - Miku colab with no rerun. Onother colab (with Railgun) ending today, i'm not sure about rerun of this one. next 6 weeks will be "dead weeks" with no actual events. we have story update and then Decagrammaton, which can be counted as event, but it's a special case, like side story. btw there will be 3rd anniversary at ~23 July with double drops rate banner and some amasing event. About depression - don't worry about this. Scenes from 4pv 32:48 - it's like possibilities of bad/good ending. There is drama at some moments but it's absolutely not the major line of the story. i'm pretty sure devs want to keep their story at bright side.

Remember Sensei its all just Sunshine and Rainbows All Sunshine and Rainbow......

New blue archive has been posted, time to watch and follow for me, thank you!

LESGOO

Game does re runs so much after the 2nd rerun it get archive so you can play the STORY any time. At least it also give the welfare student from it. And right now is on collab with the Index anime series.

Blue Archive deserves so much love honestly! It’s a great game to play whether it’s for dailies or if you get invested in the story

4th PV ptsd got me.... tears...with happiness!

I love how when people who never play the game before got shock by Volume 4 Chapter F pv since it so different from other pv

It’s very f2p friendly. And the older events available.

fuck see the trailers had me crying the story is too good

They have event reruns (except the Hatsune Miku collab) and after some time they make the event permanent so new players can experience it

Your comment on Noa is just like me fr fr.

Yes Shiroko is the main girl, don't change your thoughts even if someone told you otherwise or after anything you read in the story lmao Blue Archive story is fun and silly, most of the time... It's like the reverse of the Arknights story, that's all I gonna say The 4th PV shocked the fandom so much when it dropped, I also cried a little when watching the PV for the first time Unfortunately, there are no skins, so these versions are pull units. Thank god they are pretty generous. For example, for every half-anniversary banner, they double the 3* pull rate (3% -> 6%) and give away 100 free pulls. Which are usually the limited gacha banner and meta. Also, the banner spark is 200 pull It is made by a Korean company, devs, and author. But the story itself has heavy anime/otaku culture references, heck the Japanese version was released first then the Korean and global versions were released 6 months later Some events are replayable and you can get the free unit from the event albeit not very strong. The events story seems canon because although not very relevant, they are mentioned in the main story,

I have played Genshin, Honkai, Frontline, Azur Lane, Arknights and a few other Gacha games. And put ALOT of hours into some of those... Ultimately, I have put in far more time and return far more often to Blue Archive. The character writing is overall superior and the story got me more than once; in both happy and sad ways. I feel a better connection to the characters and the world of this game and that can be attributed to the writers and artists. It is probably the only phone game I have ever full recommended to anyone. And I stand by that recommendation. It's a great game. (Sure wish there was a PC version that wasn't on an emulator tho.)

Looking foward to you playing it. Just in case guns are as common as cellphones and the halos make the students bulletproof so guns just knock people out

Gameplay is alright, but the story is where it's at. Not sure where you got the PVs but there's quite a bit missing, namely all PVs for Vol3 and the more recent events like Trip Trap Train or Railgun Collab. Volume 3 and Volume F (4th PV) are extremely emotional and build on many parts of the previous volumes which make it absolutely amazing. You can jump in and start reading story right after the tutorial (they removed the gameplay limits) except one fight they forgot to nerf in Vol3Ch3 that requires an account level 40 or higher to comfortably beat. Otherwise you can clear pretty much all story related content and read without interruptions. Highly recommend, it's one of the only gacha games that I find consistently bring tears to streamers' eyes and watching the reactions are extremely entertaining. Lots of key moments in the story worth replaying for the reactions alone. Do implore you to give it a read.

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4th pv never fails to stunlock

are you gonna be new SENSEI ??? formation is 4 striker and 2 support support is more like back up buff or healing

not bringing guns in Kivotos (Blue Archive world) is like not wearing panties

There is depression in the story but the most important is the hope and miracle triumph all! Im crying in the story not because how dark it is but when character got their hope, miracle, salvation for them, when that happen its sooooo goooood that im crying. And Millennium is the best school dont forget that!

Blue Archive is soo good game in my opinión, if you are interested i reccomend counterside too

There's no skin in Blue Archive, there's just a alter like character (same character but different clothes etc)

11:50 best girl right here

Game is more parodical than serious. Its has its serious moment, but mostly the idea is "take a steriotype and roll with it" So caracteres are mostly flat,but the event are fun to watch/read Gamplay is kinda fun, essy yo learn, but need a little brain to use to the max yet progression and character stats has some "gates" or ranks for things, so unless you know the in and outs you are kinda stuck in progression until you grind enough. Yet, the game allow ample farming and thing to do. I reach lvl 50 (middle game) by rushing in 1.5 months. So is very permisive. Recomendation, do NOT get more than 50 student initally, that way you can focus resources, as esrly on everything but high tier is expend in seconds. Music is a banger, people has been using it more and more around youtube.

welcome to the Blue Archive~ when all miracle its happening

Theres a mistranslation. Aris wanted to become a Hero, not a Warrior

Shiroko best girl indeed

Banners are 200 pulls for pity. You get that every 2 to 3 months when you have a decent team built. before that you have the newbie pulls which are a lot lol Your theory about the story is so off it's actually funny, can't wait for you to see the actual story

You need to asap join the school to give correction for troublesome student now 😭😭 By troublesome student i mean all of them

I can let ya borrow my Miku on raids if the urge ever gets to you!

pv 4 is the most depression volume in blue archive and lost hina 😭😭😭

your face so cute lol

only chibi gameplay is def refreshing

It would be cool if you play the story in live