Hate to repeat something so many times but it bears repeating: Game installs Tencent anticheat without warning and it must be manually removed after uninstalling: If you plan to download the game out of curiosity on Steam, please be aware! Oh, and have a great day!
@@Guy1nthecorner613yep but people are jumping to conclusions a lot with this game too though, calling this games gacha genshin gacha when it's more like star rail - which is an important, since this game gives much more pull income and has a much more lenient weapon gacha
The UI IS EXACTLY the same, even the farming of ressource is the same, i don't think that it is a Bad game but damn there is definitely some poor decision.
@@marielcarey4288 Ignore the fact that Star rail is pretty easy to progress through, and Astra lives off of power gating you, and artificially inflating how long it takes to do anything because it doesn't have enough content.
Most of the Genshit comparisons seem to come from people that had it as their first gacha, or just don't know much outside of Genshit, so seem to think Genshit was the originator of all things, when pretty near all of it basically copied other games, and such that came before it. -The UI was common in mobile games before Genshit. For instance, I remember when Noah's Heart came out, people claimed the UI was a copy of Genshit, when it was actually a copy of that dev's prior game, Dragon Raja, which was released before Genshit. -Annoying followers like Piamon were common for decades in Disney animated movies, or if you want a gaming example, Zelda: Oracles of Time. -The equipment system Genshit more, or less copied from other games, like Epic Seven. -The basic process of progression systems used for characters, and such have been common in mobile games since well before Genshit. -Companies on a whole just copy things from other companies, this applies to games, and anything else. Companies were trying all sorts of systems for their gacha, to find something what would make the most money, since Genshit made stupid amounts of money, many gacha games have just just adopted something similar. Plus various aspects were already common in other gacha games before Genshit. -Calling Genshit generous is funny, really. Just try telling most Genshit players that around any of its anniversaries. -Some anti-cheats install as a part of the game, some install as their own separate shared resource, so if multiple games all use the same one, it would only be installed once, instead of once per game. ACE is of the second type. -They increased the max stamina pool, and regeneration rate at least twice so far, so it's not bad now. ASTRA is okay, not amazing, just okay. I'll play it for as long as I'm still more, or less enjoying it, as I do like town hub instanced dungeon type games, but once I get tired of it, I'll quit.
I being playing more than 50 hours. Super addictive with free selector 5 star after playing one month. Its a masterpiece game. Buying stamina is only 25 gems. Very cheap compare most games. Coop is really fun with tank and healer role is important. Its not just dps. Need skill to dodge and it need strategy as well. Story is amazing.
It's not a selector after a month, it's a random 5 Star, unfortunately... I hope they at least give those out frequently. You do eventually get a selector after 200 or 300 pulls in the regular banner, though. (Not sure which it is... The text says 200, but the progression bar says xxx / 300 so... Either way, this could probably take anything between 6 months to a year for a f2p player.)
It is nice to see someone who is actually playing the game make a comment about it. It seems most people that actually play the game give it a positive review and the negative reviews are from people that just have an opinion with no actual play time.
This game has ground-breaking visual setup never been done before and style. This game, if you're high, is freaking amazing. What's literally like a death metal dream.
This game is incredible, plays a lot like a paid game, exp and progress gets expensive sure, but feels organic and not bloated unlike a LOT of mobile games. Gameplay is better than many paid games, and the localisation has some rough moments but the story is really good though Also the art. My god, stunning.
When you wear your Vanillaware inspiration on your sleeve, your art design better be good. But relative to Dragons Crown, yeah... Astra is alright, it'd be better if it wasn't a time gated gacha more interested in getting players to log in daily. Which isn't organic.
@@marielcarey4288 "by gacha game design," boom that right there, is the entire problem. People who play gachas don't evaluate games as games. Because the expectation of what a gacha should be is set in stone, and none of you want better. My apologies for hating on games that tell me how much content I'm allowed to access, while revolving around gambling as a main source of progress.
This game has a dark souls style look. It did have a little mess up on the launch date, but it got better now. This game is addictive if you look into the story.
Enjoying the game immensely so far...ftp and I've managed to gather a decent team and hit end game. They've announced an accelerated release cycle so I'm interested to see what's coming up
just kids noobs and genshin lovers who hate the game the game really gorgeous am 41 old and find it so nostalgic foe what i play in old days its ok for me to copy all UI of genshin because ite the most clean UI in game history .. the game just need some improvement and more event only and everything fine .. and most of them cry for that anti cheat cant uninstall with the game what a wimps ... i know kids my english not good not my first language so use ur brain to understand .. if you guys have one ..
When I first played this game I thought it would be something like a side scrolling open world, kinda like octopath or browndust, in the end the layout of the game bored me
I was curious to the game and saw this pop up, this is a pretty good straight to the point review. dont get too many of those anymore. Thanks for the vid and for that, you get a sub !!
the game is good especially now where you have plenty content to do very f2p friendly dev listen when something wrong the character are all beautiful i dont get why people dont like this game, even the gameplay is fun and challenging
The anticheat not deleting with the game is enough for me to never touch the game. Just having a kernel level anticheat isn't an issue for me bc the main competitive br i play uses one and i have like 3k hours on that, but if i delete the game the anticheat goes with it. Definitely doesnt seem to be a Genshin clone by any means, to the point i wonder if people saying that have ever played genshin or if they just hear gacha and blur them all together.
I don't know why but you saying you'll love subscribers forever got Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" stuck in my head. .... Keep up the good work?
I can never bring myself to play gacha games, but I do like learning about game mechanics; you're doin' me a favor playing through some of these games and talking about them in my stead.
this is a gacha game with the best story i've ever played so no its not a genshin clone 😂 Edit: to truly appreciate the story you have to reach chapter 6 and 7. chapter 6 was mind blowing chapter 7 pure gosebumps!
Tbh the story isn't bad, the translation is horrendous tho, and the exposition dumps are overwhelming sometimes. But I do think the story is good. Personal opinion
i like the game so far. i play on steam and yes its true the game is quite grindy. but any mmo player is used to that. i liked the story btw it was quite ok but nothing crazy but still enjoyable
Hot take, Imma help you out just don't make a review on a game if you haven't played the game in detail. I understand you want views on your channel and that's good but when you give a half-ass review people who play the game like me can tell you didn't pay attention to the details. Just helping you out and wish you the best.
No its worse than being a Genshin clone, (and progression wise it is VERY Genshin inspired) this is a level-time gating gacha that feels awful when you aren't at a proper power level. And since you have no control over progression, you can end up just hitting walls with seemingly no solutions because you can't just level up units at your leisure. Also, it's not really skill based, stamina is far too limited for genuine skill expression, and that's by design. Great for mobile gamers used to having their time be wasted, but for Steam? Yeah... no
My favorite gacha game is still Arknights. Excellent lore, great stories (if you don't mind the dense writing style), fantastic art and designs all around, peak music, and it's still just a great strategy game at its core.
To be fair, some gachas, if you get past the microtransaction bs (let's face it - lootboxes are the same thing) - are more competent than some AAA games. Genshin (and Star rail, as the most well known gachas) is entirely free and playable and completable fully without spending a dime and rolling a single character. And free updates. Should i take the 70$ slop of last of us2 remade of remastered remake? At least gacha devs try to please their customer base, instead of alienating it.
