Worth Playing? - Azur Lane in 2023 

I'd like to mention that a new server was just recently released! So it's a very nice time for new players to come in so you won't feel as out of place compared to other players that have been playing for years. Little Enterprise server is only a month old with a lot of newbie bonuses to help you progress faster! Have fun y'all!

A small warning from me, a veteran f2p player. Even with all of these generousness, there is a secret deadly trap that new f2p olayers might not realize. It's name is *dock space* a.k.a character storage. The game is so generous that you most likely will get most characters that you want with no issue. But here is the problem. You can get everything you want, but your hands can't hold everything... This is the trap. The dock space is limited, while shipgirls numbers keep growing. Use your gems wisely. Don't get tempted by anything unless you are ready to pay the consequence (or money lol). Use your gems mostly for expanding dock space. I speak from my experience. Like, I sometimes save up my gems to buy the special wedding ring pack (yes, even gems are farmable and they also give free gems sometimes). I'm happy that I can marry my waifus, but then I realized that my dock is already full... With heart full of regret, I had to sell some girls to free up more space (wait, that sounds so wrong...). So if you are a kind players who want to keep everyone, then spending gems only on dock space is recommended. The hardest temptation for this for me is the wedding ring. But if you can be patient, they always distribute one or two of it every year. And you get one for free too at the beginning if I'm not wrong. So if you are not a harem guy, than it won't be a problem lol. Also, if you are a cold hearted guy who play favoritism or a true gamer who only care for gameplay, then limited dock space isn't relly an issue as you only keep characters you want. As if I can be frank, gameplay wise, more than 50% of the characters here are kinda useless... Still about dock space, a bit tip from me again. Try to join a high leveled guild/clan. You can get free dock space from guild's perks. And the higher the guild's level, the more stuff you can get. Including dock spaces. Btw, if you are willing to pay money, the amount of gems that you need for a dock expansion is quite small. So it's actually won't cost you that much IRL money. For skins tho, you really need to pay more money for it (you can still save up your gems and ignore rings or dock space if you really want a skin). It can't be helped. It's basically the main source for the dev's revenue after all.

Yes, don't worry about FOMO because they bring everyone back to get easily! It's a very F2P game that I saved 1k+ Pulls, it's crazy how spoiled we are (save over the 3+ years despite being unlucky from time to time). I forgot to mention that the only thing you're going to buy are skins, I bought like 200+ skins, no I'm not kidding, these devs are cultured as hell with skins so I support them.

The devs are showing they have an interest in improving and 1 upping themselves. They've been upgrading some of the chibis, and modernizing bits of the UI as they go on. The current event Island Breeze event is fantastic. They built on what they did with the Ryza Collab and expanded on it. It's just a ton more content compared to previous events. Then they dropped some absolutely amazing skins, 5x the lewd for 1/5 of the price of the latest nikke fiasco, lmao.

AL is the first Gacha game I played like 4 years ago and I came back to it recently (2-3 weeks) and i'm still in love with the shipgirls! I had to restart (because younger me stupid didn't link account lol) and still the game is soo rewarding I built up a super deck of ship in no time. Plus, even if you run out of oil, there is always commission or research you can farm afk. Really fun idle game you can set on the side and like you said, watch your favorite chibi shipgirl fire torpedoes and rounds at enemies. solid 8.5/10

As someone who started to play Azur Lane a year ago I can't really tell how the game was back in the early stages but as for now, my experience has been incredible. You really only pay for cosmeticts (if you want) as the shipgirls comes easily with just playing daily. They are constantly rerolling events and also adding them to permanent pool so don't feel bad if you start playing now and your waifu is an old ship as you will most likely get her next time she shows up. There are different game modes like OPS or pvp and everything you do in this game feels rewarding even small things like opening catboxes. I have played several gacha games (more than 20) for the past 10 years and this one is without any doubt the best for me, only downsides could be the pvp (if you enjoy the strategy and the effort to get great rewards beating other players, that is not something you will get here as pvp is very casual) and the fact that the game is most likely nsfw (if you don't enjoy seeing anime girls with barely any clothes on with lewd L2D animations and dialogs, then is probably not for you).

As someone who also hasn't played in over a year, I think an aspect that this game also does better than 80% of other gachas, are the actual character designs imo (at least the least old ones). Not to mention, if you're looking for a certain kind of "culture" in those designs, I believe this game does it better than any.

I really really love this game! I've been playing it for about 4 year now and have a lot of Level 125 waifus. You got a lot of things very right, but after all the years you really need some extra doc space if you want to keep most of the girls. Not about 400 but a lot more than the 150 you got at the start. Sooo some of the gems should not go into skins or rings but should be saved to extend your harem~

Seeing Noire: Pain Seeing rares being used for enhancement: Even more pain

It’s a generous game in my opinion. On special days like Chinese new year, anniversary or when a big bug occurs they gift you the premium currency (gems) and on Valentine’s Day a free ring to marry one of the ships!

for me this was the first gacha I've ever played, nay. the first anime game I've ever played! And I got into this because I watched too many kancolle and arpeggio of blue steel, then had the urge to play a shipgirl game XD

Like many people have mentioned, the dock space could really be a problem if you wanna build a massive harem. And also the METAs from the cruise pass, if you want the rewards you also need to claim the META ship which can't be retired or removed. That's about my only issue with the game, in one of the surveys I suggested they make either like a seperate dock for METAs or just don't count them as 1 dock space, because ik some people don't want them. Otherwise the game is honestly so incredebly well made for being a f2p mobile game.

1:45 I just want to correct this that you can in fact level up your ship girls with EXP packs. You gain these by doing usual battles and they will build up in your study hall then you can claim them to use as exp boosts on any ship girl.

The only thing I kinda worry is about the dock size, specifically for F2Ps,I mean,notice there's some ships that is unable to be retired like the research ships and META ships,several players already issuing this for long time,like,sure they do give additional free docks by guild but....I feel like there should be other way for that

this video is amazing

other aspect of the game that i really really really like its that... you don't have to be the best, you can just chill with your favorite ship girls, hang out with whatever you have and it feels good, it feels rewarding, unlike in Genshin for example where you feel the need of the new character becouse if you don't get it the game becomes unplayeable, you could run azur lane with just the starter ships that they give you for free and it would be fine.

*looks at Kaga's new Dancer skin * TOTALLY WORTH IT~!

Nice Video. I just started picking Azure lane back up again a few weeks ago. For other Gacha games i would recomend Dislyte, FGO (If you havent already).

Love the vids! Keep it up! 🎉

Sandy is always nambawan !!

Waiting for Manjuu to release their next game, azur welkin or something

Played this game 2 years ago cuz of the anime girls, totally didnt understand how to play but i kept playing nevertheless for the anime girls, might consider playing again :)

One of the few games it is hard to not get a UR on banner.

I had 3 fleets at 120 and had FDG at 120 maxxed (back then when she was the most powerful ship around). Is it worth it to return here? I left because i was so invested that it felt like a second job. A great one, but still a job. Is it any better now compared to how it was back then?

There are a few not animated skins that r great i.e august von parseval skin is god tier to me !

Since you asked at the end, I'd love your take on Arknights. Been playing since December 2022.

Btw jusawanderinggoldman got those internet points for keeping 69 likes. Witness confirmed. Great commentary. Just started playing. Having lots of fun. No stopping anytime soon. No harem guy here, so not much irl spending from me.

AL: some control KC: "What control?" (a DD gets taiha'd on final pre-boss)

Im scared... After 60 try (40 of these try with the x2 gift) and i didnt got Yuudachi yet.. but thanks for te review, i gree the game is so generous with the gacha (i got 3 ssr from the new event.. lukcy ? NO, i got 3 time the same girl xDD)

did you know Yukikaze(-sama nanoda) also has L2D as standard? not only 4 starters have it

Pretty Quite Yes Even I love waifus there lol quite design material, plus my favorite Beloved one is u-Boat type VIII U-47

I wanna get back in but I lost my year one account and that demotivated me so much, like I actively watch content from the official channel and ytrs just cause I played when it was early and actually like the game but I dont wanna regrind. I think imma do it anyway

Try out Epic seven, nice gacha. The rimuru collab just ended but well in the end i think it's worth it trying it for your self :3

such a forgiving gacha is literally its own reason to play.

I know tis is an older video and have a slim chance of getting a reply from you but I want to know how you installed Azur lane on your PC because I have tried several different things but it still won't work for me

Can anyone tell me if I should be able to run this game at a consistent 60 fps on OnePlus 11 (16 gb version)? Cause I can't and I hate it. It stutters and drops frames all the time. Especially at the start of combat.

Of course is worth it, simply as that.

0:21 Except it's a pain in the ass to do it

Wow Nikke and Azur lane is Sooooo generous. Meanwhile Legends be making us pull LF characters 8 times or So. For 0.500%! Hope you continue to Enjoy Legends.

What music did u use halfway through the video

Azur lane was way too time consuming back then especially for people working. Had to use macros non stop to farm maps while away.

ships do lvl up from materials, its called an exp boost and you need ship copies/bullions for limit breaks, you do not need copies for skills, skills lvl up with books.. if you meant saccing low lvl ships for stat enhancement boost thats still a wrong statement since you dont use ship copies for that, your enitre statement there (1:48) is very much confusing

Idk this girl called Enterprise got me interested into looking this game up

I love AL

I love this game so much I’ve played for a couple years now I’m still no good though lol

6:10 Happened 2 hrs ago Worse than the joke audio message of a horny woman at 100 volume I just confirmed it myself

Will probably only play this to marry Hood and Bismarck as well as a few others like Bellfast, Warspite, Roon, Ark Royal and Wales(by a few I realize that I actually mean quite a lot).

Blue Archive review next?

They need to come out with a second version of Azur Lane with an actual good gameplay.

idle game on the side ? so i'm not supposed to play 16h a day ?

its so f2p that i dont have that much dock space

Just started 2 weeks ago on this I dont know why i didnt start sooner xD

Ahh~ My Mommy Azuma I still wonder when she will be in the event stories like FDG does

"although canonically explode" anyone gon tellem ?

Bit too biased for me to enjoy sometimes but ig it's a okay game.

''Most generous'' gacha game!? Nah! Ask Limbus Company about that!

wow

I was and currently am thinkning about playingthis game, but man! Why fking ships!

>what's the point of playing on auto One hand is free to... Do something else.

Full size?

bro u have to buy Scarlet Maiden

Unfortunately this game, like all gacha games becomes more of a chore than a fun experience. And the returns for your efforts are greatly diminished over time. I stopped playing because the game devilves to the same formula over and over eith nothing fun about it

I played other gacha games and i must say this game is far too generous for its own good Not that i complain tho

What the hell is this with games that play themselves for you? Why even play?

Doesn't let you do Rerolls anymore.

Welcome to Azur Lane with more Pocket Monster Musume and more Balls than Pokemon Go Players for playing Albacore in public. It's so powerful even the horniest Discord Moderators cannot withstand her power. Immerse yourself in the Fox Mines to experience the true family making scheme with Stockholm Syndrome simulator and the neglected little sister rivalry addict that makes you feel the true Asian Experience, complete with the burden of family medical bills and the children left by them. Then study yourself to the cheese grated holes that is the Event Lores which so incomplete it could trigger your Trypophobia fear. For the enfranchised player, power yourself up with the power of Matriarchy to stop yourself from the trauma of other Visual Novels by collecting more Cliffhangers than Doki Doki Literature Club. In this heavenly hot spring disguised Casino owned by the FBI, evolve your girls with historically outdated gears as you turn the entire world into an isekai black hole by conjuring Research and Priority Ships as you race to Retrofit your shipfus into my historian's worst wet dreams ever since the apocalypse of their War Thunder immersion before dumping them with enough Terabytes of criminal possessions of Live 2D Skins than the Pentagon insiders on the Thug Shaker Central. All of these complete with a routinely updated Quality of Life and accessibility none of other gacha games affords and dumps you more loads of coming oils and lubricated ships for your next digital conquest for your American oily dreams and more love than the artists drawing swimsuit skins. Why settle for Three Kingdoms when you can start with 4 Factions? 10/10 would out Discord my Servver Moderators again. Rest in Peace, official #memes channel.

WATASHI WA NAMBA WAN

so this game is only for simps? 😨

Play this game and farm your ass off for your sussy Waifu s ship

yes. chapter 15 will make oldbies cry like babies XD

I am salty that the U.R. type 2 is cursed..... Same with yorktown i had to pity. 400 cubes damn it. I am cursed with the type 2 rolls. That's like a month and a half. Not bad but it stil hurt. But it is 100% beginner friendly. I am one year in only and it is going great. Game is super friendly to players