So we are about to enter 4th week of the new MMO server release for this game and let's just say, if not for gacha removal, I wouldn't play it at all, but turns out, just gacha removal doesn't magically fix the game, as I spent time on this, I realized that issues that were present on original servers like technical issues and bugs, mobile UI with little adjustment for non mobile platforms as well low and in MMOs case, elitist playerbase that expects you to have max tier weapons and upgraded gear that only spenders or hardcore grinders can have on high tier raids that do not even presumably require it by displaying required combat power that you do have but they do not think its enough makes the whole experience quite...mix of good and bad, but mostly bad and that week is going to be final one that makes me want to not play again.

But let's start with its story, the first element that it makes itself different from most usual gacha games - its on a darker side, which I would like if not for how...unstructured the whole story is, as first world's story is quite not only mediocre at best, but also disjointed by forced story skip, which makes the already unimpressive impression worse, but once you consider the latter areas, it becomes...mid? Well, not bad but not great which combined is not good because of bad earlier areas, and that's quite a bad thing. If only a better job was done overall to not feel bad about it.

The gameplay - now that's actually a point I want to address, since gacha servers have a ongoing problem of years long powercreep where the new stuff is always better than old, meaning putting premium resources on old stuff would bite you back later, as well people using new stuff to one man instances meant for multiple people, a great way to make multiplayer an awful experience for people who wanted a fair game and not paid players showing their power over non payers. Even with free stuff the game throws at you, you will never compete with them as skill matters little to such people, only power. Of course i never played the gacha servers, but considering the experience I had in past games on mobile of similar caliber, well, that doesn't exactly give me good confidence on enjoying anything of that sort, even if its popular and good in people eyes because of design that throws that balance away.

The MMO servers on other hand, instead suffer from fact you are expected to loot 24/7 if you want to get at the top, because if you dont, you wont catch up to top tier players and guilds, as many rewards and events are tied to activity, which also means the said guilds wont take you as they want the best of the best, this was not the case during the initial launch because...well, practically everyone is new, but despite not even a month in, the guilds pretty much started becoming elites for elites rather quickly. So unless you are capable of keeping up with them, consider yourself a loner, as amount of non elite but middle player guilds is rather...low, and if you are a casual, then consider yourself out, for even the gacha server with easier solo play still feels less balanced due to said powercreep.

Now the weapons - they all play differently, some easier to use some harder, but considering in said gachas you swap characters with their weapons to do their thing, here you swap weapons instead, which is better and less confusing, but still feels weird compared to traditional games where you pick a class and pick a single weapon to use in combat, only swapping for specific needs, but oh well, another gacha inspiration - but on point for MMO server; you have 2 banners per season - one with earlier released weapons and another with newer, which due to fact the MMO server made them equal to each other in terms of relative power, means its more of pick your needed piece and upgrade it to your needs, but you can still feel the design difference between earlier and newer content, with newer stuff being much better in terms of quality, and in some, power. Its great they heavily rebalanced the weapons compared to gacha, but favorites in terms of strength still exist for some.

The world - the enviroment, while solid, the quality is not good, and in certain areas you can see low quality textures on those, same goes for enemies who are not from newer areas or bosses, especially if they are speaking in cutscenes, their mouths do not move, and while worlds are solid, enviroment is not as good. But exploring the worlds is not boring at least, considering the inspiration material that is, with resources and loot to find, which you actually do need because you'll need all of it, and a lot for high tier upgrades.

Characters - They have decent designs and solid voice acting from known actors, and they are either NPCs or linked to weapons(simulacrums), and the most notable thing about them is the fact you can use other weapons while using them, like a support using offensive weapons and vice versa, which is a feature that I do like as it makes them less bound to restrictions in terms of style, and allows for plenty of visual combinations for your liking. And with multiplayer this game focuses on, it makes it more impactful.

Bugs - despite taking years of ongoing development, there's plenty, both minor and major ones, let's start with minor ones like being able to open electrified/burning chests of domain 9 that arent defused via statue upgrades if you are in climbing position, which also takes no animation to do so, to chests giving the message of not having enough keys to open as if they were supposed to be openable only via that when you dont have enough, getting stuck between certain objects and such, if you transmit while being engaged with enemies who knockback you, you'll teleport off area due to damage taken, certain story cutscenes being pre-rendered videos that have the male main character ignoring your cosmetics and current gender, characters who speak not always moving their mouths, to major ones like your character failing to teleport to group calls if they are moving fast enough, which results in team leaders kicking you out for failing to keep up, when really its the games fault for doing so, and others I possibly heard or seen but cannot explain.

Despite the change to an MMO, it still has mobile game elements such as stamina, used for life class system, of 6 you can only take 2 to level up, and they all require stamina to progress and collect items, yet even in the first world you can encounter items that clearly are for later progression, as well sidequests which still rely on gacha server rules, like a quest to collect items that require stamina, and that's the least awful one, but the worst ones tend to be cooking quests that require level 15+ in the skill to progress, which in turn require like, level 70+ due to skills having a level requirement to advance and we cannot even reach said level at the moment of writing due to time gates of current season, because of the item in question being high level that is not the case in original, missing images when you get recipes from said quests because of course and training points from open world being useless to earn at the moment cause you cannot spend them in warp server.

And then there's gold seller spammers in world chat, which even if you report them, another one takes their place, which means without active moderation, the game's not going to feel good, and while they generally appear during nighttime of server's region, they still show how bad the situation is.

Due to word limit, I am concluding the review with a similar score it has on bilibili, which is an experience that has some good points, but hampered with aftermentioned bad things, which means unless you are a hardcore player willing to stomach bugs and design issues of not gacha/MMO limbo of a game, you'd have to avoid for the best. If it was not in either extremes of playerbase, I would have a better view of this.

lost my OG account ( i did not migrate it ) although it didnt really have any progress that much lmao, this is a fun game, i enjoy seeing my custom character use different weapons and appear in different cutscenes

Double charged for a Battle Pass through paypal due to an issue on the company's side.
You have two options:
1) dispute the payment, get a refund, and get your account banned
2) do absolutely nothing and let them steal your money