Senbonzakura 🌸 最近的评测

A beautiful and emotional game with a strong story and heartfelt characters. The "puzzles" can get pretty confusing at times and there’s not much direction, but the experience is definitely worth it if you’re into story-driven adventures.
be prepared to eventually cry buckets

I've been playing this game for about 5 years and witnessed a lot of bad changes and drastically decreasing player base as well.

WARNING: LONG TEXT

First of all, the category "free to play" should be removed and I'm going to explain why.
When you first start the game, you have to play through something like a storyline until you reach level 30. Level remains the same forever, instead, you have something called "combat rating". Your combat rating (cr) is based on the level of your gear. You obtain gear either from vendors or you get it dropped in content. Once you reach cr 75-80, game is NOT free anymore. Content is simply locked, that means, you CAN NOT progress anymore. You cant get higher gear and you only have access to content that is irrelevant for your cr now, stuff you already played through on your way to 80.

To unlock content you have to purchase DLCs or you need to buy membership, which is 12,99€ a month (around 15$).
If you think buying DLCs will turn out to be cheaper in the long run than getting membership, check this: without membership you wont be able to access your earned in-game cash. Basically, if you have saved 500mil in game money, you can only spend 2k at once. Thats like 1 time repairing your gear after unlucky raid run. And since you also cant withdraw your earned cash after you spend those 2k, you will need to carry in your tiny inventory (and its tiny without subscription) some junk to sell in vendor to get cash for gear repairs. You also wont be able to trade money/items unless you upgrade to premium (spend 5$ on anything) or to legendary (membership)

But thats not all money you will have to invest.
Besides good gear, you will need artifacts. Without those, you are basically trash. Artifacts is a very slow grind, if you dont wanna spend any money on them (I did it this way and it takes months, to max out 1 artifact. FYI: you will need 5-6 for 1 character, if you playing both roles (support & dps)).
To max out 1 artifact with real money will cost you around 200$. When you decide to take the slow road to maxing artifacts, you will still need to spend money on it. Every 20 ranks artifacts have a breakthrough point. The higher the rank is, the less success chance you have (max arti rank is 200). That means you need an item from marketplace, which costs 5$. And you will need at least 3 of them for rank 160-180-200. So even a free artifact grind will cost you 15$ at least.

Next aspect Im going to touch is feats (achievements), for sure there is plenty grindy stuff and fun feats to do alone or with group. 100 feat points = 1 skill point. You need skill points (sp) for stats. If your sp is low - you're most likely will not perform well, not do enough damage, no heal strong enough, be a squishy tank etc. Huge problem is older DLC content is dead, queue times are infinite, because nobody grinding old feats nor just running old content anymore. To form a group in LFG channel for older feats in alerts/raids will take you forever and you might wont be able to get even 4 people to do some simple stuff.

Couple years ago devs introduced us Time Capsules. The items in time capsules (cosmetics) have feats attached. (remember: feats=skill points). Of course, opening time capsules is not free! You will either need to purchase stabilizers to unlock them. 20 stabilizers - 20$, but if you think you will be able to get everything by opening 20 capsules you're wrong. Once again you will have to spend hundreds of bucks. Or you can run a daily event for 3 days in a row to open 1(!!) capsule.
Luckily, all items from capsules are tradable and you can buy them from broker for in game cash (if you have membership and can even access your cash). The time capsule feature made half of my friends quit the game, because it was already expensive enough.

New content. Every few months devs release a new DLC , that make the game unplayable for few days, sometimes a week. Along with a new DLC, we get tons of bugs and huge server lag. And it takes forever for them to fix. If you complain on forums, they are just going to delete your threads, so dont even bother.

I'm also going to mention the problem with speedhacking, there is no cheat detection in game whatsoever. Cheaters speedhack through content, while legit players still struggling (talking about elite content) and dont get punished. Also in those years I've been playing the game economy got messed up badly due money glitches. And as punishment, EVERYONE who had more than 1 bil cash, got a certain % of their cash taken away (even people, that earned this cash legit by grinding items and selling them to others).

Now about the grind of certain content. When you run a mission you get loot locked from it. Depending on the type (solo=1 player, alert=4 players, raid=8 players; also open world solo missions) the loot lock times vary. Its 24 hours for solo/open world/alert and a week for a raid. To reset your content you need replay badges, that are only obtainable for real money. 10$ for 350 badges (raid reset, that gives you the best rewards and more currency costs 87 badges).
Now see for yourself how much is this game "free to play".
Im an endgame player with heavy focus on elite content. I also have multiple characters with different roles (this game is not alt character friendly due artifacts cost). At first I had to give up my alts, because its very pricey and now Im on the edge of quitting for good.

The last 2 DLCs devs decided to desperately keep players on the game by introducing us endless open world boss farm. Its very time consuming. Defeating open world bosses rewards you with a certain type of currency, that you need to buy gear. If you want to max out your CR, you have to do it. Basically, you have to do same sh#t for hours for weeks to farm enough coins. This is what put me personally on the edge of quitting.

Conclusion: the game is not free to play, its very expensive, very grindy (and you have to pay for grind most of the time), very buggy often, devs dont care about you and most important DYING.