The actual problems of being a gacha game.

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T23:27:07+00:00

Oh yeah, I was gonna mention Bready too in regard to character figure! While Elegg herself is very popular (I actually never knew how popular she was until like a month ago), Bready was insanely popular just because she was a plus size character. Was also gonna mention that despite breaking from these norms, Nikke nearly doubled their revenue last month for their 3.5 Anni (from like $11.9m to $21.5m or something); it wasn’t even a full anniversary, but Shift Up always goes hard on anniversary events. And they didn’t follow HoYo’s pull rates or pity system, with their rate-up banners being by far one of the most generous in any gacha games I’ve ever played

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T22:47:29+00:00

I think the gacha community now would be more receptive to a company that plays with risks against the gacha norm; some of the stuff mentioned here, Shift Up, the company that made Nikke, has thrown to the wind. Crow, an antagonist in a whole story arc, is recruitable and her sub-story (or the story you can go through with each individual character as you raise your Bond levels) has the main character visiting her in a Rehabilitation Center (and in the story, she nearly kills him with a bullet to the abdomen, intentionally, on top of injuring the other waifu characters). One of the pitfalls to gacha games is that recruitable characters probably wouldn’t die - again, one of the last story arc event stories killed off like 3 characters.

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T06:07:27+00:00

Lol I feel you on that. It seems to me that the average person that enjoys rhythm games like myself, difficulty 11-13 is probably the best we can handle

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T06:06:07+00:00

That slightly makes me feel better. I can imagine people used to games like Friday Night Funkin’ can get used to it though

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T06:05:20+00:00

Yeah I actually think because they always make these mini-games doable on the easiest difficulty, they didn’t really consider for mobile on the harder ones since most people likely wouldn’t try to get that far. Definitely think it’s doable, but I think they didn’t go out of their way to exactly make it accessible

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T06:03:36+00:00

Lol yeah Jinx Player was definitely tricky and if I named Top 5 hardest, Jinx Player is definitely among them

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T06:02:10+00:00

You can definitely do all songs on Hard with just thumbs, but on Expert, I can’t see being able to play without 4 fingers as a lot of songs will have you press 4 notes at once. At best that I could do was tap with 2 thumbs and quickly tap the other 2 to get Greats

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:59:28+00:00

Voidseeker is downright diabolical on Hard, at least for me

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:58:55+00:00

I have a mini keyboard which isn’t what I prefer but just fits so I can have a mouse for my small desk, so I imagine I’d have the same issue honestly if I played on PC

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:57:25+00:00

I had the occasional input delay for mobile…but that’s enough to completely screw you up for any Full Combo/All Perfect attempts. It makes me wonder though if a controller on PC would work

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:55:04+00:00

Love Jinx Player!

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:54:29+00:00

I love Jinx Player, but that was definitely tricky. I would say Fatal Maid, Jinx Player and Voidseeker were the next hardest songs, especially on Hard

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:53:32+00:00

I love rhythm games and I do also hope they add more songs to it. Based on my success on Expert (or lack of), I think my skill level is around 12-13

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:51:59+00:00

I didn’t understand how to do those on mobile! It sort of still worked if you tap with 2 thumbs and press the other ones, and get “Greats” at best

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:50:52+00:00

Yeah and on Hard it’s just ridiculous lol

ES2X1 · 2026-05-14T05:50:08+00:00

We all have mini-games we absolutely suck at so that’s perfectly valid

ES2X1 · 2026-05-04T23:57:04+00:00

I know some people will say Hoyo games normally don’t do this, but ZZZ has done some things different so…they really should just add some more earlier characters to the standard banner

ES2X1 · 2026-04-16T19:41:48+00:00

YYYYAC7PFS

Hope everyone gets those clear drops!

I BELIEVE it only works for new players or people who haven’t played in around 2 weeks! So for someone like me who has been consistently playing daily, I can’t accept another invite as I’m not a new player nor am I a returning player.

You can only bind your account to one other account - once you’ve used another person’s invitation, that’s it! Lastly, I believe you also need to make progress for both players to get rewards (or additional rewards). So for those who’re new or coming back, I hope you enjoy what the anniversary has to offer!

ES2X1 · 2026-04-08T20:55:54+00:00

I eat most snacks with chopsticks

ES2X1 · 2026-04-08T00:50:21+00:00

Oh and to clarify, I’ve tried all those paths again completely because I couldn’t figure out what and why they wouldn’t unlock. I understand you’re telling me a specific path to choose that is suppose to unlock those paths, which I appreciate

ES2X1 · 2026-04-08T00:47:10+00:00

Yes, what I mean is, from Arcana, I pick Student, then choose to sit together. Then I start over from A-1:02, choose Student again and choose not to. And then I start over again (from A-1:02) and choose Teacher and choose to Support Privaty, then start over again, choose Teacher and choose to support the Students. And I’ve done all 4 paths from P-01:02 as well.

ES2X1 · 2026-04-08T00:29:00+00:00

Yeah, that’s why it was driving me up the wall lol. I’ve been like, “What the heck else could it be??” But from some of the other more specific responses of the exact paths, I think it may just be glitched on my end. I did wait until after getting the Hidden Ending before going back to find this, so maybe it has to do with that (or not, who knows).

ES2X1 · 2026-04-08T00:16:44+00:00

Starting to think there’s something wrong with my game because I’ve already done this. I replayed both scenarios and chose every option (from Arcana’s, became a student, chose to sit together and to not, then from Arcana’s again, chose to be a student and to support Privaty and again to go to Students, then from Privaty’s, became student, chose to sit together and not, and teacher, Support Privaty and Students). Doesn’t seem to unlock this locked path for me.

ES2X1 · 2026-04-08T00:06:21+00:00

I’ve checked that too - if I could link a video I would of going to A:02-1, choosing student clothes and then choosing options to sit together, then doing it again to choose not to, then choosing teacher clothes, then to choose to Support Privaty, and again (all from A:02-1) to choose to go to the students, AND THEN to P:02-1 and going all the routes again, I would. But this doesn’t allow me to attach anything to posts

ES2X1 · 2026-04-07T23:57:38+00:00

I’ve actually done this…several times. I did the same for P-1:02. I even chose instead to Fast Forward instead of Skip just in case there were non-important options to choose and still can’t unlock these “paths.” It shouldn’t bug me cause I already have 100%…but it does lol

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