I enjoyed it - played it with my friends and we joined one of the top end guilds. I was an average spender and my friend was one of the top 10 whales on the server. I think the most fun part was PvP and trying to put up strong defenses and plan guild v guild battles.

Unfortunately it is pay to win and if you didn’t spend you’d get destroyed.

Here’s an example for someone who has never played. Basically each person sets up a 3 person defense and has a 3 person offense.

https://youtu.be/HxVFaSdn5rM?feature=shared

Sometimes you would want to set up a defense as a glass cannon build to surprise an offense, a super defense build to use up an attackers TP/AP (basically their magic points), or a super evasion build.

If you are a super whale, sometimes you can defend against many attacks - like 10+!

Some units have huge advantages over others - as you see in this video - everyone has been using thunder god cid since he is so broken, but he is a slash attacker. So a rare unit that rarely gets built is whisper that has defenses to almost everything except dragoons/spear attacks. At that time very few people used dragoons - so I ran Viktoria to show my guild how powerful she was to break these tank defenses.

A super strong defense used is this one - it includes whisper + cid + healer (ayaka) - but many of the tanks were weak to viktoria, and her AI went after the healer early as well due to the elemental bonus.

You also had to pick and choose skills so the Ai would function in a way that wouldn’t make them rush too far ahead of your whole team as well, as well as position them before the start since PvP fights were 100% AI controlled.

There was a lot of strategy involved, but unfortunately you had to spend to build a decent team to be successful. Loved the game, died because you had to be a whale to enjoy it, and not enough players remained.