The Amber Heard of Video Games, AFK Journey Review
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
- You can download it right here:
afkjourney.farlightgames.com/
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Afk Journey is like Amber Heard. It looks expensive, it IS expensive, and it has weird voice acting.
AFK is my favourite way to keep my phone from getting bored while riding the bus. it's is aesthetically gorgeous and a visual reminder that yes, all those artists on Tumblr in 2012 have full time jobs now and they're freakin killin' it.
AFK classically means away from keyboard and It denotes the genre this game is solidly in. The Journey part of the title is what you will be doing to the cash shop for the battle pass.
This product is like a suppository. Every corner has been rounded and any part that would offer any sort of friction for my brain anus to gain traction on has been thoroughly lubed.
This is both great and sucky. It's polished out of existence some of the spider fucking busy work this genre can sometimes do. Gear can be auto equipped by class and I never once looked at any of it. It's none of my business. Also your entire harem matches the level of your top five characters, giving you the flexibility to change your party composition at any time without getting punished for it.
All of this takes just enough clicks to make you feel busy and important. A lot like clicking the refresh inbox button at work and getting no new emails. In fact frantically scrolling art station for hot maidens and occasionally deleting a shortcut off your desktop will give you about the same rush as playing this game.
But that’s sort of this products biggest strength. It’s for idly turning on, doing a few dailies and then ditching. The person who wants to play this doen’t want to get bogged down. At the end of the day, don’t we all just wanna grind a little on the bus.
There are a few engaging game modes like a PvP arena which is a venue for whales to supplex you and a roguelikey type mode where you build a team from scratch and go as far as you can with them against other players before you get a loss which tests your knowledge of team building. It's actually pretty good. but these feel more like diversions than a primary occupation.
AFK makes floppy wrist gestures toward the MMO genre with an overworld where you can see other players bumming around talking shit in town. This is pretty cool and if I was still a baby rat I'd definitely have harassed people here.
Unfortunately autoroutting to Quest objectives and even treasure chests flattens that experience to the point the world is little more than another pretty screensaver with the occasional attempt at a world puzzle.
You can enable double speed battles and allow units to pop their own ults, removing even the shallowest form of engagement. After a while it informed me I could enable auto battles for the main grindathon which I thought I was already doing. In practicality this meant it would automatically press the button for the next endless fight, giving me the luxury to truly live up to the game's title.
Now I know that this is an entire genre of game and that it has it's place and it's incredibly popular for a reason. but wherever that place is, it's not in the same postcode as me. And this isn't AFK's fault, it's mine, I'm the problem. I'm just mad because this is game is so beautiful
The biggest idle Gacha games more often than not live and die on how good they look, because thats going to be what you're doing most, looking. Depending on what the driving money force of your game is, is going to change what your art department is sweating over most. For example if Pokemon Go made the majority of its money from cosmetics and not incubators and raid passes then they definitely wouldn't have pushed an update that makes my character stand like a Neanderthal.
But If they followed my advice and made a more hands on experience instead of billions of dollars they could be making millions of dollars almost immediately.
You need to donate to cancer research charity just for that title alone
me: Is this really the best I got?
My brain: yes.
I've been playing afk daily for a month for the art and soundtrack alone xD, also found that you really have to scratch your brain if you choose to do the story and afk stages underleveled, those were some of the most fun matches I had when I won against teams more than 40 levels above mine
To be fair, AFK Journey is a very hands on experience. Just not hands on with the controller
What if I don't take the bus? Can I grind by myself in my car?
If I'm already breaking the law by using my phone while driving, I might as well keep my hands busy in traffic.
Lmao your jokes are fire
yo thanks!
Makin some noise!!! Huge victory for me to witness top tier content
Appreciate the comments dude haha
The best idle gatcha game is hands down super snail
Imma downloading it now
@@bigrathole two quick tips, this game is amazing partially because of its community, so make sure to interact with it and make friends, and second, almost everything available for purchase can be gotten in game f2p, or doesn't make a noticeable difference in your overall power. If your loaded, by all means, whale it up, but you don't need to pay to have fun
@@Misio-ly1ev wdym bugged ending lol, snails doesn't have an ending yet, it's unreleased
@@Misio-ly1ev buddy, I think your talking about the wrong game lmao
Like most furries, I see Big Rat Hole, I click.
I don't know why it took 3 days for UA-cam to notify me you posted, but I'm glad they finally did
I’m not a furry lmao
@@alex.g7317 I think the joke I was implying may have gone over your head.
@@CooperDooper38 is it that your a furry or imma closeted furry?
You are now, sorry that's the rules
@@alex.g7317 if you're too innocent to understand the joke, I'm not going to take that away from you.
Too bad such art is wasted on p2w crap