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The anime has covered chapters 1-6 of the game. It's a bit rushed but season 1 covers chapters 1-3 and season 2 covers 4-6. Chapter 5 and 6 are well known in the community as where the story quality gets really good so the anime does a good job giving a consolidated focus on the story but if you want more in depth world building then reading the story in-game would be best. Always great to see people find Arknights, hope you keep enjoying the PV's and music! The game company Hypergryph is also jokingly called a music studio in the community because they make character songs for newly released characters and like 90% of them are amazing.
Oooo, then I guess I should aim for finishing at least chapter 5 during the first-time gameplay livestream if that's where the story quality gets really good! How exciting~ I definitely want more in-depth world building stuff, so I'll stick with the game and then watch the anime once I finally get through all the videos on Arknights official channel. hehe That'll take me some time! Honestly, I feel like so many game companies are just music studios in disguise. How are most of them sooooooo darn good at producing music?!? It's just... amazing to see!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna The funny thing is that 'Monster Siren' ended up becoming an actual records label, the main producer behind most of the music behind Arknights.
I can definitely see the love, even from these trailers! There's definitely a reason why AK has lots of fans~ :3 And it's because of that love, I feel!
One of the really unique things about AK is the stories take place on multiple different countries and have many languages and dialect. Apart from the CN, JP, EN, and KR dubs the devs have added Italian, German, Russian, and regional Chinese for some units to reflect where they are from. And you can individually set languages for units, so you can mix and match whenever if you get bored of a certain voice
@@Trailblazer_Ririnawell you see the Arknights Players/Dokutahs rlly like it when people discover the game and it’s musics and whenever something like this video comes out they tend to flock to them to introduce the game and it’s musics, some people out there comment to these videos, they are either big name Arknights UA-camrs or people that comment on these type of videos, and people usually have an aspect of Arknights that made them play the game(mine personally was the music), also can’t wait to welcome a potential new dokutah to the game
This video brings me back, where years ago I was blown up by those concept trailers with STARSET, while diverse faction trailers really picked my interest in the lore. And despite the age of those trailers and the fact that quality of recent ones surpasses them - I still like them. So thank you for letting me experience it again Fun fact - you are among the few ones that actually decided to start from the oldest videos, without specifically picking certain types of content (like, only animated trailers, or only music videos). As for questions.. you asked a lot of them, xD So I will to try to answer them in no particular order (though I may miss some of them) And yeah, WARNING that this may end up as a very long comment. - Yes, the main genre of gameplay is indeed a Tower Defense. But it has a quite of tricks and mechanics to it, and every new chapter or event only brings new ones, so it's rarely goes stale. - Events are fun! They "generally" more chill and less dark than a Main Story and bring more overall lore bits to enrich the *massive* worldbuilding this franchise possesses. They can be hard to clear for newbies, since they time limited at first launch, but eventually an absolute majority of them get added to the game permanently, with no time restrictions. - Difficulty of the game is subjective, but I personally would describe it as "reasonably challenging". The most important thing to beat a stage - is a player's personal skill and knowledge. And things like what units you actually have or their stats are matters only after that. - This brings us to gacha system and characters balance. Generally speaking, the game will never leave you without ability to clear content. Even the most basic characters are cool enough to beat most of the Main story just by themselves (but with mindful use of course), and you in any case will be having much more than just them. There are also multiple ways to get new characters aside of the gacha pulling itself. *But* if you really aim at only one specific high rarity character - then a long saving process or real money may be required to actually ensure you get them. But yet again, in general you can end up without interesting and powerful characters only if you outright refuse to use them for some reasons. By the way, all the chars that you have seen so far you can get even without engaging with gacha system, with just some luck on your side. - There are a lot of different parties/factions/countries involved in different matters and plot lines. Though we don't have much to choose as a players regarding story progression. Doctor is part and one of the key figures of Rhodes Island and, especially in the first chapters of the story, acts more like an observer. But that is not always the case and they also have moments to shine. - I found out that it is generally hard to pick up what exactly is going on just from the trailers, which lead us to: - Anime or the game. Arknights: Prelude to Dawn has directly covered few starting chapters of the Main story. And while it is good as an adaptation of the souce material, as a stand alone anime it is just "okay", unfortunately. I personally would suggest to go for the in-game story first, since you already showing interest. But it is just a mere suggestion. The rest missing questions (that I forgot) I'll honorably leave to others, so About the parts that I like about the game. Well, I was initially sold the moment I heard Starset in the first trailer, xD This was just mind blowing (and it is still is, honestly) for me. Songs from Starset are not the thing you can just buy and slap on mediocre cash grabbing app after all. It turned out that the creator of Arknights (the Lord, the meme, the Legend) "just" really liked them. And, funny enough, this mentality of "oh, I like this, I will try to ask them to collab with my game" has brought to us several very interesting collaborations. You will see later in other trailers. But even putting music aside, I'm the person who really respects mindfully crafted and deep Worldbuilding. And Arknights in this regard is just... wow. Every playable characters has their own backstory, place of birth on the world map, goals, motivation and connections to other characters with *their own* stories, backgrounds and etc. All of this together forms a huge net, where every new profile or mini-story you read will give some info about other characters, their countries, history events of the world or technical bits of how things works lore-wise (things like Arts, Originium, Catastophes, etc). At first, it is rather confusing. What, who, where, why. But as you read more, acquire more pieces. gather them together - you start to see not a story of characters with background settings throwed-in just to make sense. You start to see a whole living and breathing world. An Untitled World that feels Alive And that is fascinating
Oh, it's great that we can get a lot of characters without having to interact with the gacha system! That's a lot better than I expected~ I think I will play the game to a good extent before checking out the anime (maybe as a refresher instead). I'm still amazed that Starset songs are used since I always enjoyed their music (especially in AMVs)~ hehe The creator of Arknights has GREAT taste in music. :3 I love lore filled games, so I'M SO EXCITED TO PLAY THE GAME SOON!!!! AHHHHHH!!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna haha, glad to see it makes you excited I think throwing a few "bad" things about the game would make it more fair and objective, since nothing is perfect. Though the most "bad" thing I can think of is the fact that the game is time consuming and requires some focus to invest to, in order start things off. It's especially relevant to understanding the world and gameplay mechanics. In other words, Arknights has relatively slow start that you will need to get over to. I mean, it is may seem pretty obvious. Complex things require some time and effort to learn. And it varies from person to person of how much time and focus they can spare, but in case of Arknights I think that ultimately it is really worth it.
@@VCE4 When you say, invest to, do you mean building the characters? Or just gathering my knowledge about the world from the game? I personally like games that make me think and dig deeper into the world, or just even stories that are like that. Reminds me of the "Lord of the Mysteries" web novel in that case. It was slow in the beginning, but IT MAKES IT SOOOOOOOO DARN WORTH IT!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna well, I meant mostly later. Understanding the world. Though it also a case for understanding a gameplay mechanics, but it is a gradual process in any case. As for building characters - it is also true. In that field you would need to decide in what characters you want to invest resources first, since they (resources) come usually not as fast as we want. It is a gacha game after all. In short it is just about playing with at least slightest regard to resource management (aka not throw everything you have in only one niche unit) and to not sleep at your Base (which is a passive source of income that too many new players ignore for some reasons). Other things is just a matter of time
@@VCE4 Got it! Now, I understand more of what you mean! Just gotta be patient and take things as it goes, in that case. I might just stick with the lower rarity characters for sure, at least for getting through the game and building them. My collector's F2P side though... Probably a different story. XD hehe
The trailers are quite basic right now, but the quality gets really better the further you go. If you also want you can react to the musics they have right after the trailers & animated pvs. My personal suggestions are: - Spark For Dream - Eternal Flame - Thorns In You - Alive - Undertopia - Standchen
Ooooo, I think I'll do that! I'll probably find a playlist with all the music compiled since that's easier. But considering how many videos there are of the trailers and PVs, it might take me a bit of time when I think about it since after Part 2, I'll be playing the game, and then I planned on reacting to the rest of Arknights stuff gradually (not weekly). hehe It'll keep the excitement high for myself!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna the official arknights channel already has a playlist with all the music in it. Although, it's not really a playlist that contains ALL the music of arknights. Only the music for each characters
The game is very easy to get into at the beginning, and it gets progressively harder later on due specific mechanics that the story/events introduce. The good thing is every stage in the game can be completed without having to get the highest rarity units. There are plenty of people that promote the idea of niche-knights (using units of a specific archetype) or using lower rarity units because they can get the job done as well. Just need careful planning before the start each stage. The game has great art/ music/character lore/world building that make you feel like you have entered a massive rabbit hole once you learn about the world of arknights and the number of events that happened prior to where the main story is now, and how everything is tied together. Cant wait to see your reaction to some of the more upcoming events and story PVs since they hit pretty hard too, and the quality of each PV gets increasing better with each PV.
YIPPEE~!!! I can't wait to hop in and watch the rest! I'm very determined to watch ALL of the videos on the Arknights channel (although I know now that some have copyright issues, so those will be stored as Server Subs Only for those interested when I reach those in the future), but all in all, I just can't waitttttttt to see the rest.
Amiya is the main character when you don't count the self insert main character. Ursus: the country the equivalent to Russia. Mostly bear characters. Rhine Labs: a place of science in Columbia equivalent to....America i think? Wide variety of races. Penguin Logistics: A delivery company in Lungmen, The Hong Kong equivalent. (as a note all character names are what they chose as codenames, be it their real name or not.) Kjerag: Scandinavia, the Alps, and the Himalayas equivalent. Lungmen: Well i already told you :D And I have told you they are technically factions in discord however factions are more for the non country/city places. Like Blacksteel is a faction, while ursus is a country but the characters from it i call factions for in game. If that makes sense. I probably just confused you more and if so dont worry about this last few sentences XD. Yep gameplay can start easy and get much more complicated but once you learn things it gets easier cept for certain events. I think i already told you that part though lol. Reunion is a faction. Wont say more. You'll see later on, more and more jumps in quality. That def looked like a dragon to me. Outfits! The start of Dripknights! XD As a note AUS, DDD, and emperor are all in game music artists. In order AUS is a woman rock band, DDD is a DJ, and emperor is a rapping penguin. All published by both the in game and irl company Monster Siren Records. Events are fun some of the more challenging stuff is a pain though. Guys do exist however its like a 30/70 or 40/60 split with female characters in the lead. Outfits are indeed a big income with how generous the game is. Code of brawl, the penguin logistics event. Yea almost every event has at least 1-2 outfits. Contingency Contract is one of the challenging events i was talking about. But they always come out with banger music each time a new one comes out. Necessary Solutions and Partial Necrosis are both main story chapters. Wont spoil anything related to main story though. After you chose to stop watching trailers: Pity isn't bad I think its soft pity around 60 or 90 and climbs the 2% pull rate higher when you don't get a 6* However every 10 pulls you are guaranteed a 5*-6* so your first 10 wont just be 3 and 4*s. Limited banners are different however. There is the pity still but also a system called sparking which guarantees at 300. If you got the character from the limited you want there is always a pool of lower chance 6*s that were limited banners in the past, with the sparking you can grab one of those if you don't already have them. Rhodes is us and yes can use other factions if you get them. Allies yep. Story and music are amazing yep. You already decided what you'd like to do with the anime so ill leave you to it :). I look forward to seeing you try the game and enjoy it. There is 1 more starset song but Ill let you figure out where it is when you get to it :P Id love to see what playlist your using however! So i can see if anything is missing. Cya next time!
Oh dang, countries and factions... I'm definitely going to take a while to remember all this. 😂😂😂 I'm just amazed that Arknights has male characters that look so cool! I mean other gacha games do have cool male characters too, but OUTFITS FOR GUYS?!? Now, that's definitely new to me. haha Is it necessary to have a 5-6* character to win particularly challenging fights? Or can people stick to the 3-4* if they want to? I'm still debating on the anime thing. haha It's tough to make a decision on it. T^T I'll send you the playlist on Discord then!
lol yea there is a lot, youll see some really amazing ones later@@Trailblazer_Ririna Nope you can beat the entire game or most of it with 3*s and 4*s but you have to work your brain harder. still debating? Well up to you in the end i respect your choice! Oh yea AK also has a few mangas that are really good. Some of which havent been translated yet. Lastly there is also 2 mini animation series. Lees detective agency and Ceobes daily doodles (only 2 for that one so far. Both free to watch on youtube and dont relate to the main story at all.
Wait, they have mangas too?!? Well then, I know what I'll be streaming after. Is there a spot in the game that I need to be so that I can watch these mini anime and read the mangas? Or does it not matter?
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Arknights is totally free to play, 6 stars are totally unnecessary to clear the game, heck there are some people that clear the game without even leveling their operators up at all (though that does require 6 stars and the like). Plus when there's a new event, you can always get a free 5 star character when you manage to clear up to a certain stage in that event.
Events in Arknights are actually extremely fun. But you are going to delve deep into a rabbit hole. Very deep. Some are side stories focusing on some other characters, some are side stories focusing on the main characters, some are so important to the world building of Arknights that they have been put in a separate "Intermezzi" category even though they were released as side-stories. Each event comes with a new gameplay mechanic, new characters,new skins, a new story and some other things (besides rewards of course).
As an additional note: Almost all the skins in Arknights can be purchased with Originium Prime (basically the premium currency) which you can actually earn by clearing stages, and each new event/main story chapter brings more stages to earn Originium Prime. Some skins are given for free though, and there is 1 skin that was sold as part of a pack. It was an Arknights Anime Celebration pack, so it was an exclusive pack skin. There were some other collaboration KFC skins that we (the Global players) haven't received but the game wasn't released Globally (it was Chinese only) back then and I assume the devs weren't able to secure a deal with KFC to bring them to Global as well, but generally, we now receive everything the Chinese players do.
I just recently saw a guide for this game and I felt so overwhelmed just looking at it, mostly cuz of the events that are considered important! T^T WAIT, DID YOU JUST SAY THAT SKINS CAN BE OBTAINED WITHOUT PURCHASING WITH REAL MONEY?!? Woahhhhhhhh, dang, I really loved the outfits that they released, so this makes me soooooooo happy to hear!!!!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Generally yes, you can buy most of the skins with the currency from clearing stages and what not. + They give 5 premium currency whenever there is a big maintenance (6 hours +). To give you some prices: 15 OP skin - base animation changed + new outfit 18 OP skin - like 15 OP + all skills have a new animation 21 OP skin - like 18 OP + live2d artwork 24 OP skin - like 21 OP + all voicelines redone to fit the theme of the skin + new intro when you login if you set the operator as assistant For newer players it's a bit harder to buy "ALL" the skins for free, since they've missed on all the old origium prices from maintenances, some free daily login events that gave originium prime and if there were any other gifts. We also had some free skin vouchers when they released an "alter" (alters were once limited) if the character had a skin, but they don't do that anymore, since now alters are a lot more common. Anyway, it's probably too much information, and you shouldn't worry about it if you want to start playing. Arknights has passed the 300 characters mark at this point, and it is closing in to 400. As a free to play player that just started, it's impossible to get all skins for free.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Yup, Hypergraph hates money at this point, they will release rly quality trailers, CGI pvs and don't bait you with skins to earn money xD
While most of Arknights stuff is good to react to, those marked as Concept Trailers with music by Starset will bring you copyright claims. Because Starset and not the developer owns the music rights. "An Obscure Wanderer" trailer also tends to do so due some similarities in soundtrack (although it shouldn't).
Ohh, I see. I mean I did get copyright claims for all Starset stuff already, but they don't block the video. They just prevent you from monetizing it, which is okay to me. XD As long as it doesn't block, I'm happy! hehe
"How does one remember all of this?" Don't worry, it will come to you naturally lmao. There's 200+ characters in the game. If you decide to try the game, i hope you'll enjoy it :)
idk if you'll like the gameplay but here's the thing. every high rarity character in the game has their own song. and the genre they belong to are so varied. and if you try going through them at some point I'm pretty sure you'd find something you like in it
Most Arknights audio is copyright-safe, but I'm pretty sure Starset ones were purged from each and every reaction video I watched. Not sure how important it would be.
Oooo, interesting... I don't have monetization on for this video because I want people to enjoy the videos with me fully. But I suspect that others removed it from their videos because they want to monetize theirs. From what I can see, Starset doesn't allow monetization if you use their music, but they don't block videos from view. :D
@@al103 Ohhh, huh, how strange. Well, Starset did give a copyright notice for my video but it was just for not allowing me to monetize, so perhaps, the others thought that their video would be blocked and followed what others did, just in case. I suppose I'll have to wait and see. XD
@@Trailblazer_Ririna For whatever reason, the pv for the An Obscure Wanderer minievent copyright strikes people. Have no idea why, since it shouldn't. There are also a handful of music videos made in collaboration with DJ Okawari that strike, I think. But the majority of content is in the clear.
@@Razor4884 I'm so relieved that you told me about the PV one. Thankfully, I haven't reached that one yet in Part 2 video, so I'll be able to actively skip that PV when the time comes. T^T So DJ Okawari stuff are all in the music/EP videos then... Got it. I noted that down too! Thank you!
To give a quick rundown of the basic of basics in terms of the worldbuilding: Think of Originium as super coal, except that getting originium particles into you via ANY infection vector doesnt just give you black lung, but rather oripathy, which turns your whole body into originium crystals in a slow agonizing process that causes great pain, culminating in you exploding and releasing a ton of originium particles, becoming a secondary infection source. This is the ultimate fate of ALL infected thus far, no cure has been found, and current treatments only slow down the process and alleviate symptoms. But like coal, its pretty much the most powerful energy source, and people have been using it so long it has become a part of everyday life. Yet you cant have superspreader events everyday in every city, so the infected have become quite heavily discriminated against. Rhodes Island (based on the Isle of Rhodes, the home of the Knights Hospitaller in real life, not Rhode Island, the American state) is one of a small handful of organisations trying to develop a cure for oripathy, and create better conditions as a whole for the infected. But due to the world being the way it is, as well as spoiler reasons which i shall not delve into, it finds itself increasingly involved in international geopolitical struggles that range in scale between the struggles of a small rural village in Kazimierz (read: hypercapitalist Poland) against overzealous treasure hunters, to active wars between states, to interacting with godlike beings who live amongst humans.
I feel like I understand, but at the same time, I feel like I don't understand what you said. 😂 I suppose it'll take me a while to fully process the concepts and words in Arknights. So Rhodes Island (tripped me up so much when I tried to say the name myself lol) is an organization, while the area itself is called Isle of Rhodes... Got it! So they're basically like those grassroots organizations!
@Trailblazer_Ririna To clarify, due to originium also being a part of the weather cycle in Terra and creating frequent regional disasters (known as Catastrophes) which can also become vectors for infection, most nations have taken to building gigantic moving cities, also known as nomadic cities, so they can move out of the way of any Catastrophes. The Isle of Rhodes is (loosely) the real life inspiration for the organisation, and does not actually exist in the universe of the game. In the game, Rhodes Island is the name both of the organisation, and landship (like a smaller nomadic city, but it's still massive) that serves as their base of operations.
As a F2P player myself, i can say that you can have all characters do you want very easy, excluding the limited (why they make mumu limited 😢) but dont worry the duplicate dont impact very much, it helps but is not essencial, skins usually can be purchased by in game currency, a very good and deep story(some stories take it quite literally),events that can make you feel in space, others underwater. all kinds of genre of musics with very good ones, the gameplay in the start is slow but gets a lot better. Negative side(in my opinion). •Autofarm dosen't exist. •late game is time consuming. •Micromanagement in the base(for me is not that bad). If you plan to make a gameplay video of AK, problaby will be people that will "guide" you in what characters to take, but take what you want, your joy is the important part. Remember Doctors : Kill the ocean, pay respect to the pioneer in between the stars, and protecc the child operators.
Oooo, duplicates aren't necessary? That's a bonus to learn! It sucks that it doesn't have auto-farm, I assume for building characters? What do you mean by micromanagement in the base? Do you have to play mini games or something to collect stuff? Or is it just sending characters on missions to collect stuff for a certain period of time and then collecting when that time limit ends?
@@Trailblazer_Ririna 1- no, it helps but nothing to grand 2-not for building characters necessarly because events do this better than normal stages, but in the early game its a bit dependable to farm but in the late not so much, and yes you can farm currency to pull, but its tedious and time consuming to doing this lets say we have 120 of energy and the stage costs 6 yeah baby 20 times the same stage waiting 2 minutes(more or less) but calm down this is only late game like finish all story and the side events that sticks to grant you the holy ORIGINITE with this you can purchase skins (minus one of exusiai the angel with red air) or transform into rolls but skins its the cooler option, going back to the farming the currency to roll is cool but its a bit more complex only you play (i like the idea of farming gacha currency.) 3-in the base you will have to put characters that have diferent skills in diferent parts of the base (like a fallout shelter) Bonus: you can do a team only low rarity and one-two meta operators and you can pass ALL the story and side stories, but you will ne the guindance of our god and savior Kyo and other youtuber guide creators. Waiting for your gameplay, i will be there, if you have more questions we can answer, the AK community its pretty friendly not perfect but it is what it is. (Sorry english is not my primary language).
Interesting... I'm relieved that's only for late game. XD haha Thank you for explaining all of this. It helps me better visualize what the game will be like! I'm super excited to play it even more now, considering that I don't need super high level characters to pass all of the story and side stuff!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna You're welcome my fellow Dokutah, its good to know you are getting even more excited and one more thing to make it skyrocket, when you are in the late game(or have characters with good built) you can a mode called IS (integrated strategy) yes you can play as many you want, and get a LIMITED amount of FREE stuff like money e mats, and if you like roguelike you will definitely like this, to finish its only matter now you test for yourself the game and feel how truly it is, Remember kill the ocean, praise the pioneer between the stars and protecc the child opeartors, welcome to Rhodes Island
@@brwolfon167 Huh, I'm not sure if I like roguelike gameplay since I haven't played many games growing up (and even as an adult), so I guess I'll see once I reach it! :3
IMO the best ones are the teasersfor Nearl Light, il Siracusano and Stultiferas Navis events, all avaliable in the official channel. The Kazdel Team channel, a company/subdivision (?) responsible for Arknights animations also has some CN exclusive content (trailers and music), and it has the trailer for the Zwillingstürme Herbst event, another absolutely banger!
The Kazdel Team is just an account that reuploads official content for gacha games bruh they literally have different gacha game content + personal content (eg: ua-cam.com/video/cFPkxd9MAI8/v-deo.html), I never get why ppl think Kazdel Team is official
@@Trailblazer_Ririna content that Kazdel Team uploads are just official pv and music ep, so they will all be eventually released in the global account. The only cn-exclusive contents so far(I think) are fake ads from livestreams, a black steel pv from the 4th anniversary livestream(?), some gameplay demo for new modes, and collabs(shoe collab, cafe shops, etc) or behind-the-scene videos. Animated pvs are global exclusive so you won't be seeing them for cn content since the cn server is 6 months ahead.
I really recommended to read the game dialogue, the anime has weird pacing not gonna lie. There is a special animation released on Christmas 2020 called "Holy Knight Light," it has no spoiler in it and probably a way for the company to test the water before going into the anime series. _recommended_ subbing just in case part 2 are released xDD
Got it! I probably won't watch the anime until way later if anything. XD I still have a lot more Arknights videos that I need to get through first. There will be a Part 2 released next week Saturday! And then the VOD of the gameplay livestream the week after~ I'm planning on reacting to Arknights at least once every 2-3 weeks after that (since there are a lot of AK videos and I want to check out other games too). So you can expect more to be released on my channel! I'm just amazed at how many videos they have tbh. Soooooo many to get through! And the quality just gets better and better!
Oh, I heard good things about this game, but unfortunately I've never played... The thing I love about Arknights is definitely the characters designs. I'm so in love, it just so cool and has soo much personality
Really glad to see someone new discovering Arknights! This game has top tier music both in the game (rythm in literature and martyr my beloveds) and the character themes! My favorite part of game play is ghe rogue modes Caerula Harbor and the castle one! Both very enjoyable and a great way to practice strategy without risk! I definetly reccomend listening to the music as well as trying out the game!
The music really is great~ Even from these trailers! Are the rogue modes super difficult? Is it the "end game" of Arknights? I think someone said that it was, but I can't seem to find the comment that says it. :3 I'm definitely going to be releasing the gameplay VOD next week Friday! And hopefully, check out the music once I finish all of the trailers and PVs (regardless of how long this takes). Gotta see all of the beautiful outfits!!!
@Trailblazer_Ririna the music is one of the best parts imo! And thr Rouge modes are less endgame than the Contengency contracts which is where its super difficult. You can beat both versions of Integrated Strategies (the rouge modes) with 4 star characters iirc! One of my friends even beat IS3 with just two characters😊 It's more all about strategy than just stong unit win ect. Really reccomend watching some IS2/IS3 play throughs!
24:36 source of income? i don't know what's their source of income because i pretty much get everything in the game without spending a penny so i really respect whoever spend and whale in this game. it is kinda funny too when they complain if the game cuts them out when spending anymore money
Oh wow! I guess it’s extremely free to play friendly. Hehe I’m a bit happy about that (and thank all the whales and dolphins for their contributions in advance)~ :3
Most was already said, so I'll just resume a few (non-spoiler) things: - Yes, the game is basically a tower defence game with waifus and husbandos as "towers" - The difficulty starts very low and ramps up somewhat quickly. However, as was said, it is possible to clear MOST of the content with a full team of 4-stars and below. More recent content often requires a single 6-star as a "core unit", but since there's a borrow system where you can borrow someone else's units, you can simply borrow that 6-star if you don't have it and be good. - The world in the game is quite dark. Basically, everyone is an "animal-person", whether it's a real animal (wolf, cat, crocodile) or fictional characters (Onis, Dragons, etc.). There isn't a single "normal" human in that world (there are theories that the Doctor (us) is one, but it's just theories since we never see under the hood) - Originium is basically the center point of this game. It causes "catastrophies" (basically natural disasters like meteor showers or hurricanes), after which there will be Originium Crystals in the area where it happened. - Originium Crystals are used for basically everything in the world, from powering cities, to allowing people to use Arts (aka Magic), however it can also cause Oripathy, which is commonly known in the community as "Magical Rock Cancer", because that's what it is. If you're infected, your cells gradually turn into black crystal (when you see the black angular spots on people, that's what that is), until your body reaches critical mass, and you turn into a full on crystal, releasing originium particles around you, infecting anyone nearby. That is the main reason why 'The Infected' are hated, and treated like the plague. - The gacha system is very generous. Personally one of the better ones I've seen in recent games. There are also many in-game ways to earn its gacha currency, so if you are even slightly frugal, you get enough for many pulls when a new banner comes. - And as someone else said, with every new banner, they have a system where you are guaranteed to get a 5-star or higher rarity within your first 10 pulls. - That and the soft pity on the regular banners means you will eventually build up your team. (The "Limited" Banners have their own soft pity, and since those only last a limited time, it's more annoying to get)
Although I feel like I've read about the Originium from other comments, I think your explanation was the easiest to understand for some reason. Or maybe it just finally clicked in my head! Not sure. hehe But either way, it's really sad that the Infected are treated like that. T^T I'm gonna have to practice some good self-control for the gacha side of things! I can't wait to play today~
I actually had a Server Sub member send me information about that, so I signed up for the beta(?)! Hoping that I can get access to it, but maybe I won't. My luck is pretty bad, ngl. XD But I have no problems with chibi games since I play Reverse: 1999 a lot. And... honestly, chibi games are nice because I don't get motion sickness from them. :P
Outfits are not their main source of income, that would be limited operators! They never come back as featured ops, and are only obtainable through a special shop or getting (un)lucky on a different limited banner, so whales spend a lot to max limited operator potential! But this game is very f2p friendly! I'm almost fully f2p(just buy the monthly $5 supply) and I have tons of high rarity characters and have fully completed the story and most events
I'd also like to add the game is very generous with premium currency, giving you a lot weekly, and giving free pulls during major events and in event shops. Also, every time you complete a mission at 3 stars or 4 stars you get a currency that can either be converted into pulling currency or used to buy outfits
Where I do like characters and the story - the gameplay just wasnt for me. What i know from my friend is that the steps btween some chapters are hight so time intensive grinding is a must
Just to jump in here, most of the grinding will be playing stages you already completed on auto-mode, so it's not really difficult but rather time consuming (days or sometimes weeks to get enough materials to upgrade your characters) That's why lower rarity characters are very useful at the beginning and shouldn't be ignored, since they cost less to upgrade Anyways, really enjoyed your reaction, looking forward to more :)
Honestly feel you, I love the world and story of Arknights and the characters and have watched/read all i could because the gameplay is insufferable, for me at least, but then again that's mostly my impatience talking, the gameplay felt agonizingly slow when I tried to play and could only get to like chapter 4 or 5 before i gave up. Still love Arknights tho.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna No problem homes! I wish all the best this holiday season, and for the new year, I hope you continue to as content creator/youtuber.~
Also, this is not one of the questions you asked, so treat it more as pesonal opinion rather than suggestion: The game has multiple voice packs in different languages. The base and full one is Japanese, while the rest EN, CN, KR are partial. And, I don't know how well you with JP, since it is first video I watching from you, I still would suggest it over EN voices. Even though in general EN voice actors did a very good job, JP VAs (in my opinion) did a GODLIKE work across the board, and I still prefer using them. Though, the game allows to choose the language of the voice for *each and every unit you have specifically* So it is possible to just set JP as a base lane and then choose and mix voices however you personally like
Hmmmmmm, I can understand JP better than EN at this point (for listening), but I heard lots of good things about both the EN and JP. I guess for the first-time gameplay, I'll set EN as base lane and then have JP for the rest. And after that, for the casual streams (no VOD), I'll change it if I prefer JP a bit more. I'm just personally amazed that they let you choose the language of the voice for each unit. O_O It makes me wish more games would allow for that!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna well, it probably comes from the fact that other voices than original JP ones were not planned initially. It is the first game from Hypergryph (the devs) after all. Different voices were added gradually, in batches. So it makes sense to make voice settings more customizable when we have (at that time) like only 20 EN voiced units. And, add here a regional voices too. By that I mean, we have several "main" languages that characters speak (EN, JP, CN), but we also have a cases of unique voice batches of specific languages. For example, aside of the main ones, we have units with Italian, German and Russian voice actors, which we could choose to use for those specific characters.
Its always amazes me everyone always makes the same conclusion that being infected is what makes them animal people when its not even close. Infected means their get like super rock cancer and pretty much everyone is an animal person with the exception of the angel, demon and mystery race people.
So everyone is an animal person... Interesting! I couldn't really tell from the get-go if the game just focused on animal people (but had humans) or if there were no humans at all in that world in any case. That's probably why everyone (as you say), including myself, thought that being infected means becoming an animal person. They don't really explain much in the trailers and PVs so unless I play the game and/or it was explicitly stated to be like that somewhere and I just never saw it, I doubt I would have understood that just from these. Just a two cents as to why others might have thought the same as myself! :3
@@Trailblazer_Ririna ya theres no humans except theres one character who might be but spoilers why. It also doesnt help that one of the earlier characters in the game does look human because their snake tail is hard to notice so even starting the game people get the misconception.
Oh, I guess that might have been the unfortunate reason for my misunderstanding! I do wish they explained the Infected a little better in the trailers though. It's quite difficult to understand from the brief moment that they do talk about it. But I guess that's why it's important to play the game! hehe
@@Trailblazer_RirinaThere actually are a few normal humans, but they got Isekai’d over during the Rainbow Six Siege collaboration event, which is actually canon in the lore.
33:26 The Pity system of Arknights (from what I know) if you reach 50 pity without getting any 6 stars (the highest tier you can get in a character) the percentage of getting a 6 star increases to 2% and every pull you do, it doubles to 2% to 4% to 8% and so on so forth, until you get a 100% guaranteed to get a 6 star.
A small correction, after 50 pull, it adds. Not doubles. So, 50th pull - 2%, 51th pull - 4%, 52th - 6%. And it saves between "normal" banners But you are guaranteed to get 5 star in 10 pulls and one recent change is that if banner promotes only one character, you are guaranteed to get this character in 150 pulls. So getting decent units isn't really a problem but rather if you want someone specific.
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The anime has covered chapters 1-6 of the game. It's a bit rushed but season 1 covers chapters 1-3 and season 2 covers 4-6. Chapter 5 and 6 are well known in the community as where the story quality gets really good so the anime does a good job giving a consolidated focus on the story but if you want more in depth world building then reading the story in-game would be best. Always great to see people find Arknights, hope you keep enjoying the PV's and music! The game company Hypergryph is also jokingly called a music studio in the community because they make character songs for newly released characters and like 90% of them are amazing.
Oooo, then I guess I should aim for finishing at least chapter 5 during the first-time gameplay livestream if that's where the story quality gets really good! How exciting~ I definitely want more in-depth world building stuff, so I'll stick with the game and then watch the anime once I finally get through all the videos on Arknights official channel. hehe That'll take me some time! Honestly, I feel like so many game companies are just music studios in disguise. How are most of them sooooooo darn good at producing music?!? It's just... amazing to see!
Technically Season 1 covers chapter 0-3 but considering how small they are compared to later ones...
@@Trailblazer_Ririna The funny thing is that 'Monster Siren' ended up becoming an actual records label, the main producer behind most of the music behind Arknights.
Hope ya enjoy your stay, gameplay aside, the love poured into it shows from stuff produced like music, character design, etc. Its f2p friendly too
I can definitely see the love, even from these trailers! There's definitely a reason why AK has lots of fans~ :3 And it's because of that love, I feel!
U've summoned us! We are eating good guys😂
I didn't think I would see such a massive wave overnight. ^^;; Now, I get what people meant by hivemind. LOL
One of the really unique things about AK is the stories take place on multiple different countries and have many languages and dialect. Apart from the CN, JP, EN, and KR dubs the devs have added Italian, German, Russian, and regional Chinese for some units to reflect where they are from.
And you can individually set languages for units, so you can mix and match whenever if you get bored of a certain voice
I’m really amazed by this functionality. In some ways, I think that is what makes Arknights unique from the other games I’ve seen so far. :O
The Hivemind has been alerted
The Hivemind!!! 👀
@@Trailblazer_Ririnawell you see the Arknights Players/Dokutahs rlly like it when people discover the game and it’s musics and whenever something like this video comes out they tend to flock to them to introduce the game and it’s musics, some people out there comment to these videos, they are either big name Arknights UA-camrs or people that comment on these type of videos, and people usually have an aspect of Arknights that made them play the game(mine personally was the music), also can’t wait to welcome a potential new dokutah to the game
@@andrewtang4384 Ohhh, so that's what the hivemind means. Thanks for explaining! :3
This video brings me back, where years ago I was blown up by those concept trailers with STARSET, while diverse faction trailers really picked my interest in the lore. And despite the age of those trailers and the fact that quality of recent ones surpasses them - I still like them. So thank you for letting me experience it again
Fun fact - you are among the few ones that actually decided to start from the oldest videos, without specifically picking certain types of content (like, only animated trailers, or only music videos).
As for questions.. you asked a lot of them, xD
So I will to try to answer them in no particular order (though I may miss some of them)
And yeah, WARNING that this may end up as a very long comment.
- Yes, the main genre of gameplay is indeed a Tower Defense. But it has a quite of tricks and mechanics to it, and every new chapter or event only brings new ones, so it's rarely goes stale.
- Events are fun! They "generally" more chill and less dark than a Main Story and bring more overall lore bits to enrich the *massive* worldbuilding this franchise possesses.
They can be hard to clear for newbies, since they time limited at first launch, but eventually an absolute majority of them get added to the game permanently, with no time restrictions.
- Difficulty of the game is subjective, but I personally would describe it as "reasonably challenging". The most important thing to beat a stage - is a player's personal skill and knowledge. And things like what units you actually have or their stats are matters only after that.
- This brings us to gacha system and characters balance.
Generally speaking, the game will never leave you without ability to clear content.
Even the most basic characters are cool enough to beat most of the Main story just by themselves (but with mindful use of course), and you in any case will be having much more than just them.
There are also multiple ways to get new characters aside of the gacha pulling itself.
*But* if you really aim at only one specific high rarity character - then a long saving process or real money may be required to actually ensure you get them.
But yet again, in general you can end up without interesting and powerful characters only if you outright refuse to use them for some reasons.
By the way, all the chars that you have seen so far you can get even without engaging with gacha system, with just some luck on your side.
- There are a lot of different parties/factions/countries involved in different matters and plot lines. Though we don't have much to choose as a players regarding story progression.
Doctor is part and one of the key figures of Rhodes Island and, especially in the first chapters of the story, acts more like an observer. But that is not always the case and they also have moments to shine.
- I found out that it is generally hard to pick up what exactly is going on just from the trailers, which lead us to:
- Anime or the game.
Arknights: Prelude to Dawn has directly covered few starting chapters of the Main story. And while it is good as an adaptation of the souce material, as a stand alone anime it is just "okay", unfortunately.
I personally would suggest to go for the in-game story first, since you already showing interest. But it is just a mere suggestion.
The rest missing questions (that I forgot) I'll honorably leave to others, so
About the parts that I like about the game.
Well, I was initially sold the moment I heard Starset in the first trailer, xD
This was just mind blowing (and it is still is, honestly) for me. Songs from Starset are not the thing you can just buy and slap on mediocre cash grabbing app after all.
It turned out that the creator of Arknights (the Lord, the meme, the Legend) "just" really liked them. And, funny enough, this mentality of "oh, I like this, I will try to ask them to collab with my game" has brought to us several very interesting collaborations. You will see later in other trailers.
But even putting music aside, I'm the person who really respects mindfully crafted and deep Worldbuilding. And Arknights in this regard is just... wow.
Every playable characters has their own backstory, place of birth on the world map, goals, motivation and connections to other characters with *their own* stories, backgrounds and etc.
All of this together forms a huge net, where every new profile or mini-story you read will give some info about other characters, their countries, history events of the world or technical bits of how things works lore-wise (things like Arts, Originium, Catastophes, etc).
At first, it is rather confusing. What, who, where, why.
But as you read more, acquire more pieces. gather them together - you start to see not a story of characters with background settings throwed-in just to make sense.
You start to see a whole living and breathing world. An Untitled World that feels Alive
And that is fascinating
Oh, it's great that we can get a lot of characters without having to interact with the gacha system! That's a lot better than I expected~ I think I will play the game to a good extent before checking out the anime (maybe as a refresher instead). I'm still amazed that Starset songs are used since I always enjoyed their music (especially in AMVs)~ hehe The creator of Arknights has GREAT taste in music. :3 I love lore filled games, so I'M SO EXCITED TO PLAY THE GAME SOON!!!! AHHHHHH!!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna haha, glad to see it makes you excited
I think throwing a few "bad" things about the game would make it more fair and objective, since nothing is perfect.
Though the most "bad" thing I can think of is the fact that the game is time consuming and requires some focus to invest to, in order start things off.
It's especially relevant to understanding the world and gameplay mechanics.
In other words, Arknights has relatively slow start that you will need to get over to.
I mean, it is may seem pretty obvious. Complex things require some time and effort to learn.
And it varies from person to person of how much time and focus they can spare, but in case of Arknights I think that ultimately it is really worth it.
@@VCE4 When you say, invest to, do you mean building the characters? Or just gathering my knowledge about the world from the game? I personally like games that make me think and dig deeper into the world, or just even stories that are like that. Reminds me of the "Lord of the Mysteries" web novel in that case. It was slow in the beginning, but IT MAKES IT SOOOOOOOO DARN WORTH IT!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna well, I meant mostly later. Understanding the world.
Though it also a case for understanding a gameplay mechanics, but it is a gradual process in any case.
As for building characters - it is also true.
In that field you would need to decide in what characters you want to invest resources first, since they (resources) come usually not as fast as we want. It is a gacha game after all.
In short it is just about playing with at least slightest regard to resource management (aka not throw everything you have in only one niche unit) and to not sleep at your Base (which is a passive source of income that too many new players ignore for some reasons).
Other things is just a matter of time
@@VCE4 Got it! Now, I understand more of what you mean! Just gotta be patient and take things as it goes, in that case. I might just stick with the lower rarity characters for sure, at least for getting through the game and building them. My collector's F2P side though... Probably a different story. XD hehe
By the Will Of We Many, I summon Thee.
I Summon Thy Brethren
*I Summon Thy Hivemind*
*Thy Time Of Conversion Has Begun*
This sounds very ominous. 😂 but I love it haha
@@Trailblazer_Ririna One of us, one of us, one of us
@@Trailblazer_Ririna btw the quote "by the will of we many" is in the game *wink wink
@@zynczinc1443 👀 I'm gonna have to keep my eyes out for that. hehe
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Trust me, Arknights has one of the best story and best world building in gacha games universe.
Ohh nice you watch them from the begining
Have a good time checking them out
Thanks! I shall have a great time with that! hehe
The trailers are quite basic right now, but the quality gets really better the further you go. If you also want you can react to the musics they have right after the trailers & animated pvs.
My personal suggestions are:
- Spark For Dream
- Eternal Flame
- Thorns In You
- Alive
- Undertopia
- Standchen
Ooooo, I think I'll do that! I'll probably find a playlist with all the music compiled since that's easier. But considering how many videos there are of the trailers and PVs, it might take me a bit of time when I think about it since after Part 2, I'll be playing the game, and then I planned on reacting to the rest of Arknights stuff gradually (not weekly). hehe It'll keep the excitement high for myself!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna the official arknights channel already has a playlist with all the music in it. Although, it's not really a playlist that contains ALL the music of arknights. Only the music for each characters
@@theabyss45 I assume that listening to the character music is probably more preferential?
@@Trailblazer_Ririna absolutely! especially the newer ones, that have some amazing production value
@@gabrieloceano Understood! ^^ hehe I look forward to checking out the character music.
The game is very easy to get into at the beginning, and it gets progressively harder later on due specific mechanics that the story/events introduce. The good thing is every stage in the game can be completed without having to get the highest rarity units. There are plenty of people that promote the idea of niche-knights (using units of a specific archetype) or using lower rarity units because they can get the job done as well. Just need careful planning before the start each stage.
The game has great art/ music/character lore/world building that make you feel like you have entered a massive rabbit hole once you learn about the world of arknights and the number of events that happened prior to where the main story is now, and how everything is tied together.
Cant wait to see your reaction to some of the more upcoming events and story PVs since they hit pretty hard too, and the quality of each PV gets increasing better with each PV.
YIPPEE~!!! I can't wait to hop in and watch the rest! I'm very determined to watch ALL of the videos on the Arknights channel (although I know now that some have copyright issues, so those will be stored as Server Subs Only for those interested when I reach those in the future), but all in all, I just can't waitttttttt to see the rest.
Amiya is the main character when you don't count the self insert main character.
Ursus: the country the equivalent to Russia. Mostly bear characters.
Rhine Labs: a place of science in Columbia equivalent to....America i think? Wide variety of races.
Penguin Logistics: A delivery company in Lungmen, The Hong Kong equivalent. (as a note all character names are what they chose as codenames, be it their real name or not.)
Kjerag: Scandinavia, the Alps, and the Himalayas equivalent.
Lungmen: Well i already told you :D
And I have told you they are technically factions in discord however factions are more for the non country/city places. Like Blacksteel is a faction, while ursus is a country but the characters from it i call factions for in game. If that makes sense. I probably just confused you more and if so dont worry about this last few sentences XD.
Yep gameplay can start easy and get much more complicated but once you learn things it gets easier cept for certain events. I think i already told you that part though lol.
Reunion is a faction. Wont say more.
You'll see later on, more and more jumps in quality.
That def looked like a dragon to me.
Outfits! The start of Dripknights! XD
As a note AUS, DDD, and emperor are all in game music artists. In order AUS is a woman rock band, DDD is a DJ, and emperor is a rapping penguin. All published by both the in game and irl company Monster Siren Records.
Events are fun some of the more challenging stuff is a pain though.
Guys do exist however its like a 30/70 or 40/60 split with female characters in the lead.
Outfits are indeed a big income with how generous the game is.
Code of brawl, the penguin logistics event.
Yea almost every event has at least 1-2 outfits.
Contingency Contract is one of the challenging events i was talking about. But they always come out with banger music each time a new one comes out.
Necessary Solutions and Partial Necrosis are both main story chapters. Wont spoil anything related to main story though.
After you chose to stop watching trailers:
Pity isn't bad I think its soft pity around 60 or 90 and climbs the 2% pull rate higher when you don't get a 6*
However every 10 pulls you are guaranteed a 5*-6* so your first 10 wont just be 3 and 4*s.
Limited banners are different however. There is the pity still but also a system called sparking which guarantees at 300. If you got the character from the limited you want there is always a pool of lower chance 6*s that were limited banners in the past, with the sparking you can grab one of those if you don't already have them.
Rhodes is us and yes can use other factions if you get them. Allies yep.
Story and music are amazing yep.
You already decided what you'd like to do with the anime so ill leave you to it :).
I look forward to seeing you try the game and enjoy it.
There is 1 more starset song but Ill let you figure out where it is when you get to it :P
Id love to see what playlist your using however! So i can see if anything is missing.
Cya next time!
Oh dang, countries and factions... I'm definitely going to take a while to remember all this. 😂😂😂 I'm just amazed that Arknights has male characters that look so cool! I mean other gacha games do have cool male characters too, but OUTFITS FOR GUYS?!? Now, that's definitely new to me. haha
Is it necessary to have a 5-6* character to win particularly challenging fights? Or can people stick to the 3-4* if they want to? I'm still debating on the anime thing. haha It's tough to make a decision on it. T^T I'll send you the playlist on Discord then!
lol yea there is a lot, youll see some really amazing ones later@@Trailblazer_Ririna
Nope you can beat the entire game or most of it with 3*s and 4*s but you have to work your brain harder.
still debating? Well up to you in the end i respect your choice!
Oh yea AK also has a few mangas that are really good. Some of which havent been translated yet.
Lastly there is also 2 mini animation series. Lees detective agency and Ceobes daily doodles (only 2 for that one so far.
Both free to watch on youtube and dont relate to the main story at all.
Wait, they have mangas too?!? Well then, I know what I'll be streaming after. Is there a spot in the game that I need to be so that I can watch these mini anime and read the mangas? Or does it not matter?
@@Trailblazer_Ririna the mangas are all side stories so you dont need any prior knowledge. :) and 3 are translated and on AKs website.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Arknights is totally free to play, 6 stars are totally unnecessary to clear the game, heck there are some people that clear the game without even leveling their operators up at all (though that does require 6 stars and the like). Plus when there's a new event, you can always get a free 5 star character when you manage to clear up to a certain stage in that event.
Dokutah Rina, amazing reacting to AK faction and the ost is still amazing as i remembered it.😊❤
Hehe I love the factions~ I wanna play it already!
Events in Arknights are actually extremely fun. But you are going to delve deep into a rabbit hole. Very deep. Some are side stories focusing on some other characters, some are side stories focusing on the main characters, some are so important to the world building of Arknights that they have been put in a separate "Intermezzi" category even though they were released as side-stories. Each event comes with a new gameplay mechanic, new characters,new skins, a new story and some other things (besides rewards of course).
As an additional note: Almost all the skins in Arknights can be purchased with Originium Prime (basically the premium currency) which you can actually earn by clearing stages, and each new event/main story chapter brings more stages to earn Originium Prime. Some skins are given for free though, and there is 1 skin that was sold as part of a pack. It was an Arknights Anime Celebration pack, so it was an exclusive pack skin.
There were some other collaboration KFC skins that we (the Global players) haven't received but the game wasn't released Globally (it was Chinese only) back then and I assume the devs weren't able to secure a deal with KFC to bring them to Global as well, but generally, we now receive everything the Chinese players do.
I just recently saw a guide for this game and I felt so overwhelmed just looking at it, mostly cuz of the events that are considered important! T^T
WAIT, DID YOU JUST SAY THAT SKINS CAN BE OBTAINED WITHOUT PURCHASING WITH REAL MONEY?!? Woahhhhhhhh, dang, I really loved the outfits that they released, so this makes me soooooooo happy to hear!!!!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Generally yes, you can buy most of the skins with the currency from clearing stages and what not. + They give 5 premium currency whenever there is a big maintenance (6 hours +).
To give you some prices:
15 OP skin - base animation changed + new outfit
18 OP skin - like 15 OP + all skills have a new animation
21 OP skin - like 18 OP + live2d artwork
24 OP skin - like 21 OP + all voicelines redone to fit the theme of the skin + new intro when you login if you set the operator as assistant
For newer players it's a bit harder to buy "ALL" the skins for free, since they've missed on all the old origium prices from maintenances, some free daily login events that gave originium prime and if there were any other gifts. We also had some free skin vouchers when they released an "alter" (alters were once limited) if the character had a skin, but they don't do that anymore, since now alters are a lot more common. Anyway, it's probably too much information, and you shouldn't worry about it if you want to start playing.
Arknights has passed the 300 characters mark at this point, and it is closing in to 400. As a free to play player that just started, it's impossible to get all skins for free.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Yup, Hypergraph hates money at this point, they will release rly quality trailers, CGI pvs and don't bait you with skins to earn money xD
@@Sairento-kun Gosh, I can't wait to play tomorrow for the first time! Hoping that I can get some skins eventually and some cool characters. hehe
While most of Arknights stuff is good to react to, those marked as Concept Trailers with music by Starset will bring you copyright claims. Because Starset and not the developer owns the music rights. "An Obscure Wanderer" trailer also tends to do so due some similarities in soundtrack (although it shouldn't).
Ohh, I see. I mean I did get copyright claims for all Starset stuff already, but they don't block the video. They just prevent you from monetizing it, which is okay to me. XD As long as it doesn't block, I'm happy! hehe
"How does one remember all of this?"
Don't worry, it will come to you naturally lmao. There's 200+ characters in the game.
If you decide to try the game, i hope you'll enjoy it :)
...200+ CHARACTERS?!?!? Woah... I'm definitely going to try this game soon~ Can't wait for it actually!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna we already reached almost 280 characters in global server and in china server I believe its 300+ iirc
The hivemind has called me
idk if you'll like the gameplay but here's the thing. every high rarity character in the game has their own song. and the genre they belong to are so varied. and if you try going through them at some point I'm pretty sure you'd find something you like in it
I already think they have good taste in music for using Starset, so I'm sure I'll enjoy the music lots when I do reach that point~!
Most Arknights audio is copyright-safe, but I'm pretty sure Starset ones were purged from each and every reaction video I watched. Not sure how important it would be.
Oooo, interesting... I don't have monetization on for this video because I want people to enjoy the videos with me fully. But I suspect that others removed it from their videos because they want to monetize theirs. From what I can see, Starset doesn't allow monetization if you use their music, but they don't block videos from view. :D
@@Trailblazer_Ririna I think there were one that weren't monetized, but not 100% sure. I would be happy to be wrong.
@@al103 Ohhh, huh, how strange. Well, Starset did give a copyright notice for my video but it was just for not allowing me to monetize, so perhaps, the others thought that their video would be blocked and followed what others did, just in case. I suppose I'll have to wait and see. XD
@@Trailblazer_Ririna For whatever reason, the pv for the An Obscure Wanderer minievent copyright strikes people. Have no idea why, since it shouldn't. There are also a handful of music videos made in collaboration with DJ Okawari that strike, I think. But the majority of content is in the clear.
@@Razor4884 I'm so relieved that you told me about the PV one. Thankfully, I haven't reached that one yet in Part 2 video, so I'll be able to actively skip that PV when the time comes. T^T So DJ Okawari stuff are all in the music/EP videos then... Got it. I noted that down too! Thank you!
To give a quick rundown of the basic of basics in terms of the worldbuilding:
Think of Originium as super coal, except that getting originium particles into you via ANY infection vector doesnt just give you black lung, but rather oripathy, which turns your whole body into originium crystals in a slow agonizing process that causes great pain, culminating in you exploding and releasing a ton of originium particles, becoming a secondary infection source. This is the ultimate fate of ALL infected thus far, no cure has been found, and current treatments only slow down the process and alleviate symptoms.
But like coal, its pretty much the most powerful energy source, and people have been using it so long it has become a part of everyday life. Yet you cant have superspreader events everyday in every city, so the infected have become quite heavily discriminated against.
Rhodes Island (based on the Isle of Rhodes, the home of the Knights Hospitaller in real life, not Rhode Island, the American state) is one of a small handful of organisations trying to develop a cure for oripathy, and create better conditions as a whole for the infected. But due to the world being the way it is, as well as spoiler reasons which i shall not delve into, it finds itself increasingly involved in international geopolitical struggles that range in scale between the struggles of a small rural village in Kazimierz (read: hypercapitalist Poland) against overzealous treasure hunters, to active wars between states, to interacting with godlike beings who live amongst humans.
I feel like I understand, but at the same time, I feel like I don't understand what you said. 😂 I suppose it'll take me a while to fully process the concepts and words in Arknights. So Rhodes Island (tripped me up so much when I tried to say the name myself lol) is an organization, while the area itself is called Isle of Rhodes... Got it! So they're basically like those grassroots organizations!
@Trailblazer_Ririna To clarify, due to originium also being a part of the weather cycle in Terra and creating frequent regional disasters (known as Catastrophes) which can also become vectors for infection, most nations have taken to building gigantic moving cities, also known as nomadic cities, so they can move out of the way of any Catastrophes.
The Isle of Rhodes is (loosely) the real life inspiration for the organisation, and does not actually exist in the universe of the game. In the game, Rhodes Island is the name both of the organisation, and landship (like a smaller nomadic city, but it's still massive) that serves as their base of operations.
@@somethingeasy333 Weather cycle... Catastrophes... Yeah, I'm definitely gonna have my brain explode at this rate. XD hehe
Welcome, new doctor, to the world of terra and the times and history of Arknights
As a F2P player myself, i can say that you can have all characters do you want very easy, excluding the limited (why they make mumu limited 😢) but dont worry the duplicate dont impact very much, it helps but is not essencial, skins usually can be purchased by in game currency, a very good and deep story(some stories take it quite literally),events that can make you feel in space, others underwater. all kinds of genre of musics with very good ones, the gameplay in the start is slow but gets a lot better.
Negative side(in my opinion).
•Autofarm dosen't exist.
•late game is time consuming.
•Micromanagement in the base(for me is not that bad).
If you plan to make a gameplay video of AK, problaby will be people that will "guide" you in what characters to take, but take what you want, your joy is the important part.
Remember Doctors : Kill the ocean, pay respect to the pioneer in between the stars, and protecc the child operators.
Oooo, duplicates aren't necessary? That's a bonus to learn! It sucks that it doesn't have auto-farm, I assume for building characters? What do you mean by micromanagement in the base? Do you have to play mini games or something to collect stuff? Or is it just sending characters on missions to collect stuff for a certain period of time and then collecting when that time limit ends?
@@Trailblazer_Ririna
1- no, it helps but nothing to grand
2-not for building characters necessarly because events do this better than normal stages, but in the early game its a bit dependable to farm but in the late not so much, and yes you can farm currency to pull, but its tedious and time consuming to doing this lets say we have 120 of energy and the stage costs 6 yeah baby 20 times the same stage waiting 2 minutes(more or less) but calm down this is only late game like finish all story and the side events that sticks to grant you the holy ORIGINITE with this you can purchase skins (minus one of exusiai the angel with red air) or transform into rolls but skins its the cooler option, going back to the farming the currency to roll is cool but its a bit more complex only you play (i like the idea of farming gacha currency.)
3-in the base you will have to put characters that have diferent skills in diferent parts of the base (like a fallout shelter)
Bonus: you can do a team only low rarity and one-two meta operators and you can pass ALL the story and side stories, but you will ne the guindance of our god and savior Kyo and other youtuber guide creators. Waiting for your gameplay, i will be there, if you have more questions we can answer, the AK community its pretty friendly not perfect but it is what it is. (Sorry english is not my primary language).
Interesting... I'm relieved that's only for late game. XD haha
Thank you for explaining all of this. It helps me better visualize what the game will be like! I'm super excited to play it even more now, considering that I don't need super high level characters to pass all of the story and side stuff!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna You're welcome my fellow Dokutah, its good to know you are getting even more excited and one more thing to make it skyrocket, when you are in the late game(or have characters with good built) you can a mode called IS (integrated strategy) yes you can play as many you want, and get a LIMITED amount of FREE stuff like money e mats, and if you like roguelike you will definitely like this, to finish its only matter now you test for yourself the game and feel how truly it is, Remember kill the ocean, praise the pioneer between the stars and protecc the child opeartors, welcome to Rhodes Island
@@brwolfon167 Huh, I'm not sure if I like roguelike gameplay since I haven't played many games growing up (and even as an adult), so I guess I'll see once I reach it! :3
Welcome to arknights. If you will play this game be always read the tutorials and thanks for the reaction
Arknights worldbuilding is basically diet warhammer 40k. That why i love the game
AYE brother
Lore hath been alerted! Rise thy angels, and demonstrate thou conviction through superior firepower!
Hehe hope you enjoy watching!
IMO the best ones are the teasersfor Nearl Light, il Siracusano and Stultiferas Navis events, all avaliable in the official channel.
The Kazdel Team channel, a company/subdivision (?) responsible for Arknights animations also has some CN exclusive content (trailers and music), and it has the trailer for the Zwillingstürme Herbst event, another absolutely banger!
Ooo, CN exclusive! I should cover those eventually. Hopefully, I'll be able to remember. hehe ^^;;
The Kazdel Team is just an account that reuploads official content for gacha games bruh
they literally have different gacha game content + personal content (eg: ua-cam.com/video/cFPkxd9MAI8/v-deo.html), I never get why ppl think Kazdel Team is official
@@Trailblazer_Ririna content that Kazdel Team uploads are just official pv and music ep, so they will all be eventually released in the global account. The only cn-exclusive contents so far(I think) are fake ads from livestreams, a black steel pv from the 4th anniversary livestream(?), some gameplay demo for new modes, and collabs(shoe collab, cafe shops, etc) or behind-the-scene videos. Animated pvs are global exclusive so you won't be seeing them for cn content since the cn server is 6 months ahead.
@@sonarii7621 Got it! Thank you for the explanation. :3
I really recommended to read the game dialogue, the anime has weird pacing not gonna lie.
There is a special animation released on Christmas 2020 called "Holy Knight Light," it has no spoiler in it and probably a way for the company to test the water before going into the anime series. _recommended_
subbing just in case part 2 are released xDD
Got it! I probably won't watch the anime until way later if anything. XD I still have a lot more Arknights videos that I need to get through first. There will be a Part 2 released next week Saturday! And then the VOD of the gameplay livestream the week after~ I'm planning on reacting to Arknights at least once every 2-3 weeks after that (since there are a lot of AK videos and I want to check out other games too). So you can expect more to be released on my channel! I'm just amazed at how many videos they have tbh. Soooooo many to get through! And the quality just gets better and better!
Oh no… you have summoned the hive mind…
Hahahahahaha enjoy
Hehe thank you~ I shall enjoy it very much!
there is no right or wrong in Arknights, everything is extremely gray
Extremely gray is always the best~ :3
I... I never expected Ririna to check arknights, HUH.
Hehe It was on my list for a while! So glad that I finally got to it though. And it was a lot more than what I expected (in a very very good way)!
Oh, I heard good things about this game, but unfortunately I've never played...
The thing I love about Arknights is definitely the characters designs. I'm so in love, it just so cool and has soo much personality
100%! I too am in love with the character designs and especially the skins. How can they be thissss good??!?
I love the story, music, gameplay and all that
I'm still warming up to the gameplay, but I've fallen in love with the story, skins, and music for sure.
20:06 ooooh, it was so long ago
Really glad to see someone new discovering Arknights!
This game has top tier music both in the game (rythm in literature and martyr my beloveds) and the character themes! My favorite part of game play is ghe rogue modes Caerula Harbor and the castle one!
Both very enjoyable and a great way to practice strategy without risk!
I definetly reccomend listening to the music as well as trying out the game!
The music really is great~ Even from these trailers! Are the rogue modes super difficult? Is it the "end game" of Arknights? I think someone said that it was, but I can't seem to find the comment that says it. :3 I'm definitely going to be releasing the gameplay VOD next week Friday! And hopefully, check out the music once I finish all of the trailers and PVs (regardless of how long this takes). Gotta see all of the beautiful outfits!!!
@Trailblazer_Ririna the music is one of the best parts imo! And thr Rouge modes are less endgame than the Contengency contracts which is where its super difficult. You can beat both versions of Integrated Strategies (the rouge modes) with 4 star characters iirc!
One of my friends even beat IS3 with just two characters😊
It's more all about strategy than just stong unit win ect.
Really reccomend watching some IS2/IS3 play throughs!
32:11 Mayor of Siesta
24:36 source of income? i don't know what's their source of income because i pretty much get everything in the game without spending a penny
so i really respect whoever spend and whale in this game. it is kinda funny too when they complain if the game cuts them out when spending anymore money
Oh wow! I guess it’s extremely free to play friendly. Hehe I’m a bit happy about that (and thank all the whales and dolphins for their contributions in advance)~ :3
Outfits come every patch
I'm still amazed by that. And they're usually soooooooo freakin good too!
Most was already said, so I'll just resume a few (non-spoiler) things:
- Yes, the game is basically a tower defence game with waifus and husbandos as "towers"
- The difficulty starts very low and ramps up somewhat quickly. However, as was said, it is possible to clear MOST of the content with a full team of 4-stars and below. More recent content often requires a single 6-star as a "core unit", but since there's a borrow system where you can borrow someone else's units, you can simply borrow that 6-star if you don't have it and be good.
- The world in the game is quite dark. Basically, everyone is an "animal-person", whether it's a real animal (wolf, cat, crocodile) or fictional characters (Onis, Dragons, etc.). There isn't a single "normal" human in that world (there are theories that the Doctor (us) is one, but it's just theories since we never see under the hood)
- Originium is basically the center point of this game. It causes "catastrophies" (basically natural disasters like meteor showers or hurricanes), after which there will be Originium Crystals in the area where it happened.
- Originium Crystals are used for basically everything in the world, from powering cities, to allowing people to use Arts (aka Magic), however it can also cause Oripathy, which is commonly known in the community as "Magical Rock Cancer", because that's what it is. If you're infected, your cells gradually turn into black crystal (when you see the black angular spots on people, that's what that is), until your body reaches critical mass, and you turn into a full on crystal, releasing originium particles around you, infecting anyone nearby. That is the main reason why 'The Infected' are hated, and treated like the plague.
- The gacha system is very generous. Personally one of the better ones I've seen in recent games. There are also many in-game ways to earn its gacha currency, so if you are even slightly frugal, you get enough for many pulls when a new banner comes.
- And as someone else said, with every new banner, they have a system where you are guaranteed to get a 5-star or higher rarity within your first 10 pulls.
- That and the soft pity on the regular banners means you will eventually build up your team. (The "Limited" Banners have their own soft pity, and since those only last a limited time, it's more annoying to get)
Although I feel like I've read about the Originium from other comments, I think your explanation was the easiest to understand for some reason. Or maybe it just finally clicked in my head! Not sure. hehe But either way, it's really sad that the Infected are treated like that. T^T I'm gonna have to practice some good self-control for the gacha side of things! I can't wait to play today~
If you dont like chibi game you should keep an eye for Arknights Endfield. Maybe you will like it
I actually had a Server Sub member send me information about that, so I signed up for the beta(?)! Hoping that I can get access to it, but maybe I won't. My luck is pretty bad, ngl. XD But I have no problems with chibi games since I play Reverse: 1999 a lot. And... honestly, chibi games are nice because I don't get motion sickness from them. :P
If you do really want the full context of Enfield you probably need to Read Lonetrail since it the bridge that connects the 2 games
Outfits are not their main source of income, that would be limited operators! They never come back as featured ops, and are only obtainable through a special shop or getting (un)lucky on a different limited banner, so whales spend a lot to max limited operator potential! But this game is very f2p friendly! I'm almost fully f2p(just buy the monthly $5 supply) and I have tons of high rarity characters and have fully completed the story and most events
I'd also like to add the game is very generous with premium currency, giving you a lot weekly, and giving free pulls during major events and in event shops. Also, every time you complete a mission at 3 stars or 4 stars you get a currency that can either be converted into pulling currency or used to buy outfits
Limited Operators?!? Somehow, I'm glad that I left behind my dolphin collector self. XD haha
Yep! Ejyafjalla the hvit Aska from the event coming out today is limited.@@Trailblazer_Ririna
Where I do like characters and the story - the gameplay just wasnt for me.
What i know from my friend is that the steps btween some chapters are hight so time intensive grinding is a must
O_O Grinding is a must?!? That'll be tough but I may be able to do it.
Just to jump in here, most of the grinding will be playing stages you already completed on auto-mode,
so it's not really difficult but rather time consuming (days or sometimes weeks to get enough materials to upgrade your characters)
That's why lower rarity characters are very useful at the beginning and shouldn't be ignored, since they cost less to upgrade
Anyways, really enjoyed your reaction, looking forward to more :)
Honestly feel you, I love the world and story of Arknights and the characters and have watched/read all i could because the gameplay is insufferable, for me at least, but then again that's mostly my impatience talking, the gameplay felt agonizingly slow when I tried to play and could only get to like chapter 4 or 5 before i gave up.
Still love Arknights tho.
@@SunnySpringDay Hmmm, maybe, it'll be better to stick with lower rarity characters in the long run if it takes that long to build characters. XD
@@Haxler8 Is the agonizingly slow part mostly because the round is just long? Or do they just have too many rounds in between story chapters?
Arknights is very generous gacha
Gotta love generous gacha games~ :3
compared to regular gacha games, arknight story is as dark as it can get, they did not holdback in making the player weep
Good. I like dark stories in games. The darker it is (aka make me feel the angst and cry), the better it is. :3
How are you doing today? (Its me, Rurika)
Hey Rurika~ Been doing fine. :3 Just busy, I suppose. hehe I hope you've been doing great too!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna I'll continue to help you out because my tests are over now, so I'm looking forward to working with ya boss!
@@Shionfromyt Hehe thanks, Rurika! I actually don't need help with moderating comments for a while. :3 But I appreciate your support!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna No problem homes! I wish all the best this holiday season, and for the new year, I hope you continue to as content creator/youtuber.~
@@Shionfromyt You too!!! :D I'm glad to have met everyone, including you, through my channel and can't wait for the next year to arrive~
Also, this is not one of the questions you asked, so treat it more as pesonal opinion rather than suggestion:
The game has multiple voice packs in different languages. The base and full one is Japanese, while the rest EN, CN, KR are partial.
And, I don't know how well you with JP, since it is first video I watching from you, I still would suggest it over EN voices.
Even though in general EN voice actors did a very good job, JP VAs (in my opinion) did a GODLIKE work across the board, and I still prefer using them.
Though, the game allows to choose the language of the voice for *each and every unit you have specifically*
So it is possible to just set JP as a base lane and then choose and mix voices however you personally like
Hmmmmmm, I can understand JP better than EN at this point (for listening), but I heard lots of good things about both the EN and JP. I guess for the first-time gameplay, I'll set EN as base lane and then have JP for the rest. And after that, for the casual streams (no VOD), I'll change it if I prefer JP a bit more. I'm just personally amazed that they let you choose the language of the voice for each unit. O_O It makes me wish more games would allow for that!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna well, it probably comes from the fact that other voices than original JP ones were not planned initially. It is the first game from Hypergryph (the devs) after all.
Different voices were added gradually, in batches. So it makes sense to make voice settings more customizable when we have (at that time) like only 20 EN voiced units.
And, add here a regional voices too.
By that I mean, we have several "main" languages that characters speak (EN, JP, CN), but we also have a cases of unique voice batches of specific languages.
For example, aside of the main ones, we have units with Italian, German and Russian voice actors, which we could choose to use for those specific characters.
@@Trailblazer_Ririnathere are even few Italian voices for the characters from Siracusa - Arknights` Italy
@@VCE4 A small addition. German and Russian are not on Global yet.
@@pmintertek fair enough
Its always amazes me everyone always makes the same conclusion that being infected is what makes them animal people when its not even close. Infected means their get like super rock cancer and pretty much everyone is an animal person with the exception of the angel, demon and mystery race people.
So everyone is an animal person... Interesting! I couldn't really tell from the get-go if the game just focused on animal people (but had humans) or if there were no humans at all in that world in any case. That's probably why everyone (as you say), including myself, thought that being infected means becoming an animal person. They don't really explain much in the trailers and PVs so unless I play the game and/or it was explicitly stated to be like that somewhere and I just never saw it, I doubt I would have understood that just from these. Just a two cents as to why others might have thought the same as myself! :3
I love that this is the almost universal first assumption people make when Arknights discusses the Infected for the first time.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna ya theres no humans except theres one character who might be but spoilers why. It also doesnt help that one of the earlier characters in the game does look human because their snake tail is hard to notice so even starting the game people get the misconception.
Oh, I guess that might have been the unfortunate reason for my misunderstanding! I do wish they explained the Infected a little better in the trailers though. It's quite difficult to understand from the brief moment that they do talk about it. But I guess that's why it's important to play the game! hehe
@@Trailblazer_RirinaThere actually are a few normal humans, but they got Isekai’d over during the Rainbow Six Siege collaboration event, which is actually canon in the lore.
33:26 The Pity system of Arknights (from what I know) if you reach 50 pity without getting any 6 stars (the highest tier you can get in a character) the percentage of getting a 6 star increases to 2% and every pull you do, it doubles to 2% to 4% to 8% and so on so forth, until you get a 100% guaranteed to get a 6 star.
Ohhh, the pity system seems a bit difficult, but I guess I don't need to focus too much on it! :3
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Yup, you usually get a 6 star within 50 pulls (atleast on my end anyways)
@@Trailblazer_Ririna they also guarantee that you will get 5 star minimum at your first 10 pulls of the every banner
A small correction, after 50 pull, it adds. Not doubles. So, 50th pull - 2%, 51th pull - 4%, 52th - 6%. And it saves between "normal" banners
But you are guaranteed to get 5 star in 10 pulls and one recent change is that if banner promotes only one character, you are guaranteed to get this character in 150 pulls.
So getting decent units isn't really a problem but rather if you want someone specific.
@@pmintertek Thank you for the correction, I sometimes forget