Infinite Nikki is the most recent game nikki series, but it's also the latest gacha game to take the gaming community by storm. With adorable outfits, a seemingly dark story, and plenty of content to explore, it's easy to get sucked into this adventure set in the fictional world of Miraland. It turns out that being a stylist and collecting various fashions is a super fun game mechanic, and beating other stylists in Stylist Challenges is quite satisfying.
Because it's a free and beautiful game, I became one of the millions of players who downloaded Infinite Nikki. I'm generally wary of gacha games and often hear mixed opinions about them, especially since it can be very easy for some players to invest money in these games and end up regretting it later. While I still don't prefer gacha as a genre in general, I've come to appreciate how the gacha system is implemented compared to other games I've tried, such as Honkai: Star Trail and Howling Waves.
Infinity Nikki makes you interested in fashion instead of friends
You won't miss the stories
Typically, gacha games have you attracting party memberswho fight alongside you with their diverse strengths. It can be fun to have a variety of characters to bring along on your journeys, and then these characters tend to have their own stories and quests that continue to build the game's world. Unfortunately, there are some drawbacks to this approach that Infinite Nikki can avoid. The way that Infinite Nikki this is simple. Instead of looking for characters to fight with you, you look for pieces of clothing that can form complete looks.
The way banners come in Infinite Nikki The job is similar to other gacha games where you're guaranteed a specific item level if you don't get one after a certain number of pulls, which is often called a pity system since the game is taking pity on your bad luck. . Of course, you can't just get part of a character in other gachas unless you get shards that can be used to unlock the character in a certain amount, but you can get parts of clothing that are useful in themselves in Infinite Nikki.
As you might expect, individual clothing and clothing items that you can pick up from banners in Infinite Nikki they don't have their own plot. Instead, the The only clothes you can say have a story would be the miracle clothes.which is his ultimate goal to create while in Miraland, as he has been entrusted with the Heart of Infinity. This setup results in less fear that you'll miss out on great characters, as there are always some that are overpowered, or that you won't be able to see content because you weren't able to pull a character.
The pieces are as useful as the complete looks
Less temptation to spend money
This might be my favorite part of the banner system in Infinite Nikki. While it's ideal to gather all the pieces needed to put together a complete banner outfit, you You don’t need all the equipment to receive benefits of the pieces you collect before the banners are changed – at least when it comes to limited banners. The pieces themselves also have stats that can help you in the stylist challenges, and the clothing pieces in banners tend to have pretty decent stats, which you need as you progress through the challenges, and they become more difficult.
The exception to this would be skill suits, some of which you can get through banners, such as Crystal Poems from the permanent banner being a purifying suit. If you want to use banner outfits to replace the standard ability outfits you earn from the game's main story missions, then you need the full outfit. This is a disadvantage, but technically you don't lose skills from this, as you get an outfit for each skill just by going through the story missions.
In addition to skill outfits, however, you can mix and match pieces from other outfits – or those that don't belong to outfits – to win Stylist Challenges or simply create a cute outfit to wear as you quest and explore the vast, welcoming world. from Miraland. Additionally, clothing isn't the only reward you can get from banners, as you can also earn makeup pieces through the Deep Echoes feature, which gives you an item when you pull a certain number of times from the same banner. This is also one of the few ways to get new skins for Momo.
Focus remains on Nikki and select allies
You are not impressed with the characters
When you have a game that uses a gacha system to give you new characters that you can use as party members, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of characters available in the game, like the cast grows quickly. This is especially the case if you pick up a gacha game a few months or years after its initial release, because the number of characters and areas has grown during that time, and you end up feeling like you're playing catch-up to get to the same point as others. players.
Instead, Nikki has a set number of allies, but they don't join her in combat due to the way combat is designed, so you can take on enemies alone. This means that each character has a role to play in the storyand this allows you to form emotional connections with them. As a result, I felt sad for the characters as I progressed through the main quests, and I was happy to see them grow and overcome the difficulties they face. It was unexpected, as the game first appeared as a cute fashion adventure, but I was pleasantly surprised.
I hope more gacha games take this style into consideration and that we see more of them on the market that make you seek out non-character rewards. Not only does this add variety, but you don't have to get as frustrated with the banners, especially since it seems like there's always a handful of characters you use for the best team, which leaves the rest of the characters you pull sitting around. around. Until then, I can't wait to see what's next Infinite Nikki.