Cons:
#1: Royalty-free music. A quick Google search will tell you that each and every single character theme and sound effect in this game is royalty-free garbage, with the exception of Ultimate Weapon Girl, Pudding Pop, and Star Baker Breaker. In a nutshell, royalty-free music is basically music that you don’t have to pay royalties for so long as you pay a one-time fee to the creator of the music, hence why it’s called royalty-free music. Fun fact: Did you know Maynie’s theme is the only song that plays in a certain hentai game? There’s also a certain other hentai game that uses the themes of several characters, such as Sham and Sora (Military).
#2: The characters are all the same. I mean think about it. They all have different stats, but you’re gonna roll a 1 regardless. They all have different hypers that you’re never gonna draw, and even if you do draw them, you’re either gonna get countered by a card like Shield Counter, a card that is almost unstoppable by the way, or be robbed by a card like Gift Exchange or Scrambled Eve, the former of which you can bring 3 of. They all have different passive abilities that usually exist solely to balance the character, like Sherry’s passive and Islay’s passive, and then there’s Hoshino Reika, who is without a shadow of a doubt the worst character in the game, meanwhile Suguri (46 Billion Years) receives multiple buffs that she doesn’t need.
#3: Game mechanics that feel like they exist solely to prolong gameplay. Whether it’s the broken ass boss that replaces encounter panels once someone hits level 4, events like Random Warp and Home Roulette, or a hyper like Another Ultimate Weapon, this game bastardizes all the different games and their characters that make up this game in favor of making matches last much longer than they ever should.
#4: De-sync is very common due to potato servers and spaghetti code. According to Google, de-sync is a technical issue where the game state on a player's screen differs from the authoritative game state on the server. This results in said player having to leave and rejoin the lobby. It happens very often and it’s very annoying, and until recently the devs have done very little to fix this issue that has plagued the game for 10+ years.
#5: The game is 100% rigged and 0% fair. A few examples of this include:
Using the card Nice Jingle and rolling something low like a 1 or a 2.
Using a boost hyper like Solid Witch or Protagonist’s Privilege and not rolling high enough to reach anything.
Using either Dash or Overtime and rolling something you could’ve rolled with a single dice.
Having a high ATK stat in a battle and rolling a 1.
#6: Events are not fun to participate in and complete. Whether it’s gathering 20,000 chocolate, or earning dice from playing games to spend on moving your character along a board until they reach the end (and then probably having to traverse the entire board at least 2 or 3 more times to get all the rewards the event offers), event milestones are almost always too much and the rewards usually suck to be honest. Like nobody wants yet another dice or homestop skin that is a complete and total eyesore, or a plate background that’s just the artwork rewarded for completing the event but cropped in a very specific way so it’s just a single character.
#7: Co-op. Once you’ve defeated a boss, you’ve defeated them 100 times. Whether it’s Haruo the Big or M10 Robot, the only thing that changes with every match is some of their cards are swapped out for different ones. You start with each and every role at level 1, and the roles become stronger as you level them up, which means you’re basically a burden to your team until you have a role at level 10. As for the roles themselves, they are very boring. The only difference between each role is what stats go up when the team hits levels 2 and 4 respectively, in addition to a passive buff / ability or two. The recovery stat of each character is their REC + their ATK, which means Tomomo’s REC is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EIGHT because she has +2 attack and already has a recovery of 6. You build your deck with deck points, and the amount you receive is based on how good or bad the role is for the character, with A giving you the least to work with and E giving you the most, which encourages people to play roles that aren’t good for their character. Even with the extra deck points, it’s still very hard to make a decent deck because of how some cards are outright missing from this game mode, and others cost up to 5 points, and some cards have different effects from their normal mode counterpart, which results in players packing a bunch of free cards like Rainbow-Colored Circle and Party Time, and if you pick a role with a high tier like A, you pretty much have no choice but to do this. And it goes without saying, but the CPUs are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash in this game mode too. They’ll deal cards to players that don’t need or want them, or use Restore THE INSTANT someone is KO’d, regardless of the circumstances. This game mode is almost never updated, and whenever it is it only takes like 5 or 10 minutes to see everything the update has to offer. It blows my mind how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game mode is, how there is not a single redeemable quality about this game mode, and yet despite that there are people that play exclusively this game mode and nothing else. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mind-boggling.
#8: Bounty Hunt. This game mode is somehow as bad as Co-op. For starters, the “battles” are just you and the monster rolling the dice until either 10 rounds have passed or one of you is KO’d, not that it matters if you’re KO’d since you can just rematch the monster over and over again until you finally KO it, meaning that you can pick exclusively high bounty monsters like the Trollite and the Bunnizard and just keep throwing yourself at them until they’re eventually KO’d. Also the monsters are a snooze fest. They all have passive abilities that barely mean anything, like how Heliseed runs away after 3 turns of battle, even though you can just rematch it, and how Trollite has +4 ATK that goes down every turn of battle, even though you can just use Reverse Attribute Field and completely tank its attack stat. As for the fetch quests, you walk over a specific set piece, and then you visit any shop that has a white arrow over it to complete the quest. Depending on the board and the RNG with where the shop and the set piece spawn, this can be either really easy or really frustrating. As for characters, there is only one you need to know about. Her name is Sora. She can use her hyper Extraordinary Specs before going into a battle with a monster, and if you get lucky and score an EVD buff from leveling up, you will win against every monster with your hyper. Unlike other characters with a similar hyper, Extraordinary Specs has no room for failure. You will always reach your bounty, you will always defeat them, and you will always win the game. Then there’s the bosses, all three of which are lame. The Harbinger, who is basically just Star Breaker with +2 DEF, The Lost Rogue, who is basically Suguri (46 Billion Years) before she was buffed and with 12 HP, with two very underwhelming gimmicks, and Dark Chocolate Mousse, who is basically The Harbinger but with the stats of Marie Poppo. With a clearly defined meta that can’t be challenged, repetitive gameplay, no updates of any kind, long ass matches, and CPUs that blow all their stars on literally anything they can afford and battle other players for no reason, it’s no surprise this game mode is dead.
Conclusion: Never buy this game, regardless of price. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Don’t throw thousands of hours of your life into the void. If you’re gonna pour thousands of hours into a game, at least pick a game that is fun, makes you happy, and leaves you with a sense of fulfillment. This game does none of those things, and if it for some reason does for you, seek some kind of help, because you are a freak of nature.
