Berserk B.I.T.S

It's... okay, I guess. This game tries to be like a cross between Mega Man Battle Network/Starforce, Pokémon, and Tamagotchi, but somehow manages to stop just short of being a decent idle game in and of itself. The gameplay is bland and uninteresting. You can't control your B.I.T. the same way you would a NetNavi, in that your B.I.T. moves and fights automatically (but you can use your chips manually), and the rewards are pitiful to say the least. It's especially frustrating when you're trying to get a resource material from a particular stage so that you can get your idlers up and running, only for the game to say "Best we can do is this" and not provide it. Still not sure why the dev team decided to do an Among Us collaboration... but I really wish there was a way to remove it entirely.

This game is not like Mega Man Battle Network, or like the indie game One Step from Eden, because while on the previews and even video it shows a sprite fighting in a grid to grid combat with "battle chips", you cannot directly control the character, which is why this game is not like the games previously mentioned, if I were to make a more direct comparison to what feels closer to how this game works, the game is a lot like Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge, where the Navi in those games operated on their own and you could only provide support through the use of battle chips, in that sense it also sort of reminds me of like Digimon World 1 for the PS1 or Digimon World Re:Digitize, where your mons in those games acted out on their own, and you could only help out your mon on the sidelines by tossing them items, and this game pretty much works like that. I've played the game for a few days and I can admit that there is a lot of possibility to have fun and enjoy yourself, because while its true that there is a lot of "grind", you can leave your Navi operating in auto so that it gets provided battle chips, even if the AI is not very smart or efficient when you handle it like that, but for lower difficulty levels you can just set the auto battle on repeat for about 20 times, so that your Navi can get resources from the level you tossed him in, and that will make it so that if you want to play other games or do other things, you can do so without having to worry much as by the time you go back to the game your Navi will have gathered materials for you, which is a sort of cool concept so that the grind doesn't feel as bad as other games especially how it was in the Battle Network games, however if you want to get the good battle chips and stuff, then you have to pay attention to when you get "alerts", which can happen every couple of minutes, so that you can complete "quests", and get rewarded with eggs that will spawn in the creature that will generate the battle chip that you obtained from those quests, and that is when the game might get tedious, since the alerts are completely random to the map that you are viewing on the UI, and while there is a button to refresh the rewards from the quests, it costs money to do the refresh and it does not always guarantee the reward that you're looking for, which can make collecting all the chips sort of painful. There is no balance in this game. You are literally given some of the best chips of the game right at the start of the game, and by end game you obtain some chips like the Among Us ones, that are so broken that once I obtained them, all the levels that I was having difficulties on essentially became cakewalk, and I see that as a massive problem, since it means that the game is essentially just a race to get to the OP chips, so that you can cheese the rest of the game with no problem. I really wish that there had been more balance to the chips as well as how enemy encounters worked, so that perhaps you would be forced to counter build to handle specific scenarios, and that the game actually let you save chip loadouts, as its annoying having to remove all the creatures in your "desktop" every time you want to switch up your "deck", and while there is a system similar to the other folder that all the Mega Man Battle Network games had, the problem with this game's is that there are upgrades to the "desktop" that directly influence the stats and effects of your Navi, and when you switch the desktop you essentially lose those upgrades, unless you move them over to the other desktop, which is a huge pain to do, so I essentially only work with 1 chip folder and only use the other desktops for healing or getting coins, which admittedly is a bit disappointing, as even if it would have been resource heavy, I would have not minded farming to get the upgrades to the other desktops, just so that you would not need to have to remove and add the upgrades between the desktops. I despise the fact that the game although being a single player experience thus far, has had some limited events like the "Bubble" event and the current "Beach" event, because it feels like the developer is trying to force people to play the game within specific time periods, which I think is completely against the idea of playing the game casually and letting your little Navi do the heavy lifting for you, since you would then feel pressured to do the events in order not to miss out on anything. The game also has a bunch of bugs and glitches, but despite them its still playable which is why I won't complain much about them, but I thought that I would need to at least mention that. The only thing that I can tell people is to try the game to see if it fits their fancy, since I invited non fans of these types of games to play it, and they were able to experience a good time, which is why I can still recommend the game even though it has some shortcomings, due to the potential it possesses.