This is probably one of the worst expansions I've ever played.
The story, which is generous to say there even is one, is just a bunch of disjointed, cobbled together cutscenes, linking events which have nothing to do with each other, while you just grind and fight ""new"" online missions, which are just bosses from the main game with their HP and Damage pumped so high until you've managed to spend like 10 hours building a character with all the new stuff, you will feel powerless against it.
The "Difficulty" is just number go up mindless slop, oh wow you did 30 million damage with that combo? That was a nice... 5% of the bosses HP, and that's just mid-expansion, end game expansion we were doing 70-100 million... and it was still only like 5% of the bosses HP.
You have to stack defence skills to even survive the damage, if you don't your 200k HP pool won't mean ♥♥♥♥ and you'll just get 1 shot regardless.
Also most of the attacks don't put you into an invincibility frame damage mode, so you can just be stuck in the corner being pummelled by the thing shooting a consistent laser beam above you bouncing between it and the AoE's you were focused on dodging below, as area wide blasts come from all sides.
USUALLY these are telegraphed well, except for 1 fight, where they aren't telegraphed at all and that one is stupid.
This did not feel good, this just felt pointless, at a certain point the number just doesn't mean anything.
You can clearly tell this expansion to a multiplayer action RPG was designed by devs who only know gacha mobile slop.
There are a total of, like, 5 new boss fights, 1 which is brought up right at the start as "THE MECHA-GOD HAS ARRIVED EVERYONE PANIC" and then you beat it and it is only brought up once after that, at the very end, as if it was meant to be important. Out of all the new boss fights, 2 of them are reskinned dragons. They are decently fun I guess. The Beelzebub boss fight is good, I enjoyed that one. Beat it first try but it was fun and tested me on the game.
But the rest is just "is your number high enough?"
Also most the characters designs are awful, the artstyle is great, but the designs just... don't match the characters.
"Everyone points me out in a crowd and notices me as different, calls me pretty, and makes advances on me, i HATE it so much I made a deal with The Devil to destory the world." and she is dressed to have less clothes than a stripper in summer. But that's just granblue, bad female character designs with a pretty artstyle.
Now, how someone dresses shouldn't be an excuse for that behaviour, but if you have that behaviour done to you and you hate it so much you make a deal with The Devil, you will also probably wear clothes to cover yourself up so people wouldn't notice you.
What a character wears should tell you as much about as a character as the words they say. And 60% of the characters here don't tell me anything. And the 30% is just "we are knight guys, we wear armour" and the last 10% is "We are buff men we don't wear armour"
Anyway, I beat it all, over a week, it was boring and frustrating till I managed to grind up to the point where damage done and taken was normal and then it was *fine*, until the next grind began.
I was hoping for a story expansion, not just a grindfest...
