Morimens

I must commend the game director's commitment to equality, because his goal is to make every player feel equally miserable.

I absolutely love Morimens, and a few months ago I would undoubtedly give the game a positive review. Infact, if the general issues with the games are resolved I will swap my review to positive right away. However, a recent change in management has brought with it a myriad of problems. Instead of the specifics of every horrible patch, I will explain the general trend. In short, the game has been shifting away from openly communicating with and rewarding its community by introducing baffling decision after baffling decision that is causing the most extreme alienation of the player base to date. Historically, the developers have been open to feedback and open in discussing their plans. However, lately the communication has been abysmal, with blatant lies regarding viability of certain units/teams and abrupt changes to mechanics right after players have invested large amounts of resources just to learn all their money spent has been rendered essentially worthless in endgame content. Without delving into the mountain of issues that have been building up patch after patch, it is clear to everyone that the major problem is not just the changes themselves, but the way the developers announce a change, backtrack on the change within a day, THEN BACKTRACK ON THE BACKTRACKING! There is no transparency as to why health numbers are massively inflated by 10x what was promised, or why the new affinity rework is extremely time consuming and unrewarding, or why a known interaction in the game was nerfed after 1.5 years, specifically RIGHT after both the Unit and Wheel involved in the interaction ran FOR MULTIPLE WEEKS! Everyone understands that a game needs to make money to succeed, and that money must come from somewhere. The game already requires 15(!!) copies to max out a unit, but most content use to be clearable by a dedicated and creative player with the free resources provided (though this requires a lot of knowledge of the meta, since investing too much in the wrong units can brick your account, which is a whole nother issue...). Even still, people do not have an issue with all the ways the game tries to make money, and people understand there is a lot of content designed for whales. Even changes such as buffing +12 units is not something universally disliked. But at the end of the day, everything requires transparency. If you claim to listen to community feedback, why would you lie to their face about thoroughly testing the new changes to endgame content? They claimed to have tested poison and counter on the new mode, when the cap for poison and counter is less than 1/100th of the boss' health! There is still a lot of good! The game has been great for over 2 years and has built an amazing foundation that tests creativity in teambuilding and gameplay. However, everything that has occurred in the last few months have been a sign that new management does not care about openness, but instead just about squeezing every cent out of player's investment just to pivot with no warning to force everyone to once again open their wallet. I sincerely wish for nothing but the best from this game, but it is mindboggling just how many times the developers have shot themselves in the foot for no reason other than greed. I hope that the people involved in making these decisions listen to the community and reflect on why everyone is angry, and understand that this new business model cannot last.

I adore this game, the story and gameplay, but I cannot in good conscience get myself to spend any more money or invest hours of my time in the endgame anymore after the changes the developers have made, and the path they seem intent on going down. Reinventing a wheel that didn't need to be reinvented by making every new character have anti synergy with old ones due to the new realms, and retroactively harming nearly every character in the game because of these changes that a large portion of the community actively oppose. The Dtide changes likewise have made many characters people have invested in far less useful unless they have any sort of max hp% damage due to the hp inflation that the dev refuses to go back on. I really hope things look up soon, but I'm not very hopeful. I'd still reccomend the game for the story, but the only endgame content there is is no longer worth putting your time into, and getting attached to any old character will only end in misfortune, as they will retroactively get weaker when in the same team as newer units due to them changing the fundamental rules the characters were built around in the first place. The dev is casting aside the care of the global players to bring in features from the JP server that they believe match their vision better than what they initially did in global, in an attempt to mix two different game designs while harming anything that already existed beforehand. Listen to the music if you can, enjoy the story when you're able, but I cannot reccomend investing any degree of money or extended time with the new vision the developer has for this game.

I don't know where to begin.. Absolutely atrocious update in so many levels. 1. New D-Tide stat check and difficulty spike is so mindbogglingly stupid, I really have doubts the devs actually play and test the game. It's so bad that even the whales are infuriated with this update. This update practically killed build crafting and funneled the team comp to only select characters, not to mention the insanity of the dmg and HP bloat, like genuinely insane level of bloat. If this is your answer to "+12 AA will not affect future difficulties" then eat a bag of rocks, man. All those apologies and promises, for a small indie team the dev sure acts like a AAA one, in a bad way. 2. Corposant, or rather Horla's WoD interaction with Corposant "bugfix". Right, bugfix. So it's not technically a nerf but bugfix so you can't really compensate players anything like the game told you, so if this is the case then what should I expect for the future if you can just label this nerf as "bugfix" and call it a day. I'm just speaking about this ambiguity, not even talking about the absolute crap that is the nerf itself. This Corpo + Horla's WoD combo has been in the game for so long, I don't believe you only know about this.. "bug" recently. And the fact that this stuff came out AFTER her rerun is downright evil. 3. Affinity system grind becoming an absolute slog. Don't know what else to say. 4. Lastly, the way you guys are handling community's feedback, and keep promising stuff, only to deliver this absolute pathetic update before rolling back and conjuring an apology speech again, and again, and again is TIRING. It's becoming a pattern now, and truthfully I don't find any of the apology and promise genuine after the n-th times you guys did it. I always recommend Morimens for the fun build crafting and pretty interesting story, but as it is I don't think I even wanna go back to the game let alone recommending it to people. I'm out.

Endgame number bloat HSR can only dream of. When i come to play 'tactical' games, wrangling pure statcheck slop is literally the last thing i want to do.

The game went from f2p with a wide roster being able to clear the endgame to whales struggling to get all the endgame rewards even if they had a vertically invested roster. Previously, almost all characters were at least usable, now only a very, very slim choice of existing characters can be used in the very endgame, setting a precedence for new characters selling the slution to the difficulty spike. The developer is ignoring all feedback and is unavailable for comment on their offical discord. I loved the game, but all signs point towards insane power creep that makes old unitzs unable to clear, and I cannot recommend such a game.

The direction the developers have taken this game in regards to player retention and the endgame are laughable, even going so far as to send you hush money just so that their changes to the end game or lack thereof can be seen as "positive" when it isn't. If you must play this game, play it to experience the story if anything. I'm wiling to change my review if the game receives meaningful changes but.. I am not hopeful.

update: even with this "apology" they are not even being sincere. no meaningful changes, everything is just a PR talk and give "compensation" to shut people up. just like the last 5-6 times they've done in the past year. do not believe in them. they are not your friend, the so called "dev listened" are all lies. look at the amount of time i spend on this game and believe me, that this is THE WORST state of this game right now. they get sold out to a new publisher, that trying to squeezing the money from players as much as possible. rework end game mode, that gutted 90% of comps. with an absurd amount of HP inflation. 5-6 times more than before. (previously from 2-5 millions to 10-30 millions) with new character "Caraboo", they added a new "terrain" item into this game and only her can get an additional effects from it, where it change her single target attack to AOE, and deal damage 1 more time(double damage), and reduce action cost from 2 to 1. so expect newer character to get this kind of shilling too. this is really really close to be as shameless as ether veil from ZZZ. or token shilling in whimpering waste in wuwa. the game is already predatory more than any gacha games on the market as it is. making it already a very difficult game to recommend to anyone, now they making it worse. and with many lies and radio silence from developers since the new update, you should stay away from this game. JP server was a mistake. absolute axiom was a mistake. divine realm was a mistake.

Tragically mismanaged. Whatever few resources they had available for gameplay development were instead allocated towards enshittification...