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Grandblue has a wrapper around the website that downloads all? the assets. The amount of data to download is at 3.4 GB at the moment.
Granblue Fantasy (really fun RPG with soundtracks composed by Final Fantasy composers and artwork similar to FF Tactics; completely voiced over; has raids, coop, story quests): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite&hl=en
Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links (best card game on the play store imo): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.konami.duellinks&hl=en
Gloogle Play says that "This app is incompatible with all of your devices". I have a S7, Android last version, how is this possible?
Can I get the game some other way?
Thanks!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite
You can also play it on any browser if you want. Don't worry, the game is in English, but getting in might be a little tricky. Use this for guidance on how to make an account and such.
I use Walnootjes method, but I'll explain it a bit. This will require an android phone.
Enable APK loading in your phones settings.
Find an APK ripping site and get the newest rip of this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite
Install the APK
Run it
Log in your account.
Make sure you are logged in with your account.
Make purchase with google play.
Because the Yen is undervalued atm save some money on your transaction on google play. (Have payed under 2,950 yen the past week for the 3,000 mobacoin amount)
Note, you will want to look up a guide on what buttons to hit if you can't infer the moonrunes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite&hl=en&gl=US
here's the link to the app. It's initially in JP but can be switched to English. You have to switch your region to JP in order to download it
on google play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite&hl=en_US
On itunes, need japanese acc
most people play on browser though. It's just a lot more convenient.
I-It's a mobile game.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite
Hey! I proudly like gacha games and I still state that there's nothing wrong with enjoying that type of game. It's not the genre's fault that so many trashy companies over-exploit it!
Anyway, there are in fact many good ones and I'll list ya a few:
My absolute favorite: Granblue Fantasy
Oh gosh. I could go on about this one. This game is so amazing that I can not wrap my mind around the fact that it's FREE. It's that type of f2p game where you never really feel any consequence of playing as a free player. I am a bit paranoid that some day a bill is going to arrive to my address and charge me (a well-deserved!) fee that I agreed to in Japanese for playing this amazing game. Anyway, to avoid sounding like a broken record and being labeled 'slut4Granblue' (what am I talking about, that sounds amazing - flare pls!), I gush about Granblue here and here. I will add to that my experience with the recent Christmas and New Years events - I have never felt so showered with love and appreciation by a game as A FREE PLAYER than during Granblue's xmas and ny gift bonanza. They had a daily roulette that could land you anywhere between 10-100 free premium summons, during a legendary rate boost. Holy shit. Just think to any gacha game and how much enough currency for a 10 pull was worth and you'll realize how much they gave away to everybody on top of hundreds of other gifts in crystals, ultra rare upgrade materials etc. etc. They did this every single day for WEEKS. I am mind-blown and humbled by this game's generosity and appreciation for its players.
This game is available as: a browser game, a Chrome app and in the Play store (it's also on QooApp if it's not available in your country). Don't be daunted by all the Japanese - the moment you start the game you can choose English and it is FULLY translated and the translation is flawless.
My second-favorite: Crash Fever
Ultra fun, ultra-hype, ultra awesome soundtrack match-3+ puzzle game that will make you, personally, feel badass while matching blocks. People complain about the rates, but really they are no worse than in any other gacha out there other than joke games like Gacha galaxy or whatever it's called. As a mostly free player who just purchases a monthly package here and there to show support of the game - I have done fairly well for myself and I honestly don't see any differrence between my team and most whale teams. I cannot stress this enough: the music in this game is AMAZING.
Game I am really enjoying right now: Onmyoji
Oh my god, this game is flipping gorgeous. And I don't mean 'hurr-durr hot waifus' gorgeous, I mean - every aspect of its design is shoving pure, luxurious beauty into my eyeballs! I wish I had more time to play this game, I honestly do. As is, I can't really speak for how fair it is towards free players. It SEEMS okay, but I just haven't gotten into it enough to be able to tell. I feel it's worth checking out just for the beautiful design and honestly stellar writing and story. Some of the features that are familiar to most gacha players - especially SW players - are stylized in this game and that can be a bit intimidating. For example, when you clear stages you don't get stages, you enter a stage and get to walk around and challenge enemies - but underneath it's really just stage-clearing. There seems to be a lot of depth to the skills and the 'spirits' you use, but again - time constrainst don't really let me get into it as much as I want.
Game I loved once but don't know how it's doing nowadays: Monster Super League
It's like SW and pokemon had a baby and then SW had a baby with that baby and the baby won the genetic lottery and didn't come out totally screwed up but as a fairly decent game! I haven't picked this one up for a while - it used to be famous for its f2p friendliness, but they had started to nerf a bunch of cool stuff back when I was still playing in favor of promoting...ugh..."packages". Out of all the ones I listed this one is probably the most shallow - you'll end up doing most of your playing on auto mode. What kept it fresh for me back in the day were the constant events and gifts - gotta grind up that unique monster before the event passes and it's gone maybe forever! That sort of thing. It's not bad if you liked the sort of basic SW-ish gameplay but felt that you didn't get enough currency to fund energy purchases and continuous playing.
Game everyone praised but I found kind of meh: King's Raid
It's not a bad game, but it didn't give me anything that made me say 'wow, I gotta stay in for this'. There's a spike in difficulty around early mid-game, but I found it soul-crushingly boring until I reached that point. When I did, it was cool for a few fights, but then it became just as soul-crushingly monotone, except I had to time my skill-clicks now.
Game everyone is praising now, but I find kinda meh: FGO
I feel like I will catch flak for this so let me start by saying - I think this is also a good game. The story is really interesting and well-written, but sadly I don't have the background of being a fan of the anime, I am not much for waifus and I need a bit of variety to stay interested. My big problem with this game is - every single fight is the same. Every single one. The combat system is kind of unique compared to other stage clearing games, but once you get used to it, there isn't much to it beyond it's initial originality. I feel like my boredom with this game is 100% an issue on my side because once you take away the charm of being a fan of the anime and seeing your favorite characters in the game and collecting them and being stoked for hot anime waifus, you're left with not much to keep you there when so many other good games in this genre are vying for your precious free time.
That's the Chrome app, not the Google Play one.
It's on the google play store too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite&hl=ja
I decided to use some of my tiny free time (damn you work!) to give the new Marvel: Strike Force a spin WHILE playing the Detective Conan collab in Granblue Fantasy. I would die of shame if anyone saw me - one half of my PC screen is Granblue, the other half is youtube and on the table in front of me is my phone with M:SF. It's the multi-task of shame.
ANYWAY, I'll be dropping M:SF, although I'm a huge fan of the universe. The game is very p2w, that much is blatantly obvious even in the early stage. Heroes come in shards, upgrading them to next star costs shards, there's like seven stars to go and (I'm assuming) every next one costs more shards, can go up to 150. You can grind up a handful, but as you can imagine most of them come from purchases.
Another thing that's very odd is - this game does not have a VIP system unless it's so amazingly hidden I didn't see it, but it has a lot of VIP system mechanics, like the shard thing, the 'equip a billion equips in order to upgrade' thing, the 'rush mode for stages after you full star them' thing - it's very odd. Almost like they're planning to implement a VIP system in the future. If you like the game and you've decided to stick with it, I'd strongly suggest not to splurge on it until you see where this is going.
Edit: OH, also there's a weird THIRD hidden currency that's used just to purchase more energy. I'm not sure what the heck is up with that.
It's a shame too, because the game does have some interesting ideas like the split between heroes and villains and a separate villain campaign - I like that a lot.
linkme: MARVEL Strike Force
Also plug for Granblue because everyone should experience Granblue! :)
Android, you can try it out as a browser game in Chrome if you don't want to or can't commit to the huge Android download. Don't be daunted by the Japanese, you can choose English when starting the game and the translation is excellent. :)
As someone said either in those Reddit threads or in your youtube vid's comment section, they prolly know that we know the answer already. That or they are not just gonna simply come outright and say it. Many Japanese tends to be non-direct or non-confrontational. So I doubt we will ever get the answer since they have no US branch or spokesperson to say it for them. Besides, knowing what they said about Shadowverse, and seeing how those threads gotten almost the exact same response, their reasoning probably are going to be the same.
Although someone mentioned in that original censorship thread, that it might've been due to them partnering up with some company.... But I don't know how to verify that. If that's even true or beyond mere speculation.
Edit: Here is that speculation https://www.reddit.com/r/Granblue_en/comments/6qn6zd/thanks_a_lot_trump/dkyj55f/
There's a few more theories and speculations in that thread such as concerning the ESRB rating and whatnot, but I highly doubt it since this game is not found on the English app stores. One needs to use the QR codes to find this game or find it online and then dl-sync it to their phones (or play it on chrome). So I don't really think the ESRB don't really have much to do with it.
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/guranburufantaji/id852882903?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite&hl=ja
自分はやってないけどtwitterのフォロワー連中はこれやってる人多い
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite&hl=ja
This is the android link for GB, there's a web downloadable iirc
https://twinfinite.net/2019/02/granblue-fantasy-install-play-english-how/
instructions are here