Pixel Squad: Warfare of Legends Overview

One Huge Query

I generally fear that I come down too exhausting on video games I don’t like, and Pixel Squad: Warfare of Legends will probably be a kind of instances. I admit that Zitga’s pixel-art gacha RPG has a sure allure. Nonetheless, I might by no means fairly discover a solution to the query, “Why am I taking part in this?”

Pixel Squad’s gameplay is easy to a fault. Gamers type a squad of heroes and face off in opposition to teams of enemies. They place their characters in a formation, begin the battle, and principally watch it play out by itself. Every hero has a novel means that gamers can activate manually or robotically. If you happen to play many gacha video games, you have got possible seen the same setup many instances.

Actually, you’ve most likely seen it completed higher, or not less than in a extra mechanically participating approach. Every character solely has one means along with their commonplace assault, and the sport doesn’t supply a lot else when it comes to mechanics. Comparable video games would possibly spice issues up by introducing modifiers primarily based in your occasion composition. Pixel Squad doesn’t. Some video games would possibly give characters particular skills that transfer them across the discipline or have them goal the again ranks of the enemy formation. Pixel Squad doesn’t.

It may appear unfair to evaluate Pixel Squad for not having all of the bells and whistles that different video games do. However these bells and whistles not less than try to make battles really feel distinct. Most fights in Pixel Squad really feel equivalent, and it will get previous quick. I discover myself pondering again to video games I preferred, resembling Determine Fantasy, Counterside, and AFK Journey. All of them are gacha video games with comparatively hands-off fight. But, they’d sufficient mechanical complexity to maintain fight thrilling battle after battle.

After all, these three video games additionally benefited from having a robust story and compelling character moments stringing their fights collectively. I haven’t performed Counterside in ages, however it nonetheless sticks with me due to its world and characters. The latter is especially necessary in a gacha sport since finishing your hero assortment is likely one of the principal attracts. In the meantime, the setting and story present much-needed context to the battles. At a minimal, the sport ought to inform its gamers who these persons are and what they’re combating about.

Pixel Squad doesn’t appear to care about any of that. Characters have names and little post-battle quips, and the sprites are actually cute. Nonetheless, Zitga doesn’t trouble giving them backstories, distinctive animations, or another issues gacha video games use to get you invested.

So Why Am I Enjoying This?

So, the fight is boring, there’s no visible spectacle, no actual story to talk of, and there’s barely an try at characterization. Due to this fact, let’s return to the large query hanging over the entire sport: why am I taking part in this sport? Extra importantly, why do you have to play it? I nonetheless don’t have an excellent reply, and I think there isn’t one. There are undoubtedly worse Android video games on the market, however lots of these will not less than go away extra of an impression than Pixel Squad: Warfare of Legends.