Goddess of victory is what I'd describe as a gacha arcade shooter. It's like a shooting gallery where your beautifully designed Nikke companion are in cover fighting waves of enemies. The gameplay is pretty simplistic and easy only really requiring one hand to play.
The game auto fires while you aim, you can swap through a team of 5 Nikke during combat, and cast various unique abilities corresponding to those characters.
From a gameplay perspective id says it's easy enough and fun but what about the gacha?
As a free to play myself I feel it's not too bad. There are plenty of ways to pull for characters.
It is definitely a very slow and grindy experience compared to if you were to just whale a ton on the game but i personally don't mind the grind and have kept a pretty good rate of progression. I've seen a lot of people upset by the game being censored from what was originally shown/promised but I really don't think it takes away from the game. The Nikke are beautifully designed as they currently are. My main issues currently with the game is the recent update made the game extremely sluggish and laggy while navigating the various menus. Hopefully this will get addressed soon. The other issue is pricing of skins being quite expensive. This doesn't really affect me because I'm free to play but the pricing is pretty bad and definitely isn't worth it for those who wish to spend.
Edit: recent patch has improved the laggy menus.