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Pirates, waifus, and idle gacha gameplay | First Impressions - Demian Saga

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Demian Saga is a brand new pirate-themed gacha game featuring real-time idle combat, RPG mechanics, and hot waifu characters to collect. Players control Aisha and his band of pirates in a swashbuckling odyssey of epic proportions. The story is actually interesting here and I love the fresh narrative take on the genre with the pirate-themed story.

The opening cinematic sets the tone for both the atmosphere and gameplay of the game, showcasing the amazing art style featuring the chibi-looking characters, pleasing visuals, and action packed gameplay. The pirate adventure story is told in small bits at a time, via Visual Novel-style dialogues (The characters are now non-chibi here), and has one of the more interesting stories I have played so far on recent gacha games.

The gameplay of Demian Saga mainly centers on advancing through the story chapters little by little, using the various heroes at your disposal, collecting and managing them throughout the entirety of the experience. These waifu heroes are mostly obtained through a gacha system — with varying levels of rarity — and they are upgradable as well. Nothing we haven’t seen before, and these mechanics are mostly standard issue as far as the genre goes.

Demian Saga features run-of-the-mill free-to-play live service elements: daily challenges, quests, login bonuses, and various in-game currency sinks all with the ultimate goal of leveling up the characters or getting better ones. The gacha system is kind of standard, spending diamonds and tickets to draw heroes, including a pity rate designed to guarantee a quality drop after 30 tries.

The battles are played out automatically, requiring no player input, except for optionally opting to manually activate skills and increasing the speed of the battles even more. Even though the game might seem boring without much player engagement, the presentation is visually appealing to the eyes, with the chibi characters battling them out in real time and spewing tons of special effects and abilities resulting in an action-packed display.

Outside the main campaign, there are also tons of other side activities that the players can do — free of charge — without exhausting the time currency. From the endless “Tower of Chaos” mechanic with increasingly difficult enemies and offers endless rewards, to the more rogue-lite game mode “Treasure Maps” element where you can collect map fragments to enter new areas to conquer. More game modes will unlock as you play, adding a lot of variety to the otherwise simplistic battle system.

Even in my initial few hours of Demian Saga, I can already feel that the game feels grindy, with the enemy strength spiking relatively quickly even in the first few missions. With the amount of resources needed to level up the characters and on top of it the time currency system, it’s definitely going to take time to progress in this game, even if you let it play by itself in idle mode. Still, it is an interesting game with a refreshing waifu-pirate-themed take on the gacha genre, so it has been a fun experience.

A pirate idle gacha game with a refreshing story and waifu heroes | Full Review - Demian Saga

Demian Saga is a pirate-themed gacha game with charming visuals and filled with lots of waifu characters to collect. 🟩Pros +A refreshing narrative take +Pleasing visuals and character design (waifu) +A variety of activities to participate in 🟥Cons -Highly limiting time currency -A bit grindy even early on Demian Saga is a brand new pirate-themed gacha game featuring real-time idle combat, RPG mechanics, and hot waifu characters to collect. Players control

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