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Rise of Kingdoms, with an anime skin? | First Impressions - Grand Cross: Age of Titans
3K View2023-08-13Grand Cross: Age of Titans introduces an intriguing twist to the isekai formula by blending it with city-building MMORTS gameplay. The game starts off feeling like a RPG gacha game, with all the isekai, anime, and waifu elements you’d normally see in a RPG game, but in actuality it is a city-builder strategy game extremely similar to Rise of Kingdoms, with the option to venture out in the MMORTS-esque overworld map, explore, mine resources, attack monsters, and team-up or clash against other cities.
The city-building aspect of Grand Cross: Age of Titans is the main component of the gameplay. Buildings must be constructed and upgraded, and the waiting is in real-time. Structures will feature branching prerequisites with one another, ultimately leading to the Main Castle level which serves as the central component of the city-building mechanics.
Players are given plenty of resources and boosts to jumpstart and skip many waiting times of upgrades, although the tutorial is still a bit longwinded and can span hours of gameplay from the initial constructing of basic buildings, the introduction of hero collecting gacha and troop recruitment mechanics, as well as the eventual overworld exploration and guild-esque alliances.
Overall, the anime art-style is pleasing to the eyes, the story is actually refreshing but can be a bit overdone, and the game fully supports voice-overs in three languages: English, Japanese, and Korean. The streamlined mechanics and simplified resource management contribute to accessibility without sacrificing strategic depth, and the transition between battles, world exploration, and city building is seamless and enriches the overall experience. However, the potential impact on players who choose different paths—free-to-play versus boosting through in-app purchases—is worth considering.
The city-building aspect of Grand Cross: Age of Titans is the main component of the gameplay. Buildings must be constructed and upgraded, and the waiting is in real-time. Structures will feature branching prerequisites with one another, ultimately leading to the Main Castle level which serves as the central component of the city-building mechanics.
Players are given plenty of resources and boosts to jumpstart and skip many waiting times of upgrades, although the tutorial is still a bit longwinded and can span hours of gameplay from the initial constructing of basic buildings, the introduction of hero collecting gacha and troop recruitment mechanics, as well as the eventual overworld exploration and guild-esque alliances.
Overall, the anime art-style is pleasing to the eyes, the story is actually refreshing but can be a bit overdone, and the game fully supports voice-overs in three languages: English, Japanese, and Korean. The streamlined mechanics and simplified resource management contribute to accessibility without sacrificing strategic depth, and the transition between battles, world exploration, and city building is seamless and enriches the overall experience. However, the potential impact on players who choose different paths—free-to-play versus boosting through in-app purchases—is worth considering.
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MMORTS, Anime, Isekai, and Mechas | Full Review - Grand Cross: Age of Titans
Grand Cross: Age of Titans is a newly released video game that blends elements of anime-style aesthetics, storytelling, city-building strategy, and intense troop battles. It was globally released for iOS, Android, and PC last August 1. Developed by Netmarble, the same studio behind the renowned RPG game Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, even though they both Grand Cross in their names, the games are not connected storywise
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GRAND CROSS : Age of Titans - Quick Game Review
GRAND CROSS : Age of Titans is a new RTS simulation anime mobile game with great story content and huge kingdom to take care of. In the beginning of the game, the heavy load of anime style story content really impressed me and I felt like the Netmarble did it again this time too with massive graphics and quality story content. Looking at amazing waifus that could be summoned and with 11% drop rate for legendary heroes got me more excited for this game at first. But later I realized that the combat mode graphics actually did't look that impressive and the story content actually started to fade away. Honestly I felt like the gacha was rigged as I was not able to summon much legendary units with 11% chance and lots of multi summons I did.
Zennosh3K2023-08-12
Magic, Giant Mech and Micro transactions! - Grand Cross: Age of Titans Review
A world filled with Magic, and great characters
Today we are looking at a game called: Grand Cross Age of Titans!
Summary:
The next-generation strategy game - Grand Cross: Age of Titans! Savior! The world of Skyna is waiting for you to save you from the crisis.
My Experience:
Besides the usual story experience of getting transferred into a video game world ( aka Isekai ), Netmarble, in my honest opinion, has pretty much created a Clash of Clans Anime game that..isn't that impressive. Still, at the same time, I do like that you get a gigantic mech that reminded me alot of White Knight Chronicles.
IndieVoice2K2023-08-14
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