Outstanding, with some flaws – Langrisser Review

I went through a cycle of hype, install, boredom, and uninstall with Epic Seven, Brown Dust, Azur Lane, Dragalia Lost, FGO, etc, before I discovered Langrisser. After nearly a month of play, I’ve grinded to level 42 and pulled 5 SSRs. The gameplay is rewarding, challenging, and demands more strategy than your average gacha; however, if you’re looking for a game that features primarily hands-off style of play, this is certainly not that. For a majority of the content, at least on first clears, you’ll be playing manually, which I consider a positive. Later content can get pretty hardcore and teamwork is often important. Although Langrisser doesn’t have the huge brandname recognition that Fire Emblem has, being a franchise lesser known outside of Japan, I’ve come to like a lot of the cast and found their side stories to be a lot of fun. The Christmas event and ongoing game dev event plots did a good job of making the characters shine. As a whole, the game is very F2P friendly. You can get a lot of the premium currency from completing stage specific challenges, arena, the bonding realm, and more. While grinding for levels on heroes, gear, etc can take a while, which performing your dailies speeds up significantly, just remember that this isn’t a game that you need to rush in. One thing I love about Langrisser is that even non-SSR characters can be viable and extremely powerful (e.g. Sonya, Chris, Vargas. What’s more is that you can unlock Cherie, a free SSR by completing an ongoing event). Just be smart with stamina and pull on focus banners (first SSR you pull is guaranteed to be unique), and you’ll get the most of out of a great game. A couple suggestions for the devs. I enjoy the social aspect of Langrisser but often find that features like the world chat are basically ghost towns. I believe that there used to be notifications for world chat, but they were removed at some point, so most people forget that world chat exists. I’d appreciate if you would consider reimplementing these notifications and make world chat more accessible in the future. On a separate note, dialogue and other text is sometimes very obviously machine translated or contains grammatical or punctuation errors. For example in the game dev event, Alfred’s talent is “temporary worker,” which I assume is meant to be an intern? Pretty minor but kind of takes away from the polish of the rest of the game. All in all, I’m really enjoying Langrisser and recommend you to give it a go. PS: for those saying that they have hit a wall before level 40, you should level and enchant your equipment to get extra bonuses and unlock tier 3 soldiers via hero promotion and the training grounds. A huge amount of power comes from good soldiers. Some content will be difficult at first, so come back later and you’ll be surprised how easily you can plow through it.
Review by OfficialReview. on Langrisser.