Gumi’s greed is legendary status, but this is a good game – THE ALCHEMIST CODE Review

I could easily write a mini term paper on this game, but I’ll try to be (kind of) brief: Gumi is a notoriously greedy developer, and this game is no exception. The prices and *real* drop rates are ridiculous and fool nobody who has been around for a while. Things have gotten particularly bad again (the game’s meta quality tends to be cyclical, as far as f2p viability, new unit power creep, good deals, etc.) with step 1 pulls the equivalent of basically $30 worth of currency, and trust me, you ain’t getting a new unit on step 1. Their supposed counter to this is a single step, 80% off coupon roughly 1-2 a month, and the ability to daily quest grind out about 180-200 gems a day. So you can go ahead and do the math about how long it takes to finish a single 7 or 9 step banner. With all of that said, this is still possibility the deepest, most rewarding game on the entire App Store. Old units get actual refreshes and buffs (slowly but it does happen), something insanely rare in these games. There is a crazy buttload of content, especially when you’re first starting the game, with main stories, side stories and side side stories. Whatever time you invest will (usually) result in a gain somewhere along the lines. Just be forewarned: the difficulty/learning curve is immense. Each unit has on average 10-12 or more skills, with gear and mementos (like “battle cards” or special equipment or runes in other games, meant to give min/max and endgame players something to augment) adding more. You might not come off “auto” play for your first 80 account levels. But it’s expected, everyone goes through it, and it is satisfying once you start being able to manually control things. So, we have a 4.5/5 game with a 1.5/5 developer, but I’ll bump it up another star out of the fondness for the game you develop over time and the amount of depth that is there for you to geek out over. Wow, that wasn’t brief at all, was it? Go give it a shot!
Review by Roosh77 on THE ALCHEMIST CODE.