What Does a Truly Atrocious Gacha Game Look Like?

What does the lowest of the low look like? My gacha reviews always seem to be hovering around the 7 to 8 out of 10 mark, but what would a gacha game have to do to deserve a scrore nearing the lower half of the spectrum? Well, today, we're gonna take a look at One Punch Man: World, a game that released this year in February that currently doesn't have the best of futures.

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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:38 – Overview
6:39 – Monetization
11:08 – Cash shop
12:51 – Dev responsiveness
14:41 – Final thoughts

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v1.0

[Pseychie_NIKKE]

Hello everyone! Thanks for the feedback on this video. Looking at it again, I agree that the ratings scale for the reviews are a bit flawed, so I’ll explain my thought process at the time.

All reviews on the Atrocious gacha review series will likely never get anything below a 6, since if I tried to play a game like this one, I’ll likely just drop it and a review will never get made, since I don’t see a point of playing a game I don’t enjoy. Even if I forced myself to play it for a month, I would be just reviewing it out of spite.

For now, I can’t take back the video entirely, but I have trimmed the part where I mention the lowest rating would be a 5/10, and also edited the thumbnail to remove the numbers. The overall meaning of the video shouldn’t change, and this is just a one-off thing, but I will definitely reconsider the rating scale going forward

[TsukatsukiRio]

gacha rule of thumb: do not EVER spend money (even your time) on CrunchyRoll published games. never forget what they did to priconneEN

[DAHN]

If this game is 5/10, do 0/10 games just straight up kill you? lol

[asdion]

reminder that 5/10 is average
the game "functioning" is the bare minimum and does not warrant more than a 2/10

[phuhuhuhu]

I think you restricted yoursef too much with score for the game, you said that gacha games doesn't deserve score more, than 8/10, and now "bad" score for you is already 5/10, so scores of next reviewed games will be 5 (bad), 6-8 (good) not much use of the score system in general at this point.

[kazahana]

"I would never give below a 5 because no matter how atrocious it is, they still made a game here"
Then what is the point of using a 10 point rating scale?
"Hey I went to this restaurant and they served me rotten food that made me sick but I'll still give them a 5/10 because they technically still served me food."

[dylanalcarese]

You'd never give a score lower than a 5? Then what's the point of a 10 point scale? Do a 5 point scale instead then, because you're essentially saying a 5 is equal to a 1...

[juakored]

Dude you're way too generous with your ratings. 5 in theory should be "Average". You could give this game a 3 and that'd likely still be generous. The intro was likely the only good thing about the game whatsoever.

[DigitalStarry]

Tbh 5/10 for an “atrocious” gacha feels generous. Yes they made a game, but you might well make it a 1-5 scoring system instead of a 1-10 where have the score numbers dont exist.

Personally I think there are good IP based gacha games out there (Tales of the Rays on the Japanese server is one and had a very healthy 7.5 years of life). But as you said, most of them are not great and are red flags since they just coast on the IP.

[Yugira]

Im sorry but your rating makes no sense. It is generaly assumed that a 5/10 rating, means that the thing that youre rating is average and not that the thing simply exists (in this case, claming that they get a 5/10 because the game simply exists and was made).
This is the equivalent of me having to do an exam, writing my name and a bunch of answers that make no sense and the teacher still passing me, because I went through the process of actually making the exam...

If the thing youre reviewing is lackluster, bad, or underwhelming, then that thing should receive a lackluster, bad, or underhwhelming score, that matches it, and not a score that makes it seem like the product is average or acceptable in general

[byeguyssry]

I can understand not wanting to put any game below, maybe a 3/10? But having 5/10 be an "atrocious" game is, frankly, an atrocious system. Personally, I feel like a 5/10 would be something like, "Fun to play, but doesn't do anything particularly well or unique. You'd be better off playing other similar games instead", rather than having, like, 2 positive comments the entire video.

Also, surely the 6/10 isn't HI3, right? I mean... he chose some pretty early game clips from it in his previous vid so I'd guess prolly not. But that was what I first thought of since I was looking forward to his review of it (since if he's telling himself to play it for 30 days, he will eventually get past the subpar new player experience!) and 6/10 would seem pretty surprising if it's closer to the absolute worst gacha games than the average one.

[kyotheman]

5/10 isn't atrocious its average mate, might want change that review 2 or 3/10 then it makes sense

[Rodri]

I think you should have been harsh with the game. There may be a game in it, but it doesn't take away how much of a cash grab it is. I think a 3/10 would be better

[CLxJames]

Almost any gacha game that is created using an existing popular IP tends to be trash. They are usually just poorly made cash grabs

The devs want to put in just enough effort to get people to download, spend a little money, then cash out and leave it to die

[sageyuuto]

The usual price for an SSR selector in gacha games is $25 for a standard banner character or $50 for a limited one, $99 for a standard banner selector is just a ripoff

[KB]

Pseychie I’ve absolutely been enjoying this series and I’m super glad to have found your channel! Everything has been informative, well researched, and it’s nice to see gameplay of these gacha games that I personally would not otherwise play myself, but I enjoy learning about and seeing the different designs, unique gameplay, game mechanics, and art. But I have to agree with some of these comments that you might want to edit your rating system a bit. Having ranges within it that will never exist makes things confusing.. Like others said a 5/10 universally everyone will think is average and this game is.. definitely not average. I understand the system and all but you might want to tweak your rating system it a bit so your opinion is better understood visually as well :) Probably by either making the range smaller (others have suggested 5/5 instead), or just including the 1-4 by expanding the point distribution in your current system. The last thing any predatory, money-grubbing gacha games needs is undue praise (that and your money) Also the philosophy behind a gacha game never getting a perfect score tho I think is fine; It keeps things in perspective that these games only really want your money even if some of them do it better than others.

Anyway, I’m very excited for the next video! I’m always glad to see a notification from your channel 😄

[BeeVyr]

Oh so thats where this game went 😭

OPM cant win on games huh

[Outmod]

I swear i remember hearing about this game for around a month, until i heard nothing about it lmao.

[Zone-frrd]

Please review Another Eden! Love the game, truly high-quality albeit it does have numerous flaws, gacha included, so I'm curious how it'll do on your series. 💚

[michaelantonius]

Maybe this is my hot take, but you're really limiting yourself for the rating system if your overall range is from 5 to 8 for gacha games. It is a flawed system that rewards sloppy games because as much damage the game can inflict, the lowest score they can get is 5 which is "mediocre" on 10 points rating system.