Run! Goddess

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Yeah, I downloaded this game because I wanted to see hot anime women running around shooting monsters. What of it? I know who I am. (Although, I could have done without the characters who look and sound under-age.) I initially had fun with this game for the year+ that I had it. It’s possible to automate so much of the gameplay that it’s essentially an idle game, and you can end up spending most of your time doing side tasks to gather the resources you need to power up your squad of Valkyries, but I was okay with all of that. Power up the ladies as best you can, let them loose, and see how far they can go. The problems started when I found myself failing mission after mission even though I thought I was keeping up with resource-gathering pretty well. It got to a point where I was just beating my head against a wall, going nowhere, and very little seemed to help. It was becoming less and less fun. Also, the power levels didn’t seem to make sense. I’d defeat an opponent with 15M more power, but then immediately lose to an opponent with 15M less power. I could gain 14M more power in a single session, but it didn’t seem to make much difference at all. The same enemies I couldn’t defeat at the start I still couldn’t defeat at the end. It looked like I was making decent progress, watching the numbers go up, but finding that I was ultimately going nowhere was frustrating and discouraging. But, of course, I knew what the problem was. This game’s deepest flaw. This game may be free-to-play on the surface, but at its core it’s a pay-to-win game, and I was unwilling and (more importantly) unable to pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars to buy the resources I needed to get to the power level I was apparently supposed to be at to make any significant headway in my progress. I guess I’m just not allowed to enjoy the game as much as the whales do. (Another thing is that apparently this game is PVP as well, but I was only interested in the single-player content. So, I guess I just wasn’t playing the game right. How dare I play a game the way I want to play it?) The final straw was that, over the past week, there were four instances of me using the blue gems to buy some resources only to find the game took my gems and gave me nothing in return. So, now I was getting either glitched or cheated out of the resources I legitimately bought with in-game currency. Nope. To hell with this. I’m done. Uninstalled. And it’s a damned shame, too, because I really liked this game. What’s worse is that this isn’t even the first game that has done this. I never wrote a review for Galaxiga, but the same thing happened with that game, too. I think I’m developing a grudge against gacha and pay-to-win games. This problem could have been alleviated if there were a reward system for watching ads. I don’t know about anyone else, but I would have been willing to sit through a handful of ads if I got significant rewards (and the odds of getting rare/powerful items temporarily getting a massive boost) for watching them. I’d come back to this game if the devs added that, and I felt the rewards were good enough. But, as of now, I’m walking away because I don’t want to beat my head against a wall anymore. 3 stars for the game itself, but no more than that for all the ways pay-to-win and gacha mechanics ruin it.

Fun game but as I collect Valkyries I’m disappointed that none of them even have a tan. It’s also extremely uncomfortable that a few of them are based on children. I know it’s a thing in anime but it’s still uncomfortable

Don’t bother. There is nothing to do at high levels and everything is designed to make you spend money. It takes 100s and sometimes 1000s to max the girls out to make you a top player. Recent changes made it even more expensive to finish the weekly sprints for rewards.

Cringe AI waifu trash, painfully long and boring unskippable cutscenes, dumb dialogue you have to spam your phone screen to skip, and after a few levels it becomes a completely different game. Even while you’re playing the only style of mission you actually came here for, they’re so excruciatingly easy and boring that you can essentially play it as an idle game, which they clearly know because about 5 minutes in they have you sitting there watching cringe AI anime chicks idle running at zombies. 0/10, don’t waste your time.

TLDR: -No new or meaningful updates in over 3 months. -At least 1/2 of end game items that are shown have no way to obtain them. -“end game” Valkyrie’s will cost you almost 1,200$ to acquire, and not even worth it without upgrading them, which will run you… wait for it… ~42,000$ USD. -Current end game revolves around the tier down from the highest tier valkyries (yellow in color), which in the most recent update, had their ability to be acquired (aside from 3) locked behind a pay wall as well. Full review: Back when I started playing this game, there was nothing that you could not acquire with time. You could save the in game currency, which was plentiful, and achieve your goal. It used to be a pay to get ahead, now it’s a pay if you want to play. You used to be able to acquire the “end game” Valkyries through events (and I’m talking the yellow tier here not the red, as to date there is 1 person in the entire game who has upgraded a red tier Valkyrie to 3 stars out of 5). The most recent update removed the ability to even acquire “yellow” tier, forcing you spend almost 200$ to get their shards. Understand that if you’re a new player, no amount of time or build effort is going to allow you to achieve what other players have without opening your wallet. You’ve been effectively sealed out of the late game by a paywall that no one else had to deal with before you. Additionally, the devs hid their intentions of a server merge behind making the game feel more populated, when the real reason was to reduce their server costs. They fully intend on letting this game die and every day that a once free feature turns into a monetization point proves their intent. Which is to grab your attention for 3-4 months, trick you into spending, then never adding any sort of content for the late game (while making you now pay money to find that out) Understand that there is no one working on this game anymore. It’s a pay pig for the company that created it, and they just enjoy receiving $$$ from whales. You need not look any further than recent update notes, which are copy and pasted every “update” to see that. Not to mention their official page on Facebook is still posting summer hashtags… Trust me, don’t invest your money, or time into this game. As soon as the whales stop paying, it will cease to exist. And the whales are already leaving in troves.

No meaningful update in months. Supposed “bug fixes” but completely unnoticeable. All SP Valkyrie’s locked behind massive paywalls. Multiple “new Valkyries” added months ago and still have not even been made available for purchase, let alone gatcha pull. Like I said, dead game, abandoned by creators.

After a certain level they keep you stuck grinding to pressure you into spending money. Otherwise you can’t level up unless you leave your phone ON the game running in the background all night and day, to make ANY level increase. The greed of this game’s developers is disgusting.

The whole point of this game is to improve and increase your ranking in different leaderboards, but the developers will rug pull you. Any spots you gain can be undone whenever they want by sever transfers. They don’t tell you this and will do it without warning. Don’t waste your time or money on this game.

Entertaining game but the various purchase packs provide very little value. Ie Mysterious Pumpkin packs provide more tickets for rigged games of chance. Valkyrie-centric packs provide very few shards to make an impact on the game. Top Games customer service is often tardy and all lip service. No value given to loyalty, just hoping you’ll keep spending money with them. If I could give negative stars about my experience with this game developer I would. Take your time and money elsewhere.