Genuine discussion, is this game actually fun?

[CommonlySpecial]

Despite its p2w aspects like its gacha fundamentals, is this atleast a good decent fun game? I am downloading it rightnow as I make this discussion and theres so many talk about cute girls and gacha and allat that theres no talk about actual gameplay.. so is the game good in yalls opinion?

[Plaguelight]

Same, I'm curious about this, as well. Went to their website, saw no vids or shots of gameplay anywhere, so I'm curious if there's any at all, at this point.

[My Name Is Mud]

I've been playing it for around 4-5 hours. Its pretty fun.

The game has a bunch of story sections like a visual novel would. It has bedrooms where you can creep on your dolls and move the camera around and what not. The combat is like xcom with cover, skills, passive skills. Bunch of different weapons and stuff like that as well.

[Darkstar]

Honestly, if you play F2p, you won't really have any trouble chugging through the game.

On the CN client, iirc f2p playerbase would end up with most of the standard 5* dolls within a few months without issue

[AzkaRenata]

The gacha aspect doesn't really make these kind of P2W imo. Being F2P just mean that you have to save for characters you want and possibly make decision on who to skip.

The PvP aspect isn't really the core aspect of the game, and usually with event and stuff, the dev makes it so you can clear basic stuff and get rewards even with standard characters.

So, I don't think you have to be worried for being F2P. It's predecessor, GFL1 in particular is very F2P friendly, although it does have different gacha model.

Regarding the gameplay, it's said to be similar to Xcom. And the reason why people mostly talks about the characters is because, well, the characters are the main selling point in gacha game like this. Especially considering this is a sequel and lots of returning character from GFL1

[Funny Rat]

There's gameplay? I thought this was just a visual novel since you can autoplay everything from the first mission.
The girls are cute though

Hopefully it gets tougher later on to where just using autoplay isn't viable but a couple hours in there's really no reason for me to bother actually playing the stages when they can just play themselves quicker and there is no threat of losing either way.

[CommonlySpecial]

Originally posted by Funny Rat:

There's gameplay? I thought this was just a visual novel since you can autoplay everything from the first mission.
The girls are cute though

Hopefully it gets tougher later on to where just using autoplay isn't viable but a couple hours in there's really no reason for me to bother actually playing the stages when they can just play themselves quicker and there is no threat of losing either way.

Well its a trash visual novel if so lol I tried it and the way they execute the story is so bland scuffed and trash that the only thing I really don't skip is the actual cinematic scenes which I skip that too anyways most of the time

Maybe its just a me problem but it lowkey just looks like they only focused on the gameplay itself and everything else like the tutorial. ost, story etc. were half baked as fluff lol

[Darkz]

Originally posted by Funny Rat:

There's gameplay? I thought this was just a visual novel since you can autoplay everything from the first mission.
The girls are cute though

Hopefully it gets tougher later on to where just using autoplay isn't viable but a couple hours in there's really no reason for me to bother actually playing the stages when they can just play themselves quicker and there is no threat of losing either way.

According to the CN community, they actually got heavily trashed for the story missions being too hard. That why they made most of the story missions playable with Auto combat. They also got alot of flak from GFL1 where some of the mission objective was so obtuse or requirements of specific dolls to do certain bosses down the line. I'm sure some of the later events will be harder once the farming stages and what not are done.

Honestly, the story is usually the best part with Mica as in GFL1, it went from cute guns girls doing cute things to wtf is happening lol.

[CEO of Cunny]

I've only played for like 2 hours but so far I'm disappointed. It's way too easy to the point of being braindead. Aside from that there's only like one screen segment for combat so there's a pretty big limit on what exactly you can do in terms of fight designs. It feels like it'll end up being a stat check more than anything. I'm holding out hope it gets better, but I find myself just wanting to go back to ZZZ or even Snowbreak despite the censorship sorta killing my love of the game.

I'm not really into the story of GFL so maybe that's why I don't enjoy it as much, but the actual gameplay is pretty lacking atm. I'll let you know if it gets any better as a lot of gachas are too easy at the start, but so far I feel like it falls behind other gachas you can play atm.

Also there's no lolis despite them being in the first one. That alone lowers the points for me.

[Yuen]

If you have played a lot of gacha games, then probably yea. If you hardly touch them or have just dipped your toes into them, then that's situational. You might be too picky to play more and you just stick to a couple. (Not counting trying it for a week+ then leaving, I mean just outright not trying it out) Or you're just starting your adventure into gacha games and you want to try it out, but you haven't figured out what genres of gacha games you're into yet, so you just install just for the heck of it.

[John Wick's Pupperino, Daisy]

This game is like the modern xcom - so if you played something like that end enjoyed it, then you'll like GFL2's version. How is it different? The GFL1 team-building/synergy mechanics is implemented into GFL2's new gameplay. by now, i'm sure you can look up youtube videos that will have more detailed game loop overviews that would do better than me explaining it here. (if you want to read a guide that explains the clear differences between GFL2 and xcom.. check out: https://www.prydwen.gg/gfl-exilium/guides/combat-guide )

The story/VN is the the definite strongpoint of the GFL franchise in general and GFL2 in particular has some amazing cinematic cutscenes that will put other games to shame. the fact that this game is a gacha (like the previous one) can be an issue - so if that doesn't bother you (or you have the self-control to resist gacha FOMO), the story (and the characters/waifus in it) would be the thing that would determine if you keep playing for the long term. IMO, the amount of resources given through F2P in this game is very good compared to other companies - though i'm rather disappointed in the hoyoverse style of how they re-did their gacha.

Why GFL compared to other games of the gacha genre (and also to finally answer your direct question of if the game is actually fun)? I personally like it for the artstyle and lore of the characters. The game very military/conspiracy-ish plot-heavy and does have some emotional storylines that i feel is more interesting (and dark) compared to other gacha franchises. it's really tough to explain a personal love for the story because i'd just be watering it down. GFL2's current plot is based after everything in GFL1 - so if you want to see if it would interest you, i recommend searching for "girls' frontline story collection" on youtube.