Quote Originally Posted by Semaphore View Post
Mononofu is pretty heavy on playing time, but it's been quite a while since spending money beyond the $5/month monthly pass made much of a difference. Most of the obvious whales haven't been competitive in PVP in a long time.
Mostly because it can't exactly be pure whaled, you still have to spend time on it albeit slightly less if you whale. And only very rare kinds of leviathans can actually afford to both 24/7 the game and spend 1000$+ monthly on it.

Add up to that fact the reason of game simply lacking any kind of meaningful content and overall low quality of like absolutely everything from art to gameplay to balance to timed events, you name anything and it's guaranteed to be a low quality copy of already low quality games wartune'sque(albeit much less relying on money to min max everything, I must admit that). And you can find a reason people are quitting it and the ones sticking to it are just those who love the competitive feeling it gives(just like those people still playing wartune after there are only like 1 guild worth of active players on the server remaining - makes only easier to feel that number 1 spot in rankings) and can afford to spend enough time on it to remain competitive... since it's another of those games where you don't ever catch up with others.. you either start near the very start or you are forever behind until the person who played longer decides to leave or dedicate less time. You might get incredibly lucky obviously, but I don't count that as a reliable solution.

But it's really not the best place to discuss mononofu, anyway.

I would certainly give crystal maidens a try if you want a more forgiving game in terms of need to spend time, unlocking scenes, less of a competitive game overall and instead a game that tests your actual skill - it's a really good test for reflexes/timing, just how a game is supposed to be. But if you just want to compete for numbers, certainly avoid it, since as it is right now, the multiplayer part is really lacking in the game and the arena won't be something as main goal in the game for certain.

The game won't be something you will spend your full day schedule on, that's why there is lack of discussion here - currently there is lack of content, since they plan to release all content they were working on for 2 month in official launch only and have enough events to keep going from for the launch for some time, so we only get to see a small part of what's to come. Same for the events - people have just nothing to do right now with no events, so most aren't even playing actively anymore with occasional login for bonus and maybe aiming to get an extra girl with daily login if you still don't have her.

And even when more stuff gets released, I would rather compare this game to Aigis - approximately the same kind of thing of logging in for 10-15 minutes is enough to beat the stages you need for at least next 10 hours if you want to. Just login, take rewards, play your energy bar and no need to worry about the timers.
Also same as aigis in the matter of game focusing on the single player, although arena and coop plays are in the plan according to devs.

The scenes are really beautiful and every girl feels this custom made feeling instead of heavy copy pasting and recoloring loads of other arts on nutaku give.
I wouldn't say the game is great, but it's certainly worth a try. Can easily play both this and aigis at the same time and still have a load of your free time IRL.