(This view may be outdated, prejudiced and unfair, don’t me.) I’m also not sure that I really need another gacha-based game in my life, considering I’ve been playing Fate/Grand Order for almost five years, plus Princess Connect Re:Dive for the past 18 months or so. I’ve never played Genshin - when it initially appeared I felt it looked too much like a cut-price gacha-saddled Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild clone for my liking. Both my daughter and son are avid Genshin Impact slaves, and told me that their social media had been overwhelmed by ads for this new game. I’d never heard of Tower of Fantasy until the day of its release. I’m pretty sure that’s not healthy, and soon I’ll be looking for a new gaming laptop. On the whole, the game plays fairly smoothly but at times of heavy load I note that it stutters a bit, and my poor graphics core has been reaching temperatures of 91 degrees celsius.
#Gacha life game over 1080p
My setup is an ageing core i5 ASUS Razer laptop with a mobile version of the GTX 1060 and only 8gb RAM, but a decent 500gb SSD and a standard 1080p display.
#Gacha life game over Pc
Quite how they managed to squeeze the mobile version down to 3.8gb I’ve no idea, the game on iOS looks more or less identical to its PC counterpart. The game requests a core i5 CPU, an NVIDIA GTX 1030 and 8gb RAM at minimum, but really wants a core i7 CPU, a GTX 1060 and 16gb RAM, plus 40gb HDD space. Isn’t it pretty? It’s so pretty, my laptop hates it. I’ve tried it on my iPad Air, but I hate the touchscreen controls so I guess my laptop must continue to melt. Available on PC, iOS and Android, it’s fully cross-play-capable, and from launch day I’ve been surgically attached to the PC version, via my poor, suffering, overheated laptop. Originally released to the Chinese videogaming market at the tail end of 2021, the game has now been localised for multiple international markets - it’s even been fully dubbed in English. Just over a week ago, a new MMORPG/gacha/malignant life-eating-force unleashed itself upon my unsuspecting body and mind - Chinese developer Hotta Studio’s (apparently) widely anticipated Tower of Fantasy. Sure, I’ve got a house, and a garden, and children, so there’s plenty of useful things I could be doing, but that all fades into the shadow of pink-haired robot anime girls.
It’s just as well I’m currently on holiday, broke, and at home with ample time to kill.