Soul Tide has a few ideas going, but ultimately it's too mediocre to let any of those ideas shine.
Graphics: Kinda... bad, not in the art direction but in character designs, they're all over the place. You have mecha girl fighting next to a nun and an ordinary HS girl with a gun while being supported by an elf, some may call this "variety", I call this an unfocused trainwreck. I don't care about over-sexualization of characters, especially since this is a waifu collector, but it seems to be the ONLY focus for the art team.
Characters: Bland, they all fall into one trope or another and for a game with as few characters at launch as this game it raises a lot of questions why more care wasn't put into them. Even with the extra fluffs that are Dates, Memories of their past lives and Extra stories of their present lives they don't do much to make em actually likeable.
Gameplay: This I like. Grid-based dungeon crawling, not the most creative but it gets the job done, the puzzles are nice too, keeps my brain from falling asleep with how slow the character moves. The mugshot-only turn-based combat may turn a lot of people off, but it reminds me of Etrian Odyssey and that scores it a point. The battles themselves are also not bad, it's not just stats checks (at least not yet), you have to actually strategize and use each Doll's abilities well to emerge victorious, especially against foes that overpower you. Each Dolls also have 2 skill sets and the option to mix n match once we reach lvl 20, sounds good right? Well the devs f*cked it up for most units, unless a unit only have a single element, like all physical or all fire, the 2 skill sets won't interact with each other at all and guess what, most characters have 2 elements.
Writing: I usually don't criticise writings in a mobile game, but holy f*ck, the whole writing team needs a slap to the face, and by "the whole writing team" I mean the one intern who barely understands English yet tries to be "hip" by inserting every memes and poorly made jokes he can think of into dialogues. Except for the main story EVERYTHING ELSE is extremely poorly translated, even the Dates, which is a main selling point of this game, look like they were put through Google Translate 3 times then re-written by an AI. Devs, do yourself a favour and hire an editor.
Overall very unpolished, the game shouldn't have been released in its current state. A shame really, I liked the combat, but if a game could be carried by its combat alone we would have had a lot more GOTY.
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