A Sinfully Good Play-To-Win Gacha - Destiny Child Review

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I grew up in a Catholic environment, and it was only during my teenage years that I parted ways with that aspect of my upbringing and embraced the world outside my tightly-controlled, religious walls I felt akin to. It’s been quite some time, but even now I still can’t help but feel utterly shameful about playing gacha games with scantily-clad, busty women and jaw-droppingly inappropriate innuendo. One example of a title that nearly made me repent is Destiny Child. a gacha game with a diverse cast of ro-bust characters.

Destiny Child features real-time battles, tons of content across numerous storylines, events, and world bosses. With so many narratives crossing back and forth from the main storyline and between characters, Destiny Child seemingly never runs empty of ways to entertain as a gacha game.

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Destiny Child’s storyline comprises a significant portion of the gameplay experience because each character, chapter, event, and probably ninety percent of the content features some narrative element. If you’re not particularly hooked on story-rich gacha titles, you might have difficulty wrapping yourself around the forced dialogue after almost every chapter.

Don’t worry if you’re just skipping through the cutscenes, though. All you’ll really need to know to settle yourself into Destiny Child’s expansive universe of waifus is the main narrative. The game essentially takes the classic story trope of God against Lucifer and twists it. You play the weakest archfiend candidate, the young master, who supposedly will replace the current demon king as the fresh ruler in the pits of Hell once all other contesting candidates have been defeated.

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Like any other gacha, the goal is to build a suitable composition of recruitable characters (known here as Childs) for every battle. You can take all sorts of steps to make each Child stronger, including leveling, enhancing rarities, obtaining cosmetics, and more. After you start a battle, your characters will automatically attack, but you can pick the opportune moment to use the Tap, Slide, and Drive abilities, which will help deal more damage against the enemy. If you prefer a fully hands-off approach, the game also has convenient auto-play and triple-speed timer buttons, so you can grind hassle-free.

If you’re looking to play an easygoing gacha game, Destiny Child mostly doesn’t require worrying about specific stats or builds until end-game content. The game hands out helpful boosts to newcomers, leveling their characters to fifty and tossing out five-star Childs like it’s no big deal. That means that running into progression walls is rarely an issue in Destiny Child, as the game’s pretty generous.

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Now moving on to the main selling point of Destiny Child for some obsessed gacha players. As of July 2022, there are 544 collectible characters in the game, all unique in design and gameplay—though around seventy-five percent of them are women dressed in provocative clothing. The rest are ugly monsters or badass-looking warriors. Just a friendly warning, though, that you might want to play Destiny Child alone to avoid awkward situations.

As far as pricing goes, $20 affords ten summons in Destiny Child, which might seem a little pricey by gacha rolling standards. However, with all the freebies the game provides, you won’t necessarily need to pay for rolls to progress through the game. Unless you’re trying to collect all five hundred-plus characters, you shouldn’t run into any problems. And if you are trying to catch ‘em all, you should note that Destiny Child’s pity level feels a little high compared to other games in the genre, although it also uses a pity system that’s kind of its own weird thing, so the comparison may not work particularly well.

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Due in part to the bucketload of stuff you can do in Destiny Child, the game’s UI and menu display are probably its weakest element. The menus are too complicated for a beginner to navigate, and I found myself overwhelmed by the sheer volume of icons, numbers, and general things I didn’t understand. I genuinely wish Destiny Child would have eased me into the different features slowly instead of leaving me to figure the game out alone.

Beyond that one criticism, Destiny Child is by far one of the most successful play-to-win gachas, which is a major accomplishment in a genre where the norm is overmonetized, pay-to-win schemes designed to take players for all the money they can. Destiny Child is narrative-rich, content-filled, and if anything contains too many waifus to adore all at once. I can’t say that I’m the target audience when it comes to this game’s brand of, er, well-rounded fan service, but I cannot deny that it’s an impressive gacha game and an impressive free-to-play title in general. Sure, I’ll most likely be washing my eyes with soap and repenting for my sins for months to come, but for Destiny Child, I’d gladly say it’s all worth it in the end.

SCORE: 4 STAR OUT OF 5

PLAY IF YOU LIKE:

• Genshin Impact. If you enjoy Genshin Impact’s wonderfully designed characters, you’ll love Destiny Child’s seemingly endless ocean of waifus to collect.

• Dislyte. If you enjoy vertical gacha roleplaying gameplay and winding narrative of Dislyte, you’ll enjoy Destiny Child’s expansive storylines.

💬 Have you played Destiny Child? Let us know what you think of the game in the comments! If you’ve played a gacha game, what’s the very first one you tried out?

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