Dares to ask the ultimate question: what if SinoAlice didn't look and feel like a Facebook game from 2011?

No, for real, this is literally just SinoAlice but with a bigger budget and explicitly tied to the sigh Nier franchise. It actually has a good localization this time, along with a more engaging core narrative and better music, but it's still an auto-battling gacha game.

I feel like Yoko Taro has been phoning it in ever since Automata took off. These days, Drakenier fans seem more interested in lore dispensaries than actual stories, and that's exactly what they're getting here. I guess he's just supplying to meet demand at this point.

Reincarnation is certainly off to a better start than what I played of SinoAlice, but the humor and heart that made Yoko's console games stand out is barely present (if at all) in these mobile products. Both of them seem to boil down his writing to the grimdark tragedy porn he's often accused of with none of the fun dialogue, strong character development, or neat gameplay twists that elevated his past works into so much more. I'm going to try and see this one through to the end unless it gets too miserably grindy, but I can't say I like the direction these games seem to be going in.

EDIT: Just kidding this shit is so boring I dropped it midway through Chapter 3. Might return to it if they ever patch the loading to take less time than the "gameplay."