Honestly another incredible demonstration of how free-to-play gacha mechanics just become obviously ghoulish when stripped of the payment.
You can feel how much the only consideration this game gave to being funded by Apple Arcade was to delete the payment function, and that means instead you're left with a lot of waiting around, and a difficulty curve hell-bent on making you "spend" to upgrade your team.
Ultimately, it's yet another Trek game which considers combat the primary function of an away team, and is worse off for it. Despite minor considerations given to the idea of characters having different skills and specialities, it's really mostly combat by volume.
The combat itself is serviceable but not really fun - once you land a good character combo, like Bones and Riker, it's pretty much going to play out identically each round of combat.
You can feel how much the only consideration this game gave to being funded by Apple Arcade was to delete the payment function, and that means instead you're left with a lot of waiting around, and a difficulty curve hell-bent on making you "spend" to upgrade your team.
Ultimately, it's yet another Trek game which considers combat the primary function of an away team, and is worse off for it. Despite minor considerations given to the idea of characters having different skills and specialities, it's really mostly combat by volume.
The combat itself is serviceable but not really fun - once you land a good character combo, like Bones and Riker, it's pretty much going to play out identically each round of combat.