I’m bummed that Tower of Fantasy didn’t take off. On paper, it’s precisely my form of recreation — an anime open world RPG that scratches the Genshin Influence itch however ditches the character-swapping in favor of a real MMO expertise.
Now don’t get me fallacious, Genshin Influence is attractive. It’s extremely polished and principally the gold customary in relation to these sorts of video games (alongside Wuthering Waves). However I’ve by no means been into the entire character-swapping mechanic. Controlling 4 completely different characters in a combat — every with their very own abilities and cooldowns — simply feels clunky to me. I’d reasonably keep on with one primary character and change weapons to maintain issues attention-grabbing.
In Tower of Fantasy, you get to create your personal customized character and keep on with them your complete time. You’ll be able to “cosplay” as Simulacra — these pre-designed heroes — nevertheless it’s only for seems. Your avatar remains to be you, and that sense of id issues. Plus, fight is all about swapping weapons, not characters, which I like higher.
There’s the MMO side too. Not like Genshin Influence, which is usually a single-player expertise with some non-compulsory co-op, Tower of Fantasy incorporates a shared world. You’ll be able to run into different gamers organically, take down world bosses collectively, or simply chat.
However issues simply didn’t work out. Tower of Fantasy peaked on Steam with round 7,164 concurrent gamers again on October 23, 2022. Nowadays, it’s hovering round 370 common gamers — and that’s down from 411 simply final month. Cell’s not trying significantly better both: Google Play reveals about 276,000 month-to-month energetic customers, which is a ten% drop from Might. And Steam opinions are caught at “Combined” general, with latest ones dipping to simply ~41% optimistic.
It looks like Hotta Studio has been bettering the sport and remains to be pushing updates, nevertheless it’s most likely too late. So I sit right here, persevering with to attend for Blue Protocol: Star Resonance — the anime MMORPG of my desires. (Not you, Crystal of Atlan.)
