Infinity Nikki Makes Me Appreciate Its Gacha Approach

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is the most recent game in the series, but it's also the latest gacha game to take the gaming community by storm. With adorable outfits, a deceptively dark story, and plenty of content to explore, it's easy to get sucked into this adventure set in the fictional world of Miraland. It turns out that being a stylist and collecting various fashions is a super fun game mechanic, and beating other stylists in Stylist Challenges is rather satisfying.

As a game that's free and looked cute, I became one of the millions of players who downloaded . I'm generally wary of gacha games, and I tend to hear mixed opinions about them, especially since it can be far too easy for some players to sink money into these games, then end up regretting it later. While I still don't prefer gacha as a genre overall, I found myself appreciating the way that the gacha system is implemented compared to other games I've tried, like and .

Usually, gacha games have you pull for party members, who fight beside you with their various strengths. It can be fun to have a variety of characters to bring on your journeys, and then those characters tend to have their own stories and quests that continue to build the in-game world. Unfortunately, there are a few downsides to this approach that manages to avoid. The way that does this is simple. Instead of pulling for characters to fight with you, you pull for clothing pieces that can form full outfits.

The way that banners in work is similar to other gacha games, where you're guaranteed a specific level of item if you don't get one after a certain number of pulls, which is usually referred to as the pity system, since the game is taking pity on your bad luck. Of course, you can't get only part of a character in other gachas, unless you're getting fragments that can be used to unlock the character at a certain amount, but you can get parts of outfits that are useful by themselves in .

As you might expect, individual outfits and clothing pieces that you can