The Eminence in Shadow RPG Reviews

Pretty good mobile game. Easy to play and understand, i dont really care about paid crystals and free crystals. I would just say make the prices more doable. It is 2,800 for a 10x summon and 300 i believe for a single. In order to get 2800 paid crystals you need to spend upwards of $50+. And on a mobile game i dont think many people are going to do this. If it was about $25 for 2800 crystals im willing to bet people are going to buy that. Overall good game just fix prices and also Orianna has a typo on her cutscene when shes talking about the book.

This game is fun in it's own way but the AI loading screen is very slow (takes around 15 seconds to transition from finishing a stage to the next stage). There is also no skip functionality regarding the skill animation so you have to sit there and watch the whole skill animation and at two times speed it's still around five seconds per skill. nonetheless the graphics are very well designed and the gameplay is fun where you can auto most of the stages where in some niche situations, you can manual to surpass more difficult stages. My recommendation to the developers is to first add a skip button for the skill animations and then to speed up the AI loading screens, whether it's for leveling up characters or loading between stages; there are so many different loading screens that it really makes the gameplay slow down way too much.

For example, from the moment I press start on a stage, it takes 11 seconds until my characters start attacking, and from the moment I kill the last monster, it takes 16 seconds until I can click onto the next stage. That's close to half a minute that I simply just wait to progress per stage (not including however long it takes me to clear that stage). Quality of life is important for players who like their games fun and fast-paced (:

The game reaches the point where you’re past 1-5 and it frees you up a bit instead of the forced tutorial. You click to go to the next objective. The gang forcibly redirects you, saying character boosting has been unlocked and opening the character menu with an arrow pointing to the main character. At that point you can click nothing except for the main character; thoroughly tested. When you click the main character, the arrow disappears and the only things you can click are the locked tabs top-left and top-right, both of which say to complete 1-6 to unlock. You can click nothing else, can’t return to the main screen, and can only get out of this by closing and reopening the game. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled twice. I submitted an inquiry about it, to which I’ve received no reply. They had a long maintenance today to add more gacha content, and this game is still UNPLAYABLE and BROKEN. When it’s impossible to play the game without encountering an error that is also insurmountable, it’s considered game breaking. I had high hopes for this game and high hopes for the fact that they had a very long maintenance. Given that I’m stuck, can’t play and therefore can’t earn gems for the TIME LIMITED gacha characters, I kinda don’t even want to play now. Thanks for reading!

Edit: I’ll be posting this on every form of social media available to me.

Aside from crashing issues, summoning is unfair. 2800 gems for a multi but only getting max 50 per lvl. And the game just released so there isn’t that much that you can farm up. I’m already more than half way done with the main and side story but have only summoned 5-6 times excluding the free summons. And since character lvl is based on your lvl you get to a point where your stuck and just have to wait until the next day to get exp from the daily missions to continue through the story. Not only that the game has only been out for less than 2 weeks and there’s already 3 banners that people want to summon on but there’s just barely enough story’s and events to even get to try on all three. What’s the point of playing a gacha game if you can rarely do the main thing that gacha games are for. And I get that there’s not that many characters but it’s still absurd how much you need to summon compared to how much you get. I want this game to be fun because I like the anime and gacha games but it feels like Crunchyroll is just trying to make more profit from the anime, and they know people are willing to spend money for the novelty of having an anime game for a new hot anime.

Finally after a few days of patches the game started working. I love the game play and story most of the game modes are fun. The game play heavily leans into the elemental weakness system. One team won’t do it you need to level 5 teams of each element if you want to compete in the events and progress the story. Sadly level resources are limited too 2 attempts daily. I upped the star count from 1 to 2 because even though the game lets you eventually rank anyone from a a grade to an ss grade the game has a serious flaw with the gacha system. As a f2p player I’ve participated in each banner event as much as I’m able but have never seen any of the banner characters aside from buying your way to SS tier the game seems to lock all f2p players out of banner characters. Maybe it’s bad luck but in 8 pulls from a single banner and every attempt is a strike out? If I have no chance to progress then why continue playing. No free banner chances either so either you saved your gems or no banners at all. Definitely a cash grab game.

Hi developers i downloaded this game i wanted to try it because i watch the anime series and i love it,so when the game came out i downloaded it and entered the game,the game was working but when i press(press to start the game) a loading bar will come out and when it compelete loading it didnt make me enter the game and i stuck in the title screen and i cant do anything while the animation is running,i dont know why but i cant press anything like the screen frozen but the animation is playing,and my internet was very good so i dont know why,and im from a country that’s in asia,so please fix it because i really want to play the game because i loved the anime so much,so please fix it developers,and thank you for reading it,i sill rate it 5 stars,hope you fix this bug,and bye🙂

The game overall is fun and the concept is really good. The combo feature added with roles for different characters really adds to the element of the game. That being said, the fact that you have gems (in game currency) and paid gems options really made me hate this game.
If you want to have great discount summons and guaranteed SS characters you need to have paid gems, and not the free gems given to you by playing the game. There is a clear and difference and the game gives more to players that pay than those who enjoy free to play.
I have played other games where the banner to summon for characters is the same if you pay to play or your free to play. Only difference is that paying will obviously give you a more advantage position, however the rate is the same. For this game if you pay you get more advantages

Ok so I’ve been playing Fate grand order for over 2 years and not only is it my first gacha game but also the only one I’ve stuck with. I’ve tried many others and none of them have stuck with me. I like this game because it is fairly simple to understand and kinda easy to play. There is a Way to “ guarantee” at least one SSR by re-rolling the account to try and get the character you want simply by deleting the account skipping the tutorial and doing the free summon till one is happy. And that can take…Time. I wanted Delta and it took me like an hour for her to show up. Gacha is all about the ODDS, the chances for SSR is really low, 3%, so don’t expect to get all the best characters. But if you can get one you like then I think this can be fun 3/5

Game is fun and the expanded story from the anime and LN is a must play for any fan. Battle system is easy to learn and engaging enough for a mobile game without being to complex to play on a phone. Graphics are good, 3D characters look awesome. Voice acting is same as the anime so very good imo. Overall the game is excellent….however…

Be warned the monetization in this game is predatory and overall bad. They sell you gem packs that are just short of what you need to summon or purchase an event package. They add a paid shop for events. I play Princess Connect which has much more honest and fair monetization practices. I might spend a bit on this game but won’t be as much as I do on other games with better practices.

I’m probably gonna end up dropping this game because the character upgrade system is a 1 to 1 copy of the Princess Connect Re:Dive system which is hot garbage. I’m super disappointed in Crunchyroll for reusing the worst upgrade system I’ve ever seen in a video game they could have gone with so many other systems that are in other Crunchyroll games but nah man go with the absolute worst one. I really wanted to like this game because I absolutely love the character design but the last thing I need right now is never ending grind burnout. I said it for Princess Connect and I’ll say it here too when I’m done with a character I want to move on to upgrade another character. I don’t want to have to upgrade everyone of my characters for every update they have for the system.

If your phone is potato like mine (iPhone6) it will barely run the game, crash regularly and everyone will have blackened faces, but I’m just thankful I can play at all! There’s story we can only get in the game, and one-on-one time with the girls of our choice certainly is nice as well. The cherry on top is they give us a free S rank and SS rank character respectively (though the SS has to be unlocked via quest first). The monthly pass that can be purchased gives around $40 value for only $10, so I feel thats quite generous of them. I hope the game does well and we get even more story!

Getting it to fully download has been a challenge, but my friend had no trouble. It was easy to recommend because the beginning story is really funny. The gameplay is also easy and fun. It’s not always easy to keep your tank alive if you trust the AI to it. The gacha has also been generous. My download issue interfered with showing me the results, but when I reopened TheEminenceinShadowRPG I was lucky both times. I’m older and have enjoyed it. I was surprised to see a 10 year old enjoys this game enough to listen and read it for fun. If that sounds good, give it a whirl.

This game is essentially on giant never ending tutorial with no way to skip cutscenes or story sections that can last up to 25-30 minutes. The little bit of “gameplay” you did get after almost trying to play for over 2 hours is all tutorial with prompts you have to follow and that lasts for about another hour and a half because apparently the game devs think we are stupid and can’t figure out the game without them repeating their explanations and tips 30-40 times every 10 minutes. Literally the tutorial is them constantly explaining the same 3-4 things on repeat for 1.5 hours after they make you sit through close to 2 hours of non skip able cutscenes and story panels.

On an iPhone 12 Pro max, and still running into issues even on low graphics settings.
Game will often crash for no reason, won’t refund stamina if in middle of a fight. Gameplay and cutscenes can be super laggy at times.
Besides performance issues, there are a lot of errors in text and missing assets and portraits, found only an hour into playing. Can’t imagine how many more I didn’t find.

I love the series and I did enjoy the side stories and the new characters we didn’t get to see in the manga, so I might revisit in a few months when hopefully they iron these bugs out. For now, I’m really just not interested.

Big fan of the manga and anime. Great in-game animation and character design. Gameplay is fun to play and has many modes to grind. The only criticism is that it lacks enough cristal rewards (not counting the honeymoon fase) and the 10x pull summon is too expensive (2800 crystals). As i see right now the game is not f2p friendly, I usually spend money in gacha games, but for this one i guess I’ll hold “my father’s card”.

Ranting 8/10. I gave a high rating because i got luck on my re-roll run, and I simp for alpha and omega

They kind of went with an original story aside from the main one that’s the anime, but it fits near canon and fleshes out the side characters more so than the anime and manga ever does. Characters also stay true to their given personalities and are not just there for fan service or to look good in the background. Honestly, story is 11/10. Gacha is 7/10, really 5/10 which is average at best, but gotta give a +2 for an interesting summon animation.

I’ve been a gacha gamer for a few years now, I can say this is sort of refreshing; the automatic gameplay right from the start is certainly eye catching. The fighting mechanism is simple to understand, and not at all difficult to figure out. I’m really enjoying the fluid movements of all the units. I can’t wait to see just how far this game will develop and change over time with updates and such.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled this game 4 times, sat on a fully installed/loaded loading screen for 2 hours straight without any change, and only been able to play 5 seconds of actual game play compared to the amount of reading at the beginning because of it.

Fix the loading screen issues already!

This game does provide a fair means of obtaining “phantasmal shards” which are used for summoning. However, it only gives you a decent deal if you buy them ONCE per buy option. Once you buy that option, it’s gone. Now if you want even 3 x10 summons you need to spend $100 which is absolutely absurd. Due to the low amount of characters your chance of getting a SS is little over 2% (depending on the banner) The game is fair buy the desire for pay to win is all too obvious, imo

its a pretty good mobile game ngl. just please remove the stamina wait time man, i understand its to prevent people from speedrunning and getting bored and could even bring in some igp but please for the love of god atleast make it 10 minutes for 10 stamina man not just 1, you have to wait an hour 40 just to play one quest. its so obnoxious and honestly makes me wanna quit, im sure others feel the same.

The game is alright, it’s not bad the only problem is that the game has a bunch of bugs the loading screen doesn’t load properly or when I pause and unpause my characters don’t move when it’s unpause it’s not a good thing to keep these bugs in game cause it could lead from people loving the game to hating it because of it, another problem I have is the summoning part. it could just be me but I feel like 2,800 gems to summon 10x is a bit to much I would at least reduce it down to like 1,700 maybe but those are the only 2 problems I see in the game other then that the game is pretty good the combat is decent and the graphics are really good it’s just those 2 problems that make the game meh

Fun game. Love the anime so this is a nice companion. This game suffers from a huge problem with balance though. You have to be overwhelmingly stronger than your opponent to actually win since the battles are limited to 1 minute.
so skill takes a back seat to raw power. The PvP stuff is all automatic but would be nice if you had option to just autocalc since it spends so much time just spamming the attack CGI that after the first few days you’re sick of seeing them. Back to balance, it’s pretty obvious that most people left playing after only the first few weeks have dumped a ton of money into the game. Most people in the matchmaking have three full sets of maxed out characters while I have been playing since day 1 F2P and don’t even have half of one. There are also a lot of bugs in TheEminenceinShadowRPG that are annoying. It’s too easy to brush the edge of the screen while activating an attack, which pauses the game and causes the battle to hang. That’s been acknowledged for over a month now with no fix, but there have been a lot of content drops so it becomes abundantly clear where the priorities lie.
Overall, I’d recommend this game to kill some time in a waiting room or on the john for a few weeks, but I wouldn’t expect to leave this installed for the longer term from what I’ve seen.

Overall I think you’re team has made a great game here. I’ve been playing since launch and aside from Bugs it’s been a good experience.

Players that have zero patience in people and don’t want to wait for devs to fix anything this is not the place for you.

Now, Devs, summon rates are something else. There are A LOT of people that play gacha games especially anime games to collect different characters and outfits. Rates make that very difficult. Now I’m not entirely certain if it has to do with bugs or just people luck. But I know quite a few people who were trying to summon Xmas units (myself included) but failed to do so by 100+ pulls or 10 10x draws for each banner. I personally never even got 1 non event SS from either banner which leads me to thinking bugs. Mine came from standard banner and paid exclusives. At the very least these characters should be craft-able with shards received from said event however they do not appear in the character page if you did not happen to draw them or go for the pity. 200 points is wild btw will not address that here tho.

Despite what I said above the game is quite enjoyable and you can absolutely get by with the other units and stick to the basic summon and you won’t have pity point issues since the free draws will add up overtime especially if we get more players!! Just hit 1M so go grab a free 3k gems!!

Like the game but has glaring issues, rn my game is bugged and I can’t do any fights. Extreme lack in tuna burger opportunities and the pull rates are extremely low for the amount of characters currently in the game. It’s gacha so I understand but it should be slightly higher until more characters are added. Also TheEminenceinShadowRPG size says 238mb but with in game data it’s around 22gb and every other week feels like I’m being asked to download an update larger than a gig there has to be a more efficient way of packing this games data. P.S. it feels like I’ve been black listed from pulling gamma I would chalk this up to bad rng if it wasn’t for the fact that when the bunshin festival lists reset it completely reset my banner counter on the blue support Gamma in which I had 6 of the 20 needed whiffed 10 pulls to just outright buy the character. That’s 16,800 gems completely wasted which takes a long time for a f2p player to save up to roughly 4 months just gone

Usually crunchyroll games are cheap, low effort or younger friendly, but this is definitely for adults! If you’ve seen the designs that is~
Off the bat the art is very detailed. From in-game to card art. Like my friend pointed out “it’s SAO but good”. Not sure why the many 1 star ratings? Likely hate for CR themselves, because the game isn’t bad at all, when you summon you can get the coins to exchange for units, which for a new game to have that feature off the bat is pretty nice. The gameplay is fun and different, the voice acting is superb as well. If you’ve been reeling from Nikke and its…poor judgement of management partners, then look no further with this game! Honestly the last anime game that isn’t chibi sprites out there… Also doesn’t heat up my phone when I have max settings on, which newer games tend to do even on high-end phones.

This game is quite enjoyable. The game is very manageable as a FTP and you have plenty to do upon logging in.

Gear is farmable to increase the rank of the characters, and also 1 on 1 time allowing you to empower your favorite waifu makes it so that you can head into the various quests with varying level of ease.

The game teaches you more complicated mechanics, and very early on punishes you for not learning your lesson. Making the challenging content a welcome difference to just being able to auto through everything.

The gatcha system is a 50/50 where your desired characters duke it out to join your team. So far this sort of gatcha/summoning system is very similar to that of genshin impact where you can lose the 50/50 and get a Non rate up character. but not only does this effect the SSR rate but also the s’s and lower. Making the full roster a hefty investment , or lottery winning luck.

The story is silly, the main character, cid, spends most of the time breaking the 4th wall and saying exactly what we are thinking in those moments. From his easily acquired girlfriend, to the easily defeated enemies he runs into, one punch man meets 7 deadly sins sort of hilarity ensues.

Enjoyable simple gatcha game. nothing earth shattering, but nothing terrible beyond repair.

Game has great graphics and all but more importantly it FREEZES too often during initial tutorial and during the main story. Some of the combo finishes don’t completely show the final hit. It will show the action of the characters and the hit graphics but no opponent. The game will literally stop all action for no reason when it is on auto the entire time. Doing one special after another will cause the game to cease all response. I’ve sat for 3-5 minutes just looking at my characters flashing and doing NOTHING. If this was the case then I would prefer tapping and pressing for attacks. I like the game but I hate having to wait and see if the lag will stop and closing the game just to open it and reattempt the fights. Has happened to me 5x since downloading. I want to keep the game but am considering deleting if the bugs don’t get fixed.

I LOVED the show and had seen this game occasionally but never downloaded it. Sadly when I first got it too I had a game breaking bug and had to erase my account. The support team was wonderful and even though it took some time I was MORE than compensated what I was expecting.
The game is a grind once you hit mid/late game. But if you don’t mind it then I think it’s great. It can easily become expensive if you wanna pay for gems. But the free ones come in droves so I haven’t felt it critical to buy a ton. Granted I have spent money on the game, however, it’s only because I want to show my support to the show, the creators, and pay for a game I think is worth my money.
Thank you again support team for being so awesome to me!!

First of all, games graphics is somewhat intriguing, but it’s the characters that make the game enjoyable. The storyline of each is what keeps it alive, but the unrewarding aspect comes into place right away—paid to win (P2W) and the pulls thought boosted for a specific—it is a gacha overall.

This game makes you think what are dailies? Because you finished them, right where’s the rewards? Nothing. That’s why it is also unrewarding because you get anything? No. Other games give you dailies and allow you to be rewarded like thank you for your time and how they are handling is like, “borrowed time and we want other people’s money (OPM.)” okay… why would I pay if you force heavily and my reward is still gambling because that’s what it is! Any progression is halted easily because the enemies are powerful from the beginning and advancing without paying, well keep logging in.

I played for a while a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the game. So much so that I actually spent money on it.
Suddenly there was an update which rendered the game unplayable. After deleting and restarting I was able to get back in. Unfortunately it makes me start from the beginning to do the tutorial. Upon completion of the initial tutorial battle it takes me to boost a character. The characters I have acquired earlier through purchase are still there, but it is trying to go through the tutorial process of boosting a character and freezes up on the main character as I have already done it once before.
The game has become unplayable and I have wasted money on on a potentially great game that I definitely still want to play. I’m hoping I can get my money back or maybe be offered some sort of fix.
It seems to be a great game with an interesting story, but way too glitchy at the moment to offer anything of value.

I like the game and is truly a gatcha game that needs a lot of grinding since the amount of gems you need to pity is truly immense in comparison with the free you get by doing accomplishments. However sometimes the dev give you a large bonus so it’s worth to keep playing.

The major bug that I currently have is that you cannot accept to characters and the only ones that are accessible are the ones that you already have in a party, also you cannot select any character.
Please developers fix that since it only shows after the recent update or let me know how to fix it on my part if I am only having that trouble.

The main draw of the game was supposed to be the storytelling, and the English translated text is cut off most of the time, leaving out critical information. The gacha is ridiculously overpriced and extremely not f2p or even dolphin friendly. Unless you have more than $300 dollars to spend on dupes which give an extreme amount of power and cannot be farmed, it is fairly unplayable. What you get for about $99 is an extremely buggy game with forced login mechanics that make you log in at certain times in the day to receive stamina. Crunchyroll does not respect your time or your wallet. Its a shame to all fans of the franchise to be honest. The in game scenes are a direct rip off of the anime. You're better off just giving money directly to buy that and save yourself the frustration.

This is really a good game the updates are good they are getting better than how it is was in the beginning for the game

Some things I would to point out that I wish to offer that could hopefully one day be added into the game is an increase in gains for the gems to summon characters because 2800 is pretty grindy too do before an event could ever start and I would get only 1 or 2 10 time summon and another would be to the number of attempts for the daily challenges to at the max of 5 because 2 is too little

Let me put this in a way a company understands. DO NOT WHALE ON THIS GAME!!! If you even can whale without crashing before reaching the IAP page. I haven’t written a review since I expected the developers to fix the crashing issue MONTHS AGO, but with the nene collab update, i opened the game 10 times in a row and have been greeted with a crash each time after the INITIAL loading screen. Even if you get passed that, loading up a battle, which happened a lot in this game, has a high chance of crashing too. THE ISSUE GOT WORSE!!! I’m using a phone that can run Honkai, Genshin, and tower of fantasy no problem. I’ve put up with this long enough. It’s obvious this isn’t a priority, otherwise it would’ve been solved a long time ago

Another thing, this game somehow has a larger file size than Tower of fantasy, which has multitude of open worlds. Those 20+ gb better be some high quality audio files or something.

The game is fun and lately I’ve been playing it a lot but the one problem I see which is a major one is there is barely any ways to get gems to summon unless you get a big amount from the log in bonus. Story missions don’t give you a lot giving you only 10 when you need 2800 for a multi and that means you’re taking forever just to be able to do a single multi. I should not be forced to buy stones just to be able to summon I would say either give us more stones from doing the story or raise the drop rate of characters because as of right now it’s a bit ridiculous the only way I have summoned was from login bonuses I have yet to summon from actually playing the game since they give you nothing to be able to summon. Other then that it’s fun I like the game hopefully they release more content more characters and this continues to be fun.

So my experience has been good I like the game and the mechanics of it so far and it is almost a perfect game to me. However my only downside is the fact that summoning is basically forcing you to spend money. 2800 crystals for a multi with very low change of a SS or a new character and high chances of low tier dups . You can’t make enough crystals off quests to keep making multi summons to get the banner character and will be highly tempted to purchase crystals to get them. Also the Premium/Festival tickets do not guarantee a SS character summon either, I have only gotten A/S characters so I will never again buy those. Overall I see the Summoning feature as a scam which is most unfortunate for this rather fun game.

So I saw this game awhile ago and read a lot of reviews. I read about the bugs and the rates. After a while decided to try anyway and see my luck. After playing for a few weeks and trying the game i had a decent time with it but you feel so block and behind. Now I play all types of Gatcha games and understand what its feel like to be “unlucky” but man these rates must be bugged. I’m a giga whale and easily out $1,000 just to get a feel for it( knowing the consequences) ….and still got nothing… not even a pity (outside of buying for 200 shards). I don’t mind spending money but how can you make a whale feel like he don’t belong or it’s not even p2w friendly.. I can only imagine how F2P feel. On top of that you got a spend $20 for a 10 pull…. You need to do that 20 times to get shards for the character which is way to expensive. For a game that requires you to build multiple units to progress that’s just awful. It’s probably why the game never blew up even with a decent size fan base. I’ll update it again in a few weeks if anything changes but doubt it. Seems like they aren’t doing anything about it. Otherwise game is just ok till you hit the pay wall. Try to just stay F2P or just avoid this game. Good luck otherwise

I have a lot of fun collecting the characters, interacting with them, and seeing all the cool abilities. It’s clear the game had a lot invested in it. That being said this is the most pay to win F2P I ever saw. The game hands out laughable rewards for clearing milestones, 10 gems, that’s the reward you get for pretty much all the milestones. You need 2,800 for a ten pull on gacha. Despite events and everything else that gives you more you’re likely to run out constantly for characters you want. You have to pay to really get what you want and sometimes you won’t even get the characters unless you spend hundred of dollars on just a single banner unless you want to grind 6 months to a year to get a guaranteed. To top it off the game has terrible pacing. About once a month there’s a level cap increase and new missions which means new gear. It doesn’t leave you time to upgrade your current characters effectively so you’re more likely to have more than a few characters lag behind to upgrading. Despite my review I do love this game but there needs to be serious overhauls on gem rates, gacha, and pacing.

This game introduces a lot of story that ties in with the anime. The characters are beautiful and the customization is great. HOWEVER the loading times are terrible even on a new phone with many pointless delays or transitions. The biggest issue is the cost to summon a character is absurd. For $100 you can attempt the 10x Gacha (the one with the best odds) 3 times. You are guaranteed the character on the 200’th pull (20 10x Gacha’s). That means to get a character for sure you have to spend nearly $700. I would say about 1/3 of my characters required all 200 pulls to get. It gets worse, they release characters 2 or 3 at a time. So if you want all characters you are spending up to $1800 every 2-4 weeks. That does not include other store purchases like more energy or items to level up all these characters. The greed of these developers is absolutely insane. Play this game only if you are well off and love The Eminence in Shadow and want more content or if you are one of the rare few who can enjoy these games for free without collecting most characters.