Solo Leveling:Arise Reviews

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I love solo leveling. I really hope that this lives up to the manga. PLEASE DONT BE PAY TO PLAY!!

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How do you go from download to patch download and write into maintenance on launch day are you serious?

I just wanted to be the first person to leave a review

That’s all that needs to be said

Server issue day 1

I just started to pre order it. It looks amazing

First day out and can’t even play it because the servers are down for maintenance, probably should have done repairs before you launched the game.

Just sayin been waiting for this game for a while and I think it’s underwhelming to know that I can’t use a phone based controller to use the game. Please fix that thank you🫣👍🏾

bro the games not even fully out and it’s blowing my mind, they literally have everything like, a start screen and.. well that’s it but ITS SO GOOD 5 out of 5 100% recommended.

Should support controllers.

Won’t start up

The games combat feels amazing the only issue is the gold. The amount that I spend is way more than you get, being constantly broke in endgame.

Not out yet but I am sure it will be very VERY good

Leveling up, dungeons, everything is very similar to the manhwa

I am disappointed that netmarbel is who has this; like with marvel it is certainly going to be detrimental to it’s source material, in addition to acting as yet another icon of greed among the web.

Arise

This game is well made and it is cross platform and multiplayer which makes it better. Best game for solo living stans.

This is the best game in world

Yea not really a fan of the level requirements for stages. It’s restricting and makes the game less enjoyable. It also makes the game slow paced and boring. Still a really good game and the graphics are beautiful but still really don’t like level requirement for stages. It makes no sense why it would be there other than to force players to pay for diamonds to get more keys for gates or passes for more activity funds or be forced to fall behind while waiting for keys to play gates and collect activity funds just to catch up. Don’t restrict it so they are forced to wait even though they are way above required power level. Even if your power level isn’t enough, it shows that you can strategize around it and beat a level that is meant for when you are stronger. It would be wonderful if this system would be removed and let players play the game. Your game will die off because it’s boring and people don’t want to pay just to progress in the story or gameplay. Even if you have wonderful graphics it, doesn’t matter if your dumb level system outweighs it. No games with this type of level requirements for stages system last long. Just a thought to make your game more enjoyable and not make players feel forced to pay real money to progress.

I was really excited for this game to release but unfortunately after about 2 hours of playing, just had to stop. The battle mechanics are choppy and unsmooth, it feels unfinished with my character swiping at the air and completely ignoring the enemy half the time despite being “locked on,” other times when dodging, it had an input lag of about a second or two. When using skills, you can’t animation cancel and instead will just continue until it’s done, even if you’re not aiming at the enemy. The graphics are good, the character models aren’t exactly accurate to the source material but it isn’t bad. I do like the weapon system and skill system, the options available to you enables you to play in various ways. The gacha system is fine, but the fact that they made a $20 outfit available on the day of release rubs me the wrong way. It makes the game just feel like a cash grab. Mostly because the game still feels clunky and overall unpolished but they’re putting their focus towards in-game cosmetics instead which is in my opinion ridiculous. Overall i would say if you enjoyed the solo leveling manhwa then try out the game. I wouldn’t say it’s the best game adaptation out there, maybe not even mid tier, but it has potential to be good, it just needs further development and polishing. Overall 2/5.

It’s definitely an okay game don’t get me wrong, and yes you don’t have to be pay to win to be able to play it, but it’s so ridiculous on how much micro transactions they have on it. The pity system for a draw character is dumb, their isn’t a pity system for the special characters (unless I don’t see it) but I’ve gotten up to 80 pulls twice and didn’t get the special character. the story is great but feels kind of rushed in my opinion, the auto battle system can be really glitchy and your characters will use their attacks on, well nothing and face the other way when they use their attacks. The items you get for completing quests, dungeons and stuff is honestly lacking (wow you get 500 money, which is nothing woo) Granted, the game just came out and of course will have its own fare share of problems, but it definitely seems like a game that isn’t going to last long (again my opinion) I will probably only play it for a week or so and get bored and end up deleting it. But hey, if you’re reading this and enjoy the game and continue playing it then that’s good, just don’t fall into the micro transactions and spend a bunch of money like they are trying to get people to do, and spend so much on it for what you get even if you do spend money (one of the transactions is like 30 bucks and you get like, 20 pulls that’s it?)

The game is overall pretty good, with good graphics and interesting gameplay like sjw being able to use any weapon, however, this is overshadowed by quite a lot of problems. 1. The joystick is too far into the corner, sometimes not inputting move left-back 2. You are limited to using Sung-Jin-Woo for around 80% of the time, which is pretty stale 3. The ridiculous perfect clear requirement - in the later stages, a lot of the time has the limited to (…) attacks taken, which is stupid considering one combo or multiple mobs attacking at once can make you lose the challenge. Another pointless challenge is the player needs to clear the stage in less than (usually) 1:45-2 minutes, and that is practically impossible to do without p2w and getting 5* as the max damage I was able to do with r3 4* weapon is 1 bar of the boss’s hp in 15sec ( which they have 10 bars). Overall, unless you want to play the game on hardcore mode in a buggy state or you have money to spare, this will be very frustrating to play. Those who voted 5* is only buying into the hype of it being Solo Leveling or are p2w not suffering from the state of f2p

I have never read Solo Leveling, so I went into this game with no prior knowledge. The beginning explains the logic of the world it takes place in pretty well, and didn’t leave out any details that people that have already read it would’ve known. As for the mechanics, the combat is very easy to get into, and honestly one of my more favored combat systems. I think the best part is the fact that, although there definetly are a lot of microtransactions, you do not need to purchase anything to get better things from the gacha, and to also level up fast. This game is definetly a 10/10 for me, and I am excited to play some more, and dive deeper into the lore as well.

im really impressed at how well they adapted first the manwha to the anime, and now to a game like this. The story/gate system is really nice and fun to work with, and in my personal opinion, the length of story chapters is just about perfect, nothing like games like Blue Archive. (could be just becuase i have no attention span) The gacha aspect is just about what you would expect, but im a little dissapointed at how much is locked behind a paywall. I guess at this point its hard to find games that arent like this, but It would still be cool to at least get a couple more features as f2p. The lobby and character designs are also nice, but they have room for improvement. As for the upgrade system, I dont know much about it, since the game is so new, but I like how they carried over the skill points at the least. Thats pretty much all I have to say. Im happy with how the game turned out, and will probably continue playing it for at least a few months, depending on how far production goes.

The game represents the story marvelously. It’s engaging and loved to see how the comics are in this too. Felt happy to see you get Sung Jin Woo as guaranteed character and you just grow him. The animation was even more impressive than what I though it would be for cut scenes.

My score comes after a lot of little details out me off. I had a loading view after every single interaction with the game which could take 10 seconds to finish. First time I’ve seen this. Even just clicking the properties or just wanting to see inventory.
The game has great content, but way too many transaction walled things. Auto dungeon mining? Monthly sub. Battle pass? Another monthly sub, not the same one and more expensive. Skins? As expensive as the battle pass. Pulls? Genshin Impact type system. You “might” get the character you want after 80. Not ensured. Took all posible monetization to max and not in a cheap way even with the amount of them. Could buy Triple A game with the cost of all subs.

Writing this 2 days after release:

Overall, the game is good. I haven’t read the manhwa (manga) and only watched one episode of the anime so far, and I would say it seems like a faithful story adaptation with some game-only canon events. Gameplay is live action combat with skills, dodge, and attack mechanics. The camera control feels kinda junky on mobile, however my opinion of the PC client may differ, and so does the movement D-pad. I find myself running in the wrong direction a lot and it’s inconvenient to tap the “Target” button while also trying to tap my skills and dodge, but maybe that’s a skill issue.

As for servers, it may just be due to high server volumes, but there is a buffering time when going from screen to screen, NOT including the actual loading of the environment/resources/assets. For example, I load into the game and there is a buffer that can last from 10 secs to maybe a minute. Then I want to access my weapons from the quick menu, and then there is another buffering time of the same duration when I reach the page, and again when I want to go to the home screen. These buffering times add up and can shave off a lot of play time in the little free time I have. If this could be fixed, this review would change to a 5-star, but for now the buffering is a major inconvenience.

TLDR: GOOD GAME! FIX BUFFERING/LOADING TIME BETWEEN SCREENS

I have enjoyed my experience so far, however a few things have made me heavily dislike my time playing this game. First off is that i have noticed many things that seem like they are free at first glance are in actuality things that cost money. They lure you in and make it seem like they are a ftp feature just for them to cost money, the thing that is bothering me the most is the loading. I have a fairly powerful phone, it runs games with much higher graphics with ease. Yet every time I am in the menu it is constantly stopping and loading. This is extremely distressing and is harmful towards the experience in my opinion, i found myself loosing patience with it and it severely diminished my mood. It ran smoothly when inside of gates and during gameplay but in the lobby and menu it continued to stutter and pause periodically to load, this is the cause for my low rating of the game at the moment, hopefully the developers can solve these issues and make a more enjoyable experience for their playerbase

Game is phenomenal. Controls are fairly easy to use and combat/gameplay is extremely fun. Voice acting in the game is outstanding, and thank you for inputting English voices. RNG for characters and weapons have the same issues like any other gacha games (Honkai Star Rails and Genshi etc.), where weapons takes 90-95 percent of drops and characters are 5-0 percent drops. Not a big fan for expectations of buying “guarantee” packs for summoning, many players get the idea that is how the developers gets their cash to continue updating the game but still a nuisance for FTP players. Loading Circles. Happens incredibly too often, making the overall experience lackluster and resulting the game to be almost unplayable. Understandably, like a ongoing tread, every game isn’t build to perfection especially from launch. However, the fan base is strong and have high hopes for updates, bug fixes, and server improvements in the future of this amazing game.

The bad:
First thing that pops up after the tutorial (and I assume it’ll pop up daily or every launch) is a pass to buy. There’s also a battle pass on top of this with an online store packed full of things for purchase with real money and daily freebies so you engage with it. It is predatory in that individuals are also pressed to keep spending once they spend (rewards for multiple purchases). Should be against the law. Stinky whale bait.

Tutorial is on rails, leaves nothing for you to do except be forced to click and play through several levels and UI elements for 20+ minutes. Tutorial could have been done in a single level with a small UI guide and taken less than 5 minutes. If rerolling for good draw rng is something you wanted to do in this, it is sorta tedious.

Navigating the UI is incredibly slow (mobile). I assume due to network traffic. If true, the decision to have UI selection on the server side of things is atrocious and should be client side (except stuff that actually requires a connection). If false, improper optimization.

The good:
Great art style; combat play is what I’d call Genshin Impact Lite (which is good and works).
No noticeable game breaking bugs in the single launch of this game.

Neutral:
Things are “lore friendly”. Meaning its not exactly bad but is a twist. Works for a video game.
The tutorial doesn’t force you to interact with the online store unless you consider the first popup part of the tutorial.

I really like the graphics and that they included the manwha pictures and added new animations to the story chapters. However, the experience is not fluid because it keeps freezing and lagging and yes I've tuned down the settings (all the way).

As for the gameplay, it is also laggy and feels too automatic. I do not like that they limit our freedom as players and force us to click and play the beginning chapters and not let us explore because I like finding out how to play myself and I believe most people would agree. They also just throw skills at us to use without making it a reward and the damage is extremely high for every hit, making the game way too easy and not fun as a first fresh experience.

Players like a challenge, tune up the monsters health, tune down our damage and give us more freedom of choices in the beginning without all the boring tutorials that doesnt even let us change the laggy settings.

Optimize the game for better performance and there you go... u could even charge people for a polished game. Although I am a fan of Solo Leveling and I love that we're getting a game, I just pray it gets better because I already didnt get a good experience and I just started (played for about 1.5 hours).

I have been with Solo Leveling since it first started releasing chapters of the webtoon. I love everything about the webtoon, the story, and most recently the anime; this game is not quite what I expected. I do want to note, the art is completely different (for understandable reasons), but they incorporated the webtoon panels so well, it feels more like an omage to the original artist.

It takes you through a shortened/quick-notes version of the webtoon in the tutorial (with direct from the webtoon panels), so it is a good refresher for the story, but definitely misses key points (read/watch is better for full story).

Gameplay itself is smooth, sorta wish it was a console game because the playability feels like something for PlayStation consoles (reminds me of the Final Fantasy series).

My largest complaint is that JinWoo is WAY too overpowered in the beginning of the game (I’m talking tutorial here since I haven’t finished it yet). Doesn’t feel like a challenge and almost feels wrong for him to be so powerful and have so many skills/abilities right away.

Here’s to hoping the power scaling gets better and hopefully when skills are used it feels more like they have been properly earned (like in the original story).

The game is ok but man is there so many advertisements for purchase bundles and other such things in-game. I’m pretty sure some of the YouTubers were paid to give good reviews on this game and given loads of in-game loot to make it look appealing. The game is slow and bogs down on my phone (iPhone XR), but it could just be my phone reaching its end of life. Battery consumption is no joke! Play with it plugged in to charge. Crashes several times tho as I said before could be performance wise on my phone platform.

But to end this review I do enjoy solo leveling and the bits of colored manhwa displayed along with animated bits are great! The pay wall to do a bit more or the constant rotation of advertising in the top left corner of the game or the fake gacha 15 x10 pull to set you up to hit a pay wall just to get one item from it is a let down. Really just seems like they are cashing in on kids and adults who really like this series.

When I first read the manwha, I didn’t know what to expect and yet I still read it!! It was worthwhile. I loved everything about the manwha, it’s so simple and well made. I would like to go into more detail but I would like to keep it short just cause. I heard the game is even more amazing, I’ve been waiting on the global for some time now and now it’s here!!!!!!! Thank you for this netmarble, some people are gonna be criticizing the game/work but I won’t. I’ll appreciate every bit of it. Thank you for this work of art once more.

Haven’t gotten far yet, but seems like it has potential. Combat is engaging and has an interesting world built which wasn’t unexpected.

The problem is the tutorial. I know why games, this one included, make you run like twelve missions before even letting you look over your characters’ skills. I dont feel like my hand is being held, I feel Im behind pulled along by a painful rope. The fact that devs and higher ups, think we don’t know why they do this is makes me upset. Im stoopid at times but not so stoopid to not realize they don’t want people rerolling accounts when their first few gift summons are complete trash.

This is one of the more egregious examples in that it forces you into a fight then you make a nickname, they show you how to add a character in your party (lul) then force you into a fight, show you how to equip a sword then force you into a fight.

Its annoying because basically everything they’re giving instructions for is common sense really and could literally all be explained in one dang fight lol. I hated to even keep going through the tutorial, because they treat you stupid and they think you’re too stupid to not see their whole tutorial is a made-up joke lol.

Great anime, game has clearly had alot of funding and thought put into it. The only gripe I have is the tutorial length and the lack of freedom to choose and explore the menus. I’ve been told what to press for the past hour and I honestly want to uninstall the game for this reason. YOUR PLAYERS DO NOT NEED TO BE FORCED TO CLICK THROUGH THE START OF THE GAME, WE ARE NOT STUPID.

I also wish the controls were more intuitive with movement. It’s a fixed radial pad and my thumb doesn’t always want to go to the same spot. It needs to be allowed to register in any location on the left half of my screen. I also do not like the auto movement and auto battle aspect. You can control your character but once you let go you will be forced into the games decisions. I can’t escape the mediocrity in game or in the main menu. Please give players more freedom…

I’ll start off by saying that, in so far, the game is fun to play, and I’d certainly recommend it my friends who are interested in these types of games. The devs certainly did a great job making this game.

Considering the fact that the game was literally released yesterday, as of this post, it should be expected that some things are gonna be messed up and need fixing, and fixing these things will take time.

I’ve yet to come across any game-breaking bugs or something that would make it unplayable, however every time I exit a menu (example the mail) and return to the area where you can run around and talk to the different NPCs, the game stops to load. What it’s loading, idk. The length of time this happens doesn’t seem to be consistent either, one time it took less than 10 seconds and another it took over 2 minutes.

Again, I know this game is fresh off the press and that annoyances like this, both big and small, are to be expected. And again I’d like to thank the devs for doing this game/anime so well.

Honestly I love game play, the only issue im getting annoyed with is the fact that every time I click on a mode or play the next story or honestly click anything it loads for so long, I really love game and I want to keep playing on my phone but constant loading is making me not want to continue..and I dont want that so please fix it if you can thank you!, btw now all I write is going to be fixes that may make it better in my opinion at least but if theres an option where the camera will follow where ever the player faces because man it gets annoying when having to move around to attack.

iPhone XR here, the game operates quite poorly for the Lowest Settings possible. During Cutscenes the game will freeze, let alone during actual gameplay (almost lost the First Ascension Trial or whatever because of it).
Just pointing out that I had played both Genshin Impact and Tower of Fantasy on an IPhone SE (Second Gen) with better performance.

To my knowledge, there’s no way to reconfigure the Button Layout to make it a Custom Fit nor does the Target Feature on Enemies work properly as the Skills do not Lock On.
Lord forbid how many times I’ve tried to Dodge and follow-up with an Skill just so that Skill will hit nothing all because my character is not facing the enemy directly.