Fantastic Hidden Diamond In The Rough, Hiding In Plain Sight
You want to k ow why I said YES and downloaded this game? At the time, NOT A SINGLE online resource including the original manhwa nor the anime could answer for me the question: *”Just How many Statues does Sung Jinwoo first encounter in the famous Double Dungoen!?”* Lucky for me, NETMARBLE shares the answer in the story’s beginning: the answer is 22 statues total all together (including the giant and the death angel with the dungeon’s rules)! HA! Thanks NETMARBLE! This is truly An incredibly fun game and they are doing a fantastic job with every update for the mobile version. I have been playing for a month now and I only just discovered there is also a PC Version of this same game. I can’t praise this game enough. I love that it’s free to play and gives the options for generous paid-play-bonuses, but not the requirements to “pay to play” or subscriptions that seems nearly every other competitive popular mobile game is doing today. The good folks and developers over at NETMARBLE have done a truly top-tier, “The Very Top Of Their Class” job with SOLO LEVELING ARISE and I hope everyone has as much fun playing as I have!
First need to address how it seems how the App Store seems to be hiding this gem. Should be top 5 in many categories but it’s not even listed in any of them. Great new game especially since I’m into the manhua and the anime. Has some issues on mobile, that I don’t see happening to reviewers using pc, that took away a star. Biggest issues are special attacks not landing, camera angle doing what it wants, attacks going after the wrong enemy, artifact’s abilities seeming sabotaged, target lock applying to everyone except the target in front of me, and target lock disengaging. Also, later content demanding 100k champ pwr levels to complete but the items needed to level up to that pwr level beyond to hard to get and It’s not even purchasable. Which forces me to only be able level up 3 to 5 characters out of 25. So 20 champs stuck at 50-60k pwr level are in a useless purgatory. Because I can’t raise their power levels I can’t use them. Why even put them in the game if we can’t use them. Besides those issues I’m loving all the other aspects of the game. Pros to the game are weapons, character drawing system, adherence to story, road map through the game, strategy needed to complete fights, plethora of content, fighting mechanics, challenges, and I love how jinwoo is a set character (no need to unlock him.) They have something special with this game. Worth playing even with the issues imo.
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.
Let’s get to the point, everything in the game is too repetitive. It was really fun at first, but then eventually it got really boring because every fight was basically the same the layout of the map is the same too. It really gives me headaches doing the same thing over and over again. I wish it was more of an open world story mode game over a Gacha, so that there will be more investment into the actual story of Solo Leveling. I want to feel as if I am Sung Jinwoo not this pay to win thing. But if you like Gacha games then maybe this is for you. Just know you’ll be having to do the same boring fights every time. The mechanics is pretty good, but it’s kind of hard to play on mobile. It’s better to play on a PC. I feel like these 5star rating are just people glazing because this game is based on a popular manhwa. I could be wrong and people just like this type of game. I guess it’s just not for me. It would be nice though if there was more investment into the story of Solo Leveling. It would draw a bigger crowd if you can recreate the feeling that readers felt when reading the manhwa. When I play this game I just don’t feel the same excitement that drew me onto this Solo Leveling story. Overall I think this game had potential to be a great game if the developers didn’t make it into a Gacha game.
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.
The game is still crashing on my iPhone . Which wasn’t happening on global launch, until you released either the first or second update and it started crashing. I’ve done everything you asked me to do and u still didn’t fix this issue after 2 months. Pls fix it, I can’t take it anymore. It crashes at least 4 times in 20mins of game play, most times I can’t even play story, daily’s or POD, Workshop or nothing. I’m getting fed up Netmarble. I love the game but I can’t take the constant crashes anymore, I can’t even Make content on the game because of the constant crashes. I have done everything u asked me to do, nothing worked and it got worse after evey update u made. A single path can fix this pls pls, devs, don’t push a whole iOS mobile community away, cos that’s happening, most of us are even pay 2 win players. Fix the issues. I won’t want to delete the game at such a high end game content I’m in cos I can’t take the crashes. My phone play’s other high games just fine. With fantastic performance. Most people have started leaving ur game because of this issues of crashes and loading screens. Even phone cooler and lowest graphics settings doesn’t help, the game still crashes after 4mins gameplay which is terrible. Thanks Netmarble I know h would fix it this update coming.
Battlefield of time:TIMER BUG (count down does not stop)
I like the game & the anime, I have been reading the manga since chapter 30ish came out big fan and all that but…I have an old iphone and it kinda lags in Between fights or even in the lobby (not for long but it happens) It never really effected me because the count down timer would stop when I lagged in a normal gate or en/in-core mission until I did the battlefield of time challenge.. before the update I didn't notice it I’m pretty sure it wasn’t there so this could be a bug in the game from the new update…BUT WHENEVER I LAG IN A *BF.O.T* THE COUNT DOWN STILL GOES…so I said let me pause before I start lagging..! THE COUNT DOWN STILL KEEPS GOING So in final… even if i pause or start lagging there is no way I could beat my own personal record, if my first run goes free Willy nilly with out lag but my second run with better armor or weapons won’t be able to reach that 5-15 second gap mark bc the lag will accumulate and end up negating the saved up time in my second run. Thank you hope this bug can get fixed.
This game is a great, I have put atleast 10hrs in it already and I have atleast 3 SSR units just from playin alone. I enjoy the variety of game modes and the story mode is great and challenging sometimes. I believe you guys did a good job with this game and it would be so much better if you remove the P2W features locked into the mission section. The story mode challenge and level up/ job change rewards are locked behind a pay wall for a whopping $22 I personally believe if u we’re to remove this option and make it free more people would willingly spend money to get other rewards if they weren’t lucky enough to get anything from the special summon tickets. Also please fix the loading screen I hate completing a mission and coming back to the loading screen and just sitting there for 2 minutes waiting to load back up to select another option. Can you also add a guild option as well so players can create guilds and gain rewards as a team. Overall this game is a 7/10 and can be so much better please listen to your fan base and customers after all we make this game a success or a failure. Thank you for your time !
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?)
I have an iPhone and the minimum specs for this game is an IPhone XS on the 12.2 OS with 4gb of space free. I have an IPhone 11 on the 16.2 OS, the very recommended system for an iOS user and I even deleted all of my downloaded music and every other game in my phone including wuthering waves, which took way more space and never gave me these kind of performance issues outside its initial launch. I have made ample space on my phone, downloaded and redownloaded the game twice over, cleared the corrupted files, and always make sure to not have any other app playing except for the game, and that includes music. After every update that comes out, the game gets more and more unplayable as I can’t even do the daily missions because I spend three hours trying to get just enough time to beat one stage before the game crashes again and again. I am not even able to fully type out an inquiry explaining the issue in the app before it crashes on me. I love playing this game, but I cannot play because of the constant game crashes. I tried to spread the word about how fun this game is, but if the problem is not resolved soon then I will make sure to never recommend this game to anyone again. Thank you and goodbye
As the title suggests, just another Gacha nothing really new. The only upside is it’s solo leveling so if you’re into that then it’s alright, otherwise there are micro-transactions everywhere! Wanna watch an ad for 2x the rewards? Gotta buy the package for that! Wanna spend all your dungeon tickets at once? Gotta buy the package for that! Wanna do this or that? You guessed it, locked behind another package! Literally all the simple things you’d expect like the 2x rewards by watching an ad is literally locked behind a paywall, gotta pay to watch an ad for 2x rewards, it’s crazy and a stupid idea! Also another thing as the other comments mentioned, the constant loading between screens! Going from one screen to another constantly brings up the buffering circle, once or twice wouldn’t be a problem but when it’s literally everywhere, even when going from mission to mission the amount of time you spend on waiting adds up and half the gameplay is just you waiting to transfer screen, not even playing or doing anything. Lastly, all the original reviews made by people who played this when it came out seems to have been taken down, cause this is the 5th time I’ve written this…
By classic I mean micro transactions galore, but those aside it’s actually a really good game. Action packed, great graphics if your device can handle it, really nice controls which are customizable, takes a bit of time to get used to the mechanics but they never feel like too much or wasted, game is constantly upgrading and getting better with new content at a really good pace that feels like the game designer know when players are getting comfortable, Most the issues ppl complain about are crashes and lagging which are almost entirely dependent on their devices and settings. The only real issue I have with the game is the price of the micro transactions and how much they’re trying to charge for everything, was almost tempted to make a purchase/subscription when I realized the prices are ridiculous, and everything outrageously expensive for a bare minimum amount of in game currency, or bonus loot, that quite honestly you don’t need to purchase to enjoy the game fully.
Consistent glitches and crashes, as well as Ideas!
As much as I wish I could say this game is the perfect 5 star, there are a few things holding it back from that accomplishment. I have been enjoying my time playing this game, and earning many of the generous in game rewards that the company offers, even players who don’t spend money, but through this, I have found a few things happening in my game I hope can be corrected. For example, I have experienced menus opening and being completely unresponsive, crashing at any point of playing, and character models glitching out. These errors are not the end of the world, however they are a inconvenience. For my main ideas, I was hoping your team would be able to implement Guilds into the game for actual in game players to interact through, and further on possible guild bosses or some sort of guild based attacks? I just feel like this may bring the online player-base together a bit more and create a community event besides all against each other. That is all, thanks. My player tag is BlazeHuntXR1 if you need it.
This game has been a complete annoyance to play. Don’t get me wrong, the game is very good and has a lot of potential to be one of the best but there are a few things deterring me from actually grinding and spending my money. The loading screens to begin with. Every time I complete something or go straight back to home there are these loading screens. Now it started of as nothing since I was enjoying the game since release day but now it just sickening of how much this keeps you back from progressing. I thought at least by now it’d be fix. Next is the crashes. What’s up with that? Very often my game would just randomly crash and I have no idea why. I’m playing on an iPhone and fully updated. I play a lot of other games and don’t get this problem. I even tried to go down to the lowest graphical settings at the lowest fps and it still crashes out. You see I want to enjoy the game but it’s very hard to atm. Please address these matters and I’m sure you’ll see better ratings and reviews. For now I have no interest in spending my money on the game and grinding it. Any update I see on the game I will come back because as I said this game is very good and has way too much potential!!
This game really exceeded my expectations. I have experience with other gachas and in this game the rates seem to be a bit better than others. Rewards even within the first few days of playing are pretty huge. The way the added manga/comic style art scenes to tell the story outside important scenes i found to be pretty unique and a really awesome way. There are plenty of game modes to engage in. And the game even has controller support. Something that just caters to the players themselves. Thats pretty impressive. A minor issue would be the load times. They tend to be better at lower resolutions. And i get that this game is able to be played on a computer. And that makes it hard balancing things. Its really only a minor issue overall. But i would love to see the developers invest time into that. The battle and menu mechanics work very well. The art is spot on. It seems everything is well thought out. I cant wait to see where this goes. Thank you for bringing this great story to us in a game!
i’ll start off by saying i’ve been playing the 7DS game made by Netmarble for over 2 years now, so my opinion is valid. this is one of the best mobile games i’ve ever played, both graphical wise and fighting mechanics. i’d go as far to say it’s THE BEST i’ve ever played, had this game on preorder for 4 months and don’t regret a single thing. i’m 2 1/2 days into playing, haven’t spent a dime, and have already drawn a stacked team. i had high hopes for this game when i saw Netmarble was the developer and they absolutely blew my expectations out of the water. my only hope for the future is implementing collabs similar to the 7DS game they have, if done right, could be an absolute game changer and could draw in a ton of new players. all in all, the absolute best mobile game i’ve played in a very very long time! 100% recommend to anyone who’s a fan of this manga/anime and anyone who loves pretty fair gacha games without having to spend money.
I generally dont leave reviews for games, but this one made me really irritated. I get that most games have a tutorial you have to go through in order to both get a grasp of the game and continue on your own, however this one takes most of the control from you. It shows you how to add attribute points, then doesnt allow you to touch your attribute points for a solid 45 min to an hours worth of playthrough, it doesnt give the option to skip the forced walkthrough, and before you can wnd the walkthrough, you have to agree to allow a 3 day free trial of a subscription based buff to be on your account. Yeah you could just immediately turn it back off, but the fact that it forces you to accept it to begin with is not acceptable. When i download games, i expect to be able to be the one playing the game, dont take me through 27 different missions i get no say so in, dont force me to immediately start the next mission immediately, let me play the game. Im not giving this game a chance past the hour or so i already have, its already ruined any enjoyment i might have had by taking the control of the game from me. I get this probably sounds whiny, but it should be the gamers choice, not the games
After a bit of playing the game it gets harder at a fast rate that’s annoying because you’ll have to spend hours grinding to level up not because the story mods that hard because they put a level lock on most of it the graphics and other stuff look good but I need to now why em I timed in the show they were only timed after the dungeon was completely done and the boss was defeated in the game you have 2:30 to defeat most of them in the game they have a lot of bosses but there’s one that can regenerate a quarter of his health and he spams it the shadow army is trash it doesn’t work like anything close to the show it feels like a one time move that dose some more attack they are timed as well witch makes no sense because Jin woo could have them for as long as he wants also the shrink the bear and the rest it’s annoying feels like the devs don’t now how the shadow army work at one point in the story it lets you have them out and at there normal size it feel like the middle finger like we can make them work how they did in the show but we aren’t sorry it such a long review so much wrong with the game I hope the devs watch the show and fix 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
Game is already riddled with micro transactions. Once out of the tutorial you immediately slammed with packs, and a subscription, and gacha mechanics. This usually isn’t a problem, but the sheer amount of things you can buy when this game just launched is crazy. Gameplay is alright, the camera is so annoying, very jumpy, not super easy to control, and the lock on mechanic doesn’t auto target the next enemy after killing one. That usually wouldn’t be an issue either, but again the camera controls aren’t great to begin with. Not to mention the game is terrible optimized. You’re hit with a loading ring after opening any menu, closing any menu, talking to an npc, entering an event, leaving an event, opening the store, opening the gate map. The loading is so unbearable it’s was the final nail in the coffin for me. Not to mention the story is so condensed if you haven’t read or watched the source material, you are going to be so lost and there will be a lot of plot holes, because the game assumes you already know it. It’s really a let down, since I love the manhwa and the anime, but this game just isn’t it. It’s just another copy paste mobile game unfortunately
Adventure Gacha game with some Diablo 3 inspirations
Great game, stays mostly on theme for Solo Leveling, and is a fun way to re-experience the story. The game looks and feels friendly for F2P players if you can tolerate some level-locked content designed to slow you down, if you don’t expect to no-life the game and finish it in a few weeks/month. There’s roughly $2500 worth of discounted content for dolphins, and $2500-$10,000 of additional content you can unlock by purchasing nondiscounted items. Purchases don’t significantly change overall gameplay, and can reduce the skill & fun of the game, and can only recommend them people who have too much money, and enjoy gacha collecting. Servers for leaderboards appear to keep you with people with spent a similar amount of money as yourself.
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.
Great bases of solo leveling but feels out down by monetization
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.
Longest tutorial I've had to do since 05-07 runescape tutorial island. Definitely a buzzkiller early on like a bad thesis statement in an essay or a bad first impression. Also wasn't a fan of the auto play during these first few levels. Game is visually appealing but all n all looks like another missed potential game due to devs not caring and just pushing something out because they know theres a market for it. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if anyone on the dev team weren't actual gamers or mobile gamers at that (or even fans of the franchise). You can make a car pretty as can be on the outside but if it has a bad interior or engine well its a lemon! & the directional dashing is delayed or not fully in sync - either that or the autoplay (which cant be turned off in tutorial) is the issue. Deleting before I make it past level 7. Sorry work gentlemen. Even the tutorial displays repetitive gameplay that relies on lore to keep you hooked. Not a good quality product
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
This is my first review ever for a game. I’m a huge SL fan so I have been waiting in anticipation for this game since the day it was announced. Here’s how I feel so far. I played the pre release and continued onto global, playing every day for 2-8 hours. You can absolutely tackle everything without micro-transactions, it’s just a lot more difficult. The graphics and combat are great, enemy variety is pretty decent too. I hope to see an easier way to obtain certain things like gold and xp just to help with QoL. This elephant in the room is the infamous netmarble micro-transactions, absolutely criminal prices and amounts littered throughout the game. Simple things you could get in a day could cost upwards of $25, absolutely insane levels of greed. Overall, play the game and resist resist resist the urge to drain your bank account. Maybe buy one thing if you really want to but don’t turn yourself into a whale to encourage this behavior.
Man (Don’t mean that genderly, just everyone as a whole), I can’t tell you how happy I am to see solo leveling getting an anime, english prints, and games! I’ve found so much in the past I loved and never thought would get the exposure I felt they deserved, but here we are with this one finally gettin it! But Dang! I play this game almost everyday on mobile and crashes a gazillion (exaggerated) times. Switching between Hunters when the Artifacts Tab is open, Leveling Artifacts, the thing when you fight the dragon, and then the stuff where you get gems. I love this story and love the game its got so far and I’m sure if I had a pc I wouldn’t have these issues, but again here we are. I know it will only get better in the future and can’t wait to see how things go. So if your new to solo leveling I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. Thank you to everyone involved, current, and future fans.
This game is good and it seems fine on my iPhone, unlike what others are saying about it crashing and slow loading times. It’s a good adaptation to the manwha / anime and it seems pretty spot on with the story and how everything looks. But I’m playing the story and it seems like I get stuck at every chapter cuz I have to level up another 2-3 levels. I’m just stuck doing gate missions that are repetitive that don’t give you any xp. Would love to play the story and not pay any money to play the actual game. Kind of getting bored of doing the same thing, haven’t even got to the “Arise” part and I might just delete it if it’s still like this. I really want to play the story but I don’t want to do gates every time I do a chapter of the story. At least give me more xp for each gate like 1-3 K do instead of 350 or 93. Like what?!? Please fix this I want to play this game at work and it’s pretty fun. Otherwise rip solo leveling game.
This game is very good! Amazing high quality, good cutscenes, and even the chances in the banners are fair, as I myself have gotten my fair share of SSRs based on how many gems I’m willing to put into them. There is only one issue, it’s obnoxiously slow paced, leveling can be very annoying due to there not being very good ways to earn exp. You could increase your power level a ton, do 5-10 missions and then boom, you’re stuck. Bosses and missions get increasingly harder with each and every mission. And there’s only so much you can do each day to get enough exp to beat it. When you do beat the boss, now you have to bat the next one which is even harder. Yes, there may be storylines and cutscenes and smaller missions between those boss fights, but it doesn’t give a good enough amount of exp to really make that much of a difference. Solid game, great graphics, slow gameplay.
This game is very good good graphics and good quality. A few things to note for people downloading and for management, please fix the controls the movement joystick is far to the left not making it unplayable just very wierd and kinda annoying also loading can be a bit slow or the game basically crashes again not often enough to make the game unplayable just very annoying to have to navigate through. Overall this is a very good game I haven’t gotten to far into it but I am loving it so far and can see the massive potential it has to not only be a really good solo leveling game but I would say it could be the best anime game on mobile if the devs care enough to listen to their players and update fix and enhance this game. Please please please try this game out if you are a anime or solo leveling fan and please please please devs listen to your player base and don’t just leave the game.
So I love the play style and I’m not a person who is big on in app purchases unless it’s to unlock skins or speed up my leveling. My issue is the game closing itself after a few minutes of you trying to perform your daily collections, upgrades, leveling, fusions, etc. does this no matter how you slow of fast you go. It doesn’t do it while your going from battle to battle. But does do it while your accessing the rest of the app. Odd indeed. Overall it’s a great game but what I’m encountering is the game getting choppy after a few minutes of play wether connected to WiFi or having great reception. If it was an open sandbox/ world, I’m not sure how that would work. But keep updating and I’ll change my rating depending on what’s being done to alleviate these major issues to gameplay. Maybe other have info on what they would love to see in the game to improve other features. Thank you.
Before playing the game i looked through and read the reviews to get an idea. After playing the game for a while (shadow monarch lvl 35 jinwoo) It is super fun, the combat and animations are nice and there’s tons to do with more to come. Sadly, as with all mobile games, there’s tons of micro transactions available. i’m completely free to play and already got 4 ssrs (highest rarity). the cool part is that i wasn’t super lucky, there’s just so many rewards for playing and progressing that ive almost maxed the garuntee ssr rate every time (80 pulls). grinding is fun and rewarding and that’s what makes it okay. you don’t have to spend money to roll for hunters or get anything. if you play what’s available i haven’t been stopped once so far with nothing to do. 5/5 game 4/5 because it’s a mobile game (gacha money grab). it comes to pc Q3 this year looking forward to it
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.
Theres some good and some bad, 4.8 is fake asl its not close to 4.8 good but all these games always get rated to high, basically the graphics/animations/character models are great, the world is nice and it follows the story as you would imagine, the bad stuff comes in with the extreme loading times, its unacceptable for netmarble who usually do well with this, longest load times in any game iv played ever, second is the grind is horrendous, if you think you can auto all your dailys think again once you hit around level 40 the auto is dumb as bricks so itll just die everytime even though you can win easily if you controlled it, but having to do so much daily grind manually is cancer, gold/premium currency/exp basically all recources are hard to come by even with dailies theres no great way to get exp for your weapons, overall its a solid 3 but you will get burnt out especially with how the auto becomes less and less viable as you go
When playing this game I was reminded me of the time when a tie-in video game was a full fledged, console release. These games still happen, Naruto, my hero, one piece, have contemporary tie-in video games. But you no longer see it with smaller IPs, which makes sense. Video games cost a lot of money to make, and making a mobile game with micro transactions is an easy way to make a return. That’s where my disappointment comes in. The framework for a console/feature-length release of a game is in Arise. If the game was available on and designed for Steam or on console, I’d get it. Remember the ps2 era tie-in games were not great, but it didn’t need to be a genre-defining game, it just needed to be fun. And many were. Aris is fun, but I think about the longevity of the game. When the servers for Arise shutdown eventually, what happens to the game? Like many mobile games it will disappear. All that will be left is a faded memory of an ok mobile 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’ve probably never had worse RNG in any gatcha game in my life. There’s no reason my buddies should be pulling ridiculous amount of SSR’s while when spending about a hundred dollars I barely have 6 scattered throughout weapons and characters. Constantly only getting them by hitting pity while everyone else around me pulls double SSR’s and triple banner characters? Gameplay is fun enough but I can’t wait to struggle through end game while everyone else blows through it because my luck was worse than them? Fix your rates, I’ve pulled close to 360 times there is zero reason I should constantly have to hit pity to get a single character or weapon that isn’t even good. I’m back to double down! After unlocking the shadow stuff the game becomes virtually unplayable. I’ve got an iPhone 14 so I should be able to run this perfectly fine but the insurmountable amount of lagged mixed with the garbage pull rates really sets this game apart as the worst gatcha netmarble has ever made
Hi net-marble, I really love the anime and the game interpretation u guys made! Overall this is a great game as it combines skill and time to progress which in my opinion is really great. There r a few things though. One thing that has been bugging me was every time I return to the main screen. It always takes time to load before I can do anything which is quite annoying. I am not sure if it’s a problem in my end though. Another thing is the stick movement. I keep it on semi but control most of the movement I make but it tends to drift to the sides every once and a while which makes me lose quite a bit of time when clearing levels. I also hope that you guys can work on making things more available to f2p people such as myself.
There are a few problems that I personally experienced in the game, one of which being the loading times. There is a loading screen after almost every action, such as closing the player menu, or even finishing a level, where it shows up the loading screen again when you’re trying to read the story. This is really irritating especially since the game takes up 6gb of storage. Second of all, the voices of the in-game story always cut off mid sentence, which is also irritating, sometimes skipping dialogue entirely. I honestly had higher hopes from netmarble and am slightly disappointed by this game, but overall, the gameplay is fun and the story is good. But just fix some of these bugs that have been around since the game’s initial release that the developers have yet to even have attempted to fix.
The game itself is good, but why is it that I have been playing for about 20-30 minutes now and I’m still in the tutorial. the games still trying teach me how to play and trying to show me tips and how to upgrade characters and all that. Solo leveling isn’t the first of its kind. There is no reason for such a Long tutorial it honestly makes me not even want to play the game anymore because of how irritating it is. I guarantee you a good 90 to 95% of the people who play this game; it is not our first time playing games like this. I don’t know if there’s a fix to it but if there is a way please shorten it for other players almost everyone I know who plays share my frustration.
The game is really good, animation to the voices and more, there is only 3 problems about the game that I hope they can fix in the next update. 1) the game loads for everything, I mean in if you tap the menu button it loads and it takes forever, I hope they can fix it to run more smoothly so it doesn’t have to load for each and everything you tap on. 2) the game crashes way too much and I’m having a hard time playing for more than 10min with out the game crashing. 3) because it loads for every button you press, it makes the game lag a lot which makes the game crash, the fighting animations are amazing be I sometimes sit and wait for 5 minutes till the lag stops or the game just crashes, you can’t fight well because of the lag in the fights but when you don’t lag each skills animations looks nice.
Since it’s release it’s obvious this game has good potential and the game play and leveling up of characters seems pretty decent, the issue is, after a certain point you either need to wait to level up skills, weapons and armor of not only the main character, but of all the other support characters you acquire. Summoning items take time to acquire and when you “summon” or draw, it tends to be very disappointing, you will mostly get useless weapons or 1 SR character who after a certain point, are mostly useless. If you want to process quicker within the game, you get a lot, and I mean a LOT, of in game purchase suggestions, like passes and what not. Which make it disheartening and pointless if you just wanted to see the characters grow. Might as well go and read the manwha or grind patiently for days on end
so, like others, yes, the game has wicked graphics and is fun to play, BUT…. whoever did their packet loading should go back to math class. the loading in this game is the absolute worst. there are 3 loading bars just to start the game. once you are in, every time you go to the main hall, the game blue circle loads you again, and i do mean every single time. if you click into a menu and go back to the hall, blue wheel of death is coming for you!! to avoid this, just work out of the menu the best you can. after every mission, blue wheel of death again. after every upgrade, blue wheel of death. it’s constant. the biggest fix to this game would be the loading time and speeding up the upgrade motion on weapons and artifacts. it’s so slow and clunky. battles are fast, but if you touch anything in the menu be ready to wait.
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 really enjoy playing this game especially for it being a mobile game, but my main issue with this game is it constantly crashes over and over again it’s annoying I could be getting my collectibles the game crashes, going to level up my hunters the game crashes, it’s always when I’m in the middle of doing something the games just crashes every time. That’s honestly my biggest problem with this game and I wish it would be fixed, literally I was just playing it and the game just crashed it’s the Third time in a row and I’ve only been playing for 30 mins. If the game didn’t crash as much as it does I would give this game 5 stars but I can’t it’s aggravating and I’ve spent money on this game. Developers please fix this issue.
As a lover of the manga and anime for solo leveling, I’m really enjoying the mobile game as well. However, the game crashed very very frequently (5-10mins) and is very very laggy at times. I usually can’t complete a mission or event that’s B rank or higher without experiencing massive frame rate drops. It’s not uncommon to have less than 1 FPS for a period of a few seconds. Mind you this is all on the absolute lowest graphic settings which I would think would make it not crash as often, also I’m running it on a iPhone 13. Since it’s single player I don’t think this affects the fight itself, but it’s very annoying to deal with. In conclusion, I want this game to succeed, I have fun playing it but there are quite a few fixes needed for it to reach the 5 star rating I think it has the potential for.
I really enjoy the game but when doing “special draws” is annoying because I would get some really good units or weapons but I can “only choose one” and I have to pay monthly just to get one character is insanely frustrating and really stupid, just to spend all that time and get nothing but have to pay monthly for one unit is dumb and the fact that I don’t start off with the MC in his normal blue jacket is is a big no for me or the fact that I don’t get to pay as the MC’s younger looking self before the reawakening and only see it in story mode or memories is annoying along the the stages to level up. I hate the fact I don’t know how to get DIAMONDS or find a tutorial on how to get it beside buying it is annoying. Starting off with at least 2K diamonds is good then knowing how to earn more in game without paying REAL MONEY would be nice.
This game is great and has a beautiful art style. The only complaint I have is the battle system, specifically the auto lock mechanic. The auto lock mechanic is annoying to say the least. When your fighting a pack of monsters, it’s difficult to lock on to a single opponent and focus on that monster alone. It’s also annoying that you need to double tap after every enemy you kill in order to lock onto another enemy. There’s not many issues with the system when it comes to bosses (excluding bosses with minions) ,but the only way to sort of fix it is by going into auto mode instead of fighting manually. But what’s the fun in that? Please improve the system to make battling manually more enjoyable. Thank you.
Everything about this game is fun until you get to a point where you have an issue leveling up enough to complete the story mode. Right around level 35 ish. And then the game also randomly shuts off after playing it for awhile, 35-60mins in. It’s really bogus. Pisses me off honestly bc it takes forever to log back in. I’ve only had it shut off once during gameplay tho so that’s good, but during about 4-6 hours of gameplay it will shut off at least once or twice an hour. Please fix. I know this isn’t the only game by netmarble that does it so fix your mistake please. Other than that the rest is pretty solid. Great graphics and solid battle mechanics. Follows the anime and throws in some side mission stories as well. Would give it 5 stars if those two issues were fixed.
Acquire Skadi, a pistol imbued with the god of winter and the hunt's vengeance! Only available in Solo Leveling:ARISE! Get a Legendary Artifact Set + Sung Jinwoo's Black Suit costume just by playing the game! The adaptation of the webtoon with 14.3 billion views is playable NOW! [The action-packed webtoon comes to life with amazing graphics!] Play as Jinwoo and experience every moment of his climb from the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind to the world’s strongest hunter! Experience the webtoon’s story - and discover brand new exclusive stories! [Play strategically with swappable equipment and skills!] Watch your combat style evolve based on your choices! Dodge with Extreme Evasion, and then strike a killing blow with a perfectly timed QTE skill! [Play as the top hunters from the original story!] All your webtoon favorites are here, including: Ultimate Hunter Choi Jong-In, Beastly Baek Yoonho, and the unparalleled Cha Hae-In! Combine different hunters, abilities, and tactics and form your ultimate team! [Challenge dangerous dungeons and defeat powerful bosses!] As you grow stronger, so do the gates! Form your teams, apply your strategies, clear the gates, and obtain rewards! Tackle an array of different game modes, including massive dungeon raids, boss replays, and Time Attack content where every second counts! [Become the Monarch of Shadows and recruit your army!] Command squads of loyal Shadow Soldiers by extracting the shadows of monsters you have defeated and recruiting them as your new allies! The Hunters Association Premium Subscription is a monthly subscription item, and the price of $9.99 per month (or regional equivalent amount) will be charged to your Apple ID after purchase. Payment is made automatically every month from the first payment date until you cancel the subscription, and your Apple ID account will also be charged when the monthly subscription is renewed. Users can cancel the subscription through their Apple account settings, and if they don't cancel their subscription 24 hours before the next payment date, their subscription may be automatically renewed. (*The subscription cancellation policy is based on the marketplace cancellation policy.) Visit the Official Forums for the latest updates and more information about the game! Official forum: https://forum.netmarble.com/slv_en Official Discord: https://discord.gg/sololevelingarise-gl Official Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SoloLevelingARISE_GL Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoloLevelingARISE.EN Official Twitter(X): https://twitter.com/Sololv_ARISE_GL Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sololeveling.arise ※ This app offers in-app purchases. You can disable this feature by adjusting your device’s settings. ※ By downloading this game, you are agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. - Terms of Service: http://help.netmarble.com/policy/terms_of_service.asp?locale=en - Privacy Policy: https://help.netmarble.com/terms/privacy_policy_en?lcLocale=en
