As D'Angelo Wallace claims: 'One doesn't play Raid: Shadow Legends so much as one watches Raid: Shadow Legends.' In fact, the game even included an 'auto-battle function' so you can skip the 'thrilling gameplay' altogether. False advertising: The game claims that it has 'thrilling gameplay', but it's literally just like any other turn-based RPGs, just turn-based clicking.While Raid claims that it has more than thousand champions, it's very hard to collect even a fraction of them due to how much the gacha system is rigged against you.Because of the pay-to-win nature of the game, making progress in it is actually quite difficult without spending money in some way, as the game keeps on tossing you useless materials.Every time you head back to the main menu, it thrusts a bunch of promotional 'pay-to-win' pop-ups in your face, and even something as simple as unequipping a rune (which should be available for free) can cost large amounts of resources.

The game's underlying structure also encourages aggressive spending.However, many of these materials are obtained from time-limited events, which are nearly impossible to win without decent heroes or something green and flat out of your wallet.

It's very difficult to obtain legendary heroes and the only other option in the game is to summon them by collecting various materials, leveling, and promoting other characters.

Again, like many games of this genre, Raid may be free-to-play, but it is also blatantly pay-to-progress.

Many examples of this type of game such as Epic 7, Fate/Grand Order and Summoners War have existed on mobile platforms for a very long time and the only major difference Raid has is that it has a more western fantasy style while almost all other gachas tend to adopt an animesque style.

Over-saturation: Although it claims to be one of the most 'ambitious' mobile games of 2018, it's yet another gacha-based fantasy turn-based RPG that has been all but done to death.

Raid: Shadow Legends is a free-to-play fantasy gacha RPG developed and published by Israeli game developer Plarium Games for mobile and PC.

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