Drei Jahre nach seiner erfolgreichen Markteinführung und dem laufenden Betrieb in Japan wurde SINoALICE endlich weltweit für Android- und iOS-Player verfügbar gemacht. Das Spiel wurde von Pokelabo entwickelt, der gleichen Firma, die uns Symphogear XD gebracht hat, produziert von Square Enix und unter der Regie von Yoko Taro, bekannt für seine Arbeit an den Spieleserien Drakengard und NieR.
Während man leicht sagen kann, dass jedes RPG für sich einzigartig ist, zeichnet sich SINoALICE durch seine Unkonventionalität aus. Von seinem dunklen Fantasy-Thema bis hin zu seinen Kernmechaniken und -funktionen wird SINoALICE selbst erfahrenen RPG-Enthusiasten definitiv ein einzigartiges Erlebnis bieten.
Es gibt immer noch einige vertraute Funktionen und Spielmodi in SINoALICE, an die sich erfahrene Spieler leicht gewöhnen werden, und der automatische Kampf ist früh zugänglich. Die Prämisse und Erzählung, die es bietet, kann bereits als Leckerbissen für Spieler dienen, die die Geschichte eines Spiels über andere Dinge stellen, und sein einzigartiges Gameplay bietet genügend Herausforderungen, die den Verstand und die strategischen Fähigkeiten jedes Spielers auf die Probe stellen können.
SINoALICE findet in der Bibliothek statt, einem Ort zwischen Fantasie und Realität, der die Geschichten der Welt enthält. Mit weiblichen Charakteren, die auf populären fiktiven Büchern und Geschichten basieren, zielt jede einzelne darauf ab, die Autoren ihres Buches wiederzubeleben und sich wieder mit ihnen zu verbinden. Um voranzukommen und die gewünschte Geschichte abzuschließen, muss jedoch Blut vergossen werden, da jeder Charakter alle anderen Charaktere töten muss.
Es gibt definitiv eine Menge Informationen und Funktionen in SINoALICE, die jeder neue Spieler früh aufgreifen und verstehen muss, und ehrlich gesagt kann es überwältigend erscheinen, selbst wenn Sie ein erfahrener oder sogar ein erfahrener Spieler sind. Aufgrund der Abweichung von Standard- und konventionellen RPGs reicht es möglicherweise nicht aus, dem Tutorial und den Anweisungen im Spiel genaue Beachtung zu schenken, um die Spieler auf den neuesten Stand zu bringen, um alle Mechanismen des Spiels zu verstehen.
In einigen Fällen kann es sich beim ersten Durchspielen wie eine Informationsüberflutung anfühlen, obwohl Sie dennoch gute Fortschritte machen werden, da die ersten Kämpfe einfach sein sollen. Egal, ob Sie in einer bestimmten Herausforderung stecken bleiben oder einfach nach effizienteren Wegen suchen, um Ihre Punkte zu erhöhen und schnell durch Ihre Quests voranzukommen, dann sehen Sie sich unten unseren SINoALICE-Anfängerleitfaden an. Wir haben eine Reihe nützlicher Tipps, Cheats und Strategien zusammengestellt, um Ihr Abenteuer in Gang zu bringen!
1. Wie man für mehr SR- oder S-Waffen in SINoALICE erneut würfelt
Im Gegensatz zu herkömmlichen Gacha-Rollenspielen, bei denen Sie zufällig Einheiten oder Helden ziehen und sammeln, konzentriert sich SINoALICE auf die Waffen, die Sie durch das Grimoire beschwören können, und Charaktere in der Geschichte dienen als Gefäße für diese Waffen. Bevor Sie Ihre Reise überhaupt beginnen, während Sie in die dunkle und bizarre Welt von SINoALICE eintauchen, werden Sie mit einer kostenlosen 11-fachen Beschwörung begrüßt, um Ihren Helden mit Waffen auszurüsten, die Ihre Punkte oder Macht steigern.
Im Gegensatz zu allen anderen Beschwörungen, die Sie in Ihrem Abenteuer haben werden, ist dies die kritischste, da Sie so oft neu würfeln können, wie Sie möchten, bis Sie zufällig auf einen Zug stoßen, den Sie zumindest als zufriedenstellend betrachten können. Nachdem Sie die Waffen, die Sie erhalten können, aufgedeckt haben, können Sie ganz einfach auf die Schaltfläche „Ein weiteres Grimoire beschwören“ unten links auf dem Bildschirm tippen.
Normalerweise werden Sie bei jedem 11-fachen Zug 3 hellfarbige Bücher bemerken, und dies sind die Waffen der SR- oder S-Klasse. Einige Spieler erwägen, sich für mehr Waffen zu entscheiden, die Jobs freischalten, und während dies für Waffen der SR-Klasse üblich ist, können einige Waffen der S-Klasse auch Jobs freischalten. Für andere funktioniert es besser, sich in Ihrem ersten Zug für mehr Waffen des gleichen Typs zu entscheiden, da jeder Job eine spezialisierte Waffe hat, so dass es vorteilhafter ist, mehr Waffen des Typs zu haben, den Ihr bevorzugter Job verwendet.
Eine weitere Option sind Pulls, die mehr SR- oder S-Waffen enthalten. Denken Sie daran, dass die Mindestanzahl seltener Züge beim ersten Zug 3 beträgt, aber es besteht immer die Möglichkeit, mehr zu verdienen. Der Grund dafür ist, dass Sie auch SR- und S-Klasse-Waffen als Sekundärwaffen benötigen. Selbst wenn sie nicht der Typ sind, auf den Ihr Charakter spezialisiert ist, können sie dennoch dazu beitragen, Ihre Punkte zu erhöhen.
Wenn Sie den Pull versehentlich akzeptiert haben, aber dennoch einen Reroll durchführen möchten, müssen Sie die Spieldaten und den Cache löschen, wenn Sie auf Android spielen, oder das Spiel deinstallieren und neu installieren, wenn Sie auf iOS spielen. Wir möchten darauf hinweisen, dass ein Rerolling überhaupt nicht notwendig ist, um Fortschritte zu erzielen, insbesondere in der Anfangsphase des Spiels, und einige Spieler halten es ehrlich gesagt für spannender und herausfordernder, mit den Waffen zu spielen, die sie erhalten from their first set of pulls. To have an advantage, however, and consequently save you more time later in the game, rerolling is an important instrument to take advantage of.
2. Focus On Progressing Through The Main Story
RPGs typically provide a story within which the reasons or drive for you push forward with your journey are introduced and developed. Though SINoALICE does not exhibit flashy cutscenes, the textual narrative that it presents as you progress through certain stages of the main story provides a deeper understanding of each character’s background and dark history.
Beyond the actual story, though, chapters in SINoALICE’s main story serve as your initial source of the most important resources you need to obtain and strengthen your weapons, gears, and characters. To start off, weapons, armor, upgrade materials, as well as nightmares are common drops from the story stages. EXP, gold, and mastery points are also obtained from each battle.
As gold serves as the basic currency, you will never run out of a need for it. EXP is needed to rank up your account and each rank you achieve increases the maximum cost limit of the weapons you can equip, effectively increasing your capacity to equip more weapons and have higher points or power. Mastery points are necessary to level up your chosen job.
Completing each stage for the first time rewards you with Twilight Crystals, which is a premium currency you need to summon more weapons or purchase premium items. If you manage to complete all 3 objectives in a stage for the first time as well, you will be rewarded with even more Twilight Crystals. As such, make it a point to check all 3 objectives before you engage the stage. The initial levels are very easy so you are expected to breeze through most of it with ease, regardless of your chosen character job and the weapons you have equipped.
At the pre-battle screen, you can swipe to the right to see the 3 story missions you have to clear to obtain more Twilight Crystals. You can tap and hold on the boss icon as well to see its details, particularly its strengths and weaknesses. Although you can easily beat the earlier stages of the story, it will eventually become important to see what you will be going up against so if at some point you start experiencing difficulties clearing a level, then this is something to look into and prepare for.
3. Choose The Character Job That Suits Your Preferences And Play Style
Like all other RPGs, the perennial question of which character or job is best prevails in SINoALICE as well. While some sources may provide a tier list addressing this concern as much as others do so for weapons, there are actually no better or worse characters or jobs. At the very least, jobs you unlock via the grimoire gacha will prove to be a bit stronger than those you unlock for free in your adventure as the stat and skill bonuses per level gained is better. Just the same, it all boils down to what you are more comfortable with, especially given the different battle scenarios in the game.
To start off, your first decision point is whether to have your main setup focused on DPS or support. For DPS, the available jobs are the Breaker, Crusher, Gunner, and Paladin. Although each of these classes specialize in using the sword, hammer, bow and gun, and polearm respectively; they can equip and use all these weapons in battle. The support classes are the Cleric, Minstrel, Sorcerer, and Mage. They specialize on using the staff, instrument, tome, and orb respectively and can likewise equip and use all these types of weapons.
You will get to choose a job at the start of your adventure and will most likely obtain more from the grimoire gacha later. If you still find it a challenge to choose from among the jobs in your collection, it is a good idea to consider one based on the most dominant weapon type currently in your inventory. As this may change over time as well, consider the traits of each weapon type, most especially at the hands of jobs that specialize in using them.
Swords inflict single target physical damage while hammers can deal physical damage to 1 or 2 enemies. Bows and guns are the same and deal magical damage to a single target while polearms deal magical damage to 1 or 2 enemies. The staff can provide healing to allies and the instrument can provide a variety of buffs to 2 allies. Tomes can inflict debuffs on enemies while orbs deal multi-target magical damage. Note that on top of these basic ability types, some weapons may have a variety of added effects.
There are also 3 different elements available in the game that follow the proverbial “rock-paper-scissors” of determining advantages and disadvantages in combat. While characters and jobs do not necessarily have these elements, weapons and enemy nightmares are subject to elemental affinities so considering a good mix of weapons with different elements can impact the outcome of battle.
The 3 elements in SINoALICE are fire, water, and wind. Fire is strong against wind but is weak against water. Water is strong against fire and weak against wind. Wind is strong against water but is weak against fire. At the gear screen, the number of weapons per element you have equipped can be seen at the details of your set. Be sure to at least have one of each element for general purposes although later on, some battles may require you to have more of a particular element.
There is a limit to the number of weapons you can equip and use in battle as well as the ones you can use on your sub-grid. Each weapon has a set cost and the maximum cost of weapons you can carry is dependent on your rank, which is why you should take advantage of the overabundant AP you will have early on and the infinite purification to replenish it that is available until rank 20.
You can easily see the number of weapons you can equip on the main grid as well as the cost you are using relative to the cap at the gear menu. Clicking the “Recommended” button auto equips gears based on your preferences but later on, manually choosing the main gears will be the recommended option.
4. Be Selective When Upgrading Gears
As we mentioned earlier, weapons, armor, and nightmares you can equip on your hero all follow the same rarity grade system. For weapons, there are only 3 rarity grades for the ones that can be equipped with SR being the highest and A being the lowest. As far as SR-grade weapons are concerned, investing in them should be of utmost priority.
At this point, you should already know that from among the SR-grade weapons you have, the types that you character’s job specializes on should be of utmost priority. There are weapons that are exclusively used as upgrade materials denoted by the EXP indicator on the upper right side of their icon. You can also use other weapons as materials but it is best to consider consuming the EXP weapons first. Once you have maxed out your SR weapons and still have plenty of upgrade materials, then that would be the time to consider upgrading lower tier weapons.
The same concept of upgrading applies to both armor and nightmare and the these two types of gears are a little harder to obtain and farm, you should still consider saving resources for higher grade tiers of both. In truth, focusing on upgrading weapons should suffice to give you enough strength to plow through most of the early PvE content so you should wait until you secure an armor piece or a nightmare worth upgrading before you invest in them.
SINoALICE makes it worth getting duplicates of weapons and nightmares you already have as you can use duplicates to Limit Break them. Under the Limit Break option of the Upgrade and Sell menu at the bottom of the screen, you can sacrifice up to 4 duplicates to increase the level cap of a weapon or nightmare. Each dupe sacrificed increases the max level by 5 and also increases the cap of skill level by 1.
Once a weapon, armor, or nightmare has reached its maximum level, you can evolve them to the next rarity level using evolution materials. There are different dungeon-like game modes available throughout the week where you can farm evolution materials to evolve weapons and armors. Each one caters to a unique element in the case of weapons and a separate dungeon is available for armors. Evolution materials for nightmares are much harder to obtain and are currently only available through the medal exchange.
5. Remember To Level Up And Upgrade Jobs That You Use
Relative to upgrades and enhancements of weapons, armors, and nightmares, it is important to strengthen your hero as well, more specifically, the job you selected to use. We mentioned earlier that despite SINoALICE not having any tier lists for characters and jobs, the ones you unlock from securing weapons at the grimoire gacha typically offer better stat and skill bonuses per level. As such, if you are still using the character and job you selected at the start of your adventure, you may want to consider checking your roster of jobs and choose another, preferably from the gacha.
As each battle you engage in earns you mastery points, you will need to consume these as these points basically serve as EXP that can level up the job rank. Note that each rank up offers a bonus that can be categorized under 2 types. The first one is a class bonus that only applies to the job you are spending mastery points on and the latter applies to all classes or jobs. In this sense, you should prioritize levelling up the job you are using but still consider investing mastery points on other jobs as the common stat bonuses will benefit you just the same.
Similar to weapons and nightmares, you can also limit break jobs and boost their level cap. Instead of duplicates however, the required materials are arcana specific to the character and job, which can be obtained through natural progression in the story mode, some special events, or through the medal exchange feature. It can only be done once and will increase the level cap from 10 to 12.
6. Join A Guild As Soon As You Can
Another reason to push through the main story is that you need to clear chapter 3 to unlock the guild faction in SINoALICE. Whether or not you have played other online RPGs before, chances are that you are already familiar with player groups systems although it may be called differently. Guilds, alliances, factions, or any similarly-themed player groups will always have benefits with no drawbacks, which is why whenever a feature is available in a game, it is always best to align yourself with one.
The PvP aspect of SINoALICE, which is the colosseum, can only be accessed if you are a member of a guild. Beyond being accessible only if you have joined a guild for 24 hours, another unique element of the colosseum is its’ very time-limited availability each day. Depending on the guild, you will only be able to partake for 20 minutes so be sure to take not of its availability at the upper right side of the main screen. While it is easier to plow through most of SINoALICE’s PvE content with a DPS main job, healers and support jobs will always find it easier to join a guild.
Decision as to which guild wins a match is based on damage dealt and as the gameplay sides heavily on team strategy and teamwork, you should be prepared to prove your worth to your chosen guild as early as your first participation in the colosseum. Do note that you will not be able to change your main gears as well as your sub ones 30 minutes prior to the start of a match.
If you feel that you are not among the 5 strongest members of the guild, you might as well switch to a support job as you will automatically be considered for the rear side in combat, given the strongest 5 members are automatically deployed to the front lines to serve as the main damage-dealers.
Beyond the colosseum, your guild will also serve as a great source of players whom you can engage co-op battles with. Although you can add friends outside of the members of your guild, chances are that if you join an active one, more will be available to join you on story or event missions you have already cleared. It is important to note that clearing a co-op battle is among the daily missions that you should strive to complete regularly.
7. Accomplish Missions For Extra Rewards
On top of the outright rewards you receive from completing battles, more can actually be earned through the missions in the game that you can access via its icon at the lower right side of the main screen. There are main missions, daily missions, and event missions. Each tab contains a list of objectives that either relate to the usual activities you should engage in as you play the game or limited ones that arise for a limited period within an event.
The main missions actually relate to achievements or milestones that you reach as an indicator of your overall progress in the game. These typically offer one-time rewards but are usually more valuable than the daily mission rewards and become harder to accomplish as you progress further. There are only a few objectives to clear under the daily missions but the colosseum participation, as well as the co-op mode mission makes it difficult for some to fully accomplish.
Note that clearing all daily mission objectives will reward you with a cleaning ticket, which is a very valuable item that can replenish your AP past rank 20. Event missions can only be accomplished within a certain period of time but also provides rewards that can be difficult to obtain anywhere else.
8. Take Advantage Of Various Events
Most game modes in SINoALICE fall within the story icon at the bottom of the screen. Within it, though, you can access not just the main story, but co-op mode and various events as well. Some events are available all the time while others are available only on specific days of the week, specific hours within the day, or for a limited-period of time. As the game is loaded with tons of events, discussing each one in detail will take too long for a beginner’s guide. In any case, clicking on each banner within the events section can give you simple summary of what the event is about and the potential rewards you can earn from it.
Outside of battles, some events that you should work towards taking advantage of is the Running Start Event and Rookies’ Path. The Running Start Event can actually be viewed under the “Event” tab of missions and has no indicated time limit. Various SR-grade weapons along with other valuable rewards can be earned by completing each objective so be sure to browse through the list of accomplishable feats and push to clear each one of them.
On the home screen, you can access the Rookes’ Path event and it contains 18 missions you need to achieve to earn various valuable rewards. These objectives all relate to the usual activities you engage in as you play the game and serves as a guide as well for you to be able to explore all of the game’s features. Missions may only be shown one at a time but you can complete some missions you have not yet viewed and they will automatically appear cleared once you have accomplished the prior objective.
There are certainly a lot more details to grind through in the unique fantasy world of SINoALICE but for now, this is where we will end our beginner’s guide. We certainly hope that you picked up a lot of learnings from our guide and that you enjoyed reading it as well. If you have played SINoALICE a bit extensively and have your very own tips or tricks you want to share with us, do not hesitate to do so and let us know about them in the comment area!