You’ll begin Infinity Nikki in a fairly simple story, however at its core, it’s a gacha cellular sport. Which means Infinity Nikki comes with all of the anticipated programs: rolling for outfits, stamina that replenishes over time however has a cap, and a few sort of upgrading system. Nonetheless, as you play, you might marvel what the deal is with all of this.
For those who’re acquainted in any respect with comparable open-world gacha video games like Wuthering Waves, Genshin Influence, or Tower of Fantasy, you’ll know that after you catch as much as the story, you’ll end up in the identical gameplay loop. You utilize your stamina to farm for supplies to improve your characters and weapons. After beefing issues up decently, you’ll begin farming for particular person tools items that get randomized stats when upgrading — thus making a considerably infinite grind. Is that this the identical in Infinity Nikki? Nicely, sort of.
(Observe that this data is from a closed beta that we performed shortly earlier than the sport launched, so there could also be barely differing data within the reside model of the sport.)
What’s the fight like in Infinity Nikki?
The fight in Infinity Nikki is very simple. Nikki can blast orbs at enemies. Most enemies you discover all over the world may be one-shot, with some needing two hits. There are boss fights the place you’ll must dodge assaults, look ahead to a gap, after which assault on the proper time — however there’s no option to get by way of these fights any faster by dealing extra harm. Nikki’s assaults seem to do a set worth and also you don’t improve her gear to dish out extra harm.
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So why am I leveling up my outfits in Infinity Nikki?
You do must beef up Nikki’s garments for a distinct purpose. Slightly than including offensive stats to clothes, you’ll must improve its visible stats as a way to full harder styling duels.
You’ll want to finish a couple of lower-level styling duels as you play by way of the story, however there are a number of optionally available factions to tackle all over the world. You’ll be offered with challenges, and after finishing sufficient of them, you’ll have the ability to tackle a giant boss for rewards like Diamonds (the premium foreign money) and even recipes to craft extra garments. Among the early styling duels may be performed with default garments at low ranges, however you will want to enhance your stuff as a way to absolutely full among the later duels.
That is the place the gameplay loop is available in. You possibly can solely improve your garments a lot, and also you’ll want to lift your Mira Degree (your participant stage) to raise that improve cap. Spending stamina (referred to as “Important Power”) and finishing quests will web you a great deal of EXP to lift your Mira Degree.
Are there randomized stats and equips I must ‘farm’ in Infinity Nikki?
Probably not. There’s extra tools referred to as “Eureka” that you simply’ll wish to acquire to additional your styling duel factors. These are collected by way of spending stamina at warp spires and you may stage them up so as to add extra stats to them.
Whereas their colour will randomly change after they’re maxed out, it didn’t seem that the stats “rolled” randomly the way in which that stats do within the aforementioned gacha video games, so you possibly can safely simply seize one in all every (or extra, if you’d like a particular colour), with out having to farm these for ages. So, no, there are not any randomized stats, however sure, there are equips you’ll wish to acquire.
In a manner, you’re doing the aforementioned gameplay loop that traces up with these different open-world gacha video games. You’re leveling up gear and whatnot, although the tactic, purpose, and grind is simply fairly completely different.
That’s to say, you don’t actually need to do any of this. You possibly can spend your time accumulating Whimstars, catching bugs, and finishing facet quests whereas largely ignoring this part of the sport, in the event you’re not into the grind or the min-max — however the styling duels are a serious part of the Nikki franchise and also you received’t have the ability to make the enduring miracle outfit with out taking over the faction leaders. You will want to make the miracle outfit to hit the ultimate factors of the sport (as of launch), although you possibly can get pleasure from your time in Mira Land doing different stuff, in the event you so want.
For those who’re in search of extra information about Infinity Nikki, we’ve got a newbie’s information, a listing of codes, and a information noting the place to unlock extra garments.
