First off I want to say that Azur Lane is the gacha game I play most consistently, even more than Genshin and Star Rail. My main is ~Level 90 and I’m a dolphin player, which means I do spend a bit. Been playing since around Jan of 2024. Now, for F2P and low spenders, PLEASE be advised that although using your gems on skins and cubes may be tempting, investment in dock space is the way to go if you plan on playing long-term. The game has over 600 characters, and you start out with only 150 slots. I personally have enough dock space for all my characters and extra, but that is only because I spend. However, the game takes up a massive amount of storage. I used to be able to keep both Azur Lane and Genshin on my phone at once, but over the past year and a half this has become impossible. Even without downloading any extra assets here (voice, l2d, private quarters) it doesn’t work. So if you plan on downloading other resource-intensive games, maybe try playing Azur Lane with the emulator BlueStacks instead. Now with that said, I still love AL. It incentivizes daily activity, I find the characters to be lovable and compelling, and many top tier ships are obtainable outside of the gacha system, by conducting “research”. Would be a solid 5 out of 5 if the storage wasn’t such a problem for me. Also yes, this game has suggestive content and LOTS of it. Be prepared if you decide to download. Peace out!

The game is good and I have an enjoyable time playing it, but there is a problem that needs to be fixed. When I started playing this game, I ended up amassing a large amount of oil from the rewards from the inbox that exceeds the max amount of oil. I could not get more oil from the academy, but I could get extra oil along with the other stuff that comes with the oil. I would play this game quite often but I wouldn’t really use up a lot of oil. Then, at some point a new update came out. I don’t really know when the update came, but when I decided to hop back on one day, I checked my inbox and tried to collect the rewards in it. Here’s where the problem arises. I can’t collect any of the rewards that include oil in them. Now, this would be understandable if I had the max amount of oil. I would simply just play the game a bit, spend some oil, and collect the rewards. Not very difficult to do. But, as of right now, I have like 27,000 oil. My max oil is 5,000. There is nothing in the game that lets me spend that much oil. I would have to level up to raise my max oil or just try and spend it by doing sorties. I don’t really want to spend hours trying to get rid of unneeded oil just to collect something. Could you please fix this problem. The amount of oil I have does not matter to me. I do not need any more oil. I wouldn’t care if you decided to take away all of that oil at this point.

Azur Lane is probably one of the best mobile games I have ever played. The dev team at Yostar is some of the nicest people behind a game that has a huge fan-base. When they take more time then they anticipated, the player base is rewarded with compensation for the time that they spend updating and improving the gaming experience. They aren’t greedy with the pricing of enhancement packs and make the game friendly to those who don’t want to spend money on the game. Sure you can buy outfits for your shipgirls and buy packs that would boost your progress, but the main thing is that you don’t have to if you don’t want to. The game can get difficult though as you pass through the stages, but with enough grinding, you’ll be able to pass them. The only thing that could potentially dull the greatness of this game is the RNG system behind the stage drops and ships that are built. However, when you receive the long anticipated shipgirl after days, weeks, or even months of grinding (I’m guilty of that lol), it feels very rewarding when you get them. It’s a game where saving up resources will give you more support when big events come along. There are breaks that the dev team gives the players after these events to give enough time to save up more resources for the next event. Overall, Azur Lane is a very friendly game that doesn’t force you to pay a single penny. I’ve played for around 6 months now and I’ve never gotten bored of the fun grinding and socializing with other captains who also play the game.

Ever since I started playing Azur Lane it has been a great time. I was enjoying the game and patiently waiting for the next banner for the new ship. Then, finally the new UR came out, the new ship looked amazing and I’ve been saving cubes forever. There was just one problem, the coins. Now why do we need 1500 gold for EACH ship build. For newer players and ftp players that’s just insane. I’ve spent a good amount of money into this game and guess where I had to put it into, the coins. I thought at first that we would be able to get any character with the amount of cubes we got, but no coins were the real issue. There aren’t enough sources for coins. Yes, a coin storage, campaign, and events, but that’s hardly enough. Campaign literally gives you a couple 100 coins at BEST. That’s insane and I would have to do a whole days of farming for about 2 rolls. This is just unfair and coins are a big problem. Ship building should cost less coins, or more ways of getting coins should be incorporated into the game. Also, the 1.2% UR rates just seem unreal. They are high for a gacha game, but I’ve personally rolled over 100 times and haven’t gotten the new ship as well as people I know have t received the new ship in over 100 rolls. Seems a bit weird. I apologize for my rant, maybe I’m just upset at my misfortune, but I believe that receiving more coins would really improve the game.