#Unlimited Gacha Memoria

[magiamemoriareview]

Slowly, But Steadily

Obtainability: Unlimited. This is event bonus memoria and it should be kept in case of a rerun.  

Single Effect: Defense Up [22.5%] & Damage Cut [20%] & Attack Down (Self) [25%]

MLB Effect: Defense Up [30%] & Damage Cut [25%] & Attack Down (Self) [25%]

Effect Definitions:

Defense Up increases the target’s base defense stats. Defense Up is generally worse than Damage Cut.

Damage Cut reduces the damage from incoming attacks onto the equipped character, and its effects are calculated after buffs/debuffs are considered. Damage Cut is generally better than Defense Up.

TLDR: “Slowly But Steadily” is useful for S3-tier gameplay in Ranked Mirrors. It’s possible that memoria like this might become more important in the future, so if you care about Ranked, keep this one. If you don’t, use it as Enhancement Fodder.

Review: You might be looking at “Slowly But Steadily” and wondering who the hell this memoria could possibly be useful to. You wouldn’t be alone. It’s certainly not useful for the average player.

However, there is a place where this memoria might shine... Ranked Mirrors. Particularly after the March 2023 changes, where longer battles don’t penalize the player.

This means that it was in a player’s best interest to keep a battle going until they reached the ideal number of Doppels, a Charge bonus of 20+, and several connects. The problem with this is that you also don’t want to murder your opponent while doing this, and preferably you also want to survive if your opponent uses Magia/Doppels themselves.

The solution? Equip memoria like this, which give you high defensive capability while cutting down your offensives.

If you’re wondering, the answer is yes: Ranked Mirrors is insane.

The average player isn’t going to care about this though. Unless you’re aiming for S3 to be the top of the top, don’t feel like you need to bust this one out. 

It’s possible that this memoria (and memoria like it) could be more important in the future, so for now put this in the Memoria Vault Jail. However, if you really don’t care about Ranked whatsoever and are content to use solo Charge or solo Blast to get your placements, you can treat this one as Enhancement Fodder.

[muffinrecord]

What's this I hear about hundreds of free rolls?

As you can see at the bottom, we get a total of 660 free rolls, spread out over several gachas-- including two memoria versions (unlimited and limited) and two magical girl versions (unlimited and limited)!

I recommend joining the big Magia Record discord. They have a section where they translate news!

[megucahistorianofficial]

So I know Muffin Record has already done a useful breakdown of which memoria to choose in the current limited gacha but I figured I'd do a more in depth guide so that people can make choices specific to what their account needs and also because I just thought it would be fun. I will be going over each memoria in the order it's listed.

Serial Connect

The amount of Damage Increase it gives is very high but the boost to Doppel damage is low when compared to Voice of the Shell or Wavering Loyalty. Overall a good pick for Doppel spammers.

The World my Big Sister Can See

One of the best picks you can make. It's specifically made for flame girls but magia spammers of any kind can appreciate the Magia Up and MP Gain up. You really can't go wrong with this one.

The Route to Chase the Dream

Very solid memoria that's specifically made for aqua blasters but can can be used by blasters of any element. A solid choice if you're in need of a good blast passive.

Wavering Loyalty

One of the best magia actives in the game, it's made with dark types in mind but the Magia and Doppel Up buffs are high enough that any doppel spammer can use it. A great choice.

Could Not Throw It Away

This is essentially an even better version of this unlimited memoria. One of the best mirrors memoria but if you already have that other one I'd probably go for something else.

Brief Piece of Mind

This is one of the ones I'd recommend the least, it's not bad by any means but it's a bit niche, being made primarily for flame blasters in a charge/blast comp. It's very good for the Aquamarine kimochi but is not better than other blast actives in most other scenarios.

Guided by the Voice of the Shell

Identical to Wavering Loyalty but instead of boosting dark types it boosts aqua types.

Watching Over a Small First Dream of the Year

The most general-purpose memoria in the entire selection, you can slap it on magia or blast units. If you want a memoria that you can use on any kind of offensive unit it's a good choice but if you want something more specialized I'd go for something else.

Towards the True Conclusion

This memoria buffs both magia damage and MP gain at the same time so if you need a memoria that does either of those things this is a good choice. However if you have rolled MadoIro or plan to do so in the future be aware that there's an active on that gacha that is a strict upgrade to this one.

Magical Girls Are Sorcerers

A very handy memoria to have for Ranked Mirrors because it negates the ever present Skill Seal ailment (even when not MLBd) while giving a very nice damage increase. Outside of Ranked it's still good but you might be better off using something with more general effects.

Fairy Tale Entrusted with a Prayer

Another one of the best picks, offers a nice attack buff and buffs MP Gain. Not much else to say, it's just good.

Never Ending Fairy Tale

It offers a nice magia damage buff but I wouldn't recommend it over the aforementioned magia actives. 100% burn is nice but not better than an additional buff or debuff imo.

[doppel-drop-distance]

The Dubiously Needed, Unnecessarily Extensive Magia Record Stat Sheet Guide (Rarity)

This is a bit of a weird one to start with. Rarity…has absolutely no influence on a character’s canonical strength. It is a purely gacha-based mechanic, intended to sort characters for a gacha-based purpose. Really, it has no place in an OC guide. It’s not like we’re going to be pumping out mods with our own OCs tomorrow. (Though, if we do that, hit me up, I would be so down.)

However…a character’s rarity does influence a unit’s stats. So I felt like it would be wrong of me not to mention it. A 2⋆ unit and a 3⋆ unit with the same type and growth type will have different stats and that can be disorienting. So, here’s a quick overview. 

A character’s base rarity can be anything from ⋆ to ⋆⋆⋆⋆. 1 ⋆ characters are generally not included in the gacha and are instead given out for free or bought in an event shop. 2 ⋆ and 3 ⋆ characters can be either bought in an event shop or rolled in the gacha. 4 ⋆ characters are almost always gacha-exclusive. In this context, stars determine a character’s rarity. 

The more stars a character has, the stronger their base stats are. This can be evened out to some degree with Awakening, where any character can be raised up to 5 ⋆ with the stats to match. However, a character with a higher rarity will always have a higher stat total than a character with a lower rarity. 

To give you an example, here are two units of two different rarities, but the same element, type, and growth type, at maximum Awakening. Keep in mind that this is without memoria, Spirit Enhancement or Attribute Enhancement. 

Tsuruno Yui (2⋆, Flame, Magia Type, ATTACK Growth Type)

HP: 18,927

ATK: 8,552

DEF: 6,056

Touka Satomi (4⋆, Flame, Magia Type, ATTACK Growth Type)

HP: 21,019

ATK: 9,803

DEF: 6,072

Though Tsuruno and Touka both have Attack-focused stats, it is Touka with the higher Attack stat, as she has the higher rarity. She also has higher HP and slightly higher Defense. 

What does this mean for character creation? Uh…well, it could mean something, or it could mean nothing. It really depends on how specific you want to be with your stat totals. 

How you decide your characters’ rarity is totally up to you. You could rank them lowest to highest, based on their level of skill. Or you could make them all 4⋆ because you love them! This is totally valid! I have done the same thing many times. 

As a final note, there is some difference between unlimited and limited 4⋆. This is another purely gacha-based designation. Unlimited characters can be pulled on any banner at any time, while limited characters are only available on a banner for a specified period. This does not matter for us. What DOES matter is that limited characters often have better stats than unlimited characters, because gacha games gotta make that money. Example part 2!

Ren Isuzu (4⋆, Dark, Magia Type, BALANCE Growth Type)

HP: 21,420

ATK: 9,128

DEF: 6,844

Kanagi Izumi - Vampire ver. (4⋆, Dark, Magia Type, BALANCE Growth Type)

HP: 22,524

ATK: 10,004

DEF: 7,016

As you can see, while Ren and Vampire Kanagi are both 4⋆, Vampire Kanagi has the higher total in each stat. 

Not all of these differences are significant (Ren and Vampire Kanagi have like a 200-point difference in their Defense stats), but I wanted to mention it for any further discrepancies. Again, whether this matters to you or not is your own personal interpretation! I promise, nobody is going to yell at you if your unlimited OC’s ATK stat is 20 points past the unlimited threshold. They aren’t characters you can actually roll for, so balance is a meaningless concept and we're all just here to have fun!

[magireco-collection]

Magia Day Livestream Summary

I watched it on Youtube, and here is what I understood from this livestream event. My Japanese isn't perfect, so there might be a few mistakes. Please feel free to correct me if you see any wrong info 🥺

First of all, there were tables for each faction (except for Puella Care) and pairs of character VAs participated in various things.

Magia Union: Iroha, Yacchan and Tsuruno

Folklore of 0: Rabi and Asahi

Neo Magius: Himena and Miyuri

Promised Blood: Ao and Hikaru

Tokime Clan: Shizuka and Sunao

+++ Mikage and Kagome's VAs had a table of their own and made comments.

The first part was a brief summary of what happened in arc 2 and each VA answered questions about those events. They also talked about how it affected their characters and what they themselves felt when they saw the main story.

Then they answered a few questions asked by players in Japan.

Then there was a quiz event and VAs tried to answer game related questions.

This one was about finding the 4* gacha animation and the only group who picked right answer was folklore of 0 group. Everyone else picked Shizuku 😅

Later on, Degarashi Mana made an appearance and she beat a blast gorilla team of Doppel Kyouko, Ashley + Tanabata Yacchan with Magirepo trio (Iroha-chan, Felicia-chan and Madoka Senpai) in mirrors.

There was an event story about everyone's favorite animals and factions were trying to help Mikage find her own. It was funny and I laughed so much because Felicia convinced Magia Union that cows are the best animals.

Mikage was saying humans are better than animals but she found a mysterious favorite animal thanks to Tokime Clan.

I think this much emphasis on animals might be a hint for future events, possibly Halloween. Maybe we can get a meguca or a duo alt with animal outfits 😅 My bet is on Yuna Tiger Alt, but any animal would be cute 🥰

Now time for the most important part... GAME INFO CORNER!!!!

RIKA UNCAP RIKA UNCAP RIKA UNCAP FINALLY RIKA UNCAP- 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

We will be able to exchange Magia Chips for more items such as limited event memorias, Overlimiter Core and Innocent Gem. If they allow us to get unlimited 4* girls I'm getting Himena like there's no tomorrow 😭 She is my favorite and I've been trying to get her for MONTHS, only to be spooked by other megucas 😔

There will be changes about Mirrors, atk and def teams???

Old players and newbies will cooperate

Last but not least, there will be an event for the ancient Kamihama girls.

I am really excited about Rika uncap + the ability to get Innocent Gems with Magia Chips. But I don't care about the ancient girls they look boring to me 🤦

[xxxdoppel]

Second half of anni round up!

Like I said on a previous post, I actually got a lot of the things I wanted from this anni even though I only had like 1,000 stones saved due to my lack of interest in the game for the past couple of months.

So, let me show you the last bunch of stuff I got from anni (part two)!

First I got Riko from the memoria gacha! She was never an option of mine, but she’s adorable so why not. I actually enjoy putting her and Sae together because the duality of the character designer is fascinating.

Next is my good Judy!

I don’t recall which gacha I got her from, but I am so happy I got her. An icon, I tell you!

Now the spooks!

I got these two trying to roll for Tanachiyo. Anichiyo is definitely a big surprise since I didn’t know you could even get other limiteds from the gacha as if they were unlimited.

But after a while I did reach my goal!

Got to roll the second and third slots for Tanachiyo WORK SIS! I finally have not only a good chargius slotted, but also a decent water unit that I definitely needed. I own way too much dark, fire, and light for my own good.

Last but not least,

There was NO WAY in this world I was gonna come out of anni without a magia unit. I went for them because one I love them both, second it’s Christmas bitch, and third they are forest type (which I am also lacking for).

So yeah it’s been really good. Didn’t get Infinite Iroha but what can I do. I had my mind set for other attributes.

Hope you had a great anni too!

[jer-tan]

I really haven’t been updating who I’ve gotten over the last two weeks...

And all I have to say, no expectations has been the best way to go into this anniversary. Since my last update on this I’ve gotten:

spooked by Mifuyu on the unlimited banner

Mito’s second slot

Ao’s second slot

And Mikage’s last slot on the pity from the memoria gacha.

I cashed in my bags and decided Anime Holy Mami needed two more slots

and Kuroe needed her last slot

from the silver bag I finally got Mayu

and I’m incredibly thankful I did not purchase and use the last silver bag because I was going to get Mikage’s last slot with it. I’m not sure if I will or who I will get.

This has been the final slot anniversary for me (as my only goal on the limited gacha is getting Doppel Kyouko’s last slot from the mitama coins).

[comradepingu]

Mifuyu!! This memoria gacha has been very kind, much better than the 4* rate up unlimited magical girl banner which sounds like it should be better but really hasn't been that kind.

[magireconews]

Magia Record News June 18, 2021

News is translated by the big discord server, not the owner of this blog.

Notice: New Chapter Campaign Duration: 6/21 17:00～6/28 14:59 JST

In addition to the contents of the 1400 Days Since Release Campaign, the following limited-time missions will be added: By completing all the quests in MS Arc 2 Chapter 6, you can get a total of fifty magia stones and various sets of Spirit Enhancement Shards. Moreover, some of the limited-time missions of previous new chapter campaigns will reappear. By clearing all of the quests from MS Arc 2 Preface to MS Arc 2 Chapter 5, you can get a total of 250 Magia Stones and Spirit Enhancement Shards (if you’ve already received the rewards from those limited-time missions, they won't be displayed.)

New Gacha: Choose Your Own 4* Memoria Selection

You can choose four different four-star memoria from the available pool. Every four-star memoria pulled from this gacha will be one of your selection. The pool of Magical Girls and their rates are the same as in the Premium Gacha.

Sale: Mitama’s Special Deal in Occasion of the Extermination Battle Sale Period: 6/21 17:00～6/28 14:59 JST Contents: For 200 paid Magia Stones, you can choose one four-star magical girl you don’t currently have. You can only select girls added to the Premium Gacha before 11/16 2020 (aka all unlimited girls up to Mikage).  The magical girl will be received in the gift box. If you have all the available magical girls then you cannot use the gacha.

New Event: Extermination Battle: Witches’ Paradox  Maintenance: 6/21 15:00～17:00 JST

Additional Information on How to Play: - You can challenge the first 4 barriers of each stage in the order that you want. - The type and attribute of the enemies do not change through the different stages of difficulty. - You cannot bring supports to the fights of this event.

Release Schedule: The different stages of difficulty of this event are: Easy, Normal, Hard, Challenge and EX Challenge. They will be released as follows: ・Easy, Normal and Hard: 6/21 17:00 JST ・Challenge: 6/23 16:00 JST ・EX Challenge: 6/25 16:00 JST

Rewards: ・ Barrier first clear reward: Rainbow Orbs, Daily Coins, Magia Stones, etc. ・ Stage clear reward: Gacha Tickets and Magia Stones. ・ Complete reward: When all stages are cleared, you will get a special memoria and a title related to this event as a reward.

Buffs for Some Memoria: For the battles of this event, and only for them, the following memoria effects will be added:

The story of this event will be added to the archive once the event ends.

[saltylords]

Y’all, they’re finally dropping Juri! Not that I’m tempted to roll... I don’t even have the gems for it!

Anyway, she’s a blast gorilla meant to work with other blast gorillas. Her connect gives blast damage up, guaranteed burn, and what I believe is guaranteed evade. Pair her with Yozuru to make use of Yozuru’s damage up to enemies with status ailments. Not particularly good outside a blast team, though.

Part of her SE kit is blast mp up, but that’s just a weak source of mp that doesn’t really help much with magia building or magia teams. Her other abilities listed are blast damage up, a normal blast gorilla ability, and a 20% burn chance for two turns. Meh.

Her active skill is a 25% attack buff and ignore provoke for one turn. Also meh. Overall from what I can see, she’s alright but that’s it. But at least her battle animations will be cool, since her weapon is a flamethrower and everything!

Her magia, if you ever use it, damages all enemies, burns all enemies for three turns, gives her fire attack up and ignore damage cut to herself for three turns.

Just remember that she’s unlimited and she can spook you at any time! And chances are, she’ll have a banner rerun since she’s one of the promised blood mains!

The one reason I might be tempted to roll for this banner would be for this cute memoria! But since it’s an unlimited banner, I’ll skip and hope it comes to me in the free gacha!

Oh, the memoria’s effects are a 25% attack up and anti-stun. Pretty decent effects with good stats and super cute art, I’d rate this memoria a solid 10/10!

[cutepresea]

More images for the Tales of Symphonia collaboration event in Symphogear XD Unlimited. Sorry I couldn’t post all the transparent Awakened art, but they messed up Tsubasa’s when they posted it and they left the pre-Awakened art on a layer underneath it so I just posted the fully Awakened cards instead.

Each character’s special attack for this event is basically a Mystic Arte from the Tales of Symphonia character their Gears are based on complete with a cut-in:

Kanade’s ANTARES∞BUSTER is Crimson Devastation/Hien Messhoujin. The original didn’t share her space theme for her attack names so they changed it completely but the attack itself is the same.

Maria’s attack is HOLY†JUDGMENT, which is uh, Holy Judgment

And Tsubasa’s is Ten’yoku Souhazan (天翼蒼破斬), the name being close to the Japanese name for Falcon’s Crest, Tenshou Souhazan (天翔蒼破斬), but with the second kanji replaced with the one for her name/wings.

Kanade and Maria will be available through gacha while Tsubasa can be obtained in exchange for items earned through event quests.

This doesn’t start until 9/30 so it’s possible they’ll still post something like model sheets or Memoria art before then. I’ll put those in a separate post if they do. I’ll also be recording the attacks after this starts since their own recordings lack voiceover/bgm and will be set as private after the crossover ends anyway.

[magiamemoriareview]

Garnish Everything Cutely!

Obtainability: Unlimited.

Single Effect: Redraw Discs

MLB Effect: Redraw Discs

Effect Definitions:

Redraw Discs will replace that turns’ discs with a new set from the available pool.  

TLDR: “Garnish Everything Cutely” is a good niche memoria that is either extraordinarily helpful or completely useless. It’s worth keeping.

Review: “Garnish Everything Cutely” is a simple memoria with a simple effect. You either need it or you don’t. It can help shuffle disks if you get a particularly bad set. Of course, it won’t directly increase your damage or protect you in any way– but indirectly, it can help better set up a puella combo or a connect, which could give that effect.

Naturally you won’t always get a better disk set, even if you use this memoria. However, you can reset the game and try again if you’re willing to spend some time on it.

I’ve seen this memoria, alongside several others that also give Redraw Discs, in Kimochi to try and mitigate some of the RNG. If you need to make sure a specific characters gets at least one accele disc in a turn, you can equip two or three of these on different units to try and ensure that happens.

Of course, this means you are sacrificing potential damage by not using other active memoria. However this could be worth it if you’ve determined a good path for your gameplay.

Other Redraw Disc memoria include (but not including personals):

(Limited Welfare 4*) “The Duo's Entwined Path” Redraw Discs

(Mirrors Shop 4*) “The Exhibition Will Open Soon! Please Pay Attention!” Redraw Discs

(4*) “Garnish Everything Cutely” Redraw Discs

Lastly, I recommend keeping this memoria even if you already have other Redraw Disc memoria. You never know when you’ll need more than one or two, and this means you can equip two different Redraw Disc memoria on the same character.

[muffinrecord]

Are any of the new memoriae worth pulling?

That's a great question!

Real answer? Never pull on a gacha for the memoria. There is never a guarantee that you'll actually get it unlike the unit and even more, you really want these memos to be max awakened so that they're fully effective.

However I break my own advice all the time, and if you want to do the same, let's break these memos down! Let's take a look.

Kanagi's Memoria

Kanagi's memoria (We'll be in Darkness) gives a high amount of passive ATK (which is great if MLB) and two good effects-- Damage Increase and Ignore Damage Cut. The Damage Increase is pretty standard for a passive limited memoria-- "V" is 25% Damage Increase, which is fairly competitive. However what makes the memoria really stand out is that Ignore Damage Cut.

You can see how many passive Ignore Damage Cut memoria exist in the game here at this link-- basically there's not a whole lot out there. There aren't even welfare memoria that can help you here-- just one unlimited and two (soon to be three) limiteds.

What's important about Ignore Damage Cut is that it's only useful if the enemy has some form of Damage Cut on them-- if they don't, then the effect does nothing to increase your damage for ya.

However, Ignore Damage Cut was critical for this recent Kimochi. The recent Kimochi was supposed to be charge/blast, and in order to encourage that kinda playstyle, the devs greatly increased the amount of damage taken by charge/blast and then decreased the amount of damage dealt by magias/doppels. This was through putting an unseen 200% Magia Damage Cut buff on the boss.

But with Ignore Damage Cut? You could completely ignore that and deal far more damage with a magia strat than you could a charge/blast one.

Ignore Damage Cut is also super helpful in Mirrors. Damage Cut is better than Defense Up (generally) and it also will influence the mirrors AI. People will try to stack it on their teams, and tanks are full to the brim with it through their SE, memoria and god knows what else. But a handy dandy ignore damage cut passive memoria will cut through those tanks like butter!

Suffice to say, it's a good memoria, especially if you're a whale who cares about doing well in high level content. But if you're not? Eh. It's not as necessary-- you can find both 25% Damage Increase on unlimited memoria and you can use Momoko's "Meddlesome Timing" for the same Ignore Damage Cut effect.

So it's not completely necessary unless you care about playing in the top percent of whale shit.

Mitama's Memoria

This one is useful for Mirrors Ranking and (probably) only if you can max awaken it. Otherwise you can skip it.

With high passive DEF stats, this is one fearsome stat stick. Of course, that means it needs to be max awakened. I suspect it will have a short cooldown, around 5-4, which will also need to be max awakened so that you can use it on turn 2 in mirrors (with characters who have passive skill quicken, oh! like dark mitama does. how coincidental).

Now curses don't stack if you're a player character so you might be wondering what the fuck is the point of having double curse on one memoria. It's to clear Anti-Ailment.

Let's say you're fighting against an annoying team that has Madoka & Iroha and Ultimate Madoka on it, along with various other henchmen. You want to inflict curse on Ultimate Madoka so that her survive won't work and you can kill her easily-- but uh oh! MadoIro has this as part of their spirit enhancement:

Anti-Debuff [2 Debuffs] & Negate Status Ailments [2 Status Ailments] (Allies / 5 Turns on Battle Start)

How annoying! You could inflict Curse through Magical Halloween Theater, but Ult Madoka would just ignore it because of that Negate Status Ailment. You'd need two ailments in total to clear it!

And that's where this memo comes in. Viola! With one mighty memoria, you have cleared both offending Negate Ailments.

Otherwise? Yeah you don't need this.

Magical Halloween Theater is far better for everything else. It inflicts Curse, has a short cooldown, comes freely max-awakened, gives you Defense Down, AND is practically free.

Ultra whales might want this? It's very unique at least, so I salute it for that. but the average player can skip it.

Yuna & Juri 4* memo

Excellent passive DEF stats? Check. It's a delicious stat stick.

Good effects? Christ let's just look at the first two-- Attack Up (30%) and Damage Increase (30%) mean it's a memoria of "fuck you" that will make your unit deal a stupid amount of increased damage for one turn. That's two offensive buffs for the price of one memoria! That's great!

The one thing to keep in mind is that this memo lasts for one turn, and the two effects are on the lower side of what you can find on other limiteds-- however that's to balance out the fact that there are fucking two of them, AND the following: that Defense Down.

The Defense Down (30%) is also a little low-- Mito Rain for comparison will give 45%. However it's still nothing to sneeze out, and when you combine all the effects into one effective memoria, you get a very good all-around helpful memo that is great for supports and any fight really.

This is a memoria called "fuck you and your mother" and it'll make your units deal shit loads of damage and then teabag the corpses when they're done.

Yuna & Juri 3* memo

I'm a little cautious on saying too much for this one. I don't feel knowledgable enough. I want to say that I think this is very very good for specific situations, but I haven't done enough research on the "[Specific Element] Attack Up" flavors of memoria, so I'll leave it at that.

I think it might be a good choice for some kimochi teams if you care about scoring well, and I think it'll be a great choice on flame units. However I'm still a little unsure. I really need to read more before I say too much haha.

At the very least-- don't get rid of it if you get it. I think it's worth keeping.

Alina Karin 4* Ranked Memoria

That's 25% Attack Up (competitive with a lot of other limited memoria) with Chase Chance and Negate Evade Chance. I'm too lazy to look up the values for them at the moment, but my thoughts are... eh? You don't really need it. You can easily ignore evade through something called "Magia/Doppel" and a lot of the best blast units these days will come with Negate Evade baked into their passive SE, making this unnecessary. Chase is... okay? But you don't need it, and I can't see this making that much of a big difference.

Overall? Skip. But it's a cute lil memoria so I can't hate it.

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This went a little longer than I thought... Feel free to add in if anyone else spots something that I missed!

[paraholix]

magia rapport: day 1!

August 23, 2020 -  If you could give advice to a new player, what would that advice be? If you could restart the game from the beginning, what would you do differently this time?

can’t believe it’s been over a year since i started playing magireco lol

oof... i barely remember the beginning of the game lol. it was my first gacha game so things were sort of fuzzy. it took me a while to really understand how things worked.

one thing i would suggest for newbies is to really make sure you level up your girls as much as you can. most of my struggles with the game would have been avoided if i had focused on getting a handful of girls to max level. 

also, memoria are KEY to a lot of battles (especially mirrors). familiarize yourself with the ones that are the most useful. passive memoria are better, but active ones have their uses as well!

lastly, please don’t waste your rolls on unlimited banners unless the game is giving out free rolls lol... or else you’ll regret it during limited banners. figure out which units you want the most and save your gems like crazy.  

[magiamemoria]

Clear Summer Colors

Obtainability: Limited to the Summer Memoria Special and to the “A New Beginning” event.

Notes: Thanks to my friend @leafbladie for looking over this review as a form of quality control!

Effect: Attack Down [35%] (Target for one turn)

TLDR: This memoria can be useful in mirrors as a stat stick with a protective effect. There are better unlimited memoria in the game (including an unlimited 3* memoria...), however the stats and low cooldown can make this memoria good to have on hand anyhow.

Thoughts: "Clear Summer Colors” is a decent-ish enemy debuff memoria, though there are better options out in the game... Including one unlimited 3* option: “PPPH! Perfect Cheers!” (Which gives “Defense Down” at 40%). Other options include:

“For a Beautiful Day Like This” Attack Down [50%] / Damage Inflicted Down [45%] (Target for one turn)

“After The Rain - Mito” Attack Down [50%] / Defense Down [45%] (All foes for one turn)

“Dependable Negotiator” Damage Inflicted Down [50%] (All Foes for one turn) / Status Ailment Resistance Up [60%] (Self for one turn)

However, what makes “Clear Summer Colors” stand out from being strangely outclassed by “PPPH! Perfect Cheers!” are its stats. As 4* memoria, “Clear Summer Colors” already has better stats than 3* memoria, however it also has decent enough stats to be a stat stick in Mirrors. 

In Mirrors, one wants to have as much Defense as possible over Health, and the passive stats on “Clear Summer Colors” push it into the “stat stick" category, where even if you don’t end up needing it at turn three, it can still help protect your unit in the meantime. The cooldown is also low enough here to still be useful, though at turn three you would probably prefer a memoria that will increase your own unit’s attack/damage to help end the round faster.

The best memoria in the game for being a stat stick would be “After The Rain - Mito;” this memoria will also give a greater percentage of Attack Down, along with Defense Down-- for ALL enemies. 

“Non-Stop Training” can also be more useful than “Clear Summer Colors,” in that it gives an arguably superior effect (Defense Up versus Attack Down), and has more passive defense stats.

However, the benefit of Clear Summer Colors is that one can conceivably get it more easily than relying on the luck from the gacha, and it can be useful while you build up to getting the aforementioned memoria. 

This memoria can be useful in PVE when fighting a single-target boss. Layer it in with other defensive memoria to keep the boss’ attack permanently low!

Regarding supports, most mutuals will probably prefer active memoria that will improve attack or damage-- however, this memoria certainly can’t hurt; and could be useful on Heal or Balance type characters. This memoria can also be useful to equip when an event with a difficult boss is the best one to be farmed.

Overall, this is a decent memoria to have on hand for players-- it’s not the best out there, but it still has its uses.

[ahiijny]

First impressions of Symphogear XDU Global

... from someone who’s never played gacha and in fact didn’t even own a phone until as of 2 months ago

Oh, the screen’s in landscape aspect ratio, okay.

“The latest game data will be downloaded (110 MB). Wi-Fi connection is recommended.” I’m on Wi-Fi, that’s fine.

Hm, my phone only has 32 GB of storage and it’s already more than half full, will I be okay?

The Japanese dialogue audio is still in this, noice.

Oh, so this basically the first episode of season 1.

“Croitzal ronzell Gungnir zizzl...” Kanade transformation :)

“Superb Song”. Personally, I’m fine with this choice of translation; I’m pretty sure it’s what the creators originally intended, too. But “Swan Song” still sounds much cooler, doesn’t it :P Also, this song. Goosebumps, every time...

“The latest game data (130 MB) will beIn the background downloaded” More downloads? Also, that “beIn” isn’t a typo, the words were weirdly mushed up against each other in the app for some reason.

Symphogear XDU OP! Noice. I’ve seen this before on YouTube, but it’s still really awesome. And it contains a few minor spoilers for GX (Carol and Elfnein and the Autoscorers), noting that for future reference.

Miku in this OP is just so cool! A scenario where Miku became a main Gear user, that would’ve been nice. Alas, canon, it was not to be...

Kanade and Serena are active Gear users in this too, noice. But there are two Gungnirs and two Airgetlams now?...

“Gjallarhorn” Oh, so this is the parallel dimensions relic I’ve heard so much about.

“Please enter player name / *Player names can be changed later / *Names can be up to 10 characters long”. Okay.

Oh nice, Ryouko’s explaining the app.

“6 kinds of quests: Main Quests, Hexa Quests, Event Quests, XD Quests, Side Quests, and SP quests” Uhhhhh that’s a lot.

“You can choose one friend who will follow you into battle.” Oh, is this like the pair system in Touhou 11?

This quest is called “Diva of the Battlefield”.

Ohhhh this is the very familiar general everyday life memoria OST (I don’t know the name) that I’ve heard on the YameteTomete site before. You know, that one.

They translate Andou’s nickname for Hibiki as “Bikky”

"Custodian”? Is... is this foreshadowing? Or just a translation quirk? Do Japanese schools even have custodians? (I thought the students do all of the cleaning)

“Imyuteus amenohabakiri tron...” (looks like they mashed it all up into one word)

Okay, battle start.

Waaaaaaait what why are Chris and Hibiki here?? This is too early in the plot!

I am plot confus

Is this just one of those things where you have to be like “it’s part of the game mechanic” and try not think too hard about it?

Huh, and the Gear users and the Noise exchange attacks automatically?

Like... I barely need to do anything?

This reminds me a bit of the game mechanic in Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge, where the battle is mostly automatic based on your arrangement of chips in your “program deck” beforehand, and the only interactivity is your ability to slot in a special attack at any point during the battle (but you can only use your L and R chip slots for this, and you can only use them once).

Yay, battle won.

“MA1-1: Diva of the Battlefield”. I like numbering schemes.

“So she’s the Valkyrie of the Special Disaster Response Team Section 2... The only one who can stand up to the Noise?” Huh, so they do use the word “Valkyrie” in these translations, interesting

“Soldier A: "Whoa, I suggest you stop right there, soldier. You saw nothing and heard nothing. Is that clear?"” Heh :) Ah right, it’s supposed to be confidential.

According to Hibiki, the day one bonuses are amazing.

This onomatopoeia just looks kinda funny for some reason :P

Bikki pls

(Also, sorry about the volume bar, I’m still not used to taking screenshots on a phone)

The little girl calls Hibiki “Missy”.

"Balwisyall nescell gungnir tron…" Hibiki’s first transformation is just not the same without Synchrogazer :/

Got Song Stone x5, owo neat. I don’t know what these are though

Looks like that’s the end of the tutorial!

Ack so many unread notifications

Oh right, there’s some Attack on Titan crossover event going on, I’ll have to check that out later

Reading some of the news posts. Dunno what limit breaking is.

Hm okay, let’s try some of these free gacha rolls.

Why is a gacha roll so fancy graphics

“AME NO HABAKIRI DATTO” Noice

Wow why so flash

Let’s try more of these

“Ayumu Takasaka” Ah, a person whose name I don’t remember. iirc she’s one of Tsubasa’s classmates.

“WARUKUNAI WA NE” Yes, thank you Maria :P

Drop rates, Song Stone log, hmmm

Reading through the FAQ

“A: You may only upload game content for non-profit purposes (including personal use as a hobby.” I wonder if this excludes monetized YouTube channels. Not really relevant to me in any case though, my channel has 4 subscribers.

“Q: I want to learn more about the Symphogear anime and merchandise.” “A: We are not able to respond to any inquiries outside the scope of the Symphogear XD Unlimited app.” wat

Okay, let’s read through some of these "Rights and Agreements” pages.

Skimming through the terms of service. Lots of this reads as generic lawyer boilerplate, not tailor-made for this app, but rather feels like it was adapted from some very standard and thoroughly vetted template. Like, there’s stuff in here talking about using a robot/spider/site search/analysis application, but doesn’t that only apply to websites? Can you robot crawl an app server?

And it talks about it being prohibited “posting photographs or the like of nudity with a high degree of exposure” but is it even possible to post photos in this app?

“a. a. Posting or sending messages for the purpose of buying, selling, or exchanging...” there are two a’s here :P

Oh here we go, more topically specific ToC stuff. “Use of in-app currency” “Song Stone” hm okay.

Heh, the music changes to the XDU OP if I open the "Credit” page.

Hm, what’s this “Rights” section?

Oh, here we go, a bunch of software licenses. Mostly Apache, some MIT as well. And some without a specific name.

Interesting...

Anyway, hopefully I don’t get too addicted to this, I have a lot of other work that I still need to be doing.

But it’s nice finally starting to have a vague inkling about what all the Japanese XDU players were talking about :P