Duo Night Abyss Preview: All breasts in the world cannot hide their shallow grinding

Duet Night Abyss is a fantasy multiplayer game that is highly anticipated in the Gacha gaming community. It's all about cool fights, grinding and oh yes – boobs. And, based on my performances so far, plump men’s barrels and endless slogans aren’t going to catch your attention for a long time.

Before its closed beta test, I played the PC's early Duo Night Abyss, a warning that I couldn't experience the multiplayer features, so consider this preview more about the mechanics of Duo Night, the world and The grand narrative supports all this.

Your player character, bandage on beautiful waif, wakes up in a swirl-like snow. A mysterious voice speaks to you. You are helpless and breathing. But in the snow, someone helps you.

This is Berry, a main character who will meet you through the basics of movement in this world: Most notably, the spiral jump – a smooth way to get yourself over the air. This jump doesn't cool down and you'll soon find it's a fun and effective way – powerful in combat.

Once separated from the berries, you will really start to enter the gameplay yourself, both in the gameplay and narrative. In a strange new city run by an ominous empire, you have to become a “Fishunter” and pick up a “commission” in a rough and huge tavern owned by the world's most unreliable Bharati. .

But wait. That's only half of the story.

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There is a second protagonist, the male version looks very similar to the girl you just met. The idea is that these two show different aspects of the same narrative. In this city, girls see fellow villagers suffering from discrimination, violence and cruelty at the hands of the empire. Meanwhile, the boy is part of the empire, commanding the same cruel soldiers who are now wounded and pitiful after the war.

These dual protagonists and plot lines have done a lot, but frankly, I don't think they are as revolutionary as developers think they are. There are no surprises, there are no events in a character's story, which may cause revelation from the other party. Of course, this has been early on and I hope that as more story content becomes available, I hope to be proven wrong.

Regardless, whether solid or not, the art of this game is beautiful. I like lines, colors, fluid animation. I tend to be skeptical about anime aesthetics, so believe my compliments illustrate the polish and breathtaking words of aesthetics. Unfortunately, I started to feel the less enthusiastic Boobier Duet Night became (to go for it later).

The English dubbing is absolutely great, and it is one of the highlights of Duo Night. As I progress and encounter more characters, I find everyone’s voice and conversations unique and full of personal personality.

After the initial story mission, you will participate in many battles. This will be familiar to anyone who has ever played hacking slashes of any kind, but it's fun. All the shiny sword slashes and oversized guns look epic, especially the spiral jumping ability.

Switching between melee and ranged weapons is seamless. To really hone your killing skills, you can equip the ridiculously named Demon Wedge: Weapon-style supplements that will hit various stats. You can mix some of them at any time and combine them to find synergies that can take your battle to the next level.

Daily grinding

I still have a sense of unclearity about the expected profit pattern of Duo Night. Of course, there are some tips like multiple currencies – I'm overwhelmed trying to understand where to get each currency and what everyone can buy. While there doesn't seem to be an interface to spend money yet, you can bet on the way.

Words I Can't Talk: Duo Night Abyss is a grind. With a “backtracking” system, it's a dice roll that can win a bunch of random new weapons. It's actually “click a button and see what you get.” Your reward may be epic, but it's not. As long as you have enough “hourglass” currency, you can hammer the button like a slot machine. This is one of the least attractive things I have ever seen in my time as a gamer.

You can also pick the “commission” from the above taverns, which is the situation where most of your flashy battles are. They may have different themes (for example, churches are covered with grass or my theme), but they all follow the same formula: a bunch of room monsters that look exactly the same.

You can grind weapons to create better weapons. Grind coins to buy beauty items, such as chicken on your head. Grind for new playable avatars (most of them are plump women). Alternatively, you can type “SandRealm Meditation”, which is an euphemism through practicing combat skills – you guessed it – grinding.

But, all the glitz-like abilities, gears and garlands, you have no interest and no audience will be impressed.

Wishlist

Unfortunately, I didn’t experience any of the social aspects of duo night. These instances can match three other players (friends or randoms), but given that I was playing the game before the closed beta started, no one can match me.

Maybe Duet Night will be less ordeal when it is open to players and community growth, although I'm not sure what that will be like at this stage.

One person in the crowd

I realize that Grindy Games does have listeners, but as a game critic, I feel like I would recommend them when I say more engaging, pleasing and daring interactive games.

At first, I thought I might like the duet night abyss. In that moment, I felt like I was watching a beautiful animated movie and was interested, even if I really had to work there.

But then, well, the curved women began to show up. In anime, this is not uncommon – but it instantly narrows the audience to a…specific flavor. I personally feel very isolated: as smooth as the duo night abyss, I can never fully appreciate the better parts of it, such as art or cute side missions, because it knows the game isn't looking for players like me.

There are audiences in the abyss at Duo Night. But this is not me. Maybe it's you.