New Player Impressions of Punishing Gray Raven in 2024

[@CRuleum]

Glad you enjoyed PGR! I've been a player for a very long time now (not including my play time on China server before I switched to the Global server) and I and most players agreed that the delivery on the early chapters wasn't that good, but from chapter 8 and after, it will be so good, actually became my favorite gacha game when it comes to story. And yeah they added some voiceovers in the latest chapters, I literally shed tears hearing liv singing in chapter surviving lucem.

[@CRuleum]

Plus the music ofc

[@timnathangaming]

One of PGR's strongest elements is its very supportive community ngl. The game is solid though and I'm really patient so I'll make it to chapter 8+

[@Stanger_95]

@@timnathangaming They actually announced in the 5th Anniversary livestream, that they will be releasing complete voiceovers for all chapters released until now in CN which were not initially voiced. And many great announcements and surprises were announced which I don't actually wanna spoil unless you want to know. But all I can say is thanks to WuWa for being the cash bag for PGR.

[@WanshiLucidDreamer]

Thank for reviewing it. I actually agree with most of your point 12:24 It's Wanshi and Alpha

[@eumza2]

nice vid, great point my fav are Roland and Noctis (sometime i prefer to solo some stages that are soloable with this two, rather than bringing a full team)

[@SuperSertyuio]

Yo! Nice review! I agree with everything you say and i have some more info on it: - yes, there is mostly no voice acting( some recent chapters have a few voice acted lines in the story) , but that can be because the story is pretty sad! On Noan's patch, the VA that did the lines for him literally cried after reading his story! So a lot of couce acting won t really happen! - you say there is a lot of reading! Wait until you reach Noan's story chapter or Surviving Lucem! - if you want to summon us all, just make a video with the title " Reacting to Narwhal OST | Punishing Gray Raven! ". They will all come! If you re doing OST's, you can just do them all! - info on patches and stuff you find on the grayravens site. Good to know patch order!

[@timnathangaming]

I’m here for it, the Lucia backstory hit me in the proverbial gut

[@SuperSertyuio]

@@timnathangaming yaaay, first commment that was not deleted by youtube! I forgot about two things to say about. My favorite character? Of course it s Alpha! Also, you can do the story for Bianca's coating! There are like 7 days left and it will be gone! Coating stories are insanely good! Good luck and have fun!

[@GentleSavage94]

@@timnathangaming Lucia's is only the beginning. This game may even be darker than Honkai Impact 3rd as someone who played that game for half a year!

[@JuanApollinario]

​@@GentleSavage94I agree on this one is so much darker than any gacha stories I read and heck even anime and light novels, it's just the horrors of war and hopelessness is on there it's the only time I cry for the NPC and main characters in this story. I'm kinda wishing Kuro Games push through their game Wuthering Waves to their original vision of Post apocalyptic open world and didn't listen much of the loud crowd that nowadays making it the game less depressing atmosphere and they focus more now on a fantasy side but the story still good though despite that. I hope in the future they include their original vision and surprise the audience on what Kuro games capable of in story writing like Survival Lucem level of depression and sadness style so I can cry again now in 4k.

[@Belarhos]

My favourite character is honestly one that i hope gets a different frame later And that would be noan, that man's story made me feel things i didn't think were even possible

[@hijodelsoldeoriente]

100% agree! Cinder Burns is one of the best chapters. Noan is probably one of the best developed characters in PGR.

[@hijodelsoldeoriente]

Great first impression man! I agree with everything you've said and experienced the same and worse actually cause I uninstalled PGR twice and reinstalled it twice as well. If you managed to understand what's what in PGR's UI, then no gacha can stop you. 😂 I've played many gachas (4 years now, first is HI3 and then Genshin) but PGR remains my favorite gacha (been playing for 2 years) even over Kuro's Wuthering Waves despite it's older systems (convoluted UI and unvoiced story presentation). The game has a rough new player experience specificially for those who aren't use to gacha games. I had the same experience for HI3, Warframe, and Arknights where there are so many menus and content that I don't know where to start. Lol. I also agree regarding the story presentation. I don't mind reading and sometimes I actually prefer it cause I read the story faster than waiting for the voice actors to finish yapping. But I do agree that it's more immersive and would probably attract more casual players. Same reason I love Reverse 1999 as well. Arcana can step on me. What. If you give the story a chance and if you don't mind the slow start (8-11 chapters), like literally almost as slow as Neil Gaiman's American Gods with a TON. F ton of foreshadowing. Like there are characters or NPC/mobs from Chapter 1 than are relevant to chapters far beyond. I think you'll, at least, like it. I personally enjoy Echo Aria, Cinder Burns, Surviving Lucem, Spiral of Chronos, and others chapters I forgot the name of. Lol. As for the characters having different variants of constructs: Think of Altered Carbon where the mind is digitized hence can be transfered to another physical body, in this case new construct frames. This is one of the reasons how PGR builds their character development so well instead of introducing new ones just to be forgotten. Unlike Bennett in Genshin, or Yuanwu in WuWa. And something similar to that of Dan Heng or March in HSR. And Valkyries in HI3. Hope you enjoy the ride and have fun! And yes, you summoned the dormant PGR community. Lol. hope to catch you on stream.

[@ozoahameg3582]

nice review great vid fav character alpha dante and bianca alter, i refuse to call then any other than that

[@Art_FlameBoltz-PGR]

Great review!💯 12:23 My favorite character? Liv!

[@timnathangaming]

I think mine so far is Vera or Lucia just based on their backstories-they’re also the only backstories I’ve played so far

[@Art_FlameBoltz-PGR]

​@timnathangaming You'll probably be going to have difficulty choosing ur fav char later on then. They all have well written sad backstory and proceeding story. fun fact: Lucia don't know how to cook. She blows up any kitchen she touches

[@Usagi-SS]

It is a wholesome lighthearted journey. Have fun. Livlov.

[@GentleSavage94]

I feel like the lack of voice acting came from lack of funding. It is expensive to hire VAs after all. PGR is a good game but suffered from lack of marketing and advertisement prior to WuWa resulting in not as high profits as the other games. I haven't even heard of it until surviving lucem and the pc client coming out. At least now they are improving.

[@timnathangaming]

Undoubtedly it came from funding issues. Localization is expensive.

[@shutter-chan]

Kinda ironic. If anything this is one of the more intuitive UI right next to WW and AK. If PGR had AK's equivalent of hamburger menu, it would be much much higher on my list.

[@Stixxy]

Short answer? Yes. Longer answer? Very much.

[@timnathangaming]

I'm glad you gave me the TL;DR on that one. 😂

[@Stixxy]

@@timnathangaming You're welcome, easily digestible content is what I'm here for.

[@durkiezz]

you definetely need to play the pgr chinese version , for 40 pulls you can select ANY S rank character u want from the standart banner !

[@hexfizgamingch]

Day 1 Global server player, I havent watched the review yet so this is pre-watch comment: But i can guess what you gonna say, but i only want to say one thing. If you dont enjoy the story cause of boring reading/ lack of VA... just please.. please give it a chance untill chp.17/ Survival lucem. well technically chp.8 onward is a bit better. but the peak chp. is chp 17 ( it is not the only one and not say previous is not good, but survival lucem is just the first le;ague on its own)

[@timnathangaming]

You guessed correctly

[@Shhh_94]

You might want to come back since they announced they are collaborating with Capcom for DMC5

[@Stanger_95]

PGR seems to heavily deviate from what you would expect from games these days. Flashy cinematics, voice acting and storylines but not quite impressive when it comes to gameplay. Im saying this with regards to the game releases in recent years. PGR on the other hand, threw majority of the resources had into the gameplay (initially). I was shocked to to see no voice acting, or even actual 3D models during the story or barely ay cutscenes. But the action in this game is better than any game i have ever played. The combat mechanics and design of every character is very intriguing and has great depth to them. The story also started to improve alot! (Surviving Luceum onwards for me it might be different for others). Overall, This is a perfect game for a DMC fan like me as it lets me directly dive into the heavy action while being extremely rewarding.

[@doommaker4000]

It's so sad, but it had to happen for gaming to go mainstream. Good thing we still have players who actually care about gameplay

[@nguyenquanghung2344]

My fav are Alpha and Luna

[@swordsmanmagi1370]

they say in cn they will start the VA in the main story is this true?

[@cypureisreallybusy]

i think pgr is not a new player friendly game. its mainly catered to veterans now thats the sad part

[@timnathangaming]

Agreed and I’m definitely seeing how it is more oriented toward people who’ve been playing a while. They know their audience for sure, it just makes it hard for those on the outside coming in.

[@cypureisreallybusy]

@@timnathangaming literally gatekeeping i cant 😂. anyway more exciting patches are on the way it gets way better onwards.

[@GentleSavage94]

I can agree (as a veteran player here). It does improve at a certain point and progression is rewarded via team/unit building.

[@feralchimaera99]

Yeah that's why some veterans recommend buying off other's or someone's dummy account due to how far a new player is going to catch up

[@cypureisreallybusy]

@ZaddyYhan new players expect alot from a games beginning, because its not a new game. but i heard that they are gonna fix that issue. which is great to hear.