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freyayuki · 15 days ago

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War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Mini Review

Started playing the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (WotV: FFBE) mobile game sometime during its collaboration event with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (#ad). To be more precise, started a few days or so after the start of the Sephiroth (from Final Fantasy VII) banner.

I talk more about this in another post, but I pulled for Sephiroth as well as Kadaj from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. This is a continuation of that post since already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post there.

To the Lifestream Vision Card

There are a few Vision Cards that came with the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab. One of these Vision Cards is called To the Lifestream.

This Vision Card features Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII and Kadaj, but it's intended to be used by Sephiroth and Kadaj.

I wish this Vision Card featured Sephiroth and Kadaj instead, especially since this isn't even good for Cloud. Plus, he's already featured in the other Vision Cards that came with this collab.

Sephiroth is featured in another one of the Advent Children Vision Cards, but sadly, that one isn't really good for him.

Since the To the Lifestream Vision Card is good for Kadaj and Sephiroth, decided to pull for it.

There is a 1-time only Step Up 10x Summon banner for the To the Lifestream Vision Card.

This banner has 3 steps. Step 3 is guaranteed to give you 25 To the Lifestream Vision Card shards.

Unfortunately, this banner doesn't guarantee that you will get a copy of the Vision Card in question so just had to hope that I'll get lucky, otherwise will need to pull on another one of the To the Lifestream banners.

To my relief, was actually lucky this time since I was able to get my first copy of the To the Lifestream Vision Card on step 2.

Continued on to step 3 so I could get the 25 To the Lifestream Vision Card shards.

New Player Resources and Free Pulls

As a new player, got lots of resources, login bonuses and rewards, free pulls and such.

The game seems pretty generous, and it is, but honestly, without all these rewards and bonuses and such, the new player experience here will be really bad.

For example, one of the things I got when I first started playing War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius was millions of gil. So I thought it would take a long time before I ever needed to worry about gil, but I soon realized that nearly everything in this game either requires gil or vis or visiore and/or both.

Like even upgrading the abilities of chars costs gil. And each char has multiple abilities. Naturally, the higher the level, the higher the cost.

Anyway, as a new player, also got access to banners that give you fully leveled chars and Vision Cards. IIRC, it costs like 2k vis to pull on these banners and there's a limit as to how many times you can pull before these banners will disappear.

Before pulling on these banners, you get to pick which char or Vision Card you want to get. You'll then get said char or Vision Card in the guaranteed slot. Of course, the selection doesn't include limited and collab units.

Still, these were pretty good deals. Having 1 or 2 or 3 fully built chars and Vision Cards helps a lot. This is especially so since it can actually take a really long time to finish maxing out chars and Vision Cards, especially if they're not currently on rate-up.

As for the free pulls - it's great to have lots of free pulls, but the pool in this game is really bloated already, and there are lots of chars and Vision Cards that are already outdated and powercrept. The rates also seem pretty bad. At least WotV has a pity system, but still.

We may get lots of free pulls, but they're not all that helpful if most of the stuff you get from said pulls are all old and useless. After all, there's no point in trying to max out chars and Vision Cards that aren't usable anymore.

But, to be fair, I did get lucky in some of my free pulls.

I remember getting like 2 or so dupes of Sephiroth thanks to the free pulls from his banner.

This really helped a lot because a dupe will turn into 40 shards of that char.

Sephiroth and Kadaj Shards

As mentioned, I pulled for both UR or Ultra Rare One-Winged Nightmare Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) and Ultra Rare Avenger against the Planet Kadaj.

Needed their shards in order to Limit Break them. Each char can be Limit Broken 5 times. You need a char's shards as well as Rainbow Vision Spheres in order to Limit Break them. Below is a list of the exact amount of materials needed to Limit Break a char:

Limit Break 1: 40 shards + 1 Rainbow Vision Sphere

Limit Break 2: 80 shards + 1 Rainbow Vision Sphere

Limit Break 3: 120 shards + 2 Rainbow Vision Spheres

Limit Break 4: 160 shards + 2 Rainbow Vision Spheres

Limit Break 5: 200 shards + 3 Rainbow Vision Spheres

Don't know where and how I got Rainbow Vision Spheres, but apparently, I currently have more than enough for both Kadaj and Sephiroth. I think maybe I got these as part of the new player rewards and such.

Either way, the problem was not having enough Sephiroth and Kadaj shards.

Since those 2 are currently on rate-up, their shards are available in multiple shops. You can use either paid vis or regular vis to acquire these shards.

There are also around 80 shards or so that can be bought using gil. You can also get a few shards (1 or 2?) a day from chars that are in the Barracks.

Had to grind for more vis so I can buy the aforementioned shards in the shop.

But wait, there's more. A whole lot more. There's also Awakening chars and leveling up their Jobs and such, but will talk more about that later.

Anyway, aside from shards, chars also need Mindspheres. Once you get a char to level 99, you will need even more resources, including Mindspheres, to get them to level 120 and then after that to level 140.

Thankfully, Kadaj and Sephiroth share the same Mindspheres. Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII and Cloud, the other playable chars that came with the Advent Children collab event, also use the same Mindspheres.

Once you finish fully Limit Breaking a char, if you get more of their shards, they will automatically be turned into their Mindspheres.

Since the Advent Children chars share the same Mindspheres, their shards will all turn into [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Sephiroth Shard Banner

Since I needed more [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres, I decided to pull on the 2-times only 4-Step 10x Summon Ultra Rare One-Winged Nightmare Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) banner.

I talk more about this in another post, but I already pulled once on this banner. So I can only do one more lap before this banner disappears.

Anyway, step 3 of this banner is guaranteed to give you 40 [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres while step 4 is guaranteed to give you 40 Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) unit shards.

Every time you pull on this banner, you’re guaranteed to get 100 FFVIIAC Unit Summon Medal C for each step. You can exchange these mdeals for various items in the shop, including more Sephiroth shards.

So I pulled on this banner again and, luckily, got a dupe of Sephiroth on step 1.

By now, I've already finished Limit Breaking Sephiroth, so every time I get more of his shards, they automatically turned into [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Also got another Sephiroth dupe on step 4. Yay for more [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Thoughts About the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Gameplay

I thought the gameplay in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius wasn't that good. I don't know. Maybe it's because, at the moment, I prefer something more casual and easy. But in WotV, it feels like there's way too much going on.

Like you form a team of up to 4 chars, and you can even choose to bring in a friend support. These chars all have multiple abilities, some of which require TP while others require AP. Each char gets their own turn where you can move them on the field then decide which one of their abilities to cast.

You can see the names of these abilities as well as how much AP or TP is required to use them, but there's no way to know what these skills do until you tap on the magnifying glass that's next to them for more info.

Maybe it's just because I'm new and still not used to how things work in this game, but it does feel kinda overwhelming having so many abilities to choose from and having to like check each one just to figure out which one does what and then try to decide which one to use.

Thankfully, the game has this Recommended Abilities feature thing. As the name suggests, it highlights a recommended ability that a char can use each turn. There's also auto-play, which really helps.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Art

I like the 2D art in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. They're very nice to look at.

But the 3D art, not so much. I don't know. It feels like the 3D art could have been done better.

The sprites of the chars during battle look well enough, I suppose. But I don't like it when they use their buffs and suddenly, their entire body gets a different color so it makes it harder to see them clearly.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Animation

I've seen some of the animations in this game like the Limit Burst of some chars. Limit Bursts are like the Noble Phantasms in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game except they can only be used once.

I thought these animations look pretty nice. The only problem was that they aren't voiced at all. They don't even have any music to go with them.

Wish that wasn't the case at all. At the very least, they could have made the chars say something generic or something.

For instance, Sephiroth actually has a couple of lines that he cycles through in battle like when you use his abilities and such, so why couldn't they have had him say one of these lines whenever he uses his Limit Burst?

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And it's sad that they couldn't even be bothered to add like Sephiroth's One-Winged Angel theme either so watching his Limit Burst animation isn't nearly as good as it could have been.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Summon Animation

When you summon a Ultra Rare char in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, the animation includes them walking a bit and then posing in front of the screen.

This is pretty nice, but I'm disappointed that, once again, there's no audio to go with this animation. It's just the char walking and posing, and that's it. Wish there was at least some dialogue and music to go with it.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Audio and Voice Lines

The story in this game is voiced, which is nice. But it looks like Japanese audio is the only option.

I prefer Japanese audio with English subtitles, so this isn't really a problem for me, but after seeing how mobile games like Honkai: Star Rail (HSR) and Reverse: 1999 (R1999) give you multiple language options, I thought it would have been nice if WotV offerred the same thing.

When I got Sephiroth and Kadaj and even Ultra Rare Witness to the Way Forward Tifa (FFVIIAC), looked forward to being able to hear their lines and listen to their voices.

So was kinda disappointed when I soon discovered that they didn't have a lot of lines. And it seemed like they basically just cycled through a couple of lines over and over again.

There isn't even a way in-game to look at a list of all of their voice lines. There's no translation or subtitles either. They just say their lines in Japanese and that's it.

Their "profile" also basically just consists of a few sentences of information along with the name of their voice actor or actress.

Then there's how you can select a char to display on the Home Screen, which is nice. But once again, they cycle through the same lines over and over again, which gets boring fast. And sadly, you can't really interact with them.

Overall, this was pretty disappointing, especially when compared to other games like FGO where each Servant has multiple lines, different art for each Ascension, and more.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Story

The good news is that the cutscenes in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius are pretty short. The bad news is that the story in this game turned out to be really bad.

It didn't seem that way at first though. At first, I thought the story here seemed pretty interesting and okay enough. Too bad that didn't last long at all since the story quickly went downhill.

Warning for spoilers for the WotV storyline below.

After a bit of introduction to the world in this game, players soon got to meet 2 brothers named Mont Leonis and Sterne Leonis. Both are also princes and apparently twins as well.

There was also a princess (named Machérie) from another kingdom (Hourne) who was traveling via carriage. She and her guards are then attacked by lots of bandits, but we soon find out that she's capable of fighting and defending herself.

Back in the kingdom of Leonis, the king, Oelde, receives a report about a bandit attack.

Here's where things start falling apart. Because Oelde decides that he and Mont plus a few other men are going off to take care of these bandits. But that doesn't make sense at all.

He's the king. Why should he be the one to personally go and deal with these bandits? Why couldn't he just send someone else to deal with this?

Even if he knew that Machérie Hourne was the one who was being attacked, it still doesn't make sense why he'd want to go fight the bandits.

On top of that, he even refuses to let his other son, Sterne, go with him to help. And he refuses to give a satisfactory and believable reason as to why.

Later, we'd keep hearing about how good Sterne is, and how he's apparently the better fighter or warrior between him and Mont, so based on that, it's all the more confusing why Oelde refuses to send him to battle.

As for Mont - he's clearly the protagonist, which shouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that it seems like basically everyone loves praising him and going on and on about how good and kind he is, how much potential he has, how he's improving and getting better, how great he is, and blah, blah, blah. All that got old and annoying really quickly.

It didn't help that, at the moment, Mont doesn't come across as all that interesting. He's kinda bland and boring, actually. Sure, he's nice and kind, and he apparently has all the traits that a typical protag has, but that doesn't really make him interesting nor does it differentiate him from the usual hero.

And the story really needs to stop telling me how much potential he has and how much better he'll become in the future. Show, don't tell. And stop repeating it all the time.

I also didn't like how it seemed like most of the women were in love with him. Like he and Machérie just met, and yet it seems that she likes him already for seemingly no reason. It's also already clear from the get-go that these 2 will end up together, or at least it seems that way.

But I wish the game wasn't so blatant about that. I guess they're going for the love-at-first-sight trope, but I wish there was more about the 2 getting to know each other better first.

Machérie is one thing, but then we soon find out that apparently, even the ninjas (Kitone and/or Lynx) also like Mont. So I thought it was getting ridiculous how it seems like everyone's in love with Mont.

As for Sterne - for now, I kinda like him more than Mont simply because he seems so under-appreciated, like he's clearly the underdog with how most people seem to favor his brother. Even his own father seems to favor Mont.

We don't know much about Sterne yet other than how good he apparently is in battle, but from the way he's being treated and neglected, I'm already thinking, I know where this is going. He's gonna turn evil, isn't he?

As I continued playing through the story, I started seeing how some parts of it seem kinda similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's (MCU) Thor movie.

Warning for possible spoilers for the Thor movies below.

Mont is Thor, the favored son, the clear hero of the story. Sterne is Loki, the forgotten and neglected second son. Oelde is Odin, the king and father who appears to favor one son over the other. Helena is Frigga, the queen and loving mother.

We're even shown how Sterne really cares about his mother, Helena, just like how Loki cares about his mother, Frigga.

Also, I noticed that Oelde, Mont, and Helena all have basically the same hair color - what appears to be this light shade of brown - while Sterne is the only one who has dark hair. This is just like how Thor, Frigga, and Odin are all blond while Loki is the only one with dark hair. Well, Odin is old so his hair is all white now.

Anyway, considering what happened in the Thor movies, it made me wonder if Sterne would also turn out to be adopted just like Loki.

Another thing I noticed was the fact that the Leonis throne room only has 1 throne, and it's Oelde who gets to sit in it. Helena stands next to him so at first, didn't think she was actually the queen. Like, why couldn't there be another throne for the queen?

Overall, as I continued playing through the story, the urge to just hit the skip button kept rising and rising. The story was really starting to piss me off. The actions of the chars weren't making sense like how Oelde refuses to let Sterne help, and was getting so annoyed with how everyone keeps going on and on about how great Mont is.

So far, managed to stop myself from skipping, mostly thanks to the fact that the cutscenes were all pretty short. In fact, the battles seem to last longer than these cutscenes even with the fights being set to 2x speed.

Since the cutscenes are so short, it also feels like the chars and plot aren't fully fleshed out. For instance, I wish the story had elaborated more on the motives of the characters like why they're doing what they're doing.

Much, much later: argh! Continued playing through the story, and the more I keep going, the more it feels like it keeps getting worse and worse.

There was this part wherein the kingdom of Leonis is fighting against the kingdom of Fennes. After a bit of fighting, Oelde decides that the best course of action is to retreat. Even now, he still refuses to send Sterne to battle.

And even now, I still have no idea just what the eff Oelde is thinking. What's he planning? Why does he refuse to let Sterne fight?

I also wondered why he decided to retreat instead of continuing to fight. I thought he'd have some sort of plan to turn the tides or something, but apparently, he doesn't have one.

Or, well, he does, but this plan doesn't make sense at all. Because once Oelde gets back to the castle, he says what's gonna happen now is that he and Mont are running away.

Yeah, that's right. He plans to leave his wife and second son to the mercy of the invading Fennes army while he runs away with his other son. Like, seriously, what kind of plan is this?

He must be one of the worst kings ever to abandon his own people. As if that wasn't bad enough, he couldn't even be bothered to bring his entire family with him.

Seriously, what the eff kind of plan is that? How is that gonna help? Even if Oelde wants to run away, why won't he bring Helena and Sterne with him? How does he know those 2 won't immediately be killed once the invading Fennes forces show up?

None of this makes sense, and it's so infuriating. Can't blame Sterne at all for being absolutely furious with his dad for abandoning him and his mother.

Even Mont doesn't agree with his dad's actions. Except he shows just what a spineless doormat he is by going along with it anyway. He's concerend for his mother and brother, but he still does what Oelde says anyway.

There were some people who accompanied Mont and Oelde when they ran away. Every time Oelde would give orders, these people would readily follow them, which just made me wonder why. Like why would anyone want to follow someone like this? Someone who abandoned his people and his family, someone whose plans don't make any sense at all.

Kept going through the story although I was all the more tempted to just skip because this really was completely and utterly frustrating. It was all so annoying and infuriating.

A bit later on, I think I finally reached my limit. I just couldn't take it anymore. The story was really pissing me off so I decided it was for the best if I just skipped it.

IIRC, I stopped sometime after Sterne got this evil armor and was making plans to kill his father. Him wanting to kill Oelde was going too far, but it's understandable why he'd be mad at his father, why he'd feel abandoned and neglected because that was exactly what happened.

His own father left him and his mother. Even before that, it already seemed like his father favored his brother over him, what with always choosing Mont and not even letting Sterne fight even though all Sterne wanted to do was help his family.

The annoying and frustrating thing was that it seemed clear the game wanted me to side with Oelde, as if what he was doing was perfectly reasonable except it totally wasn't, and I just couldn't understand the reason for his actions at all.

So I didn't like how it seemed like Sterne being mad at his dad was wrong. I also thought I could see where this was going already with Sterne turning to evil, maybe or most likely fighting with his dad and Mont just like Loki and Thor, and then probably having a redemption arc later on.

But I couldn't say I liked where this was going, like the plot wasn't really clicking with me. Also, really wasn't liking Mont, especially with how it seems like the game keeps trying to praise him and go on and on about how good he is, and how everyone seems to like him. It was all getting too annoying so I opted to just skip. Maybe I'll get back to it later, but definitely not now.

Things to Like About War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Here are some of the things that I like about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collaboration Event

I like the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event. This was the reason why I even bothered to try out this game. I hope they do more collabs with FF7 and even with other Final Fantasy series.

Also, I hope they rerun the Final Fantasy VII collab event that happened before. It's too bad that I missed out on that event.

Auto and Background Farming Features

The auto-play and background farming features in WotV make it easier to go through quests and farm for the items and materials you need.

Skip Tickets

After clearing a quest and completing all its missions, you can use skip tickets to keep clearing said quest over and over again.

Pity System

Glad this game has a pity system so you can eventually get the char and/or Vision Card you're pulling for even if you have bad luck.

Things to Dislike About War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Here are some of the things that I dislike about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius:

Grindy

WotV is so, so, so grindy even when considering the fact that it has auto-play and background farming features. Honestly, without said features, the game might actually be unplayable due to how grindy it is.

Item Drop Rates

It doesn't help at all that the item or material drop rates in this game seem to be really bad.

I thought the game was being really generous when I found that I had hundreds of skip tickets for story and event quests and, I guess it is, but it's also true that with how bad the drop rates are, it's possible to quickly go through a lot of skip tickets at once and still not get the item you're looking for.

Banner Pull Rates

Speaking of awful rates, the rates for chars and Vision Cards also seem really bad. And the pool is so bloated with old and outdated chars and Vision Cards.

PVP

Not really interested in PVP. In fact, haven't bothered to try the PVP in this game yet, especially since my chars aren't fully built and maxed out yet, and don't have a lot of equipment and such yet.

Crashing

There are times when WotV suddenly crashes or hangs then crashes. Not sure what's causing this, but it's really annoying. Also, as far as I can recall, this has only ever happened in this game. Never got a crash in any other mobile game I've played, not even in Honkai: Star Rail.

Character Progression

As mentioned above, each char needs an exorbitant amount of shards in order to fully Limit Break them. But that's not all a char needs. They also need various other materials in order to fully Awaken them to the max. Then you also need to spend multiple other resources to level them up.

The max level they can get to is 140, but you need to finish Awakening and Limit Breaking them first before you can even get past certain levels.

Each char has 3 Jobs, and you also need to level up these Jobs. Each char also has multiple abilities that need to be unlocked then maxed out. Naturally, even more resources and such are rquired to max out a char's Jobs and abilities.

Then there's also this thing called Transcendence and Reincarnation, which are even more ways to further upgrade each char. Oh, and there are EX Jobs too.

In short, this is way too much that it borders on ridiculous. It's also complicated like there's way too much going on here.

Espers, Vision Cards, Equipment, and More

But wait, there's more. Chars also need equipment, espers, and Vision Cards.

Equipment can be crafted, but you need like 64 recipes to be able to craft the max version of said equipment. You also need multiple other items to craft equipment. Naturally, this means lots and lots of farming over and over again.

Espers also need to be leveled and maxed out. They go up to 3 stars, but you need materials to increase their stars and levels. You also need items to max out their boards, which gives stats and such to chars equipped with said esper.

Vision Cards require shards to be awakened. They also need to be leveled.

There are also these things called Truststones. So, yeah, it really feels like there's way too much going on in this game, like it's unnecessarily complicated.

I also didn't like how it seems like the game really wants you to spend for like every little thing because it feels like everything here requires either gil or vis and/or both.

Like simply getting a copy of a char isn't enough because you also need a lot of their shards, which means having to spend more vis.

Kadaj and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

As a Cost: 100 char, Sephiroth was supposed to be really good. Kadaj is only a Cost: 90 char though so he's unfortunately not that good.

Didn't really care about that though. Started this game because of those 2 so was going to build them and max them out whether they were good or not.

So I readily spent all my resources for those 2 even if it may not be efficient to do so.

Also made sure to get and craft the weapons that came with the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event. For Sephiroth, that would be his Masamune while for Kadaj, it's his Souba.

Thankfully, after what feels like a lot of grinding and farming, managed to get both Kadaj and Sephiroth to level 140. Maxed out all their Jobs and EX Jobs too. Leveled up most of their abilities.

So there's still a lot of room for improvement. Like I tried the Reincarnation thing, but apparently you can do that several times. Naturally, it requires an exorbitant amount of resources because of course it does. Man, this game. LOL.

Anyway, I suppose one can say they're sort-of maxed out already. Like for their abilities, I've already maxed out the ones they're currently using. Once I get more resources, I can max out the rest.

Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

As for Tifa, the game gave us 1 copy of her for free. So far, managed to finish fully Awakening her. Got to Limit Break her a few times, but I ran out of Tifa (FFVIIAC) unit shards so she's now stuck at level 79/79.

Focused on getting Sephiroth's and Kadaj's shards so didn't really have any vis left to spare for Tifa's shards. As such, only really bought her shards that cost gil. Also got some for free from completing her challenge mission board.

I put her in the Barracks alongside Sephiroth and Kadaj so now it's just a long, long wait until I can get enough shards to finish Limit Breaking her.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Plans

Around the time I realized just how grindy this game was, especially once the new player rewards and resources and such ended, I thought to myself that I probably wouldn't be playing this for long. It was all the more reason to just use whatever resources I had to quickly max out Kadaj and Sephiroth.

I was thinking I'd quit soon after the end of the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event then maybe just come back again for the next collab or something.

Even if I didn't quit, I'd already decided that I wasn't going to bother with the meta and such in this game. Was going to be super casual and just not care, especially since, as a new player, it feels like it's impossible to catch up, what with how grindy this game is and how building chars requires so many resources.

Conclusion

So what about you? What do you think about the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius mobile game? What do you think about its collab with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children?

Did you pull for Kadaj, Sephiroth, Tifa Lockhart, and/or Cloud Strife? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging or replying to this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius game account

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freyayuki · 20 days ago

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War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius x Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collaboration Event

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (WotV: FFBE) is a mobile game co-developed by Square Enix and Gumi Inc. and published by Square Enix.

Here’s why I decided to try out this game, or how I ended up trying out this game.

Introduction

Heard about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius before, but wasn't interested in trying it out since I was already playing other mobile games like Fate/Grand Order (FGO), Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (FFBE), and Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia (DFFOO).

Also I heard some bad things about this game like how grindy it is.

Then, much, much later, I heard it was gonna have a collab event with Final Fantasy VII. And Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 will be one of the playable chars to be added to WotV.

That made me think about trying out WotV. But sadly, never got the chance to do so.

After that, didn't really bother to keep up with news about WotV.

So the next time I heard about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, it was about its upcoming collaboration event with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (#ad). This collab will come with another playable version of Sephiroth. Kadaj from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children will also be added to the game.

Can't remember for sure now, but when I heard about this upcoming collab event, I think DFFOO had already ended its service.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius x Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collaboration Event

I talk more about this in other posts, but after DFFOO ended its service, I tried other mobile games like Punishing: Gray Raven (PGR), Reverse: 1999 (R1999), and Honkai: Star Rail (HSR).

When I heard about the upcoming Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, thought about finally giving this game a try, especially after finding out that both Kadaj and Sephiroth will be playable chars.

Those 2 were also playable chars in DFFOO, and I guess I just miss that game. Had both Sephiroth and Kadaj fully built and maxed out there, and I used both pretty often. Ahh, wish DFFOO didn't have to end. Sigh.

Anyway, so was on the lookout for more details about the aforementioned collab event such as when it would start in the Global or English version of the game.

After seeing the collab event schedule, decided I would try out WotV once the Sephiroth banner started. By then the Kadaj banner would have started already.

First War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Account

Started playing War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius maybe a few days or so after Sephiroth's banner dropped.

WotV gives new players 10k visiore or vis if you use one of those friend invite code things, so that, plus the vis I got from starting the game, including day 1 login rewards and such, let me pull a few times on the Sephiroth banner as soon as the option to do so became available.

Thankfully, was able to get my first copy of UR or Ultra Rare One-Winged Nightmare Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) before all that vis ran out.

Here are some more pics of Sephiroth's summon lines and animation:

The pic above has the following words:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

I will never be a memory.

Used the remaining vis to pull on Kadaj's banner. But wasn't left with that much vis (started with 17,900 which soon went down to 3,900) by the time I got Sephiroth so was only able to do like 1 multi on Kadaj's banner before running out of visiore.

Since I wasn't able to get Kadaj, resumed playing through the story and doing whatever other content I could to get more visiore.

At the same time, was also working on leveling up Sephiroth and trying to max him out.

It didn't take long to realize that, in this game, having 1 single copy of a char wasn't enough to be able to fully build and max them out because you also need their shards as well as plenty of other items and materials.

You can get a few shards a day from the Barracks feature. But considering each char needs hundreds of shards to fully max limit break them, this feature isn't good if I want to be able to power up Sephiroth now or as soon as possible.

It quickly became clear that I actually need to spend vis to get shards. So aside from spending vis to pull on Kadaj's banner, will also need even more visiore to be able to get Sephiroth's shards. Then, once I do get Kadaj, will also need his shards if I want to build him.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collab Event Banners

This made me think that I should have pulled on the banners that gave shards instead of the ones with the pity gauge.

There are a lot of banners that are currently available in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. There are even banners which require paid visiore.

The Sephiroth banner I pulled on has a pity gauge which increases by 5% after each 10x summon. Once the gauge becomes full or gets to 100, your next 10x summon is guaranteed to include Sephiroth.

But there is another Sephiroth banner. This one is a 4-step 10x summon banner. Each step can only be done twice. Step 3 is guaranteed to give you 40 [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres while Step 4 is guaranteed to give you 40 Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) unit shards.

The only problem is that this banner doesn't have a pity gauge. But every time you summon here, you're guaranteed to get 100 FFVIIAC Unit Summon Medal C for each step.

You can get these medals on the other Sephiroth banner too. You can exchange these medals for various items in the shop, including more Sephiroth shards. You can also exchange for a copy of Sephiroth in this shop but you'll need 2k medals to do so.

Second War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Account

Thought about starting another WotV account. Only been playing for a day or 2, but it already felt like I ended up wasting some resources. It's not just needing more vis to get shards. It was also the fact that it soon became clear that pretty much everything in this game requires either vis or gil or both, and the cost of stuff here is astronomically high.

Also, I wouldn't realize this until I started all over again, and read through the information again, but apparently, it even costs gil to borrow a support char unless you're borrowing from a friend.

In the select a support char screen, you can see gil at the bottom of every available support. I was under the impression that I was going to get that gil for using the support char so always made sure to pick the ones that give the highest amount. Little did I know that doing that was actually causing me to lose gil. LOL.

Anyway, it also felt like my 1st account was kinda unlucky since it took me a lot of vis before I was able to get Sephiroth, and I couldn't even get Kadaj yet.

So it was all the more reason to try to start over. Logged out of my 1st account then tried to create a new account.

This time, I went to the 4-step 10x summon Sephiroth banner. If I can't get Sephiroth by the time I finish pulling twice on this banner, then the plan was to reroll and try again.

Thankfully, Step 3 gave me my 1st copy of Sephiroth.

Did the Step 4 pull too to get the 40 Sephiroth shards.

I could do the 4-step 10x summon again, but opted not to for now so I could use the rest of my vis to try pulling for Kadaj next.

Since I was able to get Sephiroth and even some of his shards soon enough while still having some vis left, decided to stick with this account.

Kadaj Banners

The shard banner for Kadaj is a 1-time only 9-step 10x summon.

Steps 3 and 6 will give 40 Kadaj shards while Steps 4 and 7 will give 40 [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Pulled on this banner until I got to Step 7. After that, switched to pulling on the Kadaj banner with the pity gauge.

Just kept going through the story to get more vis to pull. On one hand, it was too bad that I had yet to get Kadaj. But on the other hand, at least the B-type FFVIIAC Unit Summon Medals I get every time I pull on the Kadaj banners will let me get more of his shards.

The pity gauge was at 25/100 when I finally got my first copy of Ultra Rare Avenger against the Planet Kadaj.

Here are some more pics of Kadaj’s summon lines and animation:

The pic above has the following words:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

We will join as a family and strike back at the planet!

Tifa Lockhart Banners

Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII is another playable char that came with this collab event. But unlike Sephiroth and Kadaj, you can get Ultra Rare Witness to the Way Forward Tifa (FFVIIAC) for free.

There is a 1-time only Tifa (FFVIIAC) guaranteed free 10x summon banner.

Here are some more pics of Tifa’s summon lines and animation:

The pic above has the following words:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Words aren't the only thing that tell people what you're thinking...

I thought it was nice that we got Tifa for free. But the only thing we got for free is one copy of the unit. So if you want to build Tifa, you still need to get her shards.

No wonder there are also other Tifa banners that are similar to the Kadaj and Sephiroth banners.

Tried to build Tifa too, but my priority is still Sephiroth and Kadaj. Will focus on fully building and maxing out those 2 first before anyone else since they're the reason I started playing this game in the first place.

Cloud Strife Banners

Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII is another playable char that came with the Advent Children collab. His banner was still up when I joined the game but opted not to pull for him since was still focused on trying to max out Kadaj and Sephiroth.

Even just focusing on 2 (or 3, if you count Tifa, but, like I said, will prioritize Sephiroth and Kadaj first before turning my attention to her) chars already requires an exorbitant amount of resources and grinding so didn't want to have to work on yet another character.

But, as a new player, did get some free pulls on the He Who Conquered Doubt Cloud (FFVIIAC) banner. Unfortunately, wasn't lucky enough to get him.

Or maybe that's actually a good thing since, if I did end up getting him, would have felt like trying to build him too, which would have meant needing to grind more to get more resources and shards and such.

Anyway, that's it for now. There's a lot more, but gonna need to continue in another post since already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post in this one.

Conclusion

So what about you? What do you think about the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius x Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event?

Did you pull for Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, Kadaj, and/or Sephiroth? What do you think about their chars in this game? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging or replying to this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius game account and Google Play Store account

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