Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Infinite Combate

It's always interesting to see an anime adapted to a game. In Danmachi's case, controlling the main characters and delving deep into the dungeon seems quite appealing on paper. I was, however, disappointed with the execution of this game. The graphics are very basic, there is no quality animation like in the anime, and the main part, combat in the dungeon is unsatisfying, giving a feel of unprecise smashing of your attacks. The janky controlling of your character in the dungeon also means sometimes the perceived difficulty of the game jumps a lot if you aren't in the right spot to damage the enemies and/or dodging their attacks. For big fans of anime, it might have a little value to test it but overall I'd say it's not worth the time for many players.

Having watched the anime, I thought I would enjoy this game a lot more than I did. The story was much more boring than the anime and the gameplay wasn't that great either. The trick is to Never complete a combo attack. If you finish the chain, you stand around like a moron for a second or two where you will take a lot of damage. If you stop attacking before it finishes, however, you can immediately go into another combo attack. It's just badly designed. You only "level up" and get stronger by doing the story missions, so doing side quests is largely pointless. The boss fights were lackluster and repetitive. If you haven't seen the anime, you might get something out of it, but... honestly, just watch the anime and leave this game alone.

(Currently over 20 hours of playtime, having completed the main story and stuck in the post game grind) With a myriad of problems, this interpretation of the anime leaves a lot to be desired. Mechanically the game is all over the place. The dungeon aspects are under developed with awkward, floaty controls. The default control scheme is a really awkward keyboard layout that doesn't support key remapping. The game launcher is the only place that you can adjust the gamepad settings, however it also didn't register any of my gamepad inputs so I had to use a third party utility to even get those working properly, and even then it had lead to weird results when using the analogue inputs. During the main story the game incentivizes you to skip the combat as most of your characters aptitudes are based on story progression, with little means outside of that to actually develop in a meaningful way. Once you hit the post game, the game becomes a poorly balanced slog as you run through increasingly scaling enemies that, even with maximized stats and equipment, still feel like a chore. The actual Visual Novel elements are superficial, existing simply as text with mostly static png cutins being puppeted around as if glued to a stick. I would say the one saving grace is the voice acting; it's only a shame I don't know Japanese. If you plan on getting all the achievements, just know you will end up sinking more time into that than you would actually just watching the anime over again, which, if you really like the series, would be my recommendation rather than playing this shallow interpretation.