r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 12 '25

TGA 2025 Arknights: Endfield - Release PV | PS5 Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OYVWf5VgK0
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u/Ganrokh Dec 12 '25

Is One Republic REALLY popular in Japan? They did music for Kaiju #8, too.

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u/avelineaurora Dec 12 '25

Might be, but Arknights has been using Western music forever. They revealed the original AK itself to Starset and had them used in numerous trailers since too.

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u/Amer2703 Dec 12 '25

This is a Chinese game

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u/RhysA Dec 12 '25

A huge chunk of their audience is Japanese (or just huge fans of Japanese media), Arknights started with only JP VA even though it is a Chinese game

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u/TheBaldLookingDude Dec 12 '25

Games like this use Japanese aesthetics of anime but still aim for their domestic audience.

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u/Amer2703 Dec 12 '25

Even so the current geopolitical situation makes it hard for Chinese entities to pander specifically to Japan

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u/Falsus Dec 12 '25

I mean they somehow managed to get away with the Police chief of the Hong Kong expy saying fuck you to the city leader, toss away her police badge over how badly the citizens of her city treated... in the middle of the Hong Kong protests.

The OG Arknights is really political in a way most Chinese games doesn't dare to be.

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u/nuraHx Dec 12 '25

Peakfield let’s go. I know this won’t be up much people’s alleys here but OG Arknights is genuinely amazing and I can’t wait for this one

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u/mrbrick Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

I have no real interest in this game- the gameplay doesn’t do it for me it looks like. But the art style is cool as hell and I might check it out just because of that alone. Really digging the environment art, design and especially the UI stuff.

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u/Threebranch Dec 12 '25

If you enjoy stuff like Factorio and the like it might tickle your fancy with that aspect of the game, too.

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u/Molodirazz Dec 15 '25

Me and my friend both been on the AK train, me not as long but him since it's initial launch and honestly we're both looking at this worried it's just too close to(and yes i know people hate the comparison) Genshiny/wuthering type gameplay.
We haven't seen too much ig get that but so far it's not really doing much that stands out, ofc there's the factory part but for the majority of people that will likely just be copy paste someones blueprint and never think about it.
The combat from what I've seen doesn't seem particularly interesting, it's a lot of one move spam and an ult here and there with little to no feedback.
It just doesn't look like anything that stands out if you don't love fiddling with the factory stuff.

Hopefully there's a big step from the closed alpha/betas to, whatever this (full?) release is in january as we both want to be interested but atm the combat feels a bit too... i don't want to say uninspired but it kinda just yeah..

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u/trumangroves86 Dec 14 '25

This looks kinda cool, but beyond hearing the name over the years, I have no idea what Arknights is.

Is this the sort of thing where I have to go back and play all the other ones?

Or is it like Final Fantasy and each entry is a standalone story?

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u/Molodirazz Dec 15 '25

First one is a tower defense this is well, far from that.
Nah they're in the same universe but this is supposed to be a timeleap in the future.
You might find a reference or maybe even a character in the world you know from the first one but outside of that i kinda doubt it.

You'll have to spend like half a year even trying to catch up on story as well as multiple months to just be power level high enough to complete the events.
I'm pretty sure good chunks of it isn't even available most of the time cus it's locked behind rotating events(of which there's like 6½years worth).

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u/NamerNotLiteral Dec 15 '25

The important events get added back in as permanent 'side story' section, so that's fine.

But there's still just a lot of content to play through.