Gacha Redux

What Is Gacha Redux?

Gacha Redux is an alternative version of the Gacha Club game, and a spinoff or fork of the Gacha Life franchise.

Redux's main appeal is the lack of a paid cosmetic system. Players can purchase all of the items in the game's shops for in-game currency, not with real life money.

What's the catch? Redux is at a slower update pace; the content in Redux is a few updates behind Gacha Life's main projects, so the latest outfits and accessories aren't available.

Many of the mini-games are also not present in Redux. Let's take a look at the specific feature differences.

Understanding the Redux Features and Difference

While Gacha Redux is focused more on the studio mode, there are four game modes:

• Story - The main story mode, which unlocks a standard set of customizations. Story mode includes five chapters with 7 sections in each chapter. In addition to exploration and stories within gameplay, you have to defeat four bosses in every section to continue.
• Training - Practice gameplay and builds without using currency.

  Although there is no cost to training, you do gain rewards such as money, experience points, enhancement stars, moons used for skill ups, and a final currency called Awakening Records.

  After completing Chapter 2, you unlock Shadow Training that aligns with the Shadows of Corruption mode. There are 100 levels in normal training mode, and 3 bosses in Shadow Training.
• Tower - Climb through the towers to defeat an end boss of each tower, make it through as many waves as possible.
• Shadows of Corruption - Similar to Tower, Shadow requires completed Chapter 2 of the game's Story mode to access the 23 bosses in this mode.

Studio mode delivers full character creation with multiple wallpaper scenes, 10 character models, previous paid or event-only pets, and special text flair options.

Gacha Life Versions

The Gacha Life franchise has a few different versions, and not all are managed by the same original developer.

Gacha Life is the original, and was developed by Lunime. The game was remade later as Gacha Club, which added additional backgrounds, character models, and items. It also added the titular location, the Club.

Gacha Redux originally began as a mod or modified version of the game. As mentioned earlier, the benefit is that the real money purchase feature is not on Redux; everything can be earned with in-game currency.

Gacha Life Safety

The Gacha Life franchise and its spinoffs all run into a general issue that every internet community runs into; people on the internet are weird.

Child safety is an extremely confusing subject for many parents, especially parents who themselves weren't involved with internet culture. First, let's define the game's intent and how the community grows.

Gacha Life and Gacha Club were designed for people who enjoy anime aesthetics in general. It was not designed for any specific age group, but is clearly a more wholesome, cute design.

If you're not from an area where anime-style designs are common, the whole thing might be foreign to you. But, for the majority of the world, these characters with big eyes and colorful clothes are mostly for teens or people who simply like cute things.

The style of game comes from an older type of game called the Kisekae (pronounced KEE-say-KAI-ay) Set System, known simply as Kisekae, Kiss sets, or Kiss dolls--not to be mistaken for the 1973 band, although the pun has made it to many Kiss sets many times over.

Made popular in the 1990s, it's also an entire standard of making dress up doll games, with the types of colors, models, and clothing sets part of an entire set of rules. While the style and original games were geared towards Pre-Teen and Teen girls, there were many other styles for almost any aesthetic imaginable.

In other ways, it's a way to arrange digital clothes. Ever use a digital outfit planner? A lot of those are based on this system.

In the 2000s, games such as Gaia Online (previously known as Go-Gaia) delivered the online, multiplayer, internet forum-based version of these games. That concept is simple as well; why join a message board with some random picture when you could design an entire character avatar to represent you?

Even better for the interactive aspect, you could play games to earn items and trade items with others. As young graphic designers grew up, many other sites continued to grow in the west.

The people who were teens during the turn of the 2000s are in their 30s and 40s now. Sorry if that made you feel old!

This means not only were there adults who could remake or reinvent the brand, but that's it's happened many times older. Kids these days barely know about the programs from the 2000s, let alone the 90s.

But one thing hasn't changed; the internet is full of weirdos, both young and old. The original developer of Gacha Life didn't anticipate all of the dangers, and that's understandable; they set out to make a dress up game, not a babysitting app!

When Gacha Life and Gacha Club exploded into popularity, the obvious happened; kids gravitated to the game, but many adults did as well. The risk of stranger danger wasn't just a concern from parents, but from other adults who knew what kind of creepers would appear.

Eventually, the ability to chat or share personal information was removed. This has been a standard in games with predominantly teen or younger audiences as of the 2010s, but again, Gacha Life and Gacha Club are not from some massive company. It's from an amateur developer with a lot of natural talent.

Still, weirdness finds a way. The biggest concern in modern Gacha Life, Club, and Redux is the skit system.

With the skit system, you can arrange characters in different ways to tell a story or even make a video, including text. In the past, a few demented skits made their way to the public, which lead to outcry from parents.

In a world where it's hard to be present for every second of online life--some families have two working parents, or a single parent who definitely needs to be away for work--that meant major changes for Gacha Life to have an active, safe community.

There is a report system in Gacha Life, and the developer is working to remove some poses that are too easily turned into something graphic. That said, hindsight is 20/20: some of the obviously terrible poses are as simple as lying down, sitting, or praying.

Creativity is neither good nor evil, so while a few questionable weirdos are present, the answer to safety for Gacha Redux will be able reporting and moderating users more actively--which probably means becoming a bigger company with more active staff.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Free! No cost to download, no in-game purchases used at all.
• Low profile app. Because it's an older version of Gacha Life and Gacha Club, it doesn't have the higher demands of newer updates.
• Known strategies. It's an older version, so easy ways to win fights (for average players) are already researched.

Cons

• Limited customer service.
• Behind the main app in updates.
• Fewer custom items than the main app.