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Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Cygames, Inc. · 4,037 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 19 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
14 negative reviews mention this · 74% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sorry!!. I didn’t really get into the game much, even after playing" - ReAhhll
2
"every"
5 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Haru Urara and other dirt racers. Criminal how they did Haru Urara in the game, her stats are difficult to train and her affinity with every Uma is super low it’s impossible to get the necessary aptitude for her to run Arima Kinen. It also bothers me that the dirt races don…" - Story traveler
3
"games"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "RIP Uma Global. As much as I enjoyed this game when it released, it's become a massive slog in the long term, suffering many issues that all gacha games eventually have. Really bad rates (even worse than other Cygames releases like Granblue), horrible RNG …" - GalacticPopcorn
4
"experience"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "RIP Uma Global. As much as I enjoyed this game when it released, it's become a massive slog in the long term, suffering many issues that all gacha games eventually have. Really bad rates (even worse than other Cygames releases like Granblue), horrible RNG …" - GalacticPopcorn
5
"been"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "RIP Uma Global. As much as I enjoyed this game when it released, it's become a massive slog in the long term, suffering many issues that all gacha games eventually have. Really bad rates (even worse than other Cygames releases like Granblue), horrible RNG …" - GalacticPopcorn
6
"play"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sorry!!. I didn’t really get into the game much, even after playing" - ReAhhll
7
"playing"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sorry!!. I didn’t really get into the game much, even after playing" - ReAhhll
8
"gacha"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "RIP Uma Global. As much as I enjoyed this game when it released, it's become a massive slog in the long term, suffering many issues that all gacha games eventually have. Really bad rates (even worse than other Cygames releases like Granblue), horrible RNG …" - GalacticPopcorn
9
"worse"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "RIP Uma Global. As much as I enjoyed this game when it released, it's become a massive slog in the long term, suffering many issues that all gacha games eventually have. Really bad rates (even worse than other Cygames releases like Granblue), horrible RNG …" - GalacticPopcorn
10
"spark"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Track blazer is miserable. Love spending 30 mins on a run that turns to glue Becuase you decided to run end closers. Spark farming sucks. The scenario has no qol and overall has been a miserable experience" - big daddy dak
11
"gameplay"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game shouldn’t be rated 12+ if the developers made the game specifically 18+ by default.. The app store needs to change this games age rating. I was looking for something new to play and upon finding this one I was really invested with a lot of the designs shown, the gameplay also looked interesting, I genuinely thought I was pr…" - CrispsNPuffs
12
"nothing"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I hate my life. I hate everything. NO SATANO DIAMOND NO KITASAN NO SSR KITASAN NO FINE MOTION NOTHING" - OGURICAPISFAT ASF
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Sorry!!
I didn’t really get into the game much, even after playing
Haru Urara and other dirt racers
Criminal how they did Haru Urara in the game, her stats are difficult to train and her affinity with every Uma is super low it’s impossible to get the necessary aptitude for her to run Arima Kinen. It also bothers me that the dirt races don’t yield as many skill points and fans; I understand that dirt races in Japan usually don’t get much attention but it’s still messed up how you guys treat her in game with her stats and affinity. Not to mention what I’ve heard about the use of Ai in the game. Please fix Haru Urara’s stats with an increase in her starting stats and increase in affinity along with a buff in dirt race fan and skill points yield.
RIP Uma Global
As much as I enjoyed this game when it released, it's become a massive slog in the long term, suffering many issues that all gacha games eventually have. Really bad rates (even worse than other Cygames releases like Granblue), horrible RNG in the new scenario (Making a New Track), repetitive daily missions, boring limited story events. I seriously enjoyed both Ura Finale and Unity Cup for how they integrated the story of you and your Uma working together for three years, getting to know them and forming a bond with them - MANT just cuts this altogether, is only playable with Umas with certain aptitudes, and gives you horrific RNG all around. Right now, Cygames *seriously* needs to do something to improve the experience, because the game just isn't fun, and it hasn't been fun for a while.
Track blazer is miserable
Love spending 30 mins on a run that turns to glue Becuase you decided to run end closers. Spark farming sucks. The scenario has no qol and overall has been a miserable experience
Incredibly predatory
All of the good gatcha pulls are locked behind “paid carrots” the game really goes out of its way to push buying carrots. I absolutely do not recommend this game to anyone wanting to play and not spend money.
This game shouldn’t be rated 12+ if the developers made the game specifically 18+ by default.
The app store needs to change this games age rating. I was looking for something new to play and upon finding this one I was really invested with a lot of the designs shown, the gameplay also looked interesting, I genuinely thought I was preparing to experience something good from this game, but I was immediately let down. Upon trying to set my age, the game wasn’t allowing me to proceed any further… as if my age wasn’t valid. Come to find out that despite being told on the app-store that this game is supposedly “12+” the developers purposely made the game attended towards a more mature audience via. “18+”.
I am 17 years old, and this is a “12+” game.
I am 17 years old, and this is a “12+” game.
Game wont load
I am on an adequate device, on iOS 16.6, but the game does not load. It crashes on startup, very fun on PC though
I hate my life
I hate everything. NO SATANO DIAMOND NO KITASAN NO SSR KITASAN NO FINE MOTION NOTHING
Unplayable
I have attempted to play this game three times and every time I try to play it tells me I have a connection error and I have tried to fix it and nothing works
Good while it lasted
So I just got back into the game after seeing the first anniversary and now I’m getting connection error no matter what I do changing connection always get the same error. Yes I’m going to miss out on all those bonuses or free crystals and there’s not going to be any compensation
Paid money and app stopped working
Reporting and asking for support are blocked by the app erroring. Their support team closed ticket as fixing my internet connection.
Great game ruined by awful gatcha
As everyone knows gatcha games are terrible, but this one is more so than most because of the “Support Card” system. Often times you’re forced to pick between summoning for new support cards and new characters, as characters are fun and cool and the whole reason the game exists, however support cards make your characters perform better.
More than this though the support card system makes the gameplay really, really stale. When how good your racers perform is solely based on what support cards you’re using, it limits how far you can advance with your current cards, and quickly leads to a boring experience.
Lastly I tend to take big breaks from gatcha games and in my last days playing this game, I came back after a few months only to see that all my support cards are outdated and have been replaced by better cards. Even by gatcha standards, they got replaced remarkably fast.
I’m telling you this game would be actually very fun if they would just delete the support card system from the game tomorrow, but that’ll never happen so this game blows and I cannot recommend it in any capacity.
More than this though the support card system makes the gameplay really, really stale. When how good your racers perform is solely based on what support cards you’re using, it limits how far you can advance with your current cards, and quickly leads to a boring experience.
Lastly I tend to take big breaks from gatcha games and in my last days playing this game, I came back after a few months only to see that all my support cards are outdated and have been replaced by better cards. Even by gatcha standards, they got replaced remarkably fast.
I’m telling you this game would be actually very fun if they would just delete the support card system from the game tomorrow, but that’ll never happen so this game blows and I cannot recommend it in any capacity.
Unacceptable
Extreme grind every single day if you want to actually roll for what you want + extremely stingy and outdated gacha system + extreme pay-to-win game design + accelerated schedule with barely an increase in rolls + massive delays in pushing through necessary QOL that would at least slightly mitigate the above = one of the worst gachas ever made, even worse than FGO. But what do you expect from Cygames, the literal reason behind the spark/hard pity system existing in gacha in the first place (Monkeygate).
cruel and twisted pure evil game
i didn't get Ayabe i didn't get Doto i didn't get Digital i didn't get brian i didn't get amazon i got multiple copies of 3 star umas i had than i've gotten new ones i dont know who made this gacha system but whoever did you are cruel and evil and the lowest of the human race i have failed 1% chance wit training wit wit wit the smarts the mental failed wit matikanefukukitaru lucky tidings is hell i have failed 1 one percent that would've given me 50 speed on manhattan cafe i hate this gacha system
Bruh, ai?
And it NEVER loads at all!
Do you like playing games, or do you like tolerating them?
If you like sitting through 30 minutes of pure, unfettered RNG in the most genuinely BS roguelike game you have ever played in your life, then you might enjoy sitting through this uninteractive test of patience of a game. The characters are fun, the design is appealing, and the gameplay is genuinely unbearable in how it rewards nothing more than RNG. It doesn’t matter if you train an Uma to MAX on every stat, you’ll lose to one with literally no stats anyways because it’s all just RNG. There’s nothing else to even say about it, it’s just godawful design that the entire game is basically all about sitting there and tolerating. If you’re here to play a game and not just for the funny characters, then I suggest looking elsewhere.
2 Stars until QOL
I don’t like the lack of transparency and communication from the dev team. There are obvious problems regarding spark and clock QOL that need to be addressed.
Unplayable
I can’t enjoy the game cuz it load like a turtle on the road
Good game, Impossible to advance
I actually really like this game but unless you get extremely lucky there's no way to improve the characters. Literally every time I upgrade my trainees' potential they start performing worse than the last version of them I played for some reason. I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to improve a single character just by 1 single point, and after I raised her potential level to 5 she's been consistently performing 3,000-4,000 points less than the level 4 version. What's the point of upgrading if there are no real improvements?
Sentiment summary
88%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
10%
Negative (1-2★)