Distracted by a Roguelite and the Best Anime of 2025

11:37 PM

The past day and a half I've been playing this roguelite game. Roguelites are a form of rogue-likes, which is a video game genre. There was a game called Rogue released in 1980, and it had this brilliant premise of randomizing most elements of the game, so that no single playthrough is ever the same. When you enter a dungeon in an RPG and the loot drops from the monsters are different each time, that concept originated from Rogue. Of course in MMORPGs the areas are all the same, it is only the loot drops that are different. In Rogue, not only the drops, but the areas and monsters are different in every playthrough.

A game that is a roguelite is Diablo 1 and Diablo 2. I'm not sure about any other Diablos since I've never played them. But yeah, I played Diablo 2 back when I was 9 or 10 years old in the early 2000s, and didn't even realize it was a Roguelite video game. It's called a Roguelite because it's not entirely "Roguelike", but merely incorporates a lot of elements of Rogue. For a game to be considered Roguelike, it needs a game over upon losing and to be turn-based.

Based on the above definition of a Roguelike, the game I have been obsessed with for the past day and a half, is actually a Roguelike, and not a Roguelite. Because it is turn based, although a single turn in the game is an entire battle.

Yeah, it's probably one of the better games I have ever played. It's so addicting. There's so much detail in the game. I do not recommend it because it is addicting. It will take weeks to beat if you do not pay the microtransaction to get some shortcuts. The game is called DoomFields, and I have unlocked everything, and I have mastered the entire game. I think the most wins I got in PVP, is 19 wins. I think that's one of the top scores. Remember, I have only been playing for a day and a half. But yes, it is a crazy game with so much detail. I just really enjoy playing it and winning and trying out different builds and strategies.

What is crazy about Doomfields is that there are 39 classes. Yes, 39 freaking classes. I can't even believe a single developer made all of this. Video games are probably the hardest things to program, because you have to build the entire world from scratch and come up with all of the rules and logic for the world from scratch. It takes an insane amount of creativity to make a game, a decent game, and there is so much detail in Doomfields. For example, let me name some of the classes: Alchemist, Templar, Assassin, Warrior, Necromancer, Priest, Druid, Sorcerer, Arcanist, Pilgrim, Blade Dancer, Protector, Dreadnaught, etc. Crazy creative. Each class has 6-7 unique spells. There is just so much detail in the game, it is pretty crazy.

Anyway, I also got distracted by an anime. This is a manga I read earlier this year, called My Gift Level 9999 Unlimited Gacha. I was thinking about how awesome it would be if they had an anime for this, and there you go, an anime came out for this. This has happened a lot to me, such as Mashle as well, and many others, where I would read a manga when no anime existed for it, but later an anime would come out for it. I would say that My Gift Level 9999 Unimilted Gacha, which we will now just shorten to Unlimited Gacha, is one of the most creative and best stories I have read this year.

They really just go all over the place with Unlimited Gacha. It is so creative and the story is just really good. The most comparable story to Unlimited Gacha would be Overlord, because both star a main character that rules over and is worshiped by the beings they created, that obeys anything they say. In Unlimited Gacha and Overlord, they are also both trying to rule the world, but they do not know the scope of how powerful the world is, when likely the main characters are much more powerful than the world itself. The main characters in both are extremely overpowered with neigh-unlimited resources at their disposal.

This might be blasphemy because Overlord is viewed as one of the all-time greatest anime series ever, but I like Unlimited Gacha much more than Overlord. Unlimited Gacha is just more enjoyable, and the series goes in a structured order instead of randomly jumping all around like in Overlord. The characters in Unlimited Gacha actually have a goal they are trying to fulfill, so all their actions tie into that. In Overlord, they have a goal as well, but they are just doing whatever to fulfill it.

The most creative scene I have seen, made me really excited for the world and its mysteries. Here are spoilers for Unlimited Gacha. At some point probably 25% of the way through the entire story, that will probably be in season 2 or 3 of the anime, the main characters travel to some underground world. Up to this point in the story, the main characters are unstoppable godlike figures who are all powerful and no one can even lay a finger on them. Then they discover this underground world, with creations and inventions that they had trouble with, that could completely annihilate them.

Oh yeah, this underground world blew my mind. There's just so much creativity in it. Basically they reach 3 levels. The first level was a vast forest, and then they go deeper and encounter a vast endless ocean, and then some strange cubic world, and then deeper down, an entire abandoned civilization. Keep in mind this was all underground, the forest was underground, the ocean was underground, in different levels. Yeah, this scene was so creative to me and blew my mind. I've never seen this much creativity in a manga/anime.

The second best story I've read this year, I would say would be the "The Exiled Reincarnated Heavy Knight." That's another extremely good story. There is a suicide scene in the story, from an antagonist, that is extremely creative. This is a character that you hate, I don't want to give any spoilers by giving out details, but you are actually relieved when they go. The scene left an impression in my mind, because it was so creative. The guy lies down on the ground and merely casts a fireball vertically into the air, and it comes back down. So freaking creative. Again, this is a despised character, in the context you are relieved when they go.

In The Reincarnated Heavy Knight, the main character is not overpowered. He is supposed to be overpowered because of his knowledge, but he isn't. He is not all-powerful, he basically nearly dies in every encounter. He is "realistically powered", if that makes sense. He is reincarnated, so he has vast amounts of knowledge and experience, but again he nearly dies in basically every 15-20 chapters or so. I like this story because the main character is vulnerable.

Anyway, I am sleepy now.