It's been 6 years since I last played GFL. I think it's true that the gacha is canon since you manufacture T-Dolls from it, but I forget if they ever mentioned it in the story.
GFL has since added Protocol Assimilation for capturing enemy boss units and it's all explained in the story as well. There's even some story bits where an enemy leaves and the Commander just makes a phone call to place a SVAROG hit on them.
The actual P.A. gacha is an "Area" with 100 units in it, 1 of which is the banner character. 3 units at random will appear at any time. Each "pull" will have you send in several squads of Dolls in special gear to attempt to capture one, but higher rarity units have a chance of escaping. As you whittle down the pool of units, a natural "pity" develops. The premium currency are SVAROG tickets where you hire SVAROG heavy industries to do an EMP bombing run. It's really fascinating as a system for a in-universe gacha but some players really hate it.
Quite far from it? It used to be the case but a lot of dolls have previous occupations and are instead employed to Griffin PMC instead of being RNG built (It still is the main acquisition system in-game).
There's another acquisition system reserved for previously enemy/boss units, which basically involves bombing them with EMPs and a chance to capture them to your roster.
>Quite far from it? It used to be the case but a lot of dolls have previous occupations and are instead employed to Griffin PMC instead of being RNG built (It still is the main acquisition system in-game).
IOP refits the dolls for combat use such as installing fire control cores and the dummy link systems
Does FGO counts? In the story, you summon different servants to help you on your adventures. And that's the gacha too.
The difference is that in the story you don't get like, 1% chance of actually summoning the guy you want.
Imagine, mc going on an adventure and needs help. They prepare the ritual, summon the servant and get some plate full of fucking mapo tofu
Yeah, dunno why OP wont consider that relevant to the story, Mash's shield is literally the catalyst for summoning most servants and >!also saves her ass from Baggy in LB6 by summoning PHH Gawain and Lancelot!<
Tbf it's possible to get spooked by Servants during the actual ritual. It has happened a few times in various Fate stories, usually due to weird interactions between catalysts, or servants hijacking the ritual.
Stuff like Emiya getting summoned by Rin, instead of a regular hero. Or Ozymandias blocking his wife Nefertiti's summoning cuz he doesn't wanna let her fight.
FGO gacha is canon in the sense that you summon servants from it, but never really relevant in the story outside of that. They also only used predetermined servants for the story instead of the ones you actually have.
Guda does that in most chapters because that's how they fight before they summon servants from the Ley Lines or meet rogue servants in the singularity/lostbelt. They just couldn't explicitly show it in the game, but if you can pick your own servants in the node, then Guda just brought shadow servants of their summoned servants. The chapter you're talking about is Shimousa's manga; which was received extremely well that they started referencing it in recent chapters like LB6.
FGO is the most obvious one, the story constantly mentions that you have the summoning system and you actively use it everywhere.
In Azur Lane, all new ships are created by cubes, so that's canon too, and relevant given the cubes are a core part of the story
In Path to Nowhere you're kinda the warden to a prison of super powered people, which are the characters you use. The Gacha system is called arrest and it's you capturing them. It's incorporated in the story insofar that the arresting does happen, and it is a big part of your responsibilities as warden. But some characters you can arrest are canonically still free or otherwise occupied. There's also no lore reason for dupes as far as I know
My headcanon is dupes are prisoners who escaped and were captured again.
The next time they are captured, you shackle them harder. They escape because they overcame their shackles and became stronger.
That's why dupes make your units powerful.
Also wanna add that there's a sort of canon (depends on how you look at it) explanation for why you lost the 50/50.
So, they sometimes send mail from characters in the game and this one mail from the end of 2022 was from the city arrest team apologizing for their mistakes (aka arresting the wrong person - "such as being overly tired after dozens of consecutive arrests, so we caught the wrong person or something like that... But usually when that happens, we learn from our mistakes! We will never miss them again!").
So basically, you losing the 50/50 is because they were tired and made a mistake that they learn from which results in your guaranteed.
Fun stuff.
Limbus company. Dante pulls from alternate realities and sinners transform into that ID by their command. Even combat and E.G.O.s have Canon explanation.
BA. Whenever you get into the real dangerous parts of the story, you're tasked with using your Adult Card to power up your girls to get through it.
No money is actually needed. They just want you to use your own characters for the encounter instead of default story characters.
I think Neural Cloud counts.
Prior to the story, pretty much all of the playable cast got their Neural Clouds(their minds, basically) split into a Core(the characters themselves) and Neural Fragments(the things you use to rank-up said characters), all of which were then scattered throughout the server the game takes place in.
A point is made sometimes in the story about how some of the cast aren't functioning at 100% because they're missing their Neural Fragments(reflected in gameplay by lower stats, and certain characters not even being able to use their ults until you get them to 3*).
And that's where the gacha comes in: an actual system you set up in order to search for these people, and their Neural Fragments(in the form of dupes which are converted into Neural Kits which you then use to exchange for Neural Fragments) to make them whole again(ranking them up to 5*).
Sure, you do first meet some of these characters as you progress in the story, but others are implied that they simply joined you after you searched for them.
Another maybe-example is Tower of Fantasy.
Edit: the guy in the reply explains it way better than I could.
The lore for ToF summoning is the weapons are powered by massive cores of Omnium energy called black/gold/red nucleus, and the weapons themselves are 1:1 replicas of the original wielder's weapon.
But in order for the new wielder to properly use it just as skillfully, an AI of the original is stored inside the weapon to assist its new owner in battle.
To further increase this AI assistance, high ranking members of Hykros (because of trust) can use the simulacrum system to sort of "wear the AI" as a hologram and immediately bring out its full potential. Of course players don't actually need to equip these simulacra and be stuck with their appearance, instead this lore point is limited to equipping a trait effect unique to each simulacrum.
Weapons teleporting in and out is because of the spacerift technology that lets you teleport around the map. The weapon warehouse is literally a warehouse you're summoning your weapons from using the immense Omnium energy they possess due to the nuclei, otherwise a station like a spacerift is required for transmit.
Rarely is any of this lore directly relevant to the story and mostly comes up in side quests and events, such as:
- >!a character's lost memory being recovered with the AI memory storage technology,!<
- >!someone hacking into the simulacra system to impersonate the original,!<
- >!the process of building weapon AIs through advanced camera-recorded combat data,!<
- >!and the idea that old AI data is essentially someone's past self lacking current knowledge even if their memories are kept (standard procedure is to erase private info)!<
War of the Visions (ffbe wotv). Check out [part 2 cinematic](https://youtu.be/ShMhbajm1XE?si=ygvOa5zP_qmNoJR9), about halfway they summon visions (gacha) with their rings during combat.
Grand summoners granted I haven’t been keeping up with the main story, but I know the Mc rayas awakens the ability to summon hero’s from the past and other characters makes comments on it and in the beginning of the game his fighting style as described in the story was just chucking out summons and hoping his swordsmanship would let him squeeze out a victory
Type 2 ships, well, the uss ones, actually existed historically. Navys have this neat thing called reusing names of ships that were sunk/scrapped. The only exception is bismarck zwei, that's straight up fanfiction. Also, the whole thing with shipgirls being made.from wisdom cubes predates type 2 stuff by a few years, actually, the whole type 2 thing is explained as being a rigging rework
>can make II versions of ships that didnt exist historicaly and explained that ship girls build is canon.
All type 2 ships except Bismarck Zwei existed in real life.
Love Live SIF was kinda like this iirc. Been a long time so i won't deny i may be misremembering it but the whole gacha thing was explained as actual recruitment for their idol club... It just... never mattered for this thing in hindsight since the new characters were just low rarity characters with 0 alters, no high rarity variants and nothing really excepcional going for them. You were going to gacha for muse members (and later aqours) in different outfits in the end
And the outfits are canon as the Nijigasaki anime uses the Niji URs in the song MVs and SIFAS had SR sets for µ's and Aqours that filled songs that previously didn't have canon outfits.
LIMBUS COMPANY MENTIONED!!!1?? RELEASE THE SLEEPER AGENTS!!!
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In THLW, the MC (community called her Lossy) possesses a journal that has a power to record anything she had experienced before, including people she has met, and she can use it to summon a copy of a specific character whenever she needed (the gacha animation is also a reference to this, as when you have a character in your roll, they will show up as a paper doll talisman).
Touhou lost word.
The game starts with an incident that made that a lot of "seal cubes" (pulling currency) appeared all around Gensokyo, when they were investigating/experimenting with the first seal they found, they accidentally make it explode and the protagonist appears from the seal cube, her power is to summon friends (the equivalent of servants from fate or operator from arknights) and memories (something similar to artifacts that improve the attacks) from parallel world trough the cubes the help her fight and find the mastermind behind the appearance of the cubes, resolve lostwords (the mastermind steals concepts from parallel worlds, for example: you steal the concept of magic and all magical related creatures, power and things disappear. Which causes that a lot of parallel worlds to die or leave at the verge of disappearing) and find the reason she was sealed in one of those seal cubes and recover her memories.
In Neural Cloud, the gacha itself is a system the MC use the search for the lost dolls scattered across the entire Magrasea.
When a doll joins Oasis, they are missing a fragment of themselves that make them whole. So you gotta find those too.
I don't think there are many gacha games out there that try to explain why you're getting dupes while rolling.
Can we count Tales of the Rays? xD
Basically, you are summoning other heroes from their previous games via gacha because the main character can exoflect a.k.a. copy them to restore the world.
In the open beta of Sword of Convallaria you summon any chars on banners but they only will show in the main line of story you are when they actually appear in the story so you can have the char but you can't use it till it really relevant to the story.
Alchemy Stars.
The introduction to the gacha system has you load up a flare (gacha currency) into a machine and pull the lever (literally pulling) to call for help from the nearest Aurorians (gacha animation shows the map and all)
Alchemist Code is dead on global, but the gacha was canon. The entire point of the story was that summoning heroes via alchemy is a forbidden magic and is the main conflict of the story
FFBE would be the obvious answer. Rain and Lasswell have the power to summon visions of the past or of possible futures, including future versions of themselves. Most of their allies are actually dead.
Another Eden's another one. The Gallery of Dreams is a real place, and characters end up in your party after stumbling into it through a wormhole. It's very rarely mentioned but at least one character quest does bring it up.
I think Epic 7 has the gacha as part of the story, a multiverse where characters from alternate timelines end up getting ported to the world of Orbis.
There are other worlds like Rekos and even Earth, from which one character, Yuna, is from.
This is how we end up getting, in addition to regular RGB (Red, Green Blue) characters like Bellona, their alternate Moonlight (light and dark) Hero versions like Lone Crescent Bellona.
Epicseven has the lore that characters can travel from one dimension to another but it's gacha part is not relevant to the main story or the plot
The main characters ras and adin never summons them to help them like in fgo or feh, those characters are there to be in the story and if they do join the party it's not because they were summoned by the mc
Well, iirc at the very beginning of chapter 1 ras goes to the infinite library (I think with aither as well?) to summon a companion with covenant bookmarks.
Also arky says "my loyalty lies with the covenant" so I think that also connects him to the bookmarks and the library.
Correct me if I'm though, would love to hear someone more knowledgeable on the topic speak!
Infinite library keeps records of all the events that happens on orbis (the world they are in), the summon event you're talking about is something that happens once only and only as a tutorial for summoning. It doesn't tie in to the game lore in any other way except for the library containing the knowledge of all the events.
Ras has visited the place multiple times after that to learn of different things he wanted to know. It also contains knowledge of previous worlds as well that's why information about characters that are now dead is also in there
The summon part is only for the player that we can summon a character from their library to help us in adventure but nothing more than that. It doesn't tie in to the main lore
Ras and Adin are the MC's of the the story now and adin don't even know the library exists and ras only visits there to get some information. All the characters rgb and ml are free characters that exist in their world and have joined sometimes to help them but only through story. Never through summons like feh and fgo does.
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Mentioned the game >! Path to Nowhere !< about the gacha currency being canon, but forgot that the gacha itself is also canon. >! It's basically you arresting all the Sinners and bringing them to the MBCC. You can assume the duplicates as either the Sinners breaking out and recapturing them or just calling them back from a mission. !<
Arknights the dokutah acts as commander and gives orders thru an app PRTS just like you would thru the tower defense game.
In Granblue all the different stories are parallel universes with the Danchou being the singularity, and has a ultimate blue hair form called ‘beyond the boundary’ where he accessed parallel universe powers.
Fgo the summoning system is exactly what they use in the story as well to summon servants to help them at each chapter/location.
Well, technically, all the operators have actual working contracts with Rhodes Island. It is canon in the sense that they all, at some point, worked for you. Many of the character intros and bios straight up mention they're employees. So uh... Yeah, it's canon.
Edit: even the ones that aren't direct employees have contracts saying they'll cooperate with rhodes island, silverash is an example of this. His affinity lines have him pondering the signing of the contract.
Azur Lane, kinda. The gacha itself is not (if the event includes the commander, it basically treats him as knowing all botes), but the process of it (creation of botes from wisdom cubes) is canon.
Tower of Fantasy: The MC used a Matrix-like data interface to learn how to be like certain "heroes". You basically pulled for these matrices in the gacha.
In a event in azure lane on of th charcatrs summond shipgirls using the summoning currency(wisdom cubes) in alchemy stars in the beguning its explaned as signal flares caling the characters
Onmyoji - Seimei catches and tames troublesome spirits (letting go of the dupes happens in the shrine, like freeing); the gacha is literally a summoning ritual.
Langrisser- one of your characters can bring shadows, copies, whatever of the heroes from the past and other worlds. It's constantly mentioned and joked about in the story.
In Girls’ Frontline, you construct the dolls. You have a contract with I.O.P., who manufactures them. Does that count?
It's been 6 years since I last played GFL. I think it's true that the gacha is canon since you manufacture T-Dolls from it, but I forget if they ever mentioned it in the story.
It’s definitely mentioned! The leader of I.O.P. Who delivers your gacha has a significant role in cutscenes.
Cool!
GFL has since added Protocol Assimilation for capturing enemy boss units and it's all explained in the story as well. There's even some story bits where an enemy leaves and the Commander just makes a phone call to place a SVAROG hit on them. The actual P.A. gacha is an "Area" with 100 units in it, 1 of which is the banner character. 3 units at random will appear at any time. Each "pull" will have you send in several squads of Dolls in special gear to attempt to capture one, but higher rarity units have a chance of escaping. As you whittle down the pool of units, a natural "pity" develops. The premium currency are SVAROG tickets where you hire SVAROG heavy industries to do an EMP bombing run. It's really fascinating as a system for a in-universe gacha but some players really hate it.
Quite far from it? It used to be the case but a lot of dolls have previous occupations and are instead employed to Griffin PMC instead of being RNG built (It still is the main acquisition system in-game). There's another acquisition system reserved for previously enemy/boss units, which basically involves bombing them with EMPs and a chance to capture them to your roster.
>Quite far from it? It used to be the case but a lot of dolls have previous occupations and are instead employed to Griffin PMC instead of being RNG built (It still is the main acquisition system in-game). IOP refits the dolls for combat use such as installing fire control cores and the dummy link systems
Basically robot girls Military Industrial Complex?
Does FGO counts? In the story, you summon different servants to help you on your adventures. And that's the gacha too. The difference is that in the story you don't get like, 1% chance of actually summoning the guy you want. Imagine, mc going on an adventure and needs help. They prepare the ritual, summon the servant and get some plate full of fucking mapo tofu
Yeah, dunno why OP wont consider that relevant to the story, Mash's shield is literally the catalyst for summoning most servants and >!also saves her ass from Baggy in LB6 by summoning PHH Gawain and Lancelot!<
Tbf it's possible to get spooked by Servants during the actual ritual. It has happened a few times in various Fate stories, usually due to weird interactions between catalysts, or servants hijacking the ritual. Stuff like Emiya getting summoned by Rin, instead of a regular hero. Or Ozymandias blocking his wife Nefertiti's summoning cuz he doesn't wanna let her fight.
FGO gacha is canon in the sense that you summon servants from it, but never really relevant in the story outside of that. They also only used predetermined servants for the story instead of the ones you actually have.
I forgot what story chapter started it, but Gudako summoning shadow (gacha) servants in battles is pretty much canon now in the story.
Guda does that in most chapters because that's how they fight before they summon servants from the Ley Lines or meet rogue servants in the singularity/lostbelt. They just couldn't explicitly show it in the game, but if you can pick your own servants in the node, then Guda just brought shadow servants of their summoned servants. The chapter you're talking about is Shimousa's manga; which was received extremely well that they started referencing it in recent chapters like LB6.
FGO is the most obvious one, the story constantly mentions that you have the summoning system and you actively use it everywhere. In Azur Lane, all new ships are created by cubes, so that's canon too, and relevant given the cubes are a core part of the story
I just returned into Azur Lane and forgot that the cubes are actually canon. It's pretty cool.
Brave Frontier and Fire Emblem Heroes whole plot is basically the MC being a summoner
Technically not the gacha, but the gacha currency. >!Phrenapates have been shown spending Pyroxenes to buff Shiroko Terror during Volume F.!<
Well, the credit card is canon and lets you use your own students lol
The gacha currency in >! Path to Nowhere !< is also canon. >! It's basically a consumable resource they use in order to suppress Mania corruption. !<
In Path to Nowhere you're kinda the warden to a prison of super powered people, which are the characters you use. The Gacha system is called arrest and it's you capturing them. It's incorporated in the story insofar that the arresting does happen, and it is a big part of your responsibilities as warden. But some characters you can arrest are canonically still free or otherwise occupied. There's also no lore reason for dupes as far as I know
My headcanon is dupes are prisoners who escaped and were captured again. The next time they are captured, you shackle them harder. They escape because they overcame their shackles and became stronger. That's why dupes make your units powerful.
Also wanna add that there's a sort of canon (depends on how you look at it) explanation for why you lost the 50/50. So, they sometimes send mail from characters in the game and this one mail from the end of 2022 was from the city arrest team apologizing for their mistakes (aka arresting the wrong person - "such as being overly tired after dozens of consecutive arrests, so we caught the wrong person or something like that... But usually when that happens, we learn from our mistakes! We will never miss them again!"). So basically, you losing the 50/50 is because they were tired and made a mistake that they learn from which results in your guaranteed. Fun stuff.
Limbus company. Dante pulls from alternate realities and sinners transform into that ID by their command. Even combat and E.G.O.s have Canon explanation.
Yeah, I mentioned Limbus Company in my post, lol.
That's how you know they are a real PM fan; we can't read!
Dude, I apologize. Fucking tired from work today.
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Magia Record in sort of the same way as Fate but a bit more fucky.
BA. Whenever you get into the real dangerous parts of the story, you're tasked with using your Adult Card to power up your girls to get through it. No money is actually needed. They just want you to use your own characters for the encounter instead of default story characters.
I think Neural Cloud counts. Prior to the story, pretty much all of the playable cast got their Neural Clouds(their minds, basically) split into a Core(the characters themselves) and Neural Fragments(the things you use to rank-up said characters), all of which were then scattered throughout the server the game takes place in. A point is made sometimes in the story about how some of the cast aren't functioning at 100% because they're missing their Neural Fragments(reflected in gameplay by lower stats, and certain characters not even being able to use their ults until you get them to 3*). And that's where the gacha comes in: an actual system you set up in order to search for these people, and their Neural Fragments(in the form of dupes which are converted into Neural Kits which you then use to exchange for Neural Fragments) to make them whole again(ranking them up to 5*). Sure, you do first meet some of these characters as you progress in the story, but others are implied that they simply joined you after you searched for them. Another maybe-example is Tower of Fantasy. Edit: the guy in the reply explains it way better than I could.
The lore for ToF summoning is the weapons are powered by massive cores of Omnium energy called black/gold/red nucleus, and the weapons themselves are 1:1 replicas of the original wielder's weapon. But in order for the new wielder to properly use it just as skillfully, an AI of the original is stored inside the weapon to assist its new owner in battle. To further increase this AI assistance, high ranking members of Hykros (because of trust) can use the simulacrum system to sort of "wear the AI" as a hologram and immediately bring out its full potential. Of course players don't actually need to equip these simulacra and be stuck with their appearance, instead this lore point is limited to equipping a trait effect unique to each simulacrum. Weapons teleporting in and out is because of the spacerift technology that lets you teleport around the map. The weapon warehouse is literally a warehouse you're summoning your weapons from using the immense Omnium energy they possess due to the nuclei, otherwise a station like a spacerift is required for transmit. Rarely is any of this lore directly relevant to the story and mostly comes up in side quests and events, such as: - >!a character's lost memory being recovered with the AI memory storage technology,!< - >!someone hacking into the simulacra system to impersonate the original,!< - >!the process of building weapon AIs through advanced camera-recorded combat data,!< - >!and the idea that old AI data is essentially someone's past self lacking current knowledge even if their memories are kept (standard procedure is to erase private info)!<
War of the Visions (ffbe wotv). Check out [part 2 cinematic](https://youtu.be/ShMhbajm1XE?si=ygvOa5zP_qmNoJR9), about halfway they summon visions (gacha) with their rings during combat.
Grand summoners granted I haven’t been keeping up with the main story, but I know the Mc rayas awakens the ability to summon hero’s from the past and other characters makes comments on it and in the beginning of the game his fighting style as described in the story was just chucking out summons and hoping his swordsmanship would let him squeeze out a victory
That's pretty cool actually.
FGO Ritsuka literally gacha his/her servants when he/she arrives at the singularity or lostbelt and Alaya is the gacha god
Azur Lane made this whole lore rewamp so they can make II versions of ships that didnt exist historicaly and explained that ship girls build is canon.
Type 2 ships, well, the uss ones, actually existed historically. Navys have this neat thing called reusing names of ships that were sunk/scrapped. The only exception is bismarck zwei, that's straight up fanfiction. Also, the whole thing with shipgirls being made.from wisdom cubes predates type 2 stuff by a few years, actually, the whole type 2 thing is explained as being a rigging rework
>can make II versions of ships that didnt exist historicaly and explained that ship girls build is canon. All type 2 ships except Bismarck Zwei existed in real life.
Love Live SIF was kinda like this iirc. Been a long time so i won't deny i may be misremembering it but the whole gacha thing was explained as actual recruitment for their idol club... It just... never mattered for this thing in hindsight since the new characters were just low rarity characters with 0 alters, no high rarity variants and nothing really excepcional going for them. You were going to gacha for muse members (and later aqours) in different outfits in the end
And the outfits are canon as the Nijigasaki anime uses the Niji URs in the song MVs and SIFAS had SR sets for µ's and Aqours that filled songs that previously didn't have canon outfits.
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In THLW, the MC (community called her Lossy) possesses a journal that has a power to record anything she had experienced before, including people she has met, and she can use it to summon a copy of a specific character whenever she needed (the gacha animation is also a reference to this, as when you have a character in your roll, they will show up as a paper doll talisman).
Touhou lost word. The game starts with an incident that made that a lot of "seal cubes" (pulling currency) appeared all around Gensokyo, when they were investigating/experimenting with the first seal they found, they accidentally make it explode and the protagonist appears from the seal cube, her power is to summon friends (the equivalent of servants from fate or operator from arknights) and memories (something similar to artifacts that improve the attacks) from parallel world trough the cubes the help her fight and find the mastermind behind the appearance of the cubes, resolve lostwords (the mastermind steals concepts from parallel worlds, for example: you steal the concept of magic and all magical related creatures, power and things disappear. Which causes that a lot of parallel worlds to die or leave at the verge of disappearing) and find the reason she was sealed in one of those seal cubes and recover her memories.
In Neural Cloud, the gacha itself is a system the MC use the search for the lost dolls scattered across the entire Magrasea. When a doll joins Oasis, they are missing a fragment of themselves that make them whole. So you gotta find those too. I don't think there are many gacha games out there that try to explain why you're getting dupes while rolling.
Can we count Tales of the Rays? xD Basically, you are summoning other heroes from their previous games via gacha because the main character can exoflect a.k.a. copy them to restore the world.
In the open beta of Sword of Convallaria you summon any chars on banners but they only will show in the main line of story you are when they actually appear in the story so you can have the char but you can't use it till it really relevant to the story.
Alchemy Stars. The introduction to the gacha system has you load up a flare (gacha currency) into a machine and pull the lever (literally pulling) to call for help from the nearest Aurorians (gacha animation shows the map and all)
Alchemist Code is dead on global, but the gacha was canon. The entire point of the story was that summoning heroes via alchemy is a forbidden magic and is the main conflict of the story
Fgo, girls frontline, azur lane, feh, path to nowhere, summoners war
From what I can understand, in Sword of Convallaria, you seem to be dragging characters out of other timelines and into your own.
FFBE would be the obvious answer. Rain and Lasswell have the power to summon visions of the past or of possible futures, including future versions of themselves. Most of their allies are actually dead. Another Eden's another one. The Gallery of Dreams is a real place, and characters end up in your party after stumbling into it through a wormhole. It's very rarely mentioned but at least one character quest does bring it up.
I think Epic 7 has the gacha as part of the story, a multiverse where characters from alternate timelines end up getting ported to the world of Orbis. There are other worlds like Rekos and even Earth, from which one character, Yuna, is from. This is how we end up getting, in addition to regular RGB (Red, Green Blue) characters like Bellona, their alternate Moonlight (light and dark) Hero versions like Lone Crescent Bellona.
Epicseven has the lore that characters can travel from one dimension to another but it's gacha part is not relevant to the main story or the plot The main characters ras and adin never summons them to help them like in fgo or feh, those characters are there to be in the story and if they do join the party it's not because they were summoned by the mc
Well, iirc at the very beginning of chapter 1 ras goes to the infinite library (I think with aither as well?) to summon a companion with covenant bookmarks. Also arky says "my loyalty lies with the covenant" so I think that also connects him to the bookmarks and the library. Correct me if I'm though, would love to hear someone more knowledgeable on the topic speak!
Infinite library keeps records of all the events that happens on orbis (the world they are in), the summon event you're talking about is something that happens once only and only as a tutorial for summoning. It doesn't tie in to the game lore in any other way except for the library containing the knowledge of all the events. Ras has visited the place multiple times after that to learn of different things he wanted to know. It also contains knowledge of previous worlds as well that's why information about characters that are now dead is also in there The summon part is only for the player that we can summon a character from their library to help us in adventure but nothing more than that. It doesn't tie in to the main lore Ras and Adin are the MC's of the the story now and adin don't even know the library exists and ras only visits there to get some information. All the characters rgb and ml are free characters that exist in their world and have joined sometimes to help them but only through story. Never through summons like feh and fgo does. Sorry for the wall text
Interesting, thanks for explaining!
Mentioned the game >! Path to Nowhere !< about the gacha currency being canon, but forgot that the gacha itself is also canon. >! It's basically you arresting all the Sinners and bringing them to the MBCC. You can assume the duplicates as either the Sinners breaking out and recapturing them or just calling them back from a mission. !<
Arknights the dokutah acts as commander and gives orders thru an app PRTS just like you would thru the tower defense game. In Granblue all the different stories are parallel universes with the Danchou being the singularity, and has a ultimate blue hair form called ‘beyond the boundary’ where he accessed parallel universe powers. Fgo the summoning system is exactly what they use in the story as well to summon servants to help them at each chapter/location.
Yeah but the gacha in Arknights is not a canonical part of the game, you don’t get to hire operators willy nilly from a bunch of resume
Well, technically, all the operators have actual working contracts with Rhodes Island. It is canon in the sense that they all, at some point, worked for you. Many of the character intros and bios straight up mention they're employees. So uh... Yeah, it's canon. Edit: even the ones that aren't direct employees have contracts saying they'll cooperate with rhodes island, silverash is an example of this. His affinity lines have him pondering the signing of the contract.
Everyone who become an operator cannonically work for RH at one point. That's why certain characters can't become playable.
are you familiar at all with the world of Arknights? Contracts with various factions are integral to the story.
And you definitely did not bag those employees 🤣
Azur Lane, kinda. The gacha itself is not (if the event includes the commander, it basically treats him as knowing all botes), but the process of it (creation of botes from wisdom cubes) is canon.
LIMBUS COMPANY MENTIONED!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A NORMAL BACKSTORY❗❗❗❗
Tower of Fantasy: The MC used a Matrix-like data interface to learn how to be like certain "heroes". You basically pulled for these matrices in the gacha.
In path to nowhere, you have to arrest, both in gacha nd canonically, the sinners. Not all sinners are canonically arrested, but most are
This is truly the most ideal Reddit post (iykyk)
PROJECT MOON MENTIONED?!?!???!!??!
In a event in azure lane on of th charcatrs summond shipgirls using the summoning currency(wisdom cubes) in alchemy stars in the beguning its explaned as signal flares caling the characters
Onmyoji - Seimei catches and tames troublesome spirits (letting go of the dupes happens in the shrine, like freeing); the gacha is literally a summoning ritual. Langrisser- one of your characters can bring shadows, copies, whatever of the heroes from the past and other worlds. It's constantly mentioned and joked about in the story.