A giant skeleton Dragon being bombarded by magic of the humanoid dragon which summoned a bunch of green dragon skulls to rain down on the skeleton dragon. Screenshot by David Huynh.

Embark on a new adventure in Grand Summoners

Arts & Entertainment Opinion Reviews

For those who enjoy pixel art, role playing games, and anime, look no further than Grand Summoners, a free-to-play role-playing game. Grand Summoners is a role-playing game with an original story and a plethora of characters to play with. Grand Summoners is available on both iOS and Android and is free to play, but the game has in-game purchases. For those who are not familiar with Gacha games, they work similar to card games in which you need to open packs or summon characters from a booster box or character banner.

 Grand Summoners offer a lot of things to do, such as playing through an interesting story with unique characters to playing and conquering boss fights with your friends. Players can roam dungeons and explore mines. Going to the Colosseum, players can battle against other players’ teams. 

“I loved the collabs in the past and enjoy most of the content that comes out,” said a user that goes by the alias K1ng 414.  In the gamer community players go by aliases to stay anonymous. What K1ng is referring to are the multiple collaborations the game has had with different anime series such as One-Punch Man and currently the anime series Shield Hero. 

While not all the comments are good about Grand Summoners, players do enjoy the artwork of the game. One such comment mentioned by a player that goes by the alias Slime Muff said, “It’s like gambling if it doesn’t benefit your life at all and has only consequences but it’s fine because the art is cute.”  

There are three main ways you summon in Grand summoners.  The first way is by using crystals, which are the in-game currency. Players can obtain crystals by completing missions, story events, by logging in daily which will award one crystal a day depending on the day you log in, as well as Facebook campaigns and any other special campaign that is happening during that week or month. Purchasing crystals is also an option as well. 

Buying crystals does have its perks because the game splits the type of crystals the player has into two categories, paid and free. The perks of having paid crystals are being able to access the paid summon which will always guarantee players to pull a character of the maximum rarity.  

Players get characters by spending the in-game currency on a banner. It is basically the main way to get characters to play with. For those who play card games a banner is like a booster box. Every time the game updates with the release of a new character we get a banner which is the way players spend their in game currency to get character. Spending 50 crystals will allow you to summon 11 characters to play with. The first time summoning 11 characters while using free crystals, players are guaranteed to get one max rarity character; however, players using paid crystals will always get a max rarity character.  

The second way of summoning is by using alch.  Alch is a free to play way to summon good characters. For each new banner to summon a character there is always an alche banner which will cost 10,000 alche for one of the featured characters on the banner. Alch can be obtained by doing missions, getting special giveaways, special events, story mode, as well as selling characters and equipment that aren’t deemed as valuable.  Alch can also be obtained by getting multiple of a character of the highest rarity. The last way of summoning is by getting tickets. Tickets can be obtained by taking part in a special event or during a campaign. 

Characters aren’t the only things that can be summoned. Equipment like swords, shields, healing relics, and more can be summoned and equipped onto your character. There are five different types of equipment. The types of equipment are physical, magic, defense, healing, and support. Physical and magic equipment are the offensive gear that is used to do damage; however defense, healing, and support are the opposite. Equipment provides buffs to the characters, such as letting them take less damage to healing them from the damage taken to just making them do more damage.  Characters are limited to 3 gears of the types mentioned above. Each character has their own specific load out they can use making team building more interesting.  

Grand Summoners provides a lot of content for players. There are endless possibilities in the game which will give players enjoyment for a long time. The game is always adding more new content every week to attempt to never provide stale gameplay.

Four characters: a medic with a wand, a strong leader that is holding a giant ax, a humanoid dragon holding a green sword, and a female adventure equipped with a bow and accompanied by a black cat. The screen also has a big shield with two crossed swords that is labeled “manage equipment” with a few other buttons that are for managing characters. Screenshot by David Huynh.
Four characters: a medic with a wand, a strong leader that is holding a giant ax, a humanoid dragon holding a green sword, and a female adventure equipped with a bow and accompanied by a black cat. The screen also has a big shield with two crossed swords that is labeled “manage equipment” with a few other buttons that are for managing characters.
Screenshot by David Huynh.