What attracts me most about Arknights: Endfield is not simply that it inherits the name Arknights. It is that it extends the mood of Terra into a space that feels broader, stranger, and much closer to a frontier narrative. The focus is no longer only Rhodes Island moving between mobile cities and the Infected question. The camera pushes outward to Talos-II, to Endfield Industries, and to a borderland that must be explored, built, and understood again from scratch.

Compared with Arknights, which leans toward stage design, routes, and skill timing in the form of strategy tower defense, Endfield feels like an attempt on another axis entirely: 3D environments, real-time combat, squad coordination, resource scheduling, and systems with an industrial-building flavour together create an experience of establishing order in an unknown world. That shift from tactical judgement to larger-scale planning is exactly what appeals to me. The player is not only winning a battle, but laying paths, organising production, and expanding footholds on an unfamiliar planet.

I also love its direction in art and setting. Arknights already carries a strong industrial sense, an apocalyptic atmosphere, and a restrained design order, while Endfield pushes that further toward science fiction and frontier themes: aircraft, facilities, wastelands, Originium protocols, industrial systems. All of these make me imagine a civilisation machine slowly starting up in a desolate world. It is not a bright and effortless future fantasy, but a forward movement full of pressure, cost, and uncertainty.

That is why what I look forward to is not only where the story goes or which characters appear, but whether it can truly make me feel how people establish a new foothold in a dangerous world through technology, organisation, and conviction.

Spring onion or green onion? I want both.