In an interview with Game Rant from last year before the game’s release, Minseok Joo, the director of The First Descendant, shared some intriguing insights into the game’s development.

The First Descendant is a looter shooter game, but it aimed to stand out by making the grind for loot less tedious. Although, given recent player feedback regarding the immense grind needed to unlock certain characters, it’s still pretty tedious.

Balancing and Progression in The First Descendant

Responding to a question by the interviewer regarding failures and successes in looter-shooter games, Minseo responded by saying:

As a development team that’s making a looter shooter game for the first time, we do look to Destiny for reference, Warframe, and so on. What caught our attention was that Warframe very actively serves and communicates with its players. That’s something we feel we are good at, especially with an Mmorpg.