Reception
Before Crisis has garnered generally positive feedback from critics. AnimeFringe commented that the visuals seemed "remarkable good" and praised the game for choosing to "reverse the good and bad guy roles," by making the Turks protagonists, and AVALANCHE antagonists. Cara Lee Haslam of RPGamer previewed the game at E3 and stated that the "graphics are really great, especially for a cell phone game," although she also noted that the animation "isn't the best." GameSpot's Bethany Massimilla also previewed the game at E3, calling it "perfectly digestible in delivery," with its use of episodic storytelling that comes in "small bursts in between action periods." She also stated that the game had "well-defined and detailed character portraits and lean, lanky character models running around the city and mako reactor, which had a simple layout but still looked nice." Massimilla praised the animation as "smooth" and felt that "the controls were easy to learn and were responsive." Additionally, she thought the demo phone's vibrating function, set off when the player receives a call from Tseng, "was a really nice touch." The game registered 200,000 users on launch day, making it the best-selling mobile game up until that time. Over 1 million people have since played the game in Japan.
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