People are like "Ew that's a child you sickos!" but like, bruh - Look at that thing. There is nothing human about those proportions. This isn't a human child. It's some kind of hideous changeling, a humanoid abomination from beyond the stars sent to infiltrate our world, subvert our governments, and presumably steal all our brains to be put in jars for further study. The fact that it doesn't reflexively trigger the uncanny valley response is horrific in and of itself. It's already overcome our instinctual defense against infiltration. It's already in our homes and the halls of government. It's already won.
(I know the lizard people from space control our government thing is a white supremacist dog whistle for Jewish people. I actually spent a lot of time thinking about whether or not to post this because the whole genre of "Alien infiltrators" stories is so tied up in white supremacy, anti-communism, anti-immigration, racism, and so forth. But, eh. Dumb jokes about Genshin probably aren't harmful? But feel free to call me out if you think I should take it down or that there's aspects I'm missing.)
Some of my friends are saying it has the best story they've ever encountered. Sucks that it's monetized all to hell and back. Maybe someone will figure out how to run pirate servers or something.
im gonna say this as a weeb
it may be the best story our friends ever encountered but that probably tells us more about the genre than the story itself
I was just about to say this. Anime and manga stories are pretty much straight up put it in my veins trash, with the only actually good ones being ones that are deconstructing the story tropes in the other 99%.
This is because these games and shows are quite literally made for a primary audience of children. Doesn't mean it still can't be fun, but like, the story will rarely be that reflective or deep.
https://github.com/Grasscutters/Grasscutter
The monetization is actually way better than normal which is the sad part. For the most part the game is perfectly playable without putting any money in
I haven't touched it because my ADHD treat loving ass can't help but putting down for cosmetics and shit no matter how bad an idea it is, doubly so when I'm depressed and think nothing matters and I just want some dopamine. : p
Yeah, China has hard and fast rules for how exploitative a Gacha game is allowed to be. Genshin is right on the bleeding edge of that limit, of course.
I dunno I feel like the bit of the story I played through was mid. Writing wise at least. However for the big boss of the first story ark I was literally pogging the entire time. So I can see someone coming away with such a high opinion. Consistently above average with great moments is a wild success compared to normal games.