Is she the Hu Tao of WuWa or something?
Imagine the hilarity if they had made her a four-star instead of five. I recall seeing a lot of salt regarding Ningguang being a four-star.
It sounds like I'm dragging her but I am interested in her as well.
iirc tao was hyped for being the first OP pyro dps, mondstadt batman was a standard banner char thus very elusive (unless you wanted to whale) and can't remember if he was already outclassed by klee at that point even if she was clunky.
also same VA as takagi-san among other favorites
EXPLOSION, hoyo really knew how to pick their japanese VAs. just check who voiced fischl.
so it was more about the stats, camellya is all looks (and probably powerful as well, there's no other havoc 5* besides rover yet).
ning was one of the first chars, their design/powerlevel/everything were all over the place. however ning wasn't that bad in the beginning, and 4* are easier to get depending on your luck (possibly every 10 rolls at least for example), so it wasn't that bad. dehya getting gimped hard and then dumped in standard was a much bigger fuck you to a hyped favorite.
similar to wuwa, those are all "old" characters that just release now. new ones will be designed with the current status quo and experience. apparently there's also 2.0 coming after 1.4 (I assume that's the playstation launch), who knows what they cook up for that
inb4 another male.
I don't play snowbreak (using fucking edge as a launcher is so fucking 2005, might as well install internet explorer 6 again) so don't know how it affected the game or all the details, apparently after messing with snowbreak he/she started to write for wuwa, which went as people know. it might be execution again, iirc in a game collecting waifus and building an implied harem, if you divert from that or give the wrong allusions (like hooking up with another male that's not the MC or even another male char) causes quite among of butthurt (I think the girl's frontline sequel is getting shit for it right now).
numbers dropped hard, to save it I've heard they went all in on fanservice, seems to work somewhat getting it at least talked about.
ironically wasn't the first time, iirc there was some drama with PGR (kuro's game before wuwa) with some nepo hire fucking it up, daughter of an exec or something. chink gacha industry is wild
cryo as an element is in a weird place where its most prominent reaction, Freeze, has become irrelevant in higher end content by putting more bosses and unfreezable enemies into the game.
snezhnaya will turn cryo into dendro 2.0, trust the plan
just like natlan did with geo