Genshin Impact

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Mistranslation? Looking ahead at up to 2.0 there isn't a Natasha. Since she's also a spy, she could be just using that name while she's in his group.

Otherwise, no fucking clue. XD

 

[Noebel]

No, that's Natalia.

I'm talking about Natasha.

These are both forms of the same name. Natalia is more official iteration.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

These are both forms of the same name. Natalia is more official iteration.

I know that. I was asking within the context of the game, not the meaning of the names.

Oh nevermind. Fucking Goman/Marcus gay loving niggers from outer space, it is.

Edit:
Okay, so gave WuWa 2.8 a go. Worth noting that I am not at all done yet.

Spoiler: Wuthering Thoughts

I am....not sure what to think. I absolutely adore the design and the music and the aesthetic of Honami City, but...it's not a new map per se. It's a tiny hub world with mini stages in between. I gotta admit, that is massively disappointing. I would love to have explored the city. Also, I don't dig the fucking talking cappys either. And I like capybaras normally.

Chisa, generic schoolgirl himecut Enma Ai/Ryoko Matoi looking ass that she is, has grown on me. Of course, she might gonna get wet for Rover like 75% of the females in this game, but divorce her from the cringe harem and Rover, and she's super interesting.

The lore about Honami is super cool, too. I just wish it were an actual big map to explore and not whatever the hell we got now.

Idk man, I'm kinda disappointed.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

Done and dusted. Dynamo is complete for now

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

After skipping 2.7, Im trying Wuwa again for 2.8.

I tried Chisa and liked her, so I pulled for her and her weapon. She showed up on my 81st pull. Had I not lost the 50/50 and been guaranteed her, I think I would have lost my shit at losing that late into pity. On the plus side, her weapon came within 20 pulls.

Now I need to catch up on story to unlock the area with the flowers for her ascension.

 

[LucasSomething]

BIG NEWS just dropped. Without any warning at all, hoyo dropped a 31 minute gameplay trailer of their new game VARSAPURA that looks like a urban open world with super natural elements and action rpg combat.

It's about the mc joining a "shadow bureau" that deals with "anomalies" and it's very obvious inspired by Control with spooky atmosphere and the facility itself being supernatural and beyond comprehension.



There is something uncanny about hoyo using moody realistic unreal engine props and lighting with hyper anime faces like this



It looks cool but then literal "shadow monsters" appear and the combat becomes generic standard fare where you button mash and there is a dodge, skill and burst button (how original) and you can switch to character. There is """"stealth"""" (crouch and kill a guy from behind, i expect it to be used once). You can jump and glide and do a literal genshin plunge attack. There is stamina bar. The only new thing i see is a finish enemy prompt (break?) and some kind of swap attack.



I genuinely don't know why hoyo felt the need to create a fourth action game (i've seen people call it "swapslop" lol). Oh wait you can drive cars in this? Ah right, they want the Ananta / NTE / GTA crowd!


But the asthetics are not even consistent. Everyone looks mundane office workers until you go late in the video and there is a hyper anime pink haired girl doing pole dance attacks with a giant hammer.

(what is this zzz character doing here? Isn't this literally nicole?)

It's still in development and they're calling people for hire to help, including live operation managers so it's going to be live service and gacha. The game might end up good but i doubt this moody atmosphere would survive and the gameplay feels so creatively bankrupt it hurts.

 

[Clancee]

There is a dodge, skill and burst button (how original)

They took the combat right out of HI3rd lmao.

Well shit. I wonder how long until they ruin this game too.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

The game might end up good but i doubt this moody atmosphere would survive and the gameplay feels so creatively bankrupt it hurts.

Yeah this looks...really bad. Looks like a bootleg Infinity Nikki game in its mid-2000s dark and gritty phase.

Even the gameplay sounds generic and the characters look even more generic and super uncanny

They took the combat right out of HI3rd lmao.

Well shit. I wonder how long until they ruin this game too.

The moment it turns into Wuxia fuckery and destroys its own world building for reasons unknown.

Edit: so played more of wuwa 2.8.

Spoiler: Musings

It's one giant companion quest/weird dating sim and really feels like such filler. The pacing is all over the place and I'm so sick of Aero Rover.

And I'm kinda over companion quests becoming main quests. It makes for awful storytelling.

I said earlier that Chisa has grown on me and while that's true, I also both dislike her in a weird contradicting way. She's horribly generic. She's so many anime cliches rolled into one it's kinda eye rolling abs feels like the writers had no idea what to do with her

And granted that is the point of her and I weirdly both like and dislike that.

She's gonna be forgotten next patch however though.

The good things about the story were:
1. Information about Lahai-Roi. It looks super Sci fi and I really miss WuWas Sci fi.
2. What looked like a Madoka reference in Chisas animation backstory segment.
3: it's super fucking short. It's like an OVA. Both in length and in vibe.

I should really stop trying to get acquainted with WuWas story but I just can't help my curiosity about the media I consume. Should really commit to not giving a shit.

Imma watch Yu Yu Hakusho after this.

 

[WULULULULU]

There is something uncanny about hoyo using moody realistic unreal engine props and lighting with hyper anime faces like this

Did they not fucking learn from Jump Force?

You do not put anime and hyper-realistic in the same sentence for a reason. Also, Unreal Engine 5 omega-fucking-lul.

It's still in development and they're calling people for hire to help, including live operation managers so it's going to be live service and gacha. The game might end up good but i doubt this moody atmosphere would survive and the gameplay feels so creatively bankrupt it hurts.

Now where have I seen this before.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Ah right, they want the Ananta / NTE / GTA crowd!

That's exactly what I thought. This is bootleg NtE/Ananta.

a urban open world with super natural elements and action rpg combat.

Isn't this what ZZZ is?

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Genshin livestream codes

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Edit:

Spoiler: shitposting about WuWa

Jibun wo sekai saemo-Wait, wrong anime.

Okay, I thought this shot was pretty cool.

Zankoku na tenshi no you ni-Wait, wrong anime.

Man, the dating sim part of the quest was mega cringe. I really did not fucking need that. Kuro, you already treat your main quests as glorified companion quests; you don't need to go this hard.

No. It is not.

It really fucking isn't. Although this has to be so fucking cringe it's funny in English, I could imagine.

Now eat it.

I think my escalated exasperation with this shit is also do to HSR going hard with the Cyrene shit, and it was equally cringe there, although Cyrene.exe is thankfully taking an extended break outside the time-space continuum to help Amphoreus OS and everyone there become real boys.

But I generally don't really like it in any gacha game.

Yeah, something something intended audience, something something, it makes money. Do what you gotta do to make money, right? It helps that everything else about WuWa is enjoyable. So I'll just shit on the story and enjoy the rest.

Man, I can't fucking wait for Lahai-Roi, although judging from the end of this patch's quest, there's another obsessed waifu waiting for us. How much are you willing to bet that Chisa will be dropped into the ether and forgotten about despite the fact that bitch literally said she'd go with us to find her mom?

One really curious thing this quest revealed, though. Rover and Chisa used to be schoolmates. They didn't talk apparently, but Chisa has been stuck in Honami for twenty years, and before that, she was a student at some high school for resonators, which we also attended around that time because......reasons. We find this out because she gives us our student ID card for that school.

I can't really make sense of Rover's backstory anymore.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Of all the obligatory Multiplayer Events, this one feels the most Obligatory - do they have a quota of how many times a year they have to remind people “Hey, Genshin’s a Multiplayer Game too!” or something?

Got the rewards anyway, now to turn off people sending me Join requests again.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Picked up new girl at 50 pity, gonna grab her weapon next.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Rover and Chisa used to be schoolmates

We went to school? Were Wise and Belle our classmates too?

I started the WuWa thing yesterday. I really like the aesthetics of the new area, but it's disappointing that you can't explore that freely since it's a sonoro sphere. The capybaras are cute, but I can see why they get on someone's nerves.

I lost my 50/50 to lion boi C3. I hope I can get enough resources to get Chisa.

 

[LucasSomething]

Isn't this what ZZZ is?

Varsapura is clearly about esotheric spooky shit like SCPs, collective counciousness warping reality and the a top secret government facility containing forbidden knowledge.

ZZZ doesn't feel really "about the supernatural" the same way, i don't think it ever had anything like that until miyabi magic cursed sword.

It feels like it simply takes anything it likes from anime, movies and action games and mashes it together with 2000~ retrofuturistic asthetic so you have gunslinger androids and fox girls doing vergil combos. There is random pocket dimensions yea but feel they're more like one of those shitty isekai plot excuses to have "dungeons".

And man, it sucks that Varesa isn't with Durin, i'm 100% sure she will run with iansan so i wanted to get iansan with Durin but now Durin has jahoda too but my pity is so high i might not get her early.



Man, alice really be looking like the amalgamation of every genshin design trope to the worst extreme and Nicole year is a flat png. Nicole has pyro vision too, a BIG blowout on the leakers who kept saying she was geo or cryo and now we don't know who is going to be the dps if Durin was supposed to be the support.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

We went to school? Were Wise and Belle our classmates too?

No, it was Seed and her feet.

But yeah, that just....came the fuck out of nowhere. And I was like scratching my head when Chisa was like, "So that paper you wrote about algebra and the diameter of Shorekeeper's butthole was really interesting and helped my coursework!"


Paraphrasing, but it's like....huh. Well, that's a thing now, I guess. It feels super tacked on. It's kinda worse than 2.5, and part of Phrolova's dislike is because we didn't attend her concert one time.

I suppose, I HOPE, that it will be expanded on in 3.x because what the fuck.

I started the WuWa thing yesterday. I really like the aesthetics of the new area, but it's disappointing that you can't explore that freely since it's a sonoro sphere.

I knoooooooooow, it's so pretty and it'd be so cool to explore, but it's just one fucking hub world with an extraction mode event! It's so disappointing and makes this patch feel like a filler patch.

If Kuro is gonna force me through the Chisa Girlfriend Experience™, let me fucking explore the place too, and kicking cherry blossoms won't do it for me.

Oh lovely, detached sleeves.

Also, what the hell is that bent bicycle wheel around her dome lmao? We can't do witch hats anymore because of Lisa and Mona?

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

We went to school? Were Wise and Belle our classmates too?

I started the WuWa thing yesterday. I really like the aesthetics of the new area, but it's disappointing that you can't explore that freely since it's a sonoro sphere. The capybaras are cute, but I can see why they get on someone's nerves.

I lost my 50/50 to lion boi C3. I hope I can get enough resources to get Chisa.

 

[Clancee]

We can't do witch hats anymore because of Lisa and Mona?

When we first got glimpses of her I thought they'd at least cover her head, but not even that. Wtf is this design? I'm strangely disappointed with this design for a character we've been hearing about for years.

 

[LucasSomething]

She came back. That's twice in a row. I think i had qiqi at c0 since release and in 2025 i got her to c3...

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I just finished Charon's story.
Where Reverse and Nikke competing on which one could be the most depressing?