So I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. I just haven’t been able to get around to it. I just spent a couple of weeks admitted in hospital and the duration basically covered the entire event of the last patch. What that meant was that I was not able to do any of the event stuff, and I couldn’t even get to the story until the last couple of days when I finally got home. So when I did get around to the story, it was extremely rushed, and as you can imagine, my mood wasn’t the best. And so maybe I was harsher on the writing than I have been so far, but I thought both parts of the story were quite bad. The first part was that resort training exercise, which amounted to absolutely nothing and then the second part was that Death Race kind of competition, where you can predict exactly what’s going to happen in the first 25% of the story. It took hours to get through both parts of the story, and they contributed absolutely nothing to the main narrative.
I feel bad about this, and my current medical condition, probably contributes to my demeanour right now, but I think I am done with this game now.
We’ve all discussed the pros and cons of this game extensively in this thread, so I won’t rehash any of that, but for me, the writing never managed to reach the quality threshold I had expected given the reputation of the first game. And so, we are left with events and mini games that repeat endlessly that we just spend time farming premium currency with for the next doll.
A friend of mine, who is a lot more tuned in with the state of the game, told me that the rewrites should start bearing fruit around October at first, and then maybe sometime in the New Year. I hope for everyone’s sake that that is true, and I also hope that they enable the past events tab so that maybe in the future, I can come back and experience the story that I have missed.
While I was in hospital, I actually decided to stop playing all the Gacha games that I was playing. It’s not that I have anything against Gacha, obviously. I still think it’s a miracle that Mihoyo can release AAA quality titles for free, and then update them every six weeks with high quality, substantial and mostly bug free content. And then do all of this for multiple games simultaneously. The reason I’m stopping those games is that I’ve just fallen too far behind to catch up. You miss a patch or two and think you can catch up, but then that suddenly becomes eight patches or more, and you realise you just don’t have the time or energy to do it anymore. Well, that was the plan until I discovered Umamusume which was something I could play on my phone while lying in the hospital bed. I’m playing that game as a casual rogue like because from what I can tell the actual Gacha stuff is pretty player unfriendly. We’ll see how long it lasts but it is fun for now.
I don’t actually want to let this game go, so I’m thinking that since the new story is out, I should probably give that a shot as well before deciding what to do. But if I’m being honest with myself, there’s a near zero chance that this new story will be able to keep me engaged with the game any further.
So I guess this is farewell from this thread for now for me. I hope the game continues to entertain you guys, and that luck favours you to get all your favourite dolls. I’d love to come back to the game in a few months when the story actually picks up again and I’d appreciate it if you guys could tag me when that happens.
Also, I should have mentioned this earlier, but this entire post was dictated on my phone and I’m going to copy paste this into the forum. My apologies if there are grammatical errors. I do not actually have the energy to type all of this out.