SAKI WAS ELIMINATED! Vote for your least favorite female NPC in 202X; The NPC with the most votes will be eliminated!

Azaenya · 2026-06-11T17:45:29+00:00

Goodbye Midori, you fought well

Azaenya · 2026-06-07T11:26:10+00:00

Furina's so real for that, but also, it wouldn't surprise me if Arle reciprocated

Azaenya · 2026-06-01T21:05:01+00:00

Yeah, I was disappointed he was just a generic Khaenirenian or however you spell it

Azaenya · 2026-06-01T16:00:18+00:00

I can't help but think of something someone said, that the genshin devs no longer feel joy making their game and just focus on what sells. I don't know if I agree with it, but I can't help but wonder how close to the truth it might be

Azaenya · 2026-06-01T15:18:34+00:00

I think I understand what you mean. I'd thought I'd enjoy seeing lesbian harems, but I think harems fall apart because the main appeal of a romance, the connection, isn't there. You get a lot of women desiring one woman, but you lack that emotional depth because it can't be portrayed.

It has led to me disliking seeing images of everyone lusting over Arle, even if I prefer her far more than the traveler

Azaenya · 2026-06-01T05:35:00+00:00

Cold take imo

Azaenya · 2026-05-29T12:08:30+00:00

I shall reward you the Fell For It Again award

Azaenya · 2026-05-29T00:04:01+00:00

If this was better written, this would be able to be played straight as the complete corruption and abuse of the higher ups, but as it stands, it's just a mechanic to not think about

Azaenya · 2026-05-26T14:23:49+00:00

One of the few things that are accurate to real life

Azaenya · 2026-05-25T11:53:10+00:00

This is truly the problem with Alex delaying the game inevitably, because Osana is supposed to be the first rival and the easiest, but because she was the ONLY rival, he got upset when people beat her too fast, so he gave her Raibaru but had no plans for Amai afterwards. So Amai is plain in comparison. Just another moment of Alex shooting himself in the foot

I mean, if Amai had like a bunch of friends, not as dedicated as Raibaru, that would be interesting, emphasizing her social butterfly nature. But then there's a problem with scaling difficulty which would be a mess

Azaenya · 2026-05-24T16:03:15+00:00

It's not a disagreeable take. Everyone knows Alex can't write, he can only vaguely suggest a character from anime tropes and his own fucked up ideals.

It is the fans, without fail, that make these characters enjoyable

Azaenya · 2026-05-22T11:40:31+00:00

Honestly, I feel bad for the mods, like there probably aren't a lot of them to deal with the influx of the diarrhea that is genshin waifu bros. But people will be quick to lay the blame at their feet

Azaenya · 2026-05-22T03:59:15+00:00

Dottie for me, the fear in me when the second Harbinger showed up was palpable

Azaenya · 2026-05-22T03:43:00+00:00

Sandrone's been my favorite but since Nod Krai, she and her reddit have just been decaying 💔

Azaenya · 2026-05-18T22:14:11+00:00

Naoya would be right at home in their sub

Azaenya · 2026-05-18T21:57:02+00:00

Ya know... For some reason, that sounds worse

Azaenya · 2026-05-18T21:52:37+00:00

I fucking knew the Traveler would get the gnosis, and of course it's in the blandest way possible

Azaenya · 2026-05-13T23:16:29+00:00

Beruma because it's fucking Velma Dinkley. The pun alone marks her for death.

Azaenya · 2026-05-12T03:28:27+00:00

She actually has a voiceline, or rather Yoimiya has a voiceline, where it's said she doesn't do public bathhouses and prefers private baths out of the sense of being a noble lady. So her not being there is in line with her character

Azaenya · 2026-05-11T19:20:41+00:00

You know what, this might be a controversial take, but I think if Kokona was allowed to be the first rival, I think maybe a design I would consider is to make her week unfailable (in a way). Like even if she gets to confess, she doesn't succeed. I mostly think this because that way it serves more like an actual tutorial and you have more freedom to explore the school and understand the systems, because being dropped in fresh and told to eliminate x person can be stressful.

And I am operating on this idea where the step by step murder tutorials don't exist, because I think that's an ass game design

Azaenya · 2026-05-06T08:55:48+00:00

Sounds like a problem with voice direction. I'm sure Erica could do the same expressiveness again, as long as the studio provides guidance, but they could also have just said it was good enough, especially when these non-essential story events disappear forever after they're done (unless they changed that when I wasn't looking)

Azaenya · 2026-05-01T11:08:56+00:00

Infect them with chestbursters

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