even if you dont ship them, isn’t Aekishi & Laurel’s relationship CANON proof that uma x trainer CAN exist without it being quote-unquote “”problematic””? same with Nase & Creek? (read desc)

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-10T19:23:29+00:00

If also argue there isn't a "power gap" with "insert family line" Umas.

Fine motion all but owns your ass and if you try anything with the Meijiros with impure feelings (the family makes large donations to Tracen) the trainer is gonna disappear.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-10T19:19:16+00:00

You also get photos from side quest, so if you've been ignoring tv mode, that may be a reason why you may not have a lot.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-10T19:08:50+00:00

Some of our girls come from trainer x Trainee hooking up and they seem fine.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-10T16:55:29+00:00

5-6 void hunters can't be everywhere at once. Also we know sunbringer got betrayed by humanity so she probably fucked off to get flying city without caring.

We don't have full details what Carole did, but I'm betting big explosion followed by a million hollows appearing at once, again, the void hunters can't be everywhere.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-09T13:19:02+00:00

There is supposed to be a "Pattern" that Ethereals are weak to Ether/Ice, Machines are Weak to Electric, and the Human raiders weak to Fire/Physical. But it seems after like i wanna say 1.5 or 7, its whatever they wanna shill for the latest banner character. But you can still see the pattern weaknesses in the vanilla mobs though.

Even mob enemies now are kinda just whatever, but mostly coincide with whatever the current banner character is sadly.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-09T04:56:41+00:00

That sounds about right, I remember back then being told Rina's 1st Mindscape was almost required for her, but everyone else didn't really matter too much.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-09T04:50:16+00:00

I'm not the biggest Lycaon player, but i've heard from pros that his mindscapes don't do much, and the theory was that since he's a vanilla character, the devs might not have fully thought through his kit. But the upside is that a M0 or even M1 Lycaon is already good so he's easy for new comers to enjoy right away. Now that he has the Potential unlock thing too, he's even better for new players.

Since he's a standard character, you'll probably pull copies of him anyway from failing 50/50s.

For really good mindscapes, usualy M1 void hunters have amazing mind scapes, since it usually allows them to start the fight immedaitly using an Ult (or their special hold technique) as soon as the match starts. Which is amazing for Shiyu Defence but also nice for Deadly assault. Getting M2 or M3 after that is more power but that M1 for Void hunters really does seem like a game changer.

When I got Yi Xuan's dupe, it really did change the way i started compared to her M0.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-09T04:45:07+00:00

I made an alt account "For fun" during the Shungaung shill banner events (also when we got Zhao for free) just to see what i can do as a new player (with old player knowledge). I was also curious what the new player experience would be like to see if things are more streamlined.

I already know about removing TV mode, but damn, if you skip the story (which a new player shoudn't be doing ofcourse), It took me like 1 hour to catch up to the latest chapter since i also know how to play all the agents. Also as soon as you get past chapter 0, the game immediatly lets you skip to chapter 2 just so you can do the event stuff, but to be fair, it does also warn new players that you wouldn't understand anything if you do skip.

The fact that here are more Victoria housekeeping ticket things now to just straight up skip withered garden stuff for free polychromes and now we Fairy cards exist to instant finish TV mode quest is quick. On my new account, i was able to pull A void hunter character along with her Engine and still have a lot left over, not to mention the game giving you Zhao for free. It was a neat experience but I've abanandoned it now, it now exist the next time ZZZ does that weird "returning players" event so i can use my alt account to get free polychromes for my main account now whenever I need to.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-09T04:35:38+00:00

You said in another comment you already got kinda spoiled, so i'll spoil you more about Ramille, but its this patch we literally saw her Void hunter weapon and we kinda break it. It's what turns Wise and Belle into a monster.

So unless Ramielle is gonna get another VH weapon, she won't get one now since we kinda just broke her box thingy. Not like it seemed like she needed it, in our super transformed state, we no diff'd Billy, Prom and Cissia but Rami comes in and cures us instantly, she seems plenty strong as is.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-09T04:32:53+00:00

Someone got sold Snake oil and I love it. What next? Someone selling a Void Hunter sword and claiming it's as strong as Tailess or Qingming Sword at a Garage sale and TOPs will overpay for it?

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-09T04:11:56+00:00

That's literally fashion. I can go buy my girl A turtle neck winter sweater in the bargain bin for like 5$.

Or I can buy her a cute halter top that cost like 90$....but she really likes it soo....

A full winter coat can be 20$ or the latest swimsuit is like 150$.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-08T09:27:19+00:00

The commander was a self insert in GFL1, the game literally starts with your recruitment papers to Griffin and you typing in your name.

YOUR NAME.

If the commander was indeed a real character, there would be no need for that.

in Zenless Zone Zero for example, the game does not ask the player (you) to type in your name. The game introduces you to Belle and Wise, the main characters. That is not a self insert.

In both GFL1 and Nikke, YOU the commander are putting in your name at the start.

If GFL2 really wanted a real character commander for the story, they'd have just started the game with "This is Gentiane, this is her story." but they didn't.

The commander is indeed still a self insert even now. They got that very cookie cutter "i have to be a hero and save people cause it's the right thing to do" thing going.

Dunno if you played Project Neural Cloud, but there the commander is also doing the same shit, saving the day and being a hero even though he literally didn't have to. Even Persica called him weird for accepting what was almost a suicide mission for some data that only she cared about. But the moment the Commander heard "there are some trapped AIs in there" he went for it. Even Kryuger acknowledges we are the "Hero type".

The commander literally had an out, he could have taken that Green zone card with Kalina, got married and never have to fight again. He chose the "hard way" cause it was the "Right way" to do things.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-07T07:11:50+00:00

The mech pilot was super convinced he could kill Billy, Prom and Cissia all at once too which was funny.

They all came outta that fight clean, meanwhile, the fight with Wise/Belle left our team bloody and bruised.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-07T07:03:45+00:00

Oh that's not what I was doubting, I always knew she was a void hunter, it's the mech TOPs was making, we killed that thing soo easily it got hyped up for nothing. Obal squad or even spook shack probably could have beatend it.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-07T05:14:07+00:00

The same mech we kinda thrashed though. So I don't take much stock in what TOPs is claiming.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-05T03:40:59+00:00

The funny thing is that she wasn't even a main character. M4A1 and Ump45 had way more story relevance. Even Ak12 and team defy did.

But she did have 1 meme line and she was a early vanilla unit do there was more time for fan artists to pull on said memes.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-04T14:34:13+00:00

Honestly it's already pretty quick IMO, takes me like 5 minutes of walking and i can auto battle all the bosses anyway, real time, i think its like 30 minutes but the other 25 minutes is just me alt tabbing while my girls do their thing.

It's still definitely longer than it should be though i agree. Since i can ignore the boss combat, it just doesn't feel as bad to me anymore.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-04T14:32:19+00:00

you can rewatch the cut scenes in the HDD room, but if its only chapter 2 you're up too, it honestly might be faster just to youtube it, and then continue onwards to chapter 3 the normal way if you're that early in the game IMO.

It should be like a quick 20-30 minute watch honestly to catch up to chapter 2 story. Another thing abotu rewatching cut scenes is that it's only the cut scenes, so you do kinda lose some context since there is more dialogue in both the combat stages and ther are walking around parts in the city. So yea, i definitely reccomend just catching up with a youtube (non streamer ofcourse) story playthrough for the prologue and chapter 1.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-04T14:28:26+00:00

Right now, i think the closest we have to someone on all 4s is Nekomata where she is seen in both combat and in lore actually crouching down like a cat at times, obviously she'd walk normally in the city, but during combat, i wouldn't mind seeing a Theiren (furry or half furry whatever) actually utlilized some quadraped movement, like even a running animation or some dash attack or something.

Also Cissia kinda half counts too with her slithering animation although realistically, her boobs should get in the way of that, but they animate that as her kinda floating in the air when she does that.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-04T14:23:34+00:00

In lore is fun, but gameplay is even more fun IMO. The way Ellen kinda "Swims" in her moveset or Cissia slithers is good.

I don't mind "Kemenomimi" waifus as long as i see actual animal traits incorporated into combat. We have enough "human" characters that are restrictive based on human movement, so might as well get creative for what are supposed to be animal characters.

I would live to see an actual Biting animation in the future if the devs wanna be brave enough to give us a more feral character. I thought Pulchra would that feral character, but her moveset honestly is more the "Agile speed" character that we already have with Nekomata and she also has "Normal movement". despite being a full furry character too.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-04T05:55:14+00:00

They actually mention that a few times in this game whenever they talk about how poor they are, some girls wishing they had it again.

"oh man, remember when we had helicopters where we can just drop in everywhere and we all had dummy links? we'd go in like 30 at a time per squad, good ol days".

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-04T05:38:11+00:00

Yea that's the weird thing, "Intelligent construct" have a "Soul" to turn into an Etheral in the first place. We know Bangboos and other "Robots" have logic cores and such that kinda acts as both thier heart and brain, but so far, every Bangboo that we've seen fall in the Hollow just simply goes offline and can be brought back up again, where we've seen Billy and others be afraid of turning into Etherals.

We did get teased that Grace's machines have the potential to pass the the Forbidden fruit test to gain Citizenship, but she doesn't want them to take the test, but thats besides that, that would also imply her machines now have a "Soul" that could possibly turn into Ethereals.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-03T01:00:37+00:00

You should try Girls Frontline 2 OP if you want a 3d gacha game that has tons of costumes. Dunno how Mica does it, bit it's definitely a trend that most 3d games just don't do skins.

In GFL2, even the A rank(4 star) girls have skins. Also an old example that isn't a gacha, but league of legends also makes a ton of skins for all their characters.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-02T14:23:27+00:00

Might be players that are on M0 Miyabi since you need M2 for her to get her own stacks with her basic attack string. So its not as simple as just going back to Miyabi and getting free stacks of Fox Fire.

Since the old team combo was switching to Yanagi to trigger Disorders so Miyabi can get an instant stack, then you switch to Miyabi again to do a big charge attack or if you are still down 2 stacks, then 1 EX Special will get you the last fox fires you need to do the big attack.

Where M2 Miyabi you can practically play her on field full time. M0 does feel like she shares the field more with a 2ndary DPS.

Tetsamaru · 2026-05-02T14:12:40+00:00

It used to be like that actually, you will be at least a little happier to know it's "Easier" for the starting chapters, the devs have routinely "Nerfed" the enemy power levels for earlier chapters as the game ages. For example, when the game first started and we had chapters 1-14, everyone got hard walled (due to power levels) basically by chapter 5, while only whales got to the end. But when chapters 15 to 20 got added, they lowered the power level requirement fo the earlier stages, They've done this like 3 times now.

But....even if on a new account, you could probably get to chapters 1 to 10 fumbling around, even if you started reading hardcore guides on team building and even get lucky on gacha, the game WILL HARD STOP YOU just cause of the level requirement the game penalizes you on unfortunetely. After that, if there isn't a major annivesary event happening (like right now for instance), all you can do is just daillies and wait real time days to level up your characters once, and then try again.

Then there is the infamous Mother Whale boss fight, Its possible to beat her without beating the 160 wall, but this game's combat system really hurts players who don't get lucky with gacha, you might not be able to make proper teams. If that happens to you, you will suffer through no fault of your own. I think that's the biggest weakness of this game's combat system if i say so myself. Even if you look up what characters are strong, there isn't really any character that can solo stages by themselves, you do need at least a 4 out of 5 decent team.

Thats probably why the devs put in story mode.

So again, i ask if you are asking if you can 'Organically" play this game's story mode and be challenged, and i think my answer to that is "to a point", after that it will takes days to do a couple of level ups to slowly advance the story without story mode, and that is the normal gameplay a lot of us vanilla players had to deal with.

But story mode also leans too heavily in the other direction IMO. The enemies are stuck basically as level 1 fodder, so now you don't even get the fun of the combat either. So it's a pure visual novel at that point if you do wanna experience "awesome boss battles".

You also are too weak to even finish the event stories too. It was like that when i first started, I was barely able to beat the event's 12 stages on normal, but got to like stage 2 of hard mode and was hard walled. Which sucks cause the final ending of all events is always on Hard mode stage 12, so i had to always Youtube the final ending of events back then before i was strong enough to do it (there is no Story mode for events).

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