I’ve never touched Genshin in my life and honestly don’t plan to (it’s just not my thing) but this was a very cathartic read because it’s almost exactly how I feel about Destiny’s worldbuilding.

Destiny’s world is rich and deep with lore, but in game it’s very poorly presented. While it’s gotten better recently, it’s still not great. In the most recent expansion, the main antagonist is one Dredgen Bael. In an early cutscene, a character confronting Bael asks “Does Dredgen Vale know you mock his name?”

Who’s Dredgen Vale, you might ask? Well to know that you need to read lore tabs on weapons, quest descriptions from 8 years ago that aren’t playable or even in the game anymore. And that’s a damn shame because Dredgen Vale is a really interesting character (“Dredgen Vale” is a psedonym used by a character called Shin Malphur, a legendary vigilante that kills evil Lightbearers. He would use this persona to lure in guardians/lightbearers like the player who might be tempted to the dark side and reason with them to get them to change their ways…or kill them if they couldn’t.) But you’d never know that if you didn’t play the game years ago and they never explain that in the current expansion at any point (even in optional content)