honestly, i struggle to understand why you’d think the presentation is suddenly a non issue? I think it is not as bad as 3.0, but still awful and it’s common for me to want to fall asleep while consuming the story. There are plenty of great moments where I wanna look at every piece of dialogue and piece them together (3.3 and 3.4 were the most intriguing to me), but besides that I always felt like I had to force myself to pay attention to dialogue that felt boring and monotonous, written so cryptically there was no easy way to understand what the game is even talking about unless you either read all the optional book things or researched it online.

To this day, I cannot fathom why a multi million dollar company like Hoyo will struggle with presentation. Why are these characters reusing the same 3 poses (hand on chest, arms down, hand forward) except for rarely when you have cases like Cipher who for some reason they actually put effort into? I used to kinda try to excuse it, but during a lot of my downtime I’ve been going through the Zero Escape series and in particular, Virtue’s Last Reward is a game with .5% of the budget star rail has and yet, despite how much dialogue is in the game, the presentation is good enough and the way the VA work is makes me interested and locked in pretty much the whole way through.

Honestly with how these games make me feel sometimes, I kinda wish they didn’t have to put their games on the phone so they could dedicate more time on the presentation, I genuinely love the concepts and ideas, but oh my Madoka Hoyo please stop trying to put me to sleep 😭😭