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I'm the opposite, Ajaw made me pull.
I play using the Japanese voice acting and Ajaw's fun sounding in Japanese, but I also play without sound a lot of the time once I've listened to all the music and heard the voices.

Fun fact: The JP VAs were both in Naruto together. Ajaw's VA was Naruto and Kinich's VA was Sasuke.
I swap between EN and CN. EN voice acting was pretty bad this patch, with Paimon being one of the few with a proper mic setup. The rest needed some de-essers and pop filters, sheesh.

That said, I just played through this patch's Natlan story and it destroyed me emotionally. I think this has got to be one of the best scenes of its type I have witnessed in games in a long while, if not ever. Easily top 3. A++

Back to Sumeru/finishing up Inazuma world quests.
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I don’t dislike any Natlan characters which is good, my biggest complaint is that Mualani feels like Amber on steroids when it comes to peppiness and it can be a bit much for me. I don’t care for Mavuika’s attire but I like her voice/presence/hair/character in the story. The only other char aside from her that jumped out at me enough to try to pull for is Chasca.

Looks like I’ll be skipping everyone else for cons on chara I have or signature weapons I don’t have (if I’m feeling adventurous).
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I play using the Japanese voice acting and Ajaw's fun sounding in Japanese, but I also play without sound a lot of the time once I've listened to all the music and heard the voices.

Fun fact: The JP VAs were both in Naruto together. Ajaw's VA was Naruto and Kinich's VA was Sasuke.
I swap between EN and CN. EN voice acting was pretty bad this patch, with Paimon being one of the few with a proper mic setup. The rest needed some de-essers and pop filters, sheesh.

That said, I just played through this patch's Natlan story and it destroyed me emotionally. I think this has got to be one of the best scenes of its type I have witnessed in games in a long while, if not ever. Easily top 3. A++

Back to Sumeru/finishing up Inazuma world quests.


The bad mic and issues are related to the boycott/firings/etc. I personally have quite liked most of the people so far. I can even see some who I don't care for have an important part of the story and that's what matters to me, lol. I just finished the Natlan quests and I'm not even bothered they're repeating the same story beats probably because it genuinely feels like there are some stakes involved. Which is nice. I quite *loved* it compared to Fontaine which couldn't make me stop sleeping. The only thing that got me through it was so much passionate hatred for all but three characters, lol.
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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
now about a quarter way in the dai trespasser dlc.... soon ill be free of this goal to replay all the games before veilguard........ please set me free

if i dont finish trespasser today ill sob i REALLY want to jump into metaphor refantazio already

update 6 hours later:




I FINISHED TRESPASSER
last edit on Oct 12, 2024 16:36:08 GMT by CEL



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The drip marketing really said ‘drop Sunday on December’ right on the release of 2.7 huh

AND THE PATCH RIGHT BEFORE IT HAS KAKAVASHA RERUN

At least I’m guaranteed Kakavasha when I pull on his banner on the 2nd half of 2.6!
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Am I the only one who thinks Rover has...massive Mary Sue vibes? Just from my opinion she seems involved with literally everything, everyone likes her, exc. It's kinda disappointing me tbh, because I feel there are no stakes when we're supposedly so all-powerful nothing matters lol
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Am I the only one who thinks Rover has...massive Mary Sue vibes? Just from my opinion she seems involved with literally everything, everyone likes her, exc. It's kinda disappointing me tbh, because I feel there are no stakes when we're supposedly so all-powerful nothing matters lol
This is why I don't like Kaedehara in Genshin.
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Am I the only one who thinks Rover has...massive Mary Sue vibes? Just from my opinion she seems involved with literally everything, everyone likes her, exc. It's kinda disappointing me tbh, because I feel there are no stakes when we're supposedly so all-powerful nothing matters lol
This is why I don't like Kaedehara in Genshin.
I respect he isn't your preference but imo they're not even same ballpark.

He'd be...a Mary Sue on like...a human level where he's exceptionally good at things and virtuous. 

At least he doesn't have even the gods being like "ah yes thank u for teaching me everything" lol. Rover feels like she's not even one step away from being *walks into a room and everyone falls in love with me*.

At least even the most Mary Sue Genshin characters still struggle with things. I love WuWa designs but there are 0 stakes because a magical solution will float out of my hand.


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I respect he isn't your preference but imo they're not even same ballpark.
He'd be...a Mary Sue on like...a human level where he's exceptionally good at things and virtuous.

At least he doesn't have even the gods being like "ah yes thank u for teaching me everything" lol. Rover feels like she's not even one step away from being *walks into a room and everyone falls in love with me*.

At least even the most Mary Sue Genshin characters still struggle with things. I love WuWa designs but there are 0 stakes because a magical solution will float out of my hand.

it’s the curse of mc characters in gacha games. originally wuwa had it where when rover met the starting three girls, two of them were suspicious of rover and even held rover at gun point because of how strange they were. and also abandoned rover instead of taking them to the city. but supposedly in CN a lot of people disliked this “hostility” towards the mc, so it ended up getting change to what it is now. im no gacha expert but it seems like it’s preferred if mcs are loved by everyone and are ‘just that good’. which is essentially pushing the self insert and this is my ‘harem’ agenda.
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I respect he isn't your preference but imo they're not even same ballpark.
He'd be...a Mary Sue on like...a human level where he's exceptionally good at things and virtuous.

At least he doesn't have even the gods being like "ah yes thank u for teaching me everything" lol. Rover feels like she's not even one step away from being *walks into a room and everyone falls in love with me*.

At least even the most Mary Sue Genshin characters still struggle with things. I love WuWa designs but there are 0 stakes because a magical solution will float out of my hand.
it’s the curse of mc characters in gacha games. originally wuwa had it where when rover met the starting three girls, two of them were suspicious of rover and even held rover at gun point because of how strange they were. and also abandoned rover instead of taking them to the city. but supposedly in CN a lot of people disliked this “hostility” towards the mc, so it ended up getting change to what it is now. im no gacha expert but it seems like it’s preferred if mcs are loved by everyone and are ‘just that good’. which is essentially pushing the self insert and this is my ‘harem’ agenda.
ngl, I would have preferred that over this. It feels over the top baby's first god oc lol. It's present in all the gachas I play (Genshin + Star Rail + WuWa) but Rover seems the most Mary Sue-ish of the bunch. Traveller struggles at least in the story even if its very occasionally and Trailblazer at least has some relatable or memey dialogue and doesn't take itself too seriously. Back to my main, Genshin, it annoys me that befriending or being friendly with all the playables is a thing that inevitably happens. I would have liked it if some of them were still playable while hating Traveller's guts, or at least retaining hostility. =_= 


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This is why I don't like Kaedehara in Genshin.
I respect he isn't your preference but imo they're not even same ballpark.

He'd be...a Mary Sue on like...a human level where he's exceptionally good at things and virtuous. 

At least he doesn't have even the gods being like "ah yes thank u for teaching me everything" lol. Rover feels like she's not even one step away from being *walks into a room and everyone falls in love with me*.

At least even the most Mary Sue Genshin characters still struggle with things. I love WuWa designs but there are 0 stakes because a magical solution will float out of my hand.

If people had introduced Kaedehara to me as the Anemo Archon, I would've believed them. My problem with his design is that everyone adores him, even the Traveller has to heap praises on Kaedehara. (It strikes me that my chosen username seems like a Genshin reference now, lol.)

He can randomly track thieves over considerable distance by "listening to the wind" (hi Barbatos), and though he left Inazuma, he randomly returns in the nick of time to rescue Gorou's troop from an attack, and then he randomly shows up in the nick of time to deflect Raiden Shogun's legendary Musou no Hitotachi which was a feat previously thought impossible.

Then he swishes his cape and "my work here is done."

I haven't played WuWa so I can't say to what degree they share similarities, but I wanted to commiserate that I don't like Kaedehara Kazuha because everyone likes him and he's so well-rounded that, whenever he appears, he is the solution to the problem you're having, which seemed the gist of your Rover dislike.

I'm not going to argue over which is worse, though, I just wanted to share a feeling.
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I respect he isn't your preference but imo they're not even same ballpark.

He'd be...a Mary Sue on like...a human level where he's exceptionally good at things and virtuous. 

At least he doesn't have even the gods being like "ah yes thank u for teaching me everything" lol. Rover feels like she's not even one step away from being *walks into a room and everyone falls in love with me*.

At least even the most Mary Sue Genshin characters still struggle with things. I love WuWa designs but there are 0 stakes because a magical solution will float out of my hand.
If people had introduced Kaedehara to me as the Anemo Archon, I would've believed them. My problem with his design is that everyone adores him, even the Traveller has to heap praises on Kaedehara. (It strikes me that my chosen username seems like a Genshin reference now, lol.)

He can randomly track thieves over considerable distance by "listening to the wind" (hi Barbatos), and though he left Inazuma, he randomly returns in the nick of time to rescue Gorou's troop from an attack, and then he randomly shows up in the nick of time to deflect Raiden Shogun's legendary Musou no Hitotachi which was a feat previously thought impossible.

Then he swishes his cape and "my work here is done."

I haven't played WuWa so I can't say to what degree they share similarities, but I wanted to commiserate that I don't like Kaedehara Kazuha because everyone likes him and he's so well-rounded that, whenever he appears, he is the solution to the problem you're having, which seemed the gist of your Rover dislike.

I'm not going to argue over which is worse, though, I just wanted to share a feeling.
Nah, that’s fair. Tbh I like very few characters before you get to Sumeru because of similar problems. I apologize if I seemed argumentative, I was coming fresh off the story and was really annoyed.

80% of characters from Mond to Inazuma for me either felt like flat cardboard, cut-outs of each other (looking at Jean, Ganyu, Kokomi being the token tired waifus) or “too good to be true”. I don’t collectively dislike all of them, but there are only a few I particularly care about and fewer favorites, one of which is ironically Venti. 

I think the thing that takes off the edge for me, is that unlike WuWa, I got attached a while ago to Genshin and headcanon the characters I canon rp with my friends, in a way that humanizes and makes the characters feel more lived in and realistic in a sense.
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Not to double-post on purpose but: it’s not like my taste in characters is outwardly fantastic since aside from Venti I tend to like some very polarizing characters. Scara and Furina for one which, both have very vehement haters. I’d mention Xiao is my main but I’m honestly getting tired of his characterization by a lot of people just being edgy lmao