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AK story spoiler rant
I just saw the Arknights story spoiler confirming that Theresis is dead—and honestly, you know what? I'm done with Arknights. They've completely lost any integrity they once had in my eyes. I might have been okay with Theresis dying if they treated other female villains the same way, or if they didn’t come up with such a weak excuse to make “NotTheresa” playable. Let’s be real, it’s clearly just a way to pander to the waifutard.
The justification for making Eblana playable is even pathetic. With shallow writing that just written to be Justification why she should be playable & then turning her into a character who's Doctorsexual is just a massive insult to her character. I’d rather she's dead, honestly. At this point, I don’t think I can ever trust a mobage’s story again.
The Reunion arc will always stand out as the most heartfelt and soulful part of Arknights, but from here on out, I won’t take any mobage lore or storytelling seriously. What’s the point in caring when they’ll just assassinate a character’s personality, retcon storylines, or shoehorn in NPCs and villains as playable characters solely to appeal to the lowest common denominator—people who barely care about the story and are just in it for the gacha?
And yet people still claim gacha games have “good” stories with integrity? My experience has shown the exact opposite. These games will retcon lore, rewrite characters, and milk their franchises dry just to squeeze out more money. Mobage and gacha titles are honestly the bottom of the barrel when it comes to storytelling—they have zero integrity. Even the worst JRPG story still has more integrity, than the so-called “well-written” mobage stories.
I haven’t felt this insulted since Granblue Fantasy, but Arknights managed to be worse. They keep killing off great male characters—even the villains—while letting the female villains live, just so they can make them playable and cater to waifu dudebro. It’s coward as shit
And don’t even get me started on Endfield—that game further ruined AK’s lore by pulling out the ridiculous “originium clone” excuse to bring back legacy characters.
Sorry for the rant. I really did have hope that Arknights could be something different, something better. Sure, it had flaws, but I thought the devs at least cared about the story and characters. Turns out I was wrong. I should’ve seen the red flags back when they released “Civilight Eterna” with Theresa’s image as a playable character.
The justification for making Eblana playable is even pathetic. With shallow writing that just written to be Justification why she should be playable & then turning her into a character who's Doctorsexual is just a massive insult to her character. I’d rather she's dead, honestly. At this point, I don’t think I can ever trust a mobage’s story again.
The Reunion arc will always stand out as the most heartfelt and soulful part of Arknights, but from here on out, I won’t take any mobage lore or storytelling seriously. What’s the point in caring when they’ll just assassinate a character’s personality, retcon storylines, or shoehorn in NPCs and villains as playable characters solely to appeal to the lowest common denominator—people who barely care about the story and are just in it for the gacha?
And yet people still claim gacha games have “good” stories with integrity? My experience has shown the exact opposite. These games will retcon lore, rewrite characters, and milk their franchises dry just to squeeze out more money. Mobage and gacha titles are honestly the bottom of the barrel when it comes to storytelling—they have zero integrity. Even the worst JRPG story still has more integrity, than the so-called “well-written” mobage stories.
I haven’t felt this insulted since Granblue Fantasy, but Arknights managed to be worse. They keep killing off great male characters—even the villains—while letting the female villains live, just so they can make them playable and cater to waifu dudebro. It’s coward as shit
And don’t even get me started on Endfield—that game further ruined AK’s lore by pulling out the ridiculous “originium clone” excuse to bring back legacy characters.
Sorry for the rant. I really did have hope that Arknights could be something different, something better. Sure, it had flaws, but I thought the devs at least cared about the story and characters. Turns out I was wrong. I should’ve seen the red flags back when they released “Civilight Eterna” with Theresa’s image as a playable character.