#but the fact that gacha is a thing in the first place. accented w/ the near bank-breaking and often empty promise of pretty anime charas

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...i had a thought train going while in the shower abt my feelings towards genshin, but i can't fully remember it nfjjcjfkjc so i'll piece together what i rmbr

there are times when genshin is my bread and butter. the good stuff. the 'ice cold tea on a summers day'. the fcukin' 'stretch that makes ya bones crunch and ya toes curl'. it (for a while) satisfies my need for fantasy worlds and cool-looking characters with big weapons and elemental superpowers beating up huge fcukin monsters.

it makes me happy. and i'm glad it still does, even when i'm not in the mood to play it.

but there are times where i just want to go back in time and tell myself "for the love of GOD PLEASE pick another game!!!" bcuz it could be so much better. in many, many aspects. so many that i'd probably be here all night (and i have work tmrrw so im not gonna do that-)

one of those things being character design, if i were to pick one. and i get it, they're already spending hours and hours trying to make sure the game models don't crazily glitch when doing the most basic attacks. but if the game models are already supposed to be 'Very Distinct' from the npc models, why not go further? give the characters more details that emphasize who they are and were as a character!

fxukin' make zhongli Look Old! give him wrinkles, give him crow's feet, add silvers of grey in his hair! make him look like the old man that he is!

give diluc burn scars on his arms! he was nowhere near close to controlling his vision when he was young, so show it! show that he's grown, but still bears scars (both physically and emotionally) also make him short. it would be funny

fcukin give child characters like klee, xingqiu, hu tao, qiqi even, snaggle teeth or just missing teeth! give them the wonky yet adorable smiles children are always bound to have! (hell, even the adults too!)

make characters fuckin dark. Black, even, bcuz the dusty lookin' tones the already dark characters have are BARELY cutting it. give characters that you know have been hanging out in the sun a different skin tone other than Vanilla Ice Cream White™.

make ganyu fat. just make her fat, what were you so afraid of to not make her fat? cowards.

just. give more character™ to the characters youve already made.