#yostar give me the lore i want to kNOW

[falsewolf]

Important crown notes, for scenarios where it’s relevant:

Crown is NOT HUMAN. Her species - Ancients - are her world’s versions of humanity, but they are not human as humans are known. In fact, the one time actual proper humans have been seen in the series, they’ve been regarded as an alien/unknown/unique existence. As such, she has many more traits in common with the animals that her kind seem to resemble - wolves or canines specifically, since that’s what her subspecies of Ancient seems to be - that can be picked up on by other characters or muses who have the senses to do so.

She has a very keen sense of smell - a trait that is likely universal among Lupo, given the wolf’s association with scent tracking and pack behaviors. It is likely she also has a sharp sense of hearing to match. These are senses that differ from human limitations - and anything else with similar senses is going to pick up that she doesn’t match human parameters.

As such, Crown is. Quite literally. A wolf. Even if she looks human, it’s superficial - humans are an entirely separate creature type to her. They smell different, they act different. As an ancient, she has human-grade intelligence and sapience, they have a very human-esque society. She’s human in that regard. But it’s still clear from basic biology that she’s not human. She smells like a wolf, she acts like a wolf, a DNA test is likely going to come back with ‘wolf’ - albeit potentially a subspecies that doesn’t exist on earth, or at most parallel to a subspecies that does exist but not quite the same. An animal that senses her is going to treat her as they would if they were being confronted with an actual wolf or similarly large canine predator. If she gets placed in the Sarcophagus for healing, like Mephisto did to himself to try to revert himself to a completely blank slate, then she’s going to be transformed into an animal. Not a human.

So yeah, while this girl is very much a human-looking wolfgirl, she’s not a case of ‘human with animal ears attached’. It’s clear that the creatures living in her world are sapient animals who have gained human traits, not the other way around.

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Man, okay, so this was posted on Monday, and it is now Thursday wherein the servers of Tower of Fantasy are up.

Speaking from a perspective of someone who draws, writes and had played both games (I was AR 55 in Genshin Impact when I left) Genshin Impact had a proving ground. They could have done it in the Hilichurls. They could have done it in their first year anniversary. Not only that, but they could have done it in their endgame content, and they could have done it in Sumeru, but they didn't because controversy makes people talk about the game in social media, therefore free promotion for the game. Tower of Fantasy is a budding game. It's new, and therefore it's subject to a lot of change. I feel like comparing Genshin vs. ToF is comparing apples to oranges.

Sure, Genshin's animesque art style might be the blueprint for later "open world" gacha games, but it doesn't change the fact that not all the players are a fan of what their mc (Aether and Lumine) looks like. In ToF, you can change the appearance of your main character. Genshin might not have PvP and guilds but so far as the game was just released, I haven't seen anyone in the server flex their CRIT and DMG for no apparent reason to mess with fellow players because they're bored with the lore anyway and skip 99.9 percent of the dialogue in game. ToF does not have Co-Op. You're technically with other players, and you can see what they're doing. You also have the option to filter the World chat off. Genshin might have the free ten pull for new players but Tower of Fantasy gave so much more imho because in Genshin you have to be content with what characters the game gives you. In ToF, resources replenishes (yes, from what I heard, the loot + chests replenish daily).

Since I also played BOTW, Drakengard 3 and Nier Automata before I can see how the game is inspired from the environment, and it's good that they're not trying to hide it unlike Genshin. I feel as though a lot of Day 1/ hardcore Genshin players/fans are so defensive of the game because it was BOTW-inspired when in actuality, Genshin could have been a much better game if it was an exact copy of BOTW. Two of the examples I could think of is Keqing's Burst being a copy from PGR and Noelle's attack pattern copying 2B's. The environment of Tower of Fantasy actually reminds me of a livelier version of Nier Automata, and I'm actually a fan of it. It also helps that I can run their Best graphics in my potato PC whilst Genshin always had to be run in the lowest setting on an 8 GB RAM laptop.

Now, for the story. I must confess, ToF's story is not its strongest suit. However, would I say Genshin's plot/lore is compelling? No, not really. The Mondstadt's Archon quest starts off strong and engaging, but when I reached Liyue (in all the accounts I had) I just wanted to get over with it. Inazuma's plot, although is written poorly, the visual execution makes up for it. In fact, a lot of Genshin success is not actually the lore (since its player base is willing to excuse a lot of problematic things anyway) it's that charm of always looking pretty enough that players do not care. Again, ToF is fairly new. A lot can still unfold lorewise. Genshin, on the other hand, still doesn't have any endgame lore content. What happens when you finally reunite with your sibling? What's the use of the extra oculus? Etc, etc

Bonus comment from me: I'm an avid gacha mobage player. I didn't just come from playing a great open world game like BOTW, I came from playing the best and most generous gacha games before I played Genshin Impact and left and now playing Tower of Fantasy. I know what makes a great gacha game, and it is their generosity and how they listen to their players. With ToF, I can see that they listen and reward their players well enough. Genshin had to wait after their first anniversary to treat their players right. Coming from someone who played most if not all of Yostar's games, before, during and after playing and quitting Genshin I assumed Hoyoverse hated their players with their little rewards. ToF's generosity is akin to Arknights and Azur Lane's. It doesn't mean that they reward their players with free stuff that the game is automatically easy.

TL;DR: Don't compare Tower of Fantasy to Genshin just because you're in too deep and with sunk cost fallacy that you can't admit that Genshin isn't that of a good game.

Tower Of Fantasy: Genshin Killer/Copy?

Tower of Fantasy will get it’s official global release on August 10, and everyone’s pretty exited to see how it will hold up against Genshin Impact. It’s the main thing it’s been compared to and hopes to embody. It is definitely it’s own thing, but just like how Genshin pulled from Breath of the Wild, Tower of Fantasy draws a LOT from Genshin and BOTW. 

I beta tested this game during it’s first global beta, and not everything I say will hold up in the official game. 

So first, yes, Tower of Fantasy is an MMO. Guilds and all. There is pvp, there are rankings. I’m personally not a big fan of MMOs (my first exposure to them was Dragon Raja which was kind of bad so go figure) but since I really love open worlds and I beta tested for this, I may as well see what it’s all about officially.

Which, by the way, is about the same as Genshin. The pity is 80 instead of 90, but it’s still pretty brutal. You won’t accumulate premium currency very fast, and you can’t select which SSR to target. PVP isn’t a very relevant aspect of ToF, it seems like it’s more just for fun and rankings so the whole SSR thing isn’t that bad. But if you do plan to take PVP very seriously SSRs and Echo who is literally the only good SR is your best bet. 

The weapons themselves come with characters. You can swap in between weapons, but not in between characters. The character will be a sort of skin. It’s a cool concept really, if only the characters were actually interesting as character lmao but we’ll get to that later. 

Oh but I should mention that there is a system that allows you to get free SSR weapons via grinding. It wasn’t in the first beta but it’s in the CN official release and the second beta but I don’t know a lot about it. 

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