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[Gacha Game] almost no gacha game has more than 1: good character design*, good story, good opening stretch
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*by good character design I mean character design that doesn’t sexualize children and actually has people of color in it
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i would say pokemasters But
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"good story by pokemon standards" doesn't neccistate "good story" lmao
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Fair
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I adore FGO’s story but, like, I counted and it takes 5 hours of extremely basic shit past the very good first few chapters before things pick up again, and the designs are notoriously terrible
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I don't know if Cookie Run's story counts as good LOL it's magic Cookies... but I'd say the opening stretch was good enough to hook me entirely by mistake three years ago so............. I? Guess? >:?
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let Jack and Abby wear pants, please
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Magic cookies can be a good story
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And there’s a reason why I said “most”
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But yeah, Jack and Abby are, like, the worst because they are actual children
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YEAH it's just weird.... to me... to say "oh yeah Cookie Run's got it going on" SDFMKSDA but yeah I wish Fate/'s designs were less Like That even if that is literally the Brand (TM) because the premise is so good
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(Do not at me with “well technically Jack isn’t really a kid-“ Reddit she’s treated as one by the game and acts like one for the most part)
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And then there’s the fucking EMIYAlter debacle
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Where the localization team, bless their hearts, caught so much shit from the fan base to make an exceedingly racist design less racist
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Jack is literally a little kid
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The worst example I think is Chloe whose FA is like, actual child porn I think???
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she's the personification of unborn children, it's hard to get much more "little kid"
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Yeah
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And then there’s the weird cases like Chiyome and Wu Zetian where they are SO SEXUALIZED and drawn EXACTLY LIKE CHILDREN but they are adults, guys, it’s okay
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At least Chiyome’s second and third designs are less bad but I was actively bidding through my teeth throughout Shimousa
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*hissing
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haven't seen chloe and with that glowing description i really don't want to Google it
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Like there’s a difference between Shuten, who is drawn as a petite adult and modeled after her VA and is treated as sexy by the game, and... whatever is going on with Wu and Chiyome
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Chloe especially pisses me off because her high concept is great but its execution is, well
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gestures at Prillya
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She’s also apparently a fantastic Archer ST looper in-game
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Then there’s BLACK’s characters who are, like, fine, and even legitimately cute, and then their FA art dropkicks you out a fucking window,
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There’s also the racism issue
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Out of the 9 Indian mythology Servants, 4 of them are dark-skinned
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And I’m being generous when I say 4 because Vritra has blond hair and just looks like she has a good tan
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I can excuse Karna because iirc in the Mahabarata he’s covered in ash in the myth but like
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Rama? Really? One of the classic Indian heroes?
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And Kama, Parvati, and Ganesha are ALL Japanese pseudoservants?
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rama's not exactly pale but he's definitely not dark either which almost makes it -worse- since there's genuinely problems with attitudes toward being lighter or darker skinned in India
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this is his in-game sprite art 
