Justice for different color races!!
The racism in this game
Predatory
The storage is ridiculous
Very nice game!
The racism
Worst Mechanic Shill You Will EVER See
Best game
Amazing game.
No events
Not enough space
Stellar jades
W.O.W.
Don’t support this game
Aventurine
Power-creep & lost the plot (lore and gameplay): and now Blackface in a character trailer. I’m done
HSR has previously faced criticisms of a lack of racial diversity and insensitivity. But Hoyoverse has reached a new low with the new Robin: Summeretto character trailer: “Chasing the Wind” at 0:57-0:58 there’s an explicitly minstrel/blackface caricature.
I’d love to give the benefit of a doubt and assume “that’s not intentional blackface it’s just an unfortunately similar design choice”
But the why, in the previous scene at 0:56, do none of the light-skinned characters from the same organization, designs meant to mimic each other, not have the red-donut lips. The signature design trait of minstrelsy/blackface.
Hoyoverse needs to fix it and apologize, and better yet, hire some black people for their art and social teams that will stop this kind of insensitive, if not straight up harmful, cultural depictions in their content.
Moving onto gameplay topics:
Despite its issues, I’ve enjoyed this game since it was released. But the design of gameplay has steadily decreased for a while.
New Units are not compatible with old ones, and team building is uninteresting, there very limited choice or variation in what kinds of teams can clear content.
The powercreep is awful and few characters are lucky to be strong enough to last more than a few patches without vertical investment.
They no longer have been buffing older characters with NovaFlare, helping them compete, even if only as a worse option, and there hasn’t been a four* character in YEARS.
And worst of all: there are limited f2p options. You are guaranteed one free 5* weapon/light cone a year, and there are very few 4* options. Even less that are good for characters.
And on top of ALL of this. There have been very few events as of late, and those events haven’t had a free weapon(light cone) in over a year.
The female character design especially has gotten strangely bland. I like that old characters have gotten new versions, but so many new characters are the same basic trend of hoyo’s general designs (short frilly dress with no or detached sleeves)
And god forbid any woman gets pants.
Boss HP inflation (and endgame mechanics that exclude previous teams) gets worse every patch and f2p Artifact farming and reroll tools are so insanely limited.
Overall, I do not recommend this game until some quality of life priorities start showing.
While I’d also love the design and story to get better, there’s been some standout quests/characters that would save it otherwise. But considering the slew of other issues I have, it’s just another straw.
