The 'great' gacha fanboy war continues

Endfield was way overhyped. I can't remember a game in the last few years that handheld players with forced tutorials for the first 10 hours, and in such a mind-numbing and unengaging way. Story's generic gacha material, which the cinematic trailers covered up well. It's been 5+ years since Genshin shook up the gacha scene, and every 3D gacha since then has failed to revolutionize the market. 3D anime gacha feels stagnant and samey, so here's hoping Ananta will move the industry forward.

Genshin? Generic isekai trash that lately has Traveler use the power of friendship to defeat big bads. Also, Mavuika with the motorcycle outfit and motorcycle in a setting like Natlan was the moment Hoyo jumped the shark. They chased the "cool" factor at the expense of immersion to sell a character to the masses, and the result was an awkward implementation of a character design clashing with the setting. It shows that 3D anime gachas running for 5+ years will eventually run out of cohesive ideas for its story. Nod Krai has been mid at best too.

Endfield? Nothing groundbreaking. Has same gacha game design problems as Genshin. A silent MC with the added cliche of amnesia, Perlica is your mouthpiece and MC glazer, and most characters are 1-dimensional cardboards whose dialogue comes out inorganic. Shame on HG for hyping us with trailers, only to deliver a completely different game with the worst intro in gacha history. How does an intro manage to be dry and uncaptivating, and that's before taking into consideration the constant barrage of tutorials in the first 10-12 hours of the game. No other game, gacha or traditional, comes close with the amount of hand-holding that Endfield does. It's like the game wanted to accommodate for Gen Z and Gen Alpha players with short attention spans without regards of genuinely respecting their players' time. It's not surprising that so many people have dropped the game and left mixed or negative reviews on their experience playing Endfield.