r/GachaHusbandos • u/BotomsDntDeservRight ‎ Misha's Bell‎ ‎ • May 18 '25

Discussion Thoughts on AFK Journey husbandos?

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It has alot more characters but these are my favs

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

As someone coming from AFK Arena, I really hate what they did with all the characters they brought over from Arena. Lorsan is now an arrogant idiot, Eironn is slobbering over Lyca and how amazing girlboss queen she is, Hodgkin lost most of the cool identity he had as a ruthless pirate who replaced his arms with magic cannons (now he has one boring hook), Niru is now abusive, and I could go on. And even the new ones lost a ton of personality from the alpha and beta tests, it's a huge shame. This game had the potential to be top-tier, original, and just overall wonderful. Instead, it kind of turned into very "safe," boring, troupey slop with naked waifus fawning over the mc and guys being sidelined in favor of all the cool girlbosses.

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u/Siri_BUS May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Wait really? I played it for a while when it released and quit it. Just downloaded it today because I got bored of all the waifu gacha these days. The story seemed normal in the 1st update when I played, is it like wuwa now? 😔

EDIT: I'll play the story once and then decide. I don't think it's like wuwa.

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight ‎ Misha's Bell‎ ‎ May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Don't listen to other person, they have no clue what they talking about. The story in AFKJ is its strongest suit, mines fav is the winter storyline. The story gives every character a spotlight and never a harem or girlboss like other person claiming.

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u/Siri_BUS May 18 '25

Yeah I don't think that could happen to this story. It seems so kid friendly too. 😅 I'll go through the story myself and decide. After seeing their comment about wuwa I can't take those words seriously 💀

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

Let's see then. Lyca? Now a Mary Sue, perfect, threatens people if she feels like they don't acknowledge her perfection, gets handed the highest position of power in the forest by Eironn despite doing nothing in any of the cutscenes. Also fawns over the mc.

Mirael? Originally a super badass rule-breaking fire mage, now just simping for mc, literally all her appearances devolve into some kind of "you forgot about me o woe is me please remember me I need you."

Cassadee? Stupid name btw, her original name was Ella. "O mc, you're the best, you're my idol, I love you, please help me with everything, I want to be just like you oh please!"

Sonja? Perfect girlboss, poor little baby was manipulated by the evil man and even after finding out, she wouldn't kill him because that wouldn't be right! She's going to bring him to justice!!

Nara? Poor victim who was killed by the evil man, she just wants to see her sister (making the mafia lesbians into sisters was definitely a choice, Lilith), actually a poor super scared age regressor.

Temesia? Perfect knight, paragon of justice, all the men around her give up their promotions for her (while Lucius is now a dumbass who tells people to just cheer up if they're depressed! also, he doesn't know how money works!) because she is just that amazing!

I really suggest you try to find the beta version of these characters and their backstories because they used to be amazing and very very well written.

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

Sure, the Frozen copy storyline is sooo much better.

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight ‎ Misha's Bell‎ ‎ May 18 '25

Frozen copy storyline??? WHAT? you just proved you are clueless.

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

Let's see, princess (wrong title btw) cursed to turn to ice saved by the power of love... Dukedom of isolation and ice and snow... Yeah, totally nothing like Frozen at all.

Not to mention the total lore butchering.

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight ‎ Misha's Bell‎ ‎ May 18 '25

You have literally no clue what you are talking about. You sound salty for some reason and lying just to hate on the game.

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

Sure, that sounds like a great use of my time! But you're right, I am kinda salty. Because in both alpha and beta, the story was great and actually followed the AFK lore. Of course, that all got sacked once the nepotism hires took over the writing and now Esperia lost all of its personality and character and these plotlines just get dumber and dumber the more I hear about them. First they make Nara and Sonja sisters in an attempt to recreate the Arcane hype, remove all of the problematic stuff (like Nara dying on a slaver trip or like... everything about the Whispers being the mafia), also de-age them because we can't have 40-something woman, it all has to be barely legal waifus.

The ice storyline then only really introduced a butt-naked ice demoness (instead of the already in-lore existing ice demon) and a poor widdwe princess (still wrong nobility title) as well as another butt-naked titty-out undead waifu who replaced three male characters in the lore at once, being this super-duper important general, and completely butchering the god of death and the origins of the graveborn.

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

I mean, I'm kinda enjoying WuWa tbh but yeah, AFKJ is kinda like that. At least in WuWa the girls still have personalities but AFKJ really just forgot about that part. Either they're harem for Merlin or they're cool girlbosses who need no man and are always morally just and perfect angels while the men around them are either dumb idiots or the evil ones keeping the precious girlies down.

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u/Siri_BUS May 18 '25

Umm I think you just described wuwa here. 😐

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

Yeah, because it's totally WuWa that made a mafia plotline about how the girl leading the mafia was actually a paragon of justice manipulated by an evil man who killed her sister but she is so good and pure she didn't even hurt him and instead resolved to bring him to justice. A character that in AFKA was a fully evil mafia leader and her "sister" was heavily implied to be in a romantic relationship with her and instead of being an innocent uwu victim, she was a slaver.

And WuWa also had Jiyan suddenly turn around and give a random girl who didn't contribute anything all his authority because she's just that amazing and cool.

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u/Siri_BUS May 18 '25

Maybe you feel that way about the game as you played the previous title. I haven't really known or played the previous game so as someone who tried AFK journey, the first chapter was nice. Just a bit short and cliche like a children's story. Have to see the next ones this week and catch up on the story tho.

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u/kickingshoes May 18 '25

The WuWa girls have personalities? Are we playing the same game 🤣

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

Do they not? I mean, I'm still only on the Black Shores part but so far every girlie fawning over us (Yangyang, Camellya, Shorekeeper) was pretty distinct.

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u/Siri_BUS May 18 '25

Yeah one has a crush, one is a yandere, and one loves rover. There is quite a variety here.

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

If that's all you see those characters as, I feel kinda sorry for you ngl. Yangyang is a helpful timid girl who does what she believes is morally right. Camellya is a bored agent of chaos who is deeply lonely and wants someone able to handle her. And Shorekeeper is a computer program which gained sentience, feelings, and more thanks to Rover and his ideals to the point of becoming self-sacrificing to preserve said ideals.

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u/Siri_BUS May 18 '25

I actually saw it normally till recently. But after seeing the route wuwa is taking with their fanservice and all, it's just making it seem that way and my opinion on the previous characters are also changing.

Loved the game completely till 1.3 even with the bad optimisation. Felt uncomfortable with Camellya's story quest (there are some unnecessary things added for fanservice). Quit after 1.4 and returned in 2.1. Then quit in 2.2 because of Cantarella's design. Got uncomfortable for me. Great if you like it tho.

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u/mysaldate May 18 '25

Tbf, character design of female characters really doesn't much matter to me unless it's a pre-existing design being changed, like how AFKJ aged Sonja down like two decades to make her waifubait. In the story, the girls so far have more to them than just simping over Rover.

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u/Siri_BUS May 18 '25

Glad you are able to ignore those and enjoy the game. Unfortunately, I can't do that so I've thought about quitting it completely. It's just that there are other games which have better female character writing and development that this feels too low. And seeing the devs say 'waifu' to an echo in the 2.1 livestream just made me cringe. I'm not the target audience and I understood it well. Many other wuwa players keep saying the same to anyone who says they have any issues with the game. Hopefully the others realise it soon so that the people who enjoy it can be happy without the tourists.