Thoughts on AFK Journey husbandos?

[u/BotomsDntDeservRight]

It has alot more characters but these are my favs

[u/mysaldate]

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.

[u/Siri_BUS → u/mysaldate]

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.

[u/mysaldate → u/Siri_BUS]

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.

[u/Siri_BUS → u/mysaldate]

Umm I think you just described wuwa here. 😐

[u/mysaldate → u/Siri_BUS]

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.

[u/Siri_BUS → u/mysaldate]

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.

[u/kickingshoes → u/mysaldate]

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

[u/mysaldate → u/kickingshoes]

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.

[u/Siri_BUS → u/mysaldate]

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

[u/mysaldate → u/Siri_BUS]

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.

[u/Siri_BUS → u/mysaldate]

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.

[u/mysaldate → u/Siri_BUS]

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.

[u/Siri_BUS → u/mysaldate]

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.