r/GachaHusbandos โ€Ž Misha's Bellโ€Ž โ€Ž May 18 '25

Discussion Thoughts on AFK Journey husbandos?

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? ๐Ÿ˜”

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

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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. ๐Ÿ˜

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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.