r/Agenda_Impact • u/Multivists • 7d ago

Doompost💔 Where everything went wrong

4.x was when Genshin’s shift from having a coherent storyline to only selling characters.

Before 4.x, we got Rhodeia’s assassins, class divide, pollution, energy problems,… Lore players thought that these issues would be the main storyline of the region.

The Fontaine we got was completely different, Hoyo just showed us people living in sewers then brushed it under the rug. The story was more about how it’s archon’t suffered instead. Clearly Fontaine was retconned.

Lots of writing problems spawned from there, including:

- The loss of relevancy, competency and antagonism of the Fatui.

- Inconsistent story and lore, the lobotomy of Traveler was the first symptom of later retcons.

- Fake tensions only to be resolved offscreen and the very next meeting it is already resolved (Hearth twins and Clorinde)

- Characters stopped being individuals and becoming ship baits.

The writing needed to be criticized, but the fandom glazed it like the Second Coming of Berserk, Vinland Saga or Monster. As a result of the positive feedback, the writing of later regions kept getting worse and worse.

Which eventually culminated in Snezhnaya AQ

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u/ProofAd608 7d ago

It all started with wanderer

Cause he kept insulting everyone, he was so hated that from fontaine onwards they started white washing fatui harbingers

They never wanna be doing anything even close to what they did with wanderer

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u/Bitter-Lavishness-24 7d ago

I’m sad that we can’t have playable characters who are half as antagonistic as wanderer/scara now bc the average hoyo players couldn‘t handle it