Lately, it’s become a bit of a burden for me to follow the story of some gacha games. Back when I started my first gacha, FGO in 2018, it was the only gacha I ever had to invest in, with the story and events making it very easy to enjoy and manage. Nowadays there are just too many gachas to keep up with. Is that just me? Sometimes it’s more convenient to skip event dialogue so you don’t fall behind. With the story, sometimes I don’t even bother anymore, or new updates just make it harder to come back at a good point in the schedule and pick up where you left off. It gets a little overwhelming at times, and it makes me feel conflicted more than anything else. I really love these games, but sometimes I can’t even play them the way I want to without some compromise or constraint. As more and more Gacha games are released, this problem becomes even more apparent. How do you manage this problem with the time you have?
For FF7 Ever Crisis, yes.
For FGO, I used to be a big fan early on for the myth / history stuff, but it’s been years since the story is always pretty shit and barely fanfiction level. The last story I cared about was all the way back in Babylonia and Solomon (Japanese version so a while ago), some stories here and there have been pretty good (Atlantis, Avalon, a bit of the Yamatai events, anytime Nasu picks up the story writing himself) but it’s always drowned in a ocean of garbage fluff dialogs or shitty characters, the crawl is just too long. The very nature of the waifu game will always give me horrible whiplash in the way characters change their whole personality and how they interact with each other, and the super forced redemption scenes, not even counting how often it keeps forcing terrible characters. To me, most of the writing is just bad fanfiction of something that was already fanfiction (of the actual mythological and historical figures), I can’t deal with that so I skip everything now.
At some point I also used to play Marvel Future Fight and King of Fighters Allstar, and I did use to follow the story (for the extremely rare drops it gave out), but I dropped those long ago.