>>537821013
>great presentation
Great presentation in part because they deep dive into characters. Phrolova's chapter and 2.2 are considered the best patches story-wise, rather than ensemble patches like 1.0, 1.2 and 2.0 because the narrative can laser focus on exploring the character's motivations, insecurities, choices and pay-offs in a stage created for them and without distractions. In genshin they are just juggling between many npcs and playable characters that everything just feel shallow and without proper build up (in a narrative sense, not in a lore sense that they dropped a reference to it and that's it). Stuff like chasca sister dying is a good example, you see her twice while doing random things including a stealth minigame, then she dies, chasca screaming and then she gets better and becomes the heroes. It felt so shallow and disjointed. It doesn't help that the companion stories, that are already often about npcs, were botched for village stories so you don't even get personal, like xilonen being about some woman abusing a kid I don't even remember anymore. There are exceptions though like characters blessed with multi-arc focus like furina, that they went back due to popularity like hu tao or that just got lucky with hangouts like faruzan or major event like Fischl and Mona.
Basically I'd rather a deep focused story for a character I like, like Lupa, Ciaccona and Phrolova than a shallow participation in multiple patches like Nilou or Keqing (who we only get that works too much, isn't good with relationships and likes fried chicken balls). Though kuro should aim to do better and win at everything, they should just add frequent side content with characters that aren't the focus.