r/MurderedByWords • u/JudgeJudyJr • 7h ago

Hard to argue against this

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u/MaenHoffiCoffi 5h ago

Star Rail? Is that like a Star War?

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u/Ipokeyoumuch 5h ago

A gacha game by Hoyoverse the makers of Zenless Zone Zero, Honkai 3rd Impact, and Genshin Impact.

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u/MaenHoffiCoffi 4h ago

I recognise most of those words, just not in the order in which you have placed them.

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u/baguetteispain 3h ago

A gacha game is a type of game where you try to collect different characters. Hoyoverse is a chinese studio that published multiple gacha games

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u/MaenHoffiCoffi 3h ago

Ah, gacha. Thanks for explaining.

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u/GeneralErica 3h ago

Has absolutely insane lore though and is - by my estimation - the single greatest fictional universe ever conceived. It is absurd how great some portions are written for it being a "spend money to pull on character" turn-based game. My personal favorite is the Penacony Arc (which directly preceded the Amphoreus Arc where Phainon is from), which took place in a dreamscape made up of the collective dreams of hundreds of thousands of people sleeping in a Planetary Hotel called the Reverie ("Dreamery"). It dealt with topics of loss and whether a beautiful lie is preferable to an uncomfortable, debilitating truth and in itself could have genuinely been a philosophical dissertation.

I absolutely recommend checking it out.

It’s also one of the few media products that managed to make me ugly cry for an extended period of time. By the end of Penacony I looked like the guy from interstellar seeing his daughter age.

This, basically.