Why does he talk like that

As bricky once said "How you tell a story is just as important if not more so than the story you are writing"

Someone killed Supah and replaced him with AI version in this video, here's my proof: 1) He didn't say anything that I could disagree with. 2) He haven't shat on Skadi even once. 3) He mentioned Гум only twice.

I think the big issue is the way of delivery. 3/4 lines at a time is too little in screen. I love reading AK lore and story in the wiki because it shows all the text at once.

yeah, thats why as much as I'd like to know more about the story i absolutely do not want to read anymore lmao

The title is missing "...and an even less competent translation" As much as i love the game and all related to its environment and world,reading through it causes physical and mental pain most of the times to the point of making the party time event at alligator country the one i most enjoyed so far because there isnt a single bit of edge put into it,just people having fun,RPGing helicopters and Ceobe eating shrooms

Ok but the part of near light where roy says "it's goobering time" and then goobers all over the place is perfect

There is this weird catch-22 between event stories and Main Theme that reinforces the status quo as you said. Events build off of the Main Theme because they expect you to be caught up. But the Main Theme never builds off of events because they're optional and missable for a year. So you get this dichotomy where so much happens inside of events, but none of it matters because it won't affect the Main Theme. We get more actual resolution and plot development in alternate timelines like IS3 than in the Main Theme.

Not trying to justify arknight's shitty writing but, "there is so many words but nothing happens anyways" is a general problem (for me personally) in all gacha games. They purposely drag the main story as long as possible to strech out a drip-feeding dopamine schedule for player rentention, and filling in the space with more side stories that is also forcefully stretched to ahere to the player retention formula, which really muddies the overarching pace of a narrative that make the overall read a less enjoyable experience.

The absolute WORST way they sometimes do this in events is by doing a flash-forward showing the status quo being changed, but like…that was just a glimpse into the future, I guess we now have this tantalizing prophesy that at some point the canon story MIGHT someday catch up to the events we saw, but until then, lol, FUCK IT, we’re back to your regularly scheduled speech and debate club simulator that occasionally breaks out into a game.

"Everyone is pretentious philosophy student or 14 or both" THANKYOU!!! I got PSTD from the lungmen chapter where they have 4D chess political dialogue from 5 different parties

You know sometimes I think that the unnecessarily long texts to describe pain, infected, oripathy, suffering, Kal'tsit's morning breakfast in Arknights are used instead to describe the actions that is happening in the story. Like for example how Stainless outsmarted one of the strong sarkaz mercenary ever that is Hoederer. It basically went: "Oh you did that? That's futile!" - "Oh no no but I will DO THIS!" - "Oh nooo he did that, I didn't see that coming!" Like COME ON! If they want to write wall of descriptive texts, channel it in the action scenes of the story! It'd be more enjoyable to slog through texts by a thousand percent!

I practically skipped all of Chapter 9 because I couldn't stand having to read half an hour of text every time I started and finished an stage. I like the story, but I don't have that much time in my day to read walls of text that could very well have been condensed by half

This reminds me that one of my favourite NPC is Cannot, because he is antithesis of every flaw you mentioned. He doesnt overstay his welcome, he doesnt take itself seriously (even when he clearly knows that entire sewer system hits the fan soon) and is just a funny, memorable guy. In fact in IS 3 if you annoy him too much, he doesnt resort to diplomacy but to kicking your ass and then leaves angry when he fails instead of reasoning. Also the problem with "status quo is king" is a plague of vast majority of gacha games. Most however have an ecuse since its hard to move plot forward if your story about demons involve Sonic for example. Arknights has no excuses and ironically one of the two collab moved the status quo on meta level since we still see enemies introduced in the collab maps!

This is why I have so much respect for people like FrostBite or Qaiser for, somehow, manage to summarize details of this "dialogue soup" into an actual coherent story.

4:52 AGGHHH OMFG THIS IS SO ON POINT HOLY SHIT fine we will say rat king is an old man who has seen everything BUT WHY DAFUQ IS GREYTHROAT MAKING UP GRAND PHILOSOPHY ON THE LIVES OF THE INFECTED FFS Thank you for this video Supah all I have ever raged about regarding the story is presented here

Chapter 9 ending spoilers WHY DID THE LAST SCENE OF NEW REUNION KIDNAPPING TALULAH TAKE SO LONG 💀 When I read it I actually hated the writing so so much bruh. First, there was a cutscene with Kalt’sit doing a surgery that was irrelevant to the story. After that the reunion guys will not stop talking but all the really said is that they plan to use violent means to liberate the infected. That’s it, everything else they say is filler to further prove their point. THEY REPEATED THAT SHIT AT LEAST TEN TIMES BUT WORDED DIFFERENTLY AND I WANTED TO DIE SO BAD BRUUUUHHHH! Also, Nine kept insisting that they had to get out soon AND THEN PROCEEDS TO DELAY ESCAPING! WTF? They delayed it so many times before actually leaving. There’s a serious issue with the pacing in the story, and the way information is conveyed makes it confusing sometimes. The lore is so good but who tf is cooking? It’s like having the highest quality ingredients and proceeding to completely fuck it up. Oh yeah, there was also a random hacker friend who Closure knew and trusted a lot, but I have never heard of him before and he just seemed like he came out of nowhere? He conveniently knew how to hack RI’s system because Closure revealed it to him? After this, we didn’t even get much exploration on how Closure feels about this betrayal that surely should have had a massive impact on her! New Reunion doesn’t even seem that strong and most of their accomplishments look more like the result of insane plot armor. This whole operation wouldn’t be possible if the hacker friend didn’t get convinced by their ideals enough to betray his closest friend, which New Reunion probably didn’t do intentionally. They deadass just got lucky and convinced the only person in Terra who is capable of hacking the land ship to join them. HOW? RI HELPS INFECTED WAY BETTER THAN REUNION IM SO DEAD BRUHHH 💀💀💀 I’m gonna start chapter 10 soon and I’m excited to see W show up again in main story. I’m staying strong for W…

I personally have another issue: small font size that can't be changed. My eyes aren't as they once were, and I simply get tired of reading letters this small. And coupled with having so much to read through - I just can't do it. So I stopped reading the stories and just catch on summaries from the wiki.

The only reason i still read event stories is for the occasional funny character interactions

The fact that most people didn't actually directly read the story and wait for other people to tell them or to read summary from post/wiki confirm this video For me, it's hard to consume Arknights story as Arknights seems to be interested more on building their world rather their story. Like every event, they had to introduce NEW CHARACTER, even though nothing happened and you don't know whether they are important or not, or they just important to the event to the Terra. Does anyone remember Gnosis' sidekick that ran away after Break the Ice? That chick didn't do anything significant and they acted like I should give a damn as to why she's leaving. Bro you could be cut from the story and it wouldn't change a damn thing. Now some arguments to be made that she would appear later. WHICH IS ANOTHER FUCKING PROBLEM YOU WANT TO TELL ME THAT I HAD TO READ THE ENTIRETY OF BREAK THE ICE EVENT JUST TO KNOW ABOUT HER CHARACTER LATER IN THE FORECOMING EVENT? AN EVENT THAT BARELY HAD HER IN IT?

KZfaq began recommending me your channel and I noticed most of your stuff seems to be "negative" oriented which I usually link to just wanting to garner attention and hate for engagement. But no matter the intention, I agree with your points here 100%. It's the main reason I stopped reading the Arknights story very early on and I'm the kind of gacha player that gives every game's story a chance. Even HI3's quantum-techno-babble that takes several paragraphs to describe non-sense that gets deleted by the next chapter. They drive the exposition like a standard book novel completely ignoring the medium in which its being delivered that actually has images, sound and video to express all those descriptions in a far more engaging way. If I wanted to read a novel, I would read a damn novel. I don't care about every character's deep philosophical quandaries, just get to the damn point.

I can agree with that. Part of the reason I got burnt out on Arknights was just the consistently dull, grey, serious tone paired with the FUCK TONS of text to read through. It was around the rerun of Invitation to wine where I began to just outright skip cutscenes so I could just play the game. And the worst part? I don't feel like I missed out on much either.

I get the bad writing and stuff, but I feel like we should talk about gummy fucking murdering that Vaal Hazak for a second💀

To be fair, the writing has gotten better and I personally give credit to the Inquisitor who told Kaltsit to just shut up! 😂

Arknights writers heard the saying “less is more” and went “Interesting idea, but have you ever considered……”more is less?” I stg, I get an entire history lesson on the favorite sex positions of the Wendigo tribe nestled in a PARENTHETICAL of some character describing how hot it is in the desert. And they talk that way when they’re ALL BY THEMSELVES. Like…BRO…ain’t no one around to recruit you into their Shakespeare troupe…just say it’s hot..

When I say I'm reading arknight's story what I mean is I'm actually waiting for frostbyte262 recap video

Totally agreed. When I take my phone on my toilet break, it's to tower defense, not to read a novel with only pompous dialogues. As you say though, the story and settings are amazing. Too bad they can't make the cutscenes 2 minutes instead of 20.

Doctor: I just put down a mentally ill child that turned into a giant bird, I'm broken. Kal'tsit: the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for mankind... Doctor: bruh.

Now I really want a video about the writing off oripathy from the story part. I remember asking my friend so... what happened to this mortal disease that is killing almost all the AK characters? I never see anyone talk about it anymore. And he just said 🤷‍♂

I feel you. The writing can be super complex or just become a wall of exposition. Chapter 8 and Near Light is probably guilty of this. Reading the whole story cutscenes word for word would take about over 8 feckin hours. I would appreciate it more if the cutscenes takes about 3-4 hours. That way it won't be too long yet not too short. For example, A Flurry to Flame. I had a good time reading the story and it did not took me at the end of the event to finish it.

Arknights' story is like novel, there are nuance within the words. The long way to describe something give a flavor to the whole narrative. Also in term of why everything doesn't change in the end of story, I think it because of realism. You cannot easily solved huge problem in short amount of time. There is a change, mostly change in term of character perception or growth rather than geopolitical sense. Yes, of course there is event that serve as intermediate before the real big event. Also most event serve as a world building rather than typical western fiction (problem -> action -> solution). Why the mood in arknights seems changing within every event both in game or out game, it is because every event is only a minuscule level of conflict/area. Just like a slice of life, we zoom in to see small movement within specific era and place. Arknights' world is not just a post-apocalyptic depressed world. There are major city which seems like nothing bad happened there, just like our world right now. We see for example america or any country in europe, asia, etc, in a macro scale their city is massive so much skyscraper and technology advancement everywhere. But, if we see on micro scale there is conflict between people, government, politic, poverty, etc. That's why I think arknights doing a great job make a realistic world building (of course with sprinkle of fantasy to spice things up). In the end, it is our own choice whether we read the story or not. Also it is true there are some story in the event that feels bad writing/setup/translation/etc. It is not a perfect game, but it is doing a great job. If you want to see some best story in gacha, I think lostbelt 6 in FGO and volume F (well you need to read previous volume to understand better) in blue archive are my most favourite story.

I stopped reading the story when cutscenes started to take more than 10 minutes of reading. On a 30 minute break at work I do not have time to read a 45 minute cutscene. But it is also kinda funny that these enormous story elements can be broken down into 5 sentences afterwards.

6:15 about everyone bein' phylosophers I started noticin' it a lot more when changin' their voices to english and just gettin' annoyed at Flametail and Saileach. They just wont stop talkin'...

I love the fact that there is at lest ONE you tuber that criticizes the game he plays, and dont idolizing it, thak u italian man

serious comment here: I believe the subject is better dealt as a case to case basis. I've noticed myself that the writing's quality differs a lot depending on the side story or event, even though it doesn't make sense since it's the same team. For example, the main story absolutely sucks dog ass and cock & balls, and so do most of the side stories (ex: kazimierz, every sui event). But once in a blue moon, you somehow get the most kino cinematic piece of literature that just makes you want to applaud and cry. I don't know why that happens, but i can definitely remember that feeling when i finished darknights, under tide and il siracusano. I personally despise bad writing and always skip through the stories, but for those specific events i actually managed to sit through them. I don't know what causes this, maybe they export it to the same guy that did the worldbuilding. Though; i do have one theory: The man that wrote those few competent stories is actually the same guy who wrote LAPPLAND. When you think about it, the only person who would even be able to save arknights writing could only be indeed the person who wrote the BEST CHARACTER IN THE GAME. to create a character as masterfully subtle and deep as LAPPLAND, you'd have to be the second coming of dostoyeski, you'd need an innate talent for literature, you'd need to be THAT GUY. it doesn't come to a surprise that such a connaisseur of the medium would be led to creating such a great character, and such great drama to enrich and accompany it. When i see this individuals work, and when i lay my eyes on the beautiful art (mostly lappland) that he conceived with his bare hands, i cannot help but shed a tear. To top that, i can only say one thing: Bravo vince

I think the bigger problem is AK is like one of those people that like to hear themselves talk. Like the RA "tutorial" blonde dude spent so much time talking but very little explaining the god damn mode. Then there are things like the Chapter 12 boss, Isometric Fragments. It's just a Clone. There saved them 12 letters and a space.

Fellow Gummy maxer, and story enjoyer here; I agree with everything completely 👍 I think a huge issue, at least for the "nothing happens" point, is how hard they push events rather than the main story. Early on it felt like the events were just there to introduce you to the world, so obviously nothing would happen, it's a side story. but now events feel like the main focus of the game and they hardly promote it when a new main chapter drops :/ As for the game taking itself too seriously, I agree but I actually like it, it's what i expect from Arknights. The stuff they say makes for good out of context schizo messages to send on discord at 5am

i am begging for more fun and less serious side events like Great Chief Returns and Code of Brawl because honestly those end up being a lot more enjoyable to read in-game rather than reading the wiki summary

I would say the at least 60% of the problems stated in the video is caused by the bad translation and the original story being written in Chinese. I read the story in Chinese and often time I find most lines worth thinking through and not many lines are really a waste. And I do agree to the point about some event story doesn’t cause any changes or are there to set up a future story, events such as “Maria nearl, undertide, where the firelight cast, darknight memoirs, an obscure wanderer, Mansfield break, and guiding ahead” are all events that set up the next story, but i believe these events did a good job establishing the context for what is going to happen next and introducing some of the important characters in a way that’s not too sudden or abrupt. And I want to mention that I don’t think guiding ahead is that worthless as you stated, yes practicality nothing was changed about the “stop racism in Laterano” matter, but people like andoain and Cecilia showed up, they are definitely people that could make a change in the laterano situation, so I think the event served well in presenting the current laterano and a possibility for change. Also, I think that some events are not really talking about the big picture, but mainly about the characters(including characters that we can pull) in the story, and I think HG did a good job on portraying these characters with their story and writing. Anyway, I’m not trying to slander you for your opinions, this video have made me rethink about my experiences reading the stories and I want to share my thoughts out loud. Cheers

8:56 this is good, since in arknights all the events are replayable eventually unlike genshin when it is lost forever

I am so NOT SURPRISED the Italian dude has chosen the Laterano as an example. Also, awesome video with which I agree, but as an experiment I pressed dislike

I've been saying this about the AK writing since it started but boy did it get BAD around chapter 8 or 9 IIRC.. Walk in the Dust event was the worst example of this and pretentious fans would just say, "Hurr durr you're just not sophisticated enough to understand the story." I've stopped reading anything from AK after that. I'm just glad that I think more people are starting to realize how bad the writing is, I'm glad you're bringing this to light. In any case, you want to know a where the story/plot is meh or silly but the writing so good? Nikke. Honestly, their conversations are so amusing sometimes that it's usually a blast to read through the events.

Nah, I agree with you SUPAH, I'm kind of wondering why everytime we go anywhere the story ends up with some group of infected being created and then radicalized... every... effing... time... Misha (brother died, she decided radicalization was the answer) Patriot (had Amiya allergy) FrostNova (Patriot), Guard (NPC) (f@(% him), Nine (decided that Lungmen was not worth it), Allerdale (well... shit), Cador (sure why not) and not mention all the ones in events that usually end up with hey we should join/form a radical group.

I still prefer GFL story over AK story overall. It's just too many narrations and not enough showing what is actually happening. Even when they are speaking, it seems they just say encrypted dialogue to each other and something that can be easily missed if you dont pause and read it more than once. Even the mini stories have that much dialogue and it's just tedious to read overall.

I actually agree with almost everything you said except guiding ahead. For me it showed the start of the changes that are going to happen in laterano with the hybrid girl. Will they actually do something with it in the future? Who knows lol

My recommendation for someone starting Arknights is: Skip the story and watch the anime until at least Frostnova appears, which is when the story takes a leap in quality, but if you don't have time to read an entire essay between stages, just watch the anime and enjoy the gameplay.

So I guess I have to come to the defense of Guiding Ahead. It does suffer from the issue that many events do, if being fundamentally a set up for a later event, but we have to keep a few things in mind: Racism isn’t solved in a day, and that the event was really much more about setting up the Sankta/Sarkaz conflict, which they did so in a way that reminded me a bit Darmok. Not in that they did a retelling of Gilgamesh, but that they laid out the information for the audience to piece together before the characters. I’d argue it’s biggest foible was showing its hand too soon.

9:00 Ideal City comes to mind. Characters do jack shit the entire event, then quickly wrap things up in like last 2 stages and suddenly all the durins are now coming out to the surface to build gundam mechs and shit with lizards somewhere in brazil. We're getting a follow-up event 100% on that.

Imagine for no english native speakers who try to get into the lore by reading everything... No you can't imagine.

Hello, a Visual Novel lover and a person who LOVES precisely Arknights writing here. So let me write my own opinion, which happens to be a direct opposite. I love Arknights writing. The only other soshage that managed to invest me in it's story is FGO, but that's for another topic i'll only mention slightly here. Arknights writing is deeply narrative, it’s meant to be read like a book, not watched like a movie. And here's when the words help, they help you soak into the atmosphere and the rhythm of this world. You hate Guide Ahead, I felt chills reading about Cecilia ringing the bell. Yes, some of Kastchei's Chapter 8 monologue is a bit much, but the scene where Talulah carries Alina's burning body lets you feel the agony, and the scene where Talulah's adoptive parents get killed made my cry because it felt so close to the reality of my own country. Severin dreaming of his son as a collosus upholding a city in Wolumonde is some of the most beautiful pieces of game narration to me. The way "She is a monster. But she is a monster he created" loops around for Lapp's dad in Il Siracusano. Irene's fight vs the Endspeaker made me almost scream from how cool it was. The epicness and sadness of the battle between Chongyue and Waai Fu's dad. Et cetera, et cetera, I'm sure story invested people all have their own favorite moments. But all of that isn't story, it's _writing_. And they _do_ put effort into it. And for Arknights, more words did GOOD. They helped to set up the atmosphere, to write out the stories instead of fumbling them like in Year 1. We went from Siesta where all interesting stuff ends as soon as you get invested, to Near Light where we're allowed to see the agenda and philosophy of every actor on the scene and savour in their moments of doubt and triumph. Character speech: I agree the character accent isn't too varied, but the personalities are distinct enough. You won't mistake Mlynar for Blemishine. And I just love the flowery way Mr. Nothing speaks, it brings me enjoyment from every line of his. Did you know he's a very book-ish person, being into literature to polish his mind alongside his martial artist body? Note: Platinum should be from a pretty well-off family, by the way, being a pegasi and getting to be a semi-popular competition knight right after graduation. Status quo: the world of Arknights hasn't changed significantly, but there's also no way it would with the size of social problems Arknights is exploring. It's stuff that often doesn't have an answer even in real life, the characters just poof and resolving it would feel quick and unfair. Chen can't change the way Bolivar profits from war in one water gun shot, but together with the reader she realizes the existence of the problem and invites the reader to ponder it with her for the future. Guide Ahead isn't a story about Laterano changing, it's a story about how Fiammetta and Andoain carry themselves in this society. Sorry for the overly big comparison from a whole different league than a mobile game, but to pick a clear example: all that happened in "Crime and Punishment" was that one guy killed an old lady, thought about it a lot, talked with some people and decided to confess. Does that make it a bad book? Finally, joke events. Unpopular opinion, but... It's a good thing Arknights doesn't have them. That's when my FGO comparison comes in and also the reason why I'm currently invested in Arknights stronger than I am in FGO. FGO filling 80% of the years with joke events that not only bring nothing to the table, but also flanderize the already existing character arcs killed the enjoyment from the game to make it worth to login only twice a year when a main story chapter drops. If Arknights followed that path, it would be incredibly easy to slip into stuff like Pramanix and Silverash having "funny" family squabble when it would ruin the gravity of their actual conflict (see Mordred and Artoria in FGO falling into that trap. Tragic. Or Lostbelt kings not giving af about the heroes destroying their whole world because we go to the beach, yay). It's a matter of personal taste, but extra stuff like the official Rhodes 123 comics has good humor and I think having that humour in extra stuff is just enough. The game story has it's own share of funny moments or just characters pinching one another in a way that makes you give a small laughter. Try Code of Brawl, maybe. To end this long comment, "writing is bad" is actually a very popular take to parrot around in the Arknights fandom, and while I think it's a great thing to argue about, all I wish and advise is for people to make their own opinions by themselves. Read a few stories that don't come from Year 1 (Year 1 Arknights writing _is_ worse compared to the following) and see for yourself if you like it or not. My personal recommendations would be the Iberia arc (Under Tides + Stultifera Navis), Kazimierz arc (Maria Nearl -> Pinus Sylvestris -> Near Light), Sui events with the exception of Invitation to Wine (that one was nothing burger, alright), and Break the Ice. Main story is all good from Chapter 7-8 and forward, though a bit less dynamic in Chapter 10. Thank you for reading this long text from a person who loves Arknights long texts. P. S. Kal'tsit speech is the dumbest meme the community ever had after the bloodline meme, what she says is pretty easy to understand if you think like 5 seconds on what she's saying.

I read the story up to nearing the end of chapter 8. At that point I was nearing my limit of how much Kal'tsit's cryptic poetry bs I can endure. Then I found out that there are alternate endings, I gave up. Holy shit I can see the story they're trying to tell but good god it's fucking hell to read. It's also doesn't help that the VN presentation is also below average compared to an old game like freaking FGO.

OMG yes, someone finally said it. I only read nearl's alter event because I'm a nearl simp, but the text in these events is too damn long. It was like reading a friggin book. So much time between playing stages...

🧱 here are the bricks you requested, Supah Arknights

You can spent almost 2 hour to read and understanding wtf is happening but sometime you don't really understand at all if you don't read another story. Reading Sultifera Navis is painfully confusing without reading Under tides and aegir/Iberian operator profile. Reading without voice in it just make it more worse. I fell asleep alot of time when reading the story especially chapter 9-10-11. Victoria arc is confusing & boring, if you don't read Darknights Memoir it become more worse.

As a story reader, i almost immediately stopped reading Arknights' story. Prologue: No problem, a bit long but still enjoyable Invitation to Wine (my first event): THREE HOURS JUST TO CLEAR THE FIRST LEVEL DUE TO READING THE STORY I was bored to death so quickly, so thankfully there's a summary included

Glad this is brought up, some of the WORST cases of this I've seen was with Break The Ice event, will say that the recent main story chapter have been slighly less bloated in my eyes but still can be improved lol.

Arknights story is sometimes feels like a college student essay assignment that look at how many word you use on that paper. You can write anything, even the bee movie script and who write the longest get A+. Thats what it feels like with ak story. Just the essense please

Currently reading academic texts. They read Like AK writing. On a serious note, I generally agree with the sentiment. So much cool shit, but it feels like I'm 10yr old discovering Minecraft Beta for the first time trying to mine Diamonds to just get to the point. I feel the game struggles a lot with many characters having identical 'voices' which I've found makes writing fanfictions quite difficult if I don't make more changes than I'd really like. I will disagree on the Laterano point, cause the story didn't feel like it was about changing the status quo; it was about setting up for the next event about what the Pope showed Andoain, and MAYBE the future of the half-breed girl (If she isn't just completely forgotten), and Exu's sister; plenty of stuff for a standard event. The whole status quo thing felt like the C plot that pushes the A and B plots towards THEIR conclusions, which is fine IMO. This reminds me of an old project I shelved, where I'd planned to go through and re-write the entirety of Fire Emblem Fates, because of how all around bad that was. Buuut that's another story.

As a friend of mine would say: "Mucho texto"

God, I love Arknights writing. It's so pedantic, and so completely out of tune with this genre. Gacha players love them some story, but only in small doses. Being a massive bibliophile, I find myself absolutely amazed that I get to enjoy this absolutely excessive amount of writing in each event. Arknights isn't even using the narration style of traditional literature. It's a goddamn visual novel, so of course there's no need to describe in excessive detail how much weight W's put on because of the Rhodes Island cafeteria, or how much shit she could eat with that damn huge grin. But it doesn't take that as an opportunity to cut down on the word count, and the writers gleefully embrace their inner nerd and turn that energy into a glut of character dialogue. Thank you, SUPAH. I agree with practically every point in this video, but all you've done is made me more excited to read Lonetrail. And thank you, Lowlight. I'm so glad you've kept Arknights the way it is- the only gacha game I've tried that wasn't for illiterate teens or adults who sleep an average of 5 hours daily.

I also hate it when 2 random completely unrelated nameless character started rambling shit, goes political, and are just talking about complete fucking nonsense. Like why the hell do I need to know this information? And I'm really stretching the definition of information here.

It's amazing how unenjoyable AK's story is. The thing is most gachanerds aren't even looking for Texhnolyze or Patlabor 2 level writing in their vidya, they just want it to be FUN. Look at FGO or BA or whatever, sure you'd look retarded comparing it to novels like 100 years of Solitude or The Idiot, but they actually manage to be entertaining since they're leaning into otaku aesthetics and being sincere about it. HG meanwhile are incredibly pretentious with their writing, trying to make the AK story out to be deeper or more profound than it actually is when they don't actually have the writing chops to pull it off. So you get a product that satisfies noone.

I dont complain about AK stories when i don't even read it in the first place.

I can't agree more I geniuenly want to read all of the operator records that i got, but I CAN'T BE BOTHERED to read them, because I know that even a single Eya record might be an hour long endevour, especially if i have to stop to every few sentences to make something out of the word mush thrown into my face

The constant cycle of of >new event starts >promise myself I need to read it all this time >Oh no my sanity is coming back too fast because actually reading the story takes too long >I'll just skip ahead to dump sanity on the high efficiency stages >bu-but i'll come back to read it >never come back to read any off it how do i escape? Also why is it that watching the story on youtube as a 2-4 video a better experience because you can speed it up and actually skip through dialogue line as you read them? Why do they keep shoving 50,000 words into the absolute worst user experience for reading.

fax my brother spit yo shit indeed!

i feel great disappointment when supah talks about throwing bricks through windows and proceeds to not demonstrate

I believe there is one more reason why reading AK story can be boring and tiring. Unlike every other VN and gacha game, you cannot customize the TEXT SPEED. It's so annoying when I want the text to flow faster but I can't. Especially when you are reading text for 10 hours. It boggles my mind that we still don't have that option.

"if the status quo doesn't change then nothing happens" oh my god read a fucking book lmaooo

11:16 Wait, I actually understand bro point, for example is that I once all hype up like "damn it been 1 year since I read chapter 8 of the main story, I should go read chapter 9,10" then I ACTUALLY SPEND 3DAYS to read chapter 9,10 and yea just as you said, I really feel like my soul being suck out of my balls, the story is great but it cost me so much time that I FEEL REAL LAZYYYYYYYYYY to pack up my ass and choose read the next side story/ main story to read You can either go watch Frostbyte summary for 20mins or spend 3 days reading Guild Ahead event just to saw Fia profanity line

8:36 I was actually blown away when I saw them actually reference the events of Dorothy’s vision in this new rhine lab space event. I guess WITHIN EVENTS they sometimes have continuity

Bruh, this is so true. I'm not native english speaker, so I thought that it was my skill issue, but then I tried to read story in other gacha games and, oh my God, Jesus Christ, that was so easy. I absolutely love lore and wordlbuilding in Arknights, but goddamit, it's so hard and kinda boring to read for me) And I'm too lazy for that ofc

perfect for deep understanding the concept of English

I agree that the writers tend to write tons of bullshit to say anything on a misguided effort to sound deep and smart. But I also think some criticism here is exaggerated, mostly the claim that "nothing happens" us 40K fans are used to this type of writing, Arknights prioritizes building up a setting for stories rather than following up storylines. the purpose of events like Guide Ahead is to show you pieces of the world, with their races, culture and struggles. And still, Guide ahead ends with the founding of the Terra United Nations, that is not nothing. In fact the story of Guide Ahead is not about changing the Status Quo, it's about preserving it, that's why the guy trying to change the status quo is the "bad guy" of the event. Laterano changes, you destroy one of the only decent places in Arknights, Laterano stays the same, it can help the rest of the world get better slowly, that was the pope's point. But of course, Supah has admitted to be a "too much text" guy, he wouldn't know about that.

I don't read the story I just listen to recaps on KZfaq. No recap then I just don't bother xD

How could this be called, then? Over setting up syndrome?

The thing is, when the story is good I don’t mind the length of the writing. But, if it’s something I don’t give a crap about, then it’s complete slog for me. I love Under Tides, II Siracusano, Near Light, Guide Ahead, etc. It’s hard for me to pay attention to the main story generally. Sometimes I really like Kal’s monologues, and others I just wish she’d wrap this up quick and move on. I guess it’s more of my ADHD brain talking more than anything.

I like that a lot people are like "yeah i stopped reading story way back but story bad." I can understand not having time or simply not wanting to read but then why are people making judgments and criticisms of things they haven't read?

Honestly you make such good points here. The main reason why I stopped reading the main story and the event stories and always skipped them is because the stories tend to go on WAYYY longer than they need to be, a lot of the time for no reason. It's like I'm reading novels as long as the Divergent trilogy. I really love the story/plot of Arknights, the concepts and lore, the aesthetic, and all that good stuff, but the writing in this game is far too tedious to read to the point where I skipped it all and would just read a summary from the wiki. I don't mind reading stories for my ultimate fave operators, but other than that, I only have 24 hours in a day, I'm a tired college student, I'm not spending 4-5 hours reading all that.

Just going to come in here and say that part of the fault of the writing may actually be the translation team's fault, not the writing team. Mandarin is a bitch to translate, and although I haven't looked at the CN transcripts, I can imagine from just how verbose Kal'tsit's lines are that she likely uses very archaic Mandarin. It isn't that bad to read in CN, given the writing structure, but it's very hard to convey the nuances in the languages in English without turning into word salad, or just simplifying everything.

Man i love entering one single fucking stage and being blasted with a whole hour of dialogue.

The writers need to spend less time waxing philosophical and more time describing what actually happens. It's like they have this allergic reaction to stage directions; everything needs to be through dialogue or through 60-line analogies. By the time you're halfway through a scene, your eyes are too glazed over from reading the 999th metaphor for oppression to process what actually, and >physically

couldn't have said it better, thank you

Kashchey be like hold up brother let me recite the entire internet

Maybe Arknights' writing is bad, but to SUPAH, Gummy's (and only Gummy's) Lore is his sacred writing.

"At the end of an Arknight cut-scene you feel drained of your life force." Quoted for truth. And that's when they're good, otherwise I also feel annoyed to have wasted my time reading the same nothing repeated over and over.

Almost at end of chapter 8 with Khalsit and you in front of the Sarcophagus, there was so much text of her talking that I forgot Rosmontis is out there fighting a though battle WHILE WE ARE RUSHING to stop a moving city

i've honestly read like 3 stories in arknights FEater, Ling and the whole MH event boy that MH event reading was draining

That is why we need Supah's sketch

this whole video describe my feelings perfectly. really like the story, but the writing just make me wanna fall asleep in the middle of traffic. i used to tolerate it, but for these past few events, with my time being taken a lot more now that i am starting college, the story summary videos have been my go to.

I actually read the whole story while clearing the stages, and while i love the lore, its sometimes really tiring to play nd read the story of two stages in like 2 hours

Thing is, Arknights story in-game is structured like a novel/similar to one, so while I'm interested in the story, i often don't have time to sit through and read like 1-2 pages worth of dialog just to advance 1 stage. It also doesn't help that my job involves reading multiple books/novels MULTIPLE TIMES back to back. Guess that's why despite being lvl90 im still at ch3 in the main story. Best thing to do is just treat it like a novel. Skip to stages if you just want to play, and read when you're on a bus/train or bored in general.

That one CG of Emperor goes HARD 🔥🔥🔥 anyways good video, and as some other comment said Arknights writing issues are better discussed on a case by case basis. Also issue#2 makes more sense when the story is more character driven than plot driven, in which case you can justify Guiding Ahead keeping it's status quo The writing is still spectacularly bad except some times where you wonder if it's the same guys cooking, and as long as they don't do something about it, (LIKE LETTING THAT ONE GOOD WRITER COOK MORE) well this video will remain a true arknights story moment

I already give up reading story within the game and just watch Frostbyte video

I’ve played this game for a year and I’ve pretty much skipped all the ‘story’ visual novel bits. Arknights presents a very deep and diverse world but the way it expects you to be engaged besides gameplay is so shallow and tedious. I know it’s a tower defence game so there’s not much you can do with the presentation. I’m just glad that there’s an actual anime that does a better job of showing this world.

Like you said the biggest thing I HATE about the writing is the amount of time I have to read. Reading a node with 15-20 minutes worth of words and it not being important or I could just summarize in 1 to 2 sentences is what made me stop at chapter 9 and just skipped everything and wait for the story summary videos

Indeed, the writing is a lot of times unneccesarily complicated and long ass and a lot of people hate that lul. But I have to give claps to the writing team for being so consistent basically throughout the game with their lores and ideas. Eventhough the writing is a mess to read, the ideas still get through surprisingly really well and comprehensible if you sum it up lmao. I have a lot of stories with really good writing and ways to express the idea but the inconsistencies and lores just totally ruin the story. The characters just basically contradict themselves but AK I see very little of that. Also the main reason I believe this happen is because HG cares more about expanding its world and interactions between characters and groups more than actual readable dialouges. From what I have seen recently, they have toned down the wording and shits a lot more ever since after the 3rd anniversary. The lastest chap 13 and 12 are much more readable. A conversation between Eblana and the Damatzi cluster actually feels threatening and serious because they go directly into the point and not talk philosophical. More recent events after chap Dorothy Vision has been more readable to me too. Another evidence of that they have learnt to tone down a bit I think is with the AK anime. They have reduced a lot of unncessary dialouges and wordings which a lot of VN and LN suffer from when adapting them. Its hard to believe the people managing the anime is the same team that writes the AK story so yes they def have learnt something. Also the Blackhole thing is a bit of an exaggeration, they say that but if they actually care about physics, it will actually take a few couple of millions of years for a blackhole to swallow something orbitting it. By that time I hardly doubt that the planet Terra even has anything left on it. The Blackhole thing is more like of a drama shock factor in the story rather than something to actually worry about/

Well damn no wonder i struggle to pay attention to the games cutscenes and feel like im going through sensory deprivation when im going through them

Someone finally said it, ofc I don't make content for this game so I gave up reading at "too many words before and after a stage" but it's interesting to know that none of the reading mattered because none of it changed anything. However, I did read the great chief story and liked it

I wholeheartly agree with the writing is too long and not only it too long most of the time it is kinda boring so I stop reading it and choose to read only some fun looking event like the Nian, Gavial Great chief and some summer event. Beside that I mostly skip it all the time and I feels kinda bad about it because I want to know more about AK story both event and Mainstory but I gave up since EP4 because the amount of text that only matter like almost at the end of the chapter. Good thing tho AK is fun to play even you don't read anything about this game and right now I think i'm fine with it.