r/gachagaming • u/ferinsy 🍎 夜幕之下 🐺 • Apr 18 '26

General Small drama afternoon: people are just now discovering that NTE's dating system only allows you to date women (making it probably the first Chinese yuri gacha)

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It's been known in China for a while, since the last beta (in February), but just today a video by iYatoOfficial is getting viral on Twitter and lots of posts gathering over 100k likes in total have brought it to the general public's attention that in NTE you can't date men, but you can date women as female MC.

It's actually a bit of a flirty friendship, but very clearly intended to be seen as dating since the interactions are a bit too intimate. You can set up to 5 girls to date.

While it flew over my head in February (even thought I often browse xhs and bilibili) due to its neutral reception, the negative reception today is really hard to ignore bc it's everywhere if you follow any gacha fanpage, with several reposts and retweets bashing it (and a couple praising it as well).

This is making some people a bit bitter, specially because the info comes to the public attention a week after Mongil's announcement that they won't release more male characters after releasing the game with a small amount of them (https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/s/Fkub1W2Yyh).

Well, at least they aren't baiting their players into playing a game that only caters to male players (and bi/lesbian women, even if by accident and it ends up being patched in the future).

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Source: https://x.com/i/status/2045495647311433984

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u/nanahacress13 Apr 18 '26

For those bros playing as ladies, but also want more ladies

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u/Xarxyc GFL2, Morimens. Apr 18 '26

Playing FMC means having extra hot babe in the game.

The reason why I usually choose one. FRover is fucking hot, alright.

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u/V-nue Apr 18 '26

truth nuke

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u/ComradeToeKnee Wuwa / Genshin / Endfield Apr 18 '26

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u/RittoxRitto Apr 19 '26

Another good one is FCommander in GFL2, Have you seen how big that ass is in Crew Dock with the Summer Skin on ? Jesus christ.

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u/Terrible_Ad6495 Apr 19 '26

She puts that ass to good use too, apparently...

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u/Xarxyc GFL2, Morimens. Apr 19 '26

Of course, but Stopped using it after few days. Don't vibe with the idea of sexualising FSKK, as I quickly found out. Conflicts too much with their image.

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u/RittoxRitto Apr 19 '26

Weird, all things considered.. but you do you.

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u/mutei777 Apr 29 '26

when you're playing GFL2 the only intelligent being not sexualizing shikikan is you and maybe Mayling

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u/Xarxyc GFL2, Morimens. Apr 29 '26

Mayling is the GOAT. I am honoured that you put me on the same level as her.

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u/IzunaX Apr 18 '26

At least in that game you can swap between them.

I wish you could in the other popular gacha.

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u/internalhands Apr 19 '26

its such a minor feature thats pretty inconsiquential, why arent more gachas that have selectable genders letting us just switch whenever we want

star rail is another one thats fairly inconsiquential. genshin is the only one I can think where the gender you pick is story related

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u/IzunaX Apr 19 '26

You could maybe argue that ZZZ is also a little harder, seeing as both siblings have their parts in the stories, but just lemme download the files for both or something, idk.

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u/internalhands Apr 19 '26

They did make different cutscenes for each character with differing reactions, but havent played it long enough to remember

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u/DarkZenkichi Apr 19 '26

Certain char dialogues have different lines depending if you picked Belle or Wise. Plus from story perspective, the sibling you picked at the beginning of the game is the contractor of the AI Fairy, the other sibling is seen more like an assistant by the AI.

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u/IzunaX Apr 19 '26

They could have just made it so certain chapters, a different character is lead, that way it alternates, because in reality it doesn't feel like the choice of MC mattered too much

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u/Separate_Blueberry93 Apr 27 '26

TBF, in ZZZ it's not as hard to implement this switch as some may say, all files are in the game for both interractions, just make a disclamer that after the switch some minor references may be chnaged etc etc and allow players to do so, I picked Belle, and while she is cool, I do kinda want to switch to wise at times to be the Main character, but do not want to start all over XD

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u/ether_nigh Apr 19 '26

NGL i wish we could pick which proxy we want to play in the story, like they did it for the character invites but you stuck with the one you pick when progressing the story.

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u/jibbycanoe Apr 18 '26

Yeah I made my mistake with Aether. Been FMC ever since

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u/DanteVermillyon Apr 19 '26

God FRover is still the hottest character wuwa has

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u/NoNewPuritanism Apr 18 '26

Based. Idk why people, especially straight men that make up like 90% of the audience here, seethe so much about yuri sometimes. They say shit like the wokes ruined it, but like... really? Are you going to let cringe twitter bots ruin things you enjoy? Genuinely never got this line of reasoning, was never a problem back in the good ole days of JP gachas.

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u/RasenRendan Apr 19 '26

Truth nuke

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u/Pandelicia Apr 18 '26

More ladies per lady

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u/I_died_again Apr 18 '26

I'm a girl whose gonna play the female MC and love yuri. :D

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u/Monsi7 Endfield / FGO Apr 18 '26

I'm a bro, but I just love yuri.

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u/EnydOsnes Apr 19 '26

My twin frfr

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u/Ubrhelm May 08 '26

Yurichads, we eating good

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u/Crest_Of_Hylia Apr 18 '26

I typically play as the female MC so this is great. I just like Yuri

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u/Mortgage-Present This is a cry for help Apr 18 '26

Hell yeah

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u/Kinoris Apr 18 '26

Literally me

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u/peenSuperLoser Apr 18 '26

yuri action. ilost

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u/TheSpirit2k Apr 18 '26

I always picked female MC cause yeah one more waifu but Gathering Wives and ZZZ feels like male MC is the way since I’m not into yuri…

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u/avelineaurora AK|AL|BA|CZN|EF|EX|HBR|HSR|LC|N|NTE|PtN|R99|SS|TC|WW|ZZZ Apr 18 '26

Lil bro really forgot lesbians exist...

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u/NoNewPuritanism Apr 19 '26

Ehh, just being realistic, lesbians are likely less than .5% of the gacha audience tbh. I see a lot of seethe about yuri online by men, but in person when I talk to people who play gachas they generally like it, and I don't even have a particularly progressive friend group.

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u/rzrmaster FGO / Nikke Apr 18 '26

Pretty much. Still need to decide if Im getting the dude or gal lols.