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/Crazyscorpion77 Azur Lane/Nikke Apr 18 '26

Covered in CCP government warnings

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u/Charity1t Apr 18 '26

HI3rd still kinda obscure since main games of MHY aren't it.

And it still has nothing compared to GGZ.

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u/Saint_Pootis Apr 19 '26

To this day, based on Google Trends, Honkai Impact 3rd barely gets over a couple, as in %1-2, of global engagement compared to Genshin Impact.

It's sad because so much of that game's story and characters are fantastic enough to get a stretchered out, worse retelling in their following games, turning a 8 hour main story arc into a 54 hour story.

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u/planetarial P5X(KR)/IN/Prosekai(JP) Future: Petit Planet/Silent Whispers Apr 19 '26

HI3s story and characters are that good enough that someone like me who normally prefers men enjoyed playing through the story as a single player like experience (since the game gives you premade trial characters for it)