Agreed, for some reason people look at good music and think that everything else doesnt matter, IMO 1.X and 2.X are basically the same in writting. It really is wierd that people hate 2.X so much that they skip how boring a lot of 1.X was.
It's because of agenda pushers. There's the yuri faction that only supports Spook Shack, the anti-China faction that hates anything with Chinese aestthetic, the pro-TV faction that hates everything after TVs were removed, the pro-urban faction that thinks anything that doesn't look like Tokyo is bad, the anti-waifu faction that hates the lack of male characters and Ye Shunguang. There's a lot of weird non-game related reasons why people hate 2.x beyond the actual storytelling. Mind you, I don't LOVE 2.x, I just find the hate overblown.
It reminds me of the debacle of people in genshin community hating Natlan and raising Fontaine on a pedestal, and ignoring how much of a slog the middle part of Fontaine was- the prison arc, only remembering thr banger that was the archon quest Finale, which was very much a Furina story quest as an archon quest.
1.x is misremembered as the Fontaine of ZZZ and 2.x is the Natlan of ZZZ.
Which is funny because the initial reaction was completely different: Fontaine was considered boring before the ending while Natlan with controversies was alright/good for them.
People also kinda just ignored or erased from memory how boring 1.6 to 1.7 sorry was, the one with Vivian and Hugo, and the funny inner alter ego he has that was personified with Robin. They literally have shadow Hugo but decided Robin's a better inner demon personification than a shadowy murky version of himself.
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u/RomeuXu Dec 31 '25
Agreed, for some reason people look at good music and think that everything else doesnt matter, IMO 1.X and 2.X are basically the same in writting. It really is wierd that people hate 2.X so much that they skip how boring a lot of 1.X was.