Gonna need y'all to lock in and realise Valko isn't the problem here, he's the unfortunate sacrifice made to distract from other problems
It almost feels like they introduced him and then axed him on purpose to get us all talking abt anything other than the matter at hand
They don't gaf abt the main story, they don't. Since they became so massively profitable OF COURSE they ignore the free content and reduce ways to grind without paying
They make you wait a long time and then the main story feels like a banner story shoved in there, no consistency, cohesion, no NEUTRALITY either
As a Raf main, the ending of his last branch bothered the crap out of me
It felt like a myth sequel, with emotion and grief not befitting of a supposedly neutral main plot, where MC doesn't pick and choose. The way it read makes it INSULTING that they claim it's a main story branch because of how significant to the two of them they made it. It is also ESSENTIAL to read his myths for the plot to matter, even though they aren't supposed to be the same branch as the banner cards.
Does that mean they will pull the same nonsense for Caleb & Sylus now? The main story threads were never neutral imo but the last update crossed that line ENORMOUSLY, so if she has heartbreaking deep soul bond love in every chapter w another man what kind of story will that be?
Point blank, they made that in the beginning as a way to introduce the LIs and that's it.
Lack of cohesion and progress in the banners? Also crap. We got more reruns and AUs than anything of substance this year.
As a Raf main, I genuinely haven't felt anything was significant to pull for since his solo. I loved the AUs, but they add zero development to either the character or the relationship.
Then the skin lighting issue that they ignore, not updating any story aspect except the house, and now 4th MYTH IN JULY???
Speedrunning chaos in 2026
I feel genuinely bad for people who got attached to the new LI, but I am sorry to say that the way it's looking he was a distraction, an expensive one, if they wasted all that money on advertising, animation, mocap actors, VAs, artists, writers etc.
And no, I don't for one second believe the stuff they put in is so unacceptable from a CN GAME that they didn't know these references would be offensive in CN!! They did a smut banner two months ago and they play fast and loose w dodgy stuff all the time, come on now.
Either this situation is completely intentional or the billionaire company is full of morons who face no opposition.
I don't know which I prefer, but that's it.
If it's true, what I saw a CN girl post who worked there, that he was only pitched and pushed for at the start of 2026, it only proves my point he wasn't planned and was an idiot's idea to overshadow all the other problems.