Like any good hero, Wuyang, Overwatch 2's newest support set to make his debut in Season 18 later this month, needs a villain to challenge him. Unlike most heroes, that villain isn't a superpowered fiend. Wuyang's biggest foe is the guilt he feels over disappointing his parents — and the struggle to make a life he can be proud of anyway.
Who wrote this? Who thought this was a good idea to release??? God, it’s like an injection of 100% pure millennial cringe straight to the veins.
These people are out of touch and have forgotten what makes a good hero. This is pathetic.
Yeah, this screams ‘Self-insert’ to me. Like, the one were you let out all your frustration and unresolved conflict.
Self-inserts aren’t necessarily bad. What makes them bad is warping and messing up world-building and/or lore when desperately trying to fit the character in.
Exhibit A is, as always, Kiriko.
There is literally nothing wrong with a story like that.
Like seriously what is inherently bad about a story like this? Not every character has to have some traumatic convoluted back story to be a good character.
There is something wrong with spelling it out for people like that. If he’s relatable, let us figure it out through our exposure to him. Don’t tell us immediately how we should relate to him in an announcement of all things. That’s the cringe part to me, at least.
I guess but how are they supposed to do that if they aren’t focusing too much on lore at the moment? If they didn’t mention it you probably would be saying he’s bland and has no story.
I mean at least it’s not Reaper levels of cringe. Literally still waiting for that awful Torb/Reaper interaction to be removed. Reaper loud breathing into the mic like some angry teen in a video game voice chat still makes me wish they’d kill off Reaper.
I’m cool with Wuyang’s story, though I didn’t really need his inner/family issues spelled out in a statement like that though. I can agree with that, but it’s also pretty minimal unlike voiced out interactions in lobbies I got to listen to. Kiriko and Reaper could use a sock in the mouth.
And by mentioning it, it doesn’t make him any less bland and it doesn’t provide any better of a story. “Show, don’t tell” exists for this reason. Bad writers can’t figure out how to do that, so instead they just shove the exposition/character’s thoughts in your face (like they did in Wuyangs comic) with 0 creativity. It’s slop.
Reaper is a nuanced character. If you think one bad voiceline should result in terminating the character, I don’t know what to tell you.
Also, that interaction is based on Reaper’s constant state of suffering. He can’t control the fact that he’s in constant pain. So when Torb tells him to “breath quieter,” Reaper responds how you’d expect him to when someone’s pushing his buttons.
He’s meant to be unapologetic.
Reaper has significantly less voicelines than Kiriko and Ana. They’re not even in the same ball park.
“I am a hero looking for a villain because I am good”
Yes there is. Its called bad characterization. How noble, he must prove himself and go out and find a villain. In a world with plenty of reasons and villains this is the best they could come up with. Its not even engaging or inspiring. If you isolated the story it could would, but still a big IF. If you don’t think this is bad your just as much of a millennia as blizz.
Hey I agree. Show don’t tell your audience. Maybe if there was a short story to prove it better I would agree. but how else are they supposed to show it? They clearly not interested in writing a short story for the character (at least not yet) so this is the only way so far.
But isn’t that the point of the short introductory comic there’s only so much you can get out of 10 pages. I feel like this is something that have been doing since hazards comic. It’s just a small backstory about the character.
Have you seen the collabs? The don’t scream zoomer to me. They appeal to millennials.
“Like any good hero” Wow he has to prove himself because Asian parenting. Literally screams millennial devs read a few twitter stories and put it in there game. Wow hes a good person from a hard place looking to fight the good fight. WOW THATS RELATABLE (not because we read about asian parenting on twitter of course).
