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ToT is the only Hoyo game I've never played. I had no idea what it was about until I saw this video. Thank you!

Im a die hard Vyn fan and while I did stop playing a year ago, Im so glad there's enough traction in the game for this video to be a thing. I ADORE the gameplay of ToT so much and I love that they made Rosa her own thing while being a self-insert. There's so much thought put into the game and tbh after watching, despite the flaws I found with it, I really want to pick it up again!

Even people remember GGZ or honkai gauken litrealy forgot about tears of themis

still playing that game because i'm delusional and freaky... first otome game i play before love and deepspace

Another thing I really like about TOT are the mini events and how varied they can be. Like the flip & match events, the slide puzzle events (although i HATED those), the sudoku events (which funfact, actually taught me HOW to play sudoku), the cooking trials events with tabby the cat (who had its entrance through another mini event a few years ago where the cleaning robot goes missing!), and most recently the added number tile sliding events I also remember 3 years ago there was a halloween event where you harvest pumpkins! There’s a lot of types of games you can play through the mini events and the badges that come with some of them are also very fun to collect. I dont see too many people who talk about them though so I thought I’d leave this appreciation comment for them here

Still runs ads to this day *immediately inserts a ZZZ ad*

YIPPEEEEE FINALLY TOT CONTENT

That Rei commenter thing is so true- they even sometimes comment on my other posts even though they don’t play genshin! They seem so sweet!

I once proclaimed to have played all major hoyo games of the 2010’s and onward (HI3: still active, GI: still active, GGZ: servers shut down a while ago, ZZZ: ON BREAK, HSR: returning from break), but now I remember about ToT, like heard about it when it released, but I didn’t play it…EHE…no real eye catching combat like w/ HI3 or GI & ETC to hook me to a story BTW cuz I wanna through my opinions somewhere online, I won’t deny HI3 caters to the male players, but it also is totally for the lesbians ( bronya & seele: evidence is the official video by the HI3 channel azure waters, or Kiana & Mei for every reason: my fav quote “if saving you was a sin, I’d gladly become a sinner” (Raiden Mei 17.) like chapter 17 of course argue w/ me or not on it I love to hear peoples opinions

I may not be able to play as a male and turn it into yaoi, but i can pretend lol. Jokong aside though ive played otome games before and i like some of the ones I've played. Backstage pass is one of the stand out games for me. Its an otome visual novel with like 4 or 5 guys you can choose from it was cute tho

atlast tot have eng server and and receives patches, while GGZ stopped updating, after which they updated the global server 2 YEARS LATER, and a month later they announced the server's closure.

I LOVE TOT It was sort of popular when it first came out because it was during the boom of Genshin, but it never really stuck 😔

Guys I haven’t played since spring 2022 or idk there was some summer event with an island and the only question I’ve had since then is did Luke die? 😭😭(😂) it’s been 3 years

I'm so happy someone is talking about this game!! And I feel u, as a Luke enjoyer I only roll when his banners come out, so I save my pulls until then. BUT STILL 5star standard cards ruin my motivation! Because, why do I need to make effort in saving in each event when it's not garanteed and I can receive the same Vyn card each time!!! 😭😭 (Not hate on Vyn but his standard card comes so much lol)

the game looks taler made for me, cause i like it all, i just wish the MC can be male, i like BL otome, or like Obey me, where the MC is non binary, i find it hard to get into the female character role, cause its very different dynamic between gay and straight relationships

is this where all of the hyv husbandos went

The fact that there’s not more otome type content in America when we’re totally capable of writing women’s content is criminal!

impossible tot in my youtube fyp

as soon as i saw the thumbnail i knew it was luke LMFAOO

Obviously not Genshin. 💀 Genshin is their most important and popular game. The reason no one knows about it is because it is a dating sim/visual novel game that is targeted at women. There's not really a lot of money to be made on dating sims aimed at women (aimed at men it depends, there is definitely more of a market there), there's a reason HI3 (tbf HI3 isn't a dating sim these days but it was initially created as one in a way, lol) caught on and ToT didn't. Most women just don't spend that much on video games, or play them for that matter. I don't play ToT, but I do play another Chinese dating sim/visual novel type game and although there are some whales there and the game has its own fandom/subreddit/etc., no one's really heard of it pretty much anywhere else. That's just how it is. You can even look to Genshin itself tbh. The biggest banners outside of pure meta (Neuvillette and Kazuha) are all female characters that have sexy designs. That's why you rarely see male characters, women just aren't willing to whale as much as men are, on average, and there are fewer female players as a whole so fewer female whales than male ones, and yes most people are heterosexual, so it is reasonable to assume the vast majority of people interested in female characters to the point of whaling are men, and vice versa. Moreover, you can kinda tell with the quality of the animations in ToT that it was never meant to be a huge investment for Hoyo, more so dabbling with a female playerbase sample to see what kind of characters women respond to, and incorporate those archetypes into their other games. (We know they take feedback for one game and implement changes in another all the time, lol.) So, it's not that it's "forgotten," it's more like a side project. It was never their main thing and never will be, because the revenue isn't there to put much attention into it beyond collecting data to pump into characters for games with more even sex demographics (Genshin, HSR, although most players are still male, there are female players obviously), and hope to make money off that.

Tbh, I'd like that the TOT fanbase are smaller than other hoyo fanbases (not trying to gatekeep tho). I find more peace in the community, ngl 😭😭

Im happy to see any content being made of this game Since the silent nature of this game was making me wonder whats its all around I knew that ToT existed and was an otome game, but theres litteraly no videos made about it. I think that this game just would need some showcases, a viral video or two just to become popular, because gachas catered towards women dont have much competition, there is a reasson why one gacha catered like that was most selling one recently Other thing, ToT may be not that popular because it isnt that connected like Genshin, Hi3rd and HSR with each other Anyways Im happy to see that this game has any life, it would be a shame for it just go EoS Bcs one otome deserves to survive when 3 of their sisters are catered heavily towards men (GGZ, Hi3rd and ZZZ)

Well actually 🤓 the forgotten child is GGZ

I wish tot had cross overs in their other games, they could do it, they're doing the fantasy cards, so why not put those fantasy versions into hsr or smth, i think it's the most welcoming for the way the characters look and the way they tell stories, they could just make up some random isekai portal and there would be no issues, these people are about to shove in fate into hsr, come on, that could boost interest into tot and show players that it's a game that is not forgotten and is okay to start even today, also there has been moments where genshin lore is mentioned or shown in symbolism, very rarely.

TEARS OF THEMIS MENTIONED🔥🔥🔥 BANGER VIDEO

THEY FORGOT MY BLADE RERUN

I play this game too, along with Genshin, and it's fun seeing someone create a content on this. This is a gacha game where it is "nice" to build pity since most of the first 10 pulls on the current banner has discounts (like 8 tears for 10 cards). I do this most of the time with event banners like birthdays since pity on an ML bday banner will carry over to the next ML's bday banner. So not bad. Like as of date of writing this comment, Luke's 4th bday is running, and I only had to do 26 more pulls since I had built pity on the previous MLs. I had to forgo a lot of cards, since I am not spending much on this (i buy only the cheapest stuff there, like a dollar or 2, then that's it.). I have two biases, Luke and Artem so I mostly have their cards, but whenever there are event banners and they are running together, I have to choose one and that hurts. 🥲 There are some that I regret that I had to get because of FOMO, but meh, it's fine. As for the story itself, since it updates once in a while, I tend to forget what the previous arc was about. Good thing you can reread the story anytime (except for events).

I don't play ToT but I got recommended this vid, and I have to say for all the downsides you mentioned, none of them are specific to ToT but is rather how the joshimuke game industry runs as a whole. Short gacha/event times for the FOMO, stupid pity systems (I've played games where your pity resets for every single banner so Nothing carries over), and just all round predatory behavior is just. run of the mill in joshimuke games at this point. I think a comparison with Hoyo games is inevitable considering their shared developer but a comparison against other games with the same genre would really put this into perspective much better. Great video though!

To be honest i forgot about Tears of Themis that technically Luke is dead in my gameplay (cause I didnt play that far into the chapter for it to be revealed if he died or not).

you mentioned not leaving the video thinking the game is bad, but honestly, this video really made me want to play it! i'm an avid otome fan, and the only reason i haven't played is because of some card designs that are in...poor taste (but honestly, that comes with all hoyo games at all points, haha, natlan...) i definitely see myself trying this in the future!!! this was a great video

Clocking in here as a 1 Year old Player to the game. There *is* an advantage when it comes to farming S-chips & Tears (That's if HYV doesn't go guns blazing at certain ML girlies like what happened to Vyn Girlies with Last Dragonsbreath, Dazzling Night, SSS Missing You AND NOW Skate & Spin) You can relatively farm every week to say the least. i.e: Trials of Themis in 4 weeks = 1600 s-chips, Daily sign-ins round about to 350 - 500 (if RNG blesses us with a happy D.A.V.I.S), Every Daily Task = 900 chips, and for events you can get around 200 - 500 S-Chips (As of currently wit Luke's Birthday getting roughly 4 tears if you're not planning to pull for him, his puzzle gives around 300) Coming from an Artist side they're visually appealing & I think it can't combat to other Hyv games in term for quality & their design with culture of other countries (i.e Bakerlon being a more European AU & Enduring Light being a more throw back to the past of China). JPN VAs bay not be updated every now & then since Ch.11 it's still nonetheless to appreciate we have someone like FukuJun (Vyn's JPN) & Yuki Kaji (Luke's JPN) playing into their role & understanding them to a certain degree. The only downside it faces is indeed when Genshin for example dragged it to it's "Boycott" during the anniversary (Which let's be honest is the worst timing for them cause we were just grinding if not p2w-ing for the SSSs but also the giveaways in the anniversary), people also screeched for being Orientalist (Secrets of the Tomb event) when there's also other otome games who do that & don't get called out much for it either. If anything ToT's just been the quiet kid of the hyv family that gets less drama but more chill people, which is well appreciated for a small majority (And also a little more merciful with giveaways with the 10 tears or 1800 chips for possible winners).🧡❤💚💜

Oh man you have a bad luck for sure 💔 for me i got pretty lucky after i lost then win

I was a day 1 ToT player and managed to collect all the cards for my preferred love interest through judicious saving/planning until about a year ago, when I quit because the *second* top-up SSR for the character was released and I realized I no longer cared enough about the game to spend that much to get it, so my collection streak would be broken. It's such a scummy practice to have cards that can only be obtained by spending a minimum of $65 real-life dollars within a random, designated few weeks, especially when some people only get paid monthly. That was *before* the special SSS cards were released, which I'm given to understand were similarly scammy, although you could at least save up s-chips via gameplay instead of being *forced* to pay RL money for them. The game itself is fine and has decent QoL, the monetization system is just godawful compared to Hoyo's other gachas, which *especially* seems like a scam when you consider that you get all of a character's story scenes/characterization for free in Genshin or HSR instead of having to own the character (card) first. ZZZ splits the difference with story quests anyone can play, but 'trust scenes' you have to own the character to play through. (And HI3's character system works so differently that I can't really compare it.)

12:05 i can tell similar situation to yours but it's even worse imo this year i was pulling for 3rd anniversary cards and i did i think 78 pulls? close to 80 anyways and i got NOTHING. literally nothing. i have all standard R and SR cards maxed out with stars/dublicates so i literally spend 80 pulls to get nothing at all. i mean yeah cards dublicates are useful for event SR cards and MR but do i even use and build them for main party? no. i reached this point in this game when all my main deck consists out of SSRs and i have some leftover that don't fit in there. i honestly regretted this decision so much... i usually don't do anything i regret and it's been a while since i felt that in my life but i literally just wasted those pulls on cards i didn't really liked AND didn't get them... if i saved these pulls i could 100% get new vyn birthday ssr (he's my favorite and i collect all his bday cards) but in the end i wasn't able to get it, i had only 27 pulls left until the guarantee... and i was so mad at spending these 80 pulls on that rigged anniversary banner because i could get another card i liked and valued more and also have tons of leftovers... and i say rigged because imagine how i feel opening hoyolab and getting dozens of posts how people got MULTIPLE sss cards in one ten pull or won multiple event cards at very early pity while for last like 10? banners i literally have to go until max 100/90 pull... i get nothing by spending so much... i loved this game alot and i still love characters and plot very much but other aspects of this game killing all my will to play☹️ i wish hoyo would remember about this game and start making new updates and improvements that we need to want to keep up with this game. they literally can do anything as developers but instead they choose doing nothing...

I've been playing tot pretty much since the beginning thanks to a sponsor and I like it a lot! loved the video, I can tell you put a lot of passion into it! super looking forward to that character analysis video :D

Similar to most of them don’t know that Honkai Impact 3rd even exist

"Forgotten" is certainly one way to put it, I immediately looked it up to make sure it wasn't fake 😭 As a guy this isn't something I'd play*, but I'm fascinated by the concept. A gacha with DR/PW-styled investigation segments is far from something I've ever heard of, and games like this having character relationships progress naturally with time is something I can appreciate. *Also I'm just the biggest hater of Hoyoverse's gacha system, I admit I'm a Nikke zoomer so I've grown accustomed to having every character be added to the standard banner, but WHY IS EVERY SINGLE POST-LAUNCH CHARACTER LIMITED?!? AND YOU'RE TELLING ME THEY ADD CHARACTERS EVERY WEEK?! IS THIS HELL?!?

I stopped playing for my wallet XD I can’t resist, the only way is to not play it lol

HI3rd oddly likes killing off its male MCs, whether it's Kiana's brother Kevin (who oddly is still playable in adventure mode) or Male Dreamseeker (who got "killed off" halfway through the chapter). Genshin, Star Rail, and Zenless have playable male MCs and pullable males.

As a day 1 player I’m always sooo excited to see new ToT video in my recommendations!!! Thank you for your work🤎🩵💜💛❤️

Thank u for this, been playing for so long but sadly its rarely talked abt

Totally forgot this game exists and that it has relevant lore for the wider HoYoverse. Not really into otome games but maybe I'll have to go look at the story again.

7:14 are you Vietnamese? Hello from Vietnam ❤❤. Greart vid btw, i hope to see more from you 😊

My friend is a passionate Themis fan and finally convinced me to play. But I didn't really have time to read story at the moment. When I came, there was some event going on, and as a gacha veteran I have fomo ingrained in my bones. But the event was locked under the story progress, as well as almost all gameplay. So I decided to just skip the first chapters and read them later. I was really shocked when I realized how long they were! If you are into sroty reading it's great, but I was a newbie buried under tons of stamina I really wanted to spend, and it would take me weeks to carefully read all that. Finally I muddled through the story and unlocked gameplay, but by that time event already ended. Then that event with the train that was in the video started. I tried to play normally but it took so much time. I was really busy and just couldn't spend so much free time on the game. In the end I wanted the rewards so I started to use autoclicker to get through it. I did it for 2 days for a few hours, but wasn't even halfway done. In the end I broke (and my phone almost did too) and deleted the game. My friend is still upset because I didn't experience the game as it's supposed to be played... Now she would just retell me her favorite plots.

Out of all the Hoyoverse games, it’s currently the only one I play. I’ve played it for 3 years and dropped it for a while, but I picked it up again 2 months ago and haven’t stopped playing since- seriously. I’ve logged in EVERY DAY for that long. I love this game. I will do ANYTHING for my pookie Luke, he is my husband and I always forget his doomed story line tho…. And then I get depressed 😰 anyways--! Tears of Themis is PEAK!!!!! I love it sm!!!! 💖

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a tot recommended video, it’s nice for the game to be talked about! I’ve been playing since release and it’s definitely one of my favorites. I’m f2p so it’s definitely annoying not getting all the cards I want but with card stories available online I don’t really mind

omg crazy to see tot content in the 3 years of playing since its global cbt release 😭 i remember getting into this game when i saw hoyoverse had an otome game in china (plus the ace attorney elements) and freaked out when i saw it coming for global. i agree with the major events and i get so busy for that month, i missed finishing it and get all rewards LOL it is kind of sad to see the game not getting the same hype as others but honestly, i'm glad they still cater the story in the game and the events plus heck, they go crazy for the merchandise like the collab with judydoll for fans. my heart was so happy to get the mail about getting a physical letter for second anniversary and they prioritized the old players that are still playing :'D also winning giveaways has been so much fun since its the only time i get my hands on official hyv merch without spending haha this game has my heart so much since release i love seeing the relationship developments from meeting them at the start and now getting engaged. i could never see myself stop playing anytime soon TT edit: miscounted the years ^^;;

Wait the game is still going onn?? I played it ages ago when it first launched. That's crazy

Hoyogame making skip button on every game that I played : Impossible 😂 Why my fav game in Hoyo doesn't have Skip button... They keep feeding my reading hobby instead making me love grinding :"

When you said this the only Hoyo game that doesn't have fantasy element, I just think "...yet" Because, their world building is SUS It's smell pre Honkai to me. Really. 😂