Girls' Frontline 2 Writing Disaster Compilation: Potatoes That Flower AND Fruit, a Limping Commander, and the Director Personally Approved All of It

What if some game positions have a much lower hiring bar than you'd expect? A Girls' Frontline 2 (GF2) player recently dropped a devastating compilation on NGA, aptly titled 'Girls' Frontline 2 and the Writers Who Understand Its Lore Best.' The OP didn't mince words: 'Just making a little scrapbook so everyone can see how low the bar is for a copywriter's job.'

You might think this is just about bad professional attitude — personal agendas and lazy output from someone who at least has the baseline skill for the role. Think again. The OP kept the evidence rolling, revealing issues that go way beyond laziness into straight-up incompetence.

The final screenshot was what the OP called their personal 'all-time classic' — content so absurd it left the entire comment section collectively losing it.

On top of that, the OP mentioned weapon part descriptions being copy-pasted straight from encyclopedia entries — a separate scandal from a different thread that they didn't feel comfortable directly quoting.

The absolute pièce de résistance, though, is the infamous potato incident. A commenter perfectly reverse-engineered the writer's creative process: 'Gotta be grounded and relatable' → potato! 'As a girl, gotta have flowers' → potato flowers! 'Gotta be elegant' → make desserts and tea from potato flowers! The catch? Potato flowers are toxic, and potatoes don't even 'flower and fruit' the way the text described. Comment #13 nailed it: at least know what species you're writing about before going poetic.

The event storyline was even more catastrophic. The very first post-launch event managed to retcon the original game's established lore, fail to tell a coherent story, AND get basic facts wrong — all at once. Comment #11 erupted: 'First event out the gate, destroyed the prequel's worldview, couldn't even tell a normal story, got basic common sense wrong. And Yuzhong reviewed this and thought it was fine. Sunborn's whole team is truly made for each other.'

Here's where it gets truly comical: in a prior apology video, director Yuzhong had solemnly promised to 'personally supervise and thoroughly review all story content.' Then the next event dropped, and the 'limping Commander' became a legendary meme in the gacha community overnight. Comment #7 called out this broken promise with surgical precision. Comment #6 echoed the disbelief: 'The limping Commander bit is genuinely a gacha classic now, and they're calling this good? I'm floored.'

The community reaction was a full-blown roast session. Comment #8 pointed out that GF1 stood out in 2017 because dark, edgy storytelling was novel for gacha games — but the team apparently mistook a fluke for genius and has been living in an echo chamber ever since. Comment #3 was brutal: 'This writing reeks of female web novel (女频) melodrama.' Comment #4 kept it short and lethal: 'This is what happens when you're completely disconnected from reality.' And Comment #14 perfectly distilled Sunborn's hiring philosophy: 'What Sunborn needs isn't talented writers — it's writers who match Yuzhong's personal taste (XP).'

Even fellow writers caught strays. Comment #16 compared the quality to 'getting your novel rejected on Qidian before it even gets listed,' while Comment #17 delivered the kill shot: 'I'll put it bluntly — even bottom-tier web novelists know how potatoes grow.' Comment #19 delivered the best on-the-ground reaction: 'There's a game on my phone where potatoes are fruits that flower and fruit. I'm dying laughing at a noodle shop right now — the owner asked why I was laughing, and now he's laughing too.'

Players also dug up more absurdities: apparently a character's terrorist attack used black powder (Comment #15), and a concert event set in an active warzone was compared to real-world events, prompting cries of 'literal hell humor' (Comment #10). Comment #2 pointed out the ultimate irony: Yuzhong himself was deeply involved in the story.

From potatoes that supposedly flower and fruit, to a limping Commander becoming a meme, to copy-pasted encyclopedia entries and a shattered prequel lore — this compilation is a veritable 'encyclopedia of writing failures' for GF2. When the director personally signs off on all of this and it still turns out like... this, one has to wonder: is the review process just a formality, or has the team's standard of quality been fundamentally broken all along? Either way, as one commenter put it: 'Please GF2, survive a few more years — at least keep these demons locked up in one place.'