Everyone knows Girls' Frontline 2 has absurd writing, but did you know the original Girls' Frontline already planted a massive bomb? DP-12's Mind Upgrade (MOD) storyline was savaged by players when it dropped — and now, with GFL2's even bigger disasters as a backdrop, some people actually call it 'acceptable.' Veterans say: oh, you sweet summer children.
The story begins on March 30, 2023. This date is crucial because right before it, Girls' Frontline had just released DP-12's wedding dress skin — a Live2D outfit that was the star attraction of that period's gacha banner.
After the wedding skin was sold, DP-12's MOD storyline went live on March 30. The critical plot point: DP-12's new upgraded body was specifically prepared and gifted to her by a wealthy male NPC known as the 'Young Master.' Then, DP-12 uses this gifted body to marry the player (the Commander).
The original poster nailed it with one phrase: 'A cyber bride-price scam.' You think you married her, but her 'dowry' was actually bankrolled by another man. In real life, this is basically your wife accepting a massive engagement gift from her ex before walking down the aisle with you.
It gets worse. Because DP-12's wedding skin was a Live2D outfit — the main dish of that banner — it was by default excluded from the permanent Black Card exchange pool. Players could only try to get it during the annual Valentine's Day rerun event window. Although there were reports that the devs later promised to add it to the permanent pool, for a long stretch, F2P players had no shot. You swiped for a wedding dress, and then the story tells you your wife's upgraded body was gifted by another man — the layers of absurdity just kept stacking.
The poster even dug up the 'Young Master's' Twitter account and his in-game character appearance, suggesting that DP-12's surname might be derived from this character. 'It can't be the other way around, that would be insane,' the poster wrote.
The comment section was a collective PTSD session. One user bluntly stated: 'This storyline was universally panned when it launched — it disgusted countless people. And now it's somehow being called an "ML paragon"? The story hasn't gotten any better; it's just that Girls' Frontline 2 is on a whole different level of terrible.' Indeed, GFL2's infamous Raymond storyline made even this disaster look tame by comparison.
Another player distilled it perfectly: 'Accepting a bride-price doesn't mean the wedding is real; an oath ring doesn't mean it's ML (Master Love).' One commenter pointed out that although Girls' Frontline has an oath system and affection rings, it's fundamentally a Clike (Kancolle-style) game, not an ML game. They dug up producer Yuzhong's old apology post and asked: 'Before the loyal defenders try to draw lines, they should read Yuzhong's apology and ask themselves who's actually paying the bills — either Yuzhong is right and the loyalists are backstabbing, or the loyalists are right and Yuzhong is a liar.'
A commenter in floor 13 delivered an even more scathing analysis, blaming the writing team directly: 'This is another textbook example of the "wanting it all" mentality. She wants the old guy to feel so guilty he showers her with gifts, AND she wants the new guy to be so moved by her rejecting the old guy that he worships her even more. She wins, wins, wins.' They warned that this kind of blind complacency among the fanbase was exactly what set the stage for the mass betrayal that GFL2 players later experienced.
Some players raised truly unsettling questions: 'Does the gifted body have a backdoor?' and 'I've always wondered — did the Young Master use that modified body himself?' The internet's imagination is wild, but honestly, it's not an unreasonable concern.
One veteran laid out the full cost-benefit tragedy: 'If Girls' Frontline doesn't cater to the ML crowd, who else would tolerate the boring gameplay, the endless grinding, the needle-in-a-haystack gacha, the absurd skin lottery, the erratic Capture system, the eternally dead content drought, and the pain of manually farming maps without a sweep function?' Read that, and you can understand just how much rage the betrayed ML loyalists are carrying.
From selling the wedding skin to releasing the 'rich guy gifted the body' MOD storyline, from locking it out of the permanent exchange to GFL2's complete meltdown — Girls' Frontline's journey of betraying its waifu-loving fanbase was methodical and relentless. The players who were angry about DP-12's storyline back then probably never imagined even bigger disasters were still coming. As one commenter put it: 'Those who smelled the rot early just got a triumphant "So? What now?" moment — and then left in disgust anyway.'
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