What looks like a behind-the-scenes documentary turns out to be a staged reenactment — eagle-eyed Genshin Impact players just busted HoYoverse's 'making of' video for 4-star character Gaming, catching three major anachronisms that expose the whole thing as filmed well after the fact.
HoYoverse released a video titled 'Climbing the Auspicious Beast — The Making of Gaming' on Bilibili, claiming to document the character's development starting from November 2022. The video presents itself as an authentic fly-on-the-wall look at the creative process. But NGA forum users weren't buying it.
Bust #1: A developer's desk featured a Wriothesley desk stand. Wriothesley is a character who debuted in Version 4.1, meaning the footage was shot no earlier than October 2023 — nearly a year after Gaming's supposed 'early design' phase.
Bust #2: A scene showed a staff member walking through the company lobby, with a giant screen behind them displaying an ad for Honkai: Star Rail's launch. Star Rail released in April 2023, providing yet another timestamp that definitively places the filming well after the character's early development.
Bust #3 is arguably the most damning — every single piece of visible time information in the video, from meeting room booking schedules to on-screen clocks, was deliberately blurred out with mosaics. The original poster's take: if this were a genuine documentary, there'd be zero reason to censor timestamps. The blurring only makes sense if you're trying to hide that the footage was shot recently.
There was also a hilariously sloppy detail: the video shows two people 'discussing' at what appears to be the same exact workstation — identical chair, identical desk layout. The OP called it out directly: 'Why not film at their actual desks? Is this just staging?'
The comments section immediately split into two camps. The roasters went hard: one user dropped the bombshell observation that 'a character who's supposedly someone's internal mascot (皮套) only got a 4-star rarity?' — using the slang term 皮套 (pí tào, literally 'skin suit') to imply Gaming has deep ties to a specific developer. Another user riffed on gacha community jargon, quipping 'guess the resistance isn't that high,' a meme about how characters with strong internal backing (higher 'resistance') tend to get 5-star treatment. Someone else fired a parting shot: 'Very on-brand for what you'd expect from their average age and life experience.'
The defenders, meanwhile, pointed out this is standard industry practice. A top-voted comment argued 'Isn't protecting trade secrets normal? You expect them to film from day one of character creation?' Another user added 'If they filmed during production and the character got cut, or someone leaked the footage, that'd be way worse.' A third commenter said they view these videos as promotional material rather than real documentaries — 'having some key milestone footage and supplementing with staged shots is perfectly acceptable.'
Some users brought up a benchmark: Final Fantasy XVI documented its development from the production phase onward, implying HoYoverse could do better. But others pushed back, saying 'Even if you want to roast HoYoverse, you don't have to make yourself look this clueless — staged reenactments are industry standard.'
Interestingly, players dug up precedent: HoYoverse previously released a similar behind-the-scenes video for Yun Jin (another character celebrating Chinese culture), which didn't spark any controversy. Some speculated these videos are low-effort responses to government mandates about 'cultural output.' One commenter noted that Yun Jin's video did have minor drama about outfit designs, but nothing this viral.
At the end of the day, staged reenactments aren't the problem — being sloppy about it is. Leaving anachronistic merch on a desk and blurring every timestamp only draws more suspicion. As the OP's closing question put it: 'I mainly posted this because I'm curious — doesn't it get exhausting putting on this act every day?'
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