This Tiny Gacha Game Added a Devoted 4-Year Guide Creator as a Playable Character — Community Asks 'When Will You Review Yourself?'

A tiny gacha game, a guide creator grinding for four years purely out of love, and one wholesome collab that sent the entire comment section into a frenzy — this might be the most heartwarming story in the Chinese gacha community right now.

The original poster said they stumbled upon a video from a content creator they used to follow, and something about the name felt oddly familiar. Turns out, it was the same UP主 (content creator) whose guides they used to watch back when they actively played Soul Weapon Academy (魂器学院). Even wilder? The game's developers actually added this person as a playable character.

According to the post, this UP主 is one of the few creators who kept making guides even after Soul Weapon Academy's player base dwindled into obscurity. Another creator named Maticuxia was also mentioned as part of this tiny band of loyalists. The OP noted that most of this UP主's videos barely got 10 comments — yet they never stopped uploading. You could feel the pure love for the game without even clicking play. (An edit clarified that the actual comment count was higher when you opened the videos, but the viewership was still undeniably small.)

The comment section erupted. One user called it 'a story worth passing down as a beautiful legend.' Another wrote: 'Four years as a guide creator for a niche game — that's true love.' A particularly spicy comment read: 'Compared to that other company that put a real person into their game, the difference in class is night and day' — no names dropped, but everyone knew exactly who was being referenced, likely pointing to controversial moves by bigger studios. Someone else brought up 'Zheng Xiang' (郑翔), hinting at another company's much more contentious 'character insertion.'

Of course, the comment section wouldn't be complete without the classic shitposting. Someone asked 'When will Skip-Life Guy join Genshin Impact? King Crimson would be T0 for sure.' Others hilariously demanded the UP主 make a video reviewing their own in-game character. One commenter even noted that the last time a content creator got added to a game was Lex — and, well, that story didn't exactly have a happy ending.

Some players were surprised the game was still alive at all, and got quickly schooled: the studio behind Soul Weapon Academy is apparently doing fine — they also run Moegirl Wiki (萌娘百科, one of China's largest anime/game wikis) and have two new projects in the pipeline, including a Plants vs. Zombies-like spinoff called Blind Box Party (盲盒派对) that's already gone through three rounds of testing.

In a gacha landscape dominated by dev controversies, player revolts, and endless PR disasters, a story like this — where a small studio genuinely honors its most devoted fans — hits different. As for when the UP主 will release a video reviewing their own playable character? That's the content everyone's really waiting for.

One final nugget from the comments: someone pointed out that an earlier example of 'adding a top player into a game' came from Mecha Storm (机动战队). It seems the bond between niche gacha games and their ride-or-die fans runs deeper than most people realize.