I applaud this gacha game for ditching anime characters for puppets, but it still can't escape the pitfalls of a post-Genshin Impact world

The fight against the gorilla inexplicably piloting a boat was the moment Sea of Remnants got me. I've never played a gacha game so bizarre and committed to creating a world so much different than most of the other popular games in the genre. But for as much as it ditches the anime conventions and aesthetic of games like Genshin Impact and Wuthering Waves, it's still hard for me not to imagine what it might be like if it wasn't a gacha game at all.

Everyone is a puppet made out of wood in Sea of Remnants...