I don't know what Arknight is but you have me interested.
Oh boy, my fangirling is paying off! Okay, I'll try to explain without doing one of my usual essays, and to my best understanding (since I only started a few months ago and I'm not caught up on every story sequence)!
So, Arknights is a mobile game available on the app store, Android store, and can be emulated on things like Bluestacks etc. If I were to boil it down to its basest basest components, it would be "War and Peace with furries" but it's SO much more than that. The setting is in an alternate Earth called Terra, and the main crux of the conflicts in the world is the divide between the Infected and the Uninfected. The Infected are afflicted with this little understood thing called Oripathy, and it's very dangerous. Even when an Infected dies their corpses are still capable of infecting others, so there is a huge segregation among the peoples of the various nations and the treatment of the Infected by these countries range from dismissive to... well. Anyway! You play the part of The Doctor (no, not that one... maybe), who in the story is an established trusted professional but when you start the game you're amnesiac so you're relearning all this stuff in-character. You work with Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company that is intent on fighting for equality between Infected and Uninfected. They help develop medicine, distribute it, and champion the civil rights of the Infected. Many of Rhodes Island's own Operators are in fact Infected, so you can see how that might be of interest to them. The problem is, ALMOST NOBODY in a position of power agrees with your mission statement, so that obviously Poses Problems.
There's a lot more minutiae to it, a beautiful amount of philosophy and emotion driven writing, and lot of the event stories, and side stories, delve into a lot more of the characters that are a regular fixture at Rhodes Island. The most recent event, Near Light, which you probably saw me fangirl about in the Most Lesbian Way Ever, focused on how the treatment of the Infected shows in the sports entertainment realm of one of the nations, among other things. It is a VERY FASCINATING game for someone of a literary and analytical mind, BUT it's also a gacha so if you just like looking at and collecting pretty furries you're still in for a great time. It has a lot to offer, and I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend anyone interested to try it out. It does get text heavy, but trust me the story that they weave and the interlocking elements are just so great to see come together.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand I wrote an essay. Of course I did. Sorry, I hope this gives you some manner of insight into the game that is taking over my mind more and more with each passing day!
EDIT TO ADD legitimately one of the best parts of the game is that unlike many other gacha, EVERYONE IS NOT IN LOVE WITH YOU. There is degrees of respect from most of the Operators, a small handful have a crush on you (Gravel comes to mind, I don't know any others but I'm leaving space open in case there are more) and some, either due to the circumstances or due to whatever past you no longer know, Are Not Here For You. I LOVE IT. ALSO ALSO! Hypergryph has GOT to be a music company moonlighting as novelists who also happen to have business acumen to know that a gacha is an important vehicle to deliver your content because I swear you listen to the Arknights soundtrack, it's like... what the hell, nobody makes music like this, talking full on tracks with vocals and character songs and... okay, before I lose it and continue talking, I should cut it off here. Point is, Arknights GOATed, please try it. Thank you!
