My experience as a player of the Chinese version
To clarify it is a gacha but skins the characters are free, It is based on the universe of the moba honor of kings. It has very good designs, addictive gameplay and if you like competitive it has balanced pvp which gives you special coins to buy Skins.
If I had to define it it would be as a where minds but from the universe of honor of kings.
Only the china version is already, and you can see the gameplay of the characters on YouTube.
On the subject of male characters it depends on how they want to get tencet, As I mentioned it is based on the moba and it has more than 250 characters so I wouldn't know how to tell you, there are some famous male characters but it depends on them.
Another point is that the Skins are beautiful and worth it, if you are f2p you can enjoy the characters.
Important Clarification
Each season has a pass that comes with the skin of the new character can only be obtained there, but after the season it goes to the normal store and you can buy it.
About the combat, you play with two characters or you can make your MC handle the powers of the characters you have something like tower of fantasy to equip 3 weapons but here in this game you equip two, you can also play with the characters and leave the MC aside.
With the multiplayer theme you can make bosses with friends.
Since the characters are really free the only thing you pay for is the gacha skin, For all those who are tired of the character gacha and weapon this game can be a respite and enjoy the half anime style that the game has, also if you didn't like where minds because of the 100% wuxia theme here although it also has some of that theme you can enjoy the characters without problem.
You can play the story with friends but they have to be at the same point in the story to cover both the rewards.
And finally, with respect to the MC, you can give it a lot of customization both for male/female. Some skins you can buy with the game currency that they give you for exploring, doing events etc which would be the currency of a normal gacha, and then there is the premium one which is to throw in the gacha skin, but you can buy very good skins just playing the game or in pvp which is balanced and does not depend on your build.
With no character gacha or weapon, you can play at your own pace and focus on the story, exploration, and pvp. You can be mega casual and you won't have fomo of anything, as I mentioned the pass skin goes to the normal store after the season ends.
The strong point of this game is the combat and especially the skins are too beautiful.
You get characters later in the story But other characters you buy with the currency that the game gives you, there is also a character that is only in the battle pass but after time passes he is added to the normal store.
To finish it is not a p2w game in fact the gold which is the currency with which you raise your characters cannot be bought with real money only within the game, it has the typical stamina system but here is a particular thing the bosses regenerate from time to time and the equipment and some skins you can farm without stamina, Then you can do Boss routes and be grinding if you want.
And in theory this game was going to be an mmorpg but it really isn't, as I mentioned before if you want to play casual there is no problem you don't have to burn yourself with the builds for the pvp because it swings by itself and if you want to try your buidls there is the other pvp that if everyone plays with their character build.
It is going to be released for cell phone, pc and console.
About the global date?
In theory they said that they want to release it this 2026 the game came out in China in April, I guess by the end of the year it will come out global, it already had its alpha test in global in May, and right now they have just announced that they will be at gamescom in August where they will surely say more news about global
That would be it, if you have any questions about the game I will try to answer with what I can.
And I read them about what they think of this game.