Let me explain why I agree with you... in three actsI pretty much shut my brain off when Sunday does his monologue.
Let me explain why I agree with you... in three actsI pretty much shut my brain off when Sunday does his monologue.
Finished the story
The story they were trying to craft was nowhere near interesting enough to justify characters droning on and on for hours in unskippable cutscenes, an absolute snoozefest, the writing in this game has been on a massive decline since belobog, you're given virtually no reason at all to care about anything until the final chapter. Why should I care about a murder mystery when nobody is actually dead? Why should I care about a traitor in the family when the family is just a faceless entity that's been completely absent in the world up until now? The final chapter was the only time when the player had any reason to be invested in the story, even though you could see the final conflict coming a mile away, the final fight was hype as hell and it was a solid conclusion but it doesn't make up for the rest of it. Really hope the writing improves for the next arc but I have no faith tbh
Yeah correctAnother 2.2 story question. For those who finished it (I'm almost done).
I'm about to head to the "real" final confrontation, or return to the stage as the game is saying. So want to make sure I understand this right before (what I assume is) the ending.
Basically everything we've played through in Penacony has actually been within Ena's dream. Or chronologically speaking, 2.0 mostly begins after we lost the battle with Sunday and became trapped in the dream.
Correct?
Event will make Robin contribute more self and team damage while her buffs are up, Bronya's will make her ult come online faster. If you're running Robin without a FUA team or Huohuo/Tingyun to boost her energy you'd probably rather have Bronya's.So gun to head:
Which LC is better for Robin, Bronya or Event?
Act 1
I think I'm most of the way through the 2.2 story now, I have a quick question.
Should I be using HMC? I have made a quick team around them, not super effective though so I keep swapping back to my usual teams. Unsure if the last battles are going to be built around their mechanics though.
You can spoiler tag the answer if needed.
Thanks!If there is a fight you are required to use a character for, there will be a trail version of the character to use, so don't worry about needing to build specific characters for required fights.
Dreams are real, that is the crux of the problem and the main conflict by the end.So then are we to assume that (late story spoilers)the dream version we experienced is mostly a reflection of the events that happened in actual reality in the past, shaped by our memories?
Also what did black swan mean by everything we experienced was real? Or is what I wrote above what she meant?
Wondering because if everything we experienced was a dream that would remove a lot of the impact of what happened.
Come on, Vylash. Write that fire explanation.
Of course! but before that I have a story to tell you, you see once upon a time there was a bird...
I don't understand what the basis for thinking this is. It's not how I took it at all.Another 2.2 story question. For those who finished it (I'm almost done).
I'm about to head to the "real" final confrontation, or return to the stage as the game is saying. So want to make sure I understand this right before (what I assume is) the ending.
Basically everything we've played through in Penacony has actually been within Ena's dream. Or chronologically speaking, 2.0 mostly begins after we lost the battle with Sunday and became trapped in the dream.
Correct?
I don't understand what the basis for thinking this is. It's not how I took it at all.
I wake up and open Era, and this is the first thing I read. Someone, anyone subjugate Chrono's mouth please.
I don't understand what the basis for thinking this is. It's not how I took it at all.
Have they stated yet who the Companion Mission for this patch is?
I really hope it's Hanabi, Hanabi is such a little gremlin. Any time Hanabi is on-screen, Hanabi has my attention. I love all of the little tricks Hanabi plays and they way Hanabi interacts with others, and even Hanabi's VA is top-notch (Ueda Reina, too good). I love Hanabi's design as well. All of these things come together to make Hanabi such an interesting character to me, and it's just unfortunate that Hanabi is so criminally underused. Hanabi deserves more.
HANABI.
... that's it, I am going back to sleep.Lord Sunday please grant me the strength to forgive those who speak ill against you while shielding their ears, slandering your holy majesty as they fall deeper into misunderstanding and fear. Bless them with hope and joy, so that they may repent rather than seek to destroy. Carry me to bright dreams of paradise on silver wings, away from the chaos such destruction brings. Speak endlessly if you wish and I'll stand in awe, bathed in light, awaiting the day your banner graces us with its might. Amen. 🙏
Another 2.2 story question. For those who finished it (I'm almost done).
I'm about to head to the "real" final confrontation, or return to the stage as the game is saying. So want to make sure I understand this right before (what I assume is) the ending.
Basically everything we've played through in Penacony has actually been within Ena's dream. Or chronologically speaking, 2.0 mostly begins after we lost the battle with Sunday and became trapped in the dream.
Correct?
one of the first things that happens in 2.0 is Misha meets us at the Reverie which is in reality. But Misha can't actually be in reality, which means when we experience it we're already inside the dream
Right, butone of the first things that happens in 2.0 is Misha meets us at the Reverie which is in reality. But Misha can't actually be in reality, which means when we experience it we're already inside the dream
one of the first things that happens in 2.0 is Misha meets us at the Reverie which is in reality. But Misha can't actually be in reality, which means when we experience it we're already inside the dream
About Aventurine and Robin:The whole "Death" reveal makes 2.0-2.1 even funnier in hindsight.
"Death? No that's just a bus we take to and from work. He's just a bit aggressive sometimes."
Aventurine made a super elaborate plan and even had to lure an emanator to "kill" him when he could just walk around in some shady parts of the town and he'd have gotten picked up easily lol.
I think Firefly said that she found a way to lure the meme out but I kinda forgot about Robin. Why did she get "killed"? Also, I don't remember but was that TB's room we found her "dead"? Why was she there if that's our room and if it's not, how did Aventurine get into the room and how did he find her? Did the meme kill her there? Can the meme even go to that zone?
Also, I've been wondering since 2.0 but how do the stowaways get into the dreamscape anyway? You have people spending their entire fortune to get in officially and even Firefly had to use someone like Silver Wolf (I think?) to get her in but then there are all these homeless or orphans just getting in and live inside the dream for most of their lives.
I think technically it's kind of an....inception situation.
There are multiple layers to Penacony - the overarching 'reality' of the Reverie hotel (and likely, most/all of Penacony as a planet/system has become intermingled/interwoven with Ena's 'Order-dream' infection, so as soon as we step foot onto Penacony into the Reverie Hotel (and see Misha), the 'Dream Reality' of Ena's Order has affected us - I think that BS/Acheron even infer that as soon as the TB has their strange dream right when the warp ends, and is forcibly woken up by Acheron, that's part of it.
Then the 'dream within a dream' of the 'ACTUAL' dreamworld still occurs as normal through 2.0-2.2, until we get 'ejected' from Ena's order dream thanks to BS telling us about our memories/the light cone being blank.
I don't think the game is saying, or at least intending to say, that all of the stuff we went through was 'fake' in the typical dream context
Neat. But really, it seems way too easy (even if dangerous) for these people to get into this luxury place that you have to spend a fortune to get in from the front door. Though I guess they don't really care about those "slum" dreamscapes that much especially when you can get into them from anyway in the star system.About Aventurine and Robin:
Oh, I kinda forgot about that. Thanks.Aventurine says at the start of 2.1 that that wasn't actually Robin you saw but some kind of recreation he'd done. The exact circumstances and timing of her "death" are uncertain, I think.
But yes, it's pretty funny that Aventurine went to all this trouble to try to get to the deeper dream, and in the end he went too far and Acheron hit him so hard he was knocked out for a patch.
About stowaways:
There are some readables you can get that make clear that lots of people enter the dreamscape without going through the hotel by rigging up bootleg dreampools in their ships while in-system, basically. These are supposed to be unreliable and dangerous. Sunday references this in talking about the guy who sold his kids and why actually letting him go wouldn't even work out great for him probably.
Talking about this made me think about another question I had:
The plot wasn't anything special, but it helped a lot that it wasn't so damn wordy and it was very straightforward instead of everyone talking in riddles. I think Dan Heng and March also played off each other pretty well. Welt and Himeko don't feel like they've brought much to the table, and March on her own is either gratingly stating the obvious or just constantly annoyed at the TB being a weirdo.I feel like people overly gas up belebog due to the vocal song at the boss battle. Outside of that you have a lot of paper thin characters and an underdeveloped villain. Only thing it's got going for it is how short it is, but that's only cause it was the first world in the game. I dont think people would be kind to it if it came out next.
I pretty much shut my brain off when [redacted] does his monologue.
People like Belebog because short, direct, fun stories with cool climaxes are hoyoverse's wheelhouse, whatever crap they've been putting out since isn't it, hopefully the experiment is overI feel like people overly gas up belebog due to the vocal song at the boss battle. Outside of that you have a lot of paper thin characters and an underdeveloped villain. Only thing it's got going for it is how short it is, but that's only cause it was the first world in the game. I dont think people would be kind to it if it came out next.
I think it was only mentioned during the ending by Aventurine or other IPC folks. I don't remember Argenti himself talking about this at all (I think the first time they brought up Aventurine this patch was when you met him during the fake ending). They made it sound like he randomly stumbled upon Aventurine when he was in the Reef and we don't know why or how he was there in the first place.He, at some point, went and rescued Aventurine - I thiiiiink it's before he fights you (or lets you pass), it comes up in his dialogue, I think?
Not 100% certain on that bit- I tuned out because his lines weren't voiced, lol
Finished the story
The story they were trying to craft was nowhere near interesting enough to justify characters droning on and on for hours in unskippable cutscenes, an absolute snoozefest, the writing in this game has been on a massive decline since belobog, you're given virtually no reason at all to care about anything until the final chapter. Why should I care about a murder mystery when nobody is actually dead? Why should I care about a traitor in the family when the family is just a faceless entity that's been completely absent in the world up until now? The final chapter was the only time when the player had any reason to be invested in the story, even though you could see the final conflict coming a mile away, the final fight was hype as hell and it was a solid conclusion but it doesn't make up for the rest of it. Really hope the writing improves for the next arc but I have no faith tbh
How much better Robin is in a fua team than Ryan Mei. I really don't want to spend another 80-160 tickets on Robin if Ruan Mei is good enough.
How much better Robin is in a fua team than Ryan Mei. I really don't want to spend another 80-160 tickets on Robin if Ruan Mei is good enough.
Robin can shave a cycle off MoC runs in a FUA team compared to Ruan Mei. In PF they are pretty comparable. Robin's personal damage is actually a pretty significant contributor to the team damage, which is why the difference is bigger in MoC than in PF.How much better Robin is in a fua team than Ryan Mei. I really don't want to spend another 80-160 tickets on Robin if Ruan Mei is good enough.