Thread 719076394

No Snezhnaya? I thought this is the Snezhnaya year

>>719076394 (OP)
Bless you.

Nod Krai is technically part of Snezhnaya

>>719076394 (OP)
we Snezhnaya-adjacent now

>Expect Russia
>get Baltics
Grim

>>719076394 (OP)
What? Is this that Wuwa thing?

>>719077887
Genshin

>>719076394 (OP)
Robot feet

>>719077694
Nod-Krai is Finland

>>719077694
What the fuck were they thinking dedicating an entire region to a place with less significant cultural relevance than subsaharan Africa? We didn't get Spain, or Greece, or the entirety of SEA, while France and Italy and the UK were mixed into a blender for Fontaine and instead we have to get a whole ass region just for baltoid swamp niggers living in straw huts? Is mihoyo paid by the Latvian government or something.

>>719077694

Gaming is healing

>>719077694
Russia is next year

>>719080780
they need a region to sort things out, and by things in here I mean the story, lore, and core narrative.
genshin have been inefficient in terms of storytelling in the last 4 years because they are keep getting distracted by in game events that contribute nothing to the main narrative story; a grandiose concept trapped inside a stupid anime gacha game, that's what genshin is. So in one hand you have this main narrative of finding your sibling, fighting the abyss order, the abyss itself, uncovering political situation between gods and some spy army in teyvat, finding out why are you even in teyvat to begin with, and other important things; but on the other hand you have this stupid slice of life niggershit to do like painting a balloon with twerking gummy creature, doing management sim in some film festival event, and some other masturbatory shit like that, and things like this have been going for 4 years straight. With all these mess, with such un productivity and inefficiency in storytelling progress, they realized that they need to sort things out, and that's where nod krai comes in

>>719081356
I feel like they've been doing fine with the actual story with the mainline archon quests as they come, and they just have all the little events throughout it to keep people busy and interested in the game during the downtime between story stuff

>>719081356
that's fine, I think his question about it is "why baltics tho" dedicating a year to russia is already iffy, so why dedicate another year for temu russia too, granted I think every relevant place has been covered at this point to some degree, south europe was covered in fontaine too, so they're scraping the bottom of the barrel now with northeastern europe, egypt was covered in sumeru, middle east was covered in sumeru, I guess they could cover SEA but who wants to play a pagpag expansion, at that point I'd rather have temu russia, if I'd have to pick a theme for a filler expansion then I'd just make it totally fantasy fairy tale, alice in wonderland, las vegas vibe like just a total blatant beach episode

>>719076394 (OP)
>Snezhnaya
Is that like a sauce?

>>719081882
It's not based on the baltics. The inspiration behind it is the Proto-Finnic Holy Roman Khaganate.

>>719082161
it's all marginal russian empire regions meshed into one, finland, sweden, baltics, eastern europe, and the question still is, but why

>>719080780
The more I think about it, the more I think this was Natlan's biggest shortcoming. Yes, even worse than the bike and the shit story.
Mond -> Germanic
Liyue -> China
Inazuma -> Japan
Sumeru -> Arabia/Egypt
Fontaine -> France/Italy
Natlan -> ???/grafitti
Natlan is simply not representative of any real real-world culture, and because of that it's too detached from both its world and ours. I keep pointing at the architecture, which stands out like a sore thumb when compared to any other nation of Teyvat.

>>719081356
The lore aspect is a distraction. It's being presented as the main reason, but it's a lie - the world lore should not be relevant to the core story Genshin was telling at the outset, when we were saving nations and only asking for them to put up missing person posters as recompense. Genshin's story lost the plot, and its lore cannot fix that.

>>719082324
lol what, natlan is africa and native americans, it's as blatant as one can get, and sumeru is 80% india with 20% middle east

>>719082294
Makes sense to base an autonomous region of Snezhnaya on countries that have been autonomous parts of Russia or where part of the Soviet Union.

>>719082478
he's gonna sperg out about houses again

>>719082503
oh is it just another rajesh shitposting talking point

>>719082478
its more like hawaii and the wild west

>>719082497
yeah but like, who cares

>>719082576
people of the springs is hawaii and flower feather is wild west themed but those are still just in line with being american themed but with native american tribal themes instead of being a colonised america

>>719082324
>Natlan is simply not representative of any real real-world culture,
shit is based on american culture, american culture, and american culture.
even the first chief tribe, pacal, sounds like he's going to call you 'nigga' anytime soon.
natlan is based on american culture, because its shit then americans disowned it, had it ended as ultrakino then americans would brag about it everywhere

>>719080780
>complain about the lack of culture while mentioning SEA of all places
SEA is barely above Indians on the human development scale Mister Suk Mi Kok
>Spain
nobody cares since there is Latin America
>Greece
Enkanomiya

>>719082324
>Hmm what do latinx people like?
>Uhhhhh fighting? Break dancing? Graffiti? Tacos?
>... Yea sure, whatever, make that into a continent.
They absolutely do not like break dancing, lmao. At least all the girls were cute/sexy, Mauvika and Xilonen are top tier

>>719082695
>pacal, sounds like he's going to call you 'nigga' anytime soon.
I forgot that one of their anciet heroes is literally Tupac lmao

>>719082606
Finns care about getting mentioned. The 6.0 update might actually break the news barrier here.

dont worry anon theres its still pretty early in the ye-
>september
oh god oh fuck

>>719082721
BARAKA SEXO

>>719082324
>Natlan -> ???/grafitti
Amerimuttland, just like the region is based on is mixed to shit.

>>719082795
the hell have you been doing for 8 months

>>719082883
boy you're not gonna like nod krai

Nooooooooooo how come aren't you wasting your time reading all the shitty books we wrote!? We wrote Dark Souls, but better!

>>719082989
Nod-Krai is various factions living in the corpse of an ancient supercivilization. Natlan is supposed to be a nation. Being a mishmash of design elements is expected for Nod-Krai, but a nation like Natlan should've had more consistent art direction.

>>719083043
genshin's writing is kishotenketsu, dark souls is shakespearean, get familiarised with writing styles other than tolkien reddit pleb

>>719083248
>Natlan is supposed to be a nation
a nation of WHAT

>>719083495
connected tribes and dinosaurs

>>719083495
Something. Unfortunately Mihoyo couldn't quite settle on what that something is.

>>719082989
Yeah i will most likely hate it since they seem to be making the same mistakes they made with natlan, its the same case as zzz flopping and needing a relaunch and instead of changing the entire foundations of the game they just keep doubling down on their retardation which just makes it flop harder, just like what they are doing here with nod-krai

>nation of freedom has slavery
>nation of contract only cares about guanxi
>nation of eternity is unstable in every aspect
>nation of wisdom is full of retards
>nation of justice is a circus
>nation of war is just the olympics
>nation of love already has the prelude of "the tsaritsa has no love left for her people, nor do they have for her"
you got subverted and sneeded by fat xiao

>>719082324
natlan is the pacific ring of fire dummy, this game is awesome at such a high level

>>719083859
Natlan is a holiday resort

>>719083859
tell me about mondstadt's slavery

>>719083975
BRING HER BACK

>>719084098
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFHfbH8UrFE

>>719084098
yuuler's family were slave plantation owners, which is why people hate her call her a cracker

>>719084216
My wife.
Cryo archon will save her (that or a lunar superconduct support), trust.

>>719084098
it's called the Church of Barbatos

>>719084074
that's the mare jivari

>>719076765
>>719077694
So next year we will have the exact same slavic themed shit again? They really didn't think it through.

>>719084442
no its the church of favonius actually

>>719082478
>>719082576
>>719082695
>>719082721
>>719082883
>>719083893
Thank you all for proving my point. Natlan is, according to you all, the African Native-American Modern-American Latin-American Pacific Ring of Fire Hawaii Wild West nation.
With grafitti-covered mountains.
Definitely doesn't stand out compared to "not-China" and "not-ItalyFrance."

>>719082695
On the note of Pacal are you talking about his current voice or the original one, where he sounded like an unpaid white intern?

>>719083859
>>719084098
slavery have ended eons ago in mondstadt, but mondstadt people ended up enslaving themselves with their knight culture of obeying higher rank people like the grandmaster in favonius knight and maid culture of serving people that are more richer than them

>>719076394 (OP)
Game is still making money so gotta drag it out some more.

>>719084327
The only way to save physical dps is to design enemies that care about physical damage, or change existing mechanics to screw it over less.
Letting high physical damage penetrate shields and wards to a degree, or a similar type of change is what is needed to make Eula good.

when's deer pussy?

>>719084098
Klee is my sex goblin slave

>>719084521
ring of fire encapsulates the americas + southeast asia (bakunawa), so it's really just ring of fire + bits of africa. besides natlan stands out just as much as any other nation, give a random screenshot of any part of the map and you'd easily be able to identify if it's from natlan or not

>>719084521
it's africa and america yeah, mondstadt is also germany + netherlands + england + iceland (dragonspine), inazuma was also japan + ancient greece, liyue was china sure, sumeru was india + egypt + arabia, fontaine was france + ancient rome + industrialised england, every nation has been a mix, natlan too

>>719084507
snezh will be destroyed at the end of nod krai aq, you will be exploring a post apocalyptic metro nuclear winter notrussia instead of the most developed nation in teyvat.
atleast that's what they said

>>719084596
>moon
>loom
HOLY SHIT

>>719084807
pls don't make them pull a Garlemald
dear fucking god

>>719082324
>Anon complains about a Baltic-based region
>immediately sperg out about Natlan unprompted to deflect
Why are Yuropoors like this?

>>719082503
>mud huts mud huts mud huts!
I don't get why this retard is so fixated on Natlan when everything he says about it is just wrong.

what's some finnish/baltic food I should eat to get in the mood?

>>719081356
They can't put major relevant stuff in events, because people who don't play every single patch would be left behind. This is already a problem, don't make it even bigger.

>>719084776
If you aren't American then I can forgive your ignorance but west-coastal North America has almost nothing in common with other parts of North America. The USA is a staggeringly diverse nation when it comes to cultures because we have states that are bigger than numerous entire countries.

>>719084797
No, Mond does not include "netherlands and iceland." Dragonspine is a snowy mountain. That's not a cultural influence.
No, Inazuma does not include Greece - Enkanomiya is an ancient buried subregion far below the modern area. It was a side project, same as the Roman part of Fontaine. They're side areas that are associated with a region by proximity, but are otherwise disconnected.
Natlan's lack of identity is front and center - it never knows what it wants to be besides a theme park.

>>719084971
It's not a deflection, brainlet. Both regions have the same issue of trying to be everything and instead being nothing.

>>719084539
1000 years is not a long time in the genshin universe, the cataclysm was only 500 years ago too and people talk about it like it happened yesterday, xbalanque lived over 2000 years ago too and you just chat with him casually, plus there are still nobles who want to reestablish slavery and if the traveler wasn't there to stop them they could take over mondstadt again, and even before that under decarabian people were practically enslaved, but at least caged in, mondstadt will always have to struggle with slavery and oppression, despite being the nation of freedom, every nation in genshin is presented as a subersion and perversion of their supposed ideal, the lessons at the end tend to be mixed though
in mondstadt you get the answer that freedom is better than slavery, wow
in liyue you don't get a clear answer whether honoring contracts or guanxi is more important, and I guess the lesson is that you have to navigate both
in inazuma you get the answer that eternity isn't the lack of change, but the constantly reoccuring ephemeral cycles of the world
in sumeru you get the lesson that wisdom is better than being a retard
in fontaine you get the lesson that you should find loopholes in ujust rules
and in natlan you get the answer that peace is better than war

>>719085280
>Dragonspine, historically known as Vindagnyr
>rajesh didn't actually do dragonspine
KEK

>>719082324
Mond -> Central Europe (jaegers, wine growing, Matterhorn)
Liyue -> China (Shanghai, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Guanxi)
Inazuma -> Japan (Japan, Ryukyuans, Ainu)
Sumeru -> University, Elves, Egypt, Arabs, Aliens
Fontaine -> France, anime high society, Clockpunk aesthetic
Natlan -> Street culture, Dinotopia, construction, adrenaline sports, beach resorts, Monster Hunter, mysticism, cowboys, workout culture
Nod Kraj -> old Czechoslovak cartoons, Baltic religion, junkyard aesthetic, Witcher,... and likely more.

y'all deserve to get nail'd

>>719085276
Relevant stuff like the Albedo story which was all in events and directly continued/built upon in the archon quest in Mondstat a couple patches ago and left anyone who wasn't there during 1.X super confused.

Why are people now saying Natlan is Africa? Where the fuck are you people getting that from, the one black guy with an afro? It was very clearlu supposed to be South America/Micronesia/Hawaiin islands
But yea, as >>719084521 said that fact that there is even room for debate about this shows how much of an aimless mishmash this region was compared to the others. Fontaine will never be topped

>>719085626
maybe the fact that the main theme of the region is in swahili
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCB25oXUA4

>>719085432
Ohh, I see. You're not actually a human being - you're one of those seals that they train to clap on command, when prompted with a fish.
Carry on, my good seal fellow! They give you more fish when you clap more!

>>719085479
Your post is dishonest because you mention "aliens and university" in Sumeru but leave out adepti and the various demons of Inzauma, but even then the cultural inflation is still present in your list.

>>719076394 (OP)
nod krai is snez like chenyu is liyue
why are you retards so retarded

>>719085752
carry on rajesh, earn your google play cards

>>719085718
Shit, i never caught that. I thought it was just gibberish, lol - i stand corrected.
What a fucking mess of a country, but I really do love Mauvika

>>719085626
The main theme and ancient names of Natlan are in Swahili, come on. This is the most basic of basics.

>>719082324
You are close to it. All the nation are strongly archetypal in the context of the wide anime/weeb culture. Take Monstadt. It isn't really germanic, it's closer to that medieval renaissance mix of france-germany-nord italy that you often see, for example in Horo the wise wolf.
Lisa Minci and Rosaria are italian names, Gunnhildr is germanic while Pegg is from the UK.

It, like Natlan, is not a real place, but to us it feels real, because it's an archetype that it has been built over decades at this point.

Liyue, Inazume, Sumeru, Fontaine, all could be immagined as isekai or villainess settings, but you can't be a villainess in Natlan.
Natlan's problem, more than not being based on a real country, is that it does not draw from an archetypal concept.

I don't know if they realized this or not, but they tried to create something new with Natlan and failed horribly.

Nod Krai is better in that regard, because snowy shithole is something that immediately resonates with people.

>>719083975
>>719084152
Yeah, she didn't deserve what she got.
Poor woman just wanted a family.

>>719085819
I think hoyo wanted to do natlan as africa but then quickly realised that they have nothing to work with other than some basic tribal culture, so the theme gradually gravitated over to being about native americans that at least have documented history and legends, unlike the nogs

>>719085718
>>719085831
No one cares about the made up babbling of warlords in Africa. You're right that Africa is an obvious influence but no one will ever be able to identify Swahili in a Pepsi challenge.

>>719085626
>It was very clearlu supposed to be South America/Micronesia/Hawaiin islands
Which part of South America/Polynesia did you find in Swahili choirs, anthem and ancestral names, anon?
Same as the famous gazelles and giraffes which are known to be native to Peru.

if i don't recognize the language I conclude its made up babble by the devs

>>719085970
or maybe just from a chinese perspective they see more diversity within asia and europe than they do with americas/africa so they just mishmashed them into natlan

>>719085970
If they wanted Africa they could have just used Egypt.

I think they wanted south america, and then thought that since s.america is made by a bunch of different cultures, they should have a bunch of different inspirations.

>>719086034
gazelles and giraffes? you talking about the dinosaurs, or is there an area i just haven't seen? I did the archon quest last year and haven't touched the game at all since the last Fontaine movie festival. I also said i didn't notice it was Swahili in an earlier post, i dont recognize tribal noise as a language
I thought they already put in as much African representation as they needed very early on in the game

>>719086195
they already did egypt in sumeru, and obviously we're not talking about north africa (the mediterranean, basically just southern greece) but sub saharan black africa
>>719086175
diversity is less of important over who actually has recorded history, japan does, china does, europe does, african doesn't, native americans have some, but not a lot, even if you want to make an africa based region what do you have to work with? uhhhh

>>719086270
How do you expect people to believe you're posting in good faith about Natlan's inspirations if you instantly go to "ooga booga dumb nogs no culture"? You're just exposing yourself and invalidating your previous points as disingenuous

>>719085752
>Your post is dishonest because you mention "aliens and university" in Sumeru but leave out adepti and the various demons of Inzauma
Because immortals and youkai are part of the respective Chinese and Japanese cultural canons. They are as expected as drunkards in Mond, scammers in Liyue and light novel nerds in Inazuma.
However, ancient aliens are an additional level built on top of the genuine Egyptian motifs. Because of History Channel and conspiratory memes.
Likewise, University life with Hogwarts-style Houses, all-nighters writing papers, endless pressure to publish, competition for research funds, recreational drug use on campus,.... This is all stuff that is absurdly specific to modern University life tropes and has nothing to do with any of the other cultural topics.

Hence why I singled those out as separate themes in Sumeru.

>>719085718
>>719086034
>swahili
And all that time I thought they were singing "Babalu" like Ricky from 'I Love Lucy'.

>>719086495
>implying anyone on 4channel has good faith
lmao. you've gotten to used to these threads not being deleted on sight
i wonder if theyre going to start doing that again when the new region drops

I wish Natlan was focused on this

>>719086270
>I thought they already put in as much African representation as they needed very early on in the game
You know the best part? That's mo-capped from a SA Native American dance. Look up how people got their panties in a twist when they found out.
You can't possibly not be doing this on purpose.

>>719086651
I never heard about this, but looking into it Dinotopia probably was the point they started from to develop Natlan.

>>719082324
>"the world lore should not be relevant to the core story"
>The lore of the world where the story takes place is not important for the story
>The lore of the world, which contains its rules and history which naturally shapes the characters of the story and their motivations, is not important for the story
Are you retarded?

>>719086651
I still wish we could kill the big brontosaur for 50 meats

>>719084539
That's really reaching for something. Might as well say they use language so they're slaves to it.

The gacha competitor won
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0gw0Cmg_2I

>>719086993
Good morning sir

>makes less money
>"won"
Okay shill.

>>719086993
I actually feel sorry for you guys, not even shiposter care about shitposting in your thread unless its related to genshin. or tripfag blogposting.

>>719086509
Fair, I can see where you're coming from. I don't entirely agree with it, but it's not so dishonest when you put it that way.

>>719086809
Not only am I not retarded - I am correct.
"Lore" is flavor text. Context. Backstory. It's there to flesh out a world and make it feel real or lived in. It is best when it doesn't have any direct impact on the story.
The "lore" of Robin Hood is the foundation of England, or the invention of archery. It gives the story life and explains how things are, but it has zero bearing on Robin trying to win over Maid Marian.
Genshin's lore WAS the same originally - the book about Ganyu's mom is lore, but it has no bearing on the actual story of the game. Now the devs are forcing that "lore" to BECOME "the story," and the story is floundering as a result because the flavor text of the world is being given too much prominence.

I've been playing through Sumeru for a while now and while it was nice in the beginning, suddenly I'm playing Ocarina of Time collecting songs and shit for mushroom people.
The fuck?

>>719086740
>I never heard about this
I'm a bit shocked but then again, Genshin playerbase is young enough to have missed the dinosaur craze caused by Jurassic Park. Here in EE, they ran at least one extremely popular series in 2002.

>>719087189
I bet this retard going to complain that a random Bartender catgirl or a fossil eating chink chef story was not relevant to Tevyat thousand of years lore.

>>719087329
Bro I am 35

>>719087293
enjoy your next 20 hours doing that

>>719087189
>he thinks the core story of Robin Hood is getting to fuck Marian

>>719086651
>>719087329
Damn, I forgot all about this series. I had these books as a kid, probably still do somewhere. The dinosaur craze was serious in the 90's, even moreso for me because my aunt is a paleontologist

>>719087293
Based Ararararanara enjoyer.

>>719087293
enjoy it while you can

>>719087390
I fucking hate these mushroom people.

>>719087468
put the songs in the bag stupid nara

>>719087468
stupid nara!

>>719087529
I wish you could just ignore it.
But half the fucking collectibles in the nation are hidden behind shit that requires songs.

>>719087350
>>719087397
>no counterpoints
>only strawmen
Genshin's story started simple: find your lost sibling while traveling the world as he did, solving its problems and helping its gods into retirement.
The story now has 4(?) factions that are stronger than the gods (dragons, blonde women, heavenly principles, and...?), and there has been almost no development in the core story I previously stated for like 2 years. It's tiresome.
>but the Loom of Fate bros
I don't care about some mcguffin that I hear about for 5 minutes once every 6 months. If it does the Irminsul trick (changing history), we already had Irminsul so adding more mechanics that do the same thing is nothing more than bloat.

>>719087740
>and there has been almost no development in the core story I previously stated for like 2 years. It's tiresome.
Holy speed reader, you already found your sibling many patchs ago.
>solving its problems and helping its gods into retirement.
LMAO no, their objective was to get away from Tevyat, the Archon was the close to higher being to solved this problem.

Never forget. She's always watching.

Expectations for Friday's 5th anniversary livestream?

>>719087852
You can barely even speak English so you have no hope of trying to explain what you think you're saying.
>found your sibling
Knowing that they're the Prince of the Abyss does not get the two of them back together, moron. It's like saying "Sora found Riku and Kairi" when he met them on Hook's ship, despite that only being the halfway point of the first game and there were 2 more games before the trio were finally, actually "back together again."
>no, their objective was to get away from Tevyat
Venti wants people to rule themselves so he can drink wine.
Zhongli wants people to rule themselves so he can drink tea.
Ei wants people to rule themselves so she can think about things.
----
>story starts vary here
Nahina was usurped by people who wanted to rule themselves, so she was put in a cage.
----
>story goes completely off the rails here
Furina wasn't actually a god, the god wanted to flip the bird to the godlier god-God so she killed herself and gave power to the godlier dragon man so CAST IN THE NAME OF GOD YE NOT GUILTY.
Mavuika drives in on her motorcycle and punches reality TV so hard that it shits the moon.

None of this is "trying to get away from Teyvat." If is, then the STORY was poorly told.

>>719088012
>Reminder that you get a FREE 5*
>Mediocrity

>>719088394
You dumb fuck speed reader, the sibling want to get away from that world not the Archons.
Their adventure with Archon was never trying to "help them to retire" you dumb fuck, you expect them just barge in into the leader of the world and demand answer straight away? holy shit, just fucking kill yourself.

>>719088401
what would Mauvika's be? Her just basking in sunshine and everyone cheering behind her?

>>719088546
The normal position, except Capitano is behind her doing the same pose and taking the hits.
And also there's another copy of Natlan people sleeping getting killed behind him too.

>>719088401
needs fontaine with focalors shooting at furina

>>719088631
I don't understand this joke.
The picture is too small.

>>719088631
did you save the thumbnail

Reminder that you haven't collected all Mt. Hulao chests

>>719088678
>>719088741
I have shamed my famiry.

>>719083975
she should have been playable, I hate genshin's no dead characters rule

>>719085937
Yeah, I think people just aren't familiar enough with a lot of what Natlan is based on for it to hit. Africa and South America just aren't cultrualy relevant enough.

>>719088962
>no dead characters
Thankfully, that got overturned in Star Rail (twice no less).
So it's entirely possible when they inevitable get desperate.

>>719089395
Do people not realize Natlan is just Aztec themed?
All the names in the whole nation scream Aztec.

>>719088962
But the scene of Raiden murdering a Snezhnayan diplomat in cold blood was extremely cathartic given all the bullshit these people did and always got away with.

The good guys stop fucking around and punish the obvious snickering bad guy.
It's the kind of thing you wish would happen in real life more often. Liars getting called out, shitheads getting their due justice.

>>719082324
>Natlan is simply not representative of any real real-world culture
Counterpoint, it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdKvagWf9I&ab_channel=marivassa
with ancient dragon tech.

>>719088523
On the note of "speed reading" (since you don't say anything else of value), even the concept of a "speed reader" is completely retarded in Genshin. Genshin is 5 years old, featuring dozens of limited-time events that had lore insinuations/foreshadowing, and even in the permanent content, many of "the deep lore" statements are made off hand and in passing.
"Speed reading" is not the issue. Shadow dropping supposedly important statements into off-hand comments for 3 seconds ones every two years will result in people outright forgetting things, since their importance wouldn't even become apparent until years later. For the normal people, who don't live in youtube essay rehash land, the SLOWness of the information is the problem, not speed reading.

>>719089604
I loved it
Still miss her

>>719089604
>But the scene of Raiden murdering a Snezhnayan diplomat in cold blood
Shit that's been my favorite scene in the whole game as someone that's only now doing Sumeru content.

>>719089575
Ahh, yes, the ancient Aztec traditions of breakdancing, motorcycles, and surfing.
Stop embarrassing yourself by proposing that Natlan is "just" any one culture.

>>719089604
It'd be better if Raiden wasn't a shit character. Worst archon and worst girl.

>>719089857
>yes

>>719090001
It was the puppet that murdered her, not the real Raiden

>>719090001
saying that she's the worst archon when Mavuika exists is funny, and I say this as someone who loves everything about her from a design standpoint. The story really lays it on too thick about how perfect this "human" is and it's incredibly obnoxious

>>719089645
I only play this game once every couple of weeks during major patches, and even then I’ve known for years that the main quest was never about reuniting with your sibling again but finding out the reason why your sibling became a "villain" while doing chore for the country leader, it was never about helping them retire.
Hell, even in Venti’s case, he already dropped the Archon role centuries ago, so you’re not actually helping him retire. That’s why I’m calling this retard a speed reader he even speed reading the damn prologue story.

>>719089604
Sure it was amusing having her get offed like that, but she still didn't deserve it.
Meanwhile, Arlecchino is retconned into a dindu nuffin who's invincible but isn't ranked No.1 of the Fatui for some reason, and all because she's a pantsuit wearing boss woman.

>>719089947
True that brother, unlike Sumeru, our Indian ancestor actually invented wireless radio device that act as a google search.

>>719076394 (OP)
We need more gyaru characters though...

>>719090673
Yeah it's such bullshit.
Australia invented wifi, not indians.

>>719090440
>the main quest was never about reuniting with your sibling again
That's literally -the- main quest. The story ends when that goal is accomplished.
>but finding out the reason why your sibling became a "villain"
This is, and has always been, "the conflict of the story." It's the thing preventing the core story from already being accomplished.
It's funny how people like you accuse others of "speed reading" when you have apparently never opened a book before.
> it was never about helping them retire.
Correct, it wasn't ABOUT that, it was just something that happened in all three of the game's initial nations. The first three gods were all in the process of stepping down from their position, ushering in Ages of Man.
I drew you a fucking chart >>719088394, do you really need more?

>>719086651
FGO latin america chapter is about dinosaurs with guns playing soccer

>>719086651
This is Tenoch uniting the heroes and their saurian companions.

>>719090673
I haven't finished Sumeru yet but the Akasha seems really evil to me. I've read/seen tons of dystopia books/movies with a hook like that.

>>719090896
is there a videogame like this?

I think the problem of GI in general is that yeah, they have all this rich lore foundation with all the goddesses and ancient civilizations, the witches and shit, but you don't see anything of it in the actual game, important lore drops is confned to artifact sets that nobody cares to read, or the convoluted lore is found on obscure books that nobody reads too
There's a saying in literature that no matter how rich your lore is, if the delivery is shit nobody will care about it

>>719090863
>the conflict of the story.
>Literally the ending of the prologue was watching cutscene of your sibling watching your from a cliff while commanding an Abyss mage.
HOLY SPEED READING RETARD.
>That's literally -the- main quest. The story ends when that goal is accomplished.
No, retard, that’s the MC’s quest, but we already knew from day one that the other sibling never wanted to be found, you as a player controlling the sibling basically doing a willd goose chase unlocking the mystery of Tevyat.

>>719082324
holy retard

I think its interesting everyone can play the same game and have such wildly different interpretations of the story and themes to even have these kinds of debates

>>719091370
>play
and that's where you are wrong. these retards don't even play the game

>>719091084
when you do see it though it's really cool

genshin lost me when I met the little dino. should I go back?

>>719089947
You have to base your expectations on the wacky ancient alien astronaut version of their respective nations. The Aztecs had space travel and were in contact with aliens? It's true in Genshin lore. The Natlan dragon civilization has space ships, space elevators, and met with aliens (The Voyager). It's the same reason the Egyptian inspired Deshret civilization was advanced. And we're confirmed to be getting root races and Hyperborea in No Krai.

>>719091084
>but you don't see anything of it in the actual game
You do though. Old ruins and shit have been in the game ever since it launched. Environmental storytelling is all over the place. Hell, the location you spawn in when you first start the game teases you with this.

>>719087898
Good, every time Nahida starts musing about the nature of existence is the only time I'm glad Genshin is a wordsalad game.

>>719076394 (OP)
Dawei needs time to set the proper gameplay mechanics

>>719088962
>>719089604
Killing of Signora (brutally) was the single best decision Hoyo did in the entirety of Genshin Impact. It gave the game authenticity, and meant anything could happen if they really wanted to. You would not neatly have a collection of all the main characters, the Harbingers are an incomplete set.

I hope Tsarista also never becomes a playable character either.

>>719092462
>I hope Tsarista also never becomes a playable character either.
That's impossible, she's Bronya. Bronya must be playable. It's the rules, can't go against them.

>>719092768
Boomer Bronya is my favorite

>>719092039
Sure but more often than not is shit, you know how you when you do Skirk's quest and the Abyss creates the world atlas with Khaemriah on it to rewrite causality to make it real again? So yeah you know where the end result is? On a fucking artifact set, you need to go out of your way to read an artifact set to know what happens after
They could make a permanent change in the map, but no, let's put it on something nobody bothers to read

Is there a skip button yet?

>>719092768
The fuck is Bronya?

>>719093216
You'll find out in a year, anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmW9FHHaWkA

>>719091370
That implies that the guy who still believes that the story is solely about finding the sibling when we found them in 1.4, and somehow about making gods retire, which wasn’t even an objective of the Traveler and only happened for the first two nations (not the first three) with Venti not even having retired since he's just as hands off with his nation today as he was hundred of years ago, has actually read the story.

>>719090379
At the very least Mavuika isn't a net negative for her people, living under Raiden's "rule" was hell. Since she literally just had a fake version of her do it while she sat on her ass moping.

>>719088546
It's her and her people shooting the abyss, capitano in the middle helping

I want to FUCK Yaoyao!

>>719076394 (OP)
>Tranime

I want to fuck Aino.

>>719093964
>frogshit

>>719091370
That's more of a commentary on the differences between people who read a story versus the people who do deep dives into the youtube fandoms about said story.
The latter group has incredible difficulty differentiating between the actual story and the four hour video essays that tell them what to think about it.

>>719091084
That's not a problem, though, that's how lore is supposed to be. I already said: it's flavor text. Lore should not have a direct impact on the story you're playing - it is only supposed to flesh out the setting.

>>719091224
You're not even contradicting my points. Do you even know what a conflict is? As in the literary term?

I wish electro stuck with being girl only harem + retarded razor

>>719076394 (OP)
any character progression update yet? or they're just keep adding new region

>>719094387
Nod Krai is a bonus region before Snez to try and fix some of the storytelling issues, there has been some developments in lore but the traveler and paimon are the same as they always have been though fan theories on what Paimon is are ramped up further due to a recent lore video on youtube.

>>719093216
CEO of Mihomo

>>719089575
>Natlan is just Aztec themed?
>just aztec
It's not only Aztec, dipshit. It's all of Mesoamerica + Sub-saharan Africa + Pacific Islanders + modern urban African American culture.

>>719094331
I'm just calling you a retard for thinking we still to find the sibling after years into the story, we already past that point and just to find out why they joining the abyss when you fight them the first time you actually meet them.
Yes, speedreading-kun the sibling already meet each other many years ago and there was a fight between them.

>>719094731
>It's all of Mesoamerica + Sub-saharan Africa + Pacific Islanders + modern urban African American culture.
+ Red Bull events + Latin America + Hawaii + construction work + cowboys + Dinotopia +...

>>719076394 (OP)
Russia? In current political climate?

>>719094772
And you're revealing yourself to BE a retard by thinking "finding" a lost sibling merely stops at "being aware of their location" and does not include "full on reuniting with them and returning to traveling the stars with them."
Lob every accusation of "speed reader" at me that you want (since it seems to be your only real tool, misplaced as it may be); you're still demonstrating yourself to be mentally inadequate when it comes to basic thinking.

>>719095245
reddit lost

The summer region in this patch is permanent, right?

>>719095490
If only they did, else Genshin would have a lot more lolis to filter them out.

>>719095557
Literally every type of female character pisses them of.

>>719095652
Lolis piss them off even more than the hebes and hags.

>>719095713
Can't tell since the leaks sub comments are 90% begging for fag reruns and calling Scaramouche, Kazuha, Xiao etc. Muh boy.

>>719094731
Literally what part of Natlan is sub saharan africa?

>>719095250
>"full on reuniting with them and returning to traveling the stars with them."
We still in that process, you the one who said this. >>719087740
>Genshin's story started simple: find your lost sibling while traveling the world as he did, solving its problems and helping its gods into retirement.
You literally contradict yourself with that post, the sibling still trying to be together, the other one just got a mission to finish first.

>>719094348
cyno is just a razor clone

>>719091370
thats obvious:
one person read everything in the game
the other skipped and spam clicked even the main story

>>719095974
They must love the camera event since it's filled with homos to take pictures of.

>>719093216
Honkek 3 shit.
Every retard claims Oyohim is basing Genshin characters off of them, but in reality they simply reuse designs because they think they're too good to be wasted on one game.

>>719096087
I could have also just accepted razor + cyno because they're both dog-like and could be considered pets but then they've added 3 more bums

>>719096002
We've already been over the Swahili and animals ITT.
Off the top of my head, I think there are also Baobab trees in on the green plains? Though I'm not completely sure right now as I never went around collecting the wood in Natlan.

>>719096262
I think it's less about basing or not but the concept that hoyo games are all set in the same multiverse of parallel universes and there are some characters whose different versions you can encounter in parallel universes, raiden and bronya being the most obvious ones

>>719088546
same as Mondstadt but SHE'S shooting at the abyss offscreen

>>719094286
BIG
FAT
TOPAZ
ASS

>>719096572
I don't know, anon.
I still remember when morons were telling everyone who thought Genshin was too lighthearted that it was soon going to be filled with depression and despair just because Honkai3 did it or something and that was Mihoyo's "signature storytelling".
Years later and those same morons eventually stopped because nothing changed.

>>719097108
UOOOH MUALANI FEET MUALANI IMPREGNATION

>>719097108
>no kachina sex

>>719097216
I dunno what that has to do with anything, hoyo likes to throw hints around that it's a multiverse and that some characters are different versions of each other, like the raidens and bronyas, so some people are expecting that the tsaritsa will be a bronya version, I hope it's at least that though and those leaks saying that the tsaritsa is not a real person but more of just an ideal and a concept that the fatui follow is fake or if the person talking in the leaks is just a retard

>>719096023
There is no contradiction at all, my confused friend. You simply have a rigid definition of certain words in your head, and it's clouding your ability to understand English (which is a malleable language; the opposite of rigid).
My post that you quoted there does not contradict itself: reread it (look at you, you speed reader). It calls out how the scope of Genshin's story has ballooned over the years to add a half dozen additional factions/tiers of power. it was better when it had a clear goal (find [which is to say "reunite with"] the sibling) and a clear conflict (the sibling is the head of an antagonistic faction). Even at this stage we had two additional conflict factions: Celestia and the Fatui (even though it has always been obvious that the Fatui are actually mostly on our "side").
Adding the Hexenzirkle, the Dragon Sovereigns (which is actually two groups? Data versions and actual breathing dragons?), the Heavenly Principles, and I guess you'd call the blonde ladies the Shades(?)... it's a muddled mess now because it exists to sell new banners and keep the gravy train rolling.

>>719096135
You have actual brain damage if you cannot comprehend the middle stage of "listens to all the quest dialogue but doesn't read the in game books and artifact sets." Like, actual developmental disability. That middle ground is where the lore fucks everything up, because being ignorant of the lore should not impact understanding of the story (the Archon quest).

>>719097469
The guy in the leaks is a schizo. According to him all of Snezhnya is a psyop.

>>719097469
>I hope it's at least that though and those leaks saying that the tsaritsa is not a real person but more of just an ideal and a concept that the fatui follow is fake
She was explicitly even called Bronya by Childe way back in the beta.
Yelan stole her cloak and fashioned hers from it.
Et cetera.

If miHoYo wanted to distance Genshin from Honkai, they wouldn't have gone turbo-Honkai with Skirk's design, the space outside Teyvat, new Shades' designs being 3 more turbo-Honkai chars in the game and so on.
They know what they want to do and it's got Bronya figures in a year written all over it.

>>719097612
>it was better when it had a clear goal (find [which is to say "reunite with"] the sibling)
The goal never changed, just said that you don't like the story instead of saying they changed the story when it clearly right there since day one.
It always finding out the mystery of why your sibling joining the abyss.

>>719097872
well yeah but have YOU ever seen the tsaritsa? hmm?
>>719097893
that's the beta though, they've retconned a lot of shit since then

Local Sandronefag reporting in. Make her playable Dawei pls

>>719098190
Sandrone screams boss only. How are you supposed to manipulate a giant robot to fight for you?

>>719098190
it'll be easier if you just accept that she's the designated dead harbinger of the region

>>719097941
I have already made it clear that I have not liked the direction of Genshin's story for a long time. The first 3 nations were a good story told poorly. The second 3 nations were a bad story told poorly. There have been moments of passable/good story sprinkled throughout, like Sumeru 1 and Fontaine 1, but overall the story has been on the downward trend since version 1.2.
That I don't like a story does not mean that I don't understand the story. Plenty of people understand the story of, say, Game of Thrones (because it's a simple story for babies and retards) but that doesn't mean everyone who understands it likes it. It's like Genshin: "good in the beginning and then falls off a cliff."

>it's about finding out the mystery
What mystery? We already know clearly why the sibling won't come back with us, and we've known for ages. Sure, we don't -know- definitively which of the factions that the sibling has the biggest beef with, especially since they can freely add factions whenever youtubers get too close and ruin the surprise, but the core idea of "the sibling won't join our side until we know the faction they're fighting" has been plain as day since the first Dainslief chapter.
This is not some gripping mystery that needs a whole extra book inserted before the climax of the story. It's just going to be another "oh, that's what it was" moment, like Focalors killing herself. Pure hollow drama.

>>719098443
allan will definitely die with mary ann in nod krai, the question is what happens to the doll, techinically they could make the doll playable, but considering how they're setting her up to be the villain of the story I'd bet that she'll just die

>>719097108
sex with cactus!

>>719098190
He will. If she was highlighted in the presentation video and Ineffa's quest hinted that she is not necessarily evil it has to happen, also leakers are being fags as usual like when they said Arlecchino would be killed then changed their minds a few patches into Fontaine.

>>719098647
>she is not necessarily evil
she sounded evil as FUCK tho

>>719098443
so far every harbinger boss has been a playble character. Besides they could just make the bot a geo construct but this time it can move. She already has a geo looking design

>>719098804
>harbinger boss has been a playble character
ermmm should we tell him about signora

>>719098804
Bro, your pile of ashes in Inazuma?

>>719098867
She's playable and returning in 8.0. Trust the plan.

>>719098708
Snarky sure, the thing is it is made clear that the fatui guy under her branch was doing the expedition to Natlan on his on volition and Sandy told him that it was a bad idea.

>>719098514
>We already know clearly why the sibling won't come back with us, and we've known for ages.
Oh, enlighten me then with only your knowledge only from 1.0 alone.
Because it seem you grip of the sibling that they story was "simple" and suddenly you said you already know they won't be meeting each other since forever.
You keep moving your narrative like a fucking retard you are.
>Sure, we don't -know- definitively which of the factions that the sibling has the biggest beef with,
Joining the abyss mean they already got beef with Celestia which literally the point of Abyss faction.

Oh, please great anon, share me your knowledge of this game because it seem you know everything about it since day one.
>inb4 he just repeat everything that happen in the last arc down to every sentences.

MUH

>>719098857
>>719098867
I literally forgot about signora oops.
>>719098708
she's not evil just indiffernt. She also tends to just dip if a situation gets too spicy since she's dosen't care about anything that isn't robotics.
Also you cannot tell me "too evil" is an argument against a characther when scaramouche is a rat bastard piece of shit and he got a whole mental gymnastics quest just to make him playable

>>719098983
Legs are better than tits

>>719098514
>inazushit
>good story

>>719099036
NTA but I don't want to whitewash characters just to make them playable. Please leave the few proper baddies be baddies.

>>719098514
>The first 3 nations were a good story
You just outed yourself as a shitposter, there's nothing good about Inazuma patch beside having good exploration area compare to the last two.

>>719099262
umm the only actual baddies are the shapeless blobs from the abyss that want to kill everyone just because, every other character is morally gray and if they're too far gone (capitano, signora) then they die and YOU will cry for them, every other character WILL get whitewashed and become playable, allan and mary-ann are definitely too far gone so they WILL die and you WILL cry for them, the puppet sandrone though might get whitewashed, unless she gets treated as an extension of allan and mary-ann

>>719099317
>Enkanomiya kino
>Chasm kino
>Ghost island kino
>GAA2 kino
>Iradori festival
>Best Lantern Rite
Inazuma patch was peak, only the AQ was weak.

>>719099262
there's no saving doctor

>>719099554
he already got whitewashed though? all the bad doctors died and only the good boy doctor who didn't actually do anything bad survived

>>719099553
That retard was talking about AQ story when comparing each nations.

>>719099553
>GAA2
>shitzuma
>good

>>719099473
But the thing with alain and mary ann is that they aren't in the wrong at all. They got betrayed by narzissenkreuz ordo because they radicalized themselves too much and that resulted in them killing mary ann. And The puppet only looks like Mary Ann but is probably an AI made by alian. My guess is since at the end of the NO questline mary ann says she's visiting hyperborea sandrone and mary ann will meet and the puppet gets her proper conciousness back.

calm down rajesh

>>719099774
meant for >>719099553

>>719098945
>from 1.0 alone.
>since day one
"For ages" does not mean "since launch." You're demonstrating that you are the actual speed reader here, not me. We've known the principle of the sibling's separation since, as I said, Dain's first quest with the upside down statue: the first time the siblings crossed paths in the story. That was "ages ago." Years ago.
If you need it spelled out, the reason that was obvious then was that the sibling was waging war with "a higher faction" in Teyvat, with initial signs pointing to "Celestia." While it's probable that the faction will shift as the story continues to move, the core idea was obvious then to anyone with eyes and a sense of critical thinking. The fine details of this are just flavor in the grand scheme of things, regardless of how it actually turns out. The conflict to resolve is unaffected by the minutia.

>>719099179
>>719099317
It's an easy point of view to defend. As I said, it WAS told poorly. It was disappointing compared to Mond and Liyue. But I will stand firm that the core idea of the story: a God that retreats into her mind, leaving a doll to do the ruling, while her kingdom falls to shit as a result" was extremely interesting. Also, as >>719099553 pointed out, the Inazuma side stories were some of the best content in the entire game. Like, they were fucking AMAZING content. So while the Archon quest was disappointing as fuck, because it had something to say but lacked the skills to say it, at least all the OTHER content was still peak.
Now we don't even get that.

>>719099743
allan has been alive since the cataclysm bearing the burden of the past until now, literally the same story beat as capitano and signora, the puppet is definitely just a robot that he made to look like mary-ann, my guess is that allan and mary-ann will meet in nod krai and die, bringing a closure to their story, and the puppet will either die with them or get whitewashed and become playable

>>719099830
no, it was meant for
>>719099721
>>719099317
>>719099179
>BAD BAD BAD SHIT SHIT BAD GAME BAD GAME SAAR EVERYTHING BAD SHIT SAAR
you're boring rajesh, just kys

>>719099830
Stay mad brownie

>>719099882
>the core idea of the story [...] was extremely interesting.
This is also true for Natlan.

>>719097108
kek is this real

>>719100103
Is it? I thought the whole ancient names and Night Kingdom thing was retarded.

>>719099947
>literally the same story beat as capitano and signora
Maybe with Signora since she's grieving about her husbands death and is mad at venti for not doing shit during the cataclysm to save him. Otherwise alain is grieving about his dead sister but he dosen't know she's still around as annapausis mary ann, that's why he's so indiffrent about everything and only cares about robots, he just wants his sister back

>>719099882
>Hey, anon remember when the story is simple and about searching your sibling by spreading poster of him/her? why are the story is so convoluted now with this faction celestia and shit that doesn't matter?
>Start yapping about how the story already convoluted since chapter 1.
Keep digging that grave, I'll wait till you jump.

>>719100231
No. It was made by some retard who got upset that Natlan wasn't 24/7 war and bloodshed which is something that only retards ever thought was going to be a thing. The shit on the bottom is just some retarded nonsense someone else tacked on too. We've only gotten one glimpse at Mare Jivari so far it was a red, barren hellscape. The cactus thing is completely unrelated to the Mare Jivari.

>>719100323
Odds are that Sandrone is a failed attempt to recreate Mary Ann. If Alain is still around, he might be the big robot.

>>719100103
Natlan's AQ was imo debatably the best so far but every other story was poorly executed crap. Most character quests like in Sumeru(coincidence?) had npcs play almost a bigger role than the character it is supposed to be about and I couldn't give less of a shit about the lil buddy quest chain and the retarded ending it had.

>>719100323
and with capitano, both of them got fucked by the cataclysm, then spent 500 years bearing that weight, then died, allan will be the same, it's very easy to see his story ending with meeting the real(ish) mary-ann, then her saying that it's over, just let it go, and then they die (pass on since they both live as revenants really), and then they might whitewash the puppet and make her playable, but I dunno, that just depends on what the writers want to do with the puppet

>>719076394 (OP)
Nod Krai is going to be kino

>>719100428
ah yes the nation of war (actually is just couple of guys stealing names from old rappers like 2pac and then having one battle against purple hilichurls before going to hawaiian paradise for 11 months)

I can't take it anymore, Genshin's story is the embodiment of "nothing ever happens".
The last time the actual story progressed in a meaningful way was in fucking 1.4 this is ridiculous.
They keep teasing shit about the truth of this world but we've had all the lore we needed for years and nothing happened with it.

>>719099882
>it WAS told poorly.
Thee story is pure shit and people defending it either just Raiden simp or fag loving Kazushit.

RELEASE THE BOOKS, MHY

>>719100428
>We've only gotten one glimpse at Mare Jivari so far it was a red, barren hellscape. The cactus thing is completely unrelated to the Mare Jivari.
Anon, there's a new world quest with one of the cactus guys.

>>719100428
>The cactus thing is completely unrelated to the Mare Jivari
did you skip the dialogue, second screened the game or what?

>>719100620
lolwut, the abyss order story progressed with the siblin getting the new khaenriah atlas, and the lore progressed with revealing the 4 shades as well as mavuika punching through the fake sky, and with story going into the moon goddesses and angels in nod krai, which will set up the snowland fae lore for sneedsnaya, since sneedsnaya will definetly center around the snowland fae

Shitzumatroon melty

>>719100646
Weren't they available in the files? I remember the youtuber My Name For Now made an analysis of them and it told the story of how the sinners sacrificed istaroth to gain abyssal powers

Do we have cinegrids for the other regions? Each region has so many beautiful sights, sometimes sights you only ever get to see once in some story/quest area you'll only ever get once

>>719100781
Snowland fae are from Hyperborea, which was located where Nod-Krai is right now.

>>719100570
alright I can see this story pan out but I have one more cope up my sleeve. She's one of the last harbingers people actually care about, the other 3 are the doctor, pantalone (literl who also visionlet) and the gnome. She's gotta be playble especailly since Columbina dosen't count as a harbinger anymore because moon maiden and Natlan didn't have a harbinger.

>>719100646
I'm still waiting for the Teyvat Travel Guide for Sumeru, Fontaine, and Natlan.

>>719100742
NTA but the only Mare Jivari stuff I saw was in the summer resort story and the only cactus stuff there was the kigurumi cactuses on the ride.

>>719100781
>the lore progressed with revealing the 4 shades
We did know about that, they just directly confirmed what we guessed.
>mavuika punching through the fake sky
That's just yet another one of those "look guys something big is gonna happen!!!!" from Hoyo while nothing comes from it.
>which will set up
Yes, everything has been "setup" for fucking years with 0 payoff. Why would the current stuff be any different?

idk what's happening in the story is going right now btw, I quit after completing Natlan's AQ

>>719076765
Sure it is Ivan

>>719100904
I don't get it why this non-cutscene exploration area only got a single hilichur and furniture chest.

>>719077694
>Expect a third world shithole
>Get comfy first world American allies instead
Based hoyo

>>719085626
Dunno, it feels like I'm in the Lion King here. Does the US have savanna?

>>719101045
People like you is why we getting Nordkrai instead of faster Tevyat ending chapter, this is why genshin is going to EoS and we are getting Song of Welking Moon instead.

>>719101008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1m4yzsUjj4

>>719082883
So Snezhnaya will be as bad as Natlan

>>719100959
hyperborea sunk to the bottom of the sea by a nail, some survivors just moved to nod krai, and the previous tsar was the king of fae, with the snowland fae being the leader aristocracy of sneedsnaya, the tsaritsa is likely the daughter of the tsar and also a snowland fae, which would explain why she hates celestia and wants to start a rebellion
>>719101045
we vaguely heard about shades, it was in natlan first when we actually saw and talked to one, then the trailer revealed the others too
no it's not, it confirms that the sky is fake, and teyvat is in some fake bubble thing that just looks like a sky, with the shades trailer hinting at the fact that it's in one of those cubes created by the ruler of space
we get more and more pieces confirmed progressing towards the finale of the story, that's how stories work

>>719101248
Go back to plebbit

>>719101187
You can do this same exact thing in America.
Left is a suburb, right is a farm.

>>719101116
>>719100904
derp

Is Nod Krai the bonus Khaenraighzifodhdofah chapter that was mentioned in the Teyvat Travails trailer?

Kokomi was a mistake.

>>719101283
???

>>719101248
Sorry I have pattern recognition abilities
>>719101274
>it confirms that the sky is fake
It was stated back in 1.1 and kept getting confirmed many times for years. It's nothing new.

>>719101261
God I hate Mavuika.

>>719101363
no that's new khaneriah, that the sibling will make with the leyline atlas

>>719101396
>still the only character to have a random negative 100% crit rate slapped on her to this day

>>719101363
No it's just padding. They made a new region out of nowhere and plastered some rushed lore on it

>>719101434
Better than Shitden Shitgun.

>>719101426
not directly visibly confirmed, and then connected to the ruler of space

>>719101506
That came out of left field.
Is she living rent free in your head?

>>719101242
yeah arizona, new mexico and parts of colorado and texas

>>719101363
no nod krai is the we fucked up so badly by promoting nigger culture through zzz, tanked all 5 of our games and are too proud to admit that so we made a fake region that is supposed to me the meeting point of all cultures despite being on the edge of teyvat and literal nuked land to retain at least some of our players before quitting

>>719101508
Did anything happen from it?
Then it's just another "wowzers guys look the story is progressing for real this time".
Genshin story fans either have 0 pattern recognition or have a severe case of sunk cost fallacy

>>719101396
Wait for Lauma for her usage rate to spike. BLOOM IS BACK BABYYYYYY.

>>719101569
>Is she living rent free in your head?
meant for >>719101434

>>719101628
That wasn't out of left field at all. The video he linked was like 90% Mavuika tooting around on her stupid bike.

>>719089604
Japan keeps dabbing on Russians even in genshin impact

>>719101602
>story is progressing
>but it's not at the ending yet so it doesn't count
sounds like you have brain damage, or you're just a paid shitposter

>>719101506
Void argument when you can use both of them now in an overloaded team with chevy.

>>719101289
Lol

>>719101721
Sorry but I'm used to reading structured stories that know where they're going.

>>719101729
>you can use both of them

did this seething nafo tranny come from the cuckcord too?

>>719091084
Literally me over those testamentsBiblewhatever fantasy books
*adjusts hat*

>>719089604
>I will- the fatui will make sure that your precious Inazuma-ACK
>Inazuma shines eternal, zigger
Kino

>>719101803
and I'm used to seeing retarded shitposters who just shitpost for the sake of it

why is there no road from natlan to sumeru

>>719101834
I'm sorry genshin takes the side of the civilized world against the failed state of Russia

>>719101912
Do you know what shitposting is? It means posting funny things. Not trolling or ragebaiting as the kids call it.
But I doubt you've been on the internet long enough to know about that stuff

I think I'm just going to auto through every single dialogue including story-related ones in Nod Krai except when a loli is on screen. I already did this with event wordslop anyways.

>>719102002
it's posting shit, like you're doing rajesh
>hurrrrrr wuhts kishotenketsu
you wouldn't get it, jeet

>>719101987
So then who are the Abyss acting behind the scenes?

>>719101974
There is, it's just not visible because the area between the desert pyramids and the water tribe hasn't been filled in yet.

>>719102051
Same. Having to click every 5 seconds while jerking off is so tedious

>>719091370
don't tell anyone since it's unrelated to the thread but to me it's fantastic that it's 2025 and there's still A VS B portal threads and stormcloaks VS imperials threads

>>719101576
>yeah arizona, new mexico and parts of colorado and texas
eeh, dunno, when I read that, the thing that comes to mind is western movies imagery, Monument Valley and so on, not the Lion King imagery. I think it goes pretty much the same way for the rest of the world. I kinda get it with the abrupt orange rocky mountains, but not sufficient to be evocative of the south of the USA for me.

Since Nod Krai is a "let's fill up all the holes in the story before the final act" patch will we find out what happened to Electro Sovereign, or why there are no electro dragons or vishaps anywhere in Inazuma? (Vishaps in Enkanomiya are corrupted hydro vishaps)

>>719102058
Thanks for confirming you don't have any internet culture. How does it feel for you tiny indian town to have just gotten internet in 2025?

>>719102236
the music in the flower feather clan is literally old western

>>719101974
I always thought the road to Natlan would be through the giant ruin mech

>enjou and mare jivari quest in the joke summer area with the butt jiggle graffiti spirits
god natlan is such a mess

>>719102270
thanks for confirming that you're just a brown jeet shitting up the thread for google play cards
>How does it feel for you tiny indian town
SAAR NO U SAAR the classic esl jeet sperging lmao

>>719102124
is it ever going to be filled in

>>719101974
>>719102124
There is, the biggest atrocity is the big gaping whole between the Oasis and north Natlan. WTF IS THAT FOR? THERE IS EVEN A DAMN CAVE THAT RAILROADS INTO NATLAN BUT WE CAN'T WALK THERE.

Won't buy another BP or Welkins until some hype character.

They are all lacklusters so far, I regret rolling for Skirk.

>>719102382
Maybe the Nod Krai chapter will give them an excuse to work on the missing parts of other regions.

>>719102417
>metaslave
You've already lost.

>don't have a bloom team
>don't want another electro dps, a male one at that
Should I just skip this patch as well? I'm sitting on 85k primos atm.

>>719102417
>he pays money for Genshin
I haven't paid a single cent and i have truck fulls of 5 star characters.

>>719102240
>will we find out what happened to Electro Sovereign, or why there are no electro dragons or vishaps anywhere in Inazuma?

>>719102384
It's still nowhere near as bad as the crime committed in northern Sumeru.

For me it's this entire area
I mean, finish the coastlines for fucks sake, and then fill the rest with water, it's not like you'll ever add an area there anyway.

>every other language calls them Gods
>english version
>Archon
Why do they do this shit?

>>719102653
We need more Sumeru forest kino to make up for the desert cancer dragging the region down. Adding empty oceans to the north instead of more forest was a mistake.

>>719102541
it's always just the archons that are worth investing in and this time columbina will be the archon role

>>719102653
Yeah this shit's really lazy. Just auto-generate some shit and put 10 mora crates on the coast.

>>719102653
>it's not like you'll ever add an area there anyway.
The Liyue part of this bit is a long-teased and established forge area, anon.
It is definitely getting a real expansion.

>>719102712
Babby's first jelly donuts

>>719102712
english is a more nuanced language

>>719102653
Probably because of Blackliff Forge being there but yes it's fucking stupid how poor Bayda Harbor has visible houses and boats but can't be accessed.

>>719102712
the chinese and japanese version call them "demon gods" actually

>>719100279
The idea of sending a bunch of champions out to fight back the abyss but only ever delaying the inevitable and then the actual AQ being that shit no longer working the way it used to and everyone panicking is pretty neat in my opinion.

>>719102759
>>719102819
>liyue gets its millionth regional expansion while other regions get jack shit yet again

>>719100103
I do not agree. The core story of Natlan - a nation defending itself from the brunt of the Abyss - is an incoherent mess that requires a perpetual state of plot contrivance to advance. It undermined itself by spending half of a patch getting drunk with a cute drunk perpetually young old lady, and then spending two patches in waterpark festivals. Inazuma might not have told its story well, but at least it tried to be somewhat tonally consistent.

>>719100405
A plot having a conflict is not convolution. A plot twist in Chapter 3 of 7 (that the sibling does not want to be found) is not necessarily a convolution.
Maybe "speed reader" isn't actually an appropriate title for you, since you don't even seem capable of reading in the first place.

>>719100629
I am neither a Raiden apologist or a Kazuha fanboy. Raiden was by FAR the worst-handled archon until Mavuika usurped her. Raiden deserved to face retribution for her crimes, but she didn't and never will because "haha funny cute NEET jokes." It's a blemish on the nation's reputation that will never go away, but it does not blind me to the merits of the nation.

>>719102780
Irrelevant. They need to translate the game. Not make up shit.
Literal trannylations.

>>719102819
*Meant Port Ormos

>>719102746
Yeah, I'll only roll if something interesting comes up.

>>719101508
That does not actually mean anything, or have any relevant impact on the story or world. It's Cheeto dust sprinkled onto your meal. If you flip your shit for Cheetos then it'll be your favorite dish ever for the moment, but other people like to actually taste their food.
>food analogy
I genuinely don't think you'd understand any analogy with more intellect or nuance so I'm bringing the conversation to your level.

>>719102972
Giving the archons a title to separate them from other gods was a good move.

>>719100603
>yes the nation of war and then having one battle against purple hilichurls before going to hawaiian paradise for 11 months)
That's more than every other nation combined.

>stealing names from old rappers
Fucking retard. The rapper itself used a 400yo name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Túpac_Amaru

>>719102972
Wait until you see Neuvillette decree by law that people must use the correct pronouns for the Melusine population in the troonlation...

>>719103174
That's not their call to make.

>>719102384
Water was such a massive fucking mistake. I miss the invisible walls and Paimon telling us that we'll explore it later. Everything being an ocean is utter horseshit and it dramatically shrunk the size of the world.

>>719102919
Poor Mondstadt. I legit though Venti would have had his second quest before now
Now I just assume they're saving it for something bigger in Mondstadt or some shit.

I feel like such a retard for not noticing the destroyed moon was there since Mavuika punched the sky, only saw it thanks to that recent cutscene with Bennett.

>>719103330
dorman port in the nod krai patch cycle trust. We can finally visit monas birthplace and annoy per parents

>>719102939
You keep moving the goal post, you want the story to be simple or just shitposting like a retard knowing that they were on different side of coin since the beginning?
You start yapping about how the story was simple with shitty slice of life shit where traveler adventuring with spreading poster of their sibling and acting like having retarded Archon retiring is a good story.
Even Zhongli and Childe almost drown Liyue at the end of the story arc and people agreed it was dumb as fuck, retiring my ass. more like trying to genocide their own people.
You must be fucking retarded if you think Liyue chapter was good.

>>719076394 (OP)
so who's the next electro character? do we know jahoda's element?

>>719103421
I miss Mona. We need more content with her.

>>719103368
Go to the sumeru/natlan border and try walking around, They disappear when you are in the desert side but pop up when the phlogston bar appears. Kek

>>719103421
I thought she came from Fontaine.

>>719103536
Yeah but that's not an oversight, it's deliberate, a Natlanese NPC researching the moon fragments in Mondstadt says how it's weird how he can't see the moon from there

>>719103104
YOU ARE THE FUCKING BLOODY BENCHOD

>>719103536
>>719103716
It's probably leylines hocus pocus like every other region.

>>719103746
>>719103716
>>719103536
Its the Matrix glitching.

>>719093837
>living under Raiden's "rule" was hell
Inazuma was doing great for the past 500 years since Ei took over.
>Since she literally just had a fake version of her do it while she sat on her ass moping.
Raiden Shogun is programmed to act and make the exact same decisions Ei would. She can also step in at any time.
Ei discarded her own body to serve as a power source for the Shogun so she can protect Inazuma for all eternity by avoiding getting decrepit like John Lee.

You should stop mashing through the text if you can't follow simple explanations.

>>719103467
flins is electro solo leveling guy

>>719101608
My Kokomi and Nilou stocks are ready!

>>719103607
I'm pretty sure she even said in her story quest that she was born in dornman port then moved to fontaine, then to mondstadt to run away from her master

>>719102712
Because the 1.0 translator was actually really good at his job, and understood the nuances of proper localization.
Godliness is handed out like candy in Genshin so the archons were called thusly to differentiate them from the other "gods" of the land (above and below them).

>>719103449
>more broken English babble
My goalposts have not moved. You're simply incapable of actually addressing anything that I say.
>Liyue Chapter 3 was bad
You won't hear me disagree. I believe I specifically said the story started to fall off in 1.2 - the Liyue climax.
With that said, the dilemma of Childe's gambit WAS actually a good story (told poorly). Zhongli had the power to resolve everything in an instant, but he wanted to retire. He wanted humans to self govern. He wanted to be like Venti. As such, he let a potential tragedy take root, but only because he had ABSOLUTE confidence in his people. He was right, and so his gambit paid off and I don't even hat him for it. He was extremely methodical for 5000 years, so I trust his judgement of people.

>>719103607
it's adressed in the fontaine archon quest, Mona says she's a monstadt native and will therefore not be afflicted by the prophecy

>>719103828
i see a lot of complaints about "speed readers" for this game
seems like thats a problem because of the way the games writing is and not the player lol

>>719103872
>proper localization
So trannylations. Like I said.

>>719103913
If you don't speak Chinese or English fluently then you have no say or stake in that discussion. Go back to your fake language, this topic is above you.

>>719103854
i meant after flins
i'm looking for a OL/quicken/hyperbloom support

>>719103978
The game was made for Japanese language.

>>719103913
not all localization is bad and translations shouldn't be 1:1 in most cases
you're a retard pretending to be smart

>>719103872
LMAO, retard like you is why Wanderer getting a pass, literally dindu bullshit.
No wonder you defending inazushit, no world leader should play around with a fucking nuke that putting their citizen at risk.
It was a shit story where everyone not even getting a slap on wrist.
Go ahead, tell me if I'm wrong.

>>719104017
how come no one plays it in jp then

>>719104101
Literally everyone plays in JP.

>go to comiket a week ago
>large amounts of furinaslop
>followed by mualani, citlali, and nahida doujins
>a small amount of raiden doujins
>barely any mavuika doujins
What happened bros...

>>719103287
waah

>>719103421
>looking forward to seeing mona's copy paste npc parents

>>719103421
I'd like to dream, but at this point I feel it'll end up coming after some shit like
>tsaritsa ends up playable
>she gets two quests
>venti gets his after and the port along with it
>fans go wild about the little known interesting fact that venti was the first and the last quest for archon characters

>>719104125
Japs dont like strong women

>>719103872
>actually a good story (told poorly)
That's just Genshin in general. Mihoyo can try to make detailed lore and story, but it really doesn't matter because they're beyond terrible at telling stories. It's no wonder why people keep asking for a skip button.

>>719103872
>Calling Zhongli and apathetic being risking Liyue in the hands of notRussia as good decision
>Calling Furina sacrificing her normal life for her country as a normal human for 500 years a bad story telling

>>719104125
shes cringe

>>719104375
I haven't even played through Natlan yet. I'm still in Sumeru.
But everything I saw about Mav in the summer resort was absolute cringe.

>>719104125
mavuika is like the worst girl in the game

>>719104505
You comparing a Moeblob vs a strong and independent woman, now tell me which one of them actually sold more in CM?

>>719104646
I'm not comparing anything retard. I'm calling Mav cringe.

>>719104017
You don't speak Japanese either so that's not relevant to the discussion. Chinese game, Chinese devs. Everything else is a "dub" and you reek of subsfag.

>>719104098
Wanderer rewrote history to get his free pass. Outside of the game it makes sense to be upset about his various crimes but inside the game he legitimately has a clean slate (other than the Traveler's memory, but the Traveler isn't opposed to murder outright so as long as he behaves, they have no immediate quarrel).
I don't see how that relates but whatever.
>daddy government should take care of me and feed me and wipe my ass ;_;
Zhongli took a big gambit, I won't deny that, but the story made it clear that he was ready, at all times, to fix everything if he thought he'd misjudged the situation. He was a dad, letting his toddle stick a penny in the electrical socket. It was gonna give the kid a shock, but he'd survive and learn something from it. Zhongli has nothing to apologize for in that regard.
So yes, you're wrong.

>>719104124
If that were true then you wouldn't be having this conversation. Stop deluding yourself.

>>719104257
Zhong's decision was morally questionable but the stakes were immediately clear and as I explain above, he had the situation under control.
The human side of the Furina/Focalors thing was mostly fine (the human element of a person being forced to live long past their natural lifespan, taking in more memories than a human mind is meant to harbor). There was a good story to be told there, albiet with Genhin's storytelling shortcomings. The Focalors part was the completely retarded part. That entire plot event was bombast without substance. Fontaine is ABOVE sea level. It was never possible to actually drown there. The entirety of Fontaine after the second act is such a massive mess that it would take me multiple posts to explain why and how.

>>719104646
>CM
?

You know one thing that bugs me in Genshin? The fucking facial hair on NPCs. It always looks like somebody glued a shitty beard onto somebody's face.

>>719104505
She isn't really that bad, just really bland with an immersion breaking motorcycle.

>>719104798
>Chinese game, Chinese devs.
And every other game they released has Japan only audio.

>>719104257
>Calling Zhongli and apathetic being risking Liyue in the hands of notRussia as good decision
NTA but mate, he explicitly says he was aware of everything and could have interfered and saved the day at any moment. There was no risk on his end.
If you're having trouble imagining the sort of ass-pull he could do, just think back to the Chasm chracter quest where he sends Xiao to help along and when he effectively dies saving the rest of the party, pulls him out of there.

>>719104125
Mihoyo fucked up her presentation big time marketing included
>Early quests and marketing portray her as a noble tragic character that had no choice but to sacrifice her family life and memories for the sake of Natlan
>Ends in the second half of the story being a massive mary sue where the story pretends like she might die but nobody with even double digit iq believed it
>Post story she is just the jolly tomboy biker bickering with Xilonen
The writers gave up halfway through.

>>719104798
I loved how this retard complaining about world of fantasy not having real world logic, but when a retarded God want to retire by almost sacrificing his own people, he got a passed.

>>719104823
The NPCs are obviously generated by some character creator template that Hoyo has in their dev team somewhere, what do you expect?

>>719104798
It's also important to note that Scara didn't try to memory wipe people, he tried to erase himself from existance to undo his crimes.

*ahem*

>>719104798
chinese and japanese usually have the same terms in the game, and in those versions they call everything that has an ars goetia name a "demon god" 魔神, they don't differentiate between ones that are ruling countries and others that aren't, marchosias, hevria, osial are all called 魔神 too and the archon quests are 魔神任務

>>719105059
Her sister is sexy

>>719104876
I'm fucking complaining because he comparing the first 3 and last 3 arc and calling it good, the only good one was the Prologue because arguably is a freaking generic and safe chapter.
Childe despite his crime got a pass, John no matter what he can due he still fucking risking everything, like I said before you don't playing nuke with your citizen life, and don't start with me with whole Inazushit chapter.

>>719103891
>and will therefore not be afflicted by the prophecy
She may not turn into primordial goo but she could still have fucking drowned.

>>719104778
I thought you were this guy >>719104125
He literally comparing three moeblob with one woman.

>>719105206
Just by using the term moeblob you are also cringe.
Mav is a shitty character.

>>719105204
people who have a hydro vision can breathe underwater in fontaine ACTUALLY so she can't even drown

>>719104871
Not relevant and I could not care less. We're talking about this game, not those games.

>>719104876
Bless you for being someone who understands these things.

>>719104942
Remind me, what was the casualty count for the Liyue story? Oh, right: zero. No deaths. No sacrifices. Plenty of almost sacrifices, but almost only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

>>719105027
Exactly. He was trying to commit universal suicide.

>>719105064
I don't speak Chinese but I know enough Japanese to know that English is a FAR more varied language (especially in the anime video game context). Using a different word to denote "gods that are in charge" from "gods that are not" is a very English thing to do. it is, whether you like it or not, a good localiztion.

>>719105316
>We're talking about this game, not those games
Disingenuous.
We're done here.

>>719105306
Bro, Mona's hydro vision lets her turn INTO water. I don't think she even has to breathe to begin with.
Magic God powers!

>>719105293
I'm not using moeblob as derogatory term, Mauvika is too much of a woman for me, that anon doesn't even mention Xilonen so I bet Japan are prefering the moe characters from genshin.

>>719082324
woah woah, hold the fuck up, they're not fixing the thematic jumble with nod-krai either
they're making an ancient moon worshipping civilization in one side of the region, a fallout junkyard town in another and a big ass elemental russian powerplant in the one next to it

I like Mavuika, she's the only Archon I'd feel good being ruled by. She's your bro-tier boss you'll have fun hanging with.

>>719105316
english has the problem of calling too many things gods though, it calls 魔神 gods, it calls shades gods, it calls the moon goddeses gods, it calls the heavenly principles god, it calls people in celestia gods, everything is gods gods gods even though the scale of their powerlevel and role is completely different

>>719105418
>Mauvika is too much of a woman for me
Simp. Kill yourself.

>>719104101
I do
That's why the VA bullshit just flew over my head

>>719105480
Hence why we call it trannylations.

>>719105316
>Remind me, what was the casualty count for the Liyue story
Oh, so preemptive murder is not morally wrong? Funny you avoid my comment about Raiden or Childe.

>>719105462
i want to drink the sweat off her body

>>719105462
I would be Nahida's royal cunny licker

Don't mind me, pitiful "gods" stuck to Memevat. I am a being far beyond your comprehension.

>>719105059
MarySueika the God of Bore

>>719105690
OHKO's you

>>719101593
zzz is an entire niggaish game

>>719105480
Agreed that it's an issue but it's not wrong to do so. Compare the Greek Pantheon to the Hindu Gods to the Abrahamic God. God power levels are already all over the place in real religions but they're all "gods." The game is doing a fine enough job to give them all sub names, as you observed there.

>>719105570
You meant to say "attempted" murder, and it's not "attempted murder" to let something play out that you think won't have long-term permanent negative consequences. It's not attempted murder to do nothing (when nothing needs to be done because no one ends up dying anyway).
>my comment about Raiden or Childe
If you didn't reply to me directly I'm not going to see every retarded thing that you say.
What even IS Childe's crime? Can you describe it? I will remind you that at the time he was acting as a diplomat, working directly with Zhongli, and while a vengeful god was going to be resurrected, Zhong didn't really see that as a problem (and he was right - it was not a problem).
I've already said that Raiden should pay for her apathy resulting in the ruin of her nation, and I have no excuses for her.

>>719105567
I don't hugely mind it, what does bother me is that they translated 原神 as "allogenes", like my dude, that's the title of the game, either make the title "allogenes impact" or make a side note that ummm actually the word being used here is the title of the game "genshin", otherwise everyone will just click through the dialogue without giving it a thought and realising what the title of the game means

>Citlali has become pretty much your wife in every way other than officially
>New Year event was about waifuing Hu Tao
>Last second event had you going on an actual honest-to-god date with Yelan... MINUS PAIMON
Version 5 has been the Waifu Version.

For Mavuika, what if like
>she paints for the first time
>characters look forward to seeing it
>reveals results to the characters
>it's fucking terrible
>all of her attempts at creative hobbies end in disaster

There. Some sort of flaw you can use for humour and future events.
>event is a contest to make something creative
>you're paired with her
>fuck

>>719106079
Mizu was also practically sucking your dick

>>719106042
The nitpick I have is using grandiose terms for the elements.
>all other languages say Fire Water Wind
>english says Pyro Hydro Anemo

>>719106176
>There. Some sort of flaw you can use for humour and future events.
>>event is a contest to make something creative
>>you're paired with her
>>fuck
We've been waiting for ages a Raiden cookoff event that never happened beyond a fan video.

>>719106229
Oh yeah, I forgot about the handholding. Her thirst couldn't be disguised.

>>719106295
I just met that Sumeru guy and he was pretty fucking cool.
Zhongli is also cool.

>>719101894
>>719089604
>>719083975
What the FUCK was she even doing in Inazuma anyway? Did she not get the memo that Hat Schizo was already on it and causing a civil war there so he could get his hands on the electro Gnose? Or is it like a competition for the harbingers to see who can get the most?

he's going to shred res in the same way scroll works while giving a shield and good off field damage
so i hope you're saving your primos

>>719106079
You guys all remembered to pick up Paimon afterwards, right?

>>719106420
he looks so girly

>>719106448
if I had the option to throw paimon into the fucking dumpster I would do it right now

>>719106406
God that's another nitpick for me.
Gnosis. How do you get Gnosis from God's Soul?

>>719105206
>three moeblob
There are 6 characters mentioned total

>>719106034
Again, you comparing a morally ambitious decision that risking the life of people as fine, just because you already knows the outcome, not before it.
You don't play around with a fucking nuke.

>>719104884
She really is just Xilonen's needy wife at this point.
I don't hate that, but that's what she is.

>>719106248
>>719106515
I don't particularly mind either of those, they clearly want to go with a gnostic theme, eh, meh, whatever, but the "allogenes" stuff does bother me, it's the title of the game the title of the gaaaaaaaaaame

>>719106079
>>719106448
Is that what happened? I just skipped all of the text in this shitty wordslop Yelan event.

>>719106034
>working directly with Zhongli
Childe wasn’t aware when the Gnosis was given to Signora, when did you realize he was working with Zhongli?
Wasn’t the whole point that Childe risked destroying Liyue and its people just to bait the Geo Archon? How is that not a crime?”

>>719106420
God if my regret for starting in january 2021 will go on overload if there is not a slight chance of getting FD from an event again when he runs.

>>719106703
For some reason that reminds me of the ancient bullshit Kingdom Hearts UX (another gacha) did where they released a new mechanic called "Guilt" and the english version translated it as "Special Attack Bonus".
Then it turned out later that Guilt was very story important.

>>719106406
Harbingers do work separately, yeah.
That's why Childe got made into a clown in Liyue and was later asked to go look for Hat Schizo in Inazuma since they knew he managed it but had no idea what he did afterwards, other than not returning to Snezhnaya.

Though I think most of the details on that end were part of the discussions with Childe in the limited time event so I can understand latecomers not seeing it.

>>719106489
it's the molested by onee-san look
he's BIS for mualani, chasca, ganyu and clorinde after all

>>719106810
>inb4 its not a crime because no one died.

>>719106406
Russia has always been a notoriously dysfunctional state where nothing can be coordinated properly.

>>719106830
I mean there's a difference between translating something vague that later turns out to be important and translating something that's important now and not explaining it, but a funnier version of that was in the star rail story, where it was actual trannylations, when sparkle told churin that he should befriend a mute because the mute wouldn't talk back, and the english trannylation changed it to he should befriend a rock, because OMG OMG MUTE IS LIKE SO ABLEIST NOOO YOU CAN'T SAY THAAAT then it turned out to be important in the story because sparkle was referring to robin there (who's mute)

>>719106530
He mention the most works exist in CM, I kinda skip Furina there, so that's four, notice how Raiden also low despite She got the most sale in genshin history?

>>719105628
what mod

>>719107091
A lot of Raiden's gachashit sales were inflated from factors that conveniently benefit her like the top-up bonus reset or her initially floundering sales conveniently getting a sharp rise when people found out she isn't as shit in the meta as initially believed.

>>719106571
"Ambiguous."
And yes, no lives are actually at risk if you are prepared, at all times, to intervene if things look like they're getting out of hand. You underestimate Rex Lapis and while your underestimation is not without merit, it's still uncalled for.

>>719106810
I am asking you, directly, for details of the event. It was in 2020. It has been a long time and I am happy to admit that I'm hazy on the specifics.
From what I recall, Childe was doing his own thing but was in contact with Zhongli in one capacity or another (because Zhongli was famous as "the guy who knows everything"), so Zhongli was always ware of the plot before it was going to unfold, and he was able to determine that it was no real threat to his nation or people. I do not remember "Childe's plot" beyond it failing, because he's an inept battle junkie and we spend a lot more time learning about his 22 siblings than we do his plans in Liyue.

>>719107323
It literally the final arc of Liyue.

So about all those Fatui who died in the Chasm...

>>719106420
>>719106420
festering desire bros, it's time

>>719107323
So morally questionable action is fine, but magic water going over sea level is a no-no in your logic.
lmao.

>>719107442
And Golden Apple...

>>719105690
Come back and finish the fight, coward.

Do you guys actual read every quest in the game? I skip everything that's not the main quest since I feel it's filler.

>>719106295
mavuika is a better character with a better arc than all those 3 combined

>>719107274
Ei is the most popular Genshin because she's best girl, simple as.

>>719107738
>most popular
It isn't 2021 anymore.

>>719082324
>oversimplifies Sumeru as just representing Arabia and Egypt
>for some reason Natlan is just too much
opinion discarded

>>719107631
As someone currently suffering through the Aranara questline, its a shame the line is so massive and none of it at all is voiced.

>>719107717
>Mavuika
>arc
A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A

I've got built characters, what do I do with them now? there's nothing to do with my small army

>>719107779
Ei is eternally the most popular

>>719082324
>literally not a single response to this post mentioning mexican inspiration in natlan
bro there are literal tacos from this region

>>719107441
Yes, from 2020. Five years ago. A lot has happened both in Genshin and out of it.
But okay, so his crime is, in basically his own words there "awakening a god to cause havoc to incite the Geo Archon to action." No intentional killing, no intentional destruction, just instigating something that can (and probably would) lead to those things. Reckless endangerment? Absolutely. Premeditated/attempted murder? Not even close. Releasing a bull in a china shop is not murder by any stretch. And he did all his plotting within earshot of the god he was trying to reveal, and that god knew he would not be needed.
Childe would deserve worse punishment if his plan had actually resulted in any death or destruction, but I don't see him as needing any more humiliation for it after he got so thoroughly humbled in Fontaine.

>>719107519
I am forced to believe that you're only pretending to be as retarded as you sound by conflating those two things.

I didn't expect to see based Enjou again out of nowhere.
Also, was I supposed to to this quest before the Bennett's story one? God I fucking hate how they put everything under a timer now, I may end up doing things in the wrong order just because GRAB THOSE PRIMOS BEFORE THE TIMER GOES TO ZERO

>>719080656
Is truly a mix of original + baltic elements, finland included

>>719107913
Really goes a long way to demonstrate my point, does it not?

>>719107991
Definitely afterwards, they mention how the location looks similar to the place they went with Bennet.
also holy fuck mare jivari is bigger than I thought

>>719082324
Sumeru is INDIA+Middle East+Egypt

>>719107707
Well, I'm not an illiterate retard, so...

>>719108139
It's bigger than "an endless desert?" Because it was already described as "an endless desert" and all we got was a corridor domain.

>>719107953
The only one pretending here is you, people were laughing at Liyue final arc because of dindu bullshit, it blew up during inazushit and Wanderer shittery was the final nuke.

>attempted murder? Not even close.
> Childe: I had hoped it would never come to this, for the weak will be swept away in the process.
He literally said this, he was gambling that Rex actually alive, so if he was wrong then it would be a disaster, why the fuck you keep defending this shit is beyond me, meanwhile you complaining about fantasy shit happening in fantasy world.
We shouldn't be even arguing about this, what he did was a crime and he got zero repercussion from it, period.

>>719108238
well the thing we got is just a hallway but the entire landscape is prime DANGER ZONE

>>719107991
No, you can't do this quest until after you complete the epilogue.

When can they add Mare Jivari as an area now? During Nod Krai? Doable, but a bit weird, would have made more sense during Natlan, as we all expected since 1.0

>be another country diplomat
>entering Morax chamber without permission to steal gnosis
>No gnosis
>Plan B, resurrect old god risking genocide a city in process
>Apparently that was not necessary because the Gnosis already in my coworker hand
>Te-he.

>>719107707
I read maybe half of them. The forced pauses before allowing advance to next dialogue filters me from reading all of them. Hoyo is king of bad qol.

>>719108069
It does not. Your own replies speak far more of your pettiness.

>>719102712
>someone with a vision
>chinese:yuanshen
>japanese:genshin
>english:ALLOGENE

Furina 2nd story quest doko?
Mavuika 2nd story quest doko?

>>719108254
You continue to grossly overstate or mischaracterize my positions and then reply to those straw men as if they're things that I've said.
>zero repercussion
The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale slammed his ass into the Fortress of Meropide for at LEAST 4 days for undisclosed crimes. Considering that nothing he did in Liyue resulted in any death or destruction, despite his knowing that such things were possible, it is a fair sentence for the crime. He also got his ass beat by a judge beforehand.

>>719108497
That doesn't even mean anything.

>>719108471
>>Apparently that was not necessary because the Gnosis already in my coworker hand

>>719107991
>God I fucking hate how they put everything under a timer now, I may end up doing things in the wrong order just because GRAB THOSE PRIMOS BEFORE THE TIMER GOES TO ZERO
Legitimately the worst thing they've done in the Natlan era, and retards praised Hoyo for it.

>>719106861
>but had no idea what he did afterwards, other than not returning to Snezhnaya
I wonder how they'll handle him erasing himself out of the timeline with him being a harbinger and all. Dottore seems likely he'll notice something's off, given his scene with the Irminsul tree burning, which they still haven't shown in-game to this day.

>>719108461
they already added mare jivari though?

>>719108461
The disappearance of the Mare Jivari is likely linked to Asmoday, so we won't be going there until the endgame.

>>719108914
and more is coming

>>719107801
It's a shame most of the world quests are like that. They're also usually better than the main archon quests too.

>>719108786
>Considering that nothing he did in Liyue resulted in any death or destruction,
Holy shit, a crime is a crime. He tried to steal the Gnosis, he beat up Liyue guards while entering places he wasn’t supposed to and when that plan failed, he decided his backup plan was to sacrifice an entire town for the Gnosis.
Are you actually retarded, or just pretending? Because at this point, I’m starting to believe you are actually retarded.
Why are you even bringing Fontaine’s mess into this? Are you simping for that guy? You’re starting to sound like a woman.

>>719109039
>he disappearance of the Mare Jivari is likely linked to Asmoday
bro your Venti?

>>719108825
>and retards praised Hoyo for it.
And those are the same retards who complained that 40 days to complete previous summer events wasn't enough time.

>>719108786
>Considering that nothing he did in Liyue resulted in any death or destruction,
Ning's Palace was fucking destroyed because of this.

>>719109060
Yay! Can't wait to do more summer events!

>>719109241
this but unironically

>>719109152
the canon wives!

>>719108801
This scene made me hates the whole final arc of Liyue.

they're trying to make this shit the next roblox or something right? like players can make stuff to do?

>>719109139
Venti turned it into a timeless land 500 years ago, but it physically vanished a bit over 10 years ago.

Sex with Klee
Sex with Diona
Sex with Qiqi
Sex with Yaoyao
Sex with Sayu
Sex with Nahida
Sex with Dori
Sex with Sigewinne
Sex with Kachina
Sex with Iansan
Sex with Aino

Why in the fuck did Tabibito talk during that summer world quest when the two retarded fags were fishing
I mean, talking during important events is nice, but this scene was certainly not important

>>719109579
every time the traveler randomly says like 2 words I wonder if they called in the voice actor just to record like 2 words, or they recorded a batch of random words in one session and they randomly sprinkle it around in quests

>>719109529
>but it physically vanished a bit over 10 years ago.
Was there any explanation who did it? When we talk with Venti in the last chapter he is vague about it.

>>719109685
My bet is Asmoday, as we are talking about an event that would require shade-tier power and she happens to be the ruler of space. Could also be abyss shenanigans.

>>719109767
Melusex

>>719109767
>topless melusine
Nudity is against the law. No pants is okay though

>>719109669
They speak more as the abyss sibling.

>>719109238
Okay you're correct, the richest woman on earth had to sacrifice her summer home for one year (since she rebuilt it the next year) to stop that god. So there you have it - Childe is guilty of instigating a situation that caused property damage.
Really not that big of a deal in the grand schemes of gods.

>>719109886
she's clearly wearing a bra though?

>>719109932
Blame obscure Fontaine laws. She's literally safer wearing nothing at all than a bra.

>>719109914
You have to take into account that he was called there to bait him into causing an incident that Zhong could use as a test. It was entrapment.

>>719109767
Officer, I swear I didn't know she was 3!

>>719109914
>grand schemes of gods.
LMAO, you really are a speed reader, Childe was never work with Zhongli.
He literally trying to destroy a town, without knowing Rex still alive or not.
>>719108801
>>719108471
>b-b-but no one died only a billions morax palace
Don't care, he's still not even getting a slap on the wrist. You're fucking retarded for defending the first three chapters of this game.
All Traveler effort investigating Morax's death was nothing but end up as tomfoolery.
At least in Fontaine's shittery, the actual finale actually meant something. but I forgot, it's apparently a crime to have magic water rise beyond sea level.

Still mad that traveler doesn't talk more

>>719110201
So basically both of them guilty of the similar crime.