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[two-nines-left-spleen]

Thoughts and rambling on HSR 2.2 (Part 2)

MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Please feel free to share your thoughts, Ideas, things you noticed etc. I love when people ramble about things they found in the indulgences they enjoy.

Here are thoughts, pins and findings on Trailblaze Mission

Small Town Grotesque Quest

Misha's introduction as a Key Character was done a little clumsily. He did come a bit out of nowhere and him being suspicious was cleared a tiny bit too fast for me. I mean, as someone who actively tries to figure out the story beforehand, it was clear that there was way more to him, I just thought our characters would find out more -naturally. I blame Welt's perceptiveness, haha. The rest of his story however, was phenomenally executed. More on that later.

Hoyo PLEASE make Micah playable. One man with beard. You had no business designing an NPC this hot. (Siobhan too, please, please, please)

I have - and this is biased as HELL - massive Dr. Ratio brainrot. His fucking prescription he gave to Aventurine in 2.1 said Dormancy first. The Death Meme is revealed here to be Dormancy. Ratio is either a.) connected as all hell to the other characters or b.) really, really fucking clever to have this figured out earlier than everyone else who was NOT directly killed or in contact with Penacony's Kerberos. (Or c.): both). It also shows again, that, for being repeatedly advertised as a narcissist, he cooperates quite well with his surroundings. More on him later - yes, we saw this man for 2 seconds on screen, yes, I will write paragraphs about this. Stop me, I dare you.

Robin is a good-at-heart character and to me, she represents Penacony's heroine (like Bronya and Seele were Belobog's heros -alongside the Express Crew). I like that she was, like Firefly, instigating things on her own and thankfully subverted my fear of her being portrayed as a damsel in distress. I like characters that, at their core, are portrayed as kind. They are easy to write but hard to write well and I feel like HSR has done a very decent (not perfect, but decent) job at it.

I saw some people say that she wasn't in the story enough, and while we didn't get the whole Aventurine-Kakavasha experience with her, I felt like her impact was there during the whole quest, especially towards the end. (Put the metaphorical pin in that too).

Now, Gallagher. Hooooh this one's - hard. Difficult to pinpoint him and his stance and especially his stakes in this story too. I still think I don't fully get why he believes what he believes in. There's obviously so much more to him and this is the very first glimpse of History Fictionologists and the Enigmata followers. I doubt what we saw was the real him - and he did reveal some very interesting things regarding his path. I think we'll see him again, most likely in another form, most likely more complete. He is just a 'made-up character', even according to himself - his story in Penacony is over, but not in the universe. The Penacony Gallagher may have been Thirteen and younger than Mikhail but whatever bigger thing he seems to be part of seems to be- older. Also kind of hilarious that he actually told truths most of the time - in the most backhanded way possible. Frankly, he deserves a whole ass analysis post for himself (The CREDITS, THE CREEDIITS WHAT DOES IT MEAN??????).

And with this 2.2's second trailblaze quest concludes! See you in part 3!

[yoylechess]

[two-nines-left-spleen]

The people complaining about not every Genshin Impact Dendro character needing to be "dressed in green" are the same people who were complaining about HSR Yunli "not being a fire character despite having lots of fire in her artwork".

change my mind

[two-nines-left-spleen]

Thoughts and rambling about HSR 2.2 (Part 1)

MASSIVE SPOILERS WARNING!!!

If you like discussing characters, lore, theories, headcanons, please share! I LOVE talking about this game so much.

I liked this update (too much actually. I should work on my Thesis and I just spent the WHOLE day playing, I am SO fucked), and I'm still fresh off it, which means I don't have any critical distance yet.

I just make a list of things I noticed/ liked/ put a mental pin in. I go through one Trailblaze mission per post.

Thoughts on Trailblaze Mission:

The Great Train Robbery

Sparkle gave everyone her 'Fun Buttons'. They haven't been used yet - curious to see where this goes, if anywhere. But I trust HSR writers now that they will callback to those details.

Boothill and Dan Heng were hilarious together, and I have many thoughts on Boothills initial character. (I come back to him later)

Blade having a drivers licence implies that he had to take the drivers exam at one point in his life and I doubt it was on the Luofu. I am LAUGHING internally just thinking about the poor soul that had to handle assessing a marastruck maniac on the steering wheel. Also, Blade in a suit is peak and his VA is peak too.

2.0 didn't do that much for Firefly for me, 2.2 changed that for the better. I liked her exchange with Blade, her rebuttal to Sunday, I liked that she was portrayed as quick-witted and smart and as someone who drove the plot and the cast forward while still being bound by the inevitability that is Elios script.

Additionally: I also enjoy seeing the Stellaron Hunters interact together. Even if they seem to bound by destiny, I feel like there is at least mutual respect and acknowledgement for each others paths, which I enjoy very much. While I like the Fanon of them being portrayed as "Family" (and I know Hoyo has played into that as well), I still can't shake the feeling that in the end their ties are in some way being revealed as... transactional, in some sense.

The Clockie Statue in the Dreamscape Reef is terrifying. Its eyes move and together with the rather eery music in the background I thought they would go further with the Thriller vibe they had going on in 2.1.

And that's the first mission!

[two-nines-left-spleen]

I think my assigned slushie flavor at birth would be executive brain freeze