We are going to China on time! =P

[tanithryudo]

LOL. XDXD

So I had my mind blown by the new HSR Myriad Celestia lore trailer earlier this evening. This led to some searching on various platforms for HSR lore stuff. And then youtube's algorithm pushed me this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1AwYpC8suY

Watch on YouTube

"We are going to China America on time~~~~!"

HAHahaha, not sure if it's the hour talking (I really should be getting to bed) but I found this to be hilarious.

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[cashew]

On the one hand, there's Nickelback's Photograph meme. On the other hand, OMFG as a former choir soprano the enunciation is killing me.

Makes me almost glad my favs didn't get a terrible song. Yet simultaneously, makes me bitter at HSR (even though I don't even play the game...) for ignoring the awesomeness of the character.

[tanithryudo]

Awesomeness of which character? Hyacine (who this song was originally meant for)? Or some character in this parody?

[cashew]

I meant that characters like Jing Yuan don't get a character song, but on the other hand, given the quality of the enunciation, it's probably a good thing. But it still speaks of favoritism in the design decision that annoys me.

[tanithryudo]

Eh, in all of 1.0 only Dan Heng (DHIL) got a character song. But this particular song is also the first character song in the current 3.0 arc. Not sure if there will be more, but it's hardly everyone so far.

Only Penacony had multiple character songs right now. But that's I think more playing on the fact that they're all "by Robin", as her character is a pop-star.

Unfortunately for Jing Yuan, he wasn't the "star" of the Luofu climax battle. It was Dan Heng (who got the animation sequence when pressing the special attack button), same as Hyacine in the most recent climax battle, and Robin in Penacony's climax battle.

[cashew]

Yes, that's what I mean by playing favorites... The developers clearly have favorites that they want to push, but sadly those aren't the ones that I find compelling. It's frustrating to see an actually compelling character to be ignored by the development, speaks poorly to their understanding of how to write. (And it's not a subjective opinion that Jing Yuan has a compelling story given CN fandom's response to the character is universally: "mechanically shitty but has a great character arc".)

[tanithryudo]

I'm feel like HSR is not the best pick for "fanning" any particular character. Just because aside from the Main Character (trio), they are ALL pretty much tossed away after their initial banner run and are barely heard from afterwards.

Even the previously shilled characters, like Acheron and Firefly from 2.0, have been kicked off their gameplay numbers throne by 3.0 DPS. Previously shilled story characters, like the Ratio/Aventurine pairing that took the fanfic-dom by storm, feels like it's cooled off and replaced by Phainon and his various 3.0 ships. -_-

I hear that Genshin Impact is the more lore centric of the Hoyo games. Maybe I should've picked that to play instead of HSR. Then again, Genshin probably also requires more time investment, and I'm not sure I want that yet...

[cashew]

Based on what I've read, Genshin is fairly grindy. A lot of the usual MMO nonsense of "collect 400 flowers" thing. And each region is a self-contained story, not much different from HSR. There's a smaller gacha batch tho', so that might contribute to feeling like the characters are more important?