#natlan is the gays dream

[kaiisgenshinantics]

! 5.0 / Kinich Tribal Chronicles spoilers!

scheduling this but i just did kinichs tribal chronicles and

mmhmhgfdmhgmhgrmhmhHHHHHNnnnnnnnnnnnnn if you need me i will be trying to rewire my brain because its completely fried and exploded from how excited i got over this whole quest

[wriokitty]

NATLAN TEASER SPOILERS

Are u joking. ARE U KIDDING. I’m too gay for natlan im screwed rip my primos

And if this is the archon. Even more screwed. AND CAPITANO????? The hmph was so hot I think this is where I die truly. It’s over for me. RIP MY 53 WISHES AND MY DREAMS

[onelastchorus]

a jumbled collection of random thoughts i have about the archon quest - spoilers below

mavuika is kind of boring... like i get what they were going for but i don't think they pulled it off which makes me sad bc she is a unique kind of character and i think she had a lot of potential. they want her to be a strong unflinching leader and also super tragic and the balance is just off and it leaves me with no connection to her

HOWEVER. her VA ate. especially in the scenes with Hine, she really pulled through as much as she could, i just don't think the writing did her justice most of the time.

honestly all the VAs in natlan are doing serious heavy lifting. with all the mediocre and/or messy designs, the voice acting often does the most to make me love a character. mualani could've been a cutout of an archetype we've seen time and time again, but the VA brings her to life with so much personality. i've really loved xilonen's VA since she first dropped, they have a unique style, they really make her sound conversational, not just like a character in a video game, but a voice of someone who's thinking as they speak (reminds me of welt from HSR actually lol. both very good performances imo). ororon is a trainwreck of a character, but his voice gives me cuteness aggression. of course he's a grandson, he's adorable. chasca is frustrating to look at, but her VA really pulls through in emotional scenes, literally the perfect voice you could've found for chasca. all the VAs are killing it, even if i haven't mentioned them here.

i think the best part of the quest was actually the domain before the big fight. getting to see everyone from all the tribes, ESPECIALLY NPCS and hearing what they had to say, and including characters from the tribal chronicles and world quests was so satisfying. probably the closest genshin has gotten to making it feel like a real world. i don't know how it worked if you hadn't done those quests but as someone who has, it was so great. everything really came together in a way the devs have tried to do for a long time and just now succeeded.

Speaking of NPCs.. vichama... sad gay man of all time. just one of many ways they brought threads back and made the world feel whole. (shout out to bona too. loved seeing her.)

why can they never get the pacing right. why was the intro w the party and and everything SO LONG.. i got bored and almost quit to come back another day. when will they learn to condense.

although everyone talking about their dreams of dead loved ones and kinich being randomly absent bc he would've had to talk about his dead abusive drunk father is so funny to me. definitely would've brought the mood down

too much traveler pushing? idk why we had to say over and over that they're so great and wonderful. we get it. dial it down Please.

i was also so shocked that their ancient name didn't have to do with their role as a descender. i thought it'd be 'witness' or 'sword' or 'will' or something. hope was a shock.

i wish they'd done a bit more explaining on what we were fighting, why we were hearing former pyro archons ect. left it a little blank? idk i feel like something had to have been removed bc we fight it and then just like don't acknowledge what happened. it's weird.

also did anyone read the description for the ancient name? because wtf??

i think a lot of people will agree with me when i say that i would've enjoyed capitano a lot more if he wasn't 1st of the Fatui Harbingers. they really did so much telling, not showing when it came to his strength and as a harbinger it was really disappointing. he's supposed to rival a god but he just sits in the corner plotting and whining about honor the whole time. i feel like his plot got really pushed to the side.

his story itself i'm still unsure about. it was definitely predictable, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. i love that his frozen corpse is just sitting on the throne and u can go see him. that's so sick. anyway i think i need more time with it. if he was a different character i think i would've been satisfied but he was too built up and i was expecting something more exciting.

ronova is really sexy. like. i am attracted to that eldritch being shade. why is she shaped like a vagina.. anyway. i might be insane.

COLUMBINA TEASE. (or the doctor but i don't want it to be the doctor. please.) SHES COMING, TRUST 🤞

the monument at the end is gorgeous.

anyway this is like.. a 6/10 archon quest for me. definitely doesn't stand up next to sumeru and fontaine imo but they had to lose steam somewhere, right? i think this might end up overshadowed by being sandwiched between fontaine and snezhnaya, and i think i'm okay with that. i still had fun.