#when will we see more of clorinde and sigewinne real

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okay i powered through the archon quests mess of my thoughts below

ARLECCHINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay with that out of the way. these two acts were definitely just expository, i feel like nothing substantial actually happened but it definitely set up the tone for the final acts

really just lots of lore/history dumping by wriothesley i'm gonna be real i don't think we needed to know that much about the inner workings of the fortress would have been better to get that through context clues e.g. show don't tell but genshin and its classic tell don't show am i right

i did fall in love with the fontaine cast more. but you know who surprised me the most? SIGEWINNE. love that cute mfer. i did not expect to like her as much as i did but like i do i really love that little melusine. love that she literally just has a tranquilizer.

on that note both her and wriothesley are sooooooooooooo unserious i love it. did feel pretty bad for lyney though they really pulled some psychological torture on him

like on one hand it was pretty obvious wriothesley and his reasons (as he said) on the other hand the quest did a pretty good job of making him seem despicable through lyney

like when lyney said I can't lose lynette again... oof that hit so damn hard

LOVE the neuvillette / wriothesley / clorinde power trio i never even thought of that but fucking loved it. their banter and chemistry worked super well. hating myself for making this comparison but it did really feel like an avengers assemble moment. i didn't even expect clorinde to show up it was a nice surprise. THOSE CUTSCENES WERE SO GOOD TOO

also was really nice to see someone other than the traveler save the day and also not really be a main driving factor in the plot :D when i saw wriothesley was gonna freeze punch that ice was like OOHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK YEAH BBY

furina i've been kinda neutral on but i'm definitely way more intrigued with her whole situation now

ARLECCHINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ugh love her. her design is so pretty i couldn't stop looking at her eyes i LOVE the x pupils. also i was team short haired arlecchino at first but the long hair really grew on me, her hair ornament thing is super pretty as well her whole design is just sooo elegant and she actually feels threatening diplomatically i love it love it

the investigation part in act 3 did feel kind of like a slog to go through but also i kinda liked that it breaked up the linearity archon quests usually go through.

act 4 i felt like just kept going there were so many points where i thought it would end and it just. fucking kept going they really want you to talk to everybody in fontaine in act 4 lmao. there were also a lot of points where i was just like realistically you would not have just "figured this out" but i understand you gotta push the plot forward somehow

underground maps didn't do a damn thing here i consistently kept going the wrong way while running around the fortress

wriothesley vs arlecchino battle of scheming would be really interesting to see

THE WHALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think we all saw it coming but THE FUCKING WHALEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

connecting to a vision holder's consciousness via their dreams when you have their vision oh boy the fic writers are gonna have a field day with this one

i feel like i probably had more serious things to say but ahem. arlecchino.

genuinely was just swooning anytime arlecchino was on the screen i'm in love with her yall

okay back to seriousness. pretty weak acts especially compared to act 1 & 2. pretty sure they could have gotten the point of act 3 & 4 across in one act, felt drawn out in a lot of ways. or maybe it still could have been 2 acts but they could have presented the story a bit differently idk.

again just felt like nothing substantial even happened, maybe they could have spent more time alluding to the forbidden zone bc honestly outside of lyney being interested in it we as an audience didn't really care much about it even though it was kinda super fucking important

also when wrio led us down there i was like we just had beef with him why are you guys trusting this dude to follow him into an unknown location so soon

they spent a reaaaaally long time on the hidden rules and it was just like random shit wriothesley sigewinne and that one company were up to? like that was honestly such a weak reveal why do we care about any of that

like maybe to play up how good wriothesley is at misdirecting and how he was ahead of the game the whole time? but it still didn't really work

in general genshin has never been good at showing characters are intelligent they just want to tell us they are. they did good with arlecchino though but I might just be extremely biased considering my infatuation with her

that being said not sure how I felt about them just dumping all of her motives in flashbacks at the end there (her assassin fit though.... swooning)

but they've got the setup down hopefully the last acts pull their weight (i forgot how many acts fontaine is gonna have... 5?)