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I am having honestly a way better time than I expected to with hsr. also I beat cocolia first try
lyrebright
WOO
lyrebright
and yeah hsr is really fun! it hits in a different way than genshin for me, and i think that having a core CAST rather than the mc+their pocket pal really helps me be more engaged in the story...like with genshin's stories, i AM invested but i generally dont connect to the traveler as much? trailblazer my beloved i have feelings about you (and march and dh)
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
oh damn you're getting through it fast
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I spent my Sunday off mostly playing and my Wednesday off mostly playing >_>
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Also the autobattle feature makes the turn based combat way more tolerable so that’s a plus
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I did fully accidentally stay up way past my bedtime last night simultaneously playing hsr and reading svsss fic
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Also lyre yeah I think you’re right about the cast thing. Also I don’t uh. Like paimon. She detracts from my emotional engagement with anything in Genshin.
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oh i can fully understand getting invested in a thing and forgetting the realities of the body (got so excited about ffxiv wedding planning that i only just now remembered i need to make dinner (it is half past 10 in the pms))
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yeah like. i don't dislike paimon, and i think theyve gotten better at writing her, but their choice to make her the traveler's ONLY companion means she's the sole speaking voice in that situation, whereas we have dan heng and march to bounce off of each other, + the rest of the crew and the focus characters of each arc
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Paimon’s constant FOOD AND TREASURE just gets... grating. And it makes the tone weird sometimes.
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it sure does
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also her derogatory nicknames land... not as fluidly in English because that's simply not how we do nicknames
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also a point to hsr is--the trailblazer isnt truly a silent mc?
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they get SO much voiced lines and personality
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they're always written out in full so they sound super awkward
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Yeah she definitely has a lot more personality than I get from the traveler
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TO BE FAIR the traveler isn't truly a silent mc either, they just keep the actual voiced lines in reserve to slap the player in the face with
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the one in the recent patch (Lyre knows the one I mean) hits specifically because of that
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for to harm you!
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
for to harm us!
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paimon has definitely improved, had more emotions and been more helpful
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but yeah the trailblazer has a lot more... I don't want to say personality because I do think part of the thing is that the traveller is a reserved person as a personality trait, that's always been my read on it
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but the trailblazer has more bouncing off characters to do
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mm, not more personality...more just. they have a charisma to them
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my fave thing is the daily text messages
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probably because they have: more than paimon as a core cast to bounce off
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I’m still mostly in inazuma and liyue so not improved paimon for me yet. God there is so much sumeru for me to walk through before I can get to Fontaine where all the new events are.
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paimon honestly was improving in sumeru for me
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I have done a very small amount of Sumeru I got overwhelmed by how much there was and installed hsr lol
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Also got mad at the stupid electro lawachurl thing in the cave. Why is it so hard.
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yeha the daily text messages definitely help
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I had an easier time beating the second round of sea serpents in liyue
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and yeah sumeru main story is where you really... there is a specific point that is definitely paimon's turning point
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both as a character and for me, as a player, where i actually came to like her instead of grudgingly tolerating her
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there has definitely been some backslide in paimon's writing since for me, specifically in side content, but main story paimon has been pretty consisten since sumeru imo
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Oh promising
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yeah and i think that's probably down to" side content and mains tory are by different writers
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ye olde gridania writer problem (for rose's context: major side stories in Gridania in ffxiv are notoriously bad)
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mm yeah theres definitely at least a few core writing teams
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there's no way else theyd keep the lore straight
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sadly for some reason gacha games have a really bad habit of not having easily available credits for who does shit on their games
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remember when khux ended and we finally got an end roll and it was like lol lmao this game has had two entire animators forever
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GOD, YEAH
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im never going to forget that. why did they do that to khux