two years laterโฆ i still love the lantern rite festival in genshin impact
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The exasperated, dissappointed eye-rolled โVENTI.โ when Dvorak left behind bottles of wine near statues made my day ๐
I really love the bit of subtle storytelling at the start of the quest. Remember how weird and contrived Dvorak's meeting with the traveler seems, with him not even knowing what the heck is going on and just following random Mondstadt wisdom? The game never actually tells you what happened there, but provided enough clues that it can all be pieced together:
1) Dvorak offered plenty of expensive wine at Venti's statue of the seven.
2) Dvorak mentions the wind guiding him there, which means Venti had a hand in it. In the epilogue, Venti also implies that he knows about the Iridescence Tour despite supposedly just arriving in Liyue.
3) Zhongli is super-insistent on the Traveler going to that specific place to get those specific bamboo shoots, even manipulating Paimon to do it.
4) Venti and Zhongli's banter implies that Zhongli knows when Venti's winds are blowing in Liyue at any time.
So, what actually happened behind the scenes was: Dvorak prayed at Venti's statue of the seven and offered a ton of wine. Seeing the wine offering, Venti – the drunk archon that he is – decided to help him and used his winds to guide him to Mondstadt. Zhongli immediately realized this, and use the bamboo shoots as an excuse to get the traveler to deal with the problem, since he's incognito and would have trouble handling it himself without revealing who he is.
It's such an insignificant piece of the overall story, but I really love how subtle they made all of this and trusted the player to piece everything together.
It's so strange that nobody noticed the trio (chongyun, venti, xingqiu) doing the same animation at 1:56:05 which is funny.
I want to also add that the npc from inazuma that gives you the quest to go to tsurumi island is present here.
In 55:40 cloud retainer mentioned Zhongli and Rex Lapis in the same sentence in front of Ganyu. Does that mean Ganyu knows Zhongli's true identity?
I apologize if it is confirmed, I'm a little out of loop.
Tfw Guizhong doesnt actually look like Ningguang.
Rip to the Ningguang Reincarnated theory.
59:44 – Lol I thought the same thing and got it immediately after
2:13:31 – Wowwww ๐
I like the text-scene music
best lantern rite to date
ganyu chant throwback ๐ฅบ
Fun fact: Dvorak was actually a real life music composer.
Istg if use japanese voice during 1:46:37 Xiao would sound more out of place and its so funny ๐ and when you choose Zhongliโs fault, heโd sound more โ!!!!โ (Japanese voice)
1:41:30
"Don't underestimate us or else we'll create nuclear bombs and destroy ourselves" ๐ญ
As a bit of an other languages diff, Yaoyao refers to herself by name, in the third person, in japanese, which is much cuter. Also, because of the limits of translation, the rhymes Hu Tao spits out in the eastern languages sound a lot more neat, punchy, and put together than in english. It's not bad in our language, but it's just better enough in the other languages to mention. This was my first experience with Lantern Rite, so I don't have a standard for these, but as a dude who picked the game up at launch, I'm just upset that I missed out on it twice. Thanks for being based bwaap, it made catching up on all your content kinda worthwhile.
in case Bwaap missed it, Vlad and Nadia was slipped in during Madame Ping's "solo" on the lower right of the screen. They also appeared again in the new animated video.
He's no longer the archon. He quit.
Venti made it his mission to out zhongli it was hilarious, had to get away and meet up with kazuha before zhongli had the chance to make a comment ๐ญ
I watch all of your videos man
I think Paimon's nervousness about being left behind is trauma from the Sumeru quest.
People say they were waiting for the bunny year to release yao yao
1:49:07 Did you know that if you chosed zhongli instead of venti, xiao will yell at you?
59:43
I can't believe I never got this chest until this moment
And ironic that her disciple Yao Yao would save the descendent of the one she saved
I lost it when Cloud Retainer said the Xiao Lanterns from Liyue Harbor are elementary ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ Sheโs really competitive its cracking me up ๐๐
paimon the god of time ?
madame ping #1 zaza plug
I have high hope for Fontaine's drip market
Paimon: I am the best guide
Doesn't help at all in any region. Instead she gives a full food documentary on "nascent" bamboo shoots.
MHY: I gonna show you the story of Guizhong
Me: ok, so you gonna show me how Guizhong looks like?
MHY: Yes, and no(Shows Guizhong, Cloud Retainer, Ping)
Me:(Scream inside)
At exactly 33 min:
Ganyu: But the tune was allegedly so wonderful that the drowning man forgot about everything else, even his own impending death, and only came to his senses after being brought to shore…
Me: Barbatos pretending to be a woman. He's really fast and he's soooo good at singing and playing music.
Paimonโs still growing. Just more wide, not tall
Still love how Xiao keeps a special eye on Traveler whenever theyโre in Liyue. Just as Venti said, โMay the Wind protect you, Travelerโ
Dvorakโs Ancestor: Help help Iโm drowning!
Music: ๐ถ
Dvorakโs Ancestor, no longer struggling and slowly sinking: damn this is fire
It never came across my mind that it was Venti that scammed Dvorak for wine HAHAHA
1:06:16 BOI YOU MISSED ANOTHER CHEST
Cloud Retainer looks a lot like Fu Hua Azure Empyrea from Honkai, nice
idk but i kinda think hu tao held the dinner to recreate the atmosphere of zhongli's old banquet with the adepti and guizhong.
Theory: what if guizhong is actually Sandrone (7th Fatui harbinger)?
1. Her name โSANDroneโ like how guizhong was the god of dust.
2. Both like mechanics e.g. Sandrone is seen sitting on a ruin guard and is implied to have been the creator of katheryne.
3. Their hair styles are the same(ish)
If this theory is true Sandroneโs backstory is probably gonna be โWhen i was defeated, my friendsโฆ the Geo archonโฆ theyโฆtheyโฆleft meโฆ in the DUST.โ (Pun intended) also watch dottore/pierro be the ones who found her body and revived her (maybe dottore told her that they left her to die or something like how he did with scara)
The way ping talked about guizhong Iโm gonna sob
Hoyo have really been pushing Paimon's abandonment anxiety.
IT'S NOT A FORESHADOWING SURELY
i REALLY love hutao
wdym- we "arrived" at prime time of Teyvat cuz dem Gnosis are getting taken left and right xD