holy fuck i am bored

i have the same issue here that i have with genshin and that it's the information overload and how much is telling and not shsowing. they are introducing characters in the same chapter these characcters are dying

i'm gonna go back and replay it on an alt account later on to see if that help but

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but like 50 percent less dialogue would be great

i am getting annoyedd at how much talking is happening and how little that talking either a) provides characterization or b) advances the plot

like okay helekra's story

very sad but this is the worst way to experience it

i lOVE this character and her design, but her being introduced at the 11th hour and then a buncch of tie traveshit has made me struggle to get invested in her story

yeah i cant with this dialogue or this method of storytelling

i ike

i realLY like the ideas at play an ampharous

but this is a letdown after slogging through everything. the phainon ending was AMAZING and now i am back to the slow grind

i also feel like i'm trapped in hell bc every batte seems like it takes for fucking ever now

i think there was feedback somewhere along the way that people couldn't follow the story when they showed and not told because this has been a noticeable shift for me in genshin.

in hsr i think it's the writer where there's something wildly high concept going on that divorces from the personal aspect of the actual characters.

yeah i enjoy Amphoreus conceptually

but holy fuck is it so incredibly dense

Yeah I was unable to get invested in 90 percent of a pharaohs because it was so much talking heads but then then they’d have a moment I locked in for

Like cerydra’s final moments? Very cool. Also very gay. But I was having a hard time getting invested in being told her story bc neither she nor hyselins featured before this in a major way

Genshin also adopted this method and that’s probably why I didn’t care about natlan bc I don’t like stories that don’t feed the mystery to me so I can figure it out myself. I don’t think I could’ve like feasibly called a lot of these moments

it really says something that they had to made the loredumps skippable around the time of the Aquila battle part of the story because it was just Too Much Lore

HSR in particular has adopted a very bad habit of making story relevance = playability

which is weird because Phainon was one of the highest selling banners of all time and at least part of it is because of how long we spent time with him throughout the course of the story

there are other factors at play too, but we definitely had plenty of opportunity to get very attached to him

YEAH

Like Phainon and Agylea’a stories both meant so much bc we spent so much time with them. Same with Tribbie. And same with the death god girl whose name I am forgetting

Castorice

Yeah I cared about all of their stories

I think the biggest issue I had was that phainon’s final act felt like the end of the story itself and suddenly were back in the slow rising action.

i got distractedb ut like

maybe on a replay i'll like it more

this go around i just ended up being fed up with how reliant it was on late stage twists

for everyone

i also feel weird that they left it off with ampharous being basically still dead