That's when you realize that the npc's do have their own lives, their own fears, and in this moment, everyone had to put their differences aside, to just survive. The action of that fatui was truly something that showed the fatui are not just "the bad people" of genshin. He was a hero for this family
@@marcr-median5692 In my opinion One basic thing to enjoy every story especially in games like genshin is treating everyone equally and not caring about playable characters only because if you do that all you ll end up sayng is i dont care about this npc yapping where is my waifu or gigachad , world needs to feel alive and thats why npc s are needed and genshin almostalways gives right ammount of time for npc s especially in archon quests and they know how to characterize them and genshin always keeps it realistic like when capitano said " how many hundreds or thousands will have to die " and we did see how hundreds and thousands died. I dont like hsr s story because they never include npc s its just characters taking part in the story , and whoever is currently having banner will have most screentime , and it feels like entire galaxy or galaxies are populated by literally 10 people , did they show an npc die on penacony ? No they didnt they just fake killed 3 characters only to revive them 1 patch later to boost their sales yet during the quest they say how they have to save MILLIONS of people from the dream , i know they said to be more dramatic and stuff but come on be a bit more realistic , no matter how many moving background they will put as npc s it will never feel like millions
@@generaltoszur1036 I totaly agree with your point about star rail, since I did the quest, I thought the same thing. And genshin in the archon quests we have melus and silver, and chuychu that are in the front. And then there's all the other npc's that a lot of them aren't even part of the open world, but by adding them to moments of disaster like this, just adds to the seriousness of the situation. I do believe that sometime in genshin, the playable characters don't seem to struggle that much, but I think npc's death and struggle does matter perhaps even more than playable characters'.
@@generaltoszur1036 I want to add smth to your opinion. After the war part in genshin's 5.1 archon quest some npcs are forever dead. For example, we'll never see the guy who helped us to find Kachina's name.
@@Knee-Lew it also depicted an important and deadly factor of war, the flow of information. Throughout the quest we see our informants dying, and we slowly lose awareness of the current state of the war. Everything is absolute chaos, and you no longer know if what you're doing is the right thing.
Yeah, that's what surprised me With no warning that Act IV was gonna be long, I had to push through it because it was late at night and I was done by 1am
It caught me by surprise too. I thought it would be just "Haha, let's kill a couple Hilichurls and get over with it 😜😜😜😜" But nah, things only got worse and worse
"oh hot air balloon that's cool! Could have been faster using waypoints tho" "Ez. Oh there's more people on the map. Oh, I can't walk over there to check it out? Ooooh they are doing their own thing gotcha" "No waypoints so this is interactive huh? Collapsed mine? Oh man, Mavuika is in a brutal situation over there." "Okay stat screen. Things seem fine. Wait, casualties?" "The Npcs are getting worried. Wait, the music changed. Can't follow Kinich there guess I'll keep going." "Oh shit, they actually died. They are just lying there. Ah, yes, grab the weapon of your fallen comrade. I guess they don't need it anymore." "Wait these two areas say immediate choice. Does that mean I have to choose? If I'm thinking strategically, this one is close to Mualani and she is in trouble. She is not just a waifu but one of the heroes. Gotta make sure she doesn't get surrounded and closed off from the stadium." "Noooo the saurians" "Uh... Mualani? I can't go there? I can't see the springs from here this mountain ugh. There's also a cloud between us on the map." "Oh no Kachina is surrounded. Wait, other spots are a lost cause? There were warriors here" "I hope the doctor mom and son are okay" "We actually have to go where we didn't choose? Fuc" "No survivors at all" "The hell are those things? Meteors?" "It's Joever" "Oh we are using the balloon again. Oh fuc I didn't see them on the bridge. Oh no. It hit right on the canopy." "War. War never changes." "No stop talking like you are about to die you just got purified. Wtf she actually died? I thought she would get a vision because of her design!" "Oh she is bringing her back? Ah, yes maybe they can still revive her after this." " Casualties in thousands. There's nothing we can do."
Oh no, that part of the Archon Quest was quite difficult. It is after all hard to fight, when you stumble over the corpses and you can't see because of the tears in your eyes.
@@JSTOP930 Single player game : Even though those NPCs don't matter to the story and the gameplay, I still want them to have a better fate, time to load! Here, without any warning if you are playing blind : Make your choice counts. It's permanent.
I was screaming "LET ME USE THE TELEPORTERS!!! I CAN SAVE EVERYONE!!" And then realized this was not just game anymore, i wasn't the protagonist of this world, even if they're NPCs i felt bad for them, i couldn't do anything..
The way we were getting less and less info on the situation as the quest went on because all the scouts were dying was so disturbing. We even had to take a report off of someone’s dead body
To hear this music and live that experience…I literally thought, “and this is only a glimpse into what happened during the cataclysm 500 years ago. This is only a fraction of what happened back then…and now I’m living it”
This ost captures so beautifully the idea of being completely powerless against the horror that is happening right in front of us, so much death, so much pain woeehh i wanted a war in Natlan but i did not think they would show it this way, incredible quest really
Well, that is what war is like. It's not glory or heroism. It's just....death and pain. I'm glad Genshin took this route and showed the horrors of it, as well as the celebration of heroes.
It really makes you wonder whats going on with Celestia that they dont wake up to the Gnoses being gathered in one spot, a divine throne being destroyed, and a hole broken in the false sky. Perhaps the Abyss has already infiltrated Celestia? And we know from the devs that Irminsul WILL burn down at some point. Just how dark is it going to get.
It already had dark undertones from the first dain quest, then came the Chasm dain quest, then Shenhe's interlude where they straight up write how her dad [REDACTED] himself on a tree branch after leaving Shenhe to get killed, then there was the Caribert chapter and how it implied that Clothar used his wife's buried remains to grow the red mushrooms...then you had Fontaine with Lyney and Lynette's backstories, Arlecchino's animated short, the Vacher murders, Vacher being interrogated by all the people he killed, and Furina, and now Natlan (This is also not mentioning the countless world quests since they're optional, and also story quests, but Ruu, Jeht and Enkanomiya's stories were just disturbing)
This OST was one of the best descriptor of the situation. The hopelessness and calamity of the attack and the casualties which are shown to be humans fighting to protect someone they care for or someone requiring protection. Never has an OST truly made me feel the phrase, "War is hell" than this one.
man this track gave me CHILLS when it started playing was literally sitting there going "man the cheery music doES NOT FIT RIGHT NOW" and then this started
listening to that ost on repeat for over an hour was so harrowing and heartbreaking. Truly gave me that feeling of desolation. When I saw the state of the childrens of the canope and the 1:13 part dropped, my heart broke. Gosh the final part of the quest was so cathartic.
There is a reason the game programmed the camera to force you to see what happened to the Scions of the Canopy village. You can look around elsewhere. But you HAVE to see that story beat and experience that moment. And it’s heartbreaking.
I got back from work at midnight and i thought "maybe i can spare two hours on the new archon quest, what can be wrong...", when i ended all the content... it was 7:30 AM... holy fck.
The whole situation had me on the EDGE, gosh! Especially making choices for which area to choose to help. I’d always check back hoping it’d say something like “they managed to get reinforcements they’re okay” cause I felt so bad choosing
And it sets you up with the first few situations you resolve. At first you chose one and the other would get resolved in some capacity. But, quickly after that abyss manifestation appeared in the sky and the battle reports just weren’t coming in, you truly cannot save everyone. You have to keep pushing through the dread, the devastation, and the loss.
@@brianahanson6449 exactly! The one with Mualani on it, when it disappeared I got so scared. Also, we stopped getting an option for multiple ones eventually, kind of insinuating that we were running out of time.
the dead fatui soldiers were the ones that broke me💔 imagine going to a whole different nation away from home to fight in a war not knowing if you’re going to come back. Usually they’re seen as the bad guys but this archon quest really made me see that they’re all not all bad but just misunderstood
Well it's mostly down to the Harbinger they follow since they are fiercely loyal. And Capitano is one of the more benevolent one. (Imagine if Dottore is here instead of Capitano)
@@amaterasuamv9082 yeah if its dottore he will just sitting on the side line watching natlan turn to chaos and after natlan is destroyed then he took the gnosis from weaken mavuika
My brain just stopped processing what was going on around me when i got to this part of the story and let me tell you no game has ever made me feel hopeless but when this ost came on and the portal opened and chuychu died all hope faded rather quickly.
Even when you realize that Chasca-Chuychu’s sister-is the final hero, you still aren’t happy or excited at all. The ode of resurrection happens soon after, yes. But everyone who has died up to this point-save maybe other ancient name bearers who already died-is never coming back. It’s one thing to win a victory. It’s another to win a war after such loss.
@@brianahanson6449And there was only 1-200 ancient name bearers among the dead, since the death count only went down that much afterwards. Thats still nearly 2000 gone for good, including Chuychu.
It's astonishing how strong the messaging in this archon Quest has left a impact in me when it comes to the atmosphere of this song every time I hear it now I cannot forget what I felt when going through it and still hurts listening to this beautiful music.
This music is gonna haunt my nightmares The helplessness, the concentration, the pain, the despair, the silence, the struggle, the death Everything came all at once and I was barely able to mentally prepare myself All the lives that were lost, the homes destroyed and the life that they had... It will never be the same, nothing will ever return as it was Two thousand, four thousand or seven thousand. They're just numbers but these are thousands of graves, thousands of tombs, thousands of funerals. Thousands of bodies, thousands of broken families, thousand scars in history. Yet it's all that we're left with. Wide open invisibile wounds, grief, unkept promises and regrets. Yet all that's we're left to do is to mourn and to honour.
The moment the Abyss Heart showed up, this was the moment that I realized this wasn't just any invasion. It is a declaration of war from the Abyss after the 5th hero was found... and war doesn't pick favorites, and only the strongest shall burn bright.
I realized that this was no longer just a game when there were so many bodies lying on the ground that I began to get stuck in them during the battle, stumbling, unable to move on... 😔
This whole section was definitely an intentional part of the design of the quest. The sad reality that, you can't save everyone, no matter how hard you might try. Go to one emergency, but you lose another which gets taken by the Abyss, and countless lives along with it..... It doesn't just emphasize how bad the war or the invasion is, but also the truth that this truly is war. And war will inevitably come with losses.... As Candace said in the 3.1 Trailer after all, "War serves no one."
And the worst thing is that even the places you've saved aren't completely safe because you go back to one of the places you've saved and they tell you that the place was attacked shortly after you left and almost all the guards died and there's only one left that you save when you arrive
paimon crying, traveller depressed, saurians died, people of natlan some got permadead, the strongest harbinger and his army could do nothing against the abyss, mavuika is nearing the end of her life
The music perfectly fed my emotions of loss and despair birthed by the losses I saw due to my choices during my playthrough. I’ve never experienced that kind of “I wanna cry” multiple times. Not during a game. And not during a war I’m playing through.
@@KiRIOTom Klee would have field day with gliders and her homemade bombs and it still wouldnt be enough. Too many target rich environment and hardened Abyss pylons.
Bruh I totally thought we've lost Mualani when the map shows the Springs area being gradually surrounded by the abyss and ultimately consumed . Guess the memories of Sea of Golden Trees Nahui Mictlan (fgo lb7) sticks long huh
natlan and fontaine's quests made me very emotional 😭 i still think fontaine's quest is unbeatable but natlan's a close second, i mean, we still didn't see the end but I loved fontaine so much in its entirety. The despair in both situations was evident
"Paimon. This is no disaster... This is war." genuinely, no archon quest hit as hard as this one. i'm genuinely afraid for what's going to happen in 5.3
Even before the natlan arcon quest started I knew wherever the abyss is it ain't gonna be good if so many people died in fontaine due to flood in natlan people will die from the abyss. 5.0 was just the start this is where the war began
This Quest - i was surprised - in the moment you get a map with Emerncys and had to chose and a situationlog how bad things are going - you realized - war never changes... I try to save and evacuate as many as passible... (In my head i thought defence less,but all in the Capital) In the situationlog Land after Land fall into the hands of the abyss. In this moment i realized, why Capitano chose the drastic why to repair the laylines - he see this all with the bad outcome for Kheanriah - A lost Kingdom without a archon who could save them... I "like" the showcase with the fatui, so you could symphatize with them too, but holy - the soldiers who tried to protect a mother with her child and the saurien in the tower - all dead only this little one... This quest i rate 11/10
not sure how Traveler would feel about this since his/her sibling as the Prince/Princess is the one directly/indirectly behind all this... I think the sibling at this point is beyond redemption
we're one nation away from Khaenri'ah, and we still don't know the full picture of what's happening. between the fake sky, Celestia being as silent as ever, and The Captain being a Khaenri'an; the Princess still doesn't show her true motives.
Abyss order is different Abyss order is a group of Khaenriah humans turned into alien characters They are manipulating the abyss characters for their advantage to lay down the foundations to fight against Heavenly principles
They aren't the same, and yet the Abyss Order has the same motivation as the abyss. Abyss Order tried to do basically the same thing in Mondstadt. Members of the Abyss Order were seen on the battlefield during war in Natlan (Abyss mages and Heralds). Abyss order is basically an extension of the will of the abyss. Sibling whitewashing is crazy. We don't know this yet, but they may be the one who fucked up Natlan Leylines with loom of fate, opening Natlan to the grand invasion. Sure, they may be brainwashed, but they literally said that they want abyss to engulfthethrones (and judging by the actions of Abyss Order - usual people are enemies too)
Honestly, playing this was the most exhausting, draining experience I had in this game...When I think people were complaining about Natlan feeling too "relaxed"..."Where's war? Where's the blood?"...Well, we got it...And playing this as a Kaeya main heavily invested in any Khaenri'ah/Abyss lore proved even more difficult...If this is Natlan...what will the end be?... On a lighter note: can I use this soundtrack for a commented gameplay? The game sound turned out horrible, I had to remove it and this could make things a bit more enjoyable...
This hits so hard The sense of dread you had playing through the quest was insane It starting pretty alright n u felt like u could actually stand a chance against the tide Just for you to realize that ur efforts arent having too much effect on the overall fight Ur slowly but surely losing ground to the enemy And then the bodies start stacking up as you visit the later places And this music on top of it all was just incredible It truly felt like u were just delaying the inevitable, only ever to play on the defensive And then when it was time to push back and all hope is restored to the people, and in turn you? God damn it was so good ✊️FOR NATLAN!!
Yeah, this part if great. Like a reminder that all that natural beauty of Natlan is now underneath lots of unpleasant things. Almost as if tarnished. It feels bad
After you walk into a village and you see 50 children, all sitting neatly in a row, against a wall each with their throats cut and their hands chopped off, you realize that the creature that could do this doesn't have a soul.
I hope we'll get a proper confrontation between the Traveler and the Abyss sibling over this massacre later on in the story. The last Dain quest was far too "nice".
You realize they have a solution for all of this that we even dared to propose during the first part of the quest? The Loom of Fate could solve this, however, I dread the kind of world Vedrfölnir could have in mind...and even more the cost of using a tool so powerful that even an angel wouldn't be able to conceive...The sad truth is René from the Narzissenkreutz quest was right...Teyvat will have no more cycles unless an external element comes into play. We can be that external element, toghether with our sibling but they're, at most, part of the solution, not the problem...
This whole section had me distressed, i felt just like Paimon. I was also angry, thinking "How can the sibling condone such death and destruction, how can you even think to justify all this?".
Gosoythoth supposedly. All the tumors are titled Mark of Gosoythoth. And interestingly that is very similar to a deity named Yog-sothoth. Might not have spelled them right but its close enough otherwise.
the abyss showed up a lot with red and purple surely you aren't also suspecting mavuika and Ei to be related to the abyss, right? similar colors don't always mean associations. context clues are important. it is worth noting that this is the first time the abyss have showed up with black+teal, instead of the usual black+purple/red. but this could be to signify that it's the core, not the rest of the mass/energy.
I don’t know about that But if you looks closely there is some spiral or snake style design or if you guys know the Brand Razer , its logo , its design looks similar to that of design of the source
I was one of those people who've been proven wrong by Natlan. I'm glad they pulled it off. Now they have my full confidence towards the end of this journey.
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The Fatui soldier who used his body to protect a mother and her child...
That's when you realize that the npc's do have their own lives, their own fears, and in this moment, everyone had to put their differences aside, to just survive. The action of that fatui was truly something that showed the fatui are not just "the bad people" of genshin. He was a hero for this family
@@marcr-median5692 In my opinion One basic thing to enjoy every story especially in games like genshin is treating everyone equally and not caring about playable characters only because if you do that all you ll end up sayng is i dont care about this npc yapping where is my waifu or gigachad , world needs to feel alive and thats why npc s are needed and genshin almostalways gives right ammount of time for npc s especially in archon quests and they know how to characterize them and genshin always keeps it realistic like when capitano said " how many hundreds or thousands will have to die " and we did see how hundreds and thousands died. I dont like hsr s story because they never include npc s its just characters taking part in the story , and whoever is currently having banner will have most screentime , and it feels like entire galaxy or galaxies are populated by literally 10 people , did they show an npc die on penacony ? No they didnt they just fake killed 3 characters only to revive them 1 patch later to boost their sales yet during the quest they say how they have to save MILLIONS of people from the dream , i know they said to be more dramatic and stuff but come on be a bit more realistic , no matter how many moving background they will put as npc s it will never feel like millions
@@generaltoszur1036 I totaly agree with your point about star rail, since I did the quest, I thought the same thing. And genshin in the archon quests we have melus and silver, and chuychu that are in the front. And then there's all the other npc's that a lot of them aren't even part of the open world, but by adding them to moments of disaster like this, just adds to the seriousness of the situation. I do believe that sometime in genshin, the playable characters don't seem to struggle that much, but I think npc's death and struggle does matter perhaps even more than playable characters'.
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@@generaltoszur1036 I want to add smth to your opinion. After the war part in genshin's 5.1 archon quest some npcs are forever dead. For example, we'll never see the guy who helped us to find Kachina's name.
Total monsters: 2458
Total deaths: 2034
Situation unknown.
literally got chills when the report says: "situation unknown"
that was really intense and dire.
@@Knee-Lew it also depicted an important and deadly factor of war, the flow of information. Throughout the quest we see our informants dying, and we slowly lose awareness of the current state of the war. Everything is absolute chaos, and you no longer know if what you're doing is the right thing.
5.0 where's the war? This isn't nation of war.
5.1 :
Hoyo: So how does it feel to get what you wished for? ^_^
the fact that we don't get a warning that we are entering a quest we can't stop, it just takes you. are you tired? too bad, war is here.
Yeah, that's what surprised me
With no warning that Act IV was gonna be long, I had to push through it because it was late at night and I was done by 1am
It caught me by surprise too. I thought it would be just "Haha, let's kill a couple Hilichurls and get over with it 😜😜😜😜" But nah, things only got worse and worse
"oh hot air balloon that's cool! Could have been faster using waypoints tho"
"Ez. Oh there's more people on the map. Oh, I can't walk over there to check it out? Ooooh they are doing their own thing gotcha"
"No waypoints so this is interactive huh? Collapsed mine? Oh man, Mavuika is in a brutal situation over there."
"Okay stat screen. Things seem fine. Wait, casualties?"
"The Npcs are getting worried. Wait, the music changed. Can't follow Kinich there guess I'll keep going."
"Oh shit, they actually died. They are just lying there. Ah, yes, grab the weapon of your fallen comrade. I guess they don't need it anymore."
"Wait these two areas say immediate choice. Does that mean I have to choose? If I'm thinking strategically, this one is close to Mualani and she is in trouble. She is not just a waifu but one of the heroes. Gotta make sure she doesn't get surrounded and closed off from the stadium."
"Noooo the saurians"
"Uh... Mualani? I can't go there? I can't see the springs from here this mountain ugh. There's also a cloud between us on the map."
"Oh no Kachina is surrounded. Wait, other spots are a lost cause? There were warriors here"
"I hope the doctor mom and son are okay"
"We actually have to go where we didn't choose? Fuc"
"No survivors at all"
"The hell are those things? Meteors?"
"It's Joever"
"Oh we are using the balloon again. Oh fuc I didn't see them on the bridge. Oh no. It hit right on the canopy."
"War. War never changes."
"No stop talking like you are about to die you just got purified. Wtf she actually died? I thought she would get a vision because of her design!"
"Oh she is bringing her back? Ah, yes maybe they can still revive her after this."
" Casualties in thousands. There's nothing we can do."
As far as i know the war part of act 4 is a special domain that you can just stop and start anytime you want
la verdad si puedes salir de esa mision y luego volver a entrar a donde la dejaste
I so wish i could replay this entire questline
Same.... I would change who I can save.... Since I didn't know it mattered... And also final fight I should have used arlecchino
And get even more trauma? Nah, who am I kidding, after Fontaine my mental health is so low, that it can't be lower.
I'm glad that I have a second account 🥵
Oh no, that part of the Archon Quest was quite difficult.
It is after all hard to fight, when you stumble over the corpses and you can't see because of the tears in your eyes.
@@JSTOP930
Single player game : Even though those NPCs don't matter to the story and the gameplay, I still want them to have a better fate, time to load!
Here, without any warning if you are playing blind : Make your choice counts. It's permanent.
I was screaming "LET ME USE THE TELEPORTERS!!! I CAN SAVE EVERYONE!!" And then realized this was not just game anymore, i wasn't the protagonist of this world, even if they're NPCs i felt bad for them, i couldn't do anything..
The abyss shall pay for all what they have done…
It’s not about just the order anymore… the war shall end… in our own bare hands
Lore wise teleport way points work through leylines and since it was all taken by abyss, balloon were only option
The way we were getting less and less info on the situation as the quest went on because all the scouts were dying was so disturbing. We even had to take a report off of someone’s dead body
I'm traumatized by Natlan and I have a feeling that in Kahenri'ah it's going to be worse, I'm going to be even more traumatized.
I'm not ready for the khaenri'ah chapter...
everyone is not ready
We probably go back in time when Khaenriah was still great
To hear this music and live that experience…I literally thought, “and this is only a glimpse into what happened during the cataclysm 500 years ago. This is only a fraction of what happened back then…and now I’m living it”
hell, we're not ready for snezhnaya either
if this happens in natlan then what's going to happen in "the nation of love that fell from its ideal"
@@brianahanson6449yeah. 🥺
This ost captures so beautifully the idea of being completely powerless against the horror that is happening right in front of us, so much death, so much pain woeehh i wanted a war in Natlan but i did not think they would show it this way, incredible quest really
Well, that is what war is like. It's not glory or heroism. It's just....death and pain. I'm glad Genshin took this route and showed the horrors of it, as well as the celebration of heroes.
This is where I believe the story of Genshin truly changes and just gets darker and darker.
It really makes you wonder whats going on with Celestia that they dont wake up to the Gnoses being gathered in one spot, a divine throne being destroyed, and a hole broken in the false sky. Perhaps the Abyss has already infiltrated Celestia? And we know from the devs that Irminsul WILL burn down at some point. Just how dark is it going to get.
It already had dark undertones from the first dain quest, then came the Chasm dain quest, then Shenhe's interlude where they straight up write how her dad [REDACTED] himself on a tree branch after leaving Shenhe to get killed, then there was the Caribert chapter and how it implied that Clothar used his wife's buried remains to grow the red mushrooms...then you had Fontaine with Lyney and Lynette's backstories, Arlecchino's animated short, the Vacher murders, Vacher being interrogated by all the people he killed, and Furina, and now Natlan
(This is also not mentioning the countless world quests since they're optional, and also story quests, but Ruu, Jeht and Enkanomiya's stories were just disturbing)
God i now understand why everyone who survived khaenriah was so f up in the head
This OST was one of the best descriptor of the situation. The hopelessness and calamity of the attack and the casualties which are shown to be humans fighting to protect someone they care for or someone requiring protection. Never has an OST truly made me feel the phrase, "War is hell" than this one.
Paimons cries seeing all the deaths..chuychi..damn..the archon quest was heavy. 🥺
man this track gave me CHILLS when it started playing
was literally sitting there going "man the cheery music doES NOT FIT RIGHT NOW"
and then this started
"This is War"
There's no mercy in war. People live and people die. That's all there is to it. It's a collision of powers.
listening to that ost on repeat for over an hour was so harrowing and heartbreaking. Truly gave me that feeling of desolation. When I saw the state of the childrens of the canope and the 1:13 part dropped, my heart broke.
Gosh the final part of the quest was so cathartic.
There is a reason the game programmed the camera to force you to see what happened to the Scions of the Canopy village. You can look around elsewhere. But you HAVE to see that story beat and experience that moment. And it’s heartbreaking.
@@brianahanson6449Yeah, when it did that and i realized what happened i though "Oh, the Scions of the Canopy has fallen... what about Wayna?"
"Tragedy is worse when you can do nothing about it."
They really did a great job portraying war. The hopelessness, deaths, fear. I even considered that they need to evacuate to Sumeru or something.
Every Moment that makes me cry
The Death Fatui who protects Natlan's mom and child
The Survived Baby Yumkasaur
The Wounded Toto
The Death Of Chuychu
I got back from work at midnight and i thought "maybe i can spare two hours on the new archon quest, what can be wrong...", when i ended all the content... it was 7:30 AM... holy fck.
The whole situation had me on the EDGE, gosh! Especially making choices for which area to choose to help. I’d always check back hoping it’d say something like “they managed to get reinforcements they’re okay” cause I felt so bad choosing
And it sets you up with the first few situations you resolve. At first you chose one and the other would get resolved in some capacity. But, quickly after that abyss manifestation appeared in the sky and the battle reports just weren’t coming in, you truly cannot save everyone. You have to keep pushing through the dread, the devastation, and the loss.
@@brianahanson6449 exactly! The one with Mualani on it, when it disappeared I got so scared. Also, we stopped getting an option for multiple ones eventually, kind of insinuating that we were running out of time.
@@Leitz_Music the first few incidents you resolve lure you into a false sense of security.
the dead fatui soldiers were the ones that broke me💔 imagine going to a whole different nation away from home to fight in a war not knowing if you’re going to come back. Usually they’re seen as the bad guys but this archon quest really made me see that they’re all not all bad but just misunderstood
Well it's mostly down to the Harbinger they follow since they are fiercely loyal. And Capitano is one of the more benevolent one. (Imagine if Dottore is here instead of Capitano)
@@Jacklin222 Dottore would get the alternative samples successfully and evacuate Natlan just in time
@@champagnegascogne9755you really think he will care about natlan like capitano does?
@@amaterasuamv9082 yeah if its dottore he will just sitting on the side line watching natlan turn to chaos and after natlan is destroyed then he took the gnosis from weaken mavuika
they were just following orders
My brain just stopped processing what was going on around me when i got to this part of the story and let me tell you no game has ever made me feel hopeless but when this ost came on and the portal opened and chuychu died all hope faded rather quickly.
Even when you realize that Chasca-Chuychu’s sister-is the final hero, you still aren’t happy or excited at all. The ode of resurrection happens soon after, yes. But everyone who has died up to this point-save maybe other ancient name bearers who already died-is never coming back. It’s one thing to win a victory. It’s another to win a war after such loss.
@@brianahanson6449And there was only 1-200 ancient name bearers among the dead, since the death count only went down that much afterwards. Thats still nearly 2000 gone for good, including Chuychu.
1:11 sounds so emotional
Seeing the casualties while this drops really set the tone of how dreadful war is
@@grumpy_1and Paimon crying..man..last time i remember her on a mess was during the sabzeru festival timeloop.
Everyone's dead, papa what should I do?
dread is sky high at this point, holy geez
It's astonishing how strong the messaging in this archon Quest has left a impact in me when it comes to the atmosphere of this song every time I hear it now I cannot forget what I felt when going through it and still hurts listening to this beautiful music.
It's really hard to play knowing you can't save everyone... guess this is what a "hero" of Natlan is supposed to feel.
This music is gonna haunt my nightmares
The helplessness, the concentration, the pain, the despair, the silence, the struggle, the death
Everything came all at once and I was barely able to mentally prepare myself
All the lives that were lost, the homes destroyed and the life that they had... It will never be the same, nothing will ever return as it was
Two thousand, four thousand or seven thousand. They're just numbers but these are thousands of graves, thousands of tombs, thousands of funerals.
Thousands of bodies, thousands of broken families, thousand scars in history.
Yet it's all that we're left with.
Wide open invisibile wounds, grief, unkept promises and regrets.
Yet all that's we're left to do is to mourn and to honour.
The moment the Abyss Heart showed up, this was the moment that I realized this wasn't just any invasion.
It is a declaration of war from the Abyss after the 5th hero was found... and war doesn't pick favorites, and only the strongest shall burn bright.
While the losers must turn to ash
Genshin has been known to evoke many emotions in the past
Never thought that dread will be one of them
Let alone hopelessness and fear
I realized that this was no longer just a game when there were so many bodies lying on the ground that I began to get stuck in them during the battle, stumbling, unable to move on... 😔
This whole section was definitely an intentional part of the design of the quest. The sad reality that, you can't save everyone, no matter how hard you might try. Go to one emergency, but you lose another which gets taken by the Abyss, and countless lives along with it.....
It doesn't just emphasize how bad the war or the invasion is, but also the truth that this truly is war. And war will inevitably come with losses....
As Candace said in the 3.1 Trailer after all, "War serves no one."
And the worst thing is that even the places you've saved aren't completely safe because you go back to one of the places you've saved and they tell you that the place was attacked shortly after you left and almost all the guards died and there's only one left that you save when you arrive
paimon crying, traveller depressed, saurians died, people of natlan some got permadead, the strongest harbinger and his army could do nothing against the abyss, mavuika is nearing the end of her life
Yup, dealing with the shade of Death does come with a price to pay
Очень красиво и атмосферно, чувствуется безнадёга. Хойо в очередной раз сделали шедевр!
describe AQ 5.1 in one word: dread .
this OST captured that sense of hopelessness and tension perfectly. had chills the moment the OST played in-game.
The music perfectly fed my emotions of loss and despair birthed by the losses I saw due to my choices during my playthrough. I’ve never experienced that kind of “I wanna cry” multiple times. Not during a game. And not during a war I’m playing through.
That what a small fraction of the abyss can do what happens if all the abyss leaders and princess combine their forces all of them are cooked.
Natlan has just gone to DEFCON 1!
So that's why I dropped the nukes (alias, used Klee during the war)
@@KiRIOTom
Klee would have field day with gliders and her homemade bombs and it still wouldnt be enough. Too many target rich environment and hardened Abyss pylons.
Bruh I totally thought we've lost Mualani when the map shows the Springs area being gradually surrounded by the abyss and ultimately consumed
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Guess the memories of Sea of Golden Trees Nahui Mictlan (fgo lb7) sticks long huh
Abyss looks and behaves like honkai leaking into this world, maybe barrier is actually a good thing for teyvat
natlan and fontaine's quests made me very emotional 😭
i still think fontaine's quest is unbeatable but natlan's a close second, i mean, we still didn't see the end but I loved fontaine so much in its entirety. The despair in both situations was evident
"Paimon. This is no disaster...
This is war."
genuinely, no archon quest hit as hard as this one. i'm genuinely afraid for what's going to happen in 5.3
Imagine we find out one of our closest friends has to sacrifice themselves so they won't betray us or cause destruction
Even before the natlan arcon quest started I knew wherever the abyss is it ain't gonna be good if so many people died in fontaine due to flood in natlan people will die from the abyss. 5.0 was just the start this is where the war began
This Quest - i was surprised - in the moment you get a map with Emerncys and had to chose and a situationlog how bad things are going - you realized - war never changes... I try to save and evacuate as many as passible... (In my head i thought defence less,but all in the Capital) In the situationlog Land after Land fall into the hands of the abyss. In this moment i realized, why Capitano chose the drastic why to repair the laylines - he see this all with the bad outcome for Kheanriah - A lost Kingdom without a archon who could save them... I "like" the showcase with the fatui, so you could symphatize with them too, but holy - the soldiers who tried to protect a mother with her child and the saurien in the tower - all dead only this little one... This quest i rate 11/10
still your choice in emergency does have effect when everyone gather back to stadium
not sure how Traveler would feel about this since his/her sibling as the Prince/Princess is the one directly/indirectly behind all this... I think the sibling at this point is beyond redemption
we're one nation away from Khaenri'ah, and we still don't know the full picture of what's happening. between the fake sky, Celestia being as silent as ever, and The Captain being a Khaenri'an; the Princess still doesn't show her true motives.
The Abyss order and the Abyss aren't the same thing.. this is the abyss, the sibling have nothing to do with this
The Abyss Order uses the Abyss as a source of power but they have no control over the Abyss
Abyss order is different
Abyss order is a group of Khaenriah humans turned into alien characters
They are manipulating the abyss characters for their advantage to lay down the foundations to fight against Heavenly principles
They aren't the same, and yet the Abyss Order has the same motivation as the abyss. Abyss Order tried to do basically the same thing in Mondstadt. Members of the Abyss Order were seen on the battlefield during war in Natlan (Abyss mages and Heralds). Abyss order is basically an extension of the will of the abyss. Sibling whitewashing is crazy. We don't know this yet, but they may be the one who fucked up Natlan Leylines with loom of fate, opening Natlan to the grand invasion. Sure, they may be brainwashed, but they literally said that they want abyss to engulfthethrones (and judging by the actions of Abyss Order - usual people are enemies too)
My Minecraft World when I reach Phase 5 in Scape 'n Run Parasites.
Constant shelling...
Radio Silence...
We can imagine the scenery.
I'm just glad they remembered The Abyss and made them an actual threat for once instead of a silly Scooby Doo villain that needed to be unmasked.
Honestly, playing this was the most exhausting, draining experience I had in this game...When I think people were complaining about Natlan feeling too "relaxed"..."Where's war? Where's the blood?"...Well, we got it...And playing this as a Kaeya main heavily invested in any Khaenri'ah/Abyss lore proved even more difficult...If this is Natlan...what will the end be?...
On a lighter note: can I use this soundtrack for a commented gameplay? The game sound turned out horrible, I had to remove it and this could make things a bit more enjoyable...
This hits so hard
The sense of dread you had playing through the quest was insane
It starting pretty alright n u felt like u could actually stand a chance against the tide
Just for you to realize that ur efforts arent having too much effect on the overall fight
Ur slowly but surely losing ground to the enemy
And then the bodies start stacking up as you visit the later places
And this music on top of it all was just incredible
It truly felt like u were just delaying the inevitable, only ever to play on the defensive
And then when it was time to push back and all hope is restored to the people, and in turn you?
God damn it was so good
✊️FOR NATLAN!!
FOR NATLAN
Death has come to us all.
This is how sounds despair
1:46
Yeah, this part if great. Like a reminder that all that natural beauty of Natlan is now underneath lots of unpleasant things. Almost as if tarnished. It feels bad
After you walk into a village and you see 50 children, all sitting neatly in a row, against a wall each with their throats cut and their hands chopped off, you realize that the creature that could do this doesn't have a soul.
Hey, at least they abyss aren't as sadistic as Niko's enemy
@@Mortreed They can be as cruel as the Balkans if they want to.
Wait, WHAT? I did the quest and didn't see this!
@@Oceaninabottle it's a quote from GTA IV
I have a feeling that this would be prominent in Schneznaya.
Gloomy Sunday of Genshin
1:50
Nah , fck this chord
It’s a PTSD for me
This flute doesn’t help me except inducing Terror
Reminds me of Elden Ring, so melancholic and hopeless.
I hope we'll get a proper confrontation between the Traveler and the Abyss sibling over this massacre later on in the story. The last Dain quest was far too "nice".
You realize they have a solution for all of this that we even dared to propose during the first part of the quest? The Loom of Fate could solve this, however, I dread the kind of world Vedrfölnir could have in mind...and even more the cost of using a tool so powerful that even an angel wouldn't be able to conceive...The sad truth is René from the Narzissenkreutz quest was right...Teyvat will have no more cycles unless an external element comes into play. We can be that external element, toghether with our sibling but they're, at most, part of the solution, not the problem...
The Abyss and the Abyss Order are two different things.
This whole section had me distressed, i felt just like Paimon. I was also angry, thinking "How can the sibling condone such death and destruction, how can you even think to justify all this?".
The Abyss and the Abyss Order are two separate things. They Abyss is also like Yog-Sothoth considering the title given to the abyss tumours.
-"Итэр,это и есть война?"
Yeah, i knew we shouldn't trust the "Happy go lucky" Natlan teaser
So, who exactly among the ranks of the Abyss is activating this portals?
Gosoythoth supposedly. All the tumors are titled Mark of Gosoythoth. And interestingly that is very similar to a deity named Yog-sothoth. Might not have spelled them right but its close enough otherwise.
I honestly hope the story continues in this vein. There’s not enough gravitas for my liking.
If only inazuma civil war was done like this, it would be more impactful, not crying over single NPC we didnt care about.
It would never get this bad because a war of extermination is FAR removed from a Civil war
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After 5.1 Venti has a LOT of explaining to do..... that black hole..... looks too much like anemo
I keep in mind manga prologue chapter with Aether already having Pyro energy unlocked, where he speaks with him. The clock is ticking...
Huh not at all lol
that's a stretch
the abyss showed up a lot with red and purple
surely you aren't also suspecting mavuika and Ei to be related to the abyss, right?
similar colors don't always mean associations.
context clues are important.
it is worth noting that this is the first time the abyss have showed up with black+teal, instead of the usual black+purple/red.
but this could be to signify that it's the core, not the rest of the mass/energy.
I don’t know about that
But if you looks closely there is some spiral or snake style design or if you guys know the Brand Razer , its logo , its design looks similar to that of design of the source
Gaze simulator...
I made this music video after the archon quest. ua-cam.com/video/EkS2YFNI5cY/v-deo.htmlsi=iMnkKE-jl47lBU5A
I was one of those people who've been proven wrong by Natlan. I'm glad they pulled it off. Now they have my full confidence towards the end of this journey.
My heart broke when i heard this ost plus it did broke even more when Chasca was slowly walking sksk 🥹 uk that scene