I did not notice it until I found some comments in reddit. It seems North Wind was also played in the background, I don't remember which scene in particular.
@@kawaii_pika6594 ill put the explanation below just in case someone doesn't want to see it. . . . . . . Misha is a Memory Zone Meme created by Mikhail Char Legwork that only those who follow the path of the Trailblaze can see. He was made to take the appearance of a younger Mikhail and serve as "The Watchmaker's Legacy". So Misha not only doesn't exist, since he is Mikhail... He's been long gone already.
@@kawaii_pika6594 Misha is basically Mikhail's Memory Zone Meme; or to put it bluntly; _Misha is the contents of Mikhail's Memory Bubble_ personified with the will of trailblazing. The reason Gallagher and the Astral Express Crew finds the Memory Bubble of Mikhail EMPTY is because the "Contents" or _Misha_ stepped out of it after he heard the whistle of the Astral Express in Penacony; as Himeko puts it "Misha didn't fail, or act out of character; stepping out of the bubble, and exploring the outside "world" is due to his trailblazing spirit." Misha, is not only THE _Watchmaker_ , but he is the embodiment of the "Legacy" that they've left behind in Penacony, which is the spirit of Trailblazing.
Welcoming considering how Harmony doesn’t really care about whatever happens as long as people get along she/they are really neutral about things with humanity since they are like “all things should get along, because I say say so”. She’s the only aeon that thinks all people and the paths they follow should just get along, even if she does hate Nihility
@@treestump17 yeah, but in early story there’s a lot of speculation where the harmony aeon themselves that turns evil. So I’m worried it might go harmony = bad cliche thing but well it turns out very well
@@treestump17 True. It’s like religion in real life in some cases, if the god is dead doesn’t mean the religion is really gone unless they put it under the table. It’s basically just wanting to keep hold on things.
@aceshadows661 I'm pretty sure it was said that 2.3 was the last patch with Penacony main story line! So I'm really excited for 2.3 because I know that will finally be the end of the story, its the epilogue
@@aceshadowsfor real... They really overkill on the repetitive dialogue and I certainly didn't need 3 different perspectives on getting to the same plot point.
"A bofy decayed" is definitely Misha/The Watchmaker "Brother and Sister" are the siblings. Unironically I can see us in the future trying to rescue the people still trapped by ther Order's influence (this includes Sunday) since it was confirmed that they are still trapped within the dream.
1.0 we raided Cocolia with Wildfire, 2.2 we penetrated Sunday with our train and Robin's song. I'm not gonna talk about Xianzhou Loufu, although the theme boss is good.
@@captainblue5096 yeah the most saddest part is the luofu is actually the ship that has tied with one of the main cast like if we get good writing at the next xianzhou ship its good but its kinda sad that we didnt get that on the luofu
@@sunglassfrog89 Nah, it's fine cuz Luofu is obviously still the first part in a long arc of it's own. 2.0 was good but it was very stale compared to the next 2 parts
@@Kspice9000 if u hate it don't bother playing it. Go back to your 0 brain usage games. Clearly this is not for you. Everytime people like u have to say that story was long blah blah blah. People like you are a very good example on what yt shorts and tiktok does to people's patience level.
This quest Gave so many Lore bombs, Even For Honkai Impact Players that Acheron is Indeed Raiden Mei also HiMeko talked abt her Dream and referenced Kiana and Girls .
@@jellymoon793 Right before Trailblazer Gave Her/his Answer to Sunday ,Before she/he got Harmony power and Firefly farewell. (it was just a Reference But that stilll gave a clue she is HiMeko expy too)
@@herrscherofsillyracoons851 when you answering Sunday's questions, I believe the one about letting Robin still go even knowing she will be shot, you ask Himeko and she tells you she has dreams about voices grieving for her or smth like that, in reference to HI3rd cast after her death.
@@sora_in_the_sky U GET ME BROTHERR Okay can we rant that besides acheron theres so many hi3rd reference I remeber one of them reminded me of elysia somehow
Raiden Bosenmori Mei as Acheron Yep this cemented the fact that Acheron is indeed Raiden Mei expy and that ??? On March 7th tho oooooo this gets me excited
@@lenfenti really thought the first encouter with sunday just gonna end like that but i felt strange when things went too well,turns out we still in his dream
@@th3coc0goat I felt dissapointed during that first fight thinking that was the actual final fight. Like there's no singing in the background, and no goosebumps cutscenes. But writers says: Sike! Fooled You!
our people gathering together to wake up the people from ena's dream was essentially "the strong defending the weak" its crazy this patch's writing is crazy. for three patches we have been pondering abt why life slumbers, and now we have the answer. bc "we will eventually wake up from the dream." the reprieve isnt forever. we cannot escape and dream for the rest of our lives bc that is essentially taking away our freedom and self. i absolutely love acheron's reasoning of how in desperate times, the people will want to live and survive. it all comes back full circle to ratios quest in 1.6 and his lines in the ending, where he says "it is only in times of despair that fools grasp how to pick themselves up." through despair, we gain hope, and through hope, we /dream/. sunday wants happiness and safety for his people, and thinks that only by locking them up in a cage can true happiness be achieved. he thinks that when people are free, they will inevitably crash into darkness. but he fails to realize human sympathy. in times of darkness and despair, humans will pick each other up and build themselves up side by side, much like what is shown in dreamflux reef. they will crash down, but they will get up again. the weak will empower each other and gain strength. humans will not realize true happiness through eternal bliss. this is also why sunday's idea of order contradicts with the trailblaze, and what mikhail wouldve wanted, bc sunday wants people to essentially be trapped so they can be safe forever, but the trailblaze is all about venturing into the unknown and being ready to face whatever it may be. the writing for penacony is insane, ive just loved every patch so far, and im very excited for 2.3 !! edit: i want to add to this that this is my personal interpretation of the quest and that it may or may not be the intended message, but art can be interpreted in many ways, no? its all depending on our own personal experiences. anyways, i saw another interpretation that resonated with me and i thought id share it here as well: penacony is not abt trapping everybody in the dream and giving them perpetual happiness, its about realizing a dream or a future even if you personally wont be able to see it through. "why does life slumber?" because we need to rest to wake up the next day to see our dreams come to fruition. or maybe we need multiple rests. or sometimes a lifetime. but what matters is that we (or somebody else) will wake up someday to a future that we used to only dream of. the answer "someday, we will wake up from our dreams" is very simple because sometimes the answer doesnt have to be complex. it could be staring us in the face and we just choose not to acknowledge it. escape, if you will.
i could go on for hours dissecting each character bc i loved the multiple povs and how theyve added to the characters' depths and complexities, but id be sitting here for hours essentially, sunday is the caged bird, ready to sacrifice himself to eternal solitude for the peoples security and happiness, and robin is the free bird, the embodiment of harmony, of freedom and empathy. in the end, she still wants the best for sunday, bc thats just how she is. despite the gunshot, she continues to defend the weak.
@@starstruck_ dw i love love love complex stories w deep discussions like penacony has and i appreciate the writing for it soooo much its literally everything ive wanted and more. for that it does get kinda annoying when people water down the quest or when its clear that they dont read the dialogues and then complain abt something thats been explained already. please, sundays ideals are compassionate but flawed, especially in his ways of wanting to realize it. 😭😭
YES its wonderful how robin turned out to be the “strong” between the two after all of sunday’s discussion about him being the lone star to guide the weak… despite everything she perseveres and inspires others to do the same, while sunday is so broken by all his trauma left unchecked he cages himself and everyone else at the cost of everyone’s sanity and life because to him it’s the only way to be safe and in control, and he’s too pessimistic to think people have a chance on their own… robin is freedom and perseverance while sunday is escapism and stagnation, a really cool contrast between them. in hindsight robin’s dialogue to the kids in her trailer is a really good sumup of her mindset (“can i achieve my dream?” “yes! but start now!” = you need to live your life and work towards it). she inspires them, but ultimately they will have to face any hardships head on and make their choices no matter how hard, because the option of sunday’s beautiful prison is still a prison in the end. she tries to understand him (ie the children in dreamflux reef), but ultimately she knows it’s a messed up plan and forever locking someone in a dream against their will is not really living even if in a beautiful hedonistic world like penacony. call me biased because he’s my favorite but i also really like how sunday was characterized with all his pain being laid out to us, from losing eveything, to the family’s grooming and even his confessional duty by which everyone relied on him, the religious influence on him and his plan.. man. even back then he did the opposite of what robin does and simply pulled the strings for the people that sought his help instead of inspiring them to do their best to face their hardships. couple that with how revered he was, and it’s pretty clear how his savior complex worsened. i really like the theory that he is implied to have ocd or some other type of compulsive disorder instead of just being a “control freak” (the flavor text of his round table says he “suffers from compulsions”) because it’s such a sad and realistic way to react to trauma, especially something like robin being shot in the neck.. he does tell us it haunts him, always asking himself how different things could’ve gone if he’d kept her caged, i’d say almost obsessively.. maybe i’m just projecting, but still i think i see what they were trying to do. i can definitely see him struggling with intrusive thoughts about robin’s fate, but so far that’s mostly headcanon. sunday has been on a downward spiral all his life and it all really shows through in his dialogue when he tunes with us, all pure projection where despite being told how wrong ena’s dream is he twists it to his own image (“living in a dream is abandoning life”, “no, it is TRANSCENDING”). his dialogue with firefly honestly gave me chills because at that point everything was set and nothing could get through him, even though she called him out on how flawed and pessimistic he is and how he doesn’t truly believe in others (“so in your mind i must be weak?”). it’s pretty sad how robin, firefly and the crew all understand he wants the good for others but can’t make him realize his plan is insanity, even when the proof that he is wrong is right in front of him because they and the current and past nameless can persevere and live on despite all the hardships instead of locking themselves in his gilded cage. that said i really love his relationship with robin, despite him losing his mind and initiating the dream against robin’s wishes she still loves him, thanks to her strong will she is the first to wake up and she snaps him out of his spiraling - even after it all she’s still concerned for him and how lonely he must have been feeling all this time. they have a really beautiful dynamic and i hope we can find him in the next patch(es) and maybe even help him step towards a better state of mind now that he saw “the strong defending the weak” firsthand. how ironic that in the end the self declared savior ended up being the weak defended by the strong. id be here for hours if i could say everything i loved about this update and sunday….
@@radiatingsunray ohmygod i absolutely loved reading your sunday analysis. he is honestly such a well written character, i loved the way the writers portrayed his mental state after everything he has experienced. the religious trauma and guilt is strong in this one !! and yes, i ADORE robin and sunday's sibling dynamics, theyre probably my favorite pair of siblings in the game so far. the ending cutscene where it was shown that robin was still willing to stay by his side despite it all made me shed so many tears. sunday, please realize that its okay to fly, bc there will be people whos willing to catch your fall.
Didn't expect that they would include Astral Express lore within Penacony storyline. Since we know Akivili just kinda absent but not confirmed dead, I thought they would spill the whole lore at the moment he's back. Then Sunday saying he didn't want to be Aeon is also straight BS, if he had that much impact within the entire galaxy for quite some time surely he would ascend to aeonhood as Aeon of Order sooner or later. Dude is insane.
He became an Emanator of Order, Black Swan said. I think he really doesn't want to revive the aeon or becomes the aeon, but someone needs to take on the mantle so he sacrificed himself and took Robin's place.
Sunday most likely isn't a emanator himself, Black Swan was probably refering to him using the Harmonious Choir, which is the embodiement of harmony, as Himeko said.
Idk to me it didn't seem like Sundays intentions were bad at all. He really did just want peace and nothing bad to happen. Obviously his ideas were kinda flawed, but he is definitely not evil or anything
@@Cecro77 Yes he became emanator after merging with Order. I wonder, when Black Swan talked about this, she was talking about clashing between Boss Sunday and Jing Yuan and she said "when "emanators" collide, ordinary people inevitably suffer." Emanators in plural, so the other emanator is Jing Yuan?
Does anybody talks about the magnificent scene with all the nameless staying still like pure badass with the astral express behind at 17:10 ??? It gives me chills every time !!
You totally forget that "March 7th" is just a name that the Astral Express members gave her because no one knows who she is, and she lost all of her memory.
@@steplu2916 I'm aware their animations are on UA-cam as well. I don't see why you wanted to express hostility, but I'm sorry if my comment offended you by being ignorant of acknowledging other ways people understand the reference as well.
Sunday and Dreammaster might seem to be the master manipulators of all time, but when we look deep into their schemes, they missed the smallest logic in their plans. Harmony can bring Order, but Order CANNOT bring Harmony.
Love to see that after the fight trailblazer, now on the path of the harmony, was at the front of the group, while on the path of preservation he ends up somewhere at the back
Its his Fragment, well correct me if i m wrong. In the beginning when we met "Misha", its not "Misha" but fragment from Mikhail. So, Misha that we can use is just Mikhail's Fragment.
misha was mikhail's creations, he can be considered like the "death" meme, to do task that given by owner, misha was created by mikhail to lead the future trailblazer to clock boy or the Harmony power that we going to have.Because mikhail also do not want people to find about it, that is why only trailblazers can see him. However due to the disruption of the dreamscape, he got moved away from his original location, which is where we first encounter "death", and became like a broken robot who forgot his original task and start leading guests like a true hotel receptionist.
@@realcurtethandroxas6318 Nah it wasnt. It was 3 seconds of his ult one shotting the boss... that was very anticlimactic especially since we used a once in a lifetime token for ALL of the hunt's forces to come and he just one shots it.
OH COME ON THE FUCK ON MISHA WAS DEFFINETLY A NEW ADDITION TO THE EXPRESS FUCK YOU ( but thank you ) HOYO Now ima cry in corner just like the day Where Himiko taught me "my last lesson"
Having even basic knowledge of HI3rd makes the story so much more enjoyable its insane. Raiden Mei being her actual name, the reference to mei helping kiana while she was falling in both the "lament of the fallen" and "graduation trip" animated shorts, the entire story tracing the exact same path as project stigma in the finality arc.
hearing the music start in the real boss fight actually got me so bad. i love music so much and robin touched my heart with hers the line from himeko "witness the will of the weak!" goes so hard too i was using an emotional support team instead of an actual team so it took a lot of turns for me to beat the boss but it was totally worth it to hear everyone's lines when using the support skill
ngl. i almost complained that the final arc of penacony was rushed or smth and how there's only one phase in sunday's boss and apparently its a fake ending lololol, they really cooked with this one And because of penacony, i realized that xianzhou luofu main story wasn't that good. belobog and penacony peak
Cocolia Boss Support: Giant Robot
Phantylia Boss Support: Dan Heng's pet dragon
Sunday Boss Support: *CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER GET TRAINED*
"Can't stop the A-Train, baby"
you missed the opportunity to say GET STAR-RAILED SON
@@leduydoan9652 AUGH I DID DAMN
I like trains.
me when seeing a train is coming at me with Imaginary
bro when acheron wakes everyone up, the way she caught trailblazer was a direct reference to raiden mei catching kiana in nagazora 😭😭
Fr!
Yeah. Reminds me of Xiao's scene too
THIS. I was on the verge of tears because they pulled a lament of the fallen on us 😭
@@starinfinite2949 literally right??
I did not notice it until I found some comments in reddit.
It seems North Wind was also played in the background, I don't remember which scene in particular.
Script Supervisor : Elio
OF COURSE IT'S ELIO'S DOING
Shaoji=elio confirmed??
Wasn't that Elio Who Spoke at the End of the real Ending
@@ankitjadhav6775Elio is the leader of the stellaron hunters.
@@haz_gaming6636 🤦 Rc. 22:30 i meant to ask isn't this Elio telling the conclusion
@@ankitjadhav6775oh yeah definitely.
I really love that they let Caelus/ Stelle talk in the cutscenes
Also, man the Misha scene made me cry damn
o7 to there 3 past nameless
@@Aliveee24o7 to Razalina, girl got no screen time
@@pizzavert4020she’s in the event lightcone tho!
He is a discord femboy frfr
@@justinkianaalfredo6843discord femboy that when he grew up he became a majestic looking oldman
Danheng saying "don't be shackled by the past" certainly give me chills.
The astral express members genuinely tried to save Sunday.
Almost felt like he was referring to himself...and wanted Sunday to not suffer how he must have....
@@anodeskywalkerIS THAT A LIBRARY OF RUINA REFERENCE
Dan heng literally advising sunday to not repeat his (Dan heng's) mistakes
I am now headcanoning Robin was just like: Hey Pom-Pom, can you help?
And Pom-Pom was like: HEED MY TRAIN, MOTHERF-
LMAO
Radiant train, heed my words, show NO MERCY! 😂
@@Jm96RoCk NO MERCY SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU, SUNDAY!
I like to think that she just didn't even ask and I imagine pompom to busy trying to keep the cabin compartment clean after the loopdie loops.
hey you mean motherfudger
It was noticable that Misha was Mikhail and the Watchmaker but i wasn't expecting him to be dead 🧍♂️
wait, that Misha is died?
Did you guys manage to reply on his message before his scene? I replied to his message after the story but that account can no longer receive message
O7 to mah femboi out there, he may look forgotten for us but his legacy will always be remebered🙏
@@kawaii_pika6594 ill put the explanation below just in case someone doesn't want to see it.
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Misha is a Memory Zone Meme created by Mikhail Char Legwork that only those who follow the path of the Trailblaze can see. He was made to take the appearance of a younger Mikhail and serve as "The Watchmaker's Legacy".
So Misha not only doesn't exist, since he is Mikhail... He's been long gone already.
@@kawaii_pika6594 Misha is basically Mikhail's Memory Zone Meme; or to put it bluntly; _Misha is the contents of Mikhail's Memory Bubble_ personified with the will of trailblazing.
The reason Gallagher and the Astral Express Crew finds the Memory Bubble of Mikhail EMPTY is because the "Contents" or _Misha_ stepped out of it after he heard the whistle of the Astral Express in Penacony; as Himeko puts it "Misha didn't fail, or act out of character; stepping out of the bubble, and exploring the outside "world" is due to his trailblazing spirit."
Misha, is not only THE _Watchmaker_ , but he is the embodiment of the "Legacy" that they've left behind in Penacony, which is the spirit of Trailblazing.
I'm really glad that Xipe wasn't the villain at all
Welcoming considering how Harmony doesn’t really care about whatever happens as long as people get along she/they are really neutral about things with humanity since they are like “all things should get along, because I say say so”.
She’s the only aeon that thinks all people and the paths they follow should just get along, even if she does hate Nihility
Ena wasn't either, her followers are just crazy, she's already dead but they keep using her name for evil lol
@@treestump17 yeah, but in early story there’s a lot of speculation where the harmony aeon themselves that turns evil. So I’m worried it might go harmony = bad cliche thing but well it turns out very well
@@treestump17 True. It’s like religion in real life in some cases, if the god is dead doesn’t mean the religion is really gone unless they put it under the table.
It’s basically just wanting to keep hold on things.
Not really dead. More like Part of the Harmony. @@treestump17
2.3: Firefly's 3 death flags, Sparkle's many nuke buttons, Jade's 2 big personalities, and a stellaron problem yet to be solved.
So many loose ends to make more loose ends next patch 🙂↔️
@aceshadows661 I'm pretty sure it was said that 2.3 was the last patch with Penacony main story line! So I'm really excited for 2.3 because I know that will finally be the end of the story, its the epilogue
@@aceshadowsfor real...
They really overkill on the repetitive dialogue and I certainly didn't need 3 different perspectives on getting to the same plot point.
@@HatDog21and as we all know the epilogues are typically worse then what preceeded it.
Aurum alley, museum and ghost hunter schlock all over again.
@@HatDog21and that's not mentioning the garbage tier anniversary "events"
Xipe opened their eyes!!
reminds me of when Nanook did it in ''Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow'' lmao
I love her design
Everyone: I sleep.
Trailblazer: Real Shite.
@Khann_2102 Bro hoyo literally put "THEM, THEIR" in all caps and yall still can't get the pronouns right 💀
@@nightmares3128bro who the hell cares she looks like a she
And besides the reason hoyo calls them "them" is because xipe isn't just one person
"A body decayed" "and a brother and sister were doomed for eternal separation"
Now don't tell me it's the siblings or I'm going to jump
Sunday is alive, in Robin quest she says that feels it
Separation might as well be Sunday going to life in prison no parole😂
"A bofy decayed" is definitely Misha/The Watchmaker
"Brother and Sister" are the siblings.
Unironically I can see us in the future trying to rescue the people still trapped by ther Order's influence (this includes Sunday) since it was confirmed that they are still trapped within the dream.
@@captmena9728where was this confirmed?
@@provarenn4033there’s a robin quest? which one?
1.0 we raided Cocolia with Wildfire, 2.2 we penetrated Sunday with our train and Robin's song. I'm not gonna talk about Xianzhou Loufu, although the theme boss is good.
While Luofu arc mostly sucked, let's not forget DHIL parting the sea with Samudrartha. That was sick.
@@captainblue5096 luofu lore slaps, luofu writing sucked. its sad because we could have easily had 3 good arcs in a row
@@xela953 For sure. I love Xianzhou lore as a whole and I’m hoping that our next ship is a lot better written.
@@captainblue5096 yeah the most saddest part is the luofu is actually the ship that has tied with one of the main cast like if we get good writing at the next xianzhou ship its good but its kinda sad that we didnt get that on the luofu
@@sunglassfrog89 Nah, it's fine cuz Luofu is obviously still the first part in a long arc of it's own. 2.0 was good but it was very stale compared to the next 2 parts
They cooked so hard with this quest
Yep cooked a bunch of low tier garbage
@@Kspice9000 yo, don't you have anything better to do? commenting in this video is not worth your time.
ALSO FRRRR I WAS SATISFIED AT THE END
@@Kspice9000go back to playing fortnite
@@Kspice9000 if u hate it don't bother playing it. Go back to your 0 brain usage games. Clearly this is not for you.
Everytime people like u have to say that story was long blah blah blah. People like you are a very good example on what yt shorts and tiktok does to people's patience level.
That Sunday Boss theme is so good bro
felt like belobog again 🥺💕
@@arandomdoggu7516 the vibe is real like belobog on hsr release
This quest Gave so many Lore bombs, Even For Honkai Impact Players that Acheron is Indeed Raiden Mei also HiMeko talked abt her Dream and referenced Kiana and Girls .
What time did himeko talk about the girls ?
@@jellymoon793 Right before Trailblazer Gave Her/his Answer to Sunday ,Before she/he got Harmony power and Firefly farewell. (it was just a Reference But that stilll gave a clue she is HiMeko expy too)
@@ankitjadhav6775 i couldnt really pinpoint it, when exactly tho??
@@herrscherofsillyracoons851 when you answering Sunday's questions, I believe the one about letting Robin still go even knowing she will be shot, you ask Himeko and she tells you she has dreams about voices grieving for her or smth like that, in reference to HI3rd cast after her death.
Also Welt talking about people waking up from their dreams in reference to project Stigma.
Sunday: With this sacred treasure I summon...
Trailblazer: Shut up Fraud strong train and hat
Bro I can't stop laughing at this. We are truly railing stars with this one.
WITNESS.. THE WILL OF THE WEAK!
10:24 Sunday: i used the harmony to destroy the harmony!!
17:03 TB: woe, train be upon ye
It was more on Order to destroy Harmony
Belobog: we pound Cocolia
Xianzhou Luofu: we get Phantylia wet
Penacony: we rail a giant mech six ways to Sunday
Herta Station: We succ the destruction power from Doomsday and splatt the Quantum Swarm Bug
I hate that this is accurate
"If rescueing you is a sin, I'll glady become a sinner."
Sunday is trying to resque but who?his sister robin?but isn’t she died?
@@isaacx_hai_3404 its... a Raiden Mei reference
@@isaacx_hai_3404 I mean yeah she's the one that was supposed to be Ena's vessel and shit
im so glad i wasnt the only who thought of it when that scene showed
@@sora_in_the_sky U GET ME BROTHERR
Okay can we rant that besides acheron theres so many hi3rd reference I remeber one of them reminded me of elysia somehow
Raiden Bosenmori Mei as Acheron
Yep this cemented the fact that Acheron is indeed Raiden Mei expy and that ??? On March 7th tho oooooo this gets me excited
We need 5-star March 7th
@@aetherherrscherofnasigoren1417unfortunately none, she just changes paths
Why is march ???
@@tanxixuanmoe9275 bcs we still don't know who she truly is
This made me think that even Elio, the Destiny's Slave, do not have any idea of March's past. Interesting.
13:43 Caelus: ASSEMBLE!
Caelus: Trailblazers assemble!!!
Pompom: choo choo motherfuc***!!
Seeing the sun appearing in the dreamscape is the best way to end the arc
12:39 Once I thought the Sunday boss was dead so I can finally go for sleep… but after this scene it’s not 💀
I really like, wait where the 3rd phase lmao
@@lenfenti really thought the first encouter with sunday just gonna end like that but i felt strange when things went too well,turns out we still in his dream
@@th3coc0goatBut since when we in a dream?
@@th3coc0goat I felt dissapointed during that first fight thinking that was the actual final fight. Like there's no singing in the background, and no goosebumps cutscenes. But writers says: Sike! Fooled You!
@@raeandschannel i did take screenshot of that initial credits and didnt really expect it will take another hour
17:21 Pom-Pom: here come my train !
Clockie and TB was like "here comes the choo choo!"
*An actual train coming down to crash the boss*
I love how Xipe's smiles, like how Nanook smirk when we resonate with their path
Xipe's smile is GORGEOUS 😭😭🩷
I almost cried when misha slept 😭😭😭
our people gathering together to wake up the people from ena's dream was essentially "the strong defending the weak" its crazy
this patch's writing is crazy. for three patches we have been pondering abt why life slumbers, and now we have the answer. bc "we will eventually wake up from the dream." the reprieve isnt forever. we cannot escape and dream for the rest of our lives bc that is essentially taking away our freedom and self.
i absolutely love acheron's reasoning of how in desperate times, the people will want to live and survive. it all comes back full circle to ratios quest in 1.6 and his lines in the ending, where he says "it is only in times of despair that fools grasp how to pick themselves up." through despair, we gain hope, and through hope, we /dream/. sunday wants happiness and safety for his people, and thinks that only by locking them up in a cage can true happiness be achieved. he thinks that when people are free, they will inevitably crash into darkness. but he fails to realize human sympathy. in times of darkness and despair, humans will pick each other up and build themselves up side by side, much like what is shown in dreamflux reef. they will crash down, but they will get up again. the weak will empower each other and gain strength. humans will not realize true happiness through eternal bliss. this is also why sunday's idea of order contradicts with the trailblaze, and what mikhail wouldve wanted, bc sunday wants people to essentially be trapped so they can be safe forever, but the trailblaze is all about venturing into the unknown and being ready to face whatever it may be.
the writing for penacony is insane, ive just loved every patch so far, and im very excited for 2.3 !!
edit: i want to add to this that this is my personal interpretation of the quest and that it may or may not be the intended message, but art can be interpreted in many ways, no? its all depending on our own personal experiences. anyways, i saw another interpretation that resonated with me and i thought id share it here as well: penacony is not abt trapping everybody in the dream and giving them perpetual happiness, its about realizing a dream or a future even if you personally wont be able to see it through. "why does life slumber?" because we need to rest to wake up the next day to see our dreams come to fruition. or maybe we need multiple rests. or sometimes a lifetime. but what matters is that we (or somebody else) will wake up someday to a future that we used to only dream of. the answer "someday, we will wake up from our dreams" is very simple because sometimes the answer doesnt have to be complex. it could be staring us in the face and we just choose not to acknowledge it. escape, if you will.
i could go on for hours dissecting each character bc i loved the multiple povs and how theyve added to the characters' depths and complexities, but id be sitting here for hours
essentially, sunday is the caged bird, ready to sacrifice himself to eternal solitude for the peoples security and happiness, and robin is the free bird, the embodiment of harmony, of freedom and empathy. in the end, she still wants the best for sunday, bc thats just how she is. despite the gunshot, she continues to defend the weak.
I WISH HSR HAD MORE PLAYERS LIKE YOU WHO ACTUALLY APPRECIATE THE STORY THIS IS THE BEST UNDERSTANDING I’VE SEEN OF THE QUEST BY FAR!!
@@starstruck_ dw i love love love complex stories w deep discussions like penacony has and i appreciate the writing for it soooo much its literally everything ive wanted and more. for that it does get kinda annoying when people water down the quest or when its clear that they dont read the dialogues and then complain abt something thats been explained already. please, sundays ideals are compassionate but flawed, especially in his ways of wanting to realize it. 😭😭
YES its wonderful how robin turned out to be the “strong” between the two after all of sunday’s discussion about him being the lone star to guide the weak… despite everything she perseveres and inspires others to do the same, while sunday is so broken by all his trauma left unchecked he cages himself and everyone else at the cost of everyone’s sanity and life because to him it’s the only way to be safe and in control, and he’s too pessimistic to think people have a chance on their own… robin is freedom and perseverance while sunday is escapism and stagnation, a really cool contrast between them.
in hindsight robin’s dialogue to the kids in her trailer is a really good sumup of her mindset (“can i achieve my dream?” “yes! but start now!” = you need to live your life and work towards it). she inspires them, but ultimately they will have to face any hardships head on and make their choices no matter how hard, because the option of sunday’s beautiful prison is still a prison in the end. she tries to understand him (ie the children in dreamflux reef), but ultimately she knows it’s a messed up plan and forever locking someone in a dream against their will is not really living even if in a beautiful hedonistic world like penacony.
call me biased because he’s my favorite but i also really like how sunday was characterized with all his pain being laid out to us, from losing eveything, to the family’s grooming and even his confessional duty by which everyone relied on him, the religious influence on him and his plan.. man. even back then he did the opposite of what robin does and simply pulled the strings for the people that sought his help instead of inspiring them to do their best to face their hardships. couple that with how revered he was, and it’s pretty clear how his savior complex worsened.
i really like the theory that he is implied to have ocd or some other type of compulsive disorder instead of just being a “control freak” (the flavor text of his round table says he “suffers from compulsions”) because it’s such a sad and realistic way to react to trauma, especially something like robin being shot in the neck.. he does tell us it haunts him, always asking himself how different things could’ve gone if he’d kept her caged, i’d say almost obsessively.. maybe i’m just projecting, but still i think i see what they were trying to do. i can definitely see him struggling with intrusive thoughts about robin’s fate, but so far that’s mostly headcanon.
sunday has been on a downward spiral all his life and it all really shows through in his dialogue when he tunes with us, all pure projection where despite being told how wrong ena’s dream is he twists it to his own image (“living in a dream is abandoning life”, “no, it is TRANSCENDING”). his dialogue with firefly honestly gave me chills because at that point everything was set and nothing could get through him, even though she called him out on how flawed and pessimistic he is and how he doesn’t truly believe in others (“so in your mind i must be weak?”). it’s pretty sad how robin, firefly and the crew all understand he wants the good for others but can’t make him realize his plan is insanity, even when the proof that he is wrong is right in front of him because they and the current and past nameless can persevere and live on despite all the hardships instead of locking themselves in his gilded cage.
that said i really love his relationship with robin, despite him losing his mind and initiating the dream against robin’s wishes she still loves him, thanks to her strong will she is the first to wake up and she snaps him out of his spiraling - even after it all she’s still concerned for him and how lonely he must have been feeling all this time. they have a really beautiful dynamic and i hope we can find him in the next patch(es) and maybe even help him step towards a better state of mind now that he saw “the strong defending the weak” firsthand. how ironic that in the end the self declared savior ended up being the weak defended by the strong.
id be here for hours if i could say everything i loved about this update and sunday….
@@radiatingsunray ohmygod i absolutely loved reading your sunday analysis. he is honestly such a well written character, i loved the way the writers portrayed his mental state after everything he has experienced. the religious trauma and guilt is strong in this one !! and yes, i ADORE robin and sunday's sibling dynamics, theyre probably my favorite pair of siblings in the game so far. the ending cutscene where it was shown that robin was still willing to stay by his side despite it all made me shed so many tears. sunday, please realize that its okay to fly, bc there will be people whos willing to catch your fall.
10:24 Does anybody else gets the feeling of how Sunday summoning the boss sounds like Diva from the YuGiOh movie?
It kinda sound like him.
Didn't expect that they would include Astral Express lore within Penacony storyline. Since we know Akivili just kinda absent but not confirmed dead, I thought they would spill the whole lore at the moment he's back. Then Sunday saying he didn't want to be Aeon is also straight BS, if he had that much impact within the entire galaxy for quite some time surely he would ascend to aeonhood as Aeon of Order sooner or later. Dude is insane.
He became an Emanator of Order, Black Swan said. I think he really doesn't want to revive the aeon or becomes the aeon, but someone needs to take on the mantle so he sacrificed himself and took Robin's place.
Sunday most likely isn't a emanator himself, Black Swan was probably refering to him using the Harmonious Choir, which is the embodiement of harmony, as Himeko said.
Idk to me it didn't seem like Sundays intentions were bad at all. He really did just want peace and nothing bad to happen. Obviously his ideas were kinda flawed, but he is definitely not evil or anything
@@Cecro77 Yes he became emanator after merging with Order. I wonder, when Black Swan talked about this, she was talking about clashing between Boss Sunday and Jing Yuan and she said "when "emanators" collide, ordinary people inevitably suffer." Emanators in plural, so the other emanator is Jing Yuan?
Isn't the choir of Order? That's what I remember from the story
Does anybody talks about the magnificent scene with all the nameless staying still like pure badass with the astral express behind at 17:10 ??? It gives me chills every time !!
10:25 "with this treasure i summon" ahh chant
2:10 thank youu. I cant focus with so many text appearing at the same time during my playthrough so this being here is a blessing
We star railing biblically accurate sunday with this one
They went so hard on the penacony saga dawg 😭🙏 Lore was 100/10
WHAAAATTT?!?!! ACTUAL STAR RAILING in hsr? Dayumm, they cookin' real good in this update.
march as ??? at 24:49 have something to do with march's backstory, we'll definitely get march's lore
March Alter lesgooo
@@Khann_2102June 14
You totally forget that "March 7th" is just a name that the Astral Express members gave her because no one knows who she is, and she lost all of her memory.
I see acheron is really are mei too 😮
Plot twist : March 7th real name is March 8th 😂
Cant believe it's Canon that We literally ran a train on Sunday.
22:10 hsr hurt me im crying rn 😭 APOLOGIZE RN
13:37
Honkai Impact players (and those who watched the animations on yt) would recgonize thia scene so well 😭😭😭😭
Never played a hoyoverse game but even I know this reference. Stop acting as if lament of the fallen is not on youtube
“If rescuing you is a sin, I’d gladly become a sinner.”
@@steplu2916 I'm aware their animations are on UA-cam as well. I don't see why you wanted to express hostility, but I'm sorry if my comment offended you by being ignorant of acknowledging other ways people understand the reference as well.
@@steplu2916fuck you angry for
@@steplu2916its more a Graduation Trip reference than Lament, tbh
Xipe is truly magestic. What makes it better is the Harmonization on the bg.🛐🛐🛐
Dude the train animation got me geeking so hard literally hyped me up so much
13:36 this brought back some memories. You're not slick hoyo but damn you're good at hinting things.
Sunday really got Starrailed huh
Penacony was not only the best story in HSR, It is also without a doubt one of the best that has been made be Hoyoverse
Mei really pull up kiana move right there in 2 seconds
12:40 my wife got kick out of the dream then destroy the hole dream after that
Don't mind me crying over Misha.
I wanted him to board the express with us so badly from the moment I meet him. He is son shaped.
the good thing is that we have his compass and his hat, so in a way he’ll be trailblazing with us :”)
Every plot twist is freaking amazing
Sunday and Dreammaster might seem to be the master manipulators of all time, but when we look deep into their schemes, they missed the smallest logic in their plans.
Harmony can bring Order, but Order CANNOT bring Harmony.
Uhm nope
Their idea is not about harmony
They want is ideal life for people, not a life base in the ideal of harmony
Absolute CINEMA
13:35 classic
Love to see that after the fight trailblazer, now on the path of the harmony, was at the front of the group, while on the path of preservation he ends up somewhere at the back
Btw, the ost used in Acheron and TB's conversation is called North Wind..
Rest in peace Michael Jackson. Though you may ascended to heaven, your legacy will live on forever.
Honestly yeah MJ would defo be s character here
Mikhail Jackson
The watchmaker scene makes me cry everytime
the idea of pom pom 9/11ing the astral express into the face of the giant robot is so funny to me
DAMN acheron really is RAIDEN MEI!!!
Penacony is absolutely majestic. Thank you so much for this collection of these great scenes 💖💖💖
Wait, correct me if I'm wrong. So Misha is *not* a descendent of Mikhail, but Mikhail himself?
yes
Would he still be a child though? Idk it’s still is confusing me
Its his Fragment, well correct me if i m wrong. In the beginning when we met "Misha", its not "Misha" but fragment from Mikhail.
So, Misha that we can use is just Mikhail's Fragment.
misha was mikhail's creations, he can be considered like the "death" meme, to do task that given by owner, misha was created by mikhail to lead the future trailblazer to clock boy or the Harmony power that we going to have.Because mikhail also do not want people to find about it, that is why only trailblazers can see him. However due to the disruption of the dreamscape, he got moved away from his original location, which is where we first encounter "death", and became like a broken robot who forgot his original task and start leading guests like a true hotel receptionist.
wait so he's really dead now. the actual dead character was misha all along?
And Then it is Monday achievement LMAO
Damn more Story on Penacony is Insane so far best story in my opinion!q(≧▽≦q) And the was Jing Yuan and Dan Heng Epic Entrance DAMN
That was fake , irrelevant it was inside a Dream
@@ankitjadhav6775 It was still very Epic even if it just a dream
@@realcurtethandroxas6318 very epic but ended a bit too fast
@@realcurtethandroxas6318 Nah it wasnt. It was 3 seconds of his ult one shotting the boss... that was very anticlimactic especially since we used a once in a lifetime token for ALL of the hunt's forces to come and he just one shots it.
@@jessquiatchon2204it was a dream, that didn't actually happen, did you finish the quest?
OH COME ON THE FUCK ON MISHA WAS DEFFINETLY A NEW ADDITION TO THE EXPRESS FUCK YOU ( but thank you ) HOYO
Now ima cry in corner just like the day Where Himiko taught me "my last lesson"
I, now, permit you to gaze into the sun! 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
they really had the train rammed multiple times into the harmonious choir, akivili would be very proud
I couldn't contain my tears during misha cutscence 😢
This reminds me so much of the undertale pacifist ending. We are saving thousands of souls, waking them all up to finally save sunday himself
24:48 You can see Welt's real name here.
I like to imagine that in sunday boss pom pom decided to play "FREEBIRD" in the express
I was so shocked😭 because it felt empty after the dan heng and jy cutscene..
yeah i like how they make it somehow unusually peaceful, i notice like immediately after they didnt remember acheron.
this story was literally peak, like I did not expect that plot twist, F for the 3 namelesses and also RAIDEN MEIII AAAAA-!!
Dude friggin penacony’s story was amazing
13:29 omg flashbacks to hi3... the way acheron (or should i say mei) grabbed trailblazers hand
They really pulled a infinite tsuyukomi
Having even basic knowledge of HI3rd makes the story so much more enjoyable its insane. Raiden Mei being her actual name, the reference to mei helping kiana while she was falling in both the "lament of the fallen" and "graduation trip" animated shorts, the entire story tracing the exact same path as project stigma in the finality arc.
i'm surprised Misha or actually Mikhail is dead already before he met us
I hope they make Sunday playable TBH. He's so cool 😭
This whole story was truly an experience I will never forget
My favorite part was when dan heng and jing yuan fought alongside one another it was so cool
To Think Apparently MC and Clockie don't Show Summoning the Train in the Boss after the Trailblaze Mission :c
Is so Fudging Cool
"The Night... is still too short." - Every college and high school students
im gonna miss acheron :( this story update make me emotional
I love that pom pom just run sunday over😂
the acheron name reveal is my hypest moment 😭😭😭
ok, surely a moment so not-pivotal-to-the-story-at-all isnt ur favorite of the bunch, right
This was so good it had me in tears ❤️✨
This quest was a whole rollercoaster of emotions. I loved it.
Xipe has such beautiful eyes, it makes me feel something. Am I falling for a GOD
22:22 such a beautiful shot
hearing the music start in the real boss fight actually got me so bad. i love music so much and robin touched my heart with hers
the line from himeko "witness the will of the weak!" goes so hard too
i was using an emotional support team instead of an actual team so it took a lot of turns for me to beat the boss but it was totally worth it to hear everyone's lines when using the support skill
Best boss fight ever, how tf did the express even get in there
Acherons real name reveal was the cherry on top
the moment when xipe open their eyes, it give me chills love it
The express being a weapon has gotta be one of the coolest things
HSR express to Sunday be like...CHOO CHOO OOF!!!
its choochoo charles reference!
Dan Heng summoning the tactical homie
13:34 looks like a Kiana & Mei Cutscene
LMAO the train running straight into the boss was the best moment for me i just started laughing xD
FFの妖星乱舞の楽章のようなコーラスで神聖なボスだった。感動した。天晴れ。
I KNEW IT WAS MIKA
ngl. i almost complained that the final arc of penacony was rushed or smth and how there's only one phase in sunday's boss and apparently its a fake ending lololol, they really cooked with this one
And because of penacony, i realized that xianzhou luofu main story wasn't that good. belobog and penacony peak
Well we are gonna go back there anyway. Hopefully they tie up some loose ends
Herta Space Station crying in the corner
@@ChengXin-fu2ih oh yea herta space station was good too but not as good as belobog and peakcony
@@ChengXin-fu2ih space station doesnt really count, its basically the tutorial area
THIS STORY HAS EVERYTHING, IM CRYING 😭😭😭