I mean, nobody expected it, but that doesn't make it any good, they just gave us the twist without any context or clues or true reasoning for his ideals, everything in penacony is for shock value with barely any substance (yet), they hold most of the reveals and when they decide to explain them, they just have a character tell you directly all the info you need. It's still entertaining but if they don't get the ending right the entire journey will be for nothing, all mistery with no payoff.
@@IgorJCorrea yeah so far everything we have seen are just twists with no context nor meaning except for Aventurines arc. I will allow them to keep on cooking until I give my verdict during the epilogue on 2.3
@@IgorJCorrea “without any context or clues” are you skipping the game entirely? The game literally gives out clue everywhere, from his LC to NPCs not knowing about him and he being “13”, etc. And “true reasoning for his ideals” will be revealed soon lmao, just be patient. Also, since you don't even read, that's why Hoyo letting characters tell you everything, so you lot can stop complaining every damn time. Finally, stop assuming “if they don't get the ending right the entire journey will be for nothing, all mistery with no payoff.”, they are doing great, why just making it worse to only get backlash?
@@IgorJCorrea TBH the only reason he could be villain is his "Out of place" character. He never really do anything in plot for the whole first chapter, which raise a question what his role in all of this.
@@ranorunadaira1452 The standard points for a good mystery are the crime, the cover-up, the mistakes, then the detective worked backwards. The crime/s: People dying in dreamscape and entering the watchmaker's legacy (other side of the dreamscape). The cover-up: Not allowing people to enter the dreamscape hotel level The mistakes: ? The detective: us the Astral Crew Gallagher has not to my knowledge made any mistakes or possible reveals about his character in game. And every 2.1 LC treats their character mysteriously. It makes no difference as 'us' playing detective because Hoyo didn't give us enough clues of the killer. And they didn't create suspense either like making us click on suspects in our dialogue or allowing us to interrogate them in the real world. The Black Swan Side Memory was a perfect example of how I thought the main story was going to occur. Unlike a closed box mystery, very few characters directly interact with the main 2.1 cast (Sam, Sparkle, Ratio, Sunday, or Robin). Thus when NPC talk of course we're only going to hear about Gallagher because he's the only public one they'd CONSTANTLY meet to make an opinion and gossip. Thus the reveal feels lacking because (A) players aren't actively guessing (mindless dialogue smashing) and (B) there's few concrete clues in the main story to even guess. We as the Astral Crew don't even collectively guess because Trailblazer is the only one to meet all the suspects, and then there's the whole Aventurine storyline. Revealing to us players in a side cutscene is well orchestrated but falls flat mystery wise because we're not even involved as the detective.
The irony of Adventurine is he is extremely lucky. Sadly that also means a lot of folks around him are extremely unlucky. Hence he views his luck as a curse as he has lost everything he has ever hold dear to him. He wins everyone else around him loses. He lost everything except his life
I still wholeheartedly believe Aventurine is right: there is not true death in Penacony. All that Gallagher is doing with the "Death" meme is simply taking people he chooses behind the veil, between the wall, showing the inner workings behind the facade that is the Dream. The place that the Watchmaker rules and was forced to do so by The Family. For what reasons, who knows. Maybe the Watchmaker is evil, maybe they aren't. But, The Family definitely wants to keep it a secret. That's why Death took Robin, a member of the family who seems to want to give a voice to the voiceless. And after this conversation at the end, Gallagher most likely determined Sunday wants the same thing, but more importantly, that he truly cares about his sister. I don't think Gallagher is evil per say, quite the opposite in fact. He simply thinks the lies have been spun enough and wants to flip everything over.
I just loved that conclusion back to back. Literally no chance to gather your thoughts after Sam/Firefly reveal. I honestly thought Firefly was just Robin in disguise...
Let's see what they would cook in the next part, bcuz currently it's all cliffhanger and no pay off at all, which feels kinda bad for me personally. Hopefully they would land the payoff this time around, bcuz the setup has been pretty decent.
@@blackwind2992 if I remember right the planar set that might be talking about her planet implies she’s an artificial super soldier with short lifespan and that mech suit was made to fight against the Swarm
@@miltonfigueroa3111 my point is: If you want to prolong her life, wouldn't it be better to just stuff her in a capsule somewhere instead of modifying a mech suit to act as a medical bed while still retain combat capability? They can make train that fly through space, communicate between planets. Surely they can just make a remote-control suit right?
They are keep insisting on numbers. Gallager is not a Gallager, but an Enigmata double/spy. His "age" is 13, wich can actualy be true. Also it is a number of Death. Sam is 11. Wich tells absolutly nothing. I think 11 and 13 are number of cicles/loops. The thing keep repeating it self for some reason. Trailblazer falls twice into penacony in the story, he get wierd dialogs during his first dive, Acheron kills him with the same splashy goo effect. People who can go beyond know about it, White Acheron knows about it, Sparkl knows about it.
If you wanted to become a lore master, you would need to fix your grammars Also some context here: Sam tried 11 times to reveal some truths to trailblazer that's why this commenter said Sam is 11, here's when Sam said it 1:09:10
@@nohj690 Genuine question. How is that SAM tried 11 times implies she is number 11? She is a stellaron hunter which has almost no connection to Mythus nor History Fictionologist.
@@jonathannigel8979 no, there is no connection sam's age and 11 attempts, the original commenter is just brain rotting. All numbers are not that deep. March 7th is simply a reminder of when astral express found her, Dr. Ratio is not always ratio-ing, Black Swan is white, Hook might be 11y/o but she is clearly not a pirate captain. Based on what happened so far: >I don't know if this will be a better explanation but for me 11 is just a simple exposition that Sam tried to get in touch with the watchmaker's legacy 11 times. >>Her being stabbed in 2.0 story is 1 attempt. >>>She purposefully threatened Acheron to make her pull her blade during their fight because she assumes that a power of any emanator or a stellaron can make her 'die' again. >>>>No matter how many attempts she tried she was always sent back to the outer gates of penacony dreamscape.
@@jonglopez5400 Yea thats why I don't quite understand the OP and the next poster comments at all lmao. I read all the text, lore and dialogue and never find any connection between those. What I don't understand is, SAM (Firefly I guess) said that she was born with the inability to dream. Is that like a literal liability or just a metaphor? Because when she was stabbed in the dreamscape, considering she can't dream and go to dreamscape with shortcut made by SW, then why isn't she actually died? Or who is she? Or the "Firefly" that came out after she was stabbed is like the propagation powers (to multiply itself) because the molten armors is powered with propagation? Or when you in the dreamscape, they overwrite all the physics and reality so they can't actually dead?
First time you see this you don't notice but, you can see all this was Aventurine's plan for Acheron to contest him to force her to break the veil. The second time you see the "Have I succeded?" as soon as he sees the black hole, you understand.
Question: Did he build Acheron at all in this fight? Like doing 20k on break and 30k on ult is something I didn't expect to see from Acheron of all units.
@@farequinas5615 How the heck are people getting those numbers? I barely do 8k damage in total with her Ult when I use Acheron. Level 70 is as high as I can level anyone up, and I also her her relics and lightcone as high as I can get them, as well, but she doesn't even do the highest damage on my team most of the time, let alone do well over damage in the tens of thousands.
@@marksamson4173Let me ask YOU, how the hell is your dmg output so low? My lvl 70 E0S0 Acheron with a 4* Lightcone and Not even Maxed out Relics dmg output reaches the tens of thousands
@@newohrel I was genuinely asking. I don't know how my damage is so low, but it is. From my point of view, damage numbers you guys are claiming she has just seems impossible to me. What exactly is everyone doing to have such insane damage output? The only time I've ever seen numbers over 10k (and I'm talking barely over 10k) are if I attack the entire enemy team with an Ultimate, and that's only because it adds all the damage together in the damage display. I'm not doing anywhere near that much to each target individually
@@marksamson4173 Are you using correct team builds or at least build that compliment the dps('s). I don't have Acheron but i'd guess a rather low effort team would be Acheron, Pela, Luka or Guinafen and preferred sustain. Run a buffer team. (Sparkle, Bronya, Tingyun, Hanya) with Acheron + sustain eg: Acheron, Tingyun, Hanya and Lynx. At this point in the game(unless your kets and staying at lvl 50) you should be hitting easy 100k plus consistently. Start looking up guides for builds and stat priorities on your main teams. Even half built running rainbow 4* relics i'd still get higher numbers than your claiming.
Hm, what an interesting Story, just where will all of this lead? Can’t wait to find out. I guess we’ll have to wait for one more Update, how will all of this comes together.
You can use physical MC, he can cheese the boss easy > win the gacha with his E > get ultimate refill (for win the gacha) So you basically win gacha with E > use burst to hit him right after that > boss use gacha again > loop
I was pretty irked on his fight with Aventurine. Like I get Kafka and Acheron but Himeko??? You have 2 characters that would appreciate debuffs, especially DoTs and you bring Himeko who's only debuff is her burn which I noticed doesn't even apply that much during the whole battle. He could've at least used either a Guinaifen or a Pela and replace Kafka with someone else. He also had Jingliu since Aven was weak to Ice. Plus his SP management was pretty sloppy. Then again, he isn't really focused on the gameplay but on lore so I can forgive it a bit since he did finish the battle.
@@redemption5763 just put boothill in the suit (jk) Ngl i was hoping it was a sentient AI piloting the suit The stellaron hunters already have 2 girls making sam a dude wouldve evened it out too
It’s wild how hard we got baited with all these 5 star characters just to have the 4 star bartender be the twist villain. Hoyo cooked with this
I mean, nobody expected it, but that doesn't make it any good, they just gave us the twist without any context or clues or true reasoning for his ideals, everything in penacony is for shock value with barely any substance (yet), they hold most of the reveals and when they decide to explain them, they just have a character tell you directly all the info you need. It's still entertaining but if they don't get the ending right the entire journey will be for nothing, all mistery with no payoff.
@@IgorJCorrea yeah so far everything we have seen are just twists with no context nor meaning except for Aventurines arc. I will allow them to keep on cooking until I give my verdict during the epilogue on 2.3
@@IgorJCorrea “without any context or clues” are you skipping the game entirely? The game literally gives out clue everywhere, from his LC to NPCs not knowing about him and he being “13”, etc. And “true reasoning for his ideals” will be revealed soon lmao, just be patient. Also, since you don't even read, that's why Hoyo letting characters tell you everything, so you lot can stop complaining every damn time. Finally, stop assuming “if they don't get the ending right the entire journey will be for nothing, all mistery with no payoff.”, they are doing great, why just making it worse to only get backlash?
@@IgorJCorrea TBH the only reason he could be villain is his "Out of place" character. He never really do anything in plot for the whole first chapter, which raise a question what his role in all of this.
@@ranorunadaira1452 The standard points for a good mystery are the crime, the cover-up, the mistakes, then the detective worked backwards.
The crime/s: People dying in dreamscape and entering the watchmaker's legacy (other side of the dreamscape).
The cover-up: Not allowing people to enter the dreamscape hotel level
The mistakes: ?
The detective: us the Astral Crew
Gallagher has not to my knowledge made any mistakes or possible reveals about his character in game. And every 2.1 LC treats their character mysteriously. It makes no difference as 'us' playing detective because Hoyo didn't give us enough clues of the killer. And they didn't create suspense either like making us click on suspects in our dialogue or allowing us to interrogate them in the real world. The Black Swan Side Memory was a perfect example of how I thought the main story was going to occur.
Unlike a closed box mystery, very few characters directly interact with the main 2.1 cast (Sam, Sparkle, Ratio, Sunday, or Robin). Thus when NPC talk of course we're only going to hear about Gallagher because he's the only public one they'd CONSTANTLY meet to make an opinion and gossip.
Thus the reveal feels lacking because (A) players aren't actively guessing (mindless dialogue smashing) and (B) there's few concrete clues in the main story to even guess. We as the Astral Crew don't even collectively guess because Trailblazer is the only one to meet all the suspects, and then there's the whole Aventurine storyline. Revealing to us players in a side cutscene is well orchestrated but falls flat mystery wise because we're not even involved as the detective.
The irony of Adventurine is he is extremely lucky. Sadly that also means a lot of folks around him are extremely unlucky. Hence he views his luck as a curse as he has lost everything he has ever hold dear to him.
He wins everyone else around him loses. He lost everything except his life
This is the first time I saw a Acheron having a hard time doing damage, amazing job on your challenges runs.
An Emenator with an Aeon-empowered nuke blade slashing 1 % health off of some gambler dude with every hit. 😭
he only have one nihility other than her
@@iricalexis7508 my acheron slaps even without any nihility
@@idzona6701 fs fs
@@captain1432 nerfer btw
I still wholeheartedly believe Aventurine is right: there is not true death in Penacony. All that Gallagher is doing with the "Death" meme is simply taking people he chooses behind the veil, between the wall, showing the inner workings behind the facade that is the Dream. The place that the Watchmaker rules and was forced to do so by The Family. For what reasons, who knows. Maybe the Watchmaker is evil, maybe they aren't. But, The Family definitely wants to keep it a secret. That's why Death took Robin, a member of the family who seems to want to give a voice to the voiceless. And after this conversation at the end, Gallagher most likely determined Sunday wants the same thing, but more importantly, that he truly cares about his sister. I don't think Gallagher is evil per say, quite the opposite in fact. He simply thinks the lies have been spun enough and wants to flip everything over.
Gallagher did want to clean the Watchmaker's name
I just loved that conclusion back to back. Literally no chance to gather your thoughts after Sam/Firefly reveal.
I honestly thought Firefly was just Robin in disguise...
Same.
I was spoiled by a guy while looking at white nights comment section
@@theimmortal3907 Me too xD. "You should be excited about Firefly being sam"...
Chat's reaction is literally me when Necrit won't use AoE for the dice at the beginning lmao
It is inside dream even without plot armor and tbh they did a good job at story telling of penacony for me
cliffhanger, after cliffhanger! i need answers not cliffs and hangers!!!
Let's see what they would cook in the next part, bcuz currently it's all cliffhanger and no pay off at all, which feels kinda bad for me personally.
Hopefully they would land the payoff this time around, bcuz the setup has been pretty decent.
I came back from the luofu msq cliffhanger then finishing Penacony only for another cliffhanger lol
legends say that this man got some heart attacks after watching Sam is a waifu
SAM is a walking casket for Firefly i guess..........
More like a mobile hospital bed
Using a mobile battle mech suit that flying into combat as a hospital bed is not a very bright idea though.
@@blackwind2992 if I remember right the planar set that might be talking about her planet implies she’s an artificial super soldier with short lifespan and that mech suit was made to fight against the Swarm
@@miltonfigueroa3111 my point is: If you want to prolong her life, wouldn't it be better to just stuff her in a capsule somewhere instead of modifying a mech suit to act as a medical bed while still retain combat capability?
They can make train that fly through space, communicate between planets. Surely they can just make a remote-control suit right?
@@blackwind2992 if even Elio can't find a future to cure Entropy Loss syndrome I don't think anybody else have the ability to do that M8.
The number he deals to aven hurts to see, but good thing he clears it
Aventurine: I will use domain expansion!
Acheron: ***pop it like a bubble*** what domain?
The rolls he got early on during that Aventurine fight is wild
They are keep insisting on numbers.
Gallager is not a Gallager, but an Enigmata double/spy. His "age" is 13, wich can actualy be true. Also it is a number of Death.
Sam is 11. Wich tells absolutly nothing.
I think 11 and 13 are number of cicles/loops. The thing keep repeating it self for some reason. Trailblazer falls twice into penacony in the story, he get wierd dialogs during his first dive, Acheron kills him with the same splashy goo effect.
People who can go beyond know about it, White Acheron knows about it, Sparkl knows about it.
Huh SAM is 11? Is it stated during the quest? I might missed something
If you wanted to become a lore master, you would
need to fix your grammars
Also some context here:
Sam tried 11 times to reveal some truths to trailblazer that's why this commenter said Sam is 11, here's when Sam said it 1:09:10
@@nohj690 Genuine question. How is that SAM tried 11 times implies she is number 11? She is a stellaron hunter which has almost no connection to Mythus nor History Fictionologist.
@@jonathannigel8979 no, there is no connection sam's age and 11 attempts, the original commenter is just brain rotting. All numbers are not that deep. March 7th is simply a reminder of when astral express found her, Dr. Ratio is not always ratio-ing, Black Swan is white, Hook might be 11y/o but she is clearly not a pirate captain.
Based on what happened so far:
>I don't know if this will be a better explanation but for me 11 is just a simple exposition that Sam tried to get in touch with the watchmaker's legacy 11 times.
>>Her being stabbed in 2.0 story is 1 attempt.
>>>She purposefully threatened Acheron to make her pull her blade during their fight because she assumes that a power of any emanator or a stellaron can make her 'die' again.
>>>>No matter how many attempts she tried she was always sent back to the outer gates of penacony dreamscape.
@@jonglopez5400 Yea thats why I don't quite understand the OP and the next poster comments at all lmao. I read all the text, lore and dialogue and never find any connection between those.
What I don't understand is, SAM (Firefly I guess) said that she was born with the inability to dream. Is that like a literal liability or just a metaphor? Because when she was stabbed in the dreamscape, considering she can't dream and go to dreamscape with shortcut made by SW, then why isn't she actually died? Or who is she? Or the "Firefly" that came out after she was stabbed is like the propagation powers (to multiply itself) because the molten armors is powered with propagation?
Or when you in the dreamscape, they overwrite all the physics and reality so they can't actually dead?
The SAM Date at the end 😆
First time you see this you don't notice but, you can see all this was Aventurine's plan for Acheron to contest him to force her to break the veil. The second time you see the "Have I succeded?" as soon as he sees the black hole, you understand.
Question: Did he build Acheron at all in this fight? Like doing 20k on break and 30k on ult is something I didn't expect to see from Acheron of all units.
Yeah that was a really low number for Acheron. Even my Aventurine deals 20-25k on his FUA with a decently build hybrid set.
@@farequinas5615 How the heck are people getting those numbers? I barely do 8k damage in total with her Ult when I use Acheron. Level 70 is as high as I can level anyone up, and I also her her relics and lightcone as high as I can get them, as well, but she doesn't even do the highest damage on my team most of the time, let alone do well over damage in the tens of thousands.
@@marksamson4173Let me ask YOU, how the hell is your dmg output so low? My lvl 70 E0S0 Acheron with a 4* Lightcone and Not even Maxed out Relics dmg output reaches the tens of thousands
@@newohrel I was genuinely asking. I don't know how my damage is so low, but it is. From my point of view, damage numbers you guys are claiming she has just seems impossible to me. What exactly is everyone doing to have such insane damage output? The only time I've ever seen numbers over 10k (and I'm talking barely over 10k) are if I attack the entire enemy team with an Ultimate, and that's only because it adds all the damage together in the damage display. I'm not doing anywhere near that much to each target individually
@@marksamson4173 Are you using correct team builds or at least build that compliment the dps('s). I don't have Acheron but i'd guess a rather low effort team would be Acheron, Pela, Luka or Guinafen and preferred sustain.
Run a buffer team. (Sparkle, Bronya, Tingyun, Hanya) with Acheron + sustain eg: Acheron, Tingyun, Hanya and Lynx.
At this point in the game(unless your kets and staying at lvl 50) you should be hitting easy 100k plus consistently.
Start looking up guides for builds and stat priorities on your main teams. Even half built running rainbow 4* relics i'd still get higher numbers than your claiming.
I like Aventurine's characteristic and this story but it couldn't make me cry like Luka's story quest.
Necrit I love you
Acheron:"Serious Series: Serious Slash"
46:46 Lore accurate end attack
Where is first half?
Among his Twitch VODs
@@PanRobak. do I have to on Twitch?
16:20 "Chat lied as naturally as they breathed"
Do you still hate Aventurine Mr. Crit?
Hm, what an interesting Story, just where will all of this lead? Can’t wait to find out.
I guess we’ll have to wait for one more Update, how will all of this comes together.
WOOOOOHOOOO
Man I never even knew Necrit played HSR, thought you were too busy making league videos lol
she saved us from welt xD
Acheron ulti 37k? Did you forget to put relics on her? Plus, wtf is Himeko doin there? 😭😭😭
I dont know how i win this boss with only lynx healing he hits like a truck
use fire mc + lynx, double sustain is always good in story because there is no time limit
You can use physical MC, he can cheese the boss easy > win the gacha with his E > get ultimate refill (for win the gacha)
So you basically win gacha with E > use burst to hit him right after that > boss use gacha again > loop
Just use fu xuan lol
I just only used lynx in a kafka black swan dot team and it worked out pretty smooth (* pre-nerf)
45:10 All my fellas
16:00 Am i within 20 mins of finishing the story?
Chat: yes
1 hour 18 mins video: I don’t think so
Will Sunday be Alive?
you dont want spoiler do you
I mean in this chapter its confirmed no one dies in penacony
Spoilers
Sunday is the weekly boss in 2.2
@@aishiteru2736Honestly wouldn’t surprise me
@@EclipseStorm923 2.2 i meant lol. It's confirmed
Ngl I thought gallagher was just fanservice, a pair of boobs, I didn't expect him to be the killer, I got distracted 😔
am i the only one that is really bugged that he didnt understand such a simple mechanic 😭 blud didnt try anything and just over thought it
Necrit, I'm preatty sure that IX is a reference to the Nine from Destiny, I was wondering if you could check that out.
Firefly use Henshin.
The IPC is literally galactic Fatui. They’ve always the final villain in every story
Ryoiki tenkai: Kyomu no shūen! i used google translate. not perfect but it's what her Ult feels like
my god theres so many awkward pause in english dub
I was pretty irked on his fight with Aventurine. Like I get Kafka and Acheron but Himeko??? You have 2 characters that would appreciate debuffs, especially DoTs and you bring Himeko who's only debuff is her burn which I noticed doesn't even apply that much during the whole battle. He could've at least used either a Guinaifen or a Pela and replace Kafka with someone else. He also had Jingliu since Aven was weak to Ice. Plus his SP management was pretty sloppy. Then again, he isn't really focused on the gameplay but on lore so I can forgive it a bit since he did finish the battle.
I hope he begs for your forgiveness next time he plays an unoptimal team!
let him play man
Damn thank you for your input Jesus 🙏
I hope we can all ask for your forgiveness on how we want to play the game 😭
Wish he replaced luocha with Natasha for that full on mommy energy team comp
Chill it isn’t moc 12 lmao
Is it just me or does Necrit seem bitter towards Hoyo games now?
Poor Necrit, after all that Sam hype, "he" was just a lame ahh little girl.
Guess Boothill count? And maybe Screwlum if he will ever get release..
Feeling the same, guess we cant have a cool mech without waifu bait
wdym, its even better
@@FlutterSwag At least make it a cool dude in the suit
@@redemption5763 just put boothill in the suit (jk)
Ngl i was hoping it was a sentient AI piloting the suit
The stellaron hunters already have 2 girls making sam a dude wouldve evened it out too