I love how phase 3 turned out. Was expecting something fully intense, but this, combined with the train and the nuke being teed up, couldn't have rounded out that boss fight in a better way.
Trailblazer:POM POM, REQUESTING ORBITAL RAMMING TRAIN AT FULL SPEED, SENDING COORDINATES!!! Pom Pom:COORDINATES RECEIVED, LET'S START RAILING THEM STARS!!!
Honestly this is probably the best boss fight so far in HSR. The combination of character arcs, gaining a new TB power, the music giving you a sense determination, courage and scale in the first 2 phases, then changing to life, energy and victory in the final phase. Not to mention using the Express itself as a weapon. It all comes together in one perfect package. I was grinning the whole time I fought them
Honestly, this is the best battle and I'm really relieved that I went with Aventurino and Acheron (F2P with a lot of luck) I really enjoyed the whole battle and even when Robin started to sing I couldn't help but cry, the fear I felt for the boss immediately turned into courage and I left the defensive to go on the offensive, Honestly no epic rock or electro music can easily top this one. ❤❤❤
holy fucking shit, oh my fucking god this boss battle was one of the most amazing things i have witnessed in hoyoverse games. it was so damn good, and the last phase with that banger music and that ability to use the literal astral express to hit into sunday. god this was so fucking good man
This is the theme of a man who's about to get hit by multiple laser beams, coins, more coins, and a pocket black hole after just being ran over by a train and emoted on by a raccoon.
People complaining about Phase 3 OST has to be illiterate to not understand the point of the entire trailblazing journey in Penacony so far. The entire 2.0 - > 2.2 has all been about imprisonment and breaking those shackles. Whether physical, metaphorical, or emotional; everyone in Penacony is _chained down and locked in their own cages, either made by themselves, or by others._ The power struggle between Order/Harmony is quite literally shown in a black/white fashion between Robin and Sunday, and it's even represented in the boss fight. The Orchestra representing the Order's strangle hold onto people's hopes and future, and it _is indefinitely silenced out_ on Phase 3 under the Harmony of everyone striving for a better future for themselves, and passing on the torch of hope to others into the future. This entire journey, even before _the current Astral Express_ arrives at Penacony has always been passing that torch of hope/freedom/dreams to the future generations, and all of their efforts/suffering have finally come to fruition at the end of 2.2, beautifully represented with Robin singing a song about striding forward, and holding onto hope _with everyone coming into harmony with one another_ To play another Orchestral piece at Phase 3, and us beating it doesn't hold any narrative weight outside of "We beat the bad guy with force". The complete song change shows that we didn't just win the battle, but we were also able to show why the path of "Order" that the Family/Sunday is taking is wrong, and in the end we were able to change/free Sunday's perspective about how he approaches his life.
@@So_Viet8032such a wasted comment, not to Say nonsensical. Just because It FITS the story It doesn't mean i have to like It. It fit the story, but i didn't like It at all. Is that so hard to understand that you have write an essay?
@@So_Viet8032 i'm not allowed to dislike something😂😂😂 Are you guys for real? PS: Also please do not elaborate on what exactly Is wrong with my statement.
I might be the only one who started tearing up big time when phase 3 hit. It seems so silly and an unfitting song but that typical anime trope of everyone saying a heroic line while summoning the Express, so much emotion. 😭
Am i the only who start screaming when 3rd phase start? It's weak compared to Wildfire, but it suit with the moment, because our main goal in that fight is to wake up the people in penacony from the dream, not beat the cr*p out of Sunday. I can't wait to know what's going to happen in interlude, because that ending scene is hinting that sh*t is about to happen 🔥🔥🔥
I really like the twist that the Harmony is actually NOT the force behind the slow deterioration of Penacony. I was expecting Penacony to reveal that the Harmony only brought another form of "Prison" to Asdana, but THEY really did gaze upon the Frontier Prison for the sheer unity and togetherness the natives and the trailblazers had when fighting for independence. Only to gaze upon it once again when the second fight for freedom happens. Order can only be good when it is with Harmony, while Harmony does not need Order. That is why Ena was absorbed by Xipe. Robin singing in the 3rd phase is the fight between the Voice kissed by The Harmony and of an Emanator of -Harmony- Order. The fight between a brother and a sister, and that is why it is so beautiful.
Ena was absorbed not bc order can't exist without harmony(which isnt right, order cant exist without discipline), it was Aha and Xipe conspiracy against Ena during propagation events
@@yanuwwuu well before Xipe was born, Ena was described as a just and caring entity, its more like Sunday is not in line with what Ena was all about when THEY lived yet sunday acts from a place of despair, but aeons cannot despair the whole setting owes Ena big deal, mb there would be no worlds to trailblaze without order, only empty wilderness and no civilizations
Hearing Robin sing to her brother about the dreams that everyone has while the Nameless fight him, communicating their Trailblaze as he fights with all he has, counting the Eight Days. IT'S JUST SO PEAK.
SPOILERS: What an incredible finale. I was THOROUGHLY bamboozled by the fake out ending and was ready to accept Penacony’s ending as one of the biggest flops in history. Hoyo has done it before so I was so disappointed. Then we talk to Black Swan and piece everything together and it’s just incredible. The TRUE fight was so fun, and this music was awesome.
Same with me, I was like "beach what? Did i missed something?" that was to easy+ i asked myself: why Misha was in reality if he was born in Dreamscape and what with Sparkle's surprise buttons. Every conversations feels off. I made pikachu face when Black Swan appeared 😅 Besides: Acheron is Peter B Parker in Honkaiverse
@@imAngzy ikrr the sumthin off feeling started when we defeated the choir in 1 go and it kinda gave thats it?? and then as we kept going ahead it the off feeling just kept growing, esp when we choose our next destination and all the crew just agrees with us and we are already making the jump; you're like no way that thats the end like WTF felt so off and unfinished/lackluster but then BS sequence hits us with the reality and the hype is back again. Really well written and executed
@@25857470 its like Robin said when she woke up from Ena's Dream: "it felt too blissful to be true" or something along those lines. Everyone was heralding us as a hero and the voting was way too smooth to be an actual vote!
I love how Sunday was like preaching and praying each day of the week as a savior for this world while robin is trying to free said people from him. Pretty cool contrast.
I'm going to stop you right there. The story was good, it's not a masterpiece. The patch is dead after 1 week with Boothill elevating things very briefly. The music is amazing though I agree.
At first, I took a vindictive satisfaction in how Acheron's ult slashed through the BGM and effectively "silenced" the choir. And then Phase 3 happened and I was like I'M SORRY ROBIN every time Acheron ulted lmao
Spoilers: Bro that fake out was sooo good, I fealt that something was off but they committed enough that I started to accept it until black swan was like hey you know something’s wrong right,” I literally shouted I knew it!
I’m being honest, during the entire fight I was hoping for Sunday to accept defeat so that I wouldn’t have to kill him. But I realised how determined he was when phase 3 began, what an amazing arc man.
You can totally understand why he reached that conclusion and I can accept the team still being in good terms with him afterwards because even as an enemy he never played dirty or was unreasonable. Unlike what Genshin tried doing with Childe and Signora... I can't just expect everyone being ok with a guy that tried to genocide an entire nation or a bitch causing endless suffering because "buhu my husband died and Im sad".
@@shardinalwind7696 Aye. After all you can't die in the Dreamscape. And tbh I'm kinda glad he survived this battle. I don't see Sunday as an evil person. Given everything I learned about him in this story, he crosses me as an extremely damaged person who found the wrong outlet to try and deal with his personal demons.
Don't really get people who hate Robin's song, feels like they've never played a Jrpg before, it's really a JRPG Trope, just that the song is now in English
@@faturramadhani4770They hate it as it and I quote a commend here. “Breaks the flow and just does not feel right with a pop like song in a fight that represents Disharmony. You don’t need to understand music to know that disharmony just means that two keys are fighting for dominance. So a Pop compared to Sunday his intimidating OST reflects the disharmony perfectly.
Yup, it’s tiring to see most people thought “JRPG boss must be symphonic opera” with down to being standardizing FF7 and Dark Souls as a benchmark. But to people who actually played most JRPG knows that some bosses actually use Pop, Alt Rock, EDM, and Metal with vocals. Most notably FFXIV for having several genres from Rock to EDM used as boss and raid theme.
Penacony honestly blew my forking socks off. I mean, we could all see it from a mile away who the last boss was going to be...but I can safely say I was not expecting his reasoning. And the best part is...he's not even evil. I'm honestly hoping he gets a redemption arc (maybe even getting picked up by Elio for another chance at life), and if he becomes playable, bonus.
Just found out my Wedding theme song(Phase 3) that we will use on our wedding day. 34 year old HSR player here. It moves us to tears every time we hear it.
man the plot twist at the end was so crazy, throughout the whole "endfight" i had a feeling things were going to quickly and without any consequences for us and then that....
Phase 3 on its own is a typical pop song. But when you actually play the game, listen to the stories, immerse yourself in the power struggle and learn both sides, the lyrics of the song hit so much harder and the fight shines that much greater than any “badass” song could accomplish in that moment. A cool, badass song would NOT be able to do what the phase 3 song did at that climax of the story. This boss fight is far more memorable than the cool, badass fight against Phantylia, and even if you hate this song, I guarantee this fight is STILL taking a greater precedence in your mind than the Phantylia boss fight. There is far more at stake, the stories are told far better, and the resolution is just plain satisfying. Is it a song you’d listen to all the time? No. Not for everyone. But it’s a song that needed to be heard as an ode of hope when the entire story prior was bleak.
Luofu storyline is so weird, they throw an bunch of words that I honestly never understood and never cared to learn the meaning, an boss fight and an plot twist that was never hinted, TB being almost irrelevant to the story even tho it appeared that they was going to be important and so on. Comparing it to Penacony its like comparing an grenade to an nuclear bomb
Dude I was ready to throw stones when the fight ended abruptly with the Dan Heng and General team up and the whole "everything worked out fine for everyone" ending, it gave me major Inazuma garbage vibes from Genshin. The game then proceeded to completely blow my mind with how things developed and with this theme blasting on the background. They really outdid themselves.
love or hate Phase 3 of the score, you can't deny that it completely encapsulates the entire battle as it were. It's a battle between leaning into the 'order' and the accepting the choir or being and individual and waking up... a part sung by Robin all on her own.
@@calthegreat1197 Just because its not needed doesn't mean people don't want to see it. It's the most hype weekly boss Support yet because of the entire animation. If they had shortened it on x2 Speed and kept the full animation on x1 Speed it'd have worked just as fine. People who wanna see it --> x1 Speed. People who don't wanna see it --> x2 Speed. Everyone wins.
@@calthegreat1197 He literally just provided a solution for people who want to complete it fast and for those who don't want to at the END of his sentence 🤦♂
Ngl the whiplash between phase 1/2 and phase 3 got me heh at first BUT after going back on it, it's absolute genius. The way it embodies the difference between the power of Odrer and the power of Harmony ?? Order has that deep, eery orchestral with the organ and that almost "panicky" guitar leading the ost, its controlled, its linear, for me it gave me the feeling of being very small compared to the will of Sunday. Meanwhile phase 3 arrived and just gave hope back, with Harmony being represented by Robin's voice and the instrumental maybe representing the Trailblaze ? It's upbeat, unifying, gives a strong "power of friendship" vibe but in the end wasn't what the whole penacony arc was about ? I'm no musical genius, but the combination of the two styles was the best thing they could've done to show the difference between Order and Harmony/Trailblaze.
The music in phase 3 made me want to get up and start dancing like I was in a Disney channel coming of age movie and say how we’re going to defeat him with the power of friendship
@@crobdog I don't get that LMAO. Narrative wise, this was as clear cut as it could be. Twins, Striding different paths, with a different perspective of their _shared promise_ ; both pathstriders are fighting over what rules over the dream they once shared, and it's represented by _music_ ; in which Robin's takes over and gives everyone a glimpse of hope at the end. This entire time, Penacony has been enslaved/trampled on by _The Order_ represented by the orchestra that Sunday plays, and with through everyone's sheer efforts and the future hopes of the ones that came before them; _The Harmony_ within people takes over and wins out at the end. It is absolutely fitting.
I absolutely love the initial choral arrangement of the Penacony theme, it really says: "This is it. This is what it has all been building up to. Prove your ideals."
IF SOMEBODY WANT "HOPE IS A THING WITH FEATHERS" IN PIANO VERSION FOR YOUR TRAIN: Go to your turntable in the astral express and search the song called "Morns Like These". There's it, piano version for everybody, I didn't expect that this song could sound so amazing and hopeful 😢
me when Sunday turned out to be the final boss: It's over, perhaps he was right... me when Robin started singing during phase 2: I WILL SHOW YOU BIRDFACE THE POWER OF THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT
yet again hoyo showing how much of a more music oriented company it is only difference is the game lived up to the songs therefore making absolute peak
personally wildfire by itself is better as a song, but as a boss theme with the added context of every single moment leading up to this fight, it completely blows everything we've heard thus far out of the water wildfire and phantylia doesn't even come remotely close to bringing out this level of emotion
the phase 3 hit me like a truck, i love it!!!! it didnt hit as hard as wildfire cocolia but its definitely there, didnt feel a thing on luofu fight but this one.... when the song kick in + yeeting the express? oh yes it feels like anime final fight with opening song blaring
The first phase ost feels like I was on an actual final battle against GOD, but the final phase ost sounds like this is an ending song to an Disney movie AND I LOVE IT
This song singlehandedly planted Pennaconny as one of my favorite fictional words of all time. The whole story between sunday and robin. The harmony and the order. Acheron, Aventurine, hell even Dr, Ratio. Everyone and Everything just felt so expertly crafted. This arc was one of the greatest stories i've ever got to enjoy playing. I seriously cant wait for the future of this game!
Must say while I'm not huge fan of pop, and Robin as a whole. The final phase did fit, something about smashing a fucking train into the boss was satisfying.
I really enjoy the phase 3 because it gives the vibes that we'll end this fight soon (while facing against ultimate attack from the boss) and then have a good ending. I'm talking about the childhood feelings, just like when we watch the protagonist beating the bad guys. Its in Penacony after all, the land of dreams, bringing some childhood memories.
My favorite thing about this boss battle is how EVERYONE in the Astral Express Crew comes together for this fight. Unlike the last two when we were split into 2 groups where only TB's Group were the ones to fight. This was a team effort on everyone's part in the name of Harmony. Even Pom-Pom was technically involved. As they were the one that was probably railing Sunday with the train. XD
my impression was that the train was an "echo" created by Robin, in the little 'planning phase' scene she says she will sing to channel the will of the Trailblaze
(SOME SPOILERS i guess) I just finished the mission and gotta say that i can't believe how good it was, probably my favourite trailblaze mission so far. I loved the story plot twist near the end i was totally not expecting it all to go like that xD
Pom Pom really rammed the train into a biblically accurate angel with no hesitation
Pom Pom is a renowned Ram Raider. A vehicular menace, mowing down all in their path.
You mean biblically accurate Sunday
@@aliefdimas2441 POV: You worked on a Sabbath day
he got star railed
Hearing himeko scream "witness the will of the weak!" Was the best part of it since I actually used her to fight sunday😂
himeko va's rent was due, that was incredible
Robin: I like singing!
Trailblazer: I like dancing.
Sunday: I like trains.
The reference's SO OLD it puts a wrinkle on my face.
tomska would be proud
@@s.acrophys4606dont sigh. or you'll start getting gray hair
@@kison7715 Don’t tease him!
Why does this unironicaly fit? Lmao
I love how phase 3 turned out. Was expecting something fully intense, but this, combined with the train and the nuke being teed up, couldn't have rounded out that boss fight in a better way.
Yeah, right? I can feel the fighting-for-the-hope-of-sentient-being in that phase
It's like "Hopes and Dreams" From Undertale 🥺
It's kinda like Splatoon's Spectrum Obligato.
They're both fighting literal order too
The song was one sided though.in the phantalia theme there was a switch between the boss and hope melody in phase 3
I love how they even included the musical divergence between orchestra and ?pop music?
@@Walter.over_yonder
The boss fight in a nutshell : Sunday's music taste vs Robin's music taste.
is it catholic choir vs christian rock?
Both are good, as it happens
this is my headcanon now
Phase 1: batman with nier automata vibes
Phase 2: god of war
Phase 3: anime outro when somebody gets brutally murdered
Phase 2 is Dark Souls too
Trailblazer:POM POM, REQUESTING ORBITAL RAMMING TRAIN AT FULL SPEED, SENDING COORDINATES!!!
Pom Pom:COORDINATES RECEIVED, LET'S START RAILING THEM STARS!!!
Reinforce available
@@Daedalus127 "Reinforcements? Pom-Pom IS the reinforcements!!" -Jing Yuan, watching smugly.
Phase 1 and 2 was sundays theme song
Phase 3 was the trailblazer theme song
Phase 3 should be Trailblazer and Robin because Sunday following the order path while Trailblazer and Robin following the harmony path
i didnt know ppl hated phase 3…honestly think its my favorite of all three phases😭🙏 sh*t almost had me crying
It was disapointingly easy compared to phase 2 but sunday charging up for the hand of god attack is pretty cool.
Easy anser wasnt as empyc and opra as the Others
I don't hate it but it is my least favourite
Ppl hating on anything good nowadays 😅😅
Honestly this is probably the best boss fight so far in HSR. The combination of character arcs, gaining a new TB power, the music giving you a sense determination, courage and scale in the first 2 phases, then changing to life, energy and victory in the final phase. Not to mention using the Express itself as a weapon. It all comes together in one perfect package. I was grinning the whole time I fought them
Honestly, this is the best battle and I'm really relieved that I went with Aventurino and Acheron (F2P with a lot of luck) I really enjoyed the whole battle and even when Robin started to sing I couldn't help but cry, the fear I felt for the boss immediately turned into courage and I left the defensive to go on the offensive, Honestly no epic rock or electro music can easily top this one. ❤❤❤
@@migueliyouwu8853 aventurine was so peak during the fight. What was he gonna do, kill you?
Phase 1 : 🔥💀
Phase 2 : 🔥☠️
Phase 3 : 💓😍
First Penacony Mission: Sign in to the hotel! : D
Final Penacony Mission: *SAVE THE COSMOS FROM THE RETURN OF THE OLD GOD*
Thecnically from the birth of a new god, but yeah
Terraria's game progression in a nutshell
@@dai7v7 No because he wants to bring back an OLD god. Dude is literally the old testament.
@@sky-chan2022 He wants to create the eon of philosophy, from the remnants of order
nah dont worry this is just fire emblem story progression
Please, whoever cooked here, never let them stop doing so.
I was pretty much crying throughout the entirety of the third phase. Masterful.
Me too omg soooooooo good! I wanna play it for the first time again... omg... i might make an alt just for this fight.
Probably Shaoji-
holy fucking shit, oh my fucking god this boss battle was one of the most amazing things i have witnessed in hoyoverse games. it was so damn good, and the last phase with that banger music and that ability to use the literal astral express to hit into sunday. god this was so fucking good man
also gonna mention i nearly cried at the end with robin catching sunday
@@reamnit89same, I was about to cry.
Goosebumps with the music and boss 🥺
@@reamnit89i literally shed tears lmaoo this is truly peakcony🙏🙏
This is the theme of a man who's about to get hit by multiple laser beams, coins, more coins, and a pocket black hole after just being ran over by a train and emoted on by a raccoon.
Mf got danced, blackholed, domain expansion, orbital explosion (idfk what fuxuan ult is), and got hit by a fuckin den-liner
My Sunday got turned into a Monday by a water dragon
My Sunday got mistaken for a Mara Struck and got executed
My Sunday failed his exams and got a chalk in the face.
My sunday got rekt by V1 coins
I dunno bro his means were questionable but a week of 7 Sundays sounds peak to someone who just entered in corporate hell
And it's not like my dreams survived this world, either.
@@o0Cheator0osometimes you gotta say fuck it we ball.
It sounds good in practice but take a look at what happens to a world that's dictated by the order, it's destined to fall off completely.
Phase 1 = epic boss fight music
Phase 2 = apocalypse music
Phase 3 = anime ending music
People complaining about Phase 3 OST has to be illiterate to not understand the point of the entire trailblazing journey in Penacony so far.
The entire 2.0 - > 2.2 has all been about imprisonment and breaking those shackles. Whether physical, metaphorical, or emotional; everyone in Penacony is _chained down and locked in their own cages, either made by themselves, or by others._
The power struggle between Order/Harmony is quite literally shown in a black/white fashion between Robin and Sunday, and it's even represented in the boss fight.
The Orchestra representing the Order's strangle hold onto people's hopes and future, and it _is indefinitely silenced out_ on Phase 3 under the Harmony of everyone striving for a better future for themselves, and passing on the torch of hope to others into the future.
This entire journey, even before _the current Astral Express_ arrives at Penacony has always been passing that torch of hope/freedom/dreams to the future generations, and all of their efforts/suffering have finally come to fruition at the end of 2.2, beautifully represented with Robin singing a song about striding forward, and holding onto hope _with everyone coming into harmony with one another_
To play another Orchestral piece at Phase 3, and us beating it doesn't hold any narrative weight outside of "We beat the bad guy with force".
The complete song change shows that we didn't just win the battle, but we were also able to show why the path of "Order" that the Family/Sunday is taking is wrong, and in the end we were able to change/free Sunday's perspective about how he approaches his life.
A lot of people just skip the story
@@So_Viet8032such a wasted comment, not to Say nonsensical. Just because It FITS the story It doesn't mean i have to like It. It fit the story, but i didn't like It at all. Is that so hard to understand that you have write an essay?
@@DRKLRD-kv4cm wrong @
@@So_Viet8032 i'm not allowed to dislike something😂😂😂
Are you guys for real?
PS: Also please do not elaborate on what exactly Is wrong with my statement.
@@DRKLRD-kv4cm bro, you are answering to the wrong guy
I might be the only one who started tearing up big time when phase 3 hit. It seems so silly and an unfitting song but that typical anime trope of everyone saying a heroic line while summoning the Express, so much emotion. 😭
It's a goddamn vibe.
It's the Land of Dreams, it HAS to be a bit silly
I think the music fits phase 3 since it isn't even a fight; it's a victory lap for our party of heroes
i mean tbf we're both fighting and proving OUR point
@@shamacI mean, if you gonna do weakly boss without harmony trailblazer im pretty sure you gonna have hard time keeping up with phase 3,lol
Phase 1: 🤖🤺
Phase 2: 🤖🤺
Phase 3: 🤖🚝🤺🎤
Phase 3 had 👼 too
Am i the only who start screaming when 3rd phase start? It's weak compared to Wildfire, but it suit with the moment, because our main goal in that fight is to wake up the people in penacony from the dream, not beat the cr*p out of Sunday. I can't wait to know what's going to happen in interlude, because that ending scene is hinting that sh*t is about to happen 🔥🔥🔥
Nah bro the 3rd phase got me hype too, It gave me wildfire vibes, not to the same level but its really good
Weak compared to wildfire? Nah it was soo hyped too honestly, it was still a big meaningful fight
In phase 3
My fighting spirit = 📈📈📈
Too bad it make me finish the battle faster 😅😅
Phase 3 almost made me cry and the fight itself is great
Same, I was about to cry omg
BEYOND PEAK
CANT BELIEVE WE BEAT THE PERSONA 6 FINAL BOSS B4 THE GAME CAME OUT
we're railing Sunday with this one
...HUH
i wish he would rail-
Giving him the Nice Train maneuver
I really like the twist that the Harmony is actually NOT the force behind the slow deterioration of Penacony. I was expecting Penacony to reveal that the Harmony only brought another form of "Prison" to Asdana, but THEY really did gaze upon the Frontier Prison for the sheer unity and togetherness the natives and the trailblazers had when fighting for independence. Only to gaze upon it once again when the second fight for freedom happens.
Order can only be good when it is with Harmony, while Harmony does not need Order. That is why Ena was absorbed by Xipe. Robin singing in the 3rd phase is the fight between the Voice kissed by The Harmony and of an Emanator of -Harmony- Order. The fight between a brother and a sister, and that is why it is so beautiful.
Ena was absorbed not bc order can't exist without harmony(which isnt right, order cant exist without discipline), it was Aha and Xipe conspiracy against Ena during propagation events
@@nnl8841 Order can't exist without it being oppresive without Harmony.
@@yanuwwuu well before Xipe was born, Ena was described as a just and caring entity, its more like Sunday is not in line with what Ena was all about when THEY lived yet
sunday acts from a place of despair, but aeons cannot despair
the whole setting owes Ena big deal, mb there would be no worlds to trailblaze without order, only empty wilderness and no civilizations
Hearing Robin sing to her brother about the dreams that everyone has while the Nameless fight him, communicating their Trailblaze as he fights with all he has, counting the Eight Days. IT'S JUST SO PEAK.
Multi-turn charge up nukes are so hype. They really did a good job with the theme of his multi-turn attack with his ideals.
SPOILERS:
What an incredible finale. I was THOROUGHLY bamboozled by the fake out ending and was ready to accept Penacony’s ending as one of the biggest flops in history. Hoyo has done it before so I was so disappointed. Then we talk to Black Swan and piece everything together and it’s just incredible. The TRUE fight was so fun, and this music was awesome.
dude i felt the same way! yet i felt that something was extremely off with the fakeout ending and just the overall vibe of the celebrations
Same with me, I was like "beach what? Did i missed something?" that was to easy+ i asked myself: why Misha was in reality if he was born in Dreamscape and what with Sparkle's surprise buttons. Every conversations feels off. I made pikachu face when Black Swan appeared 😅
Besides: Acheron is Peter B Parker in Honkaiverse
@@imAngzy ikrr the sumthin off feeling started when we defeated the choir in 1 go and it kinda gave thats it?? and then as we kept going ahead it the off feeling just kept growing, esp when we choose our next destination and all the crew just agrees with us and we are already making the jump; you're like no way that thats the end like WTF felt so off and unfinished/lackluster but then BS sequence hits us with the reality and the hype is back again. Really well written and executed
@@25857470 its like Robin said when she woke up from Ena's Dream: "it felt too blissful to be true" or something along those lines. Everyone was heralding us as a hero and the voting was way too smooth to be an actual vote!
@@25857470boss fight felt too easy because I was using himeko, so I kinda knew it was a fakeout
Pom Pom got sick and fucking tired of not being able to leave the Express and help.
So he brought the Express to US.
I'm sure pompom uses They/Them
US or us
@@physicalyx pompom uses lol/lmao
@@physicalyx pom pom has no pronouns, pom pom is pom pom
@@physicalyxno one cares man
I love how Sunday was like preaching and praying each day of the week as a savior for this world while robin is trying to free said people from him. Pretty cool contrast.
How is this from a free gacha game, seriously. What a masterpiece of a story, of a patch, of music.
I'm going to stop you right there. The story was good, it's not a masterpiece. The patch is dead after 1 week with Boothill elevating things very briefly. The music is amazing though I agree.
@@baronsionis6855 nah, it was a W story.
this game is brought to you by that one guy who whaled 100 of Acheron's LCs
Idk why gachas have incredible music. All of them
Its a live Service gacha game calling them free is stupid
At first, I took a vindictive satisfaction in how Acheron's ult slashed through the BGM and effectively "silenced" the choir.
And then Phase 3 happened and I was like I'M SORRY ROBIN every time Acheron ulted lmao
SAME XD
this entire ending sequence was the most hype one so far in hsr
Spoilers:
Bro that fake out was sooo good, I fealt that something was off but they committed enough that I started to accept it until black swan was like hey you know something’s wrong right,” I literally shouted I knew it!
I’m being honest, during the entire fight I was hoping for Sunday to accept defeat so that I wouldn’t have to kill him. But I realised how determined he was when phase 3 began, what an amazing arc man.
You can totally understand why he reached that conclusion and I can accept the team still being in good terms with him afterwards because even as an enemy he never played dirty or was unreasonable. Unlike what Genshin tried doing with Childe and Signora... I can't just expect everyone being ok with a guy that tried to genocide an entire nation or a bitch causing endless suffering because "buhu my husband died and Im sad".
Just an FYI, Sunday didn’t die. He was heavily injured and taken to a hospital but disappeared without a trace, but not dead.
@@maxvitor7023 You’re right. If anyone played dirty, it was us, for hitting him with a fucking train
@@Xenomnipotent That’s nice to hear!
@@shardinalwind7696 Aye. After all you can't die in the Dreamscape. And tbh I'm kinda glad he survived this battle.
I don't see Sunday as an evil person. Given everything I learned about him in this story, he crosses me as an extremely damaged person who found the wrong outlet to try and deal with his personal demons.
Don't really get people who hate Robin's song, feels like they've never played a Jrpg before, it's really a JRPG Trope, just that the song is now in English
There's people hating on Robin's song? Cant they enjoy something smh
@@faturramadhani4770They hate it as it and I quote a commend here. “Breaks the flow and just does not feel right with a pop like song in a fight that represents Disharmony. You don’t need to understand music to know that disharmony just means that two keys are fighting for dominance. So a Pop compared to Sunday his intimidating OST reflects the disharmony perfectly.
Yup, it’s tiring to see most people thought “JRPG boss must be symphonic opera” with down to being standardizing FF7 and Dark Souls as a benchmark.
But to people who actually played most JRPG knows that some bosses actually use Pop, Alt Rock, EDM, and Metal with vocals. Most notably FFXIV for having several genres from Rock to EDM used as boss and raid theme.
Weebs look down on their own language for some reason.
Penacony honestly blew my forking socks off. I mean, we could all see it from a mile away who the last boss was going to be...but I can safely say I was not expecting his reasoning. And the best part is...he's not even evil. I'm honestly hoping he gets a redemption arc (maybe even getting picked up by Elio for another chance at life), and if he becomes playable, bonus.
Stellaron Hunter Sunday, can you even imagine
BABYYYYYYY
Woah, Easy There Cowboy.
Honestly he was similar to Dr. Maruki from Persona 5 Royal and I’m all for it.
Muddle Fudger!
First 2 phases: *dynamic orchestral music*
Third phase: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC ✨✨✨
Probably one of the best story arcs ever cooked in hoyoverse history. Characters, lore, ost, overall writing, artistic direction. Peakacony real.
I was stupidly excited when the special attack was just whacking him with the Astral Express
LOCOMOTIVE GODSLAUGHTER
@@braxbro6674*Kirby liked that*
Next in Star Rail: We fight against God using the power of friendship, cool moves, a train and Taylor Swift bird edition
Or mc gets a literal glock and puts a Bullet through the skull of the god (boothill is the one who taught him how to use a gun)
I'd say the power of F a m i l y (Toretto teached PomPom some moves)
@@overthinker5303hunt tb confirm real !!!
@@overthinker5303Fire Trailblazer get gun ? XD
Hunt path maybe in the future, who knows
Or we gonna get destruction trailblazer upgrade in future
@@Nightfallme real!!!! Electro hunt or nihility tb with a literal gun
Just found out my Wedding theme song(Phase 3) that we will use on our wedding day. 34 year old HSR player here. It moves us to tears every time we hear it.
Great for you man, sending fishes and wlowers
@@010-Captain thanks bro 🫡
the lyrics actually fit quite well for a wedding! good for you!
That's actually very great of you! Wishing you a happy wedding!🤍🤍
wow awesome, game songs for weddings are like so unique
Pop music overriding END OF THE WORLD HOLY CHURCH MUSIC is peak actually.
The unyielding human spirit will not yield to your flimsy Order.
man the plot twist at the end was so crazy, throughout the whole "endfight" i had a feeling things were going to quickly and without any consequences for us and then that....
I still wish there would've been more setup before the second confrontation of Sunday.
Completely blown away!! I was thinking the same as well! Why was it so easy??? And then all these happens. Very impressed!
Phase 3 on its own is a typical pop song. But when you actually play the game, listen to the stories, immerse yourself in the power struggle and learn both sides, the lyrics of the song hit so much harder and the fight shines that much greater than any “badass” song could accomplish in that moment.
A cool, badass song would NOT be able to do what the phase 3 song did at that climax of the story. This boss fight is far more memorable than the cool, badass fight against Phantylia, and even if you hate this song, I guarantee this fight is STILL taking a greater precedence in your mind than the Phantylia boss fight. There is far more at stake, the stories are told far better, and the resolution is just plain satisfying. Is it a song you’d listen to all the time? No. Not for everyone. But it’s a song that needed to be heard as an ode of hope when the entire story prior was bleak.
Luofu storyline is so weird, they throw an bunch of words that I honestly never understood and never cared to learn the meaning, an boss fight and an plot twist that was never hinted, TB being almost irrelevant to the story even tho it appeared that they was going to be important and so on. Comparing it to Penacony its like comparing an grenade to an nuclear bomb
Phantilya has barely any hype bro 💀 a better comparisson would be with Cocolia
"Witness The Will of The PEAK"🔥
''WITNESS... THE WILL OF THE WEAK'' with the song going woaaah, woooooo, woaaaaaaaah! goes so fcking hard
Shaoji, the man who made us cry so many times in Hi3
Comes once more and shows us that he is arguably the best writer HoYo has
Dude I was ready to throw stones when the fight ended abruptly with the Dan Heng and General team up and the whole "everything worked out fine for everyone" ending, it gave me major Inazuma garbage vibes from Genshin.
The game then proceeded to completely blow my mind with how things developed and with this theme blasting on the background. They really outdid themselves.
He is, most certainly, not.
Easily, not even arguably. He created a masterpiece for the ages with Penacony and Elysian Realm
@@maxvitor7023 Inazuma ptsd
@@SolaireOfToastInazuma does that to people
I guess now we know why Pom Pom isn't playable character, because how OP Pom Pom move is 🚂🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃
I wish we could replay story quests.
I made a f2p account for this very reason lol
Well I got 3 alts, so i can experience it 3 times more :D
@@michaelgorski4221what server are u on ?
At least it plays when you do this weekly boss
@@elit1541 America
So called Great Septimus when I hit him with a train:
be not afraid? no you should be the one afraid of the *train*
love or hate Phase 3 of the score, you can't deny that it completely encapsulates the entire battle as it were. It's a battle between leaning into the 'order' and the accepting the choir or being and individual and waking up... a part sung by Robin all on her own.
Witness...The will of THE WEAK !
Speech so strong it might as well have done all the damage without needing the train
I started tearing up in Phase 3. It's so peak
“You can’t defeat me.”
-person who is in getting run over by a train range
And the conductor is a talking rabbit
"Oh I know, but he can."
*/gets star railed
Its CRIMINAL that the first encounter theme is not used in the weekly battle. Mood killer 😭
And that the train hit is missing half its animation...
@@tyberriuss because it's not needed tbh
@@calthegreat1197 Just because its not needed doesn't mean people don't want to see it. It's the most hype weekly boss Support yet because of the entire animation. If they had shortened it on x2 Speed and kept the full animation on x1 Speed it'd have worked just as fine. People who wanna see it --> x1 Speed. People who don't wanna see it --> x2 Speed. Everyone wins.
@@infiniteaj8688 ok but when i do a weekly boss i'm trying to complete it relatively fast, hence why i believe it's not really needed.
@@calthegreat1197 He literally just provided a solution for people who want to complete it fast and for those who don't want to at the END of his sentence 🤦♂
Ngl the whiplash between phase 1/2 and phase 3 got me heh at first BUT after going back on it, it's absolute genius. The way it embodies the difference between the power of Odrer and the power of Harmony ?? Order has that deep, eery orchestral with the organ and that almost "panicky" guitar leading the ost, its controlled, its linear, for me it gave me the feeling of being very small compared to the will of Sunday. Meanwhile phase 3 arrived and just gave hope back, with Harmony being represented by Robin's voice and the instrumental maybe representing the Trailblaze ? It's upbeat, unifying, gives a strong "power of friendship" vibe but in the end wasn't what the whole penacony arc was about ?
I'm no musical genius, but the combination of the two styles was the best thing they could've done to show the difference between Order and Harmony/Trailblaze.
The music in phase 3 made me want to get up and start dancing like I was in a Disney channel coming of age movie and say how we’re going to defeat him with the power of friendship
So, why does life slumber?
Because someday... we'll wake up from our dreams.
@@breadskiiyeetusdefeatus top 10 sigma moments
@@breadskiiyeetusdefeatus*shocked gasp*
*floor breaks*
*falls*
The night… is still too short…
@@captainblue5096Brother.
The dream... is over.
Honestly that line was so ass lmao
See the comments hating on robin singing for phase 3
On the contary phase 3 is straight fire it made robin more appealing
And that's why people dislike it. It was forced in TO make robin more appealing.
@@crobdog Are we really complaining about Robin relevancy for the Sunday boss fight? That’s as straightforward of a writing choice as possible.
@@crobdog grrrr, how dare the writers make the phase 3 of a boss fight plot relevant!!!!!!!!!!!
@@crobdog I don't get that LMAO. Narrative wise, this was as clear cut as it could be.
Twins, Striding different paths, with a different perspective of their _shared promise_ ; both pathstriders are fighting over what rules over the dream they once shared, and it's represented by _music_ ; in which Robin's takes over and gives everyone a glimpse of hope at the end.
This entire time, Penacony has been enslaved/trampled on by _The Order_ represented by the orchestra that Sunday plays, and with through everyone's sheer efforts and the future hopes of the ones that came before them; _The Harmony_ within people takes over and wins out at the end. It is absolutely fitting.
@@crobdogive never seen someone hate when developers want you to like a character they made
Phase 3 just made this boss fight the best in the game
I absolutely love the initial choral arrangement of the Penacony theme, it really says: "This is it. This is what it has all been building up to. Prove your ideals."
"DISORDERLY NOISE!"
I've been waiting for a soundtrack that would finally dethrone Wildfire, and it's such a banger!
I this this music more uplifting motivation than a banger , wildfire is banger ,
Yeah, Wildfire was good but I much prefer this song
Hoyo didn't only cook with this one, they built the entire kitchen.
and earned 3 michelin stars the moment it opened
I like his lines on the 3rd phase
biblically accurate sunday
"Your divine being will become the foundation of our paradise!" gave me goosebumps
IF SOMEBODY WANT "HOPE IS A THING WITH FEATHERS" IN PIANO VERSION FOR YOUR TRAIN:
Go to your turntable in the astral express and search the song called "Morns Like These".
There's it, piano version for everybody, I didn't expect that this song could sound so amazing and hopeful 😢
Phase 3 be like: "LIGHT THE WAY!"
(no one will get that, probably.)
they pulled an endsinger on this one for real
100% agreed
We will stand against fate
@@Nekkore No matter the cost!
@@anzia1942 We've been here before!
me when Sunday turned out to be the final boss: It's over, perhaps he was right...
me when Robin started singing during phase 2: I WILL SHOW YOU BIRDFACE THE POWER OF THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT
yet again hoyo showing how much of a more music oriented company it is only difference is the game lived up to the songs therefore making absolute peak
How in the world did they already manage to top WILDFIRE?!
at best its just best-ing phantylia
@@3takoyakis phanny's ost is underrated, but not close to wildfire. Phase 3 of this thing is better, but still a bit missing to top WF.
personally wildfire by itself is better as a song, but as a boss theme with the added context of every single moment leading up to this fight, it completely blows everything we've heard thus far out of the water
wildfire and phantylia doesn't even come remotely close to bringing out this level of emotion
Me in Phase 3 : Eyyy this song is FIRE!!! 😭🙏🏻
Acheron: Lemme end this fast
song name in phase 3 is Hope Is the Thing With Feathers it’s so goood
BLESS YOU BLESS YOU BLESS YOU
WE REINSTATING THE ORDER WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🥶🥶🥶🥶
WE AWAKENING PEOPLES DREAMS ON THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
WE HARMONIZING THE CHOIR WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆
WE SMASHING THE ASTRAL EXPRESS WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣‼️‼️‼️
@@noelbabu1503is bro the dreammaster???
4:15 Penacony's first and last disharmony
me when i witnessed the will of the weak
And here comes Pom-Pom with the finishing blow!!!
AND DOWN COMES POMPOM FROM THE TOP ROPE
AND HERE COMES POM-POM WITH THE STEEL TRAIN OUT OF NOWHERE!!!
“Sir, a second Pom Pom has hit the Sunday”
the phase 3 hit me like a truck, i love it!!!!
it didnt hit as hard as wildfire cocolia but its definitely there, didnt feel a thing on luofu fight but this one.... when the song kick in + yeeting the express? oh yes
it feels like anime final fight with opening song blaring
Wildfire was a bossfight as a bossfight, Phase 3 honestly feels like weve won already, its just a formality that were gonna kick the Otto 2.0 ass
You mean, hit you like a train? Also yeah wildfire cocolia the best echo of war theme
@@anadaere6861Sunday has Otto vibes with Kevin's plan, since this thing just yells project STIGMA to me. He is peak HSR villain.
🔥WITNESS🔥THE WILL🔥OF THE PEAK🔥
The first phase ost feels like I was on an actual final battle against GOD, but the final phase ost sounds like this is an ending song to an Disney movie AND I LOVE IT
Harmony MC joins the field. Sunday: Why do i hear boss music?
Ikr ruan mei also really helps with harmony TB
I heard somewhere that the guitar represents the trailblazer rebellion
Sunday Mewing the entire fight was peak 🗿👆
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This song singlehandedly planted Pennaconny as one of my favorite fictional words of all time. The whole story between sunday and robin. The harmony and the order. Acheron, Aventurine, hell even Dr, Ratio. Everyone and Everything just felt so expertly crafted. This arc was one of the greatest stories i've ever got to enjoy playing. I seriously cant wait for the future of this game!
The opening choir of Phase 1 being a rendition of the Golden Hour is so peak
I'm glad for Phase 3 being a freebie. Run through it with 3 members of party with two of them was one shot. HP: Acheron (5%), MC (12%), Fu Xuan (100%)
Robin's song sounds like a disney channel song which is effing perfect for penacony with all the disney references.
but the fact that a Disney song makes it epic is brilliant
For me it has vibes from mlpeg
@@gubiiimpact it really is
@@jetleewj6242 It does sound like EG! I could see the mane 6 singing it.
@@eddieboy000 yes I can totally imagine the rainbooms singing this trying to fight off some villains XD
I knew something was off when he only had one phase.
I was so disappointed at first and thought "Don't tell me they pulled another Inazuma now" I'm so glad I was wrong
They almost had me. They kept it going long enough that I was starting to get worried, but I figured they couldn't possibly end it like that
Must say while I'm not huge fan of pop, and Robin as a whole. The final phase did fit, something about smashing a fucking train into the boss was satisfying.
Its official its truly Peakcony.
that phase 2 part with the guitar was so eargasm bro
Life slumbers....because one day, we WILL wake from our dreams.
I really enjoy the phase 3 because it gives the vibes that we'll end this fight soon (while facing against ultimate attack from the boss) and then have a good ending. I'm talking about the childhood feelings, just like when we watch the protagonist beating the bad guys. Its in Penacony after all, the land of dreams, bringing some childhood memories.
My favorite thing about this boss battle is how EVERYONE in the Astral Express Crew comes together for this fight. Unlike the last two when we were split into 2 groups where only TB's Group were the ones to fight. This was a team effort on everyone's part in the name of Harmony.
Even Pom-Pom was technically involved. As they were the one that was probably railing Sunday with the train. XD
my impression was that the train was an "echo" created by Robin, in the little 'planning phase' scene she says she will sing to channel the will of the Trailblaze
(SOME SPOILERS i guess)
I just finished the mission and gotta say that i can't believe how good it was, probably my favourite trailblaze mission so far.
I loved the story plot twist near the end i was totally not expecting it all to go like that xD
Same here lol
I was like "bruh" with the bait ending.
But, then Hoyoverse just drop this banger 🔥
I can't take out that final song of my head...
Phase 3 was absolute hype, definitely best boss phase ever yet in the game 😭
This gave me SO BIG CHILLS when it appeared in the fight
WE BREAKIN OUT OF ENA'S DREAM WITH THIS ONE!
I can sense every day is Sunday with this song, no more weekends or long weekends.
I started crying when phase 3 happened, I wasn't bothered about having Robin but now I want her!
Same her 😢
WITH THIS TREASURE I SUMMON
YOU CAN SEE IT SUNDAY!!