PENACONY 2.1 Story Quest REACTION - RogersBase: Into the HoYoverse #29

Personal take:

I am against people skipping voice lines in the mais story. From what I've gathered, Star Rail's english voice acting is much more human, which can reflect better what the character is feeling, the pauses when they are unconfortable, the way that Ratio, as a scholar who hates idiocy, uses a speech that is much more articulate in order for people understand him better, I think all of this has been thought out by the creators.
They clearly made this game more story focused, they had to all with the "basic" turn based combat.
When you cut the voice lines it makes the imersa and the emotion of the moment disappear. As human beings we respond to voice stimuli.
This is not an argument for your way of playing, this is an argument that, for some people, longer streaming sessions are not preferable, it's hard enough for people to pay attention for 2 hours straight, let alone 8 hours.
Take this has a constructive criticism. Not only will you appreaciate the story better, but your audience will also appreaciate your emotional take on the matter. Rest is important for everyone.

That said, I really love your overall enthusiasm and interest in your videos. If you don't comply to what I said, I will not stop watching your videos 🫡

Thanks for the stream Roger!

Yeah, Acheron was tough to pull for

We better be able to pull Jade in 2.3

I wholeheartedly disagree with Roger, I absolutely love Aventurine. I loved his story, I love his design, and love how he fights both when he's on your team and when you're fighting against him. His boss fight is honestly the most coolest fight thus far. And while Roger might not like his voice, I do; both in the sub and dub. Their performance was superb

TOPAZ! I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE'S HERE! I definitely wanna pull for her even more!

Funny, that was actually how I got Galhagur was trying to pull for Acheron

lol almost 2 hours for the boss fight, not a easy job. Great content

haha im so ready to kick his ass.... love seeing people get humbled

Roger only gets excited when he sees a waifu.. he doesn't seem very interested in nothing else

The Luofu story taught me how important it is to do all of the side quests, companions quests, permanent events, continuance quests, etc. to understand the main story. I suspect it makes HSR a lot less enjoyable for streamers who typically only come back for the main story because it's not designed that way.

My men beat Adventurine with free units except HuoHuo 🤯

GG!

I cannot wait to watch this durring my shift tomorrow. Ive been saving rogers reaction to 2.1 for days lol

omg you did the FULL playthrough in one stream??? you monster lol

if there's a tier list on the strongest Aeons, IX wouldn't be on the list, THEY are THE LIST

I couldn't watch live because of the timeline difference but I watched the whole thing now and it was fantastic.
Also simulated universe is not that bad Roger. I hope you will try it for the relics. Knowledgeable chat people will help, I am sure of it.
Thanks for the stream again.

i feel like the problem roger had was first he didnt do the topaz quest which basically set up what the IPC is like, what their goal is, hierachy and overall lore or he forgot it (idk if he did the quest) but its also been a few patches. FOR MOST hsr players this 2.1 penacony quest was good aged fine wine cuz many played all quests and got most of the lore. For rogers who was more casual and didnt intake all the lore which is completly fine but made me realize the downside of how they present their lore which u have to kinda pick it up like breadcrumbs. It like most HSR players saw the bread fall and crumble and they picked it all up like a puzzle so it was enjoyable to eat that bread (this 2.1 penacony quest) but for roger he missed those and was left unsatisfied. SECOND the part with welt and acheron was basically fanservice to honkai IMPACT 3RD players and wasnt just referencing to the game, it basically directly acknowledges the connection between the entire hoyoverse multiverse connections. Nevertheless i hope u still enjoyed it.The quest is seen as a rlly good quest but was basically the biggest lore DUMP we've gotten yet and also is a rising tide of whats yet to come probably in 2.2 as the peak im guessing. ALSO Aventurine reminds me HEAVILY of Gild Teroso, the villain of the one piece movie film GOLD as there is a parallel to both of them having a difficult past leading it up to them becoming villains (altough aventurine tends to be more of an
anti hero but acts like a villain to fulfill his goal while teroso is straight up a villain)

"You couldn't live with your own units, and where did that bring you, back to me!" -Peak 7th

And this is why March is best girl lol

Seeing the MC wielding the lance does hint on the character to use since Adventurine fight having a shield helps a lot

I hope Roger u invest in the story. It's really good 😭

That aventurine fight is absolute cinema

The reason why you might felt that the former part of 2.1 story is a bit slow is because you never played Honkai Impact 3rd, which is fine. But actually the conversation between Welt and Achron included so many call backs in the stories of Honkai Imoact 3rd.

First time watching a video, subscribed due to showing the losses, the grind and overcoming the obstacle. A lot of CCs would’ve just edited like the 5th time was the first

I wasn’t aware how bad the luck was for the Acheron banner. At the very least even if I don’t pull her I at least got Gallagher

finally, I've found someone who's actaully surprised about Sam's true identity

This why I love watching Roger, our interests align so much and he too entertaining 😭

The chat did a great job of not spoiling Roger about Sam's identity. I am truly thankful, not many reactors out there who genuinely didn't already know who Sam was.

Plenty of discussion material in 2.1

"Find the mute." - Taking a guess here and say this is Hanu and whoever he represents as Clockie and Hanu seem to tell the Watchmaker story.
Boss Stone is either the IPC or Amber Lord who were repelled by the alliance Gallagher told us about.
I believe history is about to repeat itself.
IPC under the Amber Lord wants to reclaim Penacony. Thats why Topaz is actually there already and why Jade had her her speech at the end.

I am starting to understand whats wrong with Acheron.
Nihility and IX are extremely dangerous. Her forgetting things isnt cause she plain forgets, its IX voiding some of her her memories. Maybe thats what the Swan/Acheron dance was actually about. Acheron frightened her out her memories cause IX potentially could have messed with Swan.
Its also why parts of the recording Swan heard had nothing on them, it wasnt edited or deleted but IX having such power that even a recording itself becomes nothing.

This may also lead us a interesting confrontation.
Death vs Nihil.

The notes in Sunday's room were right all along.
It mentioned a lot of suspects and I assume Gallagher is actually all of them in some way due to whatever he is.

Amazing stream as always, Roger!
Btw here's a tip to easily tell what a character's role is gameplay wise:
Just look at their path.

Support:
Abundance - healers
Preservation - shielders/reduce dmg
Harmony - buffers

DPS:
Hunt - single target DPS
Destruction: Blast DPS (1 main target +2 adjacent)
Erudition: AoE DPS (all enemies)

Nihility - either debuff supports or DoT DPS

Some crossover is possible like a healer might also buff or debuff a bit, but it's a very reliable rule of thumb without having to read every ability description.

When Gallagher said his age is "13" I think he meant the death arcana if you play persona the 13th arcana is always represents death

best chat wow props to boobatea

I'm a massive fan of character focused stories so I loved this update. However I completely understand how some might not like the slowness, especially when compared to 2.0.

I'm super excited for 2.2 and I do think the story will pick up the pace a lot more, using 2.1 to show relationships, lore and characters will make the final story hit a lot harder.

Thanks, Crazy streams 😂

i personally enjoyed the dialogue a lot this quest bc it's not meaningless yap like in some genshin quests but deliberate misdirection and doublespeak that's realistic for the characters, like sunday, ratio and aventurine, to use in the context they are speaking in. it forces the players to read between the lines like they would in an espionage film (which i admit is tall order on hyv's part but tbh it comes more naturally for chi speakers).

my only gripe is i think ratio speaks too slowly sometimes but with how slow and borderline illiterate many hsr players are, i think it's best the VAs enunciate every single syllable like they are talking to toddlers.

Roger not being engrossed into the verse leads to him sometimes not making obvious connections he could and should. But at the same time it leads to gems like the Firefly is Sam reveal reaction. That moment was gold.

Gallagher being a 4* was an excellent disguise, he had us all completely fooled.

Is it just me or is this game way better than Genshin? This story is fucking insane, the visuals, the music. Fontaine was so boring compared to this.

I'm a massive Honkai fan who has played every Honkai Impact 3rd chapter and I'm obviously caught up with HSR too. What you said about the pacing of this trailblaze quest is exactly how I feel, Roger; about this, and it's been a problem in HI3 too. Shaoji and the Honkai writers are very talented and excel at making very likeable characters and at structuring a plot with mystery and intrigue, and they are very good at sticking the landing, too, which gets me excited for the end of Penacony. BUT... they really need some more editors on their team, because their biggest downfall is bloat. This was a huge problem in the last few arcs of Honkai Impact 3rd Part 1, too. The characters just sometimes go on and on and repeat information and keep making metaphors and talking in circles sometimes and it gets pretty tiring. I think the scenes with Aventurine talking to NPCs, Aventurine going through the amusement park, and the scene with Gallagher in the bar could've been cut down massively to improve the overall narrative. The Aventurine theme park one especially. They got the point across pretty quickly, but the scene just keeps dragging on and on endlessly. It made me unfortunately not really care as much about Aventurine's backstory as I feel I should've, because I just wanted it to be over, but it kept going forever

Gallagher got Ningguanged man... An important powerful character got relegated to a 4*

Such a fun and exciting stream to see. Congrats and beating the boss fight Roger! 2.1 was such a fantastic story quest

50% of the lore tho is in the simulated universe 😢

Mans playing a Visual novel lol Not even leveling traces that require you to start the game and Enable Auto Play? lmao

That finale was totally worth it! I’m glad you did this! Thank you! Enjoy a well deserved rest. We love you! NAKAMA!

Congrats for beating Aventurine LMAO