Honkai Star Rail 2.0 Main Story All Cutscene : Acheron Black Swan Sparkle vs Sam Fight

FYI, Sparkle's whole character theme is that of a red herring. She's intentionally diverting almost everyone's attention out of pure entertainment (challenging Black Swan, riling up Aventurine, mocking Sunday).

But when there is a red herring, there must exist a detail it's trying to divert us from. And imo, that detail is Misha. The constant mention of Mikhail, Misha's desire to travel, Firefly's theory that the Watchmaker was a Nameless, and the fact that no one ACTUALLY sees Misha.

Im so obsessed with Acheron, Aventurine, Sampo, Sparkle and Sam's JP VA they're so good

My question is who's Mikhail !?? Like he's mention a lot in the quest but we don't know him or the other person who cry his name ? Like for me this is the real mystery of this version.
Or maybe I'm just stupid and I just miss something. Aaah I don't know, my brain just stop working with this quest !! It's more confusing than everything else for me

Is it just me or did Acheron's eyes turn bright when she said it was her room

we knew Firefly had a death flags based on her words. but no one expect Robin will go to the afterlife too

joer salvemos a la waifu morida y cumplamos el capricho del rubio molesto :S

I got some valueable infos from a fellow gamer. Read them if you dare:

1. Sparkle intentions was unclear but I deduce based on Black swan story quest that, disaster is supposedly happen to Penacony and Masked Fools was there to either flames it faster or not. Its Elation, so the results would be random. Also as we know Sparkle said that disaster will soon befall upon Jarilo VI. Also she said that "better be working on background, if you are late to the stage". As we know it, Sampo was working behind the screen most of the time, and was the first catalyst for our main story in Jarillo. Which suits this description perfectly. But yeah still, Masked Fools intention is unclear at the moment

2. Stellaron hunters doing their thing. We all know Firefly was the stowaway later in the story. But she was supposedly accompanied by some mecha in the dreamscape. Which make me deduce that both Firefly and SAM is related. I dont think she was the pilot or she was the SAM all along but her backlore could be connected with SAM

Based on leaks, Firefly was the survivor of the destroyed planets and was saved by Stellaron hunters. But after hundreds years of drifting in space, she wanted to fight against the swarm again but her condition is not fit to fight as it is. So either Stellaron hunters or other party suggest her to "pilot" the Molten armor aka SAM. But it was fused with propagation powers which empowers yet weakens the actual body at the same time with prolonged usage. Hence why, she said she contracted entrophy syndrome in real world, and her body was implicitly already in the weak state.

3. Robin and Firefly were spiritually dead. Sunday said it at the end of the story. Thier souls was stolen by that monster, and I assume we will try save them while saving Penacony in 2.1 and 2.2.

In real world, I can only assume they falls into a comma state. There is no evidence whatsoever to backup any claims though

4. Aventurine is a bit tricky one. Penacony was eluding IPC tax-paying just like Jarillo, so he was tasked to "reclaim" it back just like what Topaz did on Jarillo. This was the surface level mission that he had though
We all know at the end of the story, Sunday knew about her sister's death. So I assume, Aventurine collaboration with the Oak family (Sunday's fam), is one of the countermeasure from Sunday to fight against Masked Fools. He needs more bargaining chips not to lose Penacony on their whims while uncovering the real truths about Watchmakers later in the story. Either Penacony falls or Penacony stands, Aventurine needs to know where their stands first as he hates to lose and only side with the winning side. But he won't mind if Penacony falls as well, as with Topaz backstory, IPC just simply don't care if a planet is doomed or not. They care about "give and take" prospect.

5. Acheron was disguised as Galaxy Rangers. She was an Emanator of "Death and Finality". Idk what her motives to get involved in Charmony Festive in Penacony so deeply but, from what we know, she stole the tickets after slaying Annihilation gang. How she got the hotel rooms or not, we don't really know yet.

6. Ifrit is supposedly dead but, it could be just his fragments, just like what we fights during Dr. Ratio scene in the space station. We could safely assume he is dead now but, it wouldn't be surprising if his fragments or main body survived somewhere else

7. Black swan lied to us because she was the memokeeper. She "knows" the truth. Although not as omnipotent as the actual Remembrance Aeon, Fuli, she can in some degree see the "right" way. Hence why she tried to helps us and even broke the dreamscape rules to help us meet and "save" Firefly. But most importantly, she collects memoir or story. She implied to us that she is interested on our story and how it will unfolds. Her actual intentions is unclear as for now, so we need to see a little bit later as there are more Garden of Recollection member thats dispatched into Penacony, just like BS.

Dr Ratio was part of Intelegensia Guild. Which is the partner of IPC. So naturally, they would at least interact with each other. Idk about the other detail though.Somehow Dr. Ratio had his part on how Acheron gets into Penacony. Why? Because he had part of Ifrit back then in space station. If Aventurine knows this because Ratio somewhere told him about it, would it be convincing that Ratio helped or given the "loot" by Acheron after slaying Ifrit?

8. No one knows who's Watchmaker actually yet. It could be a person, a concept, a dream-host, an Aeon, an object or anything. But baed on the clue scattered, we could at least had the inclination that Watchmaker is a person or a group of persons.

Also based on Himeko and that Eye guy, Dr. Edwards, Watchmaker could be one of the 3 nameless that left the Express long time ago. Pompom also mentions someone "split" the trains into two. If that dream was any true, then those two clue could be related to each other, or at least related closely to us (Nameless/Trailblazers/Express). But if actual Watchmaker wasn't a person, then we still need more clue before assuming anything.

I came here to see the Cutscenes with Stelle since I play with Caelus. And I still like Caelus the most overall haha
Is not like in Geshin where despite playing as Lumine and liking her the most as the Traveler, there are scenes and moments that I do think look better with Aether. In Star Rail I'm team Caelus all the way!

WHY DOES ADEVRNTURW SOUND LIKE OTTO AM I MISSING SMTH???

falto la post creditos

Her death was mid so she's not really dead, it wasn't even sad just meh

Anyone knows when the story continues?

Ok so my thoughts on this quest in 3 words, btw obviously spoilers ahead so don't read it.

Penacony is weird

In more words now

The beggining felt very interesting to me getting to "know" everyone and stuff (aside for Adventurine which I do not trust at all)

Then there's firefly who while I did get attached to her and felt sad when she "died", it wasn't that impactfull imo because we barely knew her (even now we don't know her completely, the way she died I think was cool but when it was done I think is bad

I think that it happened too early for it to be the actual death and that Hoyoverse was just teasing us with this one as a preview to what's to come, if that's not the case then I think that it was done badly BUT I'll hold my judgement on that until I'll finish the V2.2 story as it's too early for that.

Sampo, I never trusted him to begin with and I still don't even now weither or not he actually was in Penacony.

Adventurine and the Duke inferno group

1st thing first I call 1000% bullshit on the Duke inferno group dying off screen, even if Black swan says that she can confirm this I do not trust her judgement because how would she know for sure?

Imsgine this you're watching a very scary movie that looks very real but you know it's fake because it's a movie

Now imagine someone else who's not snywhere near to you somehow is able to see your memory of that movie (do you see where I'm going with this?), if it looks very real and that person doesn't know that it's a movie and thus is fake... how will they be able to tell the difference?

How does Black swan know that this wasn't a made up memory by Adventurine to trick her?

Think about Adventurine's talk about "friends" and how he pretty much always make sure to get the better part of the deal for himself if needed

What if before all this shit happened and before we arrived to penacony Adventurine met with Duke inferno's group and made a deal with them to let them destroy the watchmaker (or it's legacy) alongside everything else in penacony in exchange for the IPC's stuff?, after all Adventurine is looking for the watchmaker's legacy and the watchmaker is the most respected character in Penacony being the one who first let this dreamland exist... likely meaning he is the one who represents Harmony in Penacony

And what is Duke inferno's group 1st target in Penacony? The harmony

"Hush the Harmony into a muted awe"

After that is the Elation iirc so the masked fools Sparkle and Sampo (if Sparkle didn't impersonate him from the get go), then preservation, the og (if not then just one of) the owners of penacony hence the IPC themselves (so perhaps Adventurine has no idea that they're a target as well)

And then lastly the Remembrence (memokeepers including Black swan).

It would work for both sides if the IPC gets the Watchmaker's legacy and in return Duke inferno's group kills the watchmaker thus destroying the Harmony.

I mean we also still need to ask how the hell did Adventurine know about us having a stellaron inside of us and why would he encourage us to use it given it's detructive cspabillities?

Ok so after that long essay let's move to Acheron

I don't trust her 100% but I don't think thst she's evil,

Definitley not an eminator imo but is definitley controlled by something within her dreams (perhaps one of Duke inferno's group?)

Blackswan

Pretty much the same as Acheron aside from the being controlled part.

Sparkle

Amazing nothing more to be said

Robin's brother

Seems very shady to me

Robin

Like the Sampo case have we ever met her to begin with or was it just Sparkle pretending to be her? Idk so not much of an opinion

I rate this part of the story (for now) as a 7/10

I'm done with the essay now. :)

sampo and sparkle VA's are the real MVP

came here after i cant beat that fcking death bug,

There is still a possibility Firefly is still alive but damn it hurts even tho I am not playing HSR and just watching the playthrough of it. It hurts bro and she was really a love interest for the MC especially if you pick as Caelus

Will there be more in the second half

I definitely felt wholesome in this entire story quest. 🫠

After this quest,i told myself that this isn't like genshin,this is honkai and death is possible 😢
Still love you tho aventurine

This is just like game 'BIOSHOCK'

That's how you do a surprise death. So glad they learned after TY. In any case, however, 1 thing doesn't sit right with me. If I remember correctly, you can't physically die in a dream as you would just wake up afterward. The Trailblazer looks like they die in their dream at the very beginning, and they are alive. There's also that one side quest with the Emperess where she's stated to have died countless times by her assassins.
So basically, if that is true, then both Robin and Firefly are still technically alive.

Writer Shaoji has done it again😢😢😢

At that time, firefly said sorry when she died. I guess because she needed to lie to the protagonist, she faked her death in front of the protagonist so that the protagonist could stay here and investigate the truth together.

At that time, firefly said sorry when she died. I guess because she needed to lie to the protagonist, she faked her death in front of the protagonist so that the protagonist could stay here and investigate the truth together.

the chess board hasnt moved. that is a big miss

Those bastards doing it again. Cooking their game so hard 🙆

We're still in 2.0 and 2 characters have already died. Holy shit

I liked the story but I'm kinda sick and tired of everyone betraying us and doing things behind our backs and stabbing us in the back like, yeah I get that's the charm of the story, everyone has their own plans and advantages they try to achieve but tbh every character I liked became a bit unlikable for me also I don't really care about any character at all like okay Robin died, we didn't know her, Firefly died, she was nice but we didn't know wnything about her tbh, adventurine is dunno he looks good but has an unlikeable personality, black swan is neutral to me, the same with Archeron, I wouldn't care at all if they died or smth like that. Also Ratio, I liked him but after the story I was like "yeah he's just the same" following his own goals and doesn't even care if anything happens as long as his goals gets achieved...Many people may like this and it's something different cause every character has a unique personality and complex thoughts because of that but I'm just annoyed and tired of these cause It's always the same, not even surprisinga anymore. After all that I was like "oh you betrayed us too, oh you are not good either okay" and thats it

I though we will get some concert until i see Robin😢.Firefly already plastered with dead flag so already prepared for it.Does death realy eternal in dreamscape.

So Robin and Firefly are really dead?
Or are they alive?

Killing Tingyun was one thing. But man Firefly after our dating session and literally forming the strongest bond towards a character so far for the Trailblazer... I'm so destroyed, pls bring her back and make her playable. q-q

Sam is So cool 😎

Genshin could never give us free "playable" 5 star
Genshin could never give us extra 10 pull
Genshin could never kill a character who we got attached to
......wait a minute.

I'm gonna blame Sam for Firefly's death

there is an option to leave adventurine after talking to the black swan has anyone chosen that option?

They left us on a cliffhanger which was so confusing I can't tell if it's the story is finished or not

only 7 minutes?

I think we have a little hope ... If anyone is already finished the new main quest and is fighting the beast we know that the beast has a skill name "Dream dead" that will instantly kill 2 teammates and lock their souls for us to revive them we need to disabled it or kill it


BUT MAN HOYOVERSE LOVE TO KILL OUR ADORABLE CHARACTER LIKE THIS ISN'T THEY FIRST IS TINGYUN AND NOW IS FIREFLY BUT THEIR DEAD IS SOME WHAT IN THE GRAY ZONE WE DON'T KNOW THEY ACTUALLY DEAD OR STILL ALIVE F**

If she actually dead, That's one of the worst death I've ever witnessed. Basically another genshin story quality. Became best friend forever after an hour of meeting, died an hour later, cried for 10 seconds, and then move on as if nothing happened.

And then right after Black Swan spouted the most asinine question, "are you alright?" duh what do you think? Who wrote this crap? Ruined my immersion. This game does not deserving the name "Honkai". And yet normies still like the story 🤦 make sense most star rail players came from genshin.

And if Firefly and the other somehow still alive, that'd another cheap death fake out, basically the story is already beyond saving. Cool set, but terrible writing and dialogues, just like Genshin.

Okay never mind they do like this game more then Genshin.

Wdym characters get hurt/can die.

Genshin would never and I say that as a Genshin only lol.

"heartwarming and uplifting"

Dude this quest is feel like a hell of a flking roller coaster. It's good but hell nahh it's too much.. im trying hard not to feel attached to any character the moment i realized this game killed a possible playable character!! 🗿

Does Firefly become Sam or what happens after Firefly "dies"?

HSR 2.0 Story All Cutscene :)