My Thoughts On: Chapter 3
WARNING!!! CONTAINS SPOILERS OF CHAPTER 3!!!! IF YOU'RE A NEW PLAYER PLEASE READ AT YOUR DISCRETION!!!!
Hey everyone!!! Sorry for the weird disappearance, life caught up to me so I had to take a break for awhile. I can't guarantee that I'll be posting weekly but we'll see but for now, let's sit down and talk about Chapter 3 (aka my favorite chapter).
I loved it. That's it. End of entry.
I'm kidding--not the loving it part--I actually really did love Chapter 3 a lot for several reasons, definitely not because Cyno was in there no sir. To start off, I loved the eerie trippy-ness of it all simply because of the time loops and everything that had to do with dreams and consciousness and all that. I think that it was a nice twist and breakthrough from all of the typical, cliche storylines that we had previously encountered in the game. When we first met Nahida and she explained to us that we were in a time loop, I kid you not, my brain was struggling to take in half of the information on what was going on. Of course, it didn't get better when the storyline continued to progress...but on a side note, did anyone else cry when Dunyazard "died"? Cause I sure as hell did (and if no one did, then maybe I'm just a big cry baby).
Another thing that I absolutely loved in the chapter was the fact how 'real' it all felt. This one is kinda hard to explain but I really loved how Hoyoverse along with the VA's (I have it on ENG fyi) made each character come more into life and how raw(?) their emotions are. Like, you can just feel how hurt Nahida is when she talks about how she's always feeling less and second compared to Greater Lord Rukkadevata and you can just feel the sass that Tighnari and Kaveh have and you can feel the anger Dehya feels when fustrated AND we surely can't forget how distraught Scaramouche was when his Gnosis was being taken away. But it's not all of these characters, you can also feel the anger that surges within Traveler after Dunyarzad "didn't make it" and they took their anger out on the Eremites. Each characters' emotions felt so real and raw that you just can't help but feel so immersed in it all.
Besides the emotional aspect of it, I LOVED the teamwork that the Sumeru characters along with Traveler had done. Unlike Inazuma where it was "teamwork" (aka Traveler just did everything and was the errand runner more than anything), Sumeru used the power of compromise and friendship lol to come together and save their rightful archon. I lowkey felt like Traveler barely did anything cause all they did was just show up in front of the Grand Sage with AlHaitham and go to solitary confinement afterwards lmao except when fighting The Balladeer. Towards the end, when Rukkadevata had erased the memory of herself from the world, I was beyond shooketh because the fact that she can have the powers/abilities to do such a thing is crazy to me--which makes me believe that she's the third strongest amongst the archons (intellectually).
Of course, we can never forget about the ending where you ask questions about your future/sibling. Tell me why Nahida has been the ONLY useful archon that we've come across!? It's been 10,000 years and we have now finally learned shocking news that our sibling's presence has been recorded in Irminsul but not us. In case some of you guys have forgotten/didn't pay attention, Irminsul is the "core" of Teyvat and it records the history of Teyvat along with the people who reside within the world UNLESS you're a Descender. So in Traveler's case, we are the 4th Descender, meaning that they don't belong in Teyvat and everything about their journey is not recorded within Irminsul. I'm very interested to see how the story line will unfold now that we know our sibling IS part of Teyvat and if the Hydro Archon will be just as useful.
Overall, I loved the chapter so much. It took a long time to complete but I really like how this time it extended to a total of 5 acts. I think by doing so, it gives the chapter time to develop not too fast but not too slow either so I'm hoping that Hoyoverse will continue on doing that--if not 5 acts, then at least 4. Now then I think this is a wrap for my thoughts on Chapter 3. I was initially thinking of doing the interlude chapters since they do play a key part to the story line as well but I think I might take a break from that for now and I might continue onto doing characters or something else. But in the meantime, thank you all so much and look forward to the next "My Thoughts On..." post.
Have a great day/night!!!
