u/SunMon6

I actually liked 7.0 and how they've treated Signora and everything, which was more than the doomposting predictions, and hopefully, assuming they don't mess up with the Tsaritsa, it'll be good going forward. But also... I gotta chuckle now, because isn't that jarring?

In Fontaine they have entire setup about Stuzha being dangerous, the House and the children being selected for "key" role which implies danger and sacrifice, courtesy of the Rooster and Pantalone manipulations, and possibly because the Tsaritsa "no longer has any love left for her people" and the sacrifices must be made for the greater cause (which btw is the sole reason why the organization like the House, which has brutal history, even exists in the first place, or why people like Dottore or Crucabena were tolerated to begin with). Arle is also dropping hints left and right if need be she will go against the Tsaritsa or - at the very least - she will covertly work on opposing Rooster and Pantalone, and whatever fate Project Stuzha meant for her children, to the point she needed to weed out the "weak ones" longing for the light. But then...

>!Arle is nowhere to be seen (so far), Project Stuhza is literally opposed by half of Snezhnaya, while Rooster and the other Harbingers secretly oppose it too (in their hearts!) or at the very least try to do everything in their power to provide for their people and avoid any casualties. Also, it's just energy distribution plan that they're debating in the Veche, what possible "dangerous" purpose the members of the house have been given or what is this "key" role? LOL. Or are they assigned as miners now, like child slave labor but of course hoyo is going to keep silent about all that? 🤡!<

My expectations were already super low since hoyo consistently dismantled them and that's why I liked the AQ, was even surprised at how good it was, especially if I don't particularly care about the Fatui in the context of the entire game when playing it. But unless by some miracle they will come back to this plot point and make it make perfect sense... ehm, it's probably a bit laughable now.

Just how many times did they blatantly change their mind about the overreaching Fatui plots and rewritten their stories?

The core lore about angels or Celestia actually stands solid like a behemoth. Or even Hexenzirkel (which so far serve as a "fun" "comedy" talkative faction mostly and haven't done a lot yet outside of their fairytale projects and Durin). But with Fatui it's like the wind blows a different way every nation.

I will never in the world get it. Honestly. Arlechinno was well selling character back then and she was even allowed to almost murder Furina, beat the Traveler in combat and brutally murder a noble in her promotional material, with a heel. But they literally stopped doing this for Harbingers and now these CANON setups of backstabbing and betrayal or her children being treated as lambs for slaughter are never going to materialize probably. At best maybe smth about the House having the wrong idea because no one told them the details and it was actually all chill. At least that's what I expect ... and I'm going to just enjoy >!Pierro nuking Ronova!<

I know I should have known better after Bina, with how every single plot point of her "backstory" was poorly explained or went wrong, but this thing now, this is something else!

What happened with Pierro's voice and the weight of it? Why does he sound... well, like that? After 500 years he is monologuing to the active Harbingers like they're some entry level hamburger salesmen at McDonalds in a Pokemon show.

My boy Childe is restless, yeah, but this is just some bad joke, what's with the yawn, he's done better when he was pretending to be a toy salesman!

Kudos to Signora for the villain's smirk but then it's just "there are ASPECTS of her plan that I share and that's enough for me!" so I guess that's it then, she never knew anything about the new world stuff, she was just sympathetic to some heart breaking drama she heard about the Tsaritsa's love life. Guess next year that entire passionate speech of her at Tenshukaku won't make any sense anymore

I respected Arle and defended her in Nod-krai, even with cat ears, but now she just looks like a teen again... or something? Or perhaps way more psycho than we imagined I guess, since she doesn't even act THIS SWEET and EMOTIONALLY EXPOSED next to her CHILDREN. Compare this one to her shorts and House scenes. Maybe she has two alter egos, like Layla.

Bina is a black hole, so Sandrone is barely a character and this short isn't really about Sandrone. It's the same all over again but somehow even worse. I felt so booooored. Zero hype. So they showed us scenes they should have showed us in the story since they made this entire Bina x Sandrone thing the point of the story, but now that they did... they haven't actually fixed/explained anything and only made it 10 time worse.

Pantalone's weird ahhh as if he was doing something else nasty next to Dottore wasn't even synced with his mouth movement, it sounded off lol. I guess he also doesn't care much about what Fraudierro the Director of Winter Burgers is talking about.

Dottore just standing there stone faced, probably shocked by this brand new reality.

And where the fuck are the rest of them? Having Scara or even Capitano there would have been off probably, since you can't easily get a comedy gag out of their Fatui selves.

Pulcinella is too short, so they just forgot him.

Also, noticed the organ music? It has like... that way of rendition that I've seen on some shows where slice of comedy, not seriousness, is a norm, and where nothing truly serious ever happens and it's just cheap gags. It's like they're outright MOCKING the Lazzo now. This really feels so damn off lmaof.

I wanted to play Lohen's Quest but... now... I just disabled the launcher and can't do it. Seems Hoyo knows how to completely kill the mood.

Honestly surprised at how low we've now hit but I'm lucky I got cured beforehand and won't be affected. Throw the Tsaritsa at me, I'm ready