Happy New Year!
Jan. 3rd, 2025 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incompleterulerHappy New Year, everyone! I haven't been able to write an entry until now. But today is also a celebration — Happy Birthday to Wanderer!!
My New Year celebration was very typical. When I finally got home yesterday, all I could think about was opening Genshin and see if I could play Natlan Act V in one sitting, and it meant going to sleep really late, but it was SO worth it! I'll share my thoughts below to avoid spoilers for those who haven't played through it yet:
Aside from having to control the saurians, a mechanic I'm not too fond of (I find controlling them quite troublesome. Why do I need to use one to fly when I could do it myself!? I'm a Wanderer main!!), I thought the special setting where we fight alongside Mavuika was really good. Chills kept going down my spine, I can't tell you how much I cried just because of the shock and the emotions I was feeling lol. Mavuika is far from being my favourite Archon, but she's an amazing character and I loved getting to see more of her. It was refreshing to work with the Archon instead of fighting them or... putting them on trial lol. Capitano's sacrifice completely took me off guard, but I'm very happy with the outcome regardless. It was a very noble death (does it count as a death if he just... fused?) and I'm really glad he didn't get the Signora treatment. On the other hand, oh man seeing Ronova was scary!! I wasn't expecting a literal eye with eyes to open in the middle of the sky hello?? Overall it was a pretty solid AQ, not my favourite because I do have some issues with it (like Kinich getting sidelined, Xilonen literally barely doing anything on-screen aside from forging our Ancient Name...) and because I doubt anything will top the Sumeru experience, but I'm very happy with what they did. Now all I have are lots of questions for the future... But I'll have to wait until Nod-Krai for that.
Aside from the AQ, the best thing from the 5.3 update has to be the rhythm game! I love rhythm games, I've been regularly playing them since elementary school. It was a bit confusing having to play with my keyboard, since I'm used to using my fingers or at least a controller, but I'm finally getting the hang of it!
I'm very excited for this patch overall, this will be my first Lantern Rite too so I can't wait to see what's up. I won't be pulling on the Chronicled Wish banner (at least I don't plan on it), since I really want to save for Venti, but if the rumours are true and he's not coming in 5.4... Well, I need to see the 5.4 banners first anyway. He's my priority, the rest can wait (・_・;)
Genshin aside, I've been reading MDZS! I watched the donghua in 2019, but I never really got past Chapter 2 of the novel. I decided to finally pick it up again and so far I'm really enjoying it! It's fun to remember things as I go, and honestly, I missed the cast too. My favourite was Jin Ling back then and I doubt that's going to change anytime soon haha. I also watched the first episode of the Ave Mujica anime, and wow we're off to a great start! That was so impactful, I can't even begin to imagine how the rest of the anime will unfold... I will try to keep up with it, I'm usually bad with content that releases weekly since I tend to forget about it (manga is okay, but anime is a different story. I had an anime I watched as it aired paused for years...) but I really like this band so hopefully this won't happen this time.
I'm thinking of making some kind of logs for reading and watching stuff since I've also been reading some other stuff and I'm going to be watching a lot of anime. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to that. Until then, see you!
My New Year celebration was very typical. When I finally got home yesterday, all I could think about was opening Genshin and see if I could play Natlan Act V in one sitting, and it meant going to sleep really late, but it was SO worth it! I'll share my thoughts below to avoid spoilers for those who haven't played through it yet:
5.3 Spoilers!
Aside from having to control the saurians, a mechanic I'm not too fond of (I find controlling them quite troublesome. Why do I need to use one to fly when I could do it myself!? I'm a Wanderer main!!), I thought the special setting where we fight alongside Mavuika was really good. Chills kept going down my spine, I can't tell you how much I cried just because of the shock and the emotions I was feeling lol. Mavuika is far from being my favourite Archon, but she's an amazing character and I loved getting to see more of her. It was refreshing to work with the Archon instead of fighting them or... putting them on trial lol. Capitano's sacrifice completely took me off guard, but I'm very happy with the outcome regardless. It was a very noble death (does it count as a death if he just... fused?) and I'm really glad he didn't get the Signora treatment. On the other hand, oh man seeing Ronova was scary!! I wasn't expecting a literal eye with eyes to open in the middle of the sky hello?? Overall it was a pretty solid AQ, not my favourite because I do have some issues with it (like Kinich getting sidelined, Xilonen literally barely doing anything on-screen aside from forging our Ancient Name...) and because I doubt anything will top the Sumeru experience, but I'm very happy with what they did. Now all I have are lots of questions for the future... But I'll have to wait until Nod-Krai for that.
Aside from the AQ, the best thing from the 5.3 update has to be the rhythm game! I love rhythm games, I've been regularly playing them since elementary school. It was a bit confusing having to play with my keyboard, since I'm used to using my fingers or at least a controller, but I'm finally getting the hang of it!
I'm very excited for this patch overall, this will be my first Lantern Rite too so I can't wait to see what's up. I won't be pulling on the Chronicled Wish banner (at least I don't plan on it), since I really want to save for Venti, but if the rumours are true and he's not coming in 5.4... Well, I need to see the 5.4 banners first anyway. He's my priority, the rest can wait (・_・;)
Genshin aside, I've been reading MDZS! I watched the donghua in 2019, but I never really got past Chapter 2 of the novel. I decided to finally pick it up again and so far I'm really enjoying it! It's fun to remember things as I go, and honestly, I missed the cast too. My favourite was Jin Ling back then and I doubt that's going to change anytime soon haha. I also watched the first episode of the Ave Mujica anime, and wow we're off to a great start! That was so impactful, I can't even begin to imagine how the rest of the anime will unfold... I will try to keep up with it, I'm usually bad with content that releases weekly since I tend to forget about it (manga is okay, but anime is a different story. I had an anime I watched as it aired paused for years...) but I really like this band so hopefully this won't happen this time.
I'm thinking of making some kind of logs for reading and watching stuff since I've also been reading some other stuff and I'm going to be watching a lot of anime. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to that. Until then, see you!
