- Black Swan is a living meme (in the sociological sense), she no longer has a body but only exists in others' memories/perception and can manipulate them as she sees fit - a monodrama is a theatrepiece with only one actor playing all roles at once, swapping between them as needed. the animators showed that with multiple Sparkles at once, she doesn't make copies (as far as we know)
Sparkle's not a hitman, and I'd like to clarify that the events in characters demos/trailers are not always canon events or referenced in the game. Use them to judge the personality or theme of a character, as opposed to them being some event in the game. Also, little note, you might not have spotted them, but Topaz, Numby and Aventurine were all on that airship that blew up. Random segue: You should check out Honkai Impact 3rd animations for great songs as well.
13:52 fun fact not only is she still a top 3 DPS in the game, she's also the current strongest playable character in Lore and is definitely well above Planet lvl power.
Black Swan didn't see Acheron's past, what she saw was a giant void; "Gaze long enough into the abyss and the abyss gazes back". Acheron's memory is like a giant empty blackness where nothing exists, which most people think "I wouldn't be scared of that" but gazing into emptiness is very unsettling, let alone actually BEING in that emptiness entirely. Side note: Black Swan is voiced by Arryn Zech who also voiced Blake Belladonna in RWBY and she really did an amazing job with Black Swan(or as I like to call her Blake Swan). Sparkle's Monodrama is just that; a Monodrama is a play put on by one person playing all the roles. Sparkle is a persona, her real name is Hanabi, but at some point in her past she developed that persona of Sparkle she played on TV basically as another personality. Now she is "just Sparkle." Sparkle is simply Chaotic. Not Chaotic Good, Neutral, or Evil, she plays all of those roles depending on her mood at the time, you may also have noticed her mask being different portions of Red/White, it's not 100% confirmed but level of Red displays her level of Sanity/Evil in that particular version of her. Acheron might be a little too deep to explain with any sort of justice. However you can see signs of Sparkle in Acheron's trailer, both her aetherial looking goldfish as well as her Kitsune Mask. I absolutely love how they did the distortion on the music to go along with the black hole visuals, they gave the feeling of time dilation with the music, the sound was warping much the way space does around a black hole. The "your color" is a reference to Acheron losing the color of her past, she's forgetting things about herself and others in her past, and only when she unsheathes her blade can she remember it all, you may have noticed her eyes turn red during that black/white version of her; the Red is the the remnants of her memory poking through the obscuring shroud of black/white. Aventurine is a great character, he comes off as a real asshole, and you're kinda meant to hate him. The scheming scumbag type. But there's so much to his backstory and his story that makes him relatable. On top of that he's quite possibly the best Sustain character in the game right now, I know I have him built well and he could absolutely carry my team if I didn't have other characters built nicely as well. There is a full/extended version of Sway to my Beat in Cosmos from the Robin trailer and if you like the trailer version I highly suggest the full version, there's some bits in it that aren't in the trailer version that are absolutely amazing. Boothill is amusing not only because he can't swear no matter how much he wants to, but also because before this trailer dropped everyone was saying "PASS!" on pulling for him in game. Then this trailer dropped and suddenly it swung around to "OMG this character is actually awesome, must pull" not majority mind you, but compared to interest prior to his trailer it was a huge amount of people suddenly wanting to pull him. I would have gone for him, but I was saving for Firefly still at the time.
I think the highest praise I can give this game is the fact that it is one of the only Gacha games I have played that has legitimately earned a label I use, and very rarely get to give out, for certain Gacha games that are generally more Player-friendly, that being a “Sensible Gacha”. Don’t let the “sensible” part fool you though, it’s still a Gacha game with all the pitfalls and negatives that come with that label, but a “Sensible Gacha” game is essentially one where the Gacha system is actually a benefit to the game rather than a hindrance. Where removing the Gacha would actually make the game worse. Its presence improves an aspect of the core gameplay instead of the gameplay revolving around the Gacha itself. The game gives you everything you need for actual progress for free, more than two full teams for content requiring multiple teams of units is earned via story and side content completion, a suite of free 5 and 4 star “light cones” aka “weapons” and so on, meaning all the gacha system does in HSR is adds replayability and variability by giving you variance in your roster of characters, making each players experience slightly distinct from one another. You never feel “forced” to pull a character to make real progress outside of the hardest content. This distinction makes HSR one of my top recommendations for a Gacha Game because the only difference between a F2P Player and a Whale is the Whale might have more characters to choose from, but everyone gets the same very solid baseline. Really can’t wait for you to get to experience the game yourself someday because it is a wonderful game with loads of fun and interesting content. The writing is great too, some of the incidental stuff just oozes character in the best ways.
My opinion is please do stop interrupt a pleasure to watch trailer here and there with long comment, I suggest short one and may have a long breakdown after. If you doesn't watch ' Version2.0 Music video "WHITE NIGHT" 'yet, allow me to invite you to, the music there is one of the best of HSR.
I love Aventurine’s story lol, I pulled for Acheron and never even considered him till I played that story patch with him. After I beat it I giga grinded to get more pulls for him because of how good his story was! Also Firefly trailer next! She’s definitely my favorite Star Rail character so hope you enjoy it!
In 3 months the game will release their next big patch Version 3.0. If you plan to play this game, starting now or around November would be the best cuz this game rewards you like crazy for every big patch. Also there's no FOMO for this game cuz the game have old events and rewards still available no matter when you start playing it.
The limited rewards will be gone from those events (and not every event is kept), but most major events remain in the game (with fewer rewards), the cosmetics like phone wallpapers will be kept.
@@AmethystPaladin I know this is a spoiler (so please don't read if you don't want your hype to be ruined) In 2.6 the limited time lightcones are now purchasable in Herta's shop. So yes, no Fomo other than some of the limited-time stellar jades.
FOMO is kind of inherent to all games with limited or time gated stuff. Take the herta shop LCs. After you get all the redeemable rewards its 1 herta cred a week and Ive done SU weekly since launch missing 2 weeks and while Ive bought out the store with 15 creds remaining it took like 80 weeks to get what I have. Huge time commitments like that make the Fomo still linger ominously over your head when a huge grind can be solved by playing often enough to not miss things.
@@nopon887 yes and HSR fortunately has fast dailies too and it only take 1 Simuni difficult V to get all weekly rewards (of course you will still need to unlock the difficulty too as new player)
You'll be shocked that many Hoyo players play both Genshin and HSR. It's because HSR really respect your time and doesn't time-gate their stuff, and even have auto button to let you AFK farming. Their dailies also only take like 5 minutes.
