It’s really cool but I’m not too surprised since this game is from China and they’d probably not have too hard of a time accessing such information! ^^ But even with “less culturally accurate” characters in Chinese games-not just here but also in other games, including Genshin-you can still see lots of research in the details/elements that can be tied to other cultures. :oooo
I might be reading too much into this but if you have some time hear me out. At the conversation before the final battle, Jessica said that she had the dream about a grassland of a place far away. And later she added that after she met Blonney, she saw Blonney in the dream and she could be at ease. So Blonney became Jessica's dream when Blonney can live with her dream. But when Blonney threw away her dream, Jessica's dream also left, it slowly became distorted and turned into a bad dream - a nightmare - scaring Jessica herself with loneliness as well as all the people around the lake. Hence the name of the event is "The NIGHTMARE at Greenlake" and not "The horror at Greenlake".
I think Jessica's reference as Changeling is also for the fact that she replaced 2 people of the supposed Blooney's movie actors in the story. Jessica was replacing the girl named Anne (yea, she just copy Anne's face) and the other guy that was sick after food poisoning.
@@harlequinofspades3762 I’m not exactly sure whether the butcher actually got killed, since it “puffed into a bunch of furs and disappeared.” Besides, it’s not like the protagonists killed less of them. Not to mention the search and rescue team only found people kept inside Jessica’s cave up to 6 months’ length of disappearance. What about those who disappeared longer than that? Did absolutely no one visit the Green Lake Campsite before that?
What I mean is, compared to potentially killing humans, potentially killing critters isn’t that terrible. Plus to advance the plot Jessica literally sent many critters to die, knowing well that the protagonist team will overcome them and stand before her.
Anyways, Jessica only referred to critters as friends, but know very well they lack intelligence whatsoever. To her even leaving humans to die in her cave after she loses interest is common practice, if you read what Vertin said to her in the boss battle chapter.
I think that Centurion's name has multiple references in it. 1- The obvious roman one as her seen in her skill "Victorious General". 2- To a former Indian bank named Centurion bank with her gold coin and wealth. 3- To the name of a (premium) spicy hot sauce named Centurion 1744 as referred by her insight name "Hot Sauce Expert".
Can't really blame them, Jessica is indeed one of the strongest arcanist in the game. Like the girl literally made a domain expansion and can control critters. Imagine if she was left unchecked.
Her power is basically imaginary, she does not seem to have a limit and she also has limited knowledge. So I believe she can possibly do so much with her powers but since when she was a child her and baloney often talked about stories and as she grew her imagination was heavily influenced by that, but she probably could do so much with her powers
"Luring people people into death" -- thats literally what she did before Blonney with company and Vertin with company appeared. But overall she is not crazy, just spent too much time on her own :^)
It is good to learn something about characters that I didn't know much about. I find it funny that Kowloon gets into more and more scenarios for video games, when I first learned about it, it was also through a game and that was Shadowrun: Hongkong (2015) where the Walled City also plays a major role. It is obviously a setting with an insane amount of character, that I can only see the amount of people using it as a setting increasing, especially since its destruction only increases the intrigue today.
Something that I belive add a little to Jessica's personality and desing, is the existance of the "Bambi Lesbians" in queer culture, refering to the lesbians that prefer non-sexual activities to show affection, like kissig and cudling a lot
Inst centurion name because centurion is the name of a bank?also is said she was a born with the coin,or at least got when she was born,so is probably her arcaine skill
I'm curious to see a story starring An an Lee, maybe in a Halloween themed event it would be a great opportunity for Horrorpedia to appear again since they both share an occult background.
I really like ur videos and analysis but I want to add something about Centurion. Her name might actually be also a reference to a Mexican gold coin called "Centenario" (centenary in English), which was made from 1921 to 1931 as a commemoration of 100 years of the Mexican independence. Sure, I know the name isn't exactly the same, but imo it sounds very similar regardless, and ties in with her whole coin thing.
Just to add Out of the dark somewhat parody's Leon the professional in terms of clothing, both Karen Mok and Stephen Chow's characters wear a similar attire with both Natalie Portman and Jean Reno's Characters respectively.
can you make one for the low rarity characters too like john titor?.. her name and logo pin something to do with time traveler(?) and her being responsible for the launch of ibm 5100 (im lazy to do the research myself but want to watch ur content for my own curiosity lol)
I loved learning about all the references in An An Lee's character! I loved her enough to pull on her recent rate up banner and just got her so this video had perfect timing!
The culture of negotiating price for travel (in taxi) is something that happens on a lot of SEA and southern - south eastern chinese civs. Although this culture is slowly diminishing due to how easy (and how cheaper) online booking is, right now.
But I still do that from time to time with drivers I hire when I need to, even those who are working in a company's color. Because when I do that, I know the money don't go to the company first, but straight to the driver -> less hands taking it. Often it is more expensive, but I guess it's fine? I'm helping the person live a little while longer, or a little better than before. In return I get to go wherever I want untracked AND prioritised.
I love jessica so much, she is such a complex character with an adorable and precious personality. Obviously she is kinda creepy sometimes but i find that part of her more amusing than anything else
holy shit i used to watch out of the dark when i was young with my siblings but i never knew the name of movies or shows cuz young. Thank you so much for mentioning it i never noticed cuz i dont use an an but now i got a new found apprieciation for her frfr
A funny little detail that I've just found out is Jessica is placed in the same role atlas along with Alien T and Voyager. Is this suggesting that she is kind of an alien? Anybody have any ideas?
Not like Alien but "Beyond arcanist class", which is mean Jessica power is far more powerfull than pure-blood arcanist(eg: Druvis, since she is the most powerful in Vertin's team) Probably more like "The Beyond" class is powerful and can't be fully explained how they created ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@Khann_2102It's kinda funny (for me at least) to think that she is abnormal among a bunch of other abnormal arcanists. But she is not normal among them by any means anyways.
@@Khann_2102 nah, yeah like the other people said. It is weird if it's "abnormal". We have Awakened Class(APPLe, Ms. Radio) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Heck even Arcanist itself is abnormal
Jessica has a couple creepy voice lines in the suitcase as well. When visiting her character page, she says "I'm so glad we meet again. While you were gone I collected every one of your hairs and put them in that drawer." And when you leave her alone to long on the home menu, she says, "98, 99, 100! ... I'm coming for you."
I always thought that Centurion was her stage name for performances in Vegas. Also Jessica going from the creepy mastermind to the ditzy wholesome girl on Vertin's team warms my heart.
Really great video, well done 👍 Can you please consider making another one for Eternity, I'm really interested in the character but don't know anything about her (didn't even appeared in any Story so far)
These kinds of videos are so fun to watch, especially cuz all of the characters in the game are so interesting and well designed. I'd love to see more!
Been loving these videos! Could you do one with Rabies? To be honest I always saw him as a funeral effigy or something similar due to him being made of straw but I wanna see a deep dive on him because he's so interesting!!! also the amount of times i have gone ob tangents talking about how his 3rd item and his 2nd story chapter imply *something* (at least to me, because i don't know) is crazy
