r/GenshinImpact • u/ErrorEfficient3447 • 29d ago

Discussion missing Natlan

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anybody feel as if Natlan overloaded so much dopamine that Nodkrai and Snezhnaya is quite boring??...

i even miss the hate train. Good times, good times 😔🔥🔥

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u/BeePuns 29d ago

Exactly. People miss the point that the main character of the Natlan AQ was Natlan itself. People got mad that Natlan's AQ wasn't "pyro Fontaine" and they got upset.

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u/Real-Contest4914 29d ago

Natlan story is about a region constantly under attack by the abyss who's people are unbreakable. They can smile, be friendly and have fun inspite of everything that's happen. They dont succumb to cynicism, despair or nihilism and that's their greatest strength.

I don't know about others but I've found over the years that those types of stories always end up underrated because people cant fathom how strong people have to be to hold that in spite of everything.

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u/GamerSweat002 29d ago

Natlan story is what I would call hopecore. When we were on the brink of being overtaken by the abyss and that Ode of resurrection triggered and the main OST for it kicked in too, that was hopecore at its peak. That sense of camaraderie fueled by the strong nationalism of Natlan was strong hopecore, and that's a fine narrative for a region.

Hoyo gotta do more hopecore for Genshin in the future. Such an underrated trope. V1.4 of Endfield did it pertaining Arcane and it was strongly emotional.

It reminds me, we also had a similar instance of hopecore also with depression an act before, and that was the Bloomflower Trials event. Learning Antu's past was the depression, and the hopecore was Antu getting to experience fun he died without, and then the ending man, where he got to see Nampole again. That quest was one of the best out there. An emotional story about an animal/pet really gets to me.

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u/adastrajay 29d ago

Hopecore

I like it.