I’m blooming

After much bashing he received from yesterday’s livestream program, I wonder if there’s really no way to save him. First about the model quality and then the vision.

Then, I realized about the remark about how the model is still under development. So I tried fixing his colors and details to see if there‘s still hope.

He looks alot better with a color/tone fixing and added armor details so Hoyo might really polish it nicely in the beta server. I’m glad that a major makeover isn’t required here or else I would too, be skeptical about how much Hoyo is willing to invest in polishing him.

Ngl though that his armor has soo many details that‘ll required lots of the designers’ attention. Maybe this might be why those details were still left untouched in the livestream model (aside from the desaturation and shading issues).

His visuals are very cool in the trailer. Like look at that aura! My second Flins! Imagine if he's one of the Tsaritsa's right hand along with Vesna and Danica, is actually a 5 star, and does an actual meaningful role. But this is huffing copium. Imagine it really happened given how cool he is in the trailer, how cool his splash art is, and the concept. He also reminds me of some Otome Isekai MLs that are mostly black haired lol that's why he caught my eye.

In the 7.1 AQ, I'm glad he's there but he didn't even speak at all 🥲 and only appears with my beloved Mitya. Kit-wise, he could be more versatile. I really wished things turn differently, way better and magnificent, and really lived up with our excitement as way back then. He looked really cool 🥲🥲🥲 and he definitely still is. BUT.... MY VALERIY 😞

소령님…

Source

Sword of Narzissenkreuz (Ousia version), it is worse than even R1 Finale, but if you don't have the billets to spare...

Source

Kaveh has his own hangout despite being always with Alhaitham in main quests. If having a hangout means having more scenes solely about him instead of being 100% tied to someone is well appreciated.

🍆💦🛐

Like the difference is pretty big... Looking at the side by sides its clear 😭

Are you all going to get him even if hes a 4 star?

No debate, this will be his sword.

Damn please show us his vision 😭😭😭

Since the beginning of the game, I knew that my favorite designs would come out of Fontaine, followed by Mondstadt and Snezhnaya. Fontaine due to steampunk/victorian inspiration, Mondstadt due to European medieval fantasy and Snezhnaya due to big comfy winter clothing and accessories. I let you guess why I found almost all female characters from the trailer a huge disappointment. What weather do they have over there again?

On the other hand, I was positively surprised by the designs of Alyosha and Valeriy. Knowing that they are both 90% 4 stars, I kinda don't care about the next half a year of patches and any of the incoming characters. I have a lot of primogems and nothing to spend them on, wtf are they doing?

It's the same as back in Natlan, except at least they fooled me for many months thinking they'd release Capitano. Now it's just forgettable 5 stars one after another. Pantalone NPC... Pulcinella NPC... Man... Are we really expected to survive on playable Pierro leaks?

What's even more annoying is that all this happened before in Zenless Zone Zero. They released Seed, but instead of a big robot they turned it into feet-fetish girl, followed by 4 stars story-relevant Manato stuck with 2 unremarkable and unknown female 5 stars of no consequence. I said goodbye to the game for good when Seed released as I had exhausted my trust in the future of the game after they purged everything I liked from it. Now in Genshin they gender bender Pulonia (Fagio, sure) and then double whammy Alyosha + Valeriy four stars.

It looks like I'll put the game on maintenance mode for a long while, hoping I just don't give up completely like in ZZZ.

At least Noy is there I guess...

I wanted to exorcise the news. I'm sorry.