such a shame the video had a bunch of audio bugs in it with the background music and the fact that whoever made it straight up skipped certain cutscenes. it was definitely not put together well
Since he was talking over most of the dialogues and the said effects, it didn't matter so much. Had to stop. When "reactors" start talking about other things than what they are "watching" (barely), it's just annoying.
crazy glazing. penakony had an amazing start with great potential, but kinda dragged itself out and had a totally underwhelming ending. still wouldn't say it was bad, but totally not peak
@@loshara765 THIS. imo 2.0 and 2.1 were peak, 2.2 was kinda confusing and dragged out and 2.3 completely dropped the ball, what a mess of a conclusion that was.
@@niteyknight503even 2.2 and 2.3 had its moments. I do agree that they were flawed though. Penacony was probably a 9/10 in terms of gacha stories but about a 6/10 overall in terms of video game stories in general which is a real shame given how excellent 2.0 and 2.1 were.
Fun fact: Welt Yang is the same Welt Yang from Honkai Impact 3rd. He canonically crossed over into this universe to protect this universe's version of Himeko. The games have more connections than you might think. There's even references to Hi3 and music taken directly from that game used in HSR.
Yea, which is likely Luocha, as we all guessed. Because of what Astral Express records show, and because of the fact it shows him as departed before we even meet him. So it cant be because he's in prison after his companion quest. @Khann_2102
7:08 March isn't scared of travelling. She's hyping herself up to not fall over. She's been trying to stand up and not fall down after the Astral Express does a jump
Nothing beats how sick Acheron's cutscene against Aventurine. That whole sequence is pure genius especially that rain resuming after she unsheathes her blade. Perfection.
Idk why some part of the video have the music overlapping each other. Like the uploader intentionally play anothe rmusic in the background while the video is playing. It really ruined the mood of the cutscenes
I love how he clapped when the rain returned as Acheron sheated her katana after the twin slashes against Aventurine, that's my favorite cutscene in the entire game, just pure cinema and love dedicated to my favorite character.
If you're planning to play the game, Penacony arc was really an emotional roller coaster and I think one of the best story writing in a video game. Hopefully you can still enjoy the game after speedrunning all the plots and emotional bits 👍
I find it funny when cutscene reactors are like, "I wish I knew what was going on" every few minutes... when they are supposed to be intelligent human beings who made a voluntary decision to watch the cutscenes without context because of "free mone-, I mean content".
its crazy how you can tell the animators are learning and putting in more effort to the quality (of course budget has to do with it as well) compared to the earlier cutscenes like on the space station
Watching this, I realized that the all genshin animation you watched doesn't actually show ALL the animations. It just shows you the main plot's animations, which is a shame because there's a ton of other animations in genshin that you didn't watch
Its not even just some of the side cutscenes, it even skipped some main plot ones too, or at least it skipped the cutscene after the aventurine boss fight.
Penacony was just amazing and you teared up without even knowing the charakters now imagine how it was when you connected with them over 3 patches with alot of dialogues and bonding^^ i cried so hard out of joy when the cutscene came where robin and the train showed up and then again when Sunday falls the music hits and robin jumped after him
It’s a weird glitch the game often experiences annoyingly. Music and audio sometimes clip out and become completely inaudible for 3-5 second durations, and at the start of the game some people had this messed up audio.
So I know this is all cutscenes and what matters is the production and techniques used but damn am I getting serious whiplash from all the different story arcs interspersed along with character story animations slotted in.
the fact that penacony can do someone cry just with cutscenes and almost no context is absolutely amazing, hoyo will have to work really hard on their next hsr planet
13:10 That is an Aeon, living beings can gain power of the path that the Aeon presides on if that living being receives the Aeon's gaze The earlier one you saw was Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction The one here is Qilpoth(the amber lord) , the Aeon of Preservation The next one is Xipe (pronounced as She-pey), the Aeon of Harmony Diffrent paths give characters diffrent powers, example, a harmony character gives buffs, a preservation character gives shields etc, etc. There are also characters who are emanators, Emanators in HSR are Pathstriders, who are granted permission by the Aeon of their path to draw power directly from the path itself. Emanators are extremely strong and they are often the strongest in their path after the Aeon. Fun facts: Qilpoth is the oldest known aeon Aha (aeon of elation, not a playable path, yet) once made a worm an emanator to see if it could surpass humans, it could not When Akivili, Aeon of the Trailblaze (the path where the nameless tread on, aka the astral express) died, Aha, the aeon of ELATION was sorrowful There are currently 18 known Aeons in game (will add on in future)
If you want to learn more about Firefly(the girl with the mech transformation), you can try making a reaction video to all HSR Animated Shorts since she has one as well..
Honestly, not just for a gotcha game but in general, Honkai Star rail is one of the best video game stories, cinematic masterpieces and fun gameplay I've experienced in a long time. I would HIGHLY recommend playing any Hoyoverse game. The depth and detail of the worlds Hoyoverse have crafted are honestly 10/10. That goes for Genshin and Honkai Star rail as well as Honkai Impact 3rd. Honkai impact may be the only video game/movie that has ever made me cry in my entire life and Genshin is such a beautiful and well flushed out world it frequently makes me stop and just admire the beautiful scenery. I don't know what is going on over at Hoyoverse but they have some very talented people working for them.
I enjoy genshin and star rail but I heavily disagree that they are "some of the best video game stories". They most definitely are not. The worlds that they have created are very interesting though.
about te story of HSR: Its about the astral express crew (Welt, Himeko, March, Dan Heng and the MC trailblazer/Stelle/Caelus) travelling to different planets to get rid of these so called "Stellarons" that can destroy planets Also: Hoyoverse tends to remake their characters for honkai impact into their other games, they are so called "expys". They are the characters from honkai, but at the same time, they arent really that character. Think of it as alternative universes. The only one who is the same character (both in Honkai and hsr) is speculated to be Welt/Mr. Yang
@@notstylizedstation, i mean the vid you watched, some cutscenes have different sound in game (remember the moments when you commented that they put two songs on top of each other? That wasn't suppose to happen)
5:15 that's the god of destruction Nanook, he appears because at this moment the mc took on the path of destruction. 13:05 here he saw the god of preservation, the shielder path. And he took on that path.
Randomly recommended this video and everything with Acheron and Robin showing up has me crying again oh my gosh! Edit: finally finishing the full video the difference in quality of the first cutscenes to Penacony to the new Luofu ones is kinda CRAZY
I mean its good compilation of cutscene but once in a while there random cutscene that just suppose to be before but it became after. Like the serval cutscene, that randomness make zero sense. Also, there bunch of cutout cutscenes
Have i already played through all this before: yes Did i watch this entire video without pausing: yes Will i watch the entire thing again later tonight: yes Best. Game. Ever. ❤
The video you watched did not do the cinematics justice with the skipped dialogues in certain spots and the overlaying of audio. That said, if your interest was peaked with it as it was, definitely recommend playing HSR. Overall great story, has a few spots that get very "yappy" but that aside!
3:36 oh they skipped the other half - I thought theyd either include it, or more like cut to include her whole "this journey of yours" speech 7:13 shes repeatedly saying she wont fall over 13:52 Mother aww thought you might-- the timing happened
it looks like the animations were put in version order... which is oretty confusing since pre penacony it was switching between the luofu and the space station....
It’s a shame that they are all out of context 😭 So much cool stuff happens inbetween cutscenes. I feel like they may have missed some too, but can’t be sure. But otherwise, it was really cool to rewatch these scenes!
I’m laughing so hard because it for some reason didn’t occur to me he didn’t know the trash can meme the game became so it was just suddenly a flood of sentient trash cans hahaha what a shock it must’ve been
You should definitely check out some more genshin impact ones! You have got to check out Arlecchino’s character demo & arlecchinos animated shorts, those are my favourite
This entire video just reminds me how much I love star rail cinematics, but absolutely hated Penacony. It was a drawn out, tedious mess that just wouldnt... stop... dragging... on... It was confusing, dropped the ball entirely, and convoluted simply for the sake of being convoluted. God, I REALLY hope they use a different story writer for 3.0 and onwards because Penacony was just NOT it. So many call it Peakacony, but fuck me, I don't get that sentiment at all.
such a shame the video had a bunch of audio bugs in it with the background music and the fact that whoever made it straight up skipped certain cutscenes. it was definitely not put together well
this is starting out unwatchable because of the loudly layered start screen music drowning out everything else tbh
Since he was talking over most of the dialogues and the said effects, it didn't matter so much.
Had to stop. When "reactors" start talking about other things than what they are "watching" (barely), it's just annoying.
PENACONY WAS JUST PURE PEAK
Yes peakacony
Pure Peaktion
crazy glazing. penakony had an amazing start with great potential, but kinda dragged itself out and had a totally underwhelming ending. still wouldn't say it was bad, but totally not peak
@@loshara765 THIS. imo 2.0 and 2.1 were peak, 2.2 was kinda confusing and dragged out and 2.3 completely dropped the ball, what a mess of a conclusion that was.
@@niteyknight503even 2.2 and 2.3 had its moments. I do agree that they were flawed though. Penacony was probably a 9/10 in terms of gacha stories but about a 6/10 overall in terms of video game stories in general which is a real shame given how excellent 2.0 and 2.1 were.
Fun fact: Welt Yang is the same Welt Yang from Honkai Impact 3rd. He canonically crossed over into this universe to protect this universe's version of Himeko. The games have more connections than you might think. There's even references to Hi3 and music taken directly from that game used in HSR.
also Silver Wolf being Bronya
@@Sashashka Right, but as an expy. Welt's case is different.
@@SashashkaNo that's a different case, the other character of HI3rd that we will encounter in HSR is most likely Void Archive
Yea, which is likely Luocha, as we all guessed. Because of what Astral Express records show, and because of the fact it shows him as departed before we even meet him. So it cant be because he's in prison after his companion quest. @Khann_2102
@@Powerbomb323 no, Luocha isn't void archive, he is juste an Otto Expy
7:08 March isn't scared of travelling. She's hyping herself up to not fall over. She's been trying to stand up and not fall down after the Astral Express does a jump
Nothing beats how sick Acheron's cutscene against Aventurine. That whole sequence is pure genius especially that rain resuming after she unsheathes her blade. Perfection.
Acheron is just perfection. Too bad she's not really famous. I love her
Dude speedran all the emotional bits
42:22 my guy Argenti was rizzing up a plant, ofc he isnt gonna discriminate on gender xD
Idk why some part of the video have the music overlapping each other. Like the uploader intentionally play anothe rmusic in the background while the video is playing. It really ruined the mood of the cutscenes
oh so that wasnt me
he had the game start screen open in the background
I've seen people do that because of strikes but that was never a worry with HSR so I guess it was just a huge mistake...
Even then, playing on top of classical music makes no sense since the copyright had already expired. @@r1ckNz
1:05:00 "[Firefly] makes me emotional for some reason"
lmao
Right? Even people who don't know her already love her 😂
Crazy character development
30:45 THE CRYING AND THE "MOM" IS SO REALISTIC
Genuinely, Lynx's character quest is my favourite character quest in the game.
Pela was my first main and still one of my favorites 😣💕
compared to how that character quest started to reach that point hit me like a truck cuz after the quest i sat in a corner and thought about life
21:30
I’m so sorry that your new favorite character immediately died…
I love how he clapped when the rain returned as Acheron sheated her katana after the twin slashes against Aventurine, that's my favorite cutscene in the entire game, just pure cinema and love dedicated to my favorite character.
54:38 Sparkle looks a little unhinged? You sir, could not be more accurate
If you're planning to play the game, Penacony arc was really an emotional roller coaster and I think one of the best story writing in a video game. Hopefully you can still enjoy the game after speedrunning all the plots and emotional bits 👍
Nah hes gonna skip all of it and then call it boring.
Shaoji wrote it so it’s a given
I find it funny when cutscene reactors are like, "I wish I knew what was going on" every few minutes... when they are supposed to be intelligent human beings who made a voluntary decision to watch the cutscenes without context because of "free mone-, I mean content".
its crazy how you can tell the animators are learning and putting in more effort to the quality (of course budget has to do with it as well) compared to the earlier cutscenes like on the space station
Watching this, I realized that the all genshin animation you watched doesn't actually show ALL the animations. It just shows you the main plot's animations, which is a shame because there's a ton of other animations in genshin that you didn't watch
genshin??????
@@cocacolaespuma4653 prev vid
Its not even just some of the side cutscenes, it even skipped some main plot ones too, or at least it skipped the cutscene after the aventurine boss fight.
@@cocacolaespuma4653you good?
Just admit genshin sucks 😂 never touched that game again after hsr 2.0 trash game trash story
Penacony was just amazing and you teared up without even knowing the charakters now imagine how it was when you connected with them over 3 patches with alot of dialogues and bonding^^ i cried so hard out of joy when the cutscene came where robin and the train showed up and then again when Sunday falls the music hits and robin jumped after him
this really shows that Penacony has the best arcs in this game
Music around the start was a bit messed up. Don't know if that was on your end or the cutscene vid. But other than that great vid!
It was in the video I watched sadly
It’s a weird glitch the game often experiences annoyingly. Music and audio sometimes clip out and become completely inaudible for 3-5 second durations, and at the start of the game some people had this messed up audio.
@@frgal1336
Oh, good to know. I've never heard that issue before now.
@@frgal1336 This is the first time I've ever heard of that happening to anyone. Does it happen in certain zones?
@@LeoctoraptorI think it's in this cutscenes specifically because it's the start screen theme
So I know this is all cutscenes and what matters is the production and techniques used but damn am I getting serious whiplash from all the different story arcs interspersed along with character story animations slotted in.
omg, i hope anybody else uses this compilation for reactions ever. so many audio bugs that destroys the imersion and lag xD
After watching this whole compilation. I gotta say that it really is PEAKnacony
BRO I THOUGHT I MOVED FORWARD BUT I SHED TEARS AGAIN GOD DAMNIT, I LOVE PEAKCONY SO MUCH
FINALLY IVE SEEN SOMEONE DO STUFF LIKE THIS!!!! IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR SOMEONE TO REACT TO CUTSCENES!!! Thank u
the fact that penacony can do someone cry just with cutscenes and almost no context is absolutely amazing, hoyo will have to work really hard on their next hsr planet
13:10
That is an Aeon, living beings can gain power of the path that the Aeon presides on if that living being receives the Aeon's gaze
The earlier one you saw was Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction
The one here is Qilpoth(the amber lord) , the Aeon of Preservation
The next one is Xipe (pronounced as She-pey), the Aeon of Harmony
Diffrent paths give characters diffrent powers, example, a harmony character gives buffs, a preservation character gives shields etc, etc.
There are also characters who are emanators, Emanators in HSR are Pathstriders, who are granted permission by the Aeon of their path to draw power directly from the path itself. Emanators are extremely strong and they are often the strongest in their path after the Aeon.
Fun facts: Qilpoth is the oldest known aeon
Aha (aeon of elation, not a playable path, yet) once made a worm an emanator to see if it could surpass humans, it could not
When Akivili, Aeon of the Trailblaze (the path where the nameless tread on, aka the astral express) died, Aha, the aeon of ELATION was sorrowful
There are currently 18 known Aeons in game
(will add on in future)
"My favourite character is switching with every character introduction."
Yeap... That's how they hook me in with every banner...
I feel there are a lot of cutscenes missing especially concerning Aventurine, which is sad, because his story was one of the best
YOO can’t wait for the reactions on the trailers. To be honest this is the best reaction video I’ve seen.
21:41 THE WAY I LAUGHED WITH THIS MOMENT LMAO
If you want to learn more about Firefly(the girl with the mech transformation), you can try making a reaction video to all HSR Animated Shorts since she has one as well..
I remember viewing the cutscene at like 45:05 at least 7 times because that thing kept killing my party and I had to restart 😭 not fun
Now I want to see u playing, i get emotional again seeing with u the Penacony ark
“I’m going to cry” wait till you actually play the game i’ve never cried more in my life
Loved the video, i would reccomend the Animated Short: Rondo Across Countless Kalpas | Honkai: Star Rail for a future video
Honestly, not just for a gotcha game but in general, Honkai Star rail is one of the best video game stories, cinematic masterpieces and fun gameplay I've experienced in a long time. I would HIGHLY recommend playing any Hoyoverse game. The depth and detail of the worlds Hoyoverse have crafted are honestly 10/10. That goes for Genshin and Honkai Star rail as well as Honkai Impact 3rd. Honkai impact may be the only video game/movie that has ever made me cry in my entire life and Genshin is such a beautiful and well flushed out world it frequently makes me stop and just admire the beautiful scenery. I don't know what is going on over at Hoyoverse but they have some very talented people working for them.
gacha*
Bruh, how many games you played?
I enjoy genshin and star rail but I heavily disagree that they are "some of the best video game stories". They most definitely are not. The worlds that they have created are very interesting though.
23:33 OH MY FAVORITE CUTSCENE 🗣️🗣️‼️
46:40 Cat-cakes and dog-dumplings! The best pets! Created and nurtured by sociopatic and crazy Genius Ruan Mei!
about te story of HSR:
Its about the astral express crew (Welt, Himeko, March, Dan Heng and the MC trailblazer/Stelle/Caelus) travelling to different planets to get rid of these so called "Stellarons" that can destroy planets
Also: Hoyoverse tends to remake their characters for honkai impact into their other games, they are so called "expys". They are the characters from honkai, but at the same time, they arent really that character. Think of it as alternative universes. The only one who is the same character (both in Honkai and hsr) is speculated to be Welt/Mr. Yang
The music is buged in that vid, really breakes the mood 😢😢
seems fine to me
@@notstylizedstation, i mean the vid you watched, some cutscenes have different sound in game (remember the moments when you commented that they put two songs on top of each other? That wasn't suppose to happen)
@@namelesshero259ah I see, yeah I was wondering that too
"This guy is cool"
My crushed dream ...
PEAKnacony i always cry
5:15 that's the god of destruction Nanook, he appears because at this moment the mc took on the path of destruction.
13:05 here he saw the god of preservation, the shielder path. And he took on that path.
the bane impression is killing me
Randomly recommended this video and everything with Acheron and Robin showing up has me crying again oh my gosh!
Edit: finally finishing the full video the difference in quality of the first cutscenes to Penacony to the new Luofu ones is kinda CRAZY
I mean its good compilation of cutscene but once in a while there random cutscene that just suppose to be before but it became after. Like the serval cutscene, that randomness make zero sense. Also, there bunch of cutout cutscenes
"This character makes me emotional for some reason" FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION THAT
penacony is PEAK
i cried once and im crying again 😭🤣
Just stared watching the vid, can NOT wait for him to see Peakacony
Whoever put their own music on cutscenes should lose all their 50/50s
I feel like the English VA direction for Kafka is basically “Sharon Stone as Catwoman”
The trashcans I am pretty sure is a reference to a meme that the Star Rail main characters are raccoons
Bronya has a bloody automatic musket and i still haven't gotten over it
I love this game so much everything is so good
He shoukd watch all the animated charachter trailers like Sparkles or Boothills, the 3d animatjon is gorgeous in those
Hsr is a au of hi3 welt is the only character that isn’t a alternate from hi3 he travels from hi3 to hsr and is tryna get back home
Have i already played through all this before: yes
Did i watch this entire video without pausing: yes
Will i watch the entire thing again later tonight: yes
Best. Game. Ever. ❤
The video you watched did not do the cinematics justice with the skipped dialogues in certain spots and the overlaying of audio. That said, if your interest was peaked with it as it was, definitely recommend playing HSR. Overall great story, has a few spots that get very "yappy" but that aside!
watching cut scenes without understanding anything and making an extra appearance of interest makes absolutely no sense
14:13 Ah yes…. BronSeele at its peak
Well technically it’s Veliona is Seele’s body
3:36 oh they skipped the other half - I thought theyd either include it, or more like cut to include her whole "this journey of yours" speech
7:13 shes repeatedly saying she wont fall over
13:52 Mother aww thought you might-- the timing happened
and once again another person falls prey to the trauma of the nap sneck
it looks like the animations were put in version order... which is oretty confusing since pre penacony it was switching between the luofu and the space station....
I remember the 1st teaser leak for HSR i really thought it gonna be another game inside HI3 just like the odessey
1:01:25 why TF would the mashup guy cut out parts of the best cutscene in the entire game 💀
Yeah just watch this reaction in one sitting 👀
Wahhh that was so refreshing
Watching penacony scenes is a mistake because of all the mysteries
43:05 Ruan Mei!!! I love herrrrrr
It’s a shame that they are all out of context 😭 So much cool stuff happens inbetween cutscenes. I feel like they may have missed some too, but can’t be sure. But otherwise, it was really cool to rewatch these scenes!
Penacony.... yeah, it is insane. LITERALLY.
Firefly so fascinating 😂🤌🏻
I’m laughing so hard because it for some reason didn’t occur to me he didn’t know the trash can meme the game became so it was just suddenly a flood of sentient trash cans hahaha what a shock it must’ve been
00:03 that's what she said
its ashame your ruining a lot of plot twists for yourself if you do end up playing the game
I got a Star Rail ad...
peaknacony (i cried again watching this)
Still wish there could be a way to get that Sparkle Fumo.
This game hates me. Can’t remember the last time I won 50/50
you just spoiled yourself, at this point why would you play the game? you already know what will happen.
13:13 architect god isnt far off, given that the leaders of belobog are the architects
WE LOVE FIREFLY TOO
Penacony is the peak of the peak in HSR
I can't wait for Feixiao's banner
watch the character trailers! ITS INSANE FOR HSR
56:30 I still have PTSD 😢
Do one with with the female trailblazer
Next is hsr animated sbort
I mean xianzhou and liyue are both inspired by Chinese culture, so u could see the resemblance of architecture and “magic”
You gotta do League of Legends as well, a decade worth of animation
Lol , it's indeed all the cutscenes but it's really a bad summary of what's going on.
PLEASE check out the HSR animated shorts and videos!!!!❤
21:45 crack 😢
You should definitely check out some more genshin impact ones! You have got to check out Arlecchino’s character demo & arlecchinos animated shorts, those are my favourite
1:07:50 Best cutscene
Why don't you play the game instead of just making some reaction videos? and you will miss out on many touching moments and surprises.
Reagir dá menos trabalho do que jogar
Spoiler for a character's name ahead
...
Actually you accidentally guessed transforming character's name, it's Firefly!)
Peakony
This entire video just reminds me how much I love star rail cinematics, but absolutely hated Penacony. It was a drawn out, tedious mess that just wouldnt... stop... dragging... on... It was confusing, dropped the ball entirely, and convoluted simply for the sake of being convoluted. God, I REALLY hope they use a different story writer for 3.0 and onwards because Penacony was just NOT it. So many call it Peakacony, but fuck me, I don't get that sentiment at all.