Arlecchino makes sure to seem very cruel with her "executions" so that none knows her only real weakness, her attachment to her children. If the Fatui and their enemies knew that she cares for them they'd threaten the kids to blackmail her. She says multiple times that she likes prejudices and misconceptions against her, they make her seem more ruthless and hide her weakness.
Bro it's just her personality it does not have to do with the fatui they are not that bad as u think even capitano has emotions dottore is the only harbinger that was actually kinda evil lol And I'm pretty sure even dottore will not do anything against her unless she betray tsaritsa/ Fatui
Pulcinella and Pantalone gossiping about Arlecchino is somewhat hilarious considering one is a manipulative politician and the other is a shrewd buisnessman
I don’t believe it’s ever been stated that Pantalone gossiped about Arlecchino. It seems, even from her voiceline, that her and The Rooster have bad blood, while she seems relatively indifferent to Pantalone. I expected some more aggressive feelings towards him considering a Winter Night’s Lazzo but it’s pretty funny knowing Pulcinella, the freaking MAYOR, gossips to this battle-crazed guy about their coworkers lmaoooo
@@lynnraven6101 I think Pulcinella gossiping behind Arlecchino's back is lore accurate its what politicians do to gain political power. Politician villains in every story are the worst to deal with.
@@idontspeakjapanese6289 That is true! I’m actually quite excited to get into some politics with him in Snezhnaya (and Pantalone as well). The politics in Sumeru were also quite interesting imo
I had a little thought that might not be true but that maybe Pulcinella is trying to reduce the power and reputation of Arlecchino and the House in order to rank up and overtake her position as 4th Harbinger because right now he is 5th and apparently the Commedia version of Pulcinella likes to increase his status
@@thecrystalliaguild In terms of political power, Pulcinella already has the upper over Arlecchino despite her being the 4th harbinger, if you think about it, in politics ranks dosen't mean anything.
@@MoodyBluesRequiem80 I interpreted that as the three of them getting scolded for their weakness. But Fremi didn't even go for a kill, when Lynette probably did
1:51:20 a member of Hoyo did a talk at a Chinese university and apparently one of the things mentioned was that the scene with Dottore and the tree IS something for the future. really makes you wonder how much we thought had just been background info but is actually a sneak peak at the future!
@@petite2276if I had to hazard a guess it may have something to do with the experiments that were ran on her. Perhaps the godly remains sealed in her gave her some kind of premonition. HoYo rarely does anything like that without it being preplanned.
So it's not surprising that the Traveler couldn't beat Arle. Teaveler hasn't won a 1v1 against anyone except Childe and Signora. Every other major battle he takes part in, he has extremely powerful allies. Hell, the whale wouldn't have even been possible canonically without Neuvi's powerup and help.
And Childe, once recovered, probably might be on even grounds against us even after gaining more of the elements after his "training arc" with the narwhal. I mean, let's be honest, I don't think Childe had much use of his Foul Legacy during Liyue, so it was just running the clock out until he detransformed. He was transformed for several days during his narwhal fight.
@@ShadoShade That's certainly one way to interpret it. But yeah, we know Childe has been getting stronger since we fought him, even before Fontaine, but we know even more that Traveler has been getting exponentially more powerful than before, and rapidly. In Sumeru, Traveler, before the dream powerup shenanigans still held out against attacks from an actual battle experienced god-tier entity in Scara. Remember, Scara was at about the same level as Raiden at that point, to the point of even being able to remotely control Lightning in the region. But nah, as far as The Traveler is concerned, this quest had shit consistency and writing. They were just there barely even swinging their dull blade, not even using their elemental powers. It's just Hoyo nerfing the free character to sell the banner, but in my opinion they entirely failed to sell Arle's strength compared to her predecessors in the story. Arle was about as threating as Childe was back in Liyue, except Traveler did less so it's completely undersold. What a disappointment.
@crazykim Raiden was still stronger. We lost against her as well until we got power from hundreds of Visions. Even then, we didn't beat her so much as she decided to give up against our stubbornness. Scara kicked our rear ends over 100 times without fail even with every advantage we could muster. Arle is confirmed to be stronger than Childe by rank alone. Even without the rank, Childe and Arle both acknowledge that she's the far stronger of the two of them.
If the traveler can't even defeat Arlecchino then can you imagine what capitano would do to the traveler when natlan finally came out, he would absolutely wreck the traveler so hard even c6 characters wouldn't save him/her. Good thing he's not that evil looking
@@Yuki_Ika7 They got scared of the Red Moon I believe, the rest is unclear. They certainly didn't go all out and this was clearly a psychological attack, not a real one.
I loved her interaction with Childe. I can kinda see them gossiping about the other harbingers and sharing parenting tips in shnezhnaya and I think it's super cute xD
The fact ive seen a meme drawing of Arlecchino saying "stand proud, you can cook" speaks to this. She has been hyped up by the fans way before and her living up to the name only fans the flames. Our unheavenly father is literally him.
I am glad you felt the same way. Even though traveler didnt use elemental powers and only using physical skills was keeping up with arlecchino for the most part, it would have been a dent on the plot if traveller beat the no.4 harbinger so soon whos close to the top 3 who are comparable to archons, especially when traveller hasn't even retained their complete powers yet.
@@ProkerKusaka they could use a water gun on her eye which makes her stop and have to wipe. They will get enough time to deploy simple domain like in inazuma and stops the binding which lets them strike back
@@randompersonontheinternet1038honestly i think the crimson moon work more as a sharingan so you could'nt even do that because you kinda get mind controlled by fear
My question is how are we gonna even made it in Natlan, the power gap is so huge, that I just fon don't see it, the 4 can no-diff us If she wanted, and we are supposed to defy Celestia, we are cooked 💀
@@nagorepalaciosdelafuente honestly even with our original power back its not like we can do much more against celestia if a theorised shade had no diffed both the travellers probably even neuvillette can beat og travellers just because the power of a dragon sovereign rival that of a shade i have made some calculation and a shade must have at least half more power than a normal sovereign(not counting nibelung that for being the king of the sovereign it probably had to be able to 1vs6 against them and win) put in this way if the power of dragon sovereign is 1 the power of a shade must be equal or over to 1,5 because as apep said it was a close battle that almost destroyed the entirety of teyvat
I feel like Clervie wasn't the focus of this quest as much as the relationship between Arlecchino and the children of the house of the hearth. Clervie's story served as the catalyst of Arlecchino's stance on the stuff that was happening in the house and her desire to change them. This is why I personally think that the animation served to put that into perspective. Could they just put that in the story quest? Sure. But I don't think it ruined that much. However, with this quest Arlecchino emerged as a very powerful ally for future endeavors and a possible threat too. She is still too gray to really be trustworthy. She's so well written!
even after they showed the anime video, i thought this quest still did something more than the anime gave, It gave us more in-depth look on the previous House of the Hearth was like, the relationship with the other Fatui, possible hints of future Harbinger encounter (Pulcinella and Pantalone), how the House of the Hearth works, etc tough one thing i really liked about this quest is showing the "other side" of a playable character's personality, especially with Lyney who basically stood and begs Arlecchino for forgiveness, which honestly it's pretty rare to see Genshin characters this vulnerable. Actually they gave Lyney tons of emotions troughout the Fontaine arc
I feel like the Fontainian authorities should have been concerned when a giant blood-colored laser shot into the sky just a little distance away from the city. The Maison Gardiennage is just not doing the work right now. XD
I believe this was why we met with Neuvi along with Arleccino. I also think the fact that it was with Neuvi that the experiment was done with a little bit of Primordial water (my head canon)
Thing about Fremi's "im sorry" attack - he turned the blade and tried to hit with the flat side. He really didnt want to cause a harder injury than he thought needed
Bob, you are absolutely amazing. I tried watching this on stream but Bran had in-game sound disabled both at the start and later in the video. How the hell did you sync it so perfectly? Brilliant.
I finished Arlecchino's quest just a couple hours ago, I knew the animation existed but I had a gut feeling it might've given something about the quest away so I didn't touch it until way later. And personally, I'm glad I didn't - the plot twist hit really hard because I had zero clue who Clervie was and her history to Arlecchino when they were children
Yeah, I wish I had also waited. It would’ve been nice to slowly figure things out as the quest progressed. This is why I usually steer clear of promotional material.
The quest eliminates most doubts regarding Arlecchino's character and how she carrys herself. She's still morally grey and calling her "good" or "bad" is missing the nuances of her actions. She's still creating child soldiers for the Fatui that are only loyal to the House but in a way it's creating a place and purpose for individuals like Foltz that are rejected by society. Not to mention, creating a means for those who wish to leave peacefully and not be forced to live in fear of retaliation unlike Crucabena. The setting is still questionable though. In her own way she's pushing the House in a better direction and with Lyney to be her successor a better home.
NGL I was expecting her boss fight to be really hard but she is actually pretty easy much easier than Signora. I wish Genshin makes a challenge stage were the bosses fights 2x faster, fights aggresively and has more health.
i think it's because she sees clervie in lyney. like even if they don't have the power and will quite possibly get hurt for doing so, they are still willing to do whatever they can to protect the family.
when pierro said "your final resting place will be the entirety of the old world ", he might've been hinting at dottore burning the irminsul , as the memories burn away everyone will become new.
Wait... Irminsul is basically a giant collection of memories, and Dottore has been experimenting with Arlecchino's flames to be able to burn away a person's memory. Will he use her flames to burn Irminsul then?
I can’t help but feel like Paimon’s voice sounds different. It’s like a combination of the 1.0 voice and her usual squeaky high pitched voice we always had
it's the 169th time A harbinger wom a battle with us, the 6th harbinger won 168times but Nahida said: How about I just make him Respawn until you lose?
As of now we have two characters that uses Domain Expansion: Raiden Shogun: Domain Expansion, Plane of Eternity Arlechinno: Domain Expansion, Crimson Moon
I think ppl would have different experience playing this quest with or without watching the animated short. But I wouldn’t say which way is better, it’s just different.
Yeah, leaving aside genshin for a moment i have seen a couple of media(anime/movies/series) where we knows stuff that characters dont it makes it interesting sometime frustrating but fun to watch.
I think seeing the animation before the story actually made the story better. Since it establish a connection with us and Clervie. Or else she would’ve just appeared out of nowhere and people wouldn’t care as much.
it absolutely did.. the context just adds to it. Even as a militant spoiler avoider, i am glad i already knew about clervie, and how the house operated. It made it better for me personally.
The whole point of the story was to know who Clervie was and her relationship to the HoH and Arlecchino. The whole chat Arlecchino had with the MC before the fight was literally explaining the same story in the anime but in more detail, and then came the cutscene at the end. Stop excusing this behavior that just because you thought it was a good idea doesn’t mean it was, because a plethora of other people would have preferred if they were not spoiled. Which btw that’s literally what happened, the game itself spoiled the story for everyone. Say it like it is and stop defending everything this game does.
i get both arguments of why it’s better to not have watched the short before the quest, i personally did watch the short and still very much enjoyed the quest and thought it didn’t detract from the story. i was still surprised when clervie showed up as a child, bc we saw in the short she died as a a teenager, so i was like wtf is going on. we already knew that arle was a child in the house before and that she killed the previous knave, so tbh the only other thing that the short “spoiled” for me was knowing that arle is perrie
@@MiyuKawasaki No discounting these but these are more fantastical. The conflict and problems in Fontaine are more aligned with real world problems. Serial killings, human trafficking, suicide, abuse.
I actually agree with you about the animated short to be put in the middle of the quest. I actually wasn't surprised by anything when doing her story quest. But then again it still is a quest that made me have roller coasters of emotions. It's sad, yet very interesting.
Wow, about the burning irminsul got me thinking, what if dottore extracted/kill arlecchino and used her flame to burn the tree? Because there is no way i think that arlecchino wants their children be effected by effect of the burning irminsul. 🤔 And the thing that arlecchino already thinking about choosing her heir for the house, got me thinking about that possibility.
The only thing the animated short exposed was Clervie's identity while watching the short afterwards would have completely ruined the novelty of experiencing the short since you already know everything that's going to happen. And inserting the short into the quest proper would have thrown off the pacing of the quest; at the very least, they would have to truncate the short to maybe just the fighting.
After the video: I just felt like as if I had watched a whole movie😂 It had tension, mystery, lore, amazing character building and a final big climax with a tear enducing ending after that...
Bran: "I have C6 Neuvillette. It'll be fine." Me: "I have C0 Neuvillette. It'll be fine." My friend who mains Keqing for the 'CHALLENGE': "... Nah, I'd win." XD
Dammm harbinger is really something else bro.... Pantalone: That one crazy business man who manipulates teyvat economy.... Pucilena : A politician who spreading ideology and democrats across teyvat.... Arlecchino : Harbinger who in charge of orphanage organization in fontaine for many reasons.... Dottore : Psyco doctor who do experiment to all living things in teyvat for excellent result...( Recently in sumeru which is memory experiment) Capitano : A captain of harbingers that lead an army to take pyro gnosis in natlan...
I play Genshin through a website. Poor quality, pixelated, lag. My cell phone is incompatible so I can't do anything.. when I saw about this Samsung I became more sad because I don't have money to buy it. I'm going to keep playing Genshin with terrible quality because I don't have the cost to buy a new cell phone. So every time I complete a mission I come here on Bran's channel to review the entire mission in better quality ❤
Unrelated...but as Natlan is approaching slowly, i was thinking. People keep talking about "oh we're gonna mess with resurrection, signora is gonna be back!" One, i hope not, but two...if she is indeed gonna be back, god, i can tolarate her atleast, i may appreciate a compromise of having her back in return of the horrible and painful death of the doctor, i genuinely hate his guts XD About the video, great! I loved watching it, thank you Bran. Arlecchino is the most agressive type of "sassy but caring" fr
crazy to think that arlecchino's flames might actually be able cause damage to irminsul on the same level that forbidden knowledge did - and is it a coincidence that they are both linkes to khaenri'ah?? "another outbreak of forbidden knowledge" occurred five hundred years ago (the cataclysm) that infected rukkha and required nahida to erase her memory completely from irminsul, and arle's curse is from khaenri'ah...
Yeah, I feel like a lot of the stuff in the animation was implied, and still ambiguous. The story quest gave a lot of context that was missing unless you’re a lore nerd that could connect the dots on your own.
I love that Arlecchino doesn't even have a defeat line when you beat her as a boss. Because we never truly beat her in the game. Not only that, she just elegantly disappears from the battlefield instead of falls like Childe, Scara, and all the other bosses usually do.
I agree with your take, I personally wish they had saved the animated short to be released after the quest, at least a few days after. I'm glad to see many people didn't felt spoiled by it, but I did... especially because, from the animated short, I was sort of able to guess most of the twists the story took, especially when it comes to Clervie's sacrifice and Peruere's motivations. It wasn't enough to make the quest not enjoyable, but it removed all the element of surprise. Lesson learned: not watching these teasers Hoyoverse releases after the patches drop.
As someone who still hasn't seen the animation and so learnt everything from the quest, the quest's reveal was still very predictable. The only thing I didn't manage to guess was how she'd cleanse the "rivers".
I wished Clervie's lumidouce necklace was a memento after the quest, so that we can take the necklace with us to travel around Teyvat as in bringing her around the world, just like Ruu's feather.
She keep saying "Window" because she's still stuck living in that scene we saw in the animation where she open the "window" and talk about the aurora in Snezhaya that she would love to watch it together with Arlec. It's the same with quest where we go into the book together with that one Melusine, even though we see the place as a lonely ruin, that Melusine perceived it different cause to her the scenery is actually a beautiful place with lots of flower and sunshine. So in here, the ghost Clervie perceived her surrounding different than us.
BOB! DO SOMETHING! (Ashe....and Bran?) XD really excellent work Bob! to expand what bran said about the flames that burns the memories, Dottore will most likely use Arlecchino's flames to burn Irminsul itself. also, anyone noticed Arlecchino's virion after she transformed? she's enougt strong to manipulate a vision. something noone was able to do to this extent
Genshin is making us get ready for what is to come next. Dottore will not get any redemption and I guess things will get more dark in Natlan only. 1:45:17
I have the same sentiments about this quest.. It would have been absolutely mindblowing if we had no idea what was going on.. but we do because most of use have watched her Promotional Short Animation before this quest was even available.
I wanna know more about that crimson moon, as I’m pretty sure it’s the one in genshins reveal trailer with lumine running in front of it, I’m also pretty sure it’s the one in Ei’s plane of euthimiya too, moon sister connection possibly?
The Crimson Moon has to be some kind of harbinger of ill fate, cause it was also said to have appeared at the fall of Gurabad and Remuria. And that coupled with the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri'ah, who likely worshipped it, it has to have something to do with the system of fate that ties the people of Teyvat to a specific path through their constellations and possibly their Visions. Possibly it's part of the Heavenly Principles, or some other kind of watcher from Celestia... And since Arlecchino is implied to be a descendent of the Crimson Moon Dynasty, she must have inherited some of that cursed power.
This was a good quest . What made this quest a little bad is that most people already know the back story from the animationed story. Everything else was fine. 8/10
Actually, in russian «Stuja» means strong wind during very heavy snowfall (idk english word with the same meaning). So it seems to me that this has something to do with gnosis and its use. Sort of a metaphor for how serenely the snow would fall if not the strong wind.
Watching the animation first before the quest is the best choice, I would have not personally enjoyed and invested the quest with full immersion. The animation did not give everything and leaves some trails to be fully detailed out from the quest.
She have a good story! Shame i didn't get her on my birthday. Also ashamed that i won't be around soon. This is the last year I'll be staying unfortunately.
Ngl, cried playing through specifically the ending of this quest. I love this quest to death, but I think this would've been way better played before you play the story...
I really wish they posted the animated short after the patch came out. I feel like we knew too much about the story because of the short, and there were so many questions not addressed that it left me feeling like the story wasn’t that great… when it’s actually pretty good over all! Just wish we found out something more about her powers and origins
I completely agree! Like we got no info on how she got her curse, and I would love to know where she really came from. I feel like that would have been more interesting to know about.
@@-irritatora-3998 I think discussing her character for now is too fast, Arlecchino honestly gives me the impression of an important character who will be relevant until the Khaenriah arc along with The Jester seeing how Hoyo treats her character like a golden child, seeing how she has the blood and curse of the ancient Crimson Moon dynasty and how her voiceline is like foreshadowing that she will draw her sword to the tsaritsa, fontaine's arc is not a stage for her character but only an opening for her character, i just hope hoyo wont ruin her character
@@daffafatih8669 I assumed something similar and I hope you’re right! She appears to have tons of connections to Khaenriah, even her voice line about Pierro hints at that. I guess because we had all the info about her past from the short it made it seem like the quest didn’t teach us anything new, but you make a good point that it could be too early for more! A lot of people seem to have enjoyed having the short before because it made them feel more connected to Clervie, so as always, there’s two sides to this. Personally, it felt weird to have more info than the MC throughout the majority of the quest while they’re trying to figure out what’s up with Clervie and the House
@@-irritatora-3998honestly the fact that they’re finally revisiting cyno’s lore after more than a year and giving us answers to wtf powers he has with hermanubis makes me hopeful they’re going to revisit the curse thing w/ arle later. we’re due for a dainsleif interlude before 5.0, so maybe we’ll get more then, or even later in natlan when maybe we get more khaenriah stuff in the main archon quests or something
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Arlecchino makes sure to seem very cruel with her "executions" so that none knows her only real weakness, her attachment to her children. If the Fatui and their enemies knew that she cares for them they'd threaten the kids to blackmail her.
She says multiple times that she likes prejudices and misconceptions against her, they make her seem more ruthless and hide her weakness.
She states on her voicelines she'd murder the other fatui if it came to that, hell, Dottore is on thin fucking ice for her
Bro it's just her personality it does not have to do with the fatui they are not that bad as u think even capitano has emotions dottore is the only harbinger that was actually kinda evil lol
And I'm pretty sure even dottore will not do anything against her unless she betray tsaritsa/ Fatui
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Hmm. An interesting detail: the weapon of both Peruere and the "Mother" was a sword. The weapon of both Clervie and "Father" is a spear.
Pulcinella and Pantalone gossiping about Arlecchino is somewhat hilarious considering one is a manipulative politician and the other is a shrewd buisnessman
I don’t believe it’s ever been stated that Pantalone gossiped about Arlecchino. It seems, even from her voiceline, that her and The Rooster have bad blood, while she seems relatively indifferent to Pantalone. I expected some more aggressive feelings towards him considering a Winter Night’s Lazzo but it’s pretty funny knowing Pulcinella, the freaking MAYOR, gossips to this battle-crazed guy about their coworkers lmaoooo
@@lynnraven6101 I think Pulcinella gossiping behind Arlecchino's back is lore accurate its what politicians do to gain political power. Politician villains in every story are the worst to deal with.
@@idontspeakjapanese6289 That is true! I’m actually quite excited to get into some politics with him in Snezhnaya (and Pantalone as well). The politics in Sumeru were also quite interesting imo
I had a little thought that might not be true but that maybe Pulcinella is trying to reduce the power and reputation of Arlecchino and the House in order to rank up and overtake her position as 4th Harbinger because right now he is 5th and apparently the Commedia version of Pulcinella likes to increase his status
@@thecrystalliaguild In terms of political power, Pulcinella already has the upper over Arlecchino despite her being the 4th harbinger, if you think about it, in politics ranks dosen't mean anything.
1:53:07 The way she asked "How come you're all grown up?" while the camera pointed at a silent Arlecchino got me so bad 😢
I felt like a proud mother when Fremi stepped in with his "I'm sorry Father"
😂
And used the broad side of the Bell to knock her out instead of trying to kill her
@@I.disagree I expected him to get scolded for that
@@starwars385 he did. Arle said: "Sorry for what, a pitiful excuse of an attack?"
@@MoodyBluesRequiem80 I interpreted that as the three of them getting scolded for their weakness. But Fremi didn't even go for a kill, when Lynette probably did
1:51:20 a member of Hoyo did a talk at a Chinese university and apparently one of the things mentioned was that the scene with Dottore and the tree IS something for the future. really makes you wonder how much we thought had just been background info but is actually a sneak peak at the future!
Wait so does that mean Collie can see the future or was that an edit trick
@@petite2276if I had to hazard a guess it may have something to do with the experiments that were ran on her. Perhaps the godly remains sealed in her gave her some kind of premonition. HoYo rarely does anything like that without it being preplanned.
@@CalmJasper Yeah game was planned 7-8 years in advance, everything is scheduled iirc
NAHHH, bro is gonna come back and burn down the magic tree for shits and giggles 💀
So it's not surprising that the Traveler couldn't beat Arle. Teaveler hasn't won a 1v1 against anyone except Childe and Signora. Every other major battle he takes part in, he has extremely powerful allies. Hell, the whale wouldn't have even been possible canonically without Neuvi's powerup and help.
And Childe, once recovered, probably might be on even grounds against us even after gaining more of the elements after his "training arc" with the narwhal. I mean, let's be honest, I don't think Childe had much use of his Foul Legacy during Liyue, so it was just running the clock out until he detransformed. He was transformed for several days during his narwhal fight.
@@ShadoShade That's certainly one way to interpret it. But yeah, we know Childe has been getting stronger since we fought him, even before Fontaine, but we know even more that Traveler has been getting exponentially more powerful than before, and rapidly.
In Sumeru, Traveler, before the dream powerup shenanigans still held out against attacks from an actual battle experienced god-tier entity in Scara. Remember, Scara was at about the same level as Raiden at that point, to the point of even being able to remotely control Lightning in the region.
But nah, as far as The Traveler is concerned, this quest had shit consistency and writing. They were just there barely even swinging their dull blade, not even using their elemental powers. It's just Hoyo nerfing the free character to sell the banner, but in my opinion they entirely failed to sell Arle's strength compared to her predecessors in the story. Arle was about as threating as Childe was back in Liyue, except Traveler did less so it's completely undersold. What a disappointment.
After the honeymoon period, this quest is going to be remembered as somewhat of a disappointment at large. Mark my words.
@crazykim Raiden was still stronger. We lost against her as well until we got power from hundreds of Visions. Even then, we didn't beat her so much as she decided to give up against our stubbornness.
Scara kicked our rear ends over 100 times without fail even with every advantage we could muster.
Arle is confirmed to be stronger than Childe by rank alone. Even without the rank, Childe and Arle both acknowledge that she's the far stronger of the two of them.
If the traveler can't even defeat Arlecchino then can you imagine what capitano would do to the traveler when natlan finally came out, he would absolutely wreck the traveler so hard even c6 characters wouldn't save him/her. Good thing he's not that evil looking
Aether's eyes when arle is reaching him 🫠🫠 one of the few times traveler felt fear
She could have easily killed them if she wanted to there
@@Yuki_Ika7 then again why would she
@@volcanogamer6758 for bants
@@volcanogamer6758because she doesn't feel the need to since she probably needs us in her future plans.
@@Yuki_Ika7 They got scared of the Red Moon I believe, the rest is unclear. They certainly didn't go all out and this was clearly a psychological attack, not a real one.
I loved her interaction with Childe. I can kinda see them gossiping about the other harbingers and sharing parenting tips in shnezhnaya and I think it's super cute xD
I loved the part when she said “sorry for what ? This pitiful excuse for an attack?” 😍😍
The absolute disrespect
@@I.disagree ikr 😂😭
The fact ive seen a meme drawing of Arlecchino saying "stand proud, you can cook" speaks to this. She has been hyped up by the fans way before and her living up to the name only fans the flames.
Our unheavenly father is literally him.
I am glad you felt the same way. Even though traveler didnt use elemental powers and only using physical skills was keeping up with arlecchino for the most part, it would have been a dent on the plot if traveller beat the no.4 harbinger so soon whos close to the top 3 who are comparable to archons, especially when traveller hasn't even retained their complete powers yet.
I doubt if using elemental skills do any better😅
She just used "domain expantion" to test traveller power and they fully failed it. Cant even move 😅
@@ProkerKusaka they could use a water gun on her eye which makes her stop and have to wipe. They will get enough time to deploy simple domain like in inazuma and stops the binding which lets them strike back
@@randompersonontheinternet1038honestly i think the crimson moon work more as a sharingan so you could'nt even do that because you kinda get mind controlled by fear
My question is how are we gonna even made it in Natlan, the power gap is so huge, that I just fon don't see it, the 4 can no-diff us If she wanted, and we are supposed to defy Celestia, we are cooked 💀
@@nagorepalaciosdelafuente honestly even with our original power back its not like we can do much more against celestia if a theorised shade had no diffed both the travellers probably even neuvillette can beat og travellers just because the power of a dragon sovereign rival that of a shade i have made some calculation and a shade must have at least half more power than a normal sovereign(not counting nibelung that for being the king of the sovereign it probably had to be able to 1vs6 against them and win) put in this way if the power of dragon sovereign is 1 the power of a shade must be equal or over to 1,5 because as apep said it was a close battle that almost destroyed the entirety of teyvat
bran hit on something i completely missed. how do you burn a tree like irminsul? with fire that can specifically burn away memories. god damn
Its hilarious how Arlecchino and Childe decided to trash talk them behind their backs (the other fatui members)
I feel like Clervie wasn't the focus of this quest as much as the relationship between Arlecchino and the children of the house of the hearth. Clervie's story served as the catalyst of Arlecchino's stance on the stuff that was happening in the house and her desire to change them. This is why I personally think that the animation served to put that into perspective. Could they just put that in the story quest? Sure. But I don't think it ruined that much.
However, with this quest Arlecchino emerged as a very powerful ally for future endeavors and a possible threat too. She is still too gray to really be trustworthy. She's so well written!
I love how this quest is the fantasy version of when you’re at a friend’s house and their mom scolds them.
Bruh, now i cant unsee it
Children: impossible fafter is way too strong even for Lyney
Traveller Bran: don't worry kid I have C6 Neuvillete
even after they showed the anime video, i thought this quest still did something more than the anime gave, It gave us more in-depth look on the previous House of the Hearth was like, the relationship with the other Fatui, possible hints of future Harbinger encounter (Pulcinella and Pantalone), how the House of the Hearth works, etc
tough one thing i really liked about this quest is showing the "other side" of a playable character's personality, especially with Lyney who basically stood and begs Arlecchino for forgiveness, which honestly it's pretty rare to see Genshin characters this vulnerable. Actually they gave Lyney tons of emotions troughout the Fontaine arc
I feel like the Fontainian authorities should have been concerned when a giant blood-colored laser shot into the sky just a little distance away from the city. The Maison Gardiennage is just not doing the work right now. XD
well wasn't it under the diplomatic authority of snezhnaya? like an embassy?
I believe this was why we met with Neuvi along with Arleccino. I also think the fact that it was with Neuvi that the experiment was done with a little bit of Primordial water (my head canon)
Thing about Fremi's "im sorry" attack - he turned the blade and tried to hit with the flat side. He really didnt want to cause a harder injury than he thought needed
I really enjoyed Paimon's voice in this quest, I hope Hoyo keeps it like that.
Bob, you are absolutely amazing. I tried watching this on stream but Bran had in-game sound disabled both at the start and later in the video.
How the hell did you sync it so perfectly? Brilliant.
I finished Arlecchino's quest just a couple hours ago, I knew the animation existed but I had a gut feeling it might've given something about the quest away so I didn't touch it until way later. And personally, I'm glad I didn't - the plot twist hit really hard because I had zero clue who Clervie was and her history to Arlecchino when they were children
Yeah, I wish I had also waited. It would’ve been nice to slowly figure things out as the quest progressed. This is why I usually steer clear of promotional material.
I just did this quest today and I'm soooo glad I avoided it when it released lol the impact was HUGE for me!
The quest eliminates most doubts regarding Arlecchino's character and how she carrys herself. She's still morally grey and calling her "good" or "bad" is missing the nuances of her actions. She's still creating child soldiers for the Fatui that are only loyal to the House but in a way it's creating a place and purpose for individuals like Foltz that are rejected by society. Not to mention, creating a means for those who wish to leave peacefully and not be forced to live in fear of retaliation unlike Crucabena. The setting is still questionable though.
In her own way she's pushing the House in a better direction and with Lyney to be her successor a better home.
And she seems to prioritize the House of the Hearth above the Fatui in general
she's morally grey but overall still better than the "Mother", basically
@@melsuppatlol4565 The better "father"
yeah, cuz the thing is there always has to be a drug dealer, thats why cops would rather keep a good one than kill him and let someone worse take over
i dont doubt she'd have any reservations if any of her kids betray or fail her tbh
When she said "I do have one regret, i didn't tell her how beautiful the aurora in Snezhnaya was" i was TEARING UP. WHY. THAT WAS YOUR ONE PROMISE
Bro her boss fight was fucking amazing(visual wise)
hard disagree except visual wise
@@toboooorble If you use invincibility zhongli and a healer than yes it's boring, but to my solo Traveler gameplay, it was amazing.
@@toboooorble yea that's what I ment
NGL I was expecting her boss fight to be really hard but she is actually pretty easy much easier than Signora. I wish Genshin makes a challenge stage were the bosses fights 2x faster, fights aggresively and has more health.
Why does everyone say its easy when i struggle and saw some other person struggling too.
i think it's because she sees clervie in lyney. like even if they don't have the power and will quite possibly get hurt for doing so, they are still willing to do whatever they can to protect the family.
when pierro said "your final resting place will be the entirety of the old world ", he might've been hinting at dottore burning the irminsul , as the memories burn away everyone will become new.
The entirety of the old world to correct you :3
autocorrect with the assist zamn
Oh. Oh fuk 😧
Wait... Irminsul is basically a giant collection of memories, and Dottore has been experimenting with Arlecchino's flames to be able to burn away a person's memory. Will he use her flames to burn Irminsul then?
@@toobig7399 thats what i think too, but he was talking about this to columbina, so we gotta see what she can do
I can’t help but feel like Paimon’s voice sounds different. It’s like a combination of the 1.0 voice and her usual squeaky high pitched voice we always had
The first story quest with two cutscenes btw, and the first harbinger who won the battle with us ;)
there’s quite a few SQs with 2+ cutscenes
I don't know. I doesn't looked as a win. She just stopped the battle fast to avoid bigger injuries in both sides.
Traveler seemed unscathed
@@pontoancora That's the point, she could've done more and ended us but from the very start she didn't even intend to go for the kill.
@@autumn3737 any examples?
it's the 169th time A harbinger wom a battle with us, the 6th harbinger won 168times but Nahida said: How about I just make him Respawn until you lose?
It was easily one of my favorite quests, i even shed a few tears it was so good
As of now we have two characters that uses Domain Expansion:
Raiden Shogun: Domain Expansion, Plane of Eternity
Arlechinno: Domain Expansion, Crimson Moon
Nahida?
28:27 Lynette proves why she has Anemo vision
Anemo girlies are so quick in movement and wit 😂
I think ppl would have different experience playing this quest with or without watching the animated short. But I wouldn’t say which way is better, it’s just different.
Yeah, leaving aside genshin for a moment i have seen a couple of media(anime/movies/series) where we knows stuff that characters dont it makes it interesting sometime frustrating but fun to watch.
I think seeing the animation before the story actually made the story better. Since it establish a connection with us and Clervie. Or else she would’ve just appeared out of nowhere and people wouldn’t care as much.
i would prefer if the animation was released before next version
edit: or before arlecchino banner ends
it absolutely did.. the context just adds to it. Even as a militant spoiler avoider, i am glad i already knew about clervie, and how the house operated. It made it better for me personally.
The whole point of the story was to know who Clervie was and her relationship to the HoH and Arlecchino. The whole chat Arlecchino had with the MC before the fight was literally explaining the same story in the anime but in more detail, and then came the cutscene at the end.
Stop excusing this behavior that just because you thought it was a good idea doesn’t mean it was, because a plethora of other people would have preferred if they were not spoiled. Which btw that’s literally what happened, the game itself spoiled the story for everyone. Say it like it is and stop defending everything this game does.
@@thawingkarma233Damn, sorry that there is no way people really like it this way and they are just excusing the game
No
i get both arguments of why it’s better to not have watched the short before the quest, i personally did watch the short and still very much enjoyed the quest and thought it didn’t detract from the story. i was still surprised when clervie showed up as a child, bc we saw in the short she died as a a teenager, so i was like wtf is going on. we already knew that arle was a child in the house before and that she killed the previous knave, so tbh the only other thing that the short “spoiled” for me was knowing that arle is perrie
I love Fontaine so much. It’s great how every story has such a dark and mature tone. It’s unlike anything that came before in the game
Scaramouche? Rukkhadevata? Samsara?
@@MiyuKawasaki No discounting these but these are more fantastical. The conflict and problems in Fontaine are more aligned with real world problems. Serial killings, human trafficking, suicide, abuse.
@@teddy_scott36 there was a lot of death and suicide in inazuma too
Arlecchino Fr Said “you ain’t built for these streets”
I actually agree with you about the animated short to be put in the middle of the quest. I actually wasn't surprised by anything when doing her story quest. But then again it still is a quest that made me have roller coasters of emotions. It's sad, yet very interesting.
Wow, about the burning irminsul got me thinking, what if dottore extracted/kill arlecchino and used her flame to burn the tree? Because there is no way i think that arlecchino wants their children be effected by effect of the burning irminsul. 🤔
And the thing that arlecchino already thinking about choosing her heir for the house, got me thinking about that possibility.
Natlan will be the Travelers training Arc, cuz we weren't strong enough
one thing i learned is that this guy cannot stand 5 seconds of silence
If you dont like the reaction content maybe dont watch reaction content???? Like, hes supposed to be talking and reacting.
@@littlemayo4028 im just kidding bro, chill
@@abcabc1442 alr but all Im saying is that thats a pretty dumb comment/joke to make under reaction content
Dw I get what u saying lol,streamers also tend to look more at the chat than the game but oh well,I am used to it
@@littlemayo4028 let's just say he's doing it.....not very great
Lynnet's 'baka' in the JP dub is so cute T_T
bran was cooking with the arlecchino experiment with flames and dottore burning the irminsul, it's still gonna happen
fortunately, i evaded and hadnt seen the trailers that practically spoiled the whole story, so i ended up loving this quest 10x more
Yeah we are definitely dying in Natlan 💀
People who thought we would clap dottore regretting their decisions now 💀
Imagine Capitano bro 💀
The only thing the animated short exposed was Clervie's identity while watching the short afterwards would have completely ruined the novelty of experiencing the short since you already know everything that's going to happen. And inserting the short into the quest proper would have thrown off the pacing of the quest; at the very least, they would have to truncate the short to maybe just the fighting.
After the video: I just felt like as if I had watched a whole movie😂
It had tension, mystery, lore, amazing character building and a final big climax with a tear enducing ending after that...
If that's the power of number 4, imagine how much more powerful number 1 is and we're gonna find out because we're going to where he is next.
1:51:31 Bran: Remember this moment
Game: I'll remember
Bran: "I have C6 Neuvillette. It'll be fine."
Me: "I have C0 Neuvillette. It'll be fine."
My friend who mains Keqing for the 'CHALLENGE': "... Nah, I'd win."
XD
As someone who mains Aether, the challenge is actually quite enjoyable
Dammm harbinger is really something else bro....
Pantalone: That one crazy business man who manipulates teyvat economy....
Pucilena : A politician who spreading ideology and democrats across teyvat....
Arlecchino : Harbinger who in charge of orphanage organization in fontaine for many reasons....
Dottore : Psyco doctor who do experiment to all living things in teyvat for excellent result...( Recently in sumeru which is memory experiment)
Capitano : A captain of harbingers that lead an army to take pyro gnosis in natlan...
I play Genshin through a website. Poor quality, pixelated, lag. My cell phone is incompatible so I can't do anything.. when I saw about this Samsung I became more sad because I don't have money to buy it. I'm going to keep playing Genshin with terrible quality because I don't have the cost to buy a new cell phone. So every time I complete a mission I come here on Bran's channel to review the entire mission in better quality ❤
Unrelated...but as Natlan is approaching slowly, i was thinking. People keep talking about "oh we're gonna mess with resurrection, signora is gonna be back!" One, i hope not, but two...if she is indeed gonna be back, god, i can tolarate her atleast, i may appreciate a compromise of having her back in return of the horrible and painful death of the doctor, i genuinely hate his guts XD
About the video, great! I loved watching it, thank you Bran. Arlecchino is the most agressive type of "sassy but caring" fr
Arlecchino's flames burn memories. Irminsul is the collective memory and history of all of Teyvat. I think you might be on to something Bran!
crazy to think that arlecchino's flames might actually be able cause damage to irminsul on the same level that forbidden knowledge did - and is it a coincidence that they are both linkes to khaenri'ah??
"another outbreak of forbidden knowledge" occurred five hundred years ago (the cataclysm) that infected rukkha and required nahida to erase her memory completely from irminsul, and arle's curse is from khaenri'ah...
2:07:12
Daman Mills' Blade came out for a split second when he said that...
1:59:28 You know Perri was crying inside but the tears are vaporized before they can even be seen all thanks to Hell flames.
Malenia blade of miquella refference.. im glad hoyo pick that iconic "Surprise attack 0.1 second after cutscene"
“I am Arlecchino, Father of the Hearth, and I have never known defeat!” 😭
The thing is, we didn't see the traveler use a single thing of elemental power, it was mostly hust swinging his dull blade around
I believe just watching the animation wouldn't have been too much of a spoiler, the problem is analysing or watching the breakthroughs of it. XD
Yeah, I feel like a lot of the stuff in the animation was implied, and still ambiguous. The story quest gave a lot of context that was missing unless you’re a lore nerd that could connect the dots on your own.
Personally for me the best cutscene in the game
I love that Arlecchino doesn't even have a defeat line when you beat her as a boss. Because we never truly beat her in the game. Not only that, she just elegantly disappears from the battlefield instead of falls like Childe, Scara, and all the other bosses usually do.
I agree with your take, I personally wish they had saved the animated short to be released after the quest, at least a few days after. I'm glad to see many people didn't felt spoiled by it, but I did... especially because, from the animated short, I was sort of able to guess most of the twists the story took, especially when it comes to Clervie's sacrifice and Peruere's motivations.
It wasn't enough to make the quest not enjoyable, but it removed all the element of surprise. Lesson learned: not watching these teasers Hoyoverse releases after the patches drop.
Heloir could really get along with the doctor
the way she says "and what a sweet little daydream that is." is brilliant 🤣
As someone who still hasn't seen the animation and so learnt everything from the quest, the quest's reveal was still very predictable. The only thing I didn't manage to guess was how she'd cleanse the "rivers".
The fact that she was just toying with us
I like to imagine that if Clervie had found freedom after escaping the House of the Hearth, she'd have been gifted with an Anemo Vision :')
Stand proud traveler you are strong - Arlecchino
I wished Clervie's lumidouce necklace was a memento after the quest, so that we can take the necklace with us to travel around Teyvat as in bringing her around the world, just like Ruu's feather.
She keep saying "Window" because she's still stuck living in that scene we saw in the animation where she open the "window" and talk about the aurora in Snezhaya that she would love to watch it together with Arlec. It's the same with quest where we go into the book together with that one Melusine, even though we see the place as a lonely ruin, that Melusine perceived it different cause to her the scenery is actually a beautiful place with lots of flower and sunshine. So in here, the ghost Clervie perceived her surrounding different than us.
Arlecchino put the Traveler in a Genjutsu
She has the sharingan
BOB! DO SOMETHING! (Ashe....and Bran?) XD really excellent work Bob!
to expand what bran said about the flames that burns the memories, Dottore will most likely use Arlecchino's flames to burn Irminsul itself.
also, anyone noticed Arlecchino's virion after she transformed? she's enougt strong to manipulate a vision. something noone was able to do to this extent
Genshin is making us get ready for what is to come next. Dottore will not get any redemption and I guess things will get more dark in Natlan only. 1:45:17
Like really, I am really expecting to see Aurora's in Snezhnaya
I have the same sentiments about this quest.. It would have been absolutely mindblowing if we had no idea what was going on.. but we do because most of use have watched her Promotional Short Animation before this quest was even available.
I wanna know more about that crimson moon, as I’m pretty sure it’s the one in genshins reveal trailer with lumine running in front of it, I’m also pretty sure it’s the one in Ei’s plane of euthimiya too, moon sister connection possibly?
The Crimson Moon has to be some kind of harbinger of ill fate, cause it was also said to have appeared at the fall of Gurabad and Remuria. And that coupled with the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri'ah, who likely worshipped it, it has to have something to do with the system of fate that ties the people of Teyvat to a specific path through their constellations and possibly their Visions. Possibly it's part of the Heavenly Principles, or some other kind of watcher from Celestia... And since Arlecchino is implied to be a descendent of the Crimson Moon Dynasty, she must have inherited some of that cursed power.
I feel like Dottore would be executed by Arlecchino in the final battle.
44:04 this part had me laughing so bad ngl 😂
I want to see a Klee Heloir collab
I have a hunch that the child in the short was the one who died - shenzeva (something around those lines) the first child she adopted .
Bro I wanna see arle cry too!! 😭
she cried, just on the inside, or at least felt some sort of sad but hid it
@@Yuki_Ika7 yesss
It was so sad when arlecchino said goodbye to them and i cried for like 30 mins fr
They say "domain expansion" but that was litteraly tsukuyomi
Using Arlecchino's blood to burn the Irminsul definitely sounds like something dottore will do
This was a good quest . What made this quest a little bad is that most people already know the back story from the animationed story. Everything else was fine. 8/10
Clervie when the player turns off the lights in Enkanomiya : FINISH THAT STORY
One of my favorite story quests
I liked it very much
1:55:43 her voiced cracked just like when she said "Rosalyne died in a foreign land"
Actually, in russian «Stuja» means strong wind during very heavy snowfall (idk english word with the same meaning). So it seems to me that this has something to do with gnosis and its use. Sort of a metaphor for how serenely the snow would fall if not the strong wind.
Watching the animation first before the quest is the best choice, I would have not personally enjoyed and invested the quest with full immersion. The animation did not give everything and leaves some trails to be fully detailed out from the quest.
played this mission before seeing the animation. makes it hit harder.
after seeing this quest played 3 times i just realized
ARLECHINNO ONLY USED HER VISION!!
WHAT IS HER DELUSION!!!!
I think after she walks past the Traveler, you can see it on her back
1:46:14
The Gem on her back has the Fatui Symbol. Which means in this form, she's Using her Pyro delusion rather than Pyro Vision
THAT THUMBNAIL? MAJESTIC
She have a good story!
Shame i didn't get her on my birthday.
Also ashamed that i won't be around soon. This is the last year I'll be staying unfortunately.
Ooh I'm sorry to hear that, the best I could say is live your life to its fullest.
Damn that’s super sad…. I hope you have a great day all the way
Wait yeaaaaaaaa the Devs also confirmed that the burning irminsul thing IS going to happen after all so😭 I can't waittt
Ngl, cried playing through specifically the ending of this quest.
I love this quest to death, but I think this would've been way better played before you play the story...
I really wish they posted the animated short after the patch came out. I feel like we knew too much about the story because of the short, and there were so many questions not addressed that it left me feeling like the story wasn’t that great… when it’s actually pretty good over all! Just wish we found out something more about her powers and origins
I completely agree! Like we got no info on how she got her curse, and I would love to know where she really came from. I feel like that would have been more interesting to know about.
@@-irritatora-3998 I think discussing her character for now is too fast, Arlecchino honestly gives me the impression of an important character who will be relevant until the Khaenriah arc along with The Jester seeing how Hoyo treats her character like a golden child, seeing how she has the blood and curse of the ancient Crimson Moon dynasty and how her voiceline is like foreshadowing that she will draw her sword to the tsaritsa, fontaine's arc is not a stage for her character but only an opening for her character, i just hope hoyo wont ruin her character
@@daffafatih8669 That’s an interesting take, I hope it’s like that where this is only an introduction for her. If it’s not then…😬
@@daffafatih8669 I assumed something similar and I hope you’re right! She appears to have tons of connections to Khaenriah, even her voice line about Pierro hints at that. I guess because we had all the info about her past from the short it made it seem like the quest didn’t teach us anything new, but you make a good point that it could be too early for more!
A lot of people seem to have enjoyed having the short before because it made them feel more connected to Clervie, so as always, there’s two sides to this. Personally, it felt weird to have more info than the MC throughout the majority of the quest while they’re trying to figure out what’s up with Clervie and the House
@@-irritatora-3998honestly the fact that they’re finally revisiting cyno’s lore after more than a year and giving us answers to wtf powers he has with hermanubis makes me hopeful they’re going to revisit the curse thing w/ arle later. we’re due for a dainsleif interlude before 5.0, so maybe we’ll get more then, or even later in natlan when maybe we get more khaenriah stuff in the main archon quests or something
Lol, I just started doing a random sumeru quest with Jeht in it, so that one random reference reminded me of it
What was the reference