If you think about it, this whole 4.8 quest has been a big minecraft reference. We got spawned in a random location in a random world. And we had to go through all this quest to get to the "end" of the world. And we had to go through a portal to get to the "end" of the world. And there we had to fight a blocky dragon, which is the ender dragon. And meanwhile in this world, most things look like blocks and those toy people are also blocky. And nilou's magic is basically a crafting table. There are definitely way more references that i as a minecraft noob did not understand
It’s in the broken sea, on the island where there are 3 goddesses statues! If you follow one of the stars around one of the goddesses statues, you’ll be able to access the room with the summer event items!
@@619KJit’s in the broken sea, there’s an island there with 3 goddesses statues! If you follow one of the stars surrounding one of the statues it’ll lead you to a room below the island where you’ll be able to see stuff from the previous summer events
@@josewolf9884 Do you remember what he said when you do? I chose to go left thinking that most people would've disobeyed the narrator and that it'd be easy to find online what he says but... I was wrong.
There is possibly one more reference, that being a house with a big toy soldier sitting at the door in the Broken Sea part of the map. The house actually is the same as in "The Real Annapausis" in Fontaine (as in 1:1 model), and to get out you need to find flowers to blow up wind while in "The Real Annapausis", after completing the quest, dandelion appear at the fence entrance, so both have wind related flowers too
You missed a Mario Odyssey reference where in the metropole there’s a guy sitting on a bench and if you sit next to him he’ll say you’re not from around here and a chest is unlocked
While the stairs one possibly being Yugioh Abridged is really funny, I think that it might actually be a reference to the one scene from Howl's Moving Castle where they're walking up the stairs
The first reference I came across/noticed was the skyrim one and I was a little shocked but then I came across the aot one and I lost it. Dropped my controller and headphones due to how shocked I was because I didn't expect it.
Surprised you didn’t bring up the Disney reference when Barbaloth’s statue started turning. But I suppose that’s super obvious. Also, one could say that the Astral Express itself is a reference to the Galaxy Express 999. The train took you ‘on a journey to the stars’ after all.
Hi CatWithBlueHat, Can you please do a video explaining the "spoilers" . . . The Hexenzirkel, the ending, meeting with Hat guy & Albedo, and that weird AF Sumeru quest.
There is a frog that talks about "overcoming the limits" before you challenge it to a jumping contest. So far I haven't seen a video that recognizes this as an Easteregg to Black Clover T.T Yami, the leader of the black bulls, always says this as a kind of motivational saying...
Red light green light isn't a squid game reference, it's just a game ppl play. This is like ppl who hear "Can You feel My Heart" and say it's a reference to Giga Chad when it's just a song by "Bring Me The Horizon" In fact half of the "references" in the event aren't necessarily references they're just things/events. I know I'm complaining about the smallest things but still
Yeah, the Red Light Green Light game itself isn't a reference to Squid Game, it's more what happens in the game and how it's set up that is a reference to Squid Game, the toy being the ghost is wearing yellow while the other toy people are wearing blue and the first time the ghost turns and we have to freeze, there's the toy person rushing towards the ghost and tripped in the process, which that same thing happens in the scene in Squid Game as you saw in the clip shown here, except the guy in the Squid Game scene didn't trip over, he was shot and killed.
Another thing to add to the Squid Game reference, other versions of this mini game also has the ghost shooting glue at the other toy people to make them stuck, just like the Squid Game scene where every contestant that are caught moving are shot to death.
funny how around a few days before the event or a week or two before the event, my dad had me watch Forrest Gump so it was a funny coincidence for me :) also the second I heard the Narrator I immediately interpted it as a Stanley Parable reference. this was my very first event I experienced and I had a lot of fun!
It's pretty normal for people not to know that this squid game reference isn't the first time genshin is doing this. Because people don't explore. And most of the time the least explored areas are the areas added near the end of an region. The other time that genshin did this red light green light reference was in the underground/underwater area added in 4.6 (i forgot the name already😅) and it was with a flower and a bunch of squids (ironic that there were squids in a squid game reference)
@@Orange_boi333 Genshin has a lot of references since 1.0 But HSR reference more recent pop culture moments, then people think hsr was the first one doing it
Not sure whether it was intended or not, but I was also reminded of Pirates of the Caribbean with the 3rd part of the quest leading to the end of the world through falling down a huge waterfall
@annaairahala9462 you dont shoot anything in a regular game of red light green light. the point still stands. normally, you dont do any kinda sabotaging at all, just move forward.
Squid games didn't invent it but it is a common child's game that is played in Korea and also in many other countries just different wordplay. Specifically in Korea the seeker says "whose flowers have blossomed?"
@Dinofrogg but in genshin, it's supposed to be a reference to various popular media. and again, read. i never said 'squid game' or 'red light green light' was invented by that show's creators. this is about all the pop culture references sprinkled in simulanka. use your common sense. yes, it is an actual children's game, but it is undeniable that it is a reference to the show in simulanka, mostly because of "local rules." (using glue gun as a method of sabotage).
Squid Game "invented" being shot when losing though In the two available red light green light challenges, one of the little guys each would get close then get shot with the glue cannon
@@jnliewmichael4235 only in one of the challenges was someone "shot" with glue and no the person didn't even get caught. The glue was shot without even turning around.
i loved this summer event so so much. i wish it was permanent. truly the most fun i had in a summer event, and this is saying a lot because last year was SO good too! 😭
Had they put the past summer event mementos somewhere unmissable or easily seen I would've considered it a negative cause it's a cheap way to evoke emotion out of people, but it's located in a forgotten corner of the map and very well hidden so it became a win in my book.
Idk if its only me but whenever i hear the bgm in the forest, it reminds me of spyro then later in the story we discover durin like in my mind that was wild.
@CatWithBlueHat Its not a reference, but an interesting coincidence. In the final cutscene after we defeat the dragon, we heard a dialoge between "M" and "B". "M" want to create a child and then "B" call her "Anya". Well, "Anya" means "Mother" in Hungarian. So, Anya = Mother -> M
The whole event frok the start seemed like a Paper Mario reference. Restoring colour: Color Splash Getting the stars: Thousand Year Door And the dragon... well I actually don't know what that could reference in Paper Mario... Land's End from Super Mario RPG. Sure.
The elden ring reference is a little deeper - the mechanic of a locked door that you have to go the long way around to unlock, creating a shortcut, is common in that game
@@tieft navia nearly reunited with her parents in the primordial sea (luckily melus and silver came in clutch) Himeko since honkai impact ch 9 has her canon event death flags flying between her boobas in other games I don't like where this is going
It's 100% hsr reference. Same story as the actual astral express (unused for years then fixed), looks the same, same animation as hsr loading screen, AERIAL express
0:17 i didn't get this reference at the time (i still dont. Idk what that scene is) but when i was sitting there, i actually thought it was a pretty cute interaction. I got kinda sad that he was sitting there all alone and after he finished talking i just got up and opened the chest and ran off. The part at the end when he said thanks for listening to me was pretty cute too
I wonder if we'll have another Summer event like this..... I don't remember having 1.6 and 2.8 references in 3.8 event and all..... Or 1.6 reference in 2.8 either Usually we remember the older ones with newer ones when we bud farewell to the whole thing no?... Makes me wonder if....if this is the last such patch? 😢
I think it's because the writing style generally changed. I noticed that the Traveler and Paimon had a more comedic duo relationship in events for a few patches now, compared to their previously more straitlaced relationship. The style of the events also triggers a bit more nostalgia and emotion-provoking stuff than just a story continuation. A style used often in HI3.
If you think about it, this whole 4.8 quest has been a big minecraft reference. We got spawned in a random location in a random world. And we had to go through all this quest to get to the "end" of the world. And we had to go through a portal to get to the "end" of the world. And there we had to fight a blocky dragon, which is the ender dragon. And meanwhile in this world, most things look like blocks and those toy people are also blocky. And nilou's magic is basically a crafting table. There are definitely way more references that i as a minecraft noob did not understand
@@TravelerSaniar the biggest Minecraft vibes for me were in the mining location
This! I fully thought of minecraft lol
Yep totally Minecraft, it wasn't obvious for me at first but when we get to the broken sea part of the map.. yep it's legit screaming skyblock
It does give off minecraft vibe! I was just in the forest, looking around and it really felt like everything is blocky, like minecraft 🙂↕️
There's also the ink drink the paper animals drink which in order to make it, you need to collect ingredients for it and mix it together.
Seeing the summer event items from the past 3 years brings back many memories.
Where is it?
Im so scared when saw all of that.. it's like a sign that we wont get any summer event after this and going to darker place
It’s in the broken sea, on the island where there are 3 goddesses statues! If you follow one of the stars around one of the goddesses statues, you’ll be able to access the room with the summer event items!
@@619KJit’s in the broken sea, there’s an island there with 3 goddesses statues! If you follow one of the stars surrounding one of the statues it’ll lead you to a room below the island where you’ll be able to see stuff from the previous summer events
The good old days of Golden Archipelago when summer event stories were about the characters and getting to know them more, not just NPC fluff.
the secret room hit me so hard i love all the summer patches
Devs must really love Yu-Gi-Oh. There's also The Godfather reference with origami hamsters as the boss
especially the Abridged version lol
The Stanley Parable reference absolutely killed me when I first noticed it
@@dz1rkys specially when you go to the right when the narrator tells you to go to the left
@@josewolf9884 That's when i realised that it was a stanley parable reference. The first sentences i was like "?" and then "!!"
@@josewolf9884 Do you remember what he said when you do? I chose to go left thinking that most people would've disobeyed the narrator and that it'd be easy to find online what he says but... I was wrong.
@@Lazer_Specter watch jimmy Chen gaming 12 easter egg video to watch the dialogue.
@@Lazer_Specter dealing with the same problem too lmao. if someone knows please share
It's funny that almost no one noticed "Singin' in the rain" reference. I thought i was the only one who noticed that
I was surprised, I thought that was one of the most obvious since it's referenced so often. Not even the first time in Genshin.
I’m so bummed that I missed that reference when I was running around metropole. 😂 I love singin in the rain!
There is possibly one more reference, that being a house with a big toy soldier sitting at the door in the Broken Sea part of the map. The house actually is the same as in "The Real Annapausis" in Fontaine (as in 1:1 model), and to get out you need to find flowers to blow up wind while in "The Real Annapausis", after completing the quest, dandelion appear at the fence entrance, so both have wind related flowers too
You missed a Mario Odyssey reference where in the metropole there’s a guy sitting on a bench and if you sit next to him he’ll say you’re not from around here and a chest is unlocked
LMAO I ran into him and then got confused when a chest unlocked noise pop up
While the stairs one possibly being Yugioh Abridged is really funny, I think that it might actually be a reference to the one scene from Howl's Moving Castle where they're walking up the stairs
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT TOO
I thought it was kung fu panda personally when po has to climb those stairs
I thought of kung fu panda as well, but really there's so many possibilities that it could be anything
The first reference I came across/noticed was the skyrim one and I was a little shocked but then I came across the aot one and I lost it. Dropped my controller and headphones due to how shocked I was because I didn't expect it.
I think the aot one is on the train station in constellation metropole, left from the teleport waypoint. The picture taking toy.
Loved the Secret Room and Forrest Grump references. I feel so old now that I Played his Quest.
one more that was missed out. Slimes and fungi that reference the main characters of this update.
Again???
@@shanedoesyoutube8001yeah they are in the mining area near the collapsed beacon (theres the world quest there as well)
Surprised you didn’t bring up the Disney reference when Barbaloth’s statue started turning. But I suppose that’s super obvious.
Also, one could say that the Astral Express itself is a reference to the Galaxy Express 999. The train took you ‘on a journey to the stars’ after all.
I felt so old when I thought that but I'm glad I'm not the only one! That's the FIRST anime that came to my mind when I saw that!
Hi CatWithBlueHat, Can you please do a video explaining the "spoilers"
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The Hexenzirkel, the ending, meeting with Hat guy & Albedo, and that weird AF Sumeru quest.
The narrator one made me thought of slay the princess but the stanley parable works too
I also thought of Slay the Princess, since the style of voice fit that more than Stanley Parable, in my opinion.
It's absolutely Stanley Parable as the narrator in that game has a British accent and gets upset when you deviate from the path, as well.
i caught most of these, my favorites being the stanley parable and forrest gump references, buts it’s so cool to see there’s even more that i missed
Out of all the references, it was the AoT one that did it for me.❤ Quite a few of the VA are working on Genshin already.
@@a.j.cookie9735 JP Fontaine especially
There is a frog that talks about "overcoming the limits" before you challenge it to a jumping contest. So far I haven't seen a video that recognizes this as an Easteregg to Black Clover T.T Yami, the leader of the black bulls, always says this as a kind of motivational saying...
For old players like me, the balls, the raven, and the car… oh man 🥰
NOT COTTON EYE JOE 😭😭
gedigedagadago
He would have been married a long time ago
The Yu-Gi-Oh! reference was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged reference, which makes it even cooler.
Red light green light isn't a squid game reference, it's just a game ppl play. This is like ppl who hear "Can You feel My Heart" and say it's a reference to Giga Chad when it's just a song by "Bring Me The Horizon"
In fact half of the "references" in the event aren't necessarily references they're just things/events. I know I'm complaining about the smallest things but still
Yeah, the Red Light Green Light game itself isn't a reference to Squid Game, it's more what happens in the game and how it's set up that is a reference to Squid Game, the toy being the ghost is wearing yellow while the other toy people are wearing blue and the first time the ghost turns and we have to freeze, there's the toy person rushing towards the ghost and tripped in the process, which that same thing happens in the scene in Squid Game as you saw in the clip shown here, except the guy in the Squid Game scene didn't trip over, he was shot and killed.
The context from this summer event content is just simply movie references. No problem at all.
Another thing to add to the Squid Game reference, other versions of this mini game also has the ghost shooting glue at the other toy people to make them stuck, just like the Squid Game scene where every contestant that are caught moving are shot to death.
I thought the stairs one was a reference to kung fu panda
The amount of references in this, and i thought i was cultured a bit, but even that bit is just a grain of sand in the desert
funny how around a few days before the event or a week or two before the event, my dad had me watch Forrest Gump so it was a funny coincidence for me :) also the second I heard the Narrator I immediately interpted it as a Stanley Parable reference. this was my very first event I experienced and I had a lot of fun!
It's pretty normal for people not to know that this squid game reference isn't the first time genshin is doing this. Because people don't explore. And most of the time the least explored areas are the areas added near the end of an region. The other time that genshin did this red light green light reference was in the underground/underwater area added in 4.6 (i forgot the name already😅) and it was with a flower and a bunch of squids (ironic that there were squids in a squid game reference)
This! This is the true squid game reference! I'm surprised not more people are talking abt this but ur right, people don't explore this area much.
so cool to see genshin referencing all these cool things like hsr
@@Orange_boi333 Genshin has a lot of references since 1.0
But HSR reference more recent pop culture moments, then people think hsr was the first one doing it
Too busy hating the game and not seeing the detail they actually put in the game. @@onetwoand3
Hoyo: How many different-unique references you want?
GI: Yes
Meme addict HSR: Ayo when can I have them too???
i swear, HYV always make the best summertime content
Not sure whether it was intended or not, but I was also reminded of Pirates of the Caribbean with the 3rd part of the quest leading to the end of the world through falling down a huge waterfall
seeing the items from the other summer events was actually so nostalgic. just look at the harpastum and thinking "damn this shit was three years ago"
It was a good Limited map. But the only pain was Metropole Trails.
Can’t wait for your lore story on this summertime event @cat :)
I love the past summer events easter eggs. brings back so many memories
I give up SQUID GAVE DID NOT INVENT RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT🤯
Squid game invented shooting the losers in red light green light @osmanthuswine5336
@@mrburpmud The guy literally shot a glue gun blindly behind themselves, that's completely different from squid game shooting the losers.
@annaairahala9462 you dont shoot anything in a regular game of red light green light. the point still stands. normally, you dont do any kinda sabotaging at all, just move forward.
Squid games didn't invent it but it is a common child's game that is played in Korea and also in many other countries just different wordplay. Specifically in Korea the seeker says "whose flowers have blossomed?"
@Dinofrogg but in genshin, it's supposed to be a reference to various popular media. and again, read. i never said 'squid game' or 'red light green light' was invented by that show's creators. this is about all the pop culture references sprinkled in simulanka. use your common sense.
yes, it is an actual children's game, but it is undeniable that it is a reference to the show in simulanka, mostly because of "local rules." (using glue gun as a method of sabotage).
Why are people acting as if Squid Game invented one two three lol
Squid Game "invented" being shot when losing though
In the two available red light green light challenges, one of the little guys each would get close then get shot with the glue cannon
@@jnliewmichael4235 only in one of the challenges was someone "shot" with glue and no the person didn't even get caught. The glue was shot without even turning around.
Yooo if it isn't the cultured Ask-Me-For-Directions Arnold! 👏👏👏👏
My absolute favourite is Forrest Gump. I love that he also gives you a chest! 🥰
What about kirara's yoink???? It was definitely a reference to yoink guy (Fishingarrett)
Ooh, that was neat. I caught some of these, but most didn't ring the right bell. Thanks for sharing!
One of the figurines from the toytanaim mines is called "heigh-ho" and its a miner. (Snow White and the 7 dwarfs reference)
7:06 oh.. I miss this so much
the "squid game" reference isn't actually a reference tho, it's just a game that children play
But they shot you tho
Since it references movies. It is actually considered a squid game reference
There is one with a gun and shoot one toy with red glue
it's definitely a squid game reference, unless children shoot the loser with a gun...
@@glory_m99 idk we had water guns sometimes when i played as a kid
@@voxgoomba2745reach/cope
i loved this summer event so so much. i wish it was permanent. truly the most fun i had in a summer event, and this is saying a lot because last year was SO good too! 😭
how did you know all of these, you blew my mind man
Hoyo devs were having fun
I love tiny bits like this
it brings back memories, are you planning on doing more “things you didn't know” series?
The fact that they put Sakanade out of all of Bleach's zanpakutos is awesome
There was a fellowship of the ring reference when you did the quest with the three dudes, during the narrators, narration.
Had they put the past summer event mementos somewhere unmissable or easily seen I would've considered it a negative cause it's a cheap way to evoke emotion out of people, but it's located in a forgotten corner of the map and very well hidden so it became a win in my book.
6:37 completely unrelated to the video, but this ost that you played here really reminds me of the ost playing in dreemflux reef in star rail
Idk if its only me but whenever i hear the bgm in the forest, it reminds me of spyro then later in the story we discover durin like in my mind that was wild.
The references were so funny 😭😭😭
6:46 Self-insert? NOWAYING
If only they hired the actual VA of the Stanley's Parable Narrator for the Kirara side mission. That would've been cool 🤣
The Astral Express also reminded me of Galaxy Express 999.
the whole stanley parable quest just sent me
@CatWithBlueHat Its not a reference, but an interesting coincidence. In the final cutscene after we defeat the dragon, we heard a dialoge between "M" and "B". "M" want to create a child and then "B" call her "Anya". Well, "Anya" means "Mother" in Hungarian. So, Anya = Mother -> M
Another point for puss in boots is that later they do call the traveller the marquis de carabas like in the original story
The whole event frok the start seemed like a Paper Mario reference.
Restoring colour: Color Splash
Getting the stars: Thousand Year Door
And the dragon... well I actually don't know what that could reference in Paper Mario... Land's End from Super Mario RPG. Sure.
Maybe seeing the past summer event reference because this is (maybe) the last summer event ... Just a hunch.
technically the clip is from Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series, and if that's true, then that makes it even better
The elden ring reference is a little deeper - the mechanic of a locked door that you have to go the long way around to unlock, creating a shortcut, is common in that game
06:47 I think this is actually referencing Galaxy Express 999 not HSR
Yea I think the General idea is from that anime.
Nop its referencing star rail, there is a line that navia talks about the train, is the same line that himeko used.
@@tieft And Navia calls it the "Aerial Express", which also fits.
@@tieft navia nearly reunited with her parents in the primordial sea (luckily melus and silver came in clutch)
Himeko since honkai impact ch 9 has her canon event death flags flying between her boobas in other games
I don't like where this is going
It's 100% hsr reference. Same story as the actual astral express (unused for years then fixed), looks the same, same animation as hsr loading screen, AERIAL express
Also, I think the tale of 3 goddesses/witches who created Simulanka screams Legend of Zelda Hyrule creation lore
Surely undeniable proof that Alice has visited our Earth and also loves a meme or two...
Would have been nice if we had some archon quest references too.
I sometimes feel that it is our trip in Teyvat summary 😂 a bit mixing, but still... you can find a lot of similarities.
M really loves pop culture references that she puts these in the simulanka
5:22 Deadass thought when I got here, "Why do I get the vibe of elder ring?"
Spirited Away was also referenced by one of the music tracks
0:17 i didn't get this reference at the time (i still dont. Idk what that scene is) but when i was sitting there, i actually thought it was a pretty cute interaction. I got kinda sad that he was sitting there all alone and after he finished talking i just got up and opened the chest and ran off. The part at the end when he said thanks for listening to me was pretty cute too
Amazing details from
Puss -in-boots- with hat, as always 😊
So it really was a death note reference. Thought it was just me😂
The aot one hurted😭
So basically, this Genshin Impact event has the most pop culture references we've ever gotten in the game so far.
You know i thought some of these scenes seemed awfully familiar while playing the quest but I just couldn't put my finger on it
They are going all out with all these references. May it be new or old stuffs.
Imagine Nahida nuking the the sentinel duo from off-field lmao
Also, Wanderer and Dvalin referencing Moana and Te Kā
We have the star rail at home
Since theyve referenced the previous summer events here. Watch as we dont get a summer patch at 5.0
I only get the Spririted Away reference during the game.
there's another water train in OnePiece
also there're way more flying trains than HSR...
I am surprised, i didn't see the spiderman meme reference in this video. The one with three of them pointing at each other
its litrally in this video
ima miss this place alot😭
Waiting for the summer event lore video 👀
Simulanka is one big reference 😂
I wonder if we'll have another Summer event like this..... I don't remember having 1.6 and 2.8 references in 3.8 event and all..... Or 1.6 reference in 2.8 either
Usually we remember the older ones with newer ones when we bud farewell to the whole thing no?...
Makes me wonder if....if this is the last such patch? 😢
5.8 Mond expansion before Snezhnaya. Its my guess
@@onetwoand3 5.4 no?? Many people saying like we got Chenyu vale in 4.4, we getting Mondstadt expansion in 5.4
I think it's because the writing style generally changed. I noticed that the Traveler and Paimon had a more comedic duo relationship in events for a few patches now, compared to their previously more straitlaced relationship.
The style of the events also triggers a bit more nostalgia and emotion-provoking stuff than just a story continuation. A style used often in HI3.
Remember when our boat was sentient?
Kosikemaru is the boat's name I think
@@halifax_2015it’s Kosekimaru.
or is it Kesokimura?
Having to sit next to forest gump made me laugh.
best summer event so far imo, it felt like the culmination of all of them and Simulanka is an awesome place
I find it a bit funny how Kirara react when she is called a cat. I mean, wasn't nekomata a cat in a first place?
the abridged yu-gi-oh no way hahahaha
I remember that talk from 2.8 when Arnold tried to rizz up Mona
Got most of these!
Ver esto en unos años mas va a ser fuerte! ya da nostalgia
when I see stairs, I always thought of Final Fantasy VII hehe
4:19 Is this Gegagedigedagedago reference
3:10 someone i know in Super Liminal Narrator