Despite Soulblazers event story being "simple", it was a great demonstration of Hoyo's new philosophy of incorporating it's worldbuilding into the story
I'm sure a good number of people have a weird feeling after the soulblazers quests. It was a basic level event quest, but for some reason it felt far better than it normally would have been.
This is because instead of cranking out new NPCS that no one cares about, Hoyo is finally being smart and using previously known NPCS and playable characters to their advantage.
> We are introduced to three new NPCS at the start of the quest. However, one of them is NOT new. Arlani has been around since 1.0, and has popped up again a few times throughout the patches.
> The introductions the the events were not done by NPCS, but playable characters. It makes perfect sense for the hide and seek game to be handled by the children. Two of them were even the "vendors" to start the event.
> I know people wanted to see amber interact with Yoimiya, but it makes **way** more sense for Amber to interact with Yanfei. This is because Yanfei has a consistent relationship with Amber's bff, Eula.
> The traveler actually decided to finally use his fucking connections to his advantage, by going to Miko to grab first edition prints of the soulblazer saga.
> The playable characters sitting around are not just for show. Mika yaps quite a bit about Lohen, and I am convinced he will be playable at this point cause this is the third time we heard about him this patch. Amber even introduces a brand new name called Gretel, who is her new apprentice outrider. So basically, from two different characters, we learn of two potentially new playable characters.
> They went out of they to mention the lack of Ella Musk in the library when they went there.
> We learn that Minnie is Patton's much younger sister. This means that Nora is Minnie's Niece.
> And finally, The race was hosted by Draff, who is Diona's father
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So basically. far less unmemorable characters and moments because it is driven by either characters we know about, characters that have connections with others we do know, and said characters have more of a purpose.
Hopefully Hoyo keeps doing this instead of churning out more generic NPCS to handle things.
This is because instead of cranking out new NPCS that no one cares about, Hoyo is finally being smart and using previously known NPCS and playable characters to their advantage.
> We are introduced to three new NPCS at the start of the quest. However, one of them is NOT new. Arlani has been around since 1.0, and has popped up again a few times throughout the patches.
> The introductions the the events were not done by NPCS, but playable characters. It makes perfect sense for the hide and seek game to be handled by the children. Two of them were even the "vendors" to start the event.
> I know people wanted to see amber interact with Yoimiya, but it makes **way** more sense for Amber to interact with Yanfei. This is because Yanfei has a consistent relationship with Amber's bff, Eula.
> The traveler actually decided to finally use his fucking connections to his advantage, by going to Miko to grab first edition prints of the soulblazer saga.
> The playable characters sitting around are not just for show. Mika yaps quite a bit about Lohen, and I am convinced he will be playable at this point cause this is the third time we heard about him this patch. Amber even introduces a brand new name called Gretel, who is her new apprentice outrider. So basically, from two different characters, we learn of two potentially new playable characters.
> They went out of they to mention the lack of Ella Musk in the library when they went there.
> We learn that Minnie is Patton's much younger sister. This means that Nora is Minnie's Niece.
> And finally, The race was hosted by Draff, who is Diona's father
***
So basically. far less unmemorable characters and moments because it is driven by either characters we know about, characters that have connections with others we do know, and said characters have more of a purpose.
Hopefully Hoyo keeps doing this instead of churning out more generic NPCS to handle things.
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They've been doing that since Fontaine iirc. Lepine-Pauline was a recurring NPC for 3 events that spanned across Fontaine and Natlan.
A lot of differents voiced interactions, like Lisa showing up, or Amber and Yanfei bonding. I really liked Minnie, she's just a regular human and you want to cheer for her and her goals despite her limitations.
#crazy
Later it became "help! I don't want to be arrested!" Then "I need a j*b to survive in Inazuma!"
Then "I'm a bad student! I want to be locked up away so that I don't need to write papers ever again!" Being so emotionally unstable to the point that TREASURE HOARDERS feel bad and kept a distance.
Truly an NPC that shows the ups and downs of student life
She has bad luck in academics & in exploration
Last i rememver of her though, she gave up her thesis in Sumeru and went off with bandits or something. Always wondered what happened to her.
Glad to see her again!
I admit i tend to dialogue skip most daily commissions.
Ill have to go back and look for her!
Cuz I sure don't recall that, but maybe I never did it.
I jokingly asked them if I could make a career in painting, and they had the same reaction as Minnie’s parents. Later, they stopped paying my painting classes and told me to focus more on my studies as I started high school. I stopped painting after that, and I’ve never properly painted since.
I’m currently working in a field I like, but sometimes I still wonder how my life would have turned out if I had chosen painting as my career.
I’m confused by your point. Minnie is the main character in the story event and she is a new NPC cranked out for an event that no one cares about. Yes , we find out she’s connected to other Mondstadt NPCs but she’s never been mentioned before and she seems completely insignificant.
For me the previous Sumeru event was the type of story event I hope Hoyo do more of. That was a story event featuring primarily playable characters, gave us new extremely relevant desert lore, was connected to Nefer, Dottore and also linked into the current AQ. The only critique I had of the Sumeru event was I wish it had been longer with an action element or cut scene.