Yeah this actually blew my mind....I'm mad I never realized this...
aescepthicc2026-01-25 01:39
I remember thinking about it back in Fontaine Narcissencreuz WQ, when the first theories emerged based on Mary-Ann and Sandrone's appearance, and going "Mary-Annette, hehe, seems legit"
HumsterMKI2026-01-25 02:22
Ann it surprising!
wrightosaur2026-01-25 04:14
Makes you wonder who the original Lyn or Neuvil was 🤔
UltG2026-01-25 09:36
That’s a Cyno-level pun
FirTree_r2026-01-25 10:42
Marionnette is a french word that dates back from old french. It's based on the name Marie or Marion and the suffix '-ette' (that is used to describe something small). It's closer to Marion (a very popular name in France) than Mary-Ann imho
DevolayS2026-01-25 11:55
It's Genshin, they definitely used the name Mary Ann intentionally to make it similar but not too obvious at first glance. There are no coincidences in Genshin (and that's why I love it, there's always so much thought put into this stuff)
SectorApprehensive582026-01-25 11:50
dammit. I completely missed this like I missed Manny Quinn in Two and a half men
lost-in-translation_2026-01-26 08:07
oh-
alexrussoshyper2026-01-25 19:40
Wait now I feel dumb
Scion-7-Dawn2026-01-25 01:06
I’m saving for the 6th version
LivingASlothsLife2026-01-25 01:14
I'm gonna make Marionette my 2nd ever limited C6 when she >!does whatever back up plan she had saved with her core. Hopefully it doesn't change her character/personality too much as thats my favorite part about her!<
Sandrone is a peak character imo and deserves the best. The fact her harbinger title is tied to Narzissenkreuz Ordo WQ is such a cool detail
kokko6932026-01-25 01:46
I think that you can expect the same change of design as scaramoosh Vs hat dude
LivingASlothsLife2026-01-25 02:11
Ill take that as a W seeing as Don Sombrero is a really good character that is simply Scaramouche whose gone through great character development
Organic-Army-90462026-01-25 05:58
i agree, after all it was don sombrero who put us on nilou’s lap in simulanka
BobbyWibowo2026-01-25 09:00
at first i was wondering why the sudden nilou pivot, then i looked at the poster
Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo2026-01-25 02:51
Sandrone is 100% going to be playable. I can't wait for >!her to-- What... Wait WHAT? The Fontaine Institute has placed her core into a cyborg made from Capitano's body and Pulonia, and she's the greatest Geo user of all time?!?!?!<
Nah, but I really hope >!she remains herself.!< We don't have enough rude shithead characters, and I live for them. The scenes with Scaramouche and her were some of my favorite dialogue scenes in the AQ.
oneevilchicken2026-01-25 04:32
Just had to reload her neural cloud into a new frame.
Aiyyogxoto2026-01-25 01:20
le peak WQ ✋️😐🤚
Rulhado2026-01-25 01:26
Many-Ann
plitox2026-01-25 01:34
I think we can agree that Narsissenkreuz was one of the best WQ series in this game. And a strong case for WQ series to be voiced.
Present-Permit-61292026-01-25 01:38
I hate that they move away from this type of WQ. But its nice that they remember it and seems to like it.
Low_Artist_76632026-01-25 02:04
Well, the whole point of repeating it in Nodkrai is that people skipped it.
Zrva_V32026-01-25 02:09
My main beef with Narssizenkreuz WQ was how scattered it was. Unless you looked up a guide, it was possible to play the quests in an order that would have you confused.
RoyalJanissary2026-01-25 02:57
I would argue that's what make it an amazing quest. It fits the overall theme of Fontaine, which is to solve a mystery. The story of Narssizenkreuz was a massive puzzle, we collect all the pieces (caterpillar quest, mary ann quest, seymour quest) and then piece it together during the finale. It feels so satisfying to finally put everything together. Although it is very hard to keep track/remember everything, which is why I always recommend to watch a recap video, even after you finished the quest (I recommend ashikai's video)
PH4N70M_Z0N32026-01-25 06:30
It is the best quest because I was doing quests randomly and I would find similar character.
I did some other quests before. So my mind was officially blown to bits when the dog was revealed as Seymore.
I was like ain't no fuckin way.
To this date, Narssizenkreuz was more of a WORLD quest than world QUEST.
FlyingRencong2026-01-25 09:15
It's the most satisfying quest, especially after I pieced together and realized the 4.0 quests are part of a bigger story. It really felt like we're uncovering some conspiracy lol
PerrythePlatypus712026-01-25 04:15
I think I fucked up my sequence. I was quite lost in some of the stories.
And this reminded me. The fancy sword? I haven't R5 it yet. Need to collect the stuff
Lianidis2026-01-26 09:00
And then there's me: what fancy sword...
TorHKU2026-01-25 04:22
I'm not sure if I did the quests in the right order, but from what I remember I think I still would have been confused.
I mean, I got the gist of what was going on, but a lot of the relations from old people to the newer/still living people flew over my head, and the whole "Natural Philosophy" think was just pure yappage to my ears.
hofodomo2026-01-25 04:37
I started playing in 3.8, and didn't even get to Fontaine until all of its regions were released. So imagine mixing in the Narssizenkreuz WQs along with *all the other 4.X WQs* and not knowing what's what, and not knowing which region should come first, then after, etc.
I really wish I knew a [quest guide like](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19KYfTSNpTNXCvwbcPeN3T9Cylc0AaOIqwNysmFqOmWY/edit?usp=sharing) this even existed when I started playing.
Zrva_V32026-01-25 09:46
I started playing in 4.4 so that pretty much happened to me as well. I just decided to look up Minsleif's guide...
Whilyam2026-01-25 05:41
I still haven't done it because I can't find one of the quests and I can't be bothered to go through the caterpillar quest.
Zrva_V32026-01-25 09:48
Caterpillar quest was my favorite tbh
Shamshishamash2026-01-25 08:33
Is there even an optimal order of them?
I think I had to look up the Caterpillar quest because I hadn't found it on my own and didn't know how to continue from before. Which I found annoying.
Dessidy2026-01-25 08:52
The recommended order by Minsleif is mentioned in this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/1q90zvs/guide_for_fontaines_major_world_quests_related_to/
Discopandda2026-01-26 04:39
To this day I KINDA have NO IDEA of what happened. I just figured out all the quests were related when I suddenly entered a room and me, robot doggo and cool hilichurl started making plans together
Vendetta19472026-01-25 05:20
Little one's quest was so good. But Nod Krai has ....no great world quests. Why did this happen?
Shamshishamash2026-01-25 08:24
I like the smaller seemingly not connected quests nod krai has, which all give those artefacts of Reed Miller. I haven't explored the new island yet, so I don't know if those concluded yet.
Vendetta19472026-01-25 09:06
I did, while the lore of Reed Miller was definitely interesting, it wasn't even close to what the legendary Aranara quest presented, or even old Inazuma quests presented. A diluted questline doesn't make a world quest great.
Ke5_Jun2026-01-26 04:58
The only really memorable one for me was the Netochka one (Shoemaker’s Children go Barefoot). I’m pretty sure the main reason is that it’s the only one that didn’t force me into an interaction with an NPC (only Paimon asking me to open the chest) so I could actually start that quest on my own terms.
That’s my main gripe with Genshin’s quests in general; the majority of them whisk you away from whatever exploration you were doing and yell “LOOK AND ME AND PLAY MY WHOLE QUEST” instead of letting the player choose when to start it. And it’s gotten really bad in Nod Krai, with most of them forcing you into them.
And I imagine it’s the main reason why so many players just skip through them; they’re essentially being held hostage until they do the starting sequences when they want to do something else.
There is one WQ on the new island (the doomsday bunker one) that has its quest trigger tied to interacting with an object, and that’s literally all I want from Genshin’s quests - a **manual** way to start them.
Sky-Roshy2026-01-25 02:07
the profile pic and banner you get from completing that WQ is the one I'm still using today. Ever since Fontaine, they have improved the progression mechanics for WQ and added various gimmicks here and there, but the Narsissenkreuz WQ series is still my favorite.
Hope we can bump into the gang again soon
seninn2026-01-25 08:14
I have literally never seen another person in coop using the Formless Society avatar. I thought I was the only one.
NeoLedah2026-01-25 02:12
I skipped the entirety of it can anyone fill me up
plitox2026-01-25 02:29
[Minsleif can explain it better than most](https://youtu.be/CZTndTCNdGE). Stop skipping quests.
GetFiltered2026-01-25 04:03
If it was worth playing Hoyo themselves wouldn't treat it as filler.
Neospanner2026-01-25 04:26
They absolutely would.
Making the big world quests required would drive away players who aren't as interested in the story content. The only quests they make required serve double duty as advertisements for the characters they're selling. As a business, they need these customers.
They provide more quests than just the ads because a large portion of the player base DOES love the story content. Deeper, more interesting stories for the players that want them.
A big part of the reason we even have Nod-Krai is that they weren't able to balance this as well as they'd hoped. There was too much stuff that was important to the main plot - including Narssizenkreutz.
LaserPaperSeller2026-01-25 04:59
World quests in Genshin are not fillers. Half of Sumeru is locked behind world quests. They are important equally.
GetFiltered2026-01-25 05:13
Half of Sumeru is a filler. More than half actually. By far the most obnoxious region to explore, can't walk 10 meters without running into yet another quest locked area.
If world quests were important Hoyo would have voiced them. Clearly they themselves don't consider them worthy of that. That's all that needs to be said
LaserPaperSeller2026-01-25 05:24
So your sole criteria of important quests is being voiced. I guess I can agree to that because Lepine Pauline is peak and and who the hell cares about Amun and Nabu Malikata.
GetFiltered2026-01-25 06:17
It really goes to show how shitty and irrelevant WQs are if even Pauline gets a priority over them.
NeoLedah2026-01-25 10:16
I... actually agree entirely with you. And I understand why people are downvoting you, usually I get the same treatment when I start spitting truths
Thankfully they seem to have learned from mistakes like that, and we've been getting treated quite well with 6.x
08Dreaj082026-01-25 03:24
[Recap by Ashikai](https://youtu.be/3022fhGGJLc)
Ryuunoru2026-01-25 15:04
No.
NeoLedah2026-01-25 16:49
Aw dangit
Chadzuma2026-01-25 02:41
The reason the big world quests can be so good is specifically that you don't need to pay and coordinate a bunch of voice actors' studio time for each line so they literally just get to go nuts and say yeah write and design literally whatever you want drop all the ultra hyperluminal lore it doesn't matter you can do it. Freedom. Many of the greatest RPGs ever are unvoiced, you don't need acting if the prose is good enough.
I would have like Talochard and Curve's quest to be voiced though, as it's structured much more like a typical story quest. And hearing Talochard in all the different languages. Like in the English localization they've got her ultra sassy, but then when I hear Chard Lombro's voice with the JP dub it sounds like they wrote her ultra-turbo bratty instead and now I wanna find some Japanese wiki and read what her lines were like. It's just a quest that's far more focused on acting and the character performance rather than unveiling the overarching world and the distant past like many of the other larger world quests do.
LunarLoom212026-01-25 10:29
Exactly. If they were voiced they'd probably want them to appeal to a broader base rather than people who don't mind reading and enjoy lore. So on the one hand I'd like them voiced. On the other hand you might see them drop in quality were that the case.
alvenestthol2026-01-25 11:26
Really niche Japanese games with total audience less than the number of active Genshin wiki editors get to be full-voiced
They can just drop the English dub if that's difficult to arrange
Vaiolette-Westover2026-01-25 12:17
Voice acting only adds quality when the content is structured and written for it.
World quests are written in a more esoteric and bookish way.
They are visual novels with gameplay more than voiced content which are written like screenplays.
You're missing the point of why they aren't voiced. Only certain parts of the big WQs actually work for voicing.
Nero_PR2026-01-25 03:53
Aranyaka it is another world quest that's closely tied to the AQ. It was damn long, but it would have hit harder and made it less monotonous if it was voiced.
These quests were just too good to be left unvoiced when they feel so important down the line.
Longjumping_Plum_1332026-01-25 06:08
It’s actually a toss up between that and the Jeht stuff.
Chosenwaffle2026-01-25 07:32
Jeht my beloved. Come back to me
WorstSkilledPlayer2026-01-25 08:39
The Jeht's chain finale was quite grim, like yikes. Even the small chain with the "Falcon" lady whom her father/"master" treated like a non-human being was disheartening to read how it ended.
Mrsunny071122026-01-25 07:00
Agreed but I just prefer sacred mountain because rawr
plitox2026-01-25 07:30
Rawr!
Vaiolette-Westover2026-01-25 12:11
Voicing quests don't necessarily add quality. Genshin's best writing happen mostly in world quests and one benefit of them being unvoiced is you can use your imagination to make them sound however you like. Plus world quests tend to have really long dialogue that'd be faster and easier to read than to wait for the va to finish.
Another major benefit is there is way way way way way way way more gameplay in world quests because they can't just show you a glorified voiced movie like they do in virtually all voiced content these days. Like, it was shocking how there was basically next to no actual gameplay in Nod Krai AQ, and when there was, it was take two steps, get a camera zoom and a voice like telling you to press x over the giant glowing thing, repeat.
Aranyaka would've been awful if they voiced they and used it as an excuse to strip gameplay from it.
In short, Genshin tends to use voice acting as a crutch to skip out on gameplay integration.
ShouAxo2026-01-25 13:17
Honestly i think world quests like that should be voiced, including the one with our saurian pet in natlan, the nodkrai WQ with illuga, aranara, and probably that inazuma wq with enkanomiha(?), and maybe have more long WQ that changes the game in a way
Ramza_452026-01-25 13:39
Beep Boop
-Ben Ben probably
SassySiren9062026-01-25 15:08
i spent HOURS finishing all of it and it was worth it. definitely don't do it in 1 sitting
TheJimDim2026-01-25 19:39
Ngl, I found it incredibly difficult to follow since I did the quests sporadically and took a break somewhere in the middle. Plus the French names got all mixed up in my head, so when Sandrone was yapping in the most recent AQs, I had no idea wtf she was even talking about lol
Thepalebird2026-01-25 01:37
Multiverse of a Franch girl
Surprisingly the only multiverse i like... and the only France i tolerate..man she is special ain't she
Ok_Replacement70222026-01-25 01:48
*Look at young Mary-Ann, she is adorable and must be cherished.*
*There’s also Marionette, our beloved Tsundere robot.*
Milis_Lila2026-01-25 03:42
FrAnnch
Ok_Replacement70222026-01-25 01:45
*(Picks up the wee creature known as Mary-Ann)*
*”**I have now adopted you, child, care for some ice cream?**”*
*(Turn to Marionette and extend my other arm to her)*
*”**You too, come, we shall have ice cream together.**”*
paradoxez2026-01-25 01:50
I decided to finish up the whole Narcissus quests before starting 6.3 archon quest and wow these are super long lol. I'm probably half way through
Vaiolette-Westover2026-01-25 12:21
World quests is where the bulk of Genshin writing and story happens yeah.
Archon quests are like a medium to show what the meaning is behind what the world quests showed you
paradoxez2026-01-25 12:38
Yea I love them world quests. the game would've been 10/10 if they're all voiced though :(
Accomplished_Lab89452026-01-25 01:50
Annception
Fast-Ad-24152026-01-25 01:56
yeah, cant wait for her return too, shes one of the best written characters of the whoel game personality wise and her English VA does a phenomenal jobto delivering that super sassy with a touch of hostility and at the same time eloquent and elegant doll like puppeteer mentality of a doll, that has become her own master with a free will and absolutely lives that out and lets everybody know that, that she is no ordinary person.
We all know that Sandrone will get her comeback for sure, now is first the time to mourn over her loss, but by 6.7 we likely will have found some way to repair her and bring her back to life with the help of Aino and Ineffa.. if anybody has the genius, ressources and materials to repair her, and that with an mostly intact personality, maybe a tiny bit lesser sounding hostile, therefore a tiny bit more classy, thankful and respectful towards us at least and towards Columbina, who surely will do all the best she can, if it helps bringing Sandrone back to "life", in order to repay her with an honest hug of appreciation and happiness, that it will be her who she sees first, when she opens her eyes, just to get in a loveable way ragebaited then in a way that only Columbina would be possibly allowed to do with her.. thats what I want to see happening, and even much more so a honest hug back from Columbina full of joy, that literally her first and best friend is back alive, with Sandrone giving her then the answer back, that she couldn't do out of sudden surprise over Columbinas feelings in the past
a sincere and straight forward
"I missed you too, Columbina"
for that nice happy ending feeling :D that we all literally want for those two to have.
If there is anybody able to make that happen within the next few patches, then its Aino and Ineffa, likely with our and Columbina's help on the search for clues, how to repair/reconstruct Sandrone, or however "Mary-Ann" wants to be called later.. because who knows, maybe she will do the Wanderer-Treatment with us and allows us to name her, how we like, because she will quit with the Fatui after her return and follow completely own new goals, that have maybe to do with the Narzissenkreuz Content and her background story, to follow her past in a more depthful way, that we haven't seen yet out of her own perspective, with Columbina supporting her from then on on that endeavor. I've the feeling, by the time we get to Snezhnaya, will be Arlecchino, Tartaglia, Pulcinella, Pantalone, Pierro and basically the Tsaritsa as their leader the only remaining Fatui Members, and that still hidden mysterious Member Nr. 10, which MHY still hasn't lost a single word about, who the heck that is in over 5 years, unless MHY introduces with Snezhnaya some yet unknown new playable Fatui Members that don't belong directly to the 11, and are of lower rank, just like Freminet/Lynette/Lyney somehow...
Vaiolette-Westover2026-01-25 12:27
For me it's what's not shown but implied in the subtext that make me love Sandrone.
Like the scene at the end of act vi and what she occasionally says to Columbina.
She really misses her friends and her profound loneliness after Alain died is only salved by the same people in the Fatui she keeps losing.
People keep shipping her with Columbina but often don't go far enough to convey just how important Columbina is to her, I think their relationship goes far past simple romantic love.
I love that she has that robotic quality where she simply doesn't show her true emotions.
SignificanceIcy78212026-01-25 13:03
this man knows, that's why I love sandrone so much,
Able_Force_37172026-01-25 02:01
When she becomes a playable character she will be the closest to a playable character from the Fontaine research institute.
Which is crazy we still don't have one.
Particular_Web32152026-01-25 02:02
The amount of nassisenkreuz callbacks and alian and rene's research being compiled by the Android that imitates their little sister being key to defeating dottore proves that the writers love this WQ a lot. Me too devs me too
Beta_Codex2026-01-25 02:14
I feel bad for the lore skippers who don't know these people. I am so glad hoyo finally connecting more world quests to archon quests and story quest.
WorstSkilledPlayer2026-01-25 13:22
You can be a non-Lore skipper and still get lost in all the details, implications, implied implications and thousands of names and references. Not everyone has a good enough memory to remember details from two story arcs ago (also depends on when they did the WQ chain), is equally invested in them - despite reading all of it - or keeps notes on everything happening. But I am not surprised that reddit keeps being dismissive and snide about that stuff - no matter if "justified" or not.
Beta_Codex2026-01-26 00:22
Regardless it's going to get deeper. They already connected Sumeru's world quests and now Fontaine's. I'm just waiting for more. Honestly it should be a requirement to play these first before playing the archon quests. This is an open world, you're in the hands of a storyteller and you must play most of it to connect the dots. Even if it's limited like the dragonspine, you'll be missing more than just tiny details.
Smartace32026-01-26 00:38
Bro I played and read every single WQ in Fontaine and I still barely have half an idea who everyone in that group is
Beta_Codex2026-01-26 00:39
Sandrone literally explains it as a recap in the nodkrai quest.
FreedomOpposite88472026-01-25 02:29
The fact that my cousin's name is Ann
LopsidedRadio72082026-01-25 02:34
I didn't get the story. They were all speaking in riddles, and the amount of Mary Ann's was confusing it was a nice quest tho
Feelstrainconductor2026-01-25 03:37
Yeah there's only so much allegory and mystery I can take before I mentally check out. The sequence with the oceanid animals got annoying after the novelty wore off. I don't remember the other quests that well since it's been so long. But I do remember being annoyed at the fairytale oceanid part.
Malixhous2026-01-25 02:59
NGL I want Sandrone's SQ to be her exploring the Institute and meet Jak, Al, and the other mimics and learn more about Alain, Rene, and the others.
parnubay2026-01-25 03:38
I only started the world quest with the little oceanid Ann. I have no idea if I started the wrong one first. Also when I get the names of the Ordo people idk who is who. There’s a princess? A crab?…. I continued on to Nod Krai but those world quests are still on hold for me.
Notosk2026-01-25 03:41
Lisa while climbing: Ann~ Ann~ ❤️❤️❤️
A0DividedbyA02026-01-25 03:41
This is all so "Ann-tagonizing." *Sees self out*
SignificanceIcy78212026-01-25 03:46
Oceanid lyris is technically her aunt now. If she thinks of Alain as a father.
Lorellya2026-01-25 04:20
But why is the oceanid-ann looking so freaky??
QWERTYAF12412026-01-25 04:29
I just realized that Mary-Ann actually sounds pretty similar to Marionette phonetically.
PrimaryAde92026-01-25 05:06
Why sandrone there ?
SignificanceIcy78212026-01-25 06:14
her family, though all of them are different versions of mary-ann
FlyingRencong2026-01-25 09:18
She was built in the likeness of the original Mary Ann
UltraPhoenix952026-01-25 10:05
Sandrone was created by Alain Guillotin and modeled after his deceased sister, Mary-Ann
ao_zame2026-01-25 05:15
I miss Sandrone.
BeautifulSpell62092026-01-25 05:19
Cyn-oh!
Background_Dot36922026-01-25 05:24
And my name is Anna, but I wasn't surprised by that. This name and its variations are in the top in most countries worldwide.
What i was surprised about is that the mage M suddenly became Anya (Russian common version of Anna). That was strange. It's like Bob from Robert or Evie from Eveline, the name you hear all the time from friends and family.
starmadeshadows2026-01-25 06:03
oh alain guillotin had the MOST normal relationship to his sister
Commentaires
Mary-Ann-ette
Holy shit I'm so blind
Sandrone is a peak character imo and deserves the best. The fact her harbinger title is tied to Narzissenkreuz Ordo WQ is such a cool detail
Nah, but I really hope >!she remains herself.!< We don't have enough rude shithead characters, and I live for them. The scenes with Scaramouche and her were some of my favorite dialogue scenes in the AQ.
I did some other quests before. So my mind was officially blown to bits when the dog was revealed as Seymore.
I was like ain't no fuckin way.
To this date, Narssizenkreuz was more of a WORLD quest than world QUEST.
And this reminded me. The fancy sword? I haven't R5 it yet. Need to collect the stuff
I mean, I got the gist of what was going on, but a lot of the relations from old people to the newer/still living people flew over my head, and the whole "Natural Philosophy" think was just pure yappage to my ears.
I really wish I knew a [quest guide like](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19KYfTSNpTNXCvwbcPeN3T9Cylc0AaOIqwNysmFqOmWY/edit?usp=sharing) this even existed when I started playing.
I think I had to look up the Caterpillar quest because I hadn't found it on my own and didn't know how to continue from before. Which I found annoying.
That’s my main gripe with Genshin’s quests in general; the majority of them whisk you away from whatever exploration you were doing and yell “LOOK AND ME AND PLAY MY WHOLE QUEST” instead of letting the player choose when to start it. And it’s gotten really bad in Nod Krai, with most of them forcing you into them.
And I imagine it’s the main reason why so many players just skip through them; they’re essentially being held hostage until they do the starting sequences when they want to do something else.
There is one WQ on the new island (the doomsday bunker one) that has its quest trigger tied to interacting with an object, and that’s literally all I want from Genshin’s quests - a **manual** way to start them.
Hope we can bump into the gang again soon
Making the big world quests required would drive away players who aren't as interested in the story content. The only quests they make required serve double duty as advertisements for the characters they're selling. As a business, they need these customers.
They provide more quests than just the ads because a large portion of the player base DOES love the story content. Deeper, more interesting stories for the players that want them.
A big part of the reason we even have Nod-Krai is that they weren't able to balance this as well as they'd hoped. There was too much stuff that was important to the main plot - including Narssizenkreutz.
If world quests were important Hoyo would have voiced them. Clearly they themselves don't consider them worthy of that. That's all that needs to be said
Thankfully they seem to have learned from mistakes like that, and we've been getting treated quite well with 6.x
I would have like Talochard and Curve's quest to be voiced though, as it's structured much more like a typical story quest. And hearing Talochard in all the different languages. Like in the English localization they've got her ultra sassy, but then when I hear Chard Lombro's voice with the JP dub it sounds like they wrote her ultra-turbo bratty instead and now I wanna find some Japanese wiki and read what her lines were like. It's just a quest that's far more focused on acting and the character performance rather than unveiling the overarching world and the distant past like many of the other larger world quests do.
They can just drop the English dub if that's difficult to arrange
World quests are written in a more esoteric and bookish way.
They are visual novels with gameplay more than voiced content which are written like screenplays.
You're missing the point of why they aren't voiced. Only certain parts of the big WQs actually work for voicing.
These quests were just too good to be left unvoiced when they feel so important down the line.
Another major benefit is there is way way way way way way way more gameplay in world quests because they can't just show you a glorified voiced movie like they do in virtually all voiced content these days. Like, it was shocking how there was basically next to no actual gameplay in Nod Krai AQ, and when there was, it was take two steps, get a camera zoom and a voice like telling you to press x over the giant glowing thing, repeat.
Aranyaka would've been awful if they voiced they and used it as an excuse to strip gameplay from it.
In short, Genshin tends to use voice acting as a crutch to skip out on gameplay integration.
-Ben Ben probably
Surprisingly the only multiverse i like... and the only France i tolerate..man she is special ain't she
*There’s also Marionette, our beloved Tsundere robot.*
*”**I have now adopted you, child, care for some ice cream?**”*
*(Turn to Marionette and extend my other arm to her)*
*”**You too, come, we shall have ice cream together.**”*
Archon quests are like a medium to show what the meaning is behind what the world quests showed you
We all know that Sandrone will get her comeback for sure, now is first the time to mourn over her loss, but by 6.7 we likely will have found some way to repair her and bring her back to life with the help of Aino and Ineffa.. if anybody has the genius, ressources and materials to repair her, and that with an mostly intact personality, maybe a tiny bit lesser sounding hostile, therefore a tiny bit more classy, thankful and respectful towards us at least and towards Columbina, who surely will do all the best she can, if it helps bringing Sandrone back to "life", in order to repay her with an honest hug of appreciation and happiness, that it will be her who she sees first, when she opens her eyes, just to get in a loveable way ragebaited then in a way that only Columbina would be possibly allowed to do with her.. thats what I want to see happening, and even much more so a honest hug back from Columbina full of joy, that literally her first and best friend is back alive, with Sandrone giving her then the answer back, that she couldn't do out of sudden surprise over Columbinas feelings in the past
a sincere and straight forward
"I missed you too, Columbina"
for that nice happy ending feeling :D that we all literally want for those two to have.
If there is anybody able to make that happen within the next few patches, then its Aino and Ineffa, likely with our and Columbina's help on the search for clues, how to repair/reconstruct Sandrone, or however "Mary-Ann" wants to be called later.. because who knows, maybe she will do the Wanderer-Treatment with us and allows us to name her, how we like, because she will quit with the Fatui after her return and follow completely own new goals, that have maybe to do with the Narzissenkreuz Content and her background story, to follow her past in a more depthful way, that we haven't seen yet out of her own perspective, with Columbina supporting her from then on on that endeavor. I've the feeling, by the time we get to Snezhnaya, will be Arlecchino, Tartaglia, Pulcinella, Pantalone, Pierro and basically the Tsaritsa as their leader the only remaining Fatui Members, and that still hidden mysterious Member Nr. 10, which MHY still hasn't lost a single word about, who the heck that is in over 5 years, unless MHY introduces with Snezhnaya some yet unknown new playable Fatui Members that don't belong directly to the 11, and are of lower rank, just like Freminet/Lynette/Lyney somehow...
Like the scene at the end of act vi and what she occasionally says to Columbina.
She really misses her friends and her profound loneliness after Alain died is only salved by the same people in the Fatui she keeps losing.
People keep shipping her with Columbina but often don't go far enough to convey just how important Columbina is to her, I think their relationship goes far past simple romantic love.
I love that she has that robotic quality where she simply doesn't show her true emotions.
Which is crazy we still don't have one.
What i was surprised about is that the mage M suddenly became Anya (Russian common version of Anna). That was strange. It's like Bob from Robert or Evie from Eveline, the name you hear all the time from friends and family.
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