Lantern Rite 2024 Review: Gaming's unofficial Story Quest

Well, we're just here to talk about Lantern Rite. A fun event with plenty of insights, but mostly just because I needed something to get back into CZcams.
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[@harmonialarts]

I have a type apparently. Pyro body guards who are too good for this world and have daddy issues.
Thoma 🤝 Gaming
I love them both so much so I absolutely adored this year's lantern rite ❤
I honestly like how the 4*s are getting the spotlight in limited events because their certainly gonna have really limited relevance in the main story. 4*s are usually side characters or are there to further the development of 5*s. Thoma kinda developed Ayaka in the sense that she realized she valued the people themselves over her prestige/image, Collei gave us a face to represent the COUNTLESS victims of Dottore's experiments and gave another layer to Tighnari's defensiveness around Dottore, and Lynette and Freminet showcased what's most important to Lyney which is his siblings.
We DEFINITELY need more hug animations. Heck a STILL IMAGE is better than words telling us rather than showing.

[@EternaMidnight]

As much as I am pro hugging animations, I couldn't help but be suspicious that the hug Gaming gave his dad was actually one of the "excited/pumped" animations (sorry idk how to explain it exactly) and they just made it look like a hug with good camera angles and them being close together. 🤔

[@arcazure9610]

i had a feeling that might have been the case but i couldn't tell for sure. Still though, it's better than nothing. Especially with the fact that Jeht just got a fade to black and text. If they're gonna draw up in-game art for Dunyarzad in Sumeru, they can draw Jeht hugging the Traveller.

[@Ren_rz]

Oh the Xianyun Story Quest takes place before the LANTERN RITE just so you know hoyo even held up the lantern rite start for few days so we could do it before the event

[@that-went-well4472]

MORE HUGGING ANIMATIONS IN GENSHIN FOR BOTH NPCS & PLAYABLE CHARACTERS

[@equilibrium138]

This Lantern Rite didn't feel like Lantern Rite. They didn't even play the iconic music. And for some players THIS was their first Lantern Rite. Outrageous.

[@arcazure9610]

Yeah it was disappointing for many reasons. I thought Zhongli should've been the one to get a new skin, this is the year of the dragon after all.