AK PLAYLIST: czcams.com/play/PLv1qfEdssmwkksuDtJD3SqSiJrfrR7HNY.html&si=nkZu1enjN2I0t7Vs YT MEMBERSHIP: czcams.com/channels/XIcWBkYpOSwleic06QO97A.htmljoin DISCORD: discord.com/servers/trailblazer-ririna-1097679395231113226 SHOP: ko-fi.com/trailblazer_ririna/shop BACKUP CHANNEL: www.youtube.com/@TrailblazerFoxRirina UPCOMING STREAMS: www.youtube.com/@Trailblazer_Ririna/streams (Please give the stream a “like” if interested!)
The world of arknights is vast and varied, taking inspiration from many cultures and of our actual world. In simple words from me, a verteran who's been playing since the cn launch take your time with the world to learn about the charthers, the settings, and the game while playing it at your own pace.
what i love about ak is it take inspiration from many country and part of the real world, instead of just 90% chinese and japanese like most gacha games, even the smallest country in the world, vatican city has inspired a country in arknights, and about the available voices, many operators from specific country have their own language, such as cantonese and italian, and many english voices have accents, italian operators will have italian accents when using their english vc and operators from the england counterpart country have british accents, I've never seen a gacha game take voice cover this seriously and I appreciate their efforts even they knowing many people will just stay on japanese
You do eventually remember all 200+ Operators because all of their designs are distinct but that might just be because I had been playing since launch and slowly introduced to new characters as they come out.
I bow down to your greatness and your amazing memory. T^T I hope that I can reach your level of remembering the operators' names. That would probably make it a lot easier for me to know what each character is like and does too.
Small warning regarding copyrights: - Anything with music by "Monster Siren Records" is good to go. It's their in-house music label. - The only things that are a no-no for copyrights are anything Starset (I'm surprised you were good with your first part reaction) and most of the collabs (like the few Steve Aoki songs)
Starset seems to let you use their music in your videos, but you just can't monetize them. :3 Didn't know about the Steve Aoki one, so I'll def note that!
"Which language do you recommend I put them in?" I am personally strongly biased towards full Japanese voices. However, many of the EN voices are quite good. "Which order should I watch the trailers in?" Up to you. The trailers and PVs give tidbits of context and lore for either characters, the main story or a side story. The 3D PVs are amazing and you definitely need to watch them all *at some point*. And the Character themes (the EPs) are mostly just a theme song for a character / group to give an idea of their personality, but not much else. Imo, I'd say Trailers and PVs first, to get an idea of the overall lore, then the EPs to get a feel for the characters, living in that world. "Do they often do reruns?" They do one official "run", the first time. Then they'll do a rerun multiple months later, after which, the event becomes permanently available. (You get extra rewards during the initial run and rerun that you don't when it's permanent, so there are incentives to play them as they come out)
So Trailers & PVs --> EPs --> Other Videos! Whew, I got the order right in that case. What a relief! I really love the fact that they do reruns later (and make it permanent). I don't mind missing out on rewards only because that has never incentivized me for the most part in any game, but I def like learning more about the lore and stuff, which it seems like the events def showcase a lot of!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna All the important rewards (Operators, Outfits, Furniture) can still be acquired a while after the events becoming permanently available too.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Actually there are two types of events full side events and "mini-events" What person described are full side events with continuous story through event . Small addition: if you've already played though event, you can read the story at any time, regardless if there were rerun or not. The other type are "mini events" which are just collection of stories about something. They don't get a rerun but you can unlock the stories at any point as long as you have currency for it. Like you can completely skip all the stages and still unlock all stories.Of course during event "running" currency is cheaper and easier to get.
@@pmintertek Holy shiz, that's so cool! They let you read the story at any time after playing through the event in the future? That's really neat. Must be helpful to those who make content on the AK lore. :O Those mini events are pretty nice too.
Japanese is the default language, the Chinese, Korean and English dub came after and there are multiple ways to use them. If you want to understand what people are talking about, English would probably be the best, but there is also the lore accurate way of picking the language they would actually speak in Terra (like Lungmenites speaking Chinese, Victorians and Columbians speaking English etc), or just go with all Japanese as those are the most prolific voice actors.
Dang, that's so cool! I think I want to check out all of the languages first and then set them up to be more lore-accurate for each character. Might be a lot of work, maybe, but it'll be so awesome!!!
For which language to choose, whatever you prefer is ok, as for any other content outside of the game, there are several canon short manhuas which give background stories on various operators such as "records of Originium" , "Rhodes kitchen tidbits" and "prelude suite" @@Trailblazer_Ririna
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Every once in a while they give a set of characters a bonus language from their region, like when they gave the Siracusans italian voice, or the occasional regional chinese variant.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna I'm sure other people have mentioned this, but the EN dub has regional accents, so if a character is meant to be the AK equivalent of italian they will have an italian accent and etc. It makes the world feel a lot more real when everyone isnt just american :)
Events do get one rerun each one year after their initial run; after the rerun, they're added to the Side Stories tab for the main stage selection screen. There are some events known as Intermazzi events that are explicitly canon to the main timeline, all of them taking place after the main story; they have their own separate tab and can be played after the initial event closes without needing the rerun to come around and finish. There are currently five Intermazzi stories compared to about 10 normal Side Stories.
The game is indeed taking so many inspiration from IRL. For example, IRL it's the Wright brothers who invent the airplane and fly for the first time in human history, while in AK it's Kristen Wright, the very first human who go to the outer space in the history of Terra.
That is a great choice of character to use as an example because I think her references are threefold. There’s what you said, sally kristen ride was the first American woman into orbit, and the animal to orbit the earth was Laika the dog and her race is based on dogs
@@yaboischrodi0618 O_O threefold?!? That means the difficulty level for me to notice these references will be threefold higher too. 😂 I suppose I'll just be happy if I can even find one reference that I know in the game. hehe
Something you'll learn eventually but since you were curious about the name choices sometimes here and there. All Operators that work with Rhodes Island use a codename that they choose themselves. Some choose to use a word that describes themselves in some way either by their appearance or powers or something similar. For example Operator Croissant probably picked that name because her horns look similar to croissants. Others choose to just use their name as their code name. For example Operator Amiya our main character bunny girl.
13:10 "that guy on the right" just got an alter (basically different playable version of an alrdy playable operator) which is really good but needs a bit more investment compared to usual operator to reach that "really good" level his banner and event started 2 days ago in global as for side content, there are several manga which you can read online and they're also releasing worldbuilding book. only one manga that is closely tied to a series of event in the game so far (Rhodes Island's Record of Originium - Rhine Lab), while the other 3 manga we have so far are their own story with some characters from the game (one of which is a cooking manga)
Haha I think I tried to roll on his alter banner, although of course, I couldn't get him on my first 10 roll! Really thought that he was soooooooooo freakin cool!
When it comes to events, all events will be added permanently to the game at some point. When they do, the permanent stages have nerfed drop rates on upgrade materials compared to when the event was live (Aside from no event currency). Any event exclusive rewards won't be available until they release the Record Restoration for that event, which are a set of missions you need to simply complete on those event stages. So if you missed an event, you can still experience the story and stages yourself once they are added in permanently. If you're in it for the rewards, you gotta wait. There are also mini events as well that use a whole different system compared to a regular event, but likewise, they would also be added in permanently and will have an eventual Record Restoration to unlock the event exclusives.
There is alot of inspirations from real world so yeah it's pretty cool! If you watch the world-building videos (Terra Exploration 1-4) you will see the similarities between the real world and the Arknights world. Love your reactions😊
I hope I'll be able to notice the similarities. XD But in any case, I'm sure the world-building videos would really help me remember some of the lore stuff too! So I look forward to them~
As for where you can get the lore for the game's world, although there is content outside of the game (a handful of mangas and such), afaik they're all separate from the lore. Most of the lore is inside the game, but in different areas: - Obviously, the main story, as you go through cutscenes and such. - The side stories will give background stories about the world, the characters, etc. - Within each character's profile, there's character lore. - As you use the characters, you increase your "trust" with them. At certain levels, you unlock more stories from them. - Some characters have "modules" you can unlock for them (it's like a weapon upgrade, kinda). Those also contain a blob of information.
Ohhh, so that's where each piece of lore can be found! I'm still on the fence about whether I want to read the manga later or earlier because it's separate from the game lore. >.> I guess I should see if the guide includes it somewhere as the "best time to read it". XD
@@Trailblazer_Ririna If you do want to dive into the lore by reading the events and everything, then for the Records Of Originium - Rhine Lab manga I recommend you to read it after Mansfield Break and before Dorothy's Vision and Lone Trail Records of Originium - Blacksteel is more separate compared to Rhine Lab, so you should be good to go with that one, you will just miss some context here and there since you probably won't know the characters Rhodes Kitchen - Tidbits is episodic and is also a good to go, same thing with context but it's less important There are more manga but they haven't been officially released yet, just fan TL
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Technically, if you want you can go full Dark Souls on the game and read furniture and skin descriptions for the lore too. Like, you can learn about character dying from her skin description or another character being part of mafia family long before an actual side story get released.
i mean iirc isnt the rhine manga not seperate from the lore? as it does give some backround on the rhine events, especially lonetrail, and what went on with ifrit
Nian's my favorite of the 'Sui Siblings', sadly also the only one of'm released so far that I've managed to actually pull lol... I would recommend defaulting to the JP voices when playing, and then checking out the other voices as you play to see and find which you like more on each operator! Personal favorite is 'Glaucus', a handicapped 'Blue Sea Dragon' girl with a zap cannon lol. I think a big thing that helps with remembering names is how much depth each character is given. I would say that if you find a character you like, type their name into youtube followed by theme and see if they have one lol. Otherwise you could go through the official EP's, CC# themes or OST's and such, they're all pretty good, especially if you have a fondness for music in general. They cover pretty much every kind of genre of it that you could possibly think of. They spoil us for anniversaries, that's what. They're celebrated every half year, and the only real downside is that they're only time we can obtain 'Limited' operators, but those banners come with their own spark systems, they give us tons of gacha currency and free pulls with plenty of means to get other goodies as well as usually running most skins available for purchase in the shop. Most players, especially F2P ones, tend to save up most of their gacha currency for those times if they're not going after particular banners, since it's a good time to get certificates as well which can be used to just straight up grab operators you want out of the shop when they're in there. It's also usually when we get a Main Story update or a major event. Yes. There are deaths in the game, it does not tend to hold back with some of the brutal acts that go on in the game. As for first time playing tips, disregard operator 'rarities'. Focusing on higher rarity units and neglecting your lower rarity ones will make your start with the game incredibly difficult, especially as the game pushes you to have a well diverse selection of characters to handle the various mechanics and challenges each stage throws at you. So if you have high rarity units you like and want to use, make sure your starter units are brought up along with them so that you don't get bottlenecked not being able to progress! Also save the pretty gold gems for skins, it's the only way to obtain skins and those things are only obtained through real money purchasing or as a first time stage clear reward!
before you play this game, note of every newbie mistake, don't exchange orginium prime for orundum, use originium prime purely for skin only (the orundum currency in arknight for gacha roll could be farmed, there is a game mode with a limit how much you can farm and reset every week, you just need to be patient)
I made that mistake during the stream, but thankfully, after that, I haven't converted any, so I guess I can collect the prime and keep it like that at this point! hehe XD Thank you for letting me know that the red thing can be farmed. I was a bit confused about that!
With Arknights the language setting for the operators really comes down to personal preferance, I usually always go with JP rather than EN in most games since the feelings just get conveyed best in the original language, for Arknights however the VA´s REALLY nail the performance regardless of language, so I have pretty much mixed and matched the ones I liked best not based off language but simply based off my preferance in voice.
If you want to get into the story and read it there is a super helpful guide in the help section. Also i like to read at my own pace so there is a fan made story reader where i can just scroll and read like a normal e reader book. it is also linked there. It has the in game format for text bubbles and sound effects and music that come with each scene. It is very impressive.
Things I didn't see answers in the comments (I might have missed) in your questions: -No actual cutscene in the game except for one at the climax of the first big story arc. -No voiceover overall, it's visual novel style. Screen sometimes shaking a tiny bit, sound effects, and music. -No need to consume any media from outside the game to understand the story fully. For the names of the places, you'll remember them as you're progressing in the story. You can look for a world map of the game on google if you're struggling with countries. ALSO YES Roaring Flare's music gives me chills every single time as well.
the places and cities in arknights are based from real life countries. i think for you to be able to understand the factions and operators is to know which place they originate from. based on the videos you've watched, 'kazimiers' is somewhat like poland, 'lungmen' resembles hongkong, 'sargon' is somewhat in the persian region, 'siesta' is in hawaii and there are so many more you'll encounter as you continue.
@@pmintertek this is kind of confusing in some extent being the setting of sargon is kind of similar to the amazon forest but there are also hints of traditions and terms being used by the persians in the game.
I can't answer any questions that haven't been answered yet but love seeing these reactions!! My favorite operators are Texas the wolfgirl, W unhinged devil you saw in Darknights Memoir, and the bestest Fish man Jordi Fontantarosa aka Lumen! Can't wait to see game play reactions eventually! (Also 100% agree that children of Ursus is probably the darkest archive storyline in the game. I had to put the game down for a minute to keep from crying)
There is some content that you can get outside of the game, namely some mangas that cover parts of certain side events like Saria'/ifrit/Silence event. But its mostly background knowledge, not something you need to read to understand the plot, but rather just some more fleshing out of events that are mentioned in the story, but not shown.
I feel that this is always helpful -- when it fleshes out the events that are mentioned in the story. Brings more impact when we do come across them! So I def want to check them out eventually.
5:25 Arknights story are mostly dark and sometimes depressing in general, but Children of Ursus (imo) is at another level of dark and depression. I still think it's the most fucked up so far in Arknights. 18:00 Listening to certain music style/genre depends on our mood, yeah. Arknights has all kind of different music genre collection, that fits in any of your mood. Like many others already said, Arknights is vast and varied. The musics complement it with its specific style on each different region/characters.
One thing you should look out for, is that the Arknights story is extremely bloated. A lot of people can find it hard to comprehend, but it’s okay to take it slow and focus on one thing first. In the end, all the stories connect together with one thread of yarn, no matter how many there are on the bulletin board. And yes, it is depressing, but it’s what makes it special to I, and many other people.
my favorite is operator is Silence from Rhine Labor - most "factions" are inspired from a cultur like Lungmen has a lot of chinese desingn in cloths. Rhine Labor is german but there they use technology as underlying desing choice for the operators
Where did i wrote its a country? I said "factions" as it can be anything from a gang, company, city and so on In which world the Rhine is in any country you stated?
I really should have take notes about all questions you asked, cause so many of them. (Which is good, it gives a "food" for the commentators) Though, another Dokutah already did detailed breakdown, so I will just add this: "Terra Explorations" or "Terra Discovery" videos are the ones you probably referring as the lore videos. They are indeed cool and can give a more grand vision on the world of Terra, with all it's countries and history. There are currently 3 videos in this series, but I inclining to suggest to *not* watch the 3rd one for the time being, because it contains quite heavy spoilers that far suppresses the scale of actions in the Main story (and consequently the anime). Thought, from the other side, you may even not get much sense from it, given your knowledge about the world as of now. But anyway, I have to say this. And, at least I could also answer a personal question about favorite character. While there are so many cool, adorable, and otherwise great characters (with their own respective lore that only adds to that) - I still a special "operator" in the mind. And that is.. Amiya I didn't given her that much credit when I only started, but characters' progression is a *real* thing here and my opinion about her over years shifted from: "I like her colors and design, but how is this little girl is the Leader of Rhodes Island", to: "I have never seen anyone like her". Legitimately. As well as my concerns about why she is the leader has vanished without a trace. It seems quite a rare that a "title girl" of their respective gacha game received so much positive attention, beyond of reasons like being MC for the Main story. She is really deserved it. And there are other folks who also think similar. Like, the sheer quantity of fan arts with her already tells a lot. And, there are even exist a CZcams channel that literally called "I Love Amiya", lol. And that is not just some random no-name user. The dude actually make quite interesting content, primary focused around challenging and creative clears of in-game maps. (But unfortunately, not quite often uses Amiya herself, since Power-in-Lore and Power-in-Gameplay discrepancy sometimes gets really unjust). Anyway, enjoyed your reaction. Cheers
I already like Amiya but I definitely had the thought of, "How did she become the Leader?" while playing. It surprised me because I actually thought that we were already the official leader of Rhodes Island! I probably will check out the third video, only because if I do encounter the things they talk about in the game, I might not even fully comprehend it and therefore, forget again, so having repeats of important stuff is probably better for me in the long run! :3
@@Trailblazer_Ririna in video you said that to catch you on stream one should go to your Discord, right? Just hopping in to your Discord channel would be enough or those stream are only for paid subscribers or something?
@@VCE4 Chapters 0-1 gameplay stream VOD will be available on my channel next week, but you can get early access to it as a paid subscriber. Future AK gameplay streams & VODs, along with AK anime reaction, will only be available for my "Huge Fox Bite Tier" paid subscribers on my Discord. Hope that cleared things up! :)
About languages it rly depends on preferences, I have most in JP ( For Example Pozemka, Che'en), some in eng ( for example Fiametta, Rosa) few in CN ( for the example Fartooth) few in KR ( Mullbery), fee in Italiano ( Penance, Texas, Lappland) Faw operators are Ch'en ( She was first I saved currency for), ofc Pozemka, Flanetail, Typhon, Weedy, Rosa, April, Reed, W, Fartooth... Sorry its hard to pick one xD and eventually you will remember the names ^^ Ye, arknights rerun events, its nice for new players
hello dear arknights-newbie, just found this channel. just here to give the shortest possible explanation possible to arknigths, since i already found a comment going into your questions. if you really read the story its mainly a visual novel with some tower defense in between. they provide a good level of difficulty, which you can decide by the operators you wanna use if you get to the point where it gets too easy for you. this can go from easy-peacy to darksouls, but its tower defense. have fun playing
japan, english and chinese is the standard language option, however certain operator have other language, example texas alter and lappland are siracusan (italy version of terra thus they have italian VA, leithanien operator roster are now getting german dub because leithanien are reference to central europe, victorian op tend to have british english style, ursus roster have russian
Here's all the answers to all question you asked (and not only): 2:40 - Depends on characters. Some have better VAs on some language, some on others (No offense Exia but your EN voice sucks compared to KR and JP). Also not everyone have all languages, each character usually have: JP (1st one, all got it), CN (2nd language, Chineese (Simplified), most of operators have it), KR (3rd language, Korean, around 60% have it), EN (4th language, English, also 60% havre it) and TR or Traditional, which is multilanguage one. Its language depends on what place character is from (For example, operators from Siracusa ,which is basically Italia, got Italian voices, or operators from Yan, which is basically China, got Chineese (Traditional) voices). In terms of languages we got Japaneese, Chineese, Korean, English, Italian, Russian, German. Also in terms of English - they quite often use voices of people from specific countries (for example they got Spanish people for EN voices for some operators from Iberia). 3:03 - FYI you can do a livestream for YT with covered VOD and just shown timer for videos so we could launch the anime on out devices in sync with you or you can do reactions of each episode with hardly covered visuals and some cuts for video format. Thats how YT TOS works. For Twitch its a bit less restricted and much more doable. 3:28 - lucky you, its a free skin that is not really hard to get when one of seasonal events is up. 4:16 - hard for me to tell so either Gladiia, Skalter or Whisperain. Fish people all the way! 4:48 - thats Istina, also part of Ursus group that you liked. 5:00 - after some time you start memorizing them all. In my case i can tell the names of like 90% of them (theres around 300 already). 6:49 - easier to say groups since there's factionas, organizations, countries and many many others. Also titles you see in trailers are just title of the event, basically title of some book and such. 7:57 - trivia: Pyrite is one of minerals that also got title of "False gold" 'cause people back in a day been messing this mineral with Gold when they just discovered it . 9:04 - for main story its varies but like once per 6 month with no certain rate, pretty much depends with how much job Hypergryph (Dev company that created this game) needs to do. 9:31 - yes, events does repeat only once and then it moves to Side Story or Intermezzi tab where you no longer can get medals from but you can get free operator, skin, themed furniture and profile avatar picture from once Record Restoration for said event drops a bit later. Events that moved to this tabs can be played at any time and meant for newer players who just started playing. 10:20 - this game in a whole is one giant reference to our world with some similar events hapenning. Discrimation, racism, corruption and etc - all of that happens here as well. But mostly yeah, it's original story. 12:17 - yeah, story is basically one giant (really giant) visual novella which just alternates with gameplay back to back when you keep progressing. The more you progressing with the game - the deeper and bigger lore becomes between stages that you have to read. There's no voice acting since if there was one than - the game would weight 3 times more than original size of the game (which is currently about 7 GBs). 13:34 - yes, we do have cutscenes in story. All i can say here. 13:20 - yeah splash arts are always highly detailed and very nicely done to fully represent who's the character is. There's also (back to topic about Visual Novel stuff) lots of artworks during the stories that also repreasents different situations from more understandable and detailed angles which spicies up the stories even more. For gacha games it happens quite usually. 14:12 - yes, outside of the main part of the game there's Side Stories (most of which you saw in these trailers), gamemodes such as Intergrated Strategies (Shortly IS) (Which is basically Roguelike mode), SSS (dont remember OG title tbh lol) (which is Card gamemode) and many more in the future. 15:22 - that was the only case when instead of just rerunning banner and event we also got new banner on top with it. 17:43 - tbh lots of games doesnt do much for music since its expensive and quite tricky to do. Arknights however knows how to make good songs and soundtracks and sure uses it. 21:04 - yeah the story doesnt really go chronologically. The main story sure does but other events takes time at different parts of time, some even at a whole different timeline being "what if..." type of events. Even worse when some of these events doesnt tell when they happened specifically so we have just to guess depending on facts from the event stories themselves. 21:25 - lucky you again, this operator is free-to-get for any player after you will grind a bit. A bit niche but quite nice character tbh. 22:49 - no wonder why some people calling the game DripKnights. Also fun fact - sometimes developers does involve IRL fashion designers to make skins and looks for all the characters, even for non playable ones. Theres artbooks that also covers it and shows how much job has been put into some of these characers. 23:43 - yep thats a shield. Giant spiky shield. 24:29 - another fun fact - skins here are also grouped between each other in fashion collections such as Marthe (Sport themed collection), Epoque (Past related collection) and etc. 25:42 - yes, Roaring Flare is one of story updates that gave us Chapter 8 which was concluding chapter for Reunion story arc. After that we moved to completly different part of the main story. 27:37 - yes some skins are free-to-get from daily login events, Record Restorations, event shops and others. 28:24 - in the game its not really shown but in story in general and anime as well - yes. Lots of death happens here left and right. The world of Arkights, Terra, is a very cruel place. Hopefully covered everything here.
Thank you for answering all of my questions! Will have to refer back to it once in a while. hehe I probably will make the AK anime just a Server Sub only benefit only because of lack of time on my end.
As for remembering name goes I guess the more you use operators the more you commit them into memories, Like those Nearls (knights with blond hairs). So far there 4 operators from their family alone and easy to mix them up altogether, to makes things worse the first one added since day 1 have code name Nearl as in their family name. People often refer them as their real name instead of their code name. xD Point is the more you play with them the more you remember their names whether it's because what role they play in story, the in-game mechanic they specialize in or even for their VA or their skin/costumes xDD
@Trailblazer_Ririna as a person who read amiya lore , I think the character development is very well written, From what I understand it's mainly about a person who tries to make their own way through difficulties to break the cycle of people's hatred toward each other And so is one of the goals of rhodes island
@@Astpirick Awww, Amiya sounds like such a gem. T^T I'm definitely gonna read up on her lore later on, unless it's showcased in the main story of the game?
Also it's always funny to see people covering Eternal Flame and All Hail Savior when they hear them for the first time. EF because they're never prepared for the chorus to kick off the way it does, and AHS because no one I've seen, and I mean no one, is ready for Adrienne Cowan to go full metal like she does there. There's loads of great songs, but those two are my favorite to watch people listen to for the first time
Events rerun once and then are added permanently to the side story and intermezzi tabs unless they are collab events which aren't. No collab event has been added to side story or intermezzi,though one collab event has been announced to rerun.
In a way I recommend to play the side-stories and intermezzi, in the same order as you watched the trailers and event announcements. Should as well lighten the mood in the dark story parts. Of course if you want to continue there with the dark story it's up to you. ;)
Ooo, your recommendation is very easy to remember! Thank you! I should sprinkle in some side stories and intermezzis for the upcoming Arknights Let's Play videos in that case. That'll be nice to play through, especially since the main chapters are getting darker and heavier. T^T
12:35 Unfortunately nearly all of the story is told in text similar to that of a visual novel with no voice acting. Probably the biggest turn off for most people who try the game. Honestly, for the first 0-3 episodes, I'd recommend just watching the first season of the anime (12 episodes) than all the reading. The first 4 episodes (0-3) are also the weakest in terms of story for the entire game, so watching as anime makes them more palatable as well IMO. Btw, you did great picking up on stuff. Thank you for sharing this reaction.
Thankfully, I'm okay with the way the story was told in text so far in chapters 0-1 since I've played so many VNs that had no VA, longwinded story telling, and no animated cutscenes. XD And some would have no music or would have very bland music. So anime will have to wait! haha
Went thru the anime, first 'season' 8 episodes covers the first 3 chapters, second 8 episodes covers the next 3 chapters. found the first season.... needed stuff. it had too many words and not enough action or color or whatever. also kept flipping between various bosses and didn't really settle on a story. Season 2 had a more focused path. just Frostnova and faust/mephisto. and I think they toned down the words per episode. worked alot better.
I would like to see a reaction video for Arknights CC songs and battle themes, there are soo cool. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥, And also would be good if you watch some hard gameplay videos too
Definitely! I don't know about the hard gameplay videos though, but either way, those will have to be after I finish watching all the trailers and PVs though since there are just SOOOOO MANYYYYYYYY!!! hehe
When it comes to Reruns of events, they will do a single rerun of the event then afterwards it's put into a section of the game where you can play them whenever you wish. As for any information outside of the game there are several manga out by now but it it's not something you NEED to read in order to understand what is going on in the game. More of life outside of what goes on that they can't put into the game.
Knowing that the manga shows the life outside of what goes on in the game makes me want to read it eventually. I feel like that might help me remember stuff a bit better too! :3
Their first big manga series is called "Arknights: Operators!". It's about 45 chapters right now. There are also a few light novels around certain groups, and there is even a small 3 book series called "Rhodes Kitchen" which also has actual recipes!
In case you haven't seen this yet so I'll make it as not spoiler as possible. Arknights has the most crazy and variety collab as well as gameplay ever. Also Arknights is the type of game that has everything for everyone. You like heavy metal? You have it. Maybe something more tame? How about some lullaby. Electronic, Jazz, Rap. You can't know arknights and not at least love one song.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna New character on rerun, no free orundum from stages since it's rerun (less pulls/no free skin) and Thorns is meta. Since then they stoped adding new characters in rerun events.
Arknights is Warhammer fantasy in anime wersion.both world's have ton of simlarities.Portals on north and south,Atlantis ,Originium is more Stable warpstone.and so on.just compare Sami: contact with Conquer your demons trailer.or Invitation to Vine pv and teaser with Dawn of grand Cathay
I wish I could understand all of that, but I don't really play tabletop games, so I'm quite... ignorant about the terms you used. T^T But thank you so much for trying to explain it to me!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna many Arknights fans dont Play Game.they are into anime,music ,or lore.many Warhammer fans are into books( Gotrek and Felix or Horus heresy) or games
@@alicjacaban2226 I haven't! To be honest, I never grew up with games and only started playing games (somewhat) 5 years ago. XD So I'm pretty ??? about most games and their existence, unless someone tells me about it. haha
Italian!!! I did hear that there were other languages that aren't EN, JP, CN, and KR. I'll definitely check those out after I try out the main ones. :3
and also Russian XD but Italian,Russian,German is only for (some of the) Operaters that are canonically from the referenced countries Well, such as Ursus (Imperial Russia) Leithania (Holy Roman/Austro-Hungarian Empire?)
I prefer english for most Operators since then I can understan what they'd saying. The exception is that anyone that has a VA in their "proper" native languege, such as Texas and Lappland having italian VA's get those instead
And even if you don't use her, if you should pull her, just put Lappy on Italian and run through all her lines (you can do the voicelines from the character screen) at least once. She's delightfully deranged. I also hear that Ebenholz has great German lines but I haven't raised mine yet.
I usually do Japanese voices only, with the exception of a few, whose EN voices are really good, like 2 I think. But the Ursus (Russian) operators have some good Russian accents, so they fit pretty well too. Mostly the EN voices don't fit the characters, imo, haha. 3:35 oof..... children of Ursus.... there's a good reason that event never got a rerun, lmao. Depression central, right there. My fav operator, uh right..... uhm..... in terms of cuteness, Muelsyse. In terms of badassery, Degenbrecher. In terms of design, Dusk xD 7:38 OUR LIGHT!!!! MUST PROTECC!!!! 9:00 If you wanna react to Arknights music, the CC themes are a GREAT starting point! There's no copyright as well, so go nuts, it's all in-game created songs, just be careful of the some that have other creators names on it, like Yellow Claw and stuff, that's a bit of a grey area. But yeah, sidestories do get reruns after some months, maybe a year, so new players can experience them as well! Super cool way Hypergryph run the game. And yeah, most stories in Arknights have heavy influences from real world locations, depending on where it takes place. Twilight of Wolumonde, for example are crafted after Germanic architecture, since it takes place in Leithanien, which is basically Arknights Germany. Kazimierz have a HEAVY knight theme, from the polish knights of many years ago, the Winged Hussars and such. All countries have that style from the real world country they take inspiration from, it's awesome! 11:40 yeeeees, the best trailer music for an Episode, which is Episode 7 in the game. SO GOOD. Each half year and annual anniversary is FILLED with gifts, events and all kinds of fun stuff to do ingame! Usually also a HIGHLY anticipated banner with operators people really look forward to, hehe. 17:25 BEST CC THEME! YEEEES I'M ON FIRE, IGNITED BY A BURNING DESIIIIRRREE! 23:07 Time for dubstep knights! Kazimierz has some of the best music genre in the game, along with Laterano! 30:20 nooooo, Terra Exploration videos is where the lore hits, we get Kal'tsit ASMR while she talks about the different countries, really good lore here! All in all, great video! Looking forward to the next! =D EDIT: if you wanna watch the anime, it's probably better to do so off youtube, as it is HEAVILY copyrighted. Gotta do lots of editing to cover the screen and mute it maybe, and just have a timer so people can pull up the actual anime next to your video, so it's kind of like a watch along. Seen some people do that, so it should work!
Thank you for the explanation about the copyright stuff on the music side of things. It really helps! :3 I can't wait to check out the Terra Exploration videos soon. hehe (And thank you for explaining about the anime! I really wasn't sure about that, even though I looked it up. Might just make it Server Sub only, due to lack of time.)
You are very welcome, glad I could help out a bit! Been playing since launch, so yup, obviously a huge fan xD but yeah, the music is basically free real estate, so no worries. Hypergryph has made their own music studio to make the music for the game and trailers and such. But it would be risky watching the anime on here, so that's a good choice. Hope to see you in game at some point!
@@FrostyMikhail HECK YEAHHH!!! I love it when game companies make their own music studio. XD It just goes to show how invested they are in their games~ hehe
To be fair, most of "problem" music is Yostar collabing with something. All music that came from Hypergryph/Moster Siren Reconds is fine with exception of "Speed of Light" (because DJ OKAWARI)
AK PLAYLIST: czcams.com/play/PLv1qfEdssmwkksuDtJD3SqSiJrfrR7HNY.html&si=nkZu1enjN2I0t7Vs
YT MEMBERSHIP: czcams.com/channels/XIcWBkYpOSwleic06QO97A.htmljoin
DISCORD: discord.com/servers/trailblazer-ririna-1097679395231113226
SHOP: ko-fi.com/trailblazer_ririna/shop
BACKUP CHANNEL: www.youtube.com/@TrailblazerFoxRirina
UPCOMING STREAMS: www.youtube.com/@Trailblazer_Ririna/streams (Please give the stream a “like” if interested!)
The world of arknights is vast and varied, taking inspiration from many cultures and of our actual world. In simple words from me, a verteran who's been playing since the cn launch take your time with the world to learn about the charthers, the settings, and the game while playing it at your own pace.
I shall! 4+ years worth of lore and world building that I'll need to get through... So I definitely need to take my time with it. XD
what i love about ak is it take inspiration from many country and part of the real world, instead of just 90% chinese and japanese like most gacha games, even the smallest country in the world, vatican city has inspired a country in arknights, and about the available voices, many operators from specific country have their own language, such as cantonese and italian, and many english voices have accents, italian operators will have italian accents when using their english vc and operators from the england counterpart country have british accents, I've never seen a gacha game take voice cover this seriously and I appreciate their efforts even they knowing many people will just stay on japanese
You do eventually remember all 200+ Operators because all of their designs are distinct but that might just be because I had been playing since launch and slowly introduced to new characters as they come out.
I bow down to your greatness and your amazing memory. T^T I hope that I can reach your level of remembering the operators' names. That would probably make it a lot easier for me to know what each character is like and does too.
"Oh, I like her!"
Well, their new series of shorts "Kay's daily doodles" features, well, Kay (aka Ceobe aka hungry doggo).
Small warning regarding copyrights:
- Anything with music by "Monster Siren Records" is good to go. It's their in-house music label.
- The only things that are a no-no for copyrights are anything Starset (I'm surprised you were good with your first part reaction) and most of the collabs (like the few Steve Aoki songs)
Starset seems to let you use their music in your videos, but you just can't monetize them. :3 Didn't know about the Steve Aoki one, so I'll def note that!
DJ Okawari is also a no. Just mentioning it since those songs appear under MSR still
"Which language do you recommend I put them in?"
I am personally strongly biased towards full Japanese voices. However, many of the EN voices are quite good.
"Which order should I watch the trailers in?"
Up to you. The trailers and PVs give tidbits of context and lore for either characters, the main story or a side story. The 3D PVs are amazing and you definitely need to watch them all *at some point*. And the Character themes (the EPs) are mostly just a theme song for a character / group to give an idea of their personality, but not much else.
Imo, I'd say Trailers and PVs first, to get an idea of the overall lore, then the EPs to get a feel for the characters, living in that world.
"Do they often do reruns?"
They do one official "run", the first time. Then they'll do a rerun multiple months later, after which, the event becomes permanently available. (You get extra rewards during the initial run and rerun that you don't when it's permanent, so there are incentives to play them as they come out)
So Trailers & PVs --> EPs --> Other Videos! Whew, I got the order right in that case. What a relief! I really love the fact that they do reruns later (and make it permanent). I don't mind missing out on rewards only because that has never incentivized me for the most part in any game, but I def like learning more about the lore and stuff, which it seems like the events def showcase a lot of!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna All the important rewards (Operators, Outfits, Furniture) can still be acquired a while after the events becoming permanently available too.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Actually there are two types of events full side events and "mini-events"
What person described are full side events with continuous story through event . Small addition: if you've already played though event, you can read the story at any time, regardless if there were rerun or not.
The other type are "mini events" which are just collection of stories about something. They don't get a rerun but you can unlock the stories at any point as long as you have currency for it. Like you can completely skip all the stages and still unlock all stories.Of course during event "running" currency is cheaper and easier to get.
@@pmintertek Holy shiz, that's so cool! They let you read the story at any time after playing through the event in the future? That's really neat. Must be helpful to those who make content on the AK lore. :O Those mini events are pretty nice too.
Japanese is the default language, the Chinese, Korean and English dub came after and there are multiple ways to use them. If you want to understand what people are talking about, English would probably be the best, but there is also the lore accurate way of picking the language they would actually speak in Terra (like Lungmenites speaking Chinese, Victorians and Columbians speaking English etc), or just go with all Japanese as those are the most prolific voice actors.
Dang, that's so cool! I think I want to check out all of the languages first and then set them up to be more lore-accurate for each character. Might be a lot of work, maybe, but it'll be so awesome!!!
For which language to choose, whatever you prefer is ok, as for any other content outside of the game, there are several canon short manhuas which give background stories on various operators such as "records of Originium" , "Rhodes kitchen tidbits" and "prelude suite" @@Trailblazer_Ririna
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Every once in a while they give a set of characters a bonus language from their region, like when they gave the Siracusans italian voice, or the occasional regional chinese variant.
@@Trailblazer_Ririna I'm sure other people have mentioned this, but the EN dub has regional accents, so if a character is meant to be the AK equivalent of italian they will have an italian accent and etc. It makes the world feel a lot more real when everyone isnt just american :)
Events do get one rerun each one year after their initial run; after the rerun, they're added to the Side Stories tab for the main stage selection screen.
There are some events known as Intermazzi events that are explicitly canon to the main timeline, all of them taking place after the main story; they have their own separate tab and can be played after the initial event closes without needing the rerun to come around and finish. There are currently five Intermazzi stories compared to about 10 normal Side Stories.
The game is indeed taking so many inspiration from IRL. For example, IRL it's the Wright brothers who invent the airplane and fly for the first time in human history, while in AK it's Kristen Wright, the very first human who go to the outer space in the history of Terra.
Oooo, that's pretty cool! I like it when games do that. :3 Makes me wonder if I'll notice any in the future on my own~
That is a great choice of character to use as an example because I think her references are threefold. There’s what you said, sally kristen ride was the first American woman into orbit, and the animal to orbit the earth was Laika the dog and her race is based on dogs
@@yaboischrodi0618 O_O threefold?!? That means the difficulty level for me to notice these references will be threefold higher too. 😂 I suppose I'll just be happy if I can even find one reference that I know in the game. hehe
Something you'll learn eventually but since you were curious about the name choices sometimes here and there. All Operators that work with Rhodes Island use a codename that they choose themselves. Some choose to use a word that describes themselves in some way either by their appearance or powers or something similar. For example Operator Croissant probably picked that name because her horns look similar to croissants.
Others choose to just use their name as their code name. For example Operator Amiya our main character bunny girl.
13:10 "that guy on the right" just got an alter (basically different playable version of an alrdy playable operator) which is really good but needs a bit more investment compared to usual operator to reach that "really good" level
his banner and event started 2 days ago in global
as for side content, there are several manga which you can read online and they're also releasing worldbuilding book. only one manga that is closely tied to a series of event in the game so far (Rhodes Island's Record of Originium - Rhine Lab), while the other 3 manga we have so far are their own story with some characters from the game (one of which is a cooking manga)
Haha I think I tried to roll on his alter banner, although of course, I couldn't get him on my first 10 roll! Really thought that he was soooooooooo freakin cool!
The one thing about the language in arknights is that you can pick on a per operator basis
When it comes to events, all events will be added permanently to the game at some point.
When they do, the permanent stages have nerfed drop rates on upgrade materials compared to when the event was live (Aside from no event currency).
Any event exclusive rewards won't be available until they release the Record Restoration for that event, which are a set of missions you need to simply complete on those event stages.
So if you missed an event, you can still experience the story and stages yourself once they are added in permanently. If you're in it for the rewards, you gotta wait.
There are also mini events as well that use a whole different system compared to a regular event, but likewise, they would also be added in permanently and will have an eventual Record Restoration to unlock the event exclusives.
One cool lore bit is that each series of outfits ie bloodline of conflict is in universe clothing brand
Ooo, now this is something new! That's really cool that they do that.
There is alot of inspirations from real world so yeah it's pretty cool! If you watch the world-building videos (Terra Exploration 1-4) you will see the similarities between the real world and the Arknights world. Love your reactions😊
I hope I'll be able to notice the similarities. XD But in any case, I'm sure the world-building videos would really help me remember some of the lore stuff too! So I look forward to them~
As for where you can get the lore for the game's world, although there is content outside of the game (a handful of mangas and such), afaik they're all separate from the lore.
Most of the lore is inside the game, but in different areas:
- Obviously, the main story, as you go through cutscenes and such.
- The side stories will give background stories about the world, the characters, etc.
- Within each character's profile, there's character lore.
- As you use the characters, you increase your "trust" with them. At certain levels, you unlock more stories from them.
- Some characters have "modules" you can unlock for them (it's like a weapon upgrade, kinda). Those also contain a blob of information.
Ohhh, so that's where each piece of lore can be found! I'm still on the fence about whether I want to read the manga later or earlier because it's separate from the game lore. >.> I guess I should see if the guide includes it somewhere as the "best time to read it". XD
@@Trailblazer_Ririna If you do want to dive into the lore by reading the events and everything, then for the Records Of Originium - Rhine Lab manga I recommend you to read it after Mansfield Break and before Dorothy's Vision and Lone Trail
Records of Originium - Blacksteel is more separate compared to Rhine Lab, so you should be good to go with that one, you will just miss some context here and there since you probably won't know the characters
Rhodes Kitchen - Tidbits is episodic and is also a good to go, same thing with context but it's less important
There are more manga but they haven't been officially released yet, just fan TL
@@Trailblazer_Ririna All official manga is absolutely canon and true to the game lore. It's just it isn't in the game
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Technically, if you want you can go full Dark Souls on the game and read furniture and skin descriptions for the lore too.
Like, you can learn about character dying from her skin description or another character being part of mafia family long before an actual side story get released.
i mean iirc isnt the rhine manga not seperate from the lore?
as it does give some backround on the rhine events, especially lonetrail, and what went on with ifrit
Nian's my favorite of the 'Sui Siblings', sadly also the only one of'm released so far that I've managed to actually pull lol...
I would recommend defaulting to the JP voices when playing, and then checking out the other voices as you play to see and find which you like more on each operator!
Personal favorite is 'Glaucus', a handicapped 'Blue Sea Dragon' girl with a zap cannon lol. I think a big thing that helps with remembering names is how much depth each character is given.
I would say that if you find a character you like, type their name into youtube followed by theme and see if they have one lol. Otherwise you could go through the official EP's, CC# themes or OST's and such, they're all pretty good, especially if you have a fondness for music in general. They cover pretty much every kind of genre of it that you could possibly think of.
They spoil us for anniversaries, that's what. They're celebrated every half year, and the only real downside is that they're only time we can obtain 'Limited' operators, but those banners come with their own spark systems, they give us tons of gacha currency and free pulls with plenty of means to get other goodies as well as usually running most skins available for purchase in the shop. Most players, especially F2P ones, tend to save up most of their gacha currency for those times if they're not going after particular banners, since it's a good time to get certificates as well which can be used to just straight up grab operators you want out of the shop when they're in there. It's also usually when we get a Main Story update or a major event.
Yes. There are deaths in the game, it does not tend to hold back with some of the brutal acts that go on in the game. As for first time playing tips, disregard operator 'rarities'. Focusing on higher rarity units and neglecting your lower rarity ones will make your start with the game incredibly difficult, especially as the game pushes you to have a well diverse selection of characters to handle the various mechanics and challenges each stage throws at you. So if you have high rarity units you like and want to use, make sure your starter units are brought up along with them so that you don't get bottlenecked not being able to progress! Also save the pretty gold gems for skins, it's the only way to obtain skins and those things are only obtained through real money purchasing or as a first time stage clear reward!
before you play this game, note of every newbie mistake, don't exchange orginium prime for orundum, use originium prime purely for skin only (the orundum currency in arknight for gacha roll could be farmed, there is a game mode with a limit how much you can farm and reset every week, you just need to be patient)
I made that mistake during the stream, but thankfully, after that, I haven't converted any, so I guess I can collect the prime and keep it like that at this point! hehe XD Thank you for letting me know that the red thing can be farmed. I was a bit confused about that!
8:53 *BURN ME TO THE GROUND!!!*
With Arknights the language setting for the operators really comes down to personal preferance, I usually always go with JP rather than EN in most games since the feelings just get conveyed best in the original language, for Arknights however the VA´s REALLY nail the performance regardless of language, so I have pretty much mixed and matched the ones I liked best not based off language but simply based off my preferance in voice.
If you want to get into the story and read it there is a super helpful guide in the help section. Also i like to read at my own pace so there is a fan made story reader where i can just scroll and read like a normal e reader book. it is also linked there. It has the in game format for text bubbles and sound effects and music that come with each scene. It is very impressive.
On the subreddit! Somehow forgot to add that oops
Have to admit trailers are good designed. Reminds of old HI3 trailers vibe.
They do! Maybe, that's why I enjoyed them a lot. Makes it super exciting!
Most of the Past Events now are now available Permanently but without the Event Rewards Shop
Things I didn't see answers in the comments (I might have missed) in your questions:
-No actual cutscene in the game except for one at the climax of the first big story arc.
-No voiceover overall, it's visual novel style. Screen sometimes shaking a tiny bit, sound effects, and music.
-No need to consume any media from outside the game to understand the story fully. For the names of the places, you'll remember them as you're progressing in the story. You can look for a world map of the game on google if you're struggling with countries.
ALSO YES Roaring Flare's music gives me chills every single time as well.
the places and cities in arknights are based from real life countries. i think for you to be able to understand the factions and operators is to know which place they originate from. based on the videos you've watched, 'kazimiers' is somewhat like poland, 'lungmen' resembles hongkong, 'sargon' is somewhat in the persian region, 'siesta' is in hawaii and there are so many more you'll encounter as you continue.
Isn't Sargon usually considered to be South America?
@@pmintertek this is kind of confusing in some extent being the setting of sargon is kind of similar to the amazon forest but there are also hints of traditions and terms being used by the persians in the game.
6:29 Well, Yuki Kaji is in fact TATAKAEE, always fighting titans and keep moving forward
Ursus is Russia and also a race (Bear people) Chernobog is the city under Ursus.
Oh, Ursus is also a race??? Interesting... I definitely didn't know that, so I learned something new today! :3
Design-wise, my favorite operator is Dusk. For gameplay, it's Mudrock
events often get reruns, 1 re-run and then the on the 2nd re-run it no longer becomes time gated
I can't answer any questions that haven't been answered yet but love seeing these reactions!!
My favorite operators are Texas the wolfgirl, W unhinged devil you saw in Darknights Memoir, and the bestest Fish man Jordi Fontantarosa aka Lumen!
Can't wait to see game play reactions eventually!
(Also 100% agree that children of Ursus is probably the darkest archive storyline in the game. I had to put the game down for a minute to keep from crying)
There is some content that you can get outside of the game, namely some mangas that cover parts of certain side events like Saria'/ifrit/Silence event. But its mostly background knowledge, not something you need to read to understand the plot, but rather just some more fleshing out of events that are mentioned in the story, but not shown.
I feel that this is always helpful -- when it fleshes out the events that are mentioned in the story. Brings more impact when we do come across them! So I def want to check them out eventually.
5:25 Arknights story are mostly dark and sometimes depressing in general, but Children of Ursus (imo) is at another level of dark and depression. I still think it's the most fucked up so far in Arknights.
18:00 Listening to certain music style/genre depends on our mood, yeah. Arknights has all kind of different music genre collection, that fits in any of your mood. Like many others already said, Arknights is vast and varied. The musics complement it with its specific style on each different region/characters.
Somehow, I look forward to checking out Children of Ursus, only because I like depressing stories in games. XD
One thing you should look out for, is that the Arknights story is extremely bloated. A lot of people can find it hard to comprehend, but it’s okay to take it slow and focus on one thing first. In the end, all the stories connect together with one thread of yarn, no matter how many there are on the bulletin board. And yes, it is depressing, but it’s what makes it special to I, and many other people.
my favorite is operator is Silence from Rhine Labor - most "factions" are inspired from a cultur like Lungmen has a lot of chinese desingn in cloths. Rhine Labor is german but there they use technology as underlying desing choice for the operators
Ooo, Rhine Labor! I definitely need to check out all of the factions again to see which I prefer. Still not sure which one I like! T^T
Wait a second. First of all, Rhine Lab is a company not a country. Second, it was always Columbian (read American)
Where did i wrote its a country? I said "factions" as it can be anything from a gang, company, city and so on
In which world the Rhine is in any country you stated?
next video should have the begining of the high quality 3D animation trailers
I really should have take notes about all questions you asked, cause so many of them. (Which is good, it gives a "food" for the commentators)
Though, another Dokutah already did detailed breakdown, so I will just add this:
"Terra Explorations" or "Terra Discovery" videos are the ones you probably referring as the lore videos. They are indeed cool and can give a more grand vision on the world of Terra, with all it's countries and history.
There are currently 3 videos in this series, but I inclining to suggest to *not* watch the 3rd one for the time being, because it contains quite heavy spoilers that far suppresses the scale of actions in the Main story (and consequently the anime).
Thought, from the other side, you may even not get much sense from it, given your knowledge about the world as of now.
But anyway, I have to say this.
And, at least I could also answer a personal question about favorite character.
While there are so many cool, adorable, and otherwise great characters (with their own respective lore that only adds to that) - I still a special "operator" in the mind.
And that is.. Amiya
I didn't given her that much credit when I only started, but characters' progression is a *real* thing here and my opinion about her over years shifted from:
"I like her colors and design, but how is this little girl is the Leader of Rhodes Island", to:
"I have never seen anyone like her".
Legitimately.
As well as my concerns about why she is the leader has vanished without a trace.
It seems quite a rare that a "title girl" of their respective gacha game received so much positive attention, beyond of reasons like being MC for the Main story. She is really deserved it. And there are other folks who also think similar.
Like, the sheer quantity of fan arts with her already tells a lot. And, there are even exist a CZcams channel that literally called "I Love Amiya", lol. And that is not just some random no-name user. The dude actually make quite interesting content, primary focused around challenging and creative clears of in-game maps. (But unfortunately, not quite often uses Amiya herself, since Power-in-Lore and Power-in-Gameplay discrepancy sometimes gets really unjust).
Anyway, enjoyed your reaction.
Cheers
I already like Amiya but I definitely had the thought of, "How did she become the Leader?" while playing. It surprised me because I actually thought that we were already the official leader of Rhodes Island! I probably will check out the third video, only because if I do encounter the things they talk about in the game, I might not even fully comprehend it and therefore, forget again, so having repeats of important stuff is probably better for me in the long run! :3
@@Trailblazer_Ririna in video you said that to catch you on stream one should go to your Discord, right? Just hopping in to your Discord channel would be enough or those stream are only for paid subscribers or something?
@@VCE4 Chapters 0-1 gameplay stream VOD will be available on my channel next week, but you can get early access to it as a paid subscriber. Future AK gameplay streams & VODs, along with AK anime reaction, will only be available for my "Huge Fox Bite Tier" paid subscribers on my Discord. Hope that cleared things up! :)
@@Trailblazer_Ririna okay, got it
My favorite operator? I am part of the Skadi cult kyaaaaaaaaa
My fav operator is Reed! :D
you should definetly react to their 3D PVs, theyre almost Disney level of quality
I daresay even better
26:38 btw, check fan animation "Arknights The Movie: Stars From The End" it's on youtube. absolute banger
Thank you for the recommendation! I added it to my things to check out~ :3
Each event runs twice. After the rerun it goes into archive so new players won't miss out on them.
I really like this aspect of Arknights~
About languages it rly depends on preferences, I have most in JP ( For Example Pozemka, Che'en), some in eng ( for example Fiametta, Rosa) few in CN ( for the example Fartooth) few in KR ( Mullbery), fee in Italiano ( Penance, Texas, Lappland)
Faw operators are Ch'en ( She was first I saved currency for), ofc Pozemka, Flanetail, Typhon, Weedy, Rosa, April, Reed, W, Fartooth... Sorry its hard to pick one xD and eventually you will remember the names ^^
Ye, arknights rerun events, its nice for new players
I think the only operator names I remember are Amiya and Texas. XD haha It's definitely take me a long while to remember these names. AHHHHH!!!
hello dear arknights-newbie, just found this channel. just here to give the shortest possible explanation possible to arknigths, since i already found a comment going into your questions.
if you really read the story its mainly a visual novel with some tower defense in between. they provide a good level of difficulty, which you can decide by the operators you wanna use if you get to the point where it gets too easy for you. this can go from easy-peacy to darksouls, but its tower defense.
have fun playing
Hehe been enjoying it lots~ thank you for watching!
japan, english and chinese is the standard language option, however certain operator have other language, example texas alter and lappland are siracusan (italy version of terra thus they have italian VA, leithanien operator roster are now getting german dub because leithanien are reference to central europe, victorian op tend to have british english style, ursus roster have russian
Here's all the answers to all question you asked (and not only):
2:40 - Depends on characters. Some have better VAs on some language, some on others (No offense Exia but your EN voice sucks compared to KR and JP).
Also not everyone have all languages, each character usually have:
JP (1st one, all got it),
CN (2nd language, Chineese (Simplified), most of operators have it),
KR (3rd language, Korean, around 60% have it),
EN (4th language, English, also 60% havre it) and
TR or Traditional, which is multilanguage one. Its language depends on what place character is from (For example, operators from Siracusa ,which is basically Italia, got Italian voices, or operators from Yan, which is basically China, got Chineese (Traditional) voices).
In terms of languages we got Japaneese, Chineese, Korean, English, Italian, Russian, German. Also in terms of English - they quite often use voices of people from specific countries (for example they got Spanish people for EN voices for some operators from Iberia).
3:03 - FYI you can do a livestream for YT with covered VOD and just shown timer for videos so we could launch the anime on out devices in sync with you or you can do reactions of each episode with hardly covered visuals and some cuts for video format. Thats how YT TOS works. For Twitch its a bit less restricted and much more doable.
3:28 - lucky you, its a free skin that is not really hard to get when one of seasonal events is up.
4:16 - hard for me to tell so either Gladiia, Skalter or Whisperain. Fish people all the way!
4:48 - thats Istina, also part of Ursus group that you liked.
5:00 - after some time you start memorizing them all. In my case i can tell the names of like 90% of them (theres around 300 already).
6:49 - easier to say groups since there's factionas, organizations, countries and many many others. Also titles you see in trailers are just title of the event, basically title of some book and such.
7:57 - trivia: Pyrite is one of minerals that also got title of "False gold" 'cause people back in a day been messing this mineral with Gold when they just discovered it .
9:04 - for main story its varies but like once per 6 month with no certain rate, pretty much depends with how much job Hypergryph (Dev company that created this game) needs to do.
9:31 - yes, events does repeat only once and then it moves to Side Story or Intermezzi tab where you no longer can get medals from but you can get free operator, skin, themed furniture and profile avatar picture from once Record Restoration for said event drops a bit later. Events that moved to this tabs can be played at any time and meant for newer players who just started playing.
10:20 - this game in a whole is one giant reference to our world with some similar events hapenning. Discrimation, racism, corruption and etc - all of that happens here as well. But mostly yeah, it's original story.
12:17 - yeah, story is basically one giant (really giant) visual novella which just alternates with gameplay back to back when you keep progressing. The more you progressing with the game - the deeper and bigger lore becomes between stages that you have to read. There's no voice acting since if there was one than - the game would weight 3 times more than original size of the game (which is currently about 7 GBs).
13:34 - yes, we do have cutscenes in story. All i can say here.
13:20 - yeah splash arts are always highly detailed and very nicely done to fully represent who's the character is. There's also (back to topic about Visual Novel stuff) lots of artworks during the stories that also repreasents different situations from more understandable and detailed angles which spicies up the stories even more. For gacha games it happens quite usually.
14:12 - yes, outside of the main part of the game there's Side Stories (most of which you saw in these trailers), gamemodes such as Intergrated Strategies (Shortly IS) (Which is basically Roguelike mode), SSS (dont remember OG title tbh lol) (which is Card gamemode) and many more in the future.
15:22 - that was the only case when instead of just rerunning banner and event we also got new banner on top with it.
17:43 - tbh lots of games doesnt do much for music since its expensive and quite tricky to do. Arknights however knows how to make good songs and soundtracks and sure uses it.
21:04 - yeah the story doesnt really go chronologically. The main story sure does but other events takes time at different parts of time, some even at a whole different timeline being "what if..." type of events. Even worse when some of these events doesnt tell when they happened specifically so we have just to guess depending on facts from the event stories themselves.
21:25 - lucky you again, this operator is free-to-get for any player after you will grind a bit. A bit niche but quite nice character tbh.
22:49 - no wonder why some people calling the game DripKnights. Also fun fact - sometimes developers does involve IRL fashion designers to make skins and looks for all the characters, even for non playable ones. Theres artbooks that also covers it and shows how much job has been put into some of these characers.
23:43 - yep thats a shield. Giant spiky shield.
24:29 - another fun fact - skins here are also grouped between each other in fashion collections such as Marthe (Sport themed collection), Epoque (Past related collection) and etc.
25:42 - yes, Roaring Flare is one of story updates that gave us Chapter 8 which was concluding chapter for Reunion story arc. After that we moved to completly different part of the main story.
27:37 - yes some skins are free-to-get from daily login events, Record Restorations, event shops and others.
28:24 - in the game its not really shown but in story in general and anime as well - yes. Lots of death happens here left and right. The world of Arkights, Terra, is a very cruel place.
Hopefully covered everything here.
Thank you for answering all of my questions! Will have to refer back to it once in a while. hehe
I probably will make the AK anime just a Server Sub only benefit only because of lack of time on my end.
As for remembering name goes I guess the more you use operators the more you commit them into memories, Like those Nearls (knights with blond hairs). So far there 4 operators from their family alone and easy to mix them up altogether, to makes things worse the first one added since day 1 have code name Nearl as in their family name. People often refer them as their real name instead of their code name. xD
Point is the more you play with them the more you remember their names whether it's because what role they play in story, the in-game mechanic they specialize in or even for their VA or their skin/costumes xDD
😊❤ amazing reaction Rina. My fav character is amiya, she called me dokutah its so cute.
Amiya really is adorable~ I do wonder what her background is though... and of course, us, the players! Can't wait to learn more!
@Trailblazer_Ririna as a person who read amiya lore , I think the character development is very well written,
From what I understand it's mainly about a person who tries to make their own way through difficulties to break the cycle of people's hatred toward each other
And so is one of the goals of rhodes island
@@Astpirick Awww, Amiya sounds like such a gem. T^T I'm definitely gonna read up on her lore later on, unless it's showcased in the main story of the game?
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Yep! Amiya's story is in the main theme
Favorite Operator? Pallas!
Drunk Buffalo Mommy :D
Cover it however you want to, but a lot of the music is really really good
Also it's always funny to see people covering Eternal Flame and All Hail Savior when they hear them for the first time.
EF because they're never prepared for the chorus to kick off the way it does, and AHS because no one I've seen, and I mean no one, is ready for Adrienne Cowan to go full metal like she does there.
There's loads of great songs, but those two are my favorite to watch people listen to for the first time
Events rerun once and then are added permanently to the side story and intermezzi tabs unless they are collab events which aren't. No collab event has been added to side story or intermezzi,though one collab event has been announced to rerun.
To be fair, if you played R6S story, you can still read it in archives.
Sad that collab events don't have reruns, but I guess that's pretty standard in any case, so I'm okay with it! XD
In a way I recommend to play the side-stories and intermezzi, in the same order as you watched the trailers and event announcements. Should as well lighten the mood in the dark story parts.
Of course if you want to continue there with the dark story it's up to you. ;)
Ooo, your recommendation is very easy to remember! Thank you! I should sprinkle in some side stories and intermezzis for the upcoming Arknights Let's Play videos in that case. That'll be nice to play through, especially since the main chapters are getting darker and heavier. T^T
@@Trailblazer_Ririna Side Stories, especially the 'Chutulu Touched’ ones like 'Under Tides' and 'Golden Age' are usually darker than Intermezzi
12:35 Unfortunately nearly all of the story is told in text similar to that of a visual novel with no voice acting. Probably the biggest turn off for most people who try the game. Honestly, for the first 0-3 episodes, I'd recommend just watching the first season of the anime (12 episodes) than all the reading. The first 4 episodes (0-3) are also the weakest in terms of story for the entire game, so watching as anime makes them more palatable as well IMO.
Btw, you did great picking up on stuff. Thank you for sharing this reaction.
Thankfully, I'm okay with the way the story was told in text so far in chapters 0-1 since I've played so many VNs that had no VA, longwinded story telling, and no animated cutscenes. XD And some would have no music or would have very bland music. So anime will have to wait! haha
Went thru the anime, first 'season' 8 episodes covers the first 3 chapters, second 8 episodes covers the next 3 chapters. found the first season.... needed stuff. it had too many words and not enough action or color or whatever. also kept flipping between various bosses and didn't really settle on a story.
Season 2 had a more focused path. just Frostnova and faust/mephisto. and I think they toned down the words per episode. worked alot better.
Interesting... I guess I can just view it as a refresher for the game! XD
I would like to see a reaction video for Arknights CC songs and battle themes, there are soo cool. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥, And also would be good if you watch some hard gameplay videos too
Definitely! I don't know about the hard gameplay videos though, but either way, those will have to be after I finish watching all the trailers and PVs though since there are just SOOOOO MANYYYYYYYY!!! hehe
@@Trailblazer_Ririna hope you bring them quickly
When it comes to Reruns of events, they will do a single rerun of the event then afterwards it's put into a section of the game where you can play them whenever you wish. As for any information outside of the game there are several manga out by now but it it's not something you NEED to read in order to understand what is going on in the game. More of life outside of what goes on that they can't put into the game.
Knowing that the manga shows the life outside of what goes on in the game makes me want to read it eventually. I feel like that might help me remember stuff a bit better too! :3
Their first big manga series is called "Arknights: Operators!". It's about 45 chapters right now. There are also a few light novels around certain groups, and there is even a small 3 book series called "Rhodes Kitchen" which also has actual recipes!
In case you haven't seen this yet so I'll make it as not spoiler as possible.
Arknights has the most crazy and variety collab as well as gameplay ever.
Also Arknights is the type of game that has everything for everyone.
You like heavy metal? You have it. Maybe something more tame? How about some lullaby. Electronic, Jazz, Rap. You can't know arknights and not at least love one song.
17:05 first rerun and first "little" controversy
Controversy???
@@Trailblazer_Ririna New character on rerun, no free orundum from stages since it's rerun (less pulls/no free skin) and Thorns is meta. Since then they stoped adding new characters in rerun events.
Arknights has heavy lore and complex world-building, akin to the Elder Scrolls or the Forgotten Realms (Baldur's Gate)
Arknights is Warhammer fantasy in anime wersion.both world's have ton of simlarities.Portals on north and south,Atlantis ,Originium is more Stable warpstone.and so on.just compare Sami: contact with Conquer your demons trailer.or Invitation to Vine pv and teaser with Dawn of grand Cathay
I wish I could understand all of that, but I don't really play tabletop games, so I'm quite... ignorant about the terms you used. T^T But thank you so much for trying to explain it to me!
@@Trailblazer_Ririna i dont Play them too.did you heared about Warhammer total war? Its Awesome strategy game.with great lore and cinematics
@@Trailblazer_Ririna many Arknights fans dont Play Game.they are into anime,music ,or lore.many Warhammer fans are into books( Gotrek and Felix or Horus heresy) or games
@@alicjacaban2226 I haven't! To be honest, I never grew up with games and only started playing games (somewhat) 5 years ago. XD So I'm pretty ??? about most games and their existence, unless someone tells me about it. haha
@@Trailblazer_Ririna check out Immortal empires trailer,curse of wampire Coast and Skaven trailer.they are epic
6:35 classic UUUUOOOOOOOGGGGHHH 😭😭😭😭😭
Hm, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure her fans started this trend "worldwide"
Ooo, they did? O_O
@@Trailblazer_Ririna I'm not sure, but I didn't see it before "Suzuran" happened
use some of the exclusive va like italian one is pretty good
Italian!!! I did hear that there were other languages that aren't EN, JP, CN, and KR. I'll definitely check those out after I try out the main ones. :3
@@Trailblazer_Ririna they introduce *German* voice recently
and also Russian XD
but Italian,Russian,German is only for (some of the) Operaters that are canonically from the referenced countries
Well, such as Ursus (Imperial Russia) Leithania (Holy Roman/Austro-Hungarian Empire?)
I guess it'll fit with my eventual goal of setting the voice languages to the operators' suspected native languages! hehe
I prefer english for most Operators since then I can understan what they'd saying. The exception is that anyone that has a VA in their "proper" native languege, such as Texas and Lappland having italian VA's get those instead
Hehe I did hear that was the case! Definitely can't wait to try out new voices in the future.
And even if you don't use her, if you should pull her, just put Lappy on Italian and run through all her lines (you can do the voicelines from the character screen) at least once. She's delightfully deranged.
I also hear that Ebenholz has great German lines but I haven't raised mine yet.
I usually do Japanese voices only, with the exception of a few, whose EN voices are really good, like 2 I think. But the Ursus (Russian) operators have some good Russian accents, so they fit pretty well too. Mostly the EN voices don't fit the characters, imo, haha.
3:35 oof..... children of Ursus.... there's a good reason that event never got a rerun, lmao. Depression central, right there.
My fav operator, uh right..... uhm..... in terms of cuteness, Muelsyse. In terms of badassery, Degenbrecher. In terms of design, Dusk xD
7:38 OUR LIGHT!!!! MUST PROTECC!!!!
9:00 If you wanna react to Arknights music, the CC themes are a GREAT starting point! There's no copyright as well, so go nuts, it's all in-game created songs, just be careful of the some that have other creators names on it, like Yellow Claw and stuff, that's a bit of a grey area.
But yeah, sidestories do get reruns after some months, maybe a year, so new players can experience them as well! Super cool way Hypergryph run the game.
And yeah, most stories in Arknights have heavy influences from real world locations, depending on where it takes place. Twilight of Wolumonde, for example are crafted after Germanic architecture, since it takes place in Leithanien, which is basically Arknights Germany. Kazimierz have a HEAVY knight theme, from the polish knights of many years ago, the Winged Hussars and such. All countries have that style from the real world country they take inspiration from, it's awesome!
11:40 yeeeees, the best trailer music for an Episode, which is Episode 7 in the game. SO GOOD.
Each half year and annual anniversary is FILLED with gifts, events and all kinds of fun stuff to do ingame! Usually also a HIGHLY anticipated banner with operators people really look forward to, hehe.
17:25 BEST CC THEME! YEEEES I'M ON FIRE, IGNITED BY A BURNING DESIIIIRRREE!
23:07 Time for dubstep knights! Kazimierz has some of the best music genre in the game, along with Laterano!
30:20 nooooo, Terra Exploration videos is where the lore hits, we get Kal'tsit ASMR while she talks about the different countries, really good lore here!
All in all, great video! Looking forward to the next! =D
EDIT: if you wanna watch the anime, it's probably better to do so off youtube, as it is HEAVILY copyrighted. Gotta do lots of editing to cover the screen and mute it maybe, and just have a timer so people can pull up the actual anime next to your video, so it's kind of like a watch along. Seen some people do that, so it should work!
Thank you for the explanation about the copyright stuff on the music side of things. It really helps! :3 I can't wait to check out the Terra Exploration videos soon. hehe (And thank you for explaining about the anime! I really wasn't sure about that, even though I looked it up. Might just make it Server Sub only, due to lack of time.)
You are very welcome, glad I could help out a bit! Been playing since launch, so yup, obviously a huge fan xD but yeah, the music is basically free real estate, so no worries. Hypergryph has made their own music studio to make the music for the game and trailers and such.
But it would be risky watching the anime on here, so that's a good choice. Hope to see you in game at some point!
@@FrostyMikhail HECK YEAHHH!!! I love it when game companies make their own music studio. XD It just goes to show how invested they are in their games~ hehe
To be fair, most of "problem" music is Yostar collabing with something. All music that came from Hypergryph/Moster Siren Reconds is fine with exception of "Speed of Light" (because DJ OKAWARI)
ayy been waiting for these
🎉🎉🎉