Reverse: 1999

I continued the story a bit, I finished chapter 9. I like it so far, but it’s also not my favourite.

I went through Lorentz Butterfly story. I found some parts interesting, some less, so I skimmed through them. I initially thought I would skip the whole character story, so I’m glad I went through it. But yeah, I don’t feel invested in this patch at all.

I finally started the story, I love it!! I’m watching on bilibili instead of playing in-game, I wish I could just listen to it and not have to always look at the screen, but it’s too difficult. I can follow quite well, but I need to read the subtitles in Chinese.
I love Loggerhead the most, I love her voice so much, so melodious! Then I also really like 野木蓝.

I finished Cheng Heguang’s story, it really was a last minute thing, but I haven’t played Reverse much lately.
I loved his story very much, I usually love Reverse character stories and anecdotes, but I find that they’ve become more contemplative lately? I like introspection, but rather than having the character recall the past in a contemplative way, I prefer just having an episode of the past as story. That’s exactly what Cheng Heguang’s story was, and I love it. It has a good plot, we learn about key moments of his past, learn about his character and personality… A story that has an engaging plot and allows us to know and understand the character better… that’s the best in my opinion.

I finished the main story! It was difficult to follow in Chinese, especially all the taoist/spiritual things, I can’t say I understood everything. Overall, I’d say I understood maybe 75% of what was said? Whereas a typical Genshin story would be closer to 95%? I liked the story overall, but it’s not my favourite, I much preferred last year’s Chinese New Year’s story with Liangyue.

I understood almost everything that Reed said, and Huigu was also rather easy. Cheng Heguang and Li shoubei were okayish, though there was a lot of vocabulary related to official duties, rank, etc. And Cheng Heguang uses a lot of chengyu. Lusi Jian and Ren Xianren were by far the most difficult to understand. Lusi Jian uses a lot of classical expressions, her Chinese was the most challenging. And Ren Xianren was mostly talking about taoist stuff that I would have found difficult to entirely grasp in English too anyway.

I’m looking forward to Cheng Heguang’s banner! I’ll pull a copy for Liangyue, and then save to P5 Charon.

Finished Centurion’s Anecdote, I liked it! The end was a bit underwhelming though…

I don’t have the courage to try and unlock the other ending, I’m not a fan of the multiple endings mechanic, so I’m giving up on the weapon ascension mats, but I do have the weapon!

I played a little bit of Critter Crash, I had a broken Dynamo deck which got me my best result.
I’ll continue playing until I get the skin, but I probably won’t have time to go beyond that.

Cleared Lucidscape! I always try to speedrun with my best characters. Teams were:
First half:

They cleared in 4 rounds. I did a retry, but I couldn’t clear in 3 rounds no matter what. Maybe the team is not optimal, because Fatutu didn’t do anything.

Second half:

Not sure what this team is exactly, but they cleared in 3 rounds no problem (Ezio is P5 and Charon P3). I didn’t play Cassandra at all.

I saw this word in three voicelines so far: Aino comparing her brain to a rusted screw when not fulled with cakes and sweets, Ineffa talking about her own joints under the rain… and Rubuska talking about a pair of rusted scissors she used to cut the burnt hair of her mother.
Some words associated with some of Rubuska’s voicelines make me really sad I cried a lot during her Story, it was one of the saddest I think

Genshin and Reverse use different words for “damage”.
伤害 is Genshin and 创伤 is R1999.

I just learned 无虞 which was at the end of Gorou’s letter, and if I’ve already encountered the hanzi of a word in another word, my flashcards will tell me. So this allowed me to realise that 虞 is the same as in 虞美人, which is a word closely linked to Charon. It’s in the name of his Ultimate, itself coming from his voiceline: 士兵不会瞑目，纵使虞美人盛开, which is one of my favourite voicelines in all Reverse.
But anyway, of course, in 虞美人 the character is a surname, so it has nothing to do with the meaning of fear, dread and worry we have in 无虞, that’s why I probably would never have realised that it’s actually the same character in both words if my flashcards hadn’t shown it to me.

Another word I learnt in Corvus voicelines, and I’m surprised I didn’t know it already. It means that I never saw this word before which is unlikely, or I saw it and ignored it, which is also unlikely because it’s not the kind of word whose meaning I could have guessed.

I learnt those two related words recently. 茧子 was Aino talking about Varka’s hands, and 老茧 was Corvus talking about her own hands. Always makes it easier to memorise a new character when seeing it in two different places in a short time!

I learnt this world in the event story 不老春, I wonder if it’ll ever be useful. If I ever see this word again, I need to remember to come back to this post to update it and say that it was useful after all.

I completely forgot about Reed! I mean I forgot we got her for free and she was sitting at zero friendship in the suitcase. All my other characters have max friendship now.
I added her to the Wilderness, and I’ll need to redo my farming stages! My teams are always Ezio + whoever needs friendship levels.

I’m not playing any Reverse1999 at the moment, just logging in to do my dailies. I haven’t done the story yet, and I’m somehow not really motivated to do it at all. What I think I will do is listen to it on either YouTube or BiliBili instead of playing in-game, so I can do something else why I listen.

I probably won’t be playing much Reverse this new patch… I might even skip the story and character stories, we’ll see… There are so many things to do in Genshin right now, I don’t have time for two games, and R1999 has always been a side game. I also really want to go back to Where Winds Meet, so given that I’m not hyped at all for the this patch (not specially looking forward to the story, it’s also not a main story I think, and I’m skipping both characters anyway), it’s a good time to take a break.

I finished working on Corvus’ voicelines. I’ll do Rubuska next. I’m working my way in reverse given that the audio of the recent characters is not available on the wiki yet. I don’t know exactly when they will be, maybe when the character becomes standard? I only do characters I have.
I guess I should also study Corvus’ kit… R1999 character kits are such a pain to read and fully understand.

I’m working on Corvus voicelines. I didn’t pull on her banner, but I got her P1 thanks to the 100 free pulls from the mid-year anniversary. I never really paid attention to her voicelines though, but I’m working on it now!

I looked at Cheng Heguang’s kit, on the one hand, it is much simpler than Liangyue’s, but on the other hand, it’s still very difficult to understand to me… Like, even in English, it’s not because I read a kit once that I know how to play the character, but it’s worse in Chinese. It’s not even a vocab problem, because I already knew most of the words in his kit, it’s just that I read everything and have no idea of what he does appart from buffing and dealing some damage? Maybe I’m just stupid ^^’

Someone borrowed one of my characters! It could be Getian P3, Charon P3, or Ezio P5. Maybe I should replace Getian with Liangyue P3, she has her euphoria, her skin and her Resonance is maxed too. With the release of Cheng Heguang, people might want to try her before deciding whether to pull on the true-limited rerun banner.

Cheng Heguang came home at soft pity! Now I need to read and study his kit in Chinese, build him (3/60/10 for now I think), and learn how to play him with Liangyue. Which reminds me that I still haven’t entirely studied Liangyue’s euphoria (her kit is such a pain to read TT). As for the voicelines, I’ll study them when the audio is available on the wiki, I don’t know exactly when they’re uploaded, but it might take two patches still.

I finished Getian’s anecdote, I loved it, though it left me melancholic. I understand now why he has his anecdote this patch, the story beautifully echoes the themes of the event story, but from a completely different perspective.

I’m not a fan of the new anecdote format though… it’s just reading, I Iiked the older one much more.

Part of me wants to do Getian’s Anecdote in Chinese, and part of me just doesn’t have the courage. Because Getian is one of my favourite characters, I want to understand what I read, and his lore might be a bit difficult in Chinese too. I’ll probably stick to English.
One thing that I’m really happy about, is that I checked his anecdote weapon, and I can read the passive in Chinese without much struggle now! I’ve been studying character kits, and it pays off. I used to always check characters kits in English (even for Genshin), because it felt impossible to read abilities in Chinese, but I’m working on this now, and it’s not as daunting as I thought.

His weapon: 若记忆者灵感为【兽】，布设【术阵】时，为术阵附加额外效果：已方全体仪式威力提升10%，术阵结束后或被顶替后移除额外效果.
Which I understand as “If the (bearer?)’s afflatus is Beast, when they deploy an array, add an additional effect to the array: ceremonial might (I think it’s ultimate might, but I’ll have to check) increased by 10% for all team members, this additional effect stops when the array ends or is replaced.”
The only thing is 记忆者, which I assume refers to the person holding the weapon. I didn’t know they were called “the one who remembers”, but given that weapons are 心相, it makes sense.