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I originally planned to go through 2 chapters and then play Genshin, but I ended up playing until chapter 22. It was so engrossing! I don’t know how many chapters there are in total, but I think I did the final boss? I’m glad we don’t need to farm it, because the animations are so long on this one.

I love the story so so much, there are so many fronts and confrontations, and it’s really cool when everyone fights together.

I just finished chapter 11, the story is so so good. We’re finally seeing confrontations we’ve been waiting for a long time, and overall, it’s great to see so many characters at once. The pace is really good too, it’s very suspenseful and a lot of scenes make us take side, which I like.
I haven’t liked the last event stories we had this version, but the main story of 3.x is my favourite.

The story is so so good, I really love Merel a lot. She’s my favourite character just after Charon. I can’t wait to do her story, but it’s always best to do the main story first I think.

Continued a bit, there was a chapter with abstract concepts, I’m not sure I understood everything, but otherwise, most of the story is rather easy. I kind of stopped on a cliffhanger, but I also want to play Genshin today.

I started the main story, only did the first three episodes but 1- I love the beginning and 2- it’s quite easy to follow so far, which is really not always the case with R1999 stories (I mean, follow with Chinese text).

I don’t like all Reverse stories, but this one will most certainly be one of my favourites, because I love Merel. I can’t wait to know what happened and understand who Rhiannon is exactly.

I listened to the main story today (only did a couple of chapters), just listening, not looking at the text. It was okayish, I can’t say I’m following like super well, but enough to find it interesting and know what is happening.

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.

I cleared two stages of Focused Flashback with full stars! My Corvus dynamo team cleared the Lingering Glow stage in 4 rounds - that’s thanks to P5 Charon and P5 Rhiannon - but was really surprised me is that Liang Yue cleared in 6 rounds!

Did people complain and the made the stages easier? Because my FUA team hasn’t changed, and they were not clearing this fast before…

I couldn’t resist, she’s now P5. I decided to buy Charon with the package where you can get a standard 6 star. So they’re both P5 now, I’m really happy. I’ve been skipping all the recent meta, I don’t have lingering glow, conduit or bloodtithe, but I’m much prefer maxing the characters I love.

I wonder if they made the Arcade mini game easier this time? Last time I didn’t clear difficulty 3, and I remember needing a lot of runs to complete it. This time, I cleared each difficulty once and maxed the rewards pretty easily.

I need to keep a guarantee for Charon P5 (his banner is coming soon), but otherwise, I’m throwing all my wishes to Rhiannon. I was very lucky and got her P4 already. I really really want her P5 though… I even have a guarantee now, so if things go extremely well on Charon’s banner, maybe there’s a chance…

For the first time since I started playing R1999, I won’t be able to complete the achievement card.

I can’t get 6 stars on the Focused Flashback event… My dynamo team got 3 stars, plant impromptu only managed to get 2, and there’s nothing on my account that can even clear the third stage…

I’m not pulling meta and I’m skipping entire archetypes to guarantee the characters I like or even get them to P5, so I don’t care about the rewards of this kind of events and I’m completely fine with not clearing all the endgame content. But locking the achievements behind meta pulls is a bit strange… 6 stars is also a big requirement. Like I dont’ think there’s anything you can do, it’s not like the needed characters were on banner…

Went to double-pity for Enigma but oh well… now the dynamo team is complete: Corvus, Charon, Ulrich and Enigma.

I did everything I wanted to do in the patch! The achievement card is complete, I can peacefully wait for Enigma to release.

I didn’t like this version of UTTU, why did they make restrictions on the characters we can use? I really don’t see the point of the event, if we just use trial characters. It felt bad not being able to use my P5 Ezio, or my favourite character Charon.
And the restrictions were always the same, there was not a single stage that allowed us to play dynamo? Unless I missed something?

Limbo is done too, and I played Critter Crash until I got the skin. I’m missing some rewards, so I might do a couple of other runs if I have time.

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.

Finally fully built… I also bought his weapon. I don’t care if other support weapons are better, I always give characters their signature. I still don’t know how to play him exactly, I really need to re-read his kit or watch some videos.

Liangyue’s team is complete! I love Cheng Heguang’s I2! I also loved his role in the story, but I mainly pulled because he is a dedicated support for Liangyue.

I don’t pull all the true limited characters, but Paper Heron was a must pull! I never played the Star Impromptu team, so Impromptu is a new mechanic to me!