What's with the Natlan all the hate?
My comment regarding this video:
YAPFEST AHEAD PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK
IMO:
Disagreements:
Mavuika's biggest flaw is how flawless she wants herself to be. She knows that she is human so she is willing to sacrifice all the humane characteristics of herself to become the true pyro archon that natlan deserves. Remember how furina had to put on an act as an archon cuz she thought thats's how archons act. Mavuika being human also thinks greatly of archons, perhaps too greatly afterall she didnt see how ei messed up or how zhongli gave up on archonhood or even how nahida had inferiority complex. She only knew war since the beginning of her life and those brave and fearless heroes who sacrificed their life for natlan.
As far as emotional aspects of her go, she clearly cares about everyone but is willing to put on the brave mask cuz she is the archon, like imagine your nation's leader is crying in the middle of a war. What are the common folk even supposed to do? This is made even more clear in her story quest when in the end she turns away and puts on her sunglasses before crying, showing the fact that she is human after all but she doesn't want anyone else to know about it. This is also confirmed when Citlali asks her what she truly wants just as a human and not an archon when she is about to sacrifice her life to lord of the night. She outright says it "It's not important Citlali" showing that she believes that her human self should not interfere with her archon duties, once again trying to be the god that even gods struggle to be.(19:37 yes, if only she knew that gods can be flawed perhaps she could let a few more things slide)
16:49 I dont think she would cry in front of her sister cuz she wouldn't want her sister to be emotional too after all she puts up the front that she always does the right thing. You could say Im looking too deep perhaps but that's exactly me, I have literally cried once in front of someone I just hold the tears back and once I get to my room and lock my door they come rolling down.
20:14 Xblanque looking out for the flame followed by his immediate retreat as soon as it goes out, I think is a pretty good indicator as to the fact that he was just keeping up and that he prolly wouldn't last much longer. Boasting is an interesting word to use here as the warriors all tend to have that playful competitive spirit as in they would probably rub it in if they have defeated you before, but that does not translate to her thinking any less of xblanque so im fine with it.
Agreements:
She should most definitely have had more arguments with capitano as to which plan should have been executed. Or atleast the argument they had should have been more layered and in depth rather than capitano being like "Hmph fine" after asking what the traveller thinks. Honestly tho why does he even care about what the traveller thinks.
Her infalliable nature is another thing i missed in the archon quest. Act 5 was the best place to make her plan fail against goysoythoth. They could have actually killed the traveller and make her regret bringing the traveller in the first place. listening to the voice in the trailer "The value of a descender's life is much more than you imagine" made me think that they were doing that precisely but alas apparently the traveller didnt even die.
The fight against gosoythoth felt like an easy victory (even though the previous bosses were all easy like whale and scaramek this one felt weird maybe cuz its the fking abyss we are talking about or maybe cuz arlecchino just kicked our asses 6 patches ago idk yet), it isnt rocket science that fights are compelling when the tides actually change from one side to another which never happens in this battle, making it feel underwhelming and also making mavuika feel unbeatable.
I have seen yet another video pop up
I haven't watched it so I can't comment on it but looking at the pinned comment I can totally see where he is coming from, being a lore enthusiast there is no way you could think any less of Xbalanque so defeating him would feel like they are downplaying him for the sake of showing Mavuika in good light, which is fair. I never really cared about who won in the battle so I have no say regarding it.
NO HATE TO EITHER OF THE CREATORS WHO ARE FAIR IN ASSESSING THE CHARACTER AND PUTTING FORWARD THEIR OPINION (In fact my name for now's Capitano vid is insane, especially the lich king part I highly recommend checking it out), WHAT I HATE IS THE FKING COMMENT SECTION. LOOKS LIKE BEASTS WHO HAVE BEEN STARVING FOR YEARS JUST WAITING FOR AN OPENING TO SHIT ON EVERYTHING.
Vid links to check them out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eH6QOqevEE (saurusness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lcUSh6okM (My Name For Now)
It wasn't always like this, It really started off with Natlan and went into a whole different level with Chasca and now continuing through Mavuika.
I was also someone who didn't like Mavuika's design in the ignition teaser, my first reaction was "Why tf is she a biker outfit?" but as the story progressed I really liked her character and her outfit didn't seem jarring after 3 patches. I was glad I could finally pull a char that is not being shit talked constantly (POV: You pulled Chasca literally in the previous patch). It really feels like there is a lot of negativity for some reason whether it be Chasca, Mavuika or the Natlan Act 5. People were literally praising how incredible Act 4 was and now all of a sudden just cuz Act 5 is a little underwhelming it has become the worst aq next to Inazuma like seriously? I'm someone who doesn't even use any social media other than yt and genshin leaks reddit. As someone who loves the game it's just sad to see all the constant negativity, Ig that's what you get for having such a huge playerbase. Hopefully, Snezhaya rekindles some positivity until then I'll try to stay away from even these social media platforms. Reddit shouldn't be hard considering how bad the leaks have gotten.