Anonymous Coward · 3mo
IW anon here, thanks for the lengthy answer! fellow mr nothing appreciator!
yes, i also agree that its function is more introductory than anything. arguably then, the yan - wars of ruin video (the one 2nd brother narrated) shouldve been around to open IW. perhaps that wouldve helped contextualise some things in IW.
i personally didnt mind the goblet chase bc it felt intriguing enough to me! bar blacknight's involvement ofc, which was... really a nothingburger...
i read a post somewhere that IW was purposefully written with the different yanese government factions being confusing because the event wanted to show how convoluted it all was. well, colour me convoluted indeed lmao. i couldnt make sense of who was associated with who, and what their goal with the goblet and the sui were. vernal winds did a much more grounded approach by reducing the number of conflicting parties and keeping their alliances clear (i.e. shanghaizhong are a threat to yumen, which are to be defended by only its military, however one of the conflicts was how historically yumen was protected by BOTH military and civilian parties). i agree with you about character development, too. i feel like liang xun's mental struggle with keeping shangshu intact amidst the chaos of the mandarins chasing the goblet was kinda muddied by all the convoluted writing about who's who. it just leaves readers confused as to why liang was having a hard time in the first place!
jokingly, would you say you felt like... you only dreamt up reading IW? haha. thanks again for the answer.
p.s. i believe vernal winds has objectively one of the best pacing in all of arknights writing. i was at the edge of my seat when yumen was head-on against the catastrophe.
Haha, IW sure feels "did I really read all that?" after some time! That's sure a different type of a "dreamy" feeling than the one people writing "dreams" usually go for.
Talking about dreams, I think Ling's oprec is great. It's poetic, slightly weird and profound, really deserved to be her screen screentime in the event not locked behind rolling and e2'ing her.
And oh yes, I LOVED Where Vernal Winds Will Never Blow. It had an interesting intrugue, a good villain, Yumen is a location that has its character. I think the first scene that got me HYPED was Chongyue's duel against Huai, it clicked me how important and epic it is when the thought "so a peak where god resides can only be reached by a maniac who leaves all humane behind, huh." And then it was only better from there, the Catastrophe hitting Yumen, Yuhsia taking over her dad and Chongyue's battle against Ya were all great. And the ending when Chongyue goes away, and his final goodbye are the ritual drums that beat for the fallen warriors, it was beautiful. I really hope the next Sui event is a WB, not an IS.
