"The Road Not Taken" Animated Short | Genshin Impact #GenshinImpact #Aether #Lumine #Animated

The opening images of Lumine waking up at dawn and Aether at dusk were so beautiful.

It's incredible how well Genshin makes you feel that the twins will never truly be happy until they reunite; they can still find joy in other places, but they'll always feel like something's missing.

This makes me think that instead of Traveler being in some sort of coma for 500 years, they actually were straight up sent to different points in time.

I LOVE how Aether’s path is shown as overall much brighter: He waked up, in the darker place, yet at the end, he is travelling with Paimon towards the rising sun, while Lumine wakes up in a brighter setting, yet ends up walking alongside Dainsleif into the nightfall. Aether set out on the journey with hope of finding Lumine. During this journey, he is getting more and more hints that he can not only find her, but that she is actually still alive (even in spite of that 500 years of time distance between their awakenings). Imagine now, how it must’ve looked from Lumine’s perspective: She might’ve woken up a bit more hopeful, having known the location of her brother’s imprisonment, but grew more and more desperate trying out and seeking all of the different ways of freeing him - all futile. Eventually, (after 500 years of trying) when she finally finds a way to free him in that godless, underground kingdom of Khaenri’ah, all her hopes are crushed once again, as it gets struck with Genshins even more literal equivalent Rods of God superweapon, forcing her to flee & watch everything collapsing all around her, threatening her to get buried in a rock, just as we were… Aether’s road is paved with increasingly ever so brighter beacons of hope, while that of Lumine is more akin to an ever so crushing treadmill of despair. This entire thing operates on such sublime, hermetic symbolism, it’s really hard not to enjoy it once the connections are made 💜

I LOVE that Mihoyo sticks to their original storyline and shows that the twins miss each other very much and the cinematic combined with the music not only shows how they are feeling, but also helps the players sympathize their longing to meet again.

Lumine smiling is the most heartwarming moment but seeing her suffering is the most heartbreaking moment 😭

The poem "the road not taken" is about a man confronted with 2 paths in the woods. He took one path but still regrets not taking the other one as he doesn't like missing out things. Its cool that hoyo used this connection.

Now, it makes sense why both of the siblings can be the canon MC. It all depends on which companion they go with and the amount of burden they have to go through, not to mention any hope of seeing your sibling for 500 years. One companion has lost all of their people and is a straightforward person versus a best friend who's always there to cheer you up and try everything they can to help you.

THE HAIR BRAIDING,THE FLOWERS ON LUMINE'S HEAD,THE WAY THEY PLAY WITH EACH OTHER 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

"Wake up. It's time to go." The vast dichotomy between Paimon and Dainsleif saying this immense.

Returning here after doing the Archon Quest personally hurts even more

The way that Aether & Lumine look at each other with so much love absolutely melts me. The little flashbacks of memories, the pain in their eyes when they're separated...I'm sobbing And I love how we see fragmented parts of their memories that are only complete when they're together. They literally complete each other

Someone mentioned in the live stream, Lumine's 'light' is the same through out the whole video while Aether is the only one getting new elemental powers in every new region. Nice detail there.

Also i loved not only the parallels between Aether and lumine but also the importance between Paimon and Dain. They are their biggest supports in the journey.

Watching this after the latest quest is just too fridging hurts 😭😭😭

I noticed something different. In the music album cover, Arther is awake while Lumine is sleeping, but in this one, Lumine is awake and Aether is sleeping.

The parallel of showing both the twins in the same places, but things are slightly different due to the passage of time is so sad and beautiful. In the forest you can see the trees have grown significantly, and in the ruins an old tree has fallen down and some of the bushes have died. Such gorgeous attention to detail.

heart hurts bc there's such a major difference between Dain's relationship with Lumine vs Paimon's relationship with Aether. both Dain and Lumine are going through so much, they don't even comfort each other the way we always see Aether and Paimon do 😭

This made me remember why I decided to play Genshin. It's not because of the characters or the graphics, but their stories. I remember wanting to understand more about the spoilers I had read, and so, because of that curiosity, I decided to play the game. And until now I'm still in love with it. Also, the reason why I prioritize playing story quest among other quest.

The new 4.7 quest has given me depression 😭 watching this video doesn't make it any better.