I CRIED Watching "The Road Not Taken" Animation | Genshin Impact Reaction

This animation is stunning and absolutely pulls at the heart strings.
Watch the original here: • "The Road Not Taken" A...
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[@K1ngBard]

Genshin never ceases to amaze me. This animation was beautiful and really tugged on those heartstrings.

[@angelace113]

This short really just nails what it feels like to be forcefully separated from someone you spent your entire life with. This game just loves to pull on heartstrings 😂

[@K1ngBard]

It really does! We are so connected to this world and characters they have created. It’s absolutely beautiful 💚

[@Z15H4RT]

"We WILL be reunited..... "

[@K1ngBard]

And what that reuniting looks like is going to be something that I think will crush us 😭

[@kurt3820]

Soon it will be "we are reunited..." :

[@Kurara-bc7qb]

"Our path will surely cross🎵"

[@ManonLcz]

Seeing the twins so close when they were together and whown how lonely they are separated makes the past times they saw each other hurts even more with how distant they were (like the reunion during the dain quest were they barely acknowledged their sibling other than saying to stay away from Dain etc)

[@K1ngBard]

I really feel like this Dain quest is going to be a tough one for us. 😭

[@Jevjevjevj]

God I love genshin so much. Played WuWa yesterday and all it did is reminded me how irreplaceable and unmatchable genshin is

[@K1ngBard]

You’re absolutely right about that. Genshin just is magic honestly, the storytelling, characters and world they have created continues to get us more and more invested. It’s amazing. I love this game so much.

[@ctran1955]

Seriously! It kind of annoys me when people call it crap and garbage. Even if they might not enjoy it, it is far from a bad game. Not that WW is bad, but genshin is just that amazing and people just want to gamble for free instead of enjoying the game they made

[@cowgba]

@@ctran1955 I tried to give WuWa a fair shot to see what all the hype was about but I couldn't get into it. Maybe I lost interest because the first 2 hours are mostly unskippable dialog full of technobabble jargon that meant nothing to me, but mostly the game just felt generic and soulless compared to Genshin. It didn't give me any reason to care about any of the characters, the writing is honestly pretty bad (and poorly translated to boot), and the game overall feels unpolished and rushed out the door even though the first beta test was over a year ago. There's so much love and attention invested in Genshin's world, characters, and lore, and I didn't really feel any of that from WuWa. Maybe that's unfair because Genshin has had a lot more time for worldbuilding, but when you make a game that so closely imitates an extremely popular and established game you're inviting those comparisons and you need to come out the gate swinging. Unfortunately WuWa fell considerably short of that mark for me. Genshin feels like a labor of love, WuWa feels like a product.

[@zinzhieaziz]

​​​​​@@ctran1955AGREED!🤘Besides playing games like GENSHIN IMPACT, HONKAI IMPACT, HSR and WUWA is all about having fun and enjoying it if you only play a game just for the rewards and not the point of it... then how can we possibly call yourself ourselves a gamer❔

[@HarshitSinghRajput]

Damnnnn I am not sure but I think I read the article saying that Genshin Hired some people ages ago and they were training for all these years on how to do animations for Genshin specifically and now the team is trained. I think from this point on we can expect 1 anime short every patch or every other patch. Awesome stuff. I love this game mannn!!

[@K1ngBard]

That’s amazing they did that! Super smart of them and it is paying off because these animations have been so so good! It’s amazing to see this game continue to improve and the storytelling become deeper and deeper. 💚

[@thorn_1234]

What a fantastic world

[@K1ngBard]

100% This game just continues to blow me away and the storytelling is the best I have ever experienced. Beautiful 🥰

[@Internal_Fed]

Tbh I never expected this animation to come out today, and it also excites me even more in what the future holds for us in teyvat.

[@K1ngBard]

I am right there with you! It’s amazing to see where Genshin started and where we are now. This game has gone beyond just being a game. It’s a masterpiece that continues to connect us to the world on a deeper level. It’s just beautiful.

[@nicolas._.2294]

This is just beautiful! So Bittersweet, that's why i play genshin, for this story and it's world, my heart broked just now💔

[@K1ngBard]

Absolutely! The story is what hooked me and continues to blow me away with how good it is. The world is beautiful and keeps getting better and better. 💚

[@olgabutorina4156]

I will copy my comment from other place (I'm sorry if there are mistakes, it was translated from russian with Google) This animation is so beautiful! I was afraid that the Hoyovers would again go down the path of “since these are the main heroes, then we can do it lazy,” BUT NO! How much love, how much soul was invested! How carefully everything is thought out, how beautifully the parallel between the twins and their travels was shown, how cinematic everything was, just like in the works of Makoto Shinkai! And of course the animation is simply magical! The colors, the style... I don't know, every frame can be used as wallpaper, it's amazing! AND ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE! A I M E R sings a song!!!! My beloved Aimer!!!! When the anime from Ufotables was announced, I even thought “oh, how nice it would be if they invited Aimer to perform the opening or ending theme!”... But I didn’t even have to wait for the series to come out! And this is not just an opening or an ending, this is a full-fledged 3-minute MV about my favorite twins, for the sake of whose plot I play! And my favorite boy Aether!!! How beautiful he is here! Hoyovers are clearly on the same wavelength as me (or am I on the same wavelength as them?) in terms of how we see Aether

[@K1ngBard]

I can't agree more! They seem to just go above and beyond what any other developers do with their stories and it shows. The story goes beyond the game and we are so invested in these characters and we really connect with them on a whole other level. This game is beautiful and nothing compares to it. The music and animation is amazing and it really tugged on those heart strings. It really does feel like a birthday present for sure lol Genshin is the gift that keeps on giving 💚

[@ctran1955]

I can’t stop watching this. Like Arles short was AMAZING, but the beauty of this shirt is actually incredible, gives me Your Name vibes. We know so little about Aether and Lumine and for the first time we see how they interacted and how close they were. I always actually get emotional about them but man! This mv!!! It reminds me of Nahida telling the traveler she senses the corner of Travelers heart with intense longing-to find their sibling. This was such a treat

[@lumemnecent]

"am i gonna cry". yes we all will

[@GamingDanishPastry]

To be honest if my travel companion was dainsleif I would probably also turn out super depressed and turn evil as well

[@K1ngBard]

Yeah for real lmao 😂😂😂😂

[@Ryumi-E]

Genshin really be cooking for 4.7. Fun fact, there's a poem called "The Road Not Taken". Which is most likely where they got that title for the animation from. The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

[@K1ngBard]

Oh my goodness!!!! Reading this thinking about them really puts a different feel to this poem. Thank you for sharing!

[@dmitry8884]

Imagine if dainsleif fallen voice line would be "the journey always continues .. " 😢

[@K1ngBard]

😭 I’m not prepared for the emotional damage that is about to occur

[@HolyPlatinum]

Oh I saw this video was posted but didn't have time to watch it, now I get to watch it with you This is pure evil, it's like they're journeying side by side but they're in different timelines and can't meet each other 3:31 yeah exactly, it's very sad I sometimes forget the traveler is such a tragic character

[@m.ridzwan99-26]

Watching this makes me thinking, lumine and dains must had meet with Venti and Zhongli bcs they are the original archon whilst other got replaced and they must noticed if exceptional strangers came to their nation.

[@sarahgrellchen5687]

Two Journeys diffrent times and paths we took

[@K1ngBard]

😭 and in the end where their journeys ultimately end will ruin us for sure 😢

[@m.ridzwan99-26]

Lumine with Dain and Aether with Paimon. Now I'm thinking if there's correlation between Dain and Paimon.

[@K1ngBard]

I absolutely agree with you! And they both have that star symbol we see that is connected with Khanri'ah, very very interesting!

[@ryufunny]

Its even sadder when u realize that lumine journey had no hope to see use cause we were still sleeping😢... Btw lumine really beautiful

[@Rewwrs]

So guys this animation proves one thing. Aether is the real mc

[@K1ngBard]

That’s a very good point. It shows if we couldn’t choose which character to be this would be the story and who plays what part.

[@Aether-_---896]

Hello....i..will find my sister.....so soon 🥲

[@K1ngBard]

😭😭😭😭

[@nugrohopriatmojo1290]

This is really important both story and the anime style they will be used, if they keep this quality for anime ,i absolutly impressed and i understand why they need so long time to release the anime. Iam only have 2 reason for it 1.is the cost is crazy and the quality is peak and 2.They wait for teyvat chapter end so we will understand if the anime story will taking timeline 500 years ago.

[@K1ngBard]

I 100% agree with you. It is pretty wild to think that these animations that they are pushing out aren’t even the quality we are going to get with the anime, and the quality of these animations are off the charts. It makes me really excited to see what they are cooking 🤩

[@olyabutorina6869]

Reminder that these animations are made by Hoyoverse, not Ufotable.

[@K1ngBard]

@@olyabutorina6869 exactly!!! Which makes me even more excited knowing that the anime is going to be at an even higher quality

[@Spark_Guerra]

Genshin is going to destroy our heart isn't?

[@K1ngBard]

I really think they are 😭😭😭 I have a feeling that this quest is going to be a big one that changes the course for us.

[@TheSquareTiger]

I keep watching youtuber's and streamer's react to this because of Hoyoverse and erasing the reunion