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* MultipleEndings: Certain Adventure Missions (sidequests) and "hidden interactables" in the open world may have different endings depending on your choices. A lot of the time, there are also different, mutually-exclusive achievements tied to said different endings as well.
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* MultipleEndings: MultipleEndings:
** Certain Adventure Missions (sidequests) and "hidden interactables" in the open world may have different endings depending on your choices. A lot of the time, there are also different, mutually-exclusive achievements tied to said different endings as well.
** In the "Clockie: Dreamjoy Memoir" event, all films besides the first have the option to obtain a Special Ending on a second play after obtaining the Classic Ending for the first time. These endings deviate from the canon plotline and offer glimpses at much worse outcomes, from Boss Stone taking back Nightmareville by force to Clockie allowing Dreamville to return to a barren wasteland or Old Man Wood subjugating Clockie and all of Dreamville under his rule.
** Certain Adventure Missions (sidequests) and "hidden interactables" in the open world may have different endings depending on your choices. A lot of the time, there are also different, mutually-exclusive achievements tied to said different endings as well.
** In the "Clockie: Dreamjoy Memoir" event, all films besides the first have the option to obtain a Special Ending on a second play after obtaining the Classic Ending for the first time. These endings deviate from the canon plotline and offer glimpses at much worse outcomes, from Boss Stone taking back Nightmareville by force to Clockie allowing Dreamville to return to a barren wasteland or Old Man Wood subjugating Clockie and all of Dreamville under his rule.
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* AntiClimax: It's PlayedForDrama in the climax of Penacony. [[spoiler:Sunday is unceremoniously and effortlessly defeated when Dan Heng calls in the Xianzhou forces, and from there things turn into a happy ending so incredibly ''forced'' that even the characters start noticing the many threads LeftHanging and over-the-top resolutions (notably featuring both the IPC and the Genius Society deciding to help rebuild Penacony out of goodness of their heart, which is ''absurd'' if you've ever met either group). Of course, it is TooGoodToBeTrue, and the Trailblazer [[LotusEaterMachine is still unconsciously stuck in the Dreamscape.]]]]
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* AntiClimax: It's PlayedForDrama in the climax of Penacony. [[spoiler:Sunday is unceremoniously and effortlessly defeated when Dan Heng calls in the Xianzhou forces, and from there there, things turn into a happy ending so incredibly ''forced'' that even the characters start noticing the many threads LeftHanging and over-the-top resolutions (notably featuring both the IPC and the Genius Society deciding to help rebuild Penacony out of goodness of their heart, which is ''absurd'' if you've ever met either group). Of course, it is TooGoodToBeTrue, and the Trailblazer [[LotusEaterMachine is still unconsciously stuck in the Dreamscape.]]]]
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** An English translation exclusive one: both this game and ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' have areas inspired by ancient Chinese culture, the Xianzhou Alliance in the former and Liyue in the latter. In both of those, a lot of old Chinese terms and titles are used that would be hard to comprehend for a non-Chinese speaker, which results in the translation using a lot of old ''Latin'' words as replacement to be more immediately understandable while keeping the 'ancient' feeling.
* NeverTrustATrailer: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Y1GcPVU3U "Reburn II Concept Animated Short"]] teaser that was meant to drum up hype for this game, Carole Peppers from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' was featured prominently alongside Welt Yang and she boarded the interstellar train with him, hinting that she would be a central character of this game. However, she is nowhere to be seen in any of the following trailers or in the launch patch.
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: You can ask Dunn about Serval's band. After he tells you that he played keys when he was a member, Serval sings and plays guitar, and Pela is the drummer, the Trailblazer can ask if there were only the three of them.
* NeverTrustATrailer: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Y1GcPVU3U "Reburn II Concept Animated Short"]] teaser that was meant to drum up hype for this game, Carole Peppers from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' was featured prominently alongside Welt Yang and she boarded the interstellar train with him, hinting that she would be a central character of this game. However, she is nowhere to be seen in any of the following trailers or in the launch patch.
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: You can ask Dunn about Serval's band. After he tells you that he played keys when he was a member, Serval sings and plays guitar, and Pela is the drummer, the Trailblazer can ask if there were only the three of them.
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** An English translation exclusive one: both this game and ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' have areas inspired by ancient Chinese culture, the Xianzhou Alliance in the former and Liyue in the latter. In both of those, a lot of old Chinese terms and titles are used that would be hard to comprehend for a non-Chinese speaker, which results in the translation using a lot of old ''Latin'' words as replacement replacements to be more immediately understandable while keeping the 'ancient' feeling.
*NeverTrustATrailer: NeverTrustATrailer:
** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Y1GcPVU3U "Reburn II Concept Animated Short"]] teaser that was meant to drum up hype for this game, Carole Peppers from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' was featured prominently alongside Welt Yang and she boarded the interstellar train with him, hinting that she would be a central character of this game. However, she is nowhere to be seen in any of the following trailers or in the launch patch.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rC7OTCbEY "Then Wake to Weep"]] which is supposed to tease Penacony's arc climactic battle depicts the surprising reveal of [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes Jing Yuan]] arriving to Penacony per Dan Heng's request to defeat Sunday, complete with backup from the Cloud Knights.]] While the scene does happen in the story proper, [[PlayingWithATrope the catch]] is that [[spoiler: it's all part of Ena's LotusEaterMachine where it seems that [[RedHerring Sunday is beaten too easily]], meaning that in the real world, Dan Heng never gets to use jade abacus Jing Yuan gave the Express to, resulting in [[AntiClimax Jing Yuan's total absence in the Penacony arc]].]]
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: You can ask Dunn about Serval's band. After he tells you that he played keys when he was a member, Serval sings and plays guitar, and Pela is the drummer, the Trailblazer can ask if there were onlythe three of them.
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** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Y1GcPVU3U "Reburn II Concept Animated Short"]] teaser that was meant to drum up hype for this game, Carole Peppers from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' was featured prominently alongside Welt Yang and she boarded the interstellar train with him, hinting that she would be a central character of this game. However, she is nowhere to be seen in any of the following trailers or in the launch patch.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rC7OTCbEY "Then Wake to Weep"]] which is supposed to tease Penacony's arc climactic battle depicts the surprising reveal of [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes Jing Yuan]] arriving to Penacony per Dan Heng's request to defeat Sunday, complete with backup from the Cloud Knights.]] While the scene does happen in the story proper, [[PlayingWithATrope the catch]] is that [[spoiler: it's all part of Ena's LotusEaterMachine where it seems that [[RedHerring Sunday is beaten too easily]], meaning that in the real world, Dan Heng never gets to use jade abacus Jing Yuan gave the Express to, resulting in [[AntiClimax Jing Yuan's total absence in the Penacony arc]].]]
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: You can ask Dunn about Serval's band. After he tells you that he played keys when he was a member, Serval sings and plays guitar, and Pela is the drummer, the Trailblazer can ask if there were only
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* WholePlotReference: The entire ''Aetherium Wars'' event is a blatant one to the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise.
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** The entire ''Aetherium Wars'' event is a blatant one to the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''franchise.franchise.
** The last three hours of Penacony more or less hits most of the plot beats of ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'', specifically [[spoiler:a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes that everyone would be better off living a beautiful lie rather than a painful truth and tries to trap them in a LotusEaterMachine blending the border between dream and reality that would make all of their fantasies come true while [[NoPlaceForMeThere staying outside of their self-made paradise to act as its director manipulating the strings.]] Opposing them are young heroes who believe that free will is a right that everyone should have and that even if they risk facing pain and hardship, life is not worth living without taking risks and that a "perfect" life dictated by someone else's rules can't be considered living.]]
** The entire ''Aetherium Wars'' event is a blatant one to the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
** The last three hours of Penacony more or less hits most of the plot beats of ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'', specifically [[spoiler:a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes that everyone would be better off living a beautiful lie rather than a painful truth and tries to trap them in a LotusEaterMachine blending the border between dream and reality that would make all of their fantasies come true while [[NoPlaceForMeThere staying outside of their self-made paradise to act as its director manipulating the strings.]] Opposing them are young heroes who believe that free will is a right that everyone should have and that even if they risk facing pain and hardship, life is not worth living without taking risks and that a "perfect" life dictated by someone else's rules can't be considered living.]]
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*** Welt tells the Trailblazer that in his world they would be rated "S-Rank", referencing the ranking system used by Valkyries.
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* BackgroundMusicOverride: [[spoiler:During the true final fight with Sunday, Robin appears after Phase 1 to support the heroes and help awaken the sleeping dreamers, replacing Sunday's boss theme with Robin's song "Hope Is the Thing With Feathers".]]
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* NotMeThisTime: Right before the party prepares to depart from Jarilo-VI, they receive a transmission from Kafka concerning Stellaron activity occurring at the Xianzhou Luofu, where her associate Blade, another Stellaron Hunter, is being held captive by local authorities. All parties involved, including both the Astral Express crew and Xianzhou government, assume that the Stellaron Hunters are directly involved with the disaster and, in the former's case, is manipulating them for some ulterior motive. One mind reading session clears up some interesting truths: [[spoiler:the Stellaron incident was caused by a conspiracy from the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus and has nothing to do with the Stellaron Hunters. However, they ''did'' manipulate the heroes into getting involved because they need the Trailblazer to loan their assistance, and by saving the Luofu from the Stellaron they will be owed a favor they will need to call on to fight Nanook the Destruction.]]
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* NotMeThisTime: NotMeThisTime:
** Right before the party prepares to depart from Jarilo-VI, they receive a transmission from Kafka concerning Stellaron activity occurring at the Xianzhou Luofu, where her associate Blade, another Stellaron Hunter, is being held captive by local authorities. All parties involved, including both the Astral Express crew and Xianzhou government, assume that the Stellaron Hunters are directly involved with the disaster and, in the former's case, is manipulating them for some ulterior motive. One mind reading session clears up some interesting truths: [[spoiler:the Stellaron incident was caused by a conspiracy from the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus and has nothing to do with the Stellaron Hunters. However, they ''did'' manipulate the heroes into getting involved because they need the Trailblazer to loan their assistance, and by saving the Luofu from the Stellaron they will be owed a favor they will need to call on to fight Nanook the Destruction.]]
** It is revealed that [[spoiler:the creation of Penacony's Dreamscape is in fact the product of a Stellaron, which takes the form of the Penacony Grand Theater, but this Stellaron has already been sealed such that it poses no inherent risk. The attention thus turns to dealing with the people who want to use the Dreamscape itself as a weapon.]]
** Right before the party prepares to depart from Jarilo-VI, they receive a transmission from Kafka concerning Stellaron activity occurring at the Xianzhou Luofu, where her associate Blade, another Stellaron Hunter, is being held captive by local authorities. All parties involved, including both the Astral Express crew and Xianzhou government, assume that the Stellaron Hunters are directly involved with the disaster and, in the former's case, is manipulating them for some ulterior motive. One mind reading session clears up some interesting truths: [[spoiler:the Stellaron incident was caused by a conspiracy from the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus and has nothing to do with the Stellaron Hunters. However, they ''did'' manipulate the heroes into getting involved because they need the Trailblazer to loan their assistance, and by saving the Luofu from the Stellaron they will be owed a favor they will need to call on to fight Nanook the Destruction.]]
** It is revealed that [[spoiler:the creation of Penacony's Dreamscape is in fact the product of a Stellaron, which takes the form of the Penacony Grand Theater, but this Stellaron has already been sealed such that it poses no inherent risk. The attention thus turns to dealing with the people who want to use the Dreamscape itself as a weapon.]]
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* GondorCallsForAid: The Galaxy Rangers possess a special beacon that can be used to call other Galaxy Rangers in an emergency. The reasoning being that Galaxy Rangers are normally solitary but extremely dangerous individuals; it is a monumental challenge to get any Galaxy Rangers to organize normally, but if a Galaxy Ranger is calling for aid, it likely means that the danger they are facing is of such gargantuan scale that other Rangers will drop everything to assist.
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* SummonBiggerFish: The Galaxy Rangers possess a special beacon that can be used to call other Galaxy Rangers in an emergency. The reasoning being that Galaxy Rangers are normally solitary but extremely dangerous individuals; it is a monumental challenge to get any Galaxy Rangers to organize normally, but if a Galaxy Ranger is calling for aid, it likely means that the danger they are facing is of such gargantuan scale that other Rangers will drop everything to assist.
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* SummonBiggerFish: The Galaxy Rangers possess a special beacon that can be used to call other Galaxy Rangers in an emergency. The reasoning being that Galaxy Rangers are normally solitary but extremely dangerous individuals; it is a monumental challenge to get any Galaxy Rangers to organize normally, but if a Galaxy Ranger is calling for aid, it likely means that the danger they are facing is of such gargantuan scale that other Rangers will drop everything to assist.
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* RedHerring: In 2.2, Dan Heng poses [[spoiler:using the Jade Abacus of Allying Oath]] to get his friends out of their current predicament, which perfectly sets up [[spoiler:Dan Heng and Jing Yuan pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment during the final battle with Sunday, smiting him with the combined might of the Lightning-Lord and Imbibitor Lunae]]. However, it is revealed that [[spoiler:said event was actually part of Ena's Dream and never happened; when the Trailblazer returns to the normal Dreamscape, Dan Heng briefly proposes using it again, but Boothill convinces him it's not worth using their single-use lifeline just yet]].
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* AntiClimax: It's PlayedForDrama in the climax of Penacony. [[spoiler:Sunday is unceremoniously and effortlessly defeated when Dan Heng calls in the Xianzhou forces, and from there things turn into a happy ending so incredibly ''forced'' that even the characters start noticing the many threads LeftHanging and over-the-top resolutions (notably featuring both the IPC and the Genius Society deciding to help rebuild Penacony out of goodness of their heart, which is ''absurd'' if you've ever met either group). Of course, it is TooGoodToBeTrue, and the Trailblazer [[LotusEaterMachine is still unconsciously stuck in the Dreamscape.]]]]
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** [[spoiler:The support unit for Sunday's boss battle is none other than the Astral Express itself, which can be summoned starting from Phase 2. Upon being cast, the Trailblazer and Clockie call upon the train to swoop in and crash straight through Sunday directly, inflicting massive Fire damage.]]
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** [[spoiler:The support unit for Sunday's boss battle is none other than the Astral Express itself, which can be summoned starting from Phase 2. Upon being cast, the Trailblazer and Clockie call upon the train to swoop in and crash straight through Sunday directly, inflicting massive Fire Imaginary damage.]]
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*** The 2.0 update added achievements named after games in the ''Honkai'' series, including "[=FlyMe2theBaloon=]", "Balloon Gakuen 2", "Balloon Impact 3rd", and "Penacony: Balloon Rail".
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*** The 2.0 update added achievements named after games in the ''Honkai'' series, including "[=FlyMe2theBaloon=]", "Balloon Gakuen 2", "Balloon Impact 3rd", and "Penacony: Balloon Rail". The 2.2 update adds more balloon achievements named after key terms in ''Honkai Impact 3rd'', including "Elysian Balloon", "Second Balloon Eruption", and "A Post-Balloon Odyssey".
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** [[spoiler:The support unit for Sunday's boss battle is none other than the Astral Express itself, which can be summoned starting from Phase 2. Upon being cast, the Trailblazer and Clockie call upon the train to swoop in and crash straight through Sunday directly, inflicting massive Fire damage.]]
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* SequelHook: The end of Trailblaze Continuance mission ''Jolted Awake from a Winter Dream'' has Aventurine, Topaz's co-worker, talk to her about having a business deal in Penacony (Astral Express' next destination) and he asks her to support him, hinting at their future involvement in the story. The 2.0 patch reveals that [[spoiler:he was dispatched to Penacony to set forth a plan for the IPC to reclaim the planet and the 2.1 patch shows Topaz's involvement in the plan.]]
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* SequelHook: SequelHook:
** The end of Trailblaze Continuance mission ''Jolted Awake from a Winter Dream'' has Aventurine, Topaz's co-worker, talk to her about having a business deal in Penacony (Astral Express' next destination) and he asks her to support him, hinting at their future involvement in the story. The 2.0 patch reveals that [[spoiler:he was dispatched to Penacony to set forth a plan for the IPC to reclaim the planet and the 2.1 patch shows Topaz's involvement in the plan.]]
** The Trailblaze Mission ''And Then Came the 8th Day'' ends with [[spoiler:Aventurine contacting Jade about completing his mission in Penacony and planning to move out so the IPC can make their next move -- only for Boothill to barge in and hold him at gunpoint, asking to know the location of his superior.]]
** The end of Trailblaze Continuance mission ''Jolted Awake from a Winter Dream'' has Aventurine, Topaz's co-worker, talk to her about having a business deal in Penacony (Astral Express' next destination) and he asks her to support him, hinting at their future involvement in the story. The 2.0 patch reveals that [[spoiler:he was dispatched to Penacony to set forth a plan for the IPC to reclaim the planet and the 2.1 patch shows Topaz's involvement in the plan.]]
** The Trailblaze Mission ''And Then Came the 8th Day'' ends with [[spoiler:Aventurine contacting Jade about completing his mission in Penacony and planning to move out so the IPC can make their next move -- only for Boothill to barge in and hold him at gunpoint, asking to know the location of his superior.]]
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** It ultimately turns out that the ''very first cutscene'' of Penacony is a critical piece of the puzzle in the final showdown. [[spoiler:It is revealed late into the story that Misha is functionally equivalent to a Memory Zone Meme, which means that he cannot exist anywhere outside of the Dreamscape, but your very first encounter with him is in the hotel lobby in "reality". Pointing out this contradiction allows the Trailblazer to wake up from Ena's Dream and avert disaster.]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:The true end goal of the renegade faction within the Family who worships Ena the Order is to transform the Land of Festivites into a metaphorical prison, entrapping those within in an eternal slumber that caters to their every need and desire while Sunday reigns above them to maintain perfect order.]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:The true end goal of the renegade faction within the Family who worships Ena the Order is to transform the Land of Festivites into a metaphorical prison, entrapping those within in an eternal slumber that caters to their every need and desire while Sunday reigns above them to maintain perfect order. Sunday manages to snag most of Penacony within Ena's Dream during the climatic final showdown with the Astral Express, but they are able to break free and end Sunday's machinations once and for all with the help of Acheron and Firefly.]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:The true end goal of the renegade faction within the Family who worships Ena the Order is to transform the Land of Festivites into a metaphorical prison, entrapping those within in an eternal slumber that caters to their every need and desire while Sunday reigns above them to maintain perfect order.]]
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The Trailblazer's first and last meetings with Acheron involve Acheron posing to the Trailblazer a series of questions to which she deems the answers are meaningless. In the first encounter, the Trailblazer can choose their answers, but in their last, the answers are locked into whatever choices they chose the first time, representing their willpower and force of conviction.]]
