Fire and Oil Mix Well

I wonder if it says something about their mental capacity that they're sitting on an oil field but they're compulsive pyros.

O well, who can argue with Burnice's demented smile.

I am really glad miHoYo's stuck to the no tv maze rule for the main stories. I can't fault them for trying out that playstyle. There are times when it can be fun. But nobody signed up for Zenless to play grid puzzles.

Also we're getting closer and closer to the original point of complaining about the tv maze. Labyrinth Warriors was this event miHoYo put out during the v2.2 patch of Genshin Impact. It was awesome and there are still people who want it back. In fact it comes up over and over again when Genshin players make suggestions about things they want to come back. Labyrinth Warriors was essentially a rogue-like game mode and that's exactly the genre of game Zenless is so it was expected that Zenless would be the Labyrinth Warriors we were all missing in Genshin. But when it came out it had that dumb tv maze so that was a huge let down.

One of the major features of Labyrinth Warriors was the hidden treasure chests you might find in the dark corners of the map. While the HIA boxes aren't really hidden in Caesar's Commission, Burnice's definitely qualifies and it was actually pretty fun finding those alternate routes and hidden corners to grab those prizes. (Also Burnice is really fun to play. Unrelated but still lol) If there could be a more consistent way to have this in game Zenless would be so much more fun than it already is!

Anyway there's also some interesting story points this chapter demonstrated. New Eridu is the last civilization in that game's world. Everything else was destroyed by the Hollows. So here we have this poorer part of that city and unlike us they are totally not going green lol. I mean it's the end of the world right? Global warming stops being a major concern when you can literally mutate into a mineral zombie at any time.

Tomorrow will be the rest of this new story and then the follow-up event is also already out and I'm behind so I'll be catching up with that lol