Extinguished Starlight and Rekindled Fire is the newest Part of Honkai Impact 3rd it takes place 7 years after The Moon's Origin and Finality aka Part 1, 6 years after Dance of Life and Death aka Part 1.5 and 2 years before A Post Honkai Odyssey, Unlike in most parts in the Honkai Impact 3rd franchise where they take place on Earth, Part 2 takes place on Mars where A-Rank Valkyrie, Erdős Helia, and Anti-Entropy enforcer Coralie 6626 Planck are tasked with going to Mars to investigate the civilization there, where they ended up embarking on an adventure with characters from Mars, Senadina the Goddess of Mars, Songque the Shu of Deception, and Dreamseeker. Now when first going into Part 2 I was intentionally worried and concerned but after playing the first 3 chapters I was utterly surprised that Part 2 exceeded my expectations so for today's discussion I'm going to be giving you guys my thoughts on Part 2 so far but before I do I just like to point out there will be MAJOR SPOILERS for Part 2 so please proceed with caution you have been warned. Anyways without further ado let's get started.
Let's start things off with the characters like Dreamseeker. When first finding out that Dreamseeker is the new main protagonist of Part 2 I was excited however then it's revealed to be basically another self insert MC. A lot of people myself included were completely shocked and disappointed that this was just yet another self insert rather than an actual character because what made Kiana great in Part 1 was due to the fact that she was not a self insert but rather her own character with actual personality that's not dependent on player's choice and has actual dialogue and does speak whenever she does not when the plot wants her too and actually has character development. If you guys saw my chapters on why I said Honkai Impact 3rd was better than Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail you would know one of the reasons why is because Kiana has the best MC because the problem with Traveler and Trailblazer is that they are literally silent most of the time, don't talk unless the plot demands them to, have no unique personality besides player's choice, and have no showings of character development. All of these issues I never had with Kiana so seeing that Hoyo was making another self insert with Honkai Part 2 was really disappointing I know some people might argue Adam is a self insert but at least he's one gender, has dialogue not mostly limited to player's choice and has character development. But then when I played Part 2 for the first time they actually surprised me. For starters Dreamseeker can actually talk, not just talk but has dialogue not limited to player's choice and they have a unique personality too. From what we gathered so far Dreamseeker appears caring, claim, chill, intelligent, and pretty helpful. This is a massive improvement from the problems I had with Traveler and Trailblazer that I honestly never expected to be approved upon and I was honestly happy about it. Another Dreamseeker has over Traveler and Trailblazer is the fact that you can actually switch between male and female this is a massive game changer because that means if you really wanted to you can actually play the game in the perspective of both genders and change them whenever you want unlike the other two where in order to do that you'd have to make an entirely separate account to do that. It makes sense for Traveler because Aether and Lumine are brother and sister but for Trailblazer Stelle and Caelus are literally the same fucking person just in different genders so I don't see why they didn't include that mechanic there. Another thing I like about Dreamseeker is the fact that regardless of gender their official name is Entorpy, yes I know a strange name but it's still unique nonetheless. Again Aether and Lumine are siblings so it makes sense why they have different names but the fact that Stelle and Caelus have different names despite being the same person is beyond me. As for their backstory we don't know much about Dreamseeker all we know is that they are local resident of Oxia City on Mars and is engineering student of Data Research Institute researching the Sea of Data which is basically a virtual multiverse of some sorts they may appear normal but in reality they are actually one of the legendary chosen ones who possess the ability to travel back in time through dreams as we saw in Part 2 chapter 3 and they used this power to observe everything in history, other than that it's pretty much about it I'm very interested to see what they do with Dreamseeker in the future hopefully we get some lore about who they are and hopefully we get some character development like with Kiana and Adam. My only issue her is that they've reduced Dreamseeker into being a support character rather than a playable character. Other than that I do appreciate that Dreamseeker improved upon some of the problems I had with Traveler and Trailblazer and I'm looking forward to see their character in the future.
