Short Story - The Twilight Star (Featuring Lux, MF, Janna, Jinx, Lulu and Poppy)
Disclaimer: I am not the creator of this video, all credits go to Lumienkeli.
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I'm not a fan. It's not BAD, by any means, but it's... underwhelming. It feels more like a teaser for the event to come than the event itself.
This event is supposed to introduce Xayah, Rakan, Zoe and Neeko to the Star Guardian universe. But the issue is the short story tied to this event doesn't even have anything to do with them. Sure, Zoe is probably the cause of the monsters that Lux's team (and MF) fight, but she never makes an appearance herself. Xayah, Neeko and Rakan are (at absolute best) cameos, meant to draw parallels to Lux. I like Lux, but she's not the only character in the SG universe. Hell, you just introduced four new ones we could be learning about.
Compare this to the other major SG events. For the first one, we got an animated trailer covering the entire team. There was a short story there, where the main focus was on Lux (the original) and Jinx (when got the Legendary skin for this line). There was also a website giving a small bio for each of the team members that was expanded upon later.
For the intro to Ahri's team, we got a longer introduction that covered both teams. Aforementioned short bios were expanded upon to make each of the Guardians into their own character. However, much of the focus was placed on Ahri as a standard Lux could measure herself against, and the team she'd built. Even the pajama party skins had the event focused on the pajama party.
The point I'm getting at is that for each of these events, the Guardians getting the skins were the focus, and we learned more about the world and characters through them. The animated trailer does this beautifully by putting all of its focus on our new guardians, hinting and prodding at their story and struggle.
Here, though, none of the new characters have any presence in the short story. I'm glad that the Guardians skin line got some villains; I've been saying since Ahri's team was introduced that they needed some bad guys to fight. But the villains don't really do anything, certainly not in this short story.
And if your villains don't do anything, do you really have a villain?
Honestly with very little main Universe lore showing up recently, it's hard to muster any f**** about Star Guardian or High Noon or what have you.
Rito feed us please.