Robin and Firefly teamed up to talk about bullshit and the TRUE IDENTITY of the Dreammaster like we don't know who it is. WE KNOW. It's Gopher. But naw man, Dahlia gotta shove her fat ass into the narrative and now we gotta regurgitate information and a big fuck you retcon where the Dahlia fucks around to retell shit we already knew.

I hate you both.
So Dahlia is appearently a chronic backstabber and that's why she can't become a Stellaron Hunter. Okay? I mean it's not like it needed an explanation. When she said she was one, it was pretty obvious it was bullshit.
She quite literally said "I am a Stellaron Hunter who saved you from the Stellaron Hunters"
Do the writers think we're dumb?
Oh but actually she's buddies with Gopher and has been here the whole time! Only to appearently turn on him to fuck around with Black Swan in more lesbian bait bullshit.
But it's okay because she too is doing all of this for DESTRUCTION.
????????
They added more bullshit like how Gopher now wanted to bring those bugs into the dreamworld. But why???
Anyway we end up in some weird memory zone place so we can fuck around in the out of bounds dream world I guess.
And now we're getting Gophers backstory from how he went from Harmony to Order. Okay??? Who gives a fuck???? We already got some of this bullshit from Sunday and his order porn. We don't need this nonsense from his fucking dad.
Even weirder his motivations are essentially the same as Sunday's but instead of forcing everyone into some brainwashing dream for world peace because reality sucks ass, he wants to bring those bugs to the dream and brainwash everyone into The Order for world peace.
I actually think this is one of the worst main story quests in recent memory. Say what you want about 2.7 and the white washing of Sunday and the retcon of Tingyuns death or even 2.6 and Rappa. At least it was, yah know, something new. 3.7 was shit but it compensated with moments of good.
This is just straight up ass that treats everyone like morons.
And I'm not the only one. People are really not liking this shit
Reactions are very mixed
Shaoji is a garbage writer lmao what the fuck.
The one good thing about it is Argenti just randomly dropping by in the new dream world like "Hey guys, I just randomly entered this random ass memory zone. Sup?"
He's so casual about it too.

And Aventurine, who's also here just rolls with it. Appearently this is where he ended up after his boss fight and Acheron fucked him with her sword.
Oh and new CGs finally. And good music as always though the remix of Sam's theme isn't as good as the og.
Didn't stop them from forcing us to fucking fight Sunday again but it's being retconned to include the Dahlias background fuckery.
This quest is making me dislike firefly too. I was negative neutral towards her but I am fucking over that bitch now. After the gauntlet that was 3.7, I didn't need more cringe ass shipping.
Stop looking at me like that.

Can you please just die? Like for real?
Firefly this, firefly that. Shut the fuck up.Appearently they took scenes with Acheron and gave them to Firefly instead. Ew.
Even worse, they are pulling the same death bullshit with her yet again. Oh she died but didn't in the dream, she died but didn't when fucking over the bugs.
She's dying now for real this time due to her fantasy space cancer and the supposed grief from that is why we appearently "forgot her" and needed to retcon the entire fucking Penacony chapter.
Except not really because deus ex machinas just retconned that shit so Firefly is fine.
?????????
You know, this feels like a lost episode or a DVD cut or something. There is zero reason why this needed to be its own thing, released a year after Penacony. It's like they weren't satisfied so they needed to fix it, only to make it shit.
If anything it didn't feel like a Dahlia companion quest. Yes we get an insight to her backstory. But its inclusion was fine and she's kept appropriately insane.
So they didn't neuter her. I do like her but I also fucking hate her because her forced inclusion made Penacony even worse.
Also this made me laugh because I'm simple.

And this was good too.

So there's like bits of good in a sea of shit.
3.X has been a weird fucking experience.