I mean, I really liked this new 'Welcome to Noxus' cinematic. But it's nowhere close to the hype I felt with 'The Call' and 'Still Here', where the production were realistic and made me wanna play the game, and that's what the new season cinematics are supposed to do. 'Welcome to Noxus' was just an advertisement for what's coming in the new 'Arcane' season, and that's underwhelming.
Riot, will all the cinematics be like this?
External link →We've used a variety of different cinematic styles over the years and will continue to vary things in the future. In this particular case given the follow on to some of the events in Arcane we felt partnering with Fortiche, in this style, would make a lot of sense.
Regarding the intent of the cinematic, our goal was to set up some themes for Noxus for the season and a plot line that'll be continued this year in game/around game materials (not a tv show to be clear).
Hey Meddler was the decision to include Katarina a nod to her scrapped portion of the 2023 cinematic, or it a newer storyline
Our starting point was the themes/stories we wanted to show a bit of from Noxus. Kat made sense in that regard hence her inclusion.
Ezreal got the masque of the black rose skin but didn't show up on the cinematic, does that mean him being there is canon or just a skin?
Champions in that skin line like Ezreal who aren't shown in the cinematic were invited to the masquerade. Skins reflect what they'd look like if they chose to attend. Whether they attended is being left unclear at least for now.
I assume I know the answer but any comment on if that icon at the end is supposed to reference Riven's sword?
No comment, though you'll certainly learn more about it this year
will there be another cinematic for season 2, 3 etc or will there only be this 1?
We've got a range of different things planned for seasonal theme and storytelling throughout the year. Won't always be in cinematics, will also be using other approaches too (think we're talking about that a bit in tomorrow's dev update video, so being a bit vague)
Please, continue your partnership with Fortiche for the series/films and cinematics. It's just an awesome work, and I/we can't be more excited.
We'll definitely keep partnering with them on various things, they're fantastic to work with and we love the stuff we get to make together.
And it make sense why kat is there. Thank you for remembering our fav noxian assassin the cinematic was cinema
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but is it a sword cause it looks like two daggers or swords (sabers?) together to me with an eye in the middle (idk if you can answer if its a sword)
Going to have to leave that unanswered sorry, don't want to undercut the stuff we've got planned that will reveal what that is over time
there is no way a highly secret cabal would invite his goofy ass. Renata is at least rich and influential
Oh cmon, you can't imagine any reason the Black Rose might stand to benefit if Ezreal were to be present at an event they hosted?
(agree on Ezreal being goofy FWIW!)
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