Genshin Impact

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 609 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 173 out of 609
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 609
  3. Negative: 412 out of 609
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  1. genshinistrash
    Sep 11, 2023
    0
    **** mobile game filled with microtransactions, boring and repetetive , majority of quests were written by chat gpt
  2. Medus
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Fighting, lore, open world are pretty good. Loot boxes are total **** so yeah. Hate this game
  3. thiccboy99
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    this game sucks i hate it people like this game because it has big **** mommy characters this game should not won the players choice award in the game awards 2022 the game won because they get a prize so they can have a gamble addition yay
  4. Ortana
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    Garbage horny gacha trash. Pay to win rubbish. Go touch some grass. Awful BOTW ripoff
  5. aeg
    Jul 30, 2023
    0
    botw copycat,empty maps,cringe ass voice **** story line,weird ass level gate system that force you to grind daily quest for the 10 billionth time,boring ass combat system that you just mash some button and switch character and maybe some skill gives some buff,everytime you try to move the camera,the game lag the **** out of it,why develop a whole big map when people can just teleport frombotw copycat,empty maps,cringe ass voice **** story line,weird ass level gate system that force you to grind daily quest for the 10 billionth time,boring ass combat system that you just mash some button and switch character and maybe some skill gives some buff,everytime you try to move the camera,the game lag the **** out of it,why develop a whole big map when people can just teleport from here to there to do another boring ass quest and there’s nothing to explore.the developer is so lazy that all character only got 2 skill.idk why game so popular,maybe all those mobile user never play a real open world game,mihoyo dosent deserved all the money they earned and genshin never deserved all the popularity they got,can’t even get creative.game of the year?more like ****test game of the year… Expand
  6. ovenlord
    May 22, 2023
    4
    descent gameplay and graphics but the story is bad the monetization and economy is bad and is made by a company trying to suck away your money for a not exactly praiseworthy cause
  7. yuanbo
    Dec 18, 2022
    4
    优点：丰富的剧情故事，手机端游戏当中画质最好的RPG游戏之一，很多角色可以玩， 很多活动。
    缺点：在玩法上与《塞尔达：荒野之息》类似，游戏中几乎重要的材料都可以通过“原石”一种货币来买到。
  8. NairMcgee
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Screw Genshin! SONIC SWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  9. ronisoni14
    Dec 9, 2022
    0
    The base game seems pretty well made and the open world is very good. However, it's still a predatory gacha game that prays on your money and will often end up forcing you to spend way more than you'd spend on any AAA game just to progress, and the abundance of child characters in questionable clothing really drove me away as well
  10. KrillerBomb
    Dec 7, 2022
    0
    Horrid, terrible BotW clone with racism, whitewashing, pedophilia and gambling. Do not get this.
  11. ReTyan8457
    Jan 31, 2022
    0
    this game is too boring is an open world game but has no replay value, pay to win, very bad user support, poor optimization, bad storyline, this is too bad a game while carrying the label inspired by zelda BOTW
  12. GeoffKeighley
    Oct 5, 2022
    0
    Anything that requires effort the company refuses to do. Constantly releasing characters that function so bad they are borderline unusable. And now they're taking interviews and proudly telling the player base they won't make anything that shows their incompetence at making balanced, well designed characters or any progression based content. This game is run by a greedy company that'sAnything that requires effort the company refuses to do. Constantly releasing characters that function so bad they are borderline unusable. And now they're taking interviews and proudly telling the player base they won't make anything that shows their incompetence at making balanced, well designed characters or any progression based content. This game is run by a greedy company that's incapable of appreciating it's players. I'm tired of this incompetent, greedy, lazy company. Don't play this or any of their other trash.… Expand
  13. ToastAzazine
    Aug 31, 2022
    0
    Toxic community, Characters not worth pulling, company is too stingy.

    If you don't spend money you will get disapointed.

    They still haven't fixed Monas C1 after 2 years. The devs don't care about bugs unless they reduce their profit. Just shows how much the devs don't care about the game or the community.
  14. c0boltz
    Sep 14, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yea this game kinda sucks. Graphics are good (ish), but the microtransactions are nuts, 30 dollars to "pull" a character, who 1/30 times will be **** and youll have either wasted money, time or both, gameplay isnt good either, mostly just run from here to there, kill this non difficult or thought provoking boss and get the thing, then run back to quest giver, adventure rank also is a annoying, because after level 20, the game slows to a snails pace. Also the game is wildy oversexualized.… Expand
  15. OMOBEP
    Sep 11, 2022
    0
    Жахлива гра, розробникам начхати на своїх гравців, їх цікавлять лише гроші, жахлива оптимізація, велика вага, немає офіційної підтримки підвищеної частоти кадрів на всіх пристроях окрім пристроїв епл. Хочу мати можливість поставити більше 60 кадрів на пк/андроїд смартфоні!Жахлива гра, розробникам начхати на своїх гравців, їх цікавлять лише гроші, жахлива оптимізація, велика вага, немає офіційної підтримки підвищеної частоти кадрів на всіх пристроях окрім пристроїв епл. Хочу мати можливість поставити більше 60 кадрів на пк/андроїд смартфоні!
  16. Geo3891
    Sep 3, 2022
    2
    Que juego tan mas malo, solo es una copia de Breath of the Wild y sin identidad, el %60 del cast de personajes de la historia de Genshin Impact son absurdos y no aportan nada al argumento y solo son puro relleno, y todavía la historia es ridícula y se alarga innecesariamente mientras salen mas actualizaciones y este juego solo se basa en puras micro-transacciones y farmeo masivo todo paraQue juego tan mas malo, solo es una copia de Breath of the Wild y sin identidad, el %60 del cast de personajes de la historia de Genshin Impact son absurdos y no aportan nada al argumento y solo son puro relleno, y todavía la historia es ridícula y se alarga innecesariamente mientras salen mas actualizaciones y este juego solo se basa en puras micro-transacciones y farmeo masivo todo para que al final no te sirva para nada un día después, lo único decente de esta cosa es el soundtrack que solo es DECENTE nunca bueno.… Expand
  17. Umbra30
    Sep 2, 2022
    0
    The game tricks you with its cute characters and beautiful graphics , but:
    80% of the game is just opening chests and farming artifacts;
    It has the worst RNG I've ever seen in my entire life; Endgame is non-existent; The soundtrack is good, but not very original; The physics and movement is pretty simple, nothing special; All characters are a re-skin with two different skills; The    The game tricks you with its cute characters and beautiful graphics , but:
    80% of the game is just opening chests and farming artifacts;
    It has the worst RNG I've ever seen in my entire life;
    Endgame is non-existent;
    The soundtrack is good, but not very original;
    The physics and movement is pretty simple, nothing special;
    All characters are a re-skin with two different skills;
    The story is predictable, repetitive and full of unnecessary dialogue;
    The rewards are the worst I've ever seen in a game;
    The game is predatory and full of abusive micro-transactions that interfere in your gameplay;
    Content is limited to 15 minutes per day unless you pay;
    You need to play for two months to get a single 5-star item (there are over 300 including constellations and refinements) unless you pay $444.44 for each one;
    The battle pass is the worst I've ever seen, it's just garbage;
    Multiplayer is worse than playing singleplayer and is totally useless.    … Expand
  18. ivanthetrolazo
    Aug 17, 2022
    1
    una caca ign es una mierda como le vas a poner una buena nota a esta cagada
  19. tonytoo
    Jul 23, 2022
    0
    This game is really boring. traveling without any reason,a easy (and boring)gameplay,too many things that only can be unlocked by money.it s easy to get bored after playing a lot.ಠ︵ಠ
  20. SharkVag1na
    Jul 9, 2022
    0
    its a slots Machine. goucha system rate and pity's is sh*t and also their reward . i know any game should got supported but MiHoyo disrespect players whos carrying their sh*t game between players "players base".
    all they needs now only catch's a new players and f**k old players.
    end the line to me cuz all friends now left this game
  21. jigel89794
    Jun 7, 2022
    0
    Mihoyo/hoyoverse a greedy corp. Gambling. Not working well in pc nor phone. They are not care their players. Stay away from this game and company's games.
  22. Bethrewhy
    Apr 10, 2022
    3
    It's awful honestly. The story is not completed and the whole company is extended the progress of character build-ups. The gameplay is not really interested, eventually you'll get repeat and repeat again every single time when game got a update, you just search for treasure,kill monster,search treasure. It's fun at first time, but not always after all, there's nothing you can do afterIt's awful honestly. The story is not completed and the whole company is extended the progress of character build-ups. The gameplay is not really interested, eventually you'll get repeat and repeat again every single time when game got a update, you just search for treasure,kill monster,search treasure. It's fun at first time, but not always after all, there's nothing you can do after idle, the NPC is just a robot who speaks when you interact with and they'll always answer in one sentence lol. The soundtrack is groovy but the whole is just dull.… Expand
  23. 1cosmos
    Mar 17, 2022
    4
    This game is often compared with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild but that does so much disrespect to BotW. Or any well designed game in general. The art style and certain mechanics are certainly 'inspired' by BotW, the game design is very mediocre. the objective of the game for the company is to sell to players new playable characters through gacha system. The objective and focus isThis game is often compared with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild but that does so much disrespect to BotW. Or any well designed game in general. The art style and certain mechanics are certainly 'inspired' by BotW, the game design is very mediocre. the objective of the game for the company is to sell to players new playable characters through gacha system. The objective and focus is not gameplay. While Teyvat is a vast and wonderful place much of the puzzles and enemy encounters are just repetative. However for anyone picking up the game you will have a lot of the main and world quest content to play for free. If you just play this game once in a while when it actually has playable content then for a free game I would rate it as high as 8/10. But if the game intends to keep players playing then it should make the time worth spending and not griding artifact domains.… Expand
  24. Mraxean
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    anime bad game japan not support for bad man very very very very very bad man for very bad man
  25. GChenierr
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    Either you're lucky and enjoy
    Either you tryhard asf or pay money
    This game's a f**king trap for single weak teenagers full on hormones or that just cut with their girl/boyfriend some months ago and they try to forget, simping on virtual characters I was one of those teen 16y old me "fell in love" of a girl character named Eula, and put 83$ on this game because I was damn unlucky and    Either you're lucky and enjoy
    Either you tryhard asf or pay money

    This game's a f**king trap for single weak teenagers full on hormones or that just cut with their girl/boyfriend some months ago and they try to forget, simping on virtual characters

    I was one of those teen

    16y old me "fell in love" of a girl character named Eula, and put 83$ on this game because I was damn unlucky and deseperatd, well down bad I guess, and I couldn't afford to let her pass. I was like, almost on depression because of a goddamn video game girl, I litterally went secretly buy a 100$ google play card

    This game was my drug
    And it is
    If you look at it two seconds, most of its character are girls
    It's a damn manipulative game, it's crualty it shouldn't exist

    Yes, the content is good, well I always hated that game anyways, I hate the gameplay even if it's an unpopular opinion, and I hate that it looks like every part of the stories are big characters promotion

    This game could have do way better, but well it's a Gacha, and after having realized how down bad I was, I finally realize all of that

    Don't worry for me, I have a girlfriend now and I found back my independence, and I'm not spending on gacha anymore

    Just, don't play this game if you're young, or don't let your teens play it

    Never. Let. Them. Play it.
    Do it for me please, I don't want to see anyone else doing the same mistakes than I did, ever again

    If Fortnite is a money and addictive trap for kids, Genshin Impact is the Fortnite for teenagers

    (I put 4 because otherwise the music and everything else is a good, so ig as an rpg this game's not that bad, even if it can be dangerous for weak minded people like me)    … Expand
  26. AiasTheGreat
    Jan 24, 2022
    0
    I have never seen such a massive disappointment of a game that fails at everything get so popular, this is probably one of the most overhyped games ever. The developers were lucky enough to combine world exploration with gacha isekai story and they failed horribly at both.

    The gacha is mediocre at best, some of the lowest rates and highest pity I've seen in all gachas, on top of that    I have never seen such a massive disappointment of a game that fails at everything get so popular, this is probably one of the most overhyped games ever. The developers were lucky enough to combine world exploration with gacha isekai story and they failed horribly at both.

    The gacha is mediocre at best, some of the lowest rates and highest pity I've seen in all gachas, on top of that you have 50% chance to miss the banner character, combined with every banner limited and standard banner being a literal waste / trashcan where you can drop your free pulls. It's literally a slot machine on a strict timer before it explodes and you won't be able to pull on a character you wanted for like 6 months or more. The materials you get for dupes and pulls can be spent on 2 useful things every month, nothing else is worth it.

    The only good thing is guaranteed banner 5* on second 5* pull, but I think that this makes the gacha lose it's spirit and basically slapping a price sign on every character. Unfortunately you will have to spend most of if not all 160 pulls to get to that guaranteed part, for a F2P player this is very damaging, it takes multiple months to save up for just for one 5* so you might end up pulling only one character you wanted every 5-6 months, this happened to me. And even if you are a low budget player you will still struggle greatly but you may cut the time by one month, I don't recommend buying anything other than the monthly card (!! be very careful with the monthly card, if you don't log in for a day the primogems for that day will be gone (basically you are paying to log in every day !!) ).

    The constellation system is a huge whale bait, basically requiring you to pull the same character multiple times to be useful or up to 5x more powerful. WEAPON BANNER oh god don't let me even get started on that, even if the cost of it was decreased by half it would be still horrible, It's insane that a 5* stat stick will require as many pulls as a full character. People saying that this game is not pay to win are either high on copium or didn't play the game enough.

    Ah yes the "world exporation isakai" bleuugh.. It's sad to see so many people get baited by this because it's one of the most popular things, the escapism, being reborn in a fantasy world. Too bad this is one of the weakest fantasy worlds you will ever see, the story is so bad that people care more about the cooking system.... World exploration is only good for the first time after that it becomes annoying and repetitive, just like 90% of the enemies. Even new zones are just copy paste of the old ones to the point that new zones don't even count as new.

    The endgame is non-existent, the powercreep is getting worse and worse, every 4* character is getting replaced by a 5*. The enemies are getting more and more annoying, jumping all over the place, teleporting and flying, while you have very limited movement and stamina, It's like they are forcing you to either use characters that do more damage or characters that are easier to use, eliminating even more skill that's needed to play this mess, like the auto-aim on everything wasn't enough.

    Not even gonna mention how the developer and the community behaves, you have probably seen it all anyways, I'm just wondering how people can completely ignore all this and continue to support this mess, even if you like the game a lot, the community and developer will make you hate it.    … Expand
  27. Chug
    Dec 31, 2021
    0
    botw clone for weebs on mobile you'd be better off illegally pirating botw than play this garbage
  28. Antonio545
    Nov 28, 2021
    0
    ужастная оптимизация и игра не удобная для телефонов .донат и многое другое
  29. Cidem
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    After most likely playing upwards of 3000 hours of this "game" since the launch, I have reached the conclusion that it has all been a waste of time and money. Why did it take so long to figure that out? You would be wrong if you assumed I'm simply too dense to catch on before I'd spent an unbelievable amount of time grinding and exploring. The reality is that Mihoyo has pulled the rug outAfter most likely playing upwards of 3000 hours of this "game" since the launch, I have reached the conclusion that it has all been a waste of time and money. Why did it take so long to figure that out? You would be wrong if you assumed I'm simply too dense to catch on before I'd spent an unbelievable amount of time grinding and exploring. The reality is that Mihoyo has pulled the rug out from everyone and made the "game" pointless, they were lying from the very start and everything only looks good until you play it enough and realize it was all there just to make you think they care and that everything is fine, It's NOT.

    Genshin is a massive Whalebait going as far as offering you 5x the damage on a character if you spend "few hundreds of dollars". It's insane how pay to win the "game" is, every F2P player will never see themselves as powerful as a small whale even if they played for years more. This is because 5* characters and weapons are always better (with very few exceptions) on top of the the constellations are a huge pay wall behind which could be even half of character's kit locked behind and the only thing to access it is pay pay pay. 5* weapons are just stat sticks, constellations are only improving that, they add nothing new. It's unbelievable how greedy this company is, many players were able to see it soon, thank god, thanks to recent outrage many people are waking up to it, still 12 y.o. fanboys will be forever lost.

    Don't waste your time grinding this "game". The plot is absolute trash and moves at very slow pace. Genshin has no endgame and you will only grind the same things for years to come until they add another resource or upgrade material to chase for the next few months until you have enough.
    The "game" has only gotten worse since the launch, only doing the same thing over and over until mihoyo wakes up and remembers we still exist, they abandoned the community in favour of advertising and promoting their mess of a "game". Going as far as to beg artists, content creators and even cooks to promote them, even begging Elon to hype them up so that they could shaft even more unknowing people into their predatory monetization hellhole.
    You also may see a lot of players defend this "game" they have no idea what they are doing, hopefully they will see before they will lose too much money and time on this like me.

    This "game" is only a money making machine, just watch them throw it away when the hype around it dies down. They are already giving up on it, you can see it from recycled events, severe lack of content and them not listening to anything players say, going as far to delete and ignore people's feedback, It's everywhere, just look it up.

    If you want a better gacha that didn't copy everything from others go play Fate/Go, Azur Lane or Arknights those are much better in every sense. Or go play Zelda from which this "game" took everything and slapped monopoly on top of it.    … Expand
  30. bitlcs
    Oct 17, 2021
    0
    The game is like a piece of S H I T. You need to spend a lot of real money to buy props and characters in the game. Moreover, the game company is also a shameful plagiarist. It plagiarizes the ideas of manufacturers such as Nintendo, Capcom and Platinum and puts them in its own games. It can be called a shameless model in the game industry.
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82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Metro GameCentral
    Jan 4, 2021
    80
    Whatever your preconceptions may be about a free-to-play gacha game made in China it’s nothing short of stunning, presenting you with a sprawling Zelda-esque open world to explore, the green grass and blue skies looking beautiful thanks to console-grade production values. Even the monetisation isn’t too in-your-face, although it does eventually start to get a bit grindy in the late game. Genshin Impact is easily the most accomplished and alluring Zelda-alike available for mobiles, easily outstripping paid-for rival Oceanhorn and its sequel.
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  2. 148Apps
    Oct 26, 2020
    90
    Genshin Impact is easily the most impressive free-to-play game on mobile. It offers such a rich world that rivals those of ambitious console and PC games while pacing its content such that mini play sessions using touch controls feel satisfying and worthwhile. There's nothing about Genshin Impact's business model that is new or praiseworthy, but it thankfully doesn't get in the way of enjoying what is otherwise a legitimately amazing open-world adventure.
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  3. IGN
    Oct 13, 2020
    90
    Genshin Impact is an amazing open-world adventure that draws heavily on both its Breath of the Wild and anime inspirations to create something truly special. Even if the gacha model introduces some undesirable level grinding deeper in, the excellent combat, addictive exploration, and beautiful world make this one of the most exciting games I've played all year.
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