Genshin Impact

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3.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 609 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 412 out of 609
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  1. Viole
    Oct 22, 2020
    2
    In short :

    Genshin Impact is a game advertised as "multi-player" game, with most of their trailer showing anime-style action RPG. It's nice and tidy on the outside, but the sad truth is, it is far from good. The unrewarding exploration, shallow combat system, abysmal Energy (Resin) system with awful gacha system are what making this game not fitting to be a mediocre PC game. But, for a    In short :

    Genshin Impact is a game advertised as "multi-player" game, with most of their trailer showing anime-style action RPG. It's nice and tidy on the outside, but the sad truth is, it is far from good. The unrewarding exploration, shallow combat system, abysmal Energy (Resin) system with awful gacha system are what making this game not fitting to be a mediocre PC game. But, for a mobile game, it is mediocre.

    Long version :

    Pros :

    - The graphic style is nice, it looks well-made and clean
    - World design is pretty good, towns, small villages, ruins, cliffs, hills and including all the small puzzles, it is good for exploring and treasure hunting

    - Music in this game is so good, some of them are relaxing, some are very energetic (mostly of the combat music)

    - Voice acting (I used JP voice) is top-notch, almost all story content and a few side stories is fully-voiced

    - There's cooking and book-collecting for those who loves this kind of collectibles

    Cons :
    - Combat is shallow, it's basically spam attack, use skills, switch chara, use skill, spam attack. Elemental reaction system is meh. It doesn't add any depths whatsoever because it is almost always benefitting the player, making the fight easily forgettable and uninteresting.

    - Sound effect of the attack and the animation of character's attack is meh. Bear in mind there's NO COMBO related in this game, unlike its predecessor, which has ALMOST the same mechanic with character switching combat style. So the all character has only normal attacks with 2 skills. That's it.

    - Mob AI is awful and slow, the mobs in this game is so uninteresting, some of them just walk beside you, idling for 5-10 seconds begging to get hit, even some of the mini-boss AI is just terrible

    - There is no real difficulty, even the bosses pattern are too easy to predict, some of them have 'special condition' to be defeated, but even most of it are basically just attack what's appearing until it's dead

    - Exploration in this game is abysmally unrewarding. There's a certain occasion when you have to explore a different locations (which is far away) to be able to solve a puzzle, after all that effort you're doing, you're just rewarded with : a few in-game currencies that you can spend in 15 seconds, a few equipment that is not any better than what you have by the time you reach that reward and a 3-4 items to level-up your character, which can only increase 5% of your character's level by the time you get the reward

    - Achievement system is abysmally unrewarding. Imagine exploring nooks and crannies of the world, getting all possible collectibles, and what you get is 'congratulations, here, 5 premium currencies' and a dull name card.

    - Wish (gacha) system is so expensive, and the resource to make the wish depletes so quickly as you progress through the game. It costs you 160 Primogems for 1 Wish. Even Achievement only give you 5, a few chests and missions give you 30. Note that the Primogems from chest DOES NOT respawn, and the story missions and quests are VERY SHORT as of this review is dropped.

    - Wish (gacha) rate is abysmal. You need to be VERY LUCKY to pull a 5* on this game, the rate even lower than most of other mobile gacha game. You want that one 5* character? If you're F2P, you must save-up for a few months to be able to guaranteed the pull. If you're gonna spend money, prepare to spend hundreds of dollars to add that character to your team.

    - Stamina system is more of a burden than a feature. You want to explore? Prepare to eat some food or your character can't even run for 15 seconds. You want to climb that cliff? Prepare to climb REALLY SLOW or you won't reach the top.

    - RESIN system is abysmal, terrible, and hindered progression to the point where you only spend 10 minutes a day to play this game. Resin is an Energy system that's implemented in domains, where you farm for artifacts / materials to ascend your weapon or character. The problem is, most of the items that needed to ascend your character are dropped from bosses, which cost 40 Resin for you to be able to get the reward after defeating the boss. You only get 120 Resin, which equals to 3 bosses, and those 120 Resin takes 20 HOURS to fully recharge. On top of that, even though you managed to level-up and ascend your character and weapon, good artifacts is needed to make the character viable to be played on the higher difficulty. This system only hindering progression and lessening the fun to the point of it doesn't get enjoyable anymore.

    The game has potential, but it has to undergo MASSIVE overhaul to able to be mediocre at least. As of now, I personally don't want to invest any more of my time to this game, oh wait, I can only play for 10 minutes a day, but even then, this game doesn't deserve my 10 minutes as of now.    … Expand
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Cyberd
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Eles não se importam com quem joga seja qual seja a plataforma era encontrar os mesmos problemas desde que o jogo saiu.
  5. Elisamer
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Надеюсь больше никто не скачает эту дрянь.… Expand
  6. AidanPraid
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    For the aniversary, greedy mihou. Haha funny joke, get what you deserve, not a single dollar for you
  7. ZeuzAz_UHH
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Não respeita o jogadores, não arruma problema que estão meses no jogo q os jogadores vem pedindo
  8. Eragoz
    Oct 8, 2021
    0
    not playing this game mainly for the company, censoring comments, earning the hatred of the community and most importantly, you will die shortly for losing so many players.
  9. 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
  10. Chug
    Dec 31, 2021
    0
    botw clone for weebs on mobile you'd be better off illegally pirating botw than play this garbage
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. JMac13G
    Jul 19, 2022
    10
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  14. 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
  15. Vek17
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    The game starts out great with fun game play, a wonderful aesthetic, and smooth consistent progression of your characters. Once you get out of the prolog though you realize all of the smoothness you experience then was a bait and switch when you hit the hard timewalls where the game asks you to wait weeks to level characters or pay money to shorten it to days. The content is quicklyThe game starts out great with fun game play, a wonderful aesthetic, and smooth consistent progression of your characters. Once you get out of the prolog though you realize all of the smoothness you experience then was a bait and switch when you hit the hard timewalls where the game asks you to wait weeks to level characters or pay money to shorten it to days. The content is quickly exhausted and there is nothing really repeatable outside of dailies that take around 5 minutes to finish in total.

    The resin system (Mobile game energy mechanic) completely kills all momentum and makes 10 hours of play equivalent to 20 minutes of play in terms of progress and it is maddening. This game has so much potential but it is just completely eaten away by incredibly predatory mobile mechanics that just feel tacked on to the rest of the game.

    I can live with the TERRIBLE gacha rates and the poor value for money spent there, but I cannot recommend to anyone a game that actively discourages you to play it.    … Expand
  16. CCP-19
    Nov 28, 2020
    0
    Let’s go straight to the point
    -Time-gated gaming
    -Lack of content
    -Using kernel level anti cheat (for pc user)
    -Toxic Staff (especially in forum)
    -Low rate gacha banner 0.6%
    -Not for hardcore/grinder players
    -Changing drop rate items before they publish the drop rate table
  17. Rocky98a
    Feb 2, 2021
    0
    I have put in around 90 hours into this game and reached the endgame. So for the strong and weak points of the game:
    Strong:
    - Amazing graphics - Beautiful world - A lot of team combinations to experiment with. - Fairly interesting story Weak points: - Characters are split into 4 and 5 star categories ( 4 stars are a lot weaker than 5 stars, and the permanents 5 stars    I have put in around 90 hours into this game and reached the endgame. So for the strong and weak points of the game:
    Strong:
    - Amazing graphics
    - Beautiful world
    - A lot of team combinations to experiment with.
    - Fairly interesting story

    Weak points:
    - Characters are split into 4 and 5 star categories ( 4 stars are a lot weaker than 5 stars, and the permanents 5 stars characters are weaker than the 'exclusive' 5 stars, which are available for 14 or 30 days to claim ).
    - 99.99$ USD gives you 30 wishes ( 3 times 1.6% chance of obtaining a 5 star character or weapon ), while a guaranteed 5 star item requires 90 wishes ( approx. 300$ USD ).
    - Every character has 6 'constellations' ( adds new perks to their spells or levels them up ). To level up a constellation you need to get the character once and then obtain him 6 more times to max out his constellations. ( If you get your 'exclusive' character every time you make 90 wishes that means 2100$ USD to max a 5 star character out, but that's not the case, you have a 50% chance of getting the exclusive character so it's more like 3500$ - 4200$ USD per a maxed out 5 star character )
    - The above character obtain problems apply to obtaining 5 star weapons as well ( 5 star weapons overpower 4 star weapons completely )
    - Completely dull, repetitive and unrewarding endgame.
    - Boring 'Co-Op' mode ( You can't even progress trough the story with your friends, the only things you can do is fight domains and bosses )
    - 95% of the bosses in this game are extremely easy to beat, the other 5% just kill you with 2 hits if you don't have an appropriate 5 star character with an element that counters them.
    - You can't grind the materials to upgrade your character's talents whenever you want ( you can do it only on certain days and you have to use your 'resin' to do so )
    - The resin ( which you use to obtain talent upgrade material, hero upgrade material, weapon upgrade material ) has a cap of 160 and it recharges by 1 point every 8 minutes. You need 40 resin to get the loot from bosses, which provide hero upgrade material ( after lvl 40/50 you need to kill a boss approx. 9 times in order to get the things you need ). You need 20 resin for domains ( after weapon lvl 40/50 you need to clear the dungeon 7/8 times in order to get the materials you need - the same applies for talent upgrade material as well ).
    - To level up a character you need anywhere from 10K to 100K XP - a mob gives you 16xp, quests do not give XP for your characters. You can get upgrade books from Ley Line Disorders ( 20 resin per attempts ).
    - The world bosses ( which award some of the best artifacts in game ) require 60 resin for loot ( you can loot them once a week ) and the items you get are with random stats which 90% of the time are horrible.
    - The events the game has are simply boring or annoying to do.
    - The game has patches once a month that barely add anything new and fun, just more boring and bland events with more 'exclusive' characters.

    To sum up, you would just be better off playing any other co-op or single player RPG other than this. With other games you have 'pay 2 win' with 'Genshin Impact' you have 'sell your house to be playable'.
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  18. Resinpact19
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Great framework plagued by **** practices,

    Expensive in-game currency, HORRIBLE rates, around 100 gems per day AT MOST for f2p (you need 160 to pull one item, and it'll likely be a 3 star weapon). Resin completely and unnecessarily gates the progression of players in a COMPLETELY SINGLE PLAYER GAME Developer slapped the community in the face with the resin fix (120 cap increased    Great framework plagued by **** practices,

    Expensive in-game currency, HORRIBLE rates, around 100 gems per day AT MOST for f2p (you need 160 to pull one item, and it'll likely be a 3 star weapon).

    Resin completely and unnecessarily gates the progression of players in a COMPLETELY SINGLE
    PLAYER GAME

    Developer slapped the community in the face with the resin fix (120 cap increased to 160)
    It's the equivalent of you being thirsty and them giving you a bigger cup that's just as empty as the smaller one.    … Expand
  19. Yentis
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    A game with amazing potential completely ruined by predatory business practices.
    - Resin (stamina) system where the game graciously allows you to play for 20 minutes a day at endgame.
    - Lootboxes with absurdly low rates (0.6% for 5* and 5.1% for 4*) - Pitiful amount of rewards, getting a featured character guaranteed could take up to a YEAR through f2p by which time the featured    A game with amazing potential completely ruined by predatory business practices.
    - Resin (stamina) system where the game graciously allows you to play for 20 minutes a day at endgame.
    - Lootboxes with absurdly low rates (0.6% for 5* and 5.1% for 4*)
    - Pitiful amount of rewards, getting a featured character guaranteed could take up to a YEAR through f2p by which time the featured character will have changed 15 times already
    - Everything is time gated: resources, resin, minibosses, bosses, leylines (character exp and ingame currency)

    Apparently Genshin Impact thinks it should be the one deciding when you get to play and for how long you get to play. When did this become acceptable?    … Expand
  20. Mithrathiel
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    An amazing game ruined by the Resin system and developers not listening. What a pity!
  21. Djeronimo
    Oct 15, 2020
    0
    Huge greed of developer will kill a great game and their own fanbase
    Its rly awful, this FREE TO PLAY its to expensive, i ready to pay full price for this game, but 60 dollars for this game it's a joke, that won't be enough for anything. Plz miHoYo, you make a great game, keep it alive, stop killing this project
  22. TenmaYuya
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Mihoyo is a scummy company that priotizes their cash flow rather than their playerbase. One of my friends is an artist that was commissioned by Mihoyo. Mihoyo then later on said that they would NOT be paying her (as per their terms of service, which is highly unjust and immoral).

    Mihoyo said that she HAD to "waive her moral rights" as the creator over the artwork. This company is    Mihoyo is a scummy company that priotizes their cash flow rather than their playerbase. One of my friends is an artist that was commissioned by Mihoyo. Mihoyo then later on said that they would NOT be paying her (as per their terms of service, which is highly unjust and immoral).

    Mihoyo said that she HAD to "waive her moral rights" as the creator over the artwork. This company is disgusting, right to its core. The money they get from this game will just be used to create another toxic gacha game, and the cycle will repeat.

    As a game itself, Genshin Impact is unfortunately a game with so much potential, only to be ruined by a money hungry and immoral con artists sorry excuse for a company.    … Expand
  23. Hyperion2012
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Don't play this game if u have any intention of spending any more then 20 min a day playing . ounce u reach a pony in progression it locks u out so hard u can only progress meaningfully with 20 min a day due to a system they placed that. Locks resources behingd a currency that regens too slow to even call this fun its annoyi g and its anger inducing save urself the heartbreak of falling inDon't play this game if u have any intention of spending any more then 20 min a day playing . ounce u reach a pony in progression it locks u out so hard u can only progress meaningfully with 20 min a day due to a system they placed that. Locks resources behingd a currency that regens too slow to even call this fun its annoyi g and its anger inducing save urself the heartbreak of falling in love with tjis game only to be punched in the face by the fact the this games mechancs basically say dont play this game… Expand
  24. Skarmy
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Imagine playing Skyrim, but only 20 minutes per day. Imagine pulling a weapon or character with no chance of upgrading it in less than a month. Thats the ARPG that meant to overthrow these greedy AAA gaming companies, but was able to overthrow only itself and all the players.
  25. Sir3rdDimensio
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    The good:
    Graphics
    Combat The Bad Stamina/resin system: very predatory by far the worst ever seen Gacha/Summoning system to acquire items/characters lowest by far Shops the most predatory thus far The end game or current end game is literally 5 mins of logging in and out due to predatory stamina system build (resin) to the point where if you want more than 5 mins of gameplay you    The good:
    Graphics
    Combat
    The Bad
    Stamina/resin system: very predatory by far the worst ever seen
    Gacha/Summoning system to acquire items/characters lowest by far
    Shops the most predatory thus far
    The end game or current end game is literally 5 mins of logging in and out due to predatory stamina system build (resin) to the point where if you want more than 5 mins of gameplay you have to pay.    … Expand
  26. gil66
    Oct 26, 2020
    0
    This game is just a good game with bad management and a build in gambling system that should be illegal.
    like fifa ultimate team this game is by an unregolated gambling system and no way it should be rated pegi 12.
  27. Xjjdbakat
    Oct 27, 2020
    0
    Only 10 hour of content without resin and level limit. 400+ usd for a character. Predatory gambling system. Basically pure trash and completely not worthy.
  28. Questbuster
    Oct 27, 2020
    0
    mhy has a really a good game but he strangled it by his own hand. Really good art and music. Horrible game context . The only reason playing it is I wanna see how this game dead.
  29. glimmerxia
    Nov 14, 2020
    0
    The game itself could win a score of about 7 but the continuous updates and cache system makes genshin impact a disaster. It is absolute designed to be a p2w, especially in the later games. With the various unreasonable restriction, the game force you to pay for the 0.6% chance gacha.

    Another important part why this game wins the lowest score possible is that Mihoyo is an untrustworthy    The game itself could win a score of about 7 but the continuous updates and cache system makes genshin impact a disaster. It is absolute designed to be a p2w, especially in the later games. With the various unreasonable restriction, the game force you to pay for the 0.6% chance gacha.

    Another important part why this game wins the lowest score possible is that Mihoyo is an untrustworthy company that use scam and fraud to force paying. They will nerf your gacha characters and say it is a description problem. Mihoyo will make sure your characters and weapons will be outdated really soon to force continues paying. You shouldn't really expect Mihoyo is planning to bring you any enjoyable game experience in genshin impact. All they are thinking of is to let you feel pain not to have those gacha products and make you think that you will enjoy the game after paying for the gacha, but that is not generally true because you will soon find you money are spent in vain after a few updates    … Expand
  30. Atlantin
    Feb 6, 2021
    0
    This is an ok game with a terrible support system. I waited for over 2 months to recover a hacked account, got the account recovered, only to have it banned. The hacker refunded purchases they made and I was asked to pay for the crazy amount of purchases that were refunded, and now my account is banned. I understand the business model but it clearly shows that Mihoyo has zero care forThis is an ok game with a terrible support system. I waited for over 2 months to recover a hacked account, got the account recovered, only to have it banned. The hacker refunded purchases they made and I was asked to pay for the crazy amount of purchases that were refunded, and now my account is banned. I understand the business model but it clearly shows that Mihoyo has zero care for their player base.… Expand
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#13 Best iOS Game of 2020
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#1 Most Discussed iOS Game of 2020

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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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