Genshin Impact

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4.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3024 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 1,057 out of 3024
  2. Mixed: 229 out of 3024
  3. Negative: 1,738 out of 3024

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  1. akarishogun
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    the game is terrible, also, their team treat the players like if they were NOTHING, the only thing they care about is money, that's all
  2. Khanser4
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Greedy company who cannot accept that they **** up and still keep ignoring the fans. Pretty game but not worth your time.
  3. GintokiYo
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Greedy company, will try to suck you dry of money and then spit on your face after for good measure.
  4. MirageV
    Oct 23, 2020
    4
    The game has huge potential and I personally enjoy it quite a lot, but I cannot possibly in good heart recommended it to anyone as it is right now, not because of the gacha which I think is quite poorly implemented as well, but the absolutely horrible resin system.
    Now I have to say the existence of the resin system itself is not the problem, but the fact that it so aggressively hinder    The game has huge potential and I personally enjoy it quite a lot, but I cannot possibly in good heart recommended it to anyone as it is right now, not because of the gacha which I think is quite poorly implemented as well, but the absolutely horrible resin system.
    Now I have to say the existence of the resin system itself is not the problem, but the fact that it so aggressively hinder your progress. This game require a lot of grinding, either for character exp, character limit break material, gold (or Mora in this game), character talent up material, weapon upgrade material, artifact which themselves has RNG drop AND substats decided by RNG. Tons of resource which you need for EACH character you want to invest to (and you want at least 8 properly geared characters for the endgame), all require resin just to farm at all. With the pitiful amount of resin available you get at best 1 hour of playtime each day, which is not too bad for a mobile game, but Genshin impact clearly strive to be something more. There is a beautiful open-world in this game but the resin system discourage me for immersing in it, and I don't feel like spending on getting new character because I can't properly levelling them up anyway.
    I would probably stick around with this game hoping for eventual fix to the resin system, but definitely would recommend it to anyone, or spending anymore money on it.    … Expand
  5. Arcasias
    Oct 23, 2020
    4
    Created an account just for this because I'm frustrated and tilted beyond understanding so I don't care if this gets drowned in other reviews or even removed I just want to write it down somewhere: the game is incredibly enjoyable (the story is nice, characters are diversified and interesting for some, the game play is very rich and the world is huge) but is COMPLETELY MASSACRED by itsCreated an account just for this because I'm frustrated and tilted beyond understanding so I don't care if this gets drowned in other reviews or even removed I just want to write it down somewhere: the game is incredibly enjoyable (the story is nice, characters are diversified and interesting for some, the game play is very rich and the world is huge) but is COMPLETELY MASSACRED by its resin system. Even the gacha aspect is just fine imo, but these god forsaken croissants just had to be implemented to ruin your experience past a certain level. If you want to play just the story then drop the game, you'll have a nice and enjoyable experience. However if you decide to take it to the next level, you'd better have your wallet nearby or be insanely patient. So much potential wasted just makes my blood boil, this is really infuriating. I hope nothing but the worst for this company devoted to develop well designed games behind the thickest pay walls I have ever seen.… Expand
  6. pomato
    Oct 24, 2020
    3
    Amazing game for super casuals or whales (big spenders).
    If you're someone that is looking for a game to really get into, then this is not the game for you.
    The base game itself is really great; the combat is fun, the controls is decent and there's some party and gearing strategy involved. The problem comes in when the monetization comes into play. The monetization of this game is    Amazing game for super casuals or whales (big spenders).
    If you're someone that is looking for a game to really get into, then this is not the game for you.
    The base game itself is really great; the combat is fun, the controls is decent and there's some party and gearing strategy involved.

    The problem comes in when the monetization comes into play. The monetization of this game is based on the energy + gacha system, that you often see on mobile games. You won't notice this in the early stages of the game (which is intended to lure you in), but the higher level you get to, the more exponential the issue becomes.

    The game will time lock you from progressing and put the things you need JUST out of your reach, tempting you to 'just spend to refresh your energy and you might get what you want' all the time. The energy system in Genshin Impact is one of the worst one I've seen from all the mobile gacha games I've played. You will run out of resources and in order to keep up with the 'difficulty curve' of the game, you are forced to only focus on a select few units and weapons. You cannot raise and use all the different characters and weapons at once.

    The Gacha itself is also fairly atrocious. While not 'the worst', it's down there with the rest. The rate to get a 5* is 0.6% and the rate to get a 4* is 10%. There's only a single safety net, where you 'guaranteed to get a single 5* within 90 rolls'. (This is 10 for 4*). Every other single rolls you make that aren't 4* and 5* are absolutely worthless. In the current state of the game, spending money on gacha might not be 'needed', but it definitely gives you an advantage and you'll definitely have a better time if you do spend money on the gacha.

    If it weren't for the (passive-)aggressive monetization system, the game would have been amazing. The voice acting comes in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese and they are really great. The graphics is pretty good. The combat is one of the better ones I've seen. Trying out different weapons and characters for party is fun. Some of the puzzles are interesting and some of the challenges are rewarding to complete. Finally the world is fun to explore for the first time.

    However all of the game's strength and positive points will come to a screeching halt once you hit that 'energy/gacha wall' and you're forced to just wait it out or spend money to play more.
    So this game is really nice for very casuals that plays at a very slow pace or whales that can spend money to keep on playing.    … Expand
  7. Nitrodroki
    Oct 24, 2020
    3
    A marvelous and awesome artistic masterpiece jaded, corrupted and destroyed by greed.
    The soundtrack, the artstyle, the gameplay elements are of a Triple A quality, an immersive initial experience within a great awe-inspiring open world that ends up falling on its face as soon as the ugly face of monetization shows itself and parasitize every single system the game has to offer.
    Most    A marvelous and awesome artistic masterpiece jaded, corrupted and destroyed by greed.
    The soundtrack, the artstyle, the gameplay elements are of a Triple A quality, an immersive initial experience within a great awe-inspiring open world that ends up falling on its face as soon as the ugly face of monetization shows itself and parasitize every single system the game has to offer.

    Most reviews have talked about the issues in this title, the resin system, the very low rates on the gacha rolls, the total absence of an end-game, the thin and gated gameplay loop, the paid battle pass, that requires more cash to be spent to finish it, all taint a game worth an 8 or a 9 into a below average end-result as demonstrated by the anger and frustration that leads people to rate-bomb the game.

    The game is a living and breathing identity crisis as it tries to take from every genre, and while it succeeds in some aspects, it always damages the good ideas with infuriating monetization schemes.
    It does not serve its coop mode, more of a clunky afterthought than a real feature.

    When the exploring is done, the world is a colossal empty piece of land with absolutely nothing to do in after the 10 minute daily quest is done.

    This game had the potential to be what World of Warcraft was to the MMO genre, taking an obscure niche genre and broadening its scope to become a Gaming Titan. Instead Mihoyo elected to forcefeed mobile monetization and predatory practices to a shocking degree, even for gachas and probably cuddled the market into accepting gambling addiction exploitation as a new norm for PC and console now that the mobile market is saturated with it.

    In the end, this game is probably worth a 4 or a 5, but it is reasonable to see those business practices as an unethical introduction for gamers to gambling addiction and incredibly overpriced systems. Mihoyo may have singlehandedly changed the face of gaming if the industry follows this trend.

    This title is like a dark prophet, announcing a wasteful era in gaming, where talented and creative artists, developpers and musicians are cannibalized by a greedy industry, unwilling to consider the craft of video-game making as the art is deserves to be.    … Expand
  8. Saber1201
    Oct 24, 2020
    0
    Great gameplay, beautiful graphics, big and expansive world for players to explore.

    Resin is the stamina of this game. To grind dungeons and fight bosses you need resin to receive the rewards. Otherwise, you can complete the dungeons/fight bosses but no reward is given to you. That reward is contains character levelling materials and weapon levelling materials to progress through the    Great gameplay, beautiful graphics, big and expansive world for players to explore.

    Resin is the stamina of this game. To grind dungeons and fight bosses you need resin to receive the rewards. Otherwise, you can complete the dungeons/fight bosses but no reward is given to you. That reward is contains character levelling materials and weapon levelling materials to progress through the game. Now this is where the resin system becomes restricting. After AR30 you are basically finished with the main story of this game as of the current version of the game. The things you do to level up your characters and weapons are very limited because of the resin system. You can only do daily commissions to level up which does not cost resin, and thats around 10-15 minutes of gameplay. Dungeons (also around 10 minutes of gameplay) costs at least 20 resins and your resin storage is capped at 120. Moreover it takes 8 MINUTES to regenerate each resin which is ridiculous when 10 minutes is all it takes to spend 20 resins.

    Gacha rates are atrociously low compared to many other gacha games. 0.6% rate to get a 5 star weapon or character is ridiculously low.

    Controller support would be a fine addition since we won’t have to obstruct the screen with our fat hands. This will allows us to appreciate the astonishing visuals of this game even more. Moreover, it will be more comfortable for us to play with a controller for long hours. IOS 13 & 14 already added controller support for PS4 and Xbox controllers. Since, this game features multiplayer crossplay with PC and PS4 which both have native controller support built in for the game, it won’t be an unfair advantage for mobile players with controllers.    … Expand
  9. COucouhibou
    Oct 24, 2020
    0
    Awesome gameplay , awesome graphics BUT ...
    After AR35 it's empty , no chests respawn , no story ( i understand it's the begining ) , and .. THE RESIN .. OMG why the resin ? you have to wait 21h to play 6 domains , doable in about 20min ? And it's the only way to progress ! You have to use resin to upgrade skills , weapons , characters , to have artefacts etc .. So right now this game is    Awesome gameplay , awesome graphics BUT ...
    After AR35 it's empty , no chests respawn , no story ( i understand it's the begining ) , and .. THE RESIN .. OMG why the resin ? you have to wait 21h to play 6 domains , doable in about 20min ? And it's the only way to progress ! You have to use resin to upgrade skills , weapons , characters , to have artefacts etc .. So right now this game is a 20min game in a day and that's it. If I could play it freely and farm stuffs i 100% sure that i'd put money in the game to have new characters ?? But right now , if i have a new character i can't level him with the same level as my others characters ..    … Expand
  10. todoront
    Oct 24, 2020
    0
    Resin is needed for everything, and yet it needs 16h to fully recharge. 10 min of playtime every day.
  11. Bruzzi
    Dec 26, 2020
    1
    Genshin Impact, one of the worst open world games I have ever played, the game only consists of graphics and gacha, an extremely overrated game. The game is based on, being lucky in gacha, doing daily quests, killing easy bosses, crying because you didn't get your Diluc **** and leaving. I've never seen a boss battle more boring than Genshin Impact. I regret every second I spent on this game.
  12. ResinPiece
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    i have nothing much to say. all the negative reviews had what is running in our minds. so lets do our part and bomb this game's review until they know how to handle their customers properly
  13. Fvckmihoyo
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    This game is completely trash after AR35, they gate you with the trash resin system, everything meaningful needs resin, it's completely trash, they're trying to port mobile game scummy tactics to pc, we will not allow that, dont play this game, will never recommend.
  14. Silver-
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    The "Resin" is ruining the game. So much potential gone to trash only by that....
  15. Nykona
    Oct 23, 2020
    3
    The start of the game is great. Amazing VA, cutscenes and world. A fun combat system too. During this period they sell you the opportunity to buy a “battlepass” and “blessing for daily rewards”.

    Then you get to a certain point and realise..... The quests abrubtly stop with no resolution The world is empty once you solve the puzzles and collect the chests (chests don’t respawn despite    The start of the game is great. Amazing VA, cutscenes and world. A fun combat system too. During this period they sell you the opportunity to buy a “battlepass” and “blessing for daily rewards”.

    Then you get to a certain point and realise.....

    The quests abrubtly stop with no resolution The world is empty once you solve the puzzles and collect the chests (chests don’t respawn despite earlier popular belief they do, confirmed but the company)

    The resin system dictates every aspect of character progression to around between 3 to 15 minutes gameplay per 16 hour period. In a game with a combat system that promotes party composition diversity and multiple set ups you cannot level more than 3 characters due to lack of resources.

    Even then the resin system is not for time gating either. Given you can pay $15 A DAY. To triple your daily allocation of resin. And the fact that later character upgrade materials are locked behind bosses that have weekly lockouts who have a CHANCE to drop those materials.

    Then to top it off with global communities complaining about this, content creators, whales and f2p alike the devs simply raise the cap of resin (not offer more) so instead of 16 hours to regenerate 120 it’s now 21 hours to regen 160. The company is so out of touch with a) the community b) the console and PC market c) the western playerbase it’s actually a joke.    … Expand
  16. Dawi
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Genshin's devs are deaf and greddy. The resin system is insult and upping the cap to 160 is even more tone deaf and insulting.
    You don't give scarce pull money and add a 0.6% for a 5 stars.
    No content whatsoever passed AR30/35,even as a casual content went rare in 2 weeks
  17. darkblade2441
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    To put it simply, Genshin Impact is a cash grab by MiHoYo, the developer of this game.

    The game had so much potential with it’s gorgeous open world, beautiful soundtrack, one of the best anime-style graphics and character designs i have ever seen, but they blew it. Sure, the game is fun if not amazing for the first 2 weeks, but sooner or later, you are going to hit a wall when it comes    To put it simply, Genshin Impact is a cash grab by MiHoYo, the developer of this game.

    The game had so much potential with it’s gorgeous open world, beautiful soundtrack, one of the best anime-style graphics and character designs i have ever seen, but they blew it. Sure, the game is fun if not amazing for the first 2 weeks, but sooner or later, you are going to hit a wall when it comes to progression, being able to play the game for only 15-20 minutes a day because of "Resin", the energy system of this game and also the reason for it’s downfall. If you’re playing the game as F2P, you’re pretty much screwed, since the only way to refill Resin in this game is to either wait a whole 16 hours for it to completely refill (As i said, it takes 15-20 min to use it all up BTW) or use primogems to instantly refill it, which can be bought with real life currency. This is what i meant when i said that you’re screwed as a F2P player. It doesnt help that MiHoYo doesn’t give a damn about it’s playerbase, saying that they will respond to player feedback by changing the Resin cap from 120 to 160. Now this might seem like a good thing, but it’s really not. It will still take 8 minutes to recharge 1 resin, whether the resin cap was 120 or 160. To put it more simply, the playerbase asked for more water but instead got a larger bowl.

    In conclusion, stay away from this game, at least until they overhaul the resin system, which i doubt will hapen.    … Expand
  18. driftninja
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    At level 35+++ this game is not fun. It is just a chore. Trash cleaner simulator in open world, and resin walled at dungeon.
  19. Clowreed
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    The positive reviews of the game are from players that have yet to finish the story or find most of the things in the open world. Once you've done those two things, which you can do in the span of a week of after-work play, Mihoyo's idea of endgame amounts to a daily 20-30 minute grind, limited by a horrible gacha-game stamina/energy system (called Resin System in GI) aimed atThe positive reviews of the game are from players that have yet to finish the story or find most of the things in the open world. Once you've done those two things, which you can do in the span of a week of after-work play, Mihoyo's idea of endgame amounts to a daily 20-30 minute grind, limited by a horrible gacha-game stamina/energy system (called Resin System in GI) aimed at incentivising you to pay money to reduce the necessary grind OR buy more stamina to enable the grind. Even among gacha games, which this is to it's core, it's bad. Never before have I played a gacha game with an stamina/energy system this restricting, and I've played my fair share of them, including the notorious F/GO.

    Not only is the energy/stamina system one of the worst, if not THE worst, among it's peers, it also boasts some of the all-time worst rates for the gacha component. A laughable 0.6% chance to get a 5* unit. Again, F/GO is infamous for it's horrible rate of 5* characters and that game has nearly TWICE the chance of getting one such character at a 1% rate.

    Once the honeymoon phase wears of (the 8-10 out of 10 game score phase) so do the rewards for actually playing the game. You simply don't get any premium currency anymore. Playing normally, no events, no login rewards, you get 1/3 of a summon each day. To get a guaranteed 4* (not 5*!) you need 10 of those summons.
    To get a guaranteed 5* you need 90.

    "But hold on, what about the events!" I hear you say. "Surely the events make up for the lack of daily things to do!" No. The event rewards are pathetically low. The gameplay of the events is boring and repetitive. And the events cost stamina/resin/energy. So if you want all the rewards from the events you need to use your resin, which means you can't do anything else that day!

    Co-Op is underwhelming at best and non-existent at worst. I can't explore with my friends because I can't open chests or do side-quests while in their world. Sure, I can do the boring and repetitive events with them, which makes them somewhat more bearable, but that shouldn't be the point of playing with friends. Co-Op feels like it was only shoehorned in at the last second because people assumed it was going to be in and Mihoyo didn't want to deny it in fear of damaging their marketing campaign.

    The core game itself is fun and I'd like to play more of it, preferably with my friends. The game activally gates me from doing the former and isn't build to do the latter. It's made to look nice, shiny, inviting, wholesome and fun, but underneath the hood it tries it's very damndest to get you addicted so you spend your money for towards its predatory practice.    … Expand
  20. Tumerion
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    Very fun and addictive, beautiful game design and level design but after some hours and leveling you'll all see what's happening --> you CAN'T DO ANYTHING because of a stupid stamina system.

    One thing : Mihoyo censorship on every platforms, you can't say anything bad about their game and system or you'll be instantly deleted. That's how they work. Don't be hopefull, they create a    Very fun and addictive, beautiful game design and level design but after some hours and leveling you'll all see what's happening --> you CAN'T DO ANYTHING because of a stupid stamina system.

    One thing : Mihoyo censorship on every platforms, you can't say anything bad about their game and system or you'll be instantly deleted. That's how they work.

    Don't be hopefull, they create a discord channel for the resin system and said they'll hear us AND..... they've just added 40 more resin, that's mean they just **** on our face, 40 more is +1 per 8 min to the 160/160. ITS NOT A FIX OR ANYTHING ELSE, they just don't care anything but money    … Expand
  21. 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
  22. james_scott
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Genshin Is Dead, and Resin is Bad

    The worst type of stamina gated content I have ever had. I played a lot of game that have this kind of stamina limit but this is the worst!! HARD cap 120 Resin that has LONG REGEN TIME (1 Resin/8 mins) "But this is a mobile game that ported to PC/PS4!!!" Let me give an easy example, a game developed by Mihoyo, Honkai Impact 3 - Have stamina type    Genshin Is Dead, and Resin is Bad

    The worst type of stamina gated content I have ever had. I played a lot of game that have this kind of stamina limit but this is the worst!!

    HARD cap 120 Resin that has LONG REGEN TIME (1 Resin/8 mins)

    "But this is a mobile game that ported to PC/PS4!!!"
    Let me give an easy example, a game developed by Mihoyo, Honkai Impact 3
    - Have stamina type
    - Have MORE THAN ONE way that can give/refill your stamina (either only 10 to MAX STAMINA)
    - GIVE FREE 30 STAMINA on LUNCH TIME and DINNER TIME
    - HAVE MORE REASONABLE STAMINA COST on STAGE/DUNGEON

    and what this Genshin is DEAD give to us? Yeah, only 120 RESIN/STAMINA that have the WORST REGEN RATE of all time, and only ONE WAY to refill the RESIN than only given NOT EVERY AR LEVEL UP    … Expand
  23. Shint
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Game is great read any other review

    Resin makes it 0/10
    Gacha rates makes it 0/10
    Lack of coop makes it 0/10
  24. MystikKnight
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    One of the best games with huge potential to be ever made, Held back by Predatory Monetization practices worse than the likes of EA and Activision costing hundreds of dollars in gambling systems for a single Hero/Character, we who played it for over a solid 100 to 200 hours now crashed against the hard content gating and paywall to do anything worthwhile including upgrading your charactersOne of the best games with huge potential to be ever made, Held back by Predatory Monetization practices worse than the likes of EA and Activision costing hundreds of dollars in gambling systems for a single Hero/Character, we who played it for over a solid 100 to 200 hours now crashed against the hard content gating and paywall to do anything worthwhile including upgrading your characters levels or equipping them with better gear. Apparently this is supposed to be normal by mobile standards but not here, PC frowns upon such practices hence doesn't matters how grand of a game it is it's wrong. Also the developers have a track record of not making better changes until their income is threatened by loss of playerbase in previous titles and this was just further proven by their response to the complaints about Genshin's system which shows that they did not read a single feedback post on their forums or surveys. So keeping all this in mind it's a 1 out of 10 for me, at least until it brings Very Significant changes to better it's systems, so please try it out without spending any money and move onto better games, Save yourself and your hard earned money, You as a consumer deserve Value for your Money, don't fall into their trap.… Expand
  25. NAkatsuki
    Oct 24, 2020
    0
    Amazing game ruined by resin gating your progress and predatory gacha rates with no consistent primogem income, they've been ignoring community feedback since beta and are very slow to make even minor changes that won't fix anything.
  26. pesosamurai
    Oct 29, 2020
    0
    It was close to become my favourite game, but I can explain why I join that wave of negative user score.
    I don't think there is a problem in gacha rate or gacha system or prices. You will get nice characters just for nothing and also you can easily get cool characters from event banners for free.
    But it's a shame that devs made such a fun game so short. Open world and game mechanics are    It was close to become my favourite game, but I can explain why I join that wave of negative user score.
    I don't think there is a problem in gacha rate or gacha system or prices. You will get nice characters just for nothing and also you can easily get cool characters from event banners for free.
    But it's a shame that devs made such a fun game so short. Open world and game mechanics are great, but this huge world becomes instantly a desert after AR30, which you can reach for about 2-3 days. There is nothing to do, and you can just delete the game until new patch comes, then play several hours and delete again. No endgame content, no real challenges and very boring co-op. It is better to buy some indie game and spend your time for something offers you finish whole story or have infinite fun in different activities. I know it is a free game, but... the game is just a dissapointing for people who loved it after release. Even f2p players don't deserve being fooled by first few hours/days of gameplay.
    You can say, if you don't like the game after main story finishes (but don't really ends), just make a new account and play one more time. Personally, I don't wanna lost my characters and all I've already done and got. I liked the game in my first account, I wanna stay here, but Mihoyo offers me nothing but 20 minutes (or less) of daily quests. No complete ending of the story, no endgame content. Like I just played demo version.
    It's like they mock their audience, even players who gave them money. I hope that they will listen to users, I hope they improve everything and one day I will give 10 score for the game. Sorry for my English.

    RUS (это не перевод, но смысл один). Короче говоря, для меня проблема не в низком рейте гачи или ценах на всё, в игре легко получить хороших персонажей и она проходится спокойно. Проблема в отсутствии эндгейм контента. Будто поиграли в демку игры. Заходить на пару минут за дейликами - такое себе удовольствие. У игры большой потенциал, но она его не реализовывает - это обидно. Игроки не ноют, они просто хотят, чтоб игра стала лучше. Поэтому я присоединяюсь к негативным отзывам и надеюсь, что когда-нибудь смогу поставить этой игре 10. А пока с ней печалька. Поиграться 2 дня и забыть.    … Expand
  27. reyhankhairul
    Dec 10, 2020
    0
    trash game with resin system, not support f2p player, 5 stars character/weapon so hard to get with gacha system 0.0006% in 90 pulls, update system to 1.1 need to download entire client game again
    dont play this **** game
  28. Dante_croft
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    It's almost impossible to get one of the first 5 stats you want. After more than 2000 wishes after, I didn't get who I wanted....
  29. mirg
    Nov 30, 2020
    2
    While the combat is entertaining and the story is decent. The game is still one big casino just without any regulation which at the end of the day is not something to be praised.
  30. evgenijblja
    May 22, 2021
    0
    I reached the endgame and have to say, that I cant reccomend this game.
    The endgame is pure pay to win. The endgame content is boring and the gacha system is unfair.

    The only good part of the game is the Open World Content.
    But once you have completed the Open World Content there awaits you pure greed programmed and designed as a game.
  31. warknighter
    Feb 26, 2021
    0
    игра про расизм китацев по отношению ко всем другим и огромный донат, прикрытая аниме
  32. Erz
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Полнейшее неуважение разработчиков к коммьюнити, игнорирование накапливающихся в игре проблем, невероятная жадность разрабов и скатывание в донатную помойку, хотя игра и без этого приносила им огромные деньги. А так хорошо всё начиналось.Полнейшее неуважение разработчиков к коммьюнити, игнорирование накапливающихся в игре проблем, невероятная жадность разрабов и скатывание в донатную помойку, хотя игра и без этого приносила им огромные деньги. А так хорошо всё начиналось.
  33. firetheft
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Greedy company, they only purpose is to milk money from players. Dont waste time on this, buy switch and Zelda.
  34. mayconcomy
    Nov 24, 2020
    0
    The game starts very well, but the Resin system, boring history and looooooooooot of unnecessary dialogues totally ruined the game.
  35. eSpiHRA
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    This company will take your money with out giving you what you paid for. If you buy the Gnostic Hymn and don't have time to play, you will essentially be giving them money for nothing as it expires over time. I was not aware of this, bought the pass for the rewards, didn't have time to play, returned to the game to see I wasn't getting rewards for what I paid for. The company is tryingThis company will take your money with out giving you what you paid for. If you buy the Gnostic Hymn and don't have time to play, you will essentially be giving them money for nothing as it expires over time. I was not aware of this, bought the pass for the rewards, didn't have time to play, returned to the game to see I wasn't getting rewards for what I paid for. The company is trying their best to rip their players off, I just want to make it clear!… Expand
  36. ramchannel
    Jan 30, 2021
    0
    This game created only to grab money from fools, after 30 lvl game will end. on high lvl 40+ const party abyss only. if you dont have it. dontate ten milllion $ to roll some gacha, its not f2p. its a p2p and like not 10$ like wow, but 99999999$ on random trash with 0.6% chance to get something usefull, and off cource 0/160 of energy, realy? open world+enegy+gacha = garbage should be in theThis game created only to grab money from fools, after 30 lvl game will end. on high lvl 40+ const party abyss only. if you dont have it. dontate ten milllion $ to roll some gacha, its not f2p. its a p2p and like not 10$ like wow, but 99999999$ on random trash with 0.6% chance to get something usefull, and off cource 0/160 of energy, realy? open world+enegy+gacha = garbage should be in the trashbox. dont play this crap. just delete it and save your braincells.… Expand
  37. Hmm123hmm
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Not cool, miHoYo. Please increase the anniversary rewards... or else...

    For real though, we spent a lot in this game. +100M in two weeks is no joke. Not amused.
  38. Nadeshko
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    juego mas caca que este no deberia de existir, vill copia de Zelda Breath of the Wild , nunca salio paraswitch y encima peor evento de aniversario.
  39. xkuromorix
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    The game is dying cuz the terrible attention to the community and the worst management actions, the worst anniversary in a gacha game that i ever seen before
  40. ezamora
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Mihoyo disrespects comunity by banning freedom of speech, our response is to raise our voice by punishing their wallets.
    Its a fun game f2p; however endgame is infinite and it becomes boring and repetitive over time.
    Game rewards seem to be ok during the course of the story, however after reaching AR 45 you realize you dont have enough and the game suffers from hte lack of resources.    Mihoyo disrespects comunity by banning freedom of speech, our response is to raise our voice by punishing their wallets.
    Its a fun game f2p; however endgame is infinite and it becomes boring and repetitive over time.
    Game rewards seem to be ok during the course of the story, however after reaching AR 45 you realize you dont have enough and the game suffers from hte lack of resources.
    Drop rates are a joke and so is the anniversary rewards.    … Expand
  41. mlseviers
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Earns the most, gives the least. I guess it has the lowest 5 star drop rate and the most expensive one to draw. Very low free income. Your "rewards" are actually saved from rewards in-game such as map exploration. Do not try to spend anything on it as you will regret.
  42. pr_andrade
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    The game is beautiful, but the developer Mihoyo doesn't care about the community and this makes the game lack the improvements suggested by the players.
  43. lastbing
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    It's fun game at the first, but it's so boring when you reach high level. Plain story spesific at 2.1 version, bad character kit design, lack of content and anniversary reward is suck. This devloper become so greddy at this time. I not recomend this game
  44. Soapwf
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Lets just say... The 1st anniversary are suck. You are the top tier gacha game, yet can't even made a decent reward an anniversary
  45. klingerdx
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Esse jogo e incrível melhor jogo de mundo aberto do estilo Zelda mas o descaso com os jogadores que eles fizeram com o prêmio de aniversário foi imensa , a empresa ganhou muito dinheiro com os jogadores e no aniversário de 1 ano deu recompensas tão ruim , alem disso a mihoyo cagaram na persoangens kokomi fazendo com que ela seja considerada a pior t5 só game e ainda não melhoraram oEsse jogo e incrível melhor jogo de mundo aberto do estilo Zelda mas o descaso com os jogadores que eles fizeram com o prêmio de aniversário foi imensa , a empresa ganhou muito dinheiro com os jogadores e no aniversário de 1 ano deu recompensas tão ruim , alem disso a mihoyo cagaram na persoangens kokomi fazendo com que ela seja considerada a pior t5 só game e ainda não melhoraram o conteúdo end game e o conteúdo Coop do game… Expand
  46. caprifanta533
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    happy anniversary genshin impact, thank you for meh reward you give and bad event you give to us this month and worst pity rate of artifact i got in game
  47. Gkauber
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Pouco, ou nenhum valor dado aos jogadores, empresa se omite, mesmo após uma onda massiva de insatisfeitos com o aniversário.
  48. Pipoc
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    A game that was on its way to being one of the best of its era, but disappoints millions of players because it just cares only about money and not about their loyalty.
  49. Lunds
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Happy anniversary dood, what a nice way to treat your fanbase. Such a generous 40 primos
  50. AlterDark
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    The game is good, has a LOT OF PROBLEMS, NOT GONNA LIE. But the game is good, worth playing FOR FREE ONLY, but worth. Still not really reccomend this for anyone because Mihoyo do not care about me, do not care about you, they only care for our money and they dont deserve it. Dont put money on this game.
  51. KnightofSwords
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    It was a wonderful game literally half a year ago. The plot was interesting, the characters had a well-developed personality, all the errors were carefully worked out. Now there is only good interface design, animation and amazing visuals. Players are fed bad stories as something valuable, locations are not finalized, characters are too, all this with a ton of sexualization and giantIt was a wonderful game literally half a year ago. The plot was interesting, the characters had a well-developed personality, all the errors were carefully worked out. Now there is only good interface design, animation and amazing visuals. Players are fed bad stories as something valuable, locations are not finalized, characters are too, all this with a ton of sexualization and giant greed. Be careful not to choke.
    The process of falling took place gradually and gently, what is now can not be called a good game and even a little interesting.
    Eight contests using the most talented members of the community as free advertising. as an anniversary reward. f*ck you.    … Expand
  52. grimm0595
    Aug 9, 2022
    0
    this game will honey trap you by the beautiful world at the start and all the loot you can get. soon or later you will find out this game is just a credit card-sweeping simulator it will force your hand to p2w and get gems in order to get the new cool characters coming out soon ( reused assets and recolor ) = new character + slap a new name on it.
  53. StepanBandera
    Jul 8, 2022
    0
    Говно, говно, говно, говно, говно, говно, говно, говно, говно, говно, говно.
  54. KoffeuH
    Aug 4, 2022
    0
    As AR57 I can say, this game is **** bad resin system, average story, and worst coop I've ever seen, ah yes, and 80% of all community is toxic 13 y.o kids
  55. JoshyM
    Aug 4, 2022
    0
    Predatory gacha system, lacks intersting content. No more quality gameplay in the recent updates
  56. ProsteNicolas
    Aug 21, 2022
    0
    **** absolutely **** this game is for kids who dont have **** brain **** life and nof **** dad, i tried this **** **** and i nearly got cancer its totally ****.
  57. WithFieryTruth
    Oct 24, 2020
    0
    A game that's a lot of fun until you, sooner rather than later, run into the inevitable gacha wall, where you're forced into paying a hefty sum of real money (unless you're willing to spend hundreds, possibly thousands, of hours on grinding, farming and waiting on cooldowns) just for the chance to win one of the characters or weapons you want.

    To add insult to injury, if you live in a    A game that's a lot of fun until you, sooner rather than later, run into the inevitable gacha wall, where you're forced into paying a hefty sum of real money (unless you're willing to spend hundreds, possibly thousands, of hours on grinding, farming and waiting on cooldowns) just for the chance to win one of the characters or weapons you want.

    To add insult to injury, if you live in a European country, everything's a lot more expensive.
    6480 Genesis Crystals, which nets you a total of 40 character/weapon rolls (that will mostly or, more likely, completely, consist of trash), costs $99.99. In Europe, the same package costs €109.99.
    A euro is already worth more than a dollar, but the fact that they also bumped up the price results in the $99.99 package costing roughly $130 in Europe. It's equal parts ridiculous and unacceptable, considering the fact that you're not even guaranteed a useful drop if you actually spend this amount. To further put things into perspective: In order to get the currently featured five star character, you have to do a total of up to 180 rolls in the game. These rolls will cost you a whooping $444 if you live in the US, and if you're unlucky enough to be European, it will cost roughly €489, which translates to $578.
    Let that sink in. $578 for ONE character, and this character will be replaced by a different one in a few weeks, meaning you'll have to cough up another $578 for the new one, another $578 for the next one after that, and so on.

    If there was a non-gacha version of this game, where you could find characters and weapons through some sort of ordinary progression system, I'd gladly pay full price for it, but in its current form, Genshin Impact is just a cheap money-grab that in no way deserves the praise it's been receiving.
    Quite frankly, I find it disgusting how miHoYo and other gacha game developers profit by exploiting people's tendency for gambling addiction. I wish everyone would stop throwing money at them so we'd be rid of this plague of the gaming world.    … Expand
  58. Joe627487136
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    Well.. u would have a better time to play Zelda I suppose.. if you can’t afford an switch then maybe this game is for you
  59. ncnew
    Oct 14, 2020
    0
    Stereotypical Gacha tumor, but even worse than the usual Gacha fare.

    -Unethical host bans Android users who use what is essentially an operating system function standard to consumer-friendly OSes like Windows or proper linux (Root access) -SSR rate is the lowest of any gacha game I have played -Typical Gacha Time Gating intended to drain money from kids -China and all the bad things    Stereotypical Gacha tumor, but even worse than the usual Gacha fare.

    -Unethical host bans Android users who use what is essentially an operating system function standard to consumer-friendly OSes like Windows or proper linux (Root access)
    -SSR rate is the lowest of any gacha game I have played
    -Typical Gacha Time Gating intended to drain money from kids
    -China and all the bad things that come with it like censorship
    -MiHoYo has a history of banning for a long list of ridiculous reasons although as previously stated rooting is one of the worst excuses for a ban.

    Supporting the gacha industry only ensures that developers will no longer make real games like they used to.

    I could list some pros like "cute graphics" but that really means nothing when the game is just psychological abuse intended to drain your wallet via gambling for kids...    … Expand
  60. LoyalFlush
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    The game is fun for the first dozen or so hours. After that, the game immediately halts your progression behind paywalls and arbitrary time gates. For most players, the daily routine consists of logging in, doing dailies for 20 minutes and logging off. There's nothing remotely fun nor engaging about this chore of a game.
  61. MaxxedOut
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    No, increasing the cap to 160, while leaving the REGENERATION TIME for one Resin is not fixing the problem. What's the use? You won't even get 30 minutes of effective gameplay daily.
  62. Kmnr
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    Story is good, nice graphic with a nice exploring kinda game, but after you reach AR 35+ you will easily get bored. No quest to complete, nothing else to explore, and the only thing you can do is progressing your character, and the worse part is you need resin to make your character stronger and right now the rwsin system is so bad. You can only play this game for 20 minutes because the resin.
  63. Darkesht
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    horrible resin system gating player progress remembering need a ton resin to upgrade the character
  64. mosthealer
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    Dumb developer decide to kill the game by gating everything with resin system, it need to go to hell
  65. Roodboye
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Game becomes literally unplayable after a certain point unless you want to shill out 15$ a day, and even then you will get about 15min gameplay out of it. Stay away from this game untill (hopefully) things change for the best.
  66. RESINLOOL
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Remove Resin or the game will die because of this stupid system it ruins the game and keep gating the players from playing the game like what in the world is this system if they don't remove it I'll quit the game
  67. krwr
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Up until AR25 the game was breathtaking. Now at AR38 my only content is 10 mins/day. Completely out of touch devs that cannot implement meaningful changes despite a plethora of good feedback/suggestions/criticism from a very passionate community.
  68. 3Y0W1N
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Time is money. Waiting is wasting time. Waiting is a waste of money.
    When you wait for resin to refill, thats a waste of money. You can buy the time waiting for resin to refill? Thats exponentially a waste of money. MiHoYo spending time to create this resin system is double exponentially a waste of money.
    Progression in-game need everything. Gathering everything need time. Time used for    Time is money. Waiting is wasting time. Waiting is a waste of money.
    When you wait for resin to refill, thats a waste of money. You can buy the time waiting for resin to refill? Thats exponentially a waste of money. MiHoYo spending time to create this resin system is double exponentially a waste of money.

    Progression in-game need everything. Gathering everything need time. Time used for grinding is a time well spent for progression.
    When you use resin to get more of everything when grinding, thats a money well spent. You can buy the time used for grinding with resin? Thats exponentially a money well spent. MiHoYo spending time to rework resin system as drop booster is double exponentially a money well spent.    … Expand
  69. Resin
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Everything about this game is good except one thing, Resin problem! Everything you do needs a resin, and the amounts of items drop per resin needed are measly!!! And when you are farming artifacts, you are locked with RNG, main stats need RNG to get what you want and even the sub stats need an RNG too to get perfect stats. There have been a lot of complaints about it, be it CN players orEverything about this game is good except one thing, Resin problem! Everything you do needs a resin, and the amounts of items drop per resin needed are measly!!! And when you are farming artifacts, you are locked with RNG, main stats need RNG to get what you want and even the sub stats need an RNG too to get perfect stats. There have been a lot of complaints about it, be it CN players or global players... They said that they have listened to our voice, but guess what? Instead of increasing the rate of resin regen, we get increased resin cap instead!? We asked for more water but given bigger cup?? How does that make sense? If we are not getting an increase in regen rate then bigger cap does not change anything. Previously we need to log in twice a day, burn resin in 10 minutes for trash items and log out, now they give us a QoL that is you only need to log in once a day, burn your resin in 10 mins and don't bother play the game again until the next day at the same day time. This is the problem of endgame players with slow content updates from developers, until they truly listened to players' voice, this review stands at 0 rating!… Expand
  70. illiex
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Worst gating i have ever seem, even for gachas standards. For the early start, it's pretty good, just to turn into a mess after ar35+. The stamina system in this game put other predatory gachas into shame. You have 15 minutes a day of meaningful play. It's ridiculous and i regret wasting money before i knew what a mess this game is after some time. Don't get invested if you intend to playWorst gating i have ever seem, even for gachas standards. For the early start, it's pretty good, just to turn into a mess after ar35+. The stamina system in this game put other predatory gachas into shame. You have 15 minutes a day of meaningful play. It's ridiculous and i regret wasting money before i knew what a mess this game is after some time. Don't get invested if you intend to play it. Sounds crazy, but that is one system put in by the developer, on purpose!
    That's even without mentioning one of the worst currency and pull rates in ALL of the gacha games.    … Expand
  71. Aliali23
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    The honeymoon phase is done,, after 2 weeks playing and realized how bad is resin system is,, and now we have 1.1 update that only increase resin cap from 120 to 160 without reducing the resin gain, its still a crappy 8 mins per resin,, yes the problem is so severe and my daily time playing this game only 15 mins each day,,, nice gameplay,, 11/10 btw I'm AR41 player,,
  72. I-LOVE-GENSHIN
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    I love this game, it's like my wife... But when you can only spend 2 minutes doing stuff with your wife, clearly things are not going to work out.. Playing this game made me realize, I don't need a wife, I need more resin. Please add more resin, 160 is not nearly enough for someone to actually enjoy the game.
  73. Deadlift966
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    Bad company. The game looks beautiful but the business system is way too toxic and hungry. The company doesn’t listen to their player base feedback.
  74. lyanda
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    This game promotes itself as a free to play game however with its predatory monetization practices it locks endgame content and characters behind a high paywall. People are required to gamble away more than a $1000 to get 2 5 stars which could be a weapon instead of a character. It's ridiculous that there is no daily reward system and that you have to pay more money to replenish your resinThis game promotes itself as a free to play game however with its predatory monetization practices it locks endgame content and characters behind a high paywall. People are required to gamble away more than a $1000 to get 2 5 stars which could be a weapon instead of a character. It's ridiculous that there is no daily reward system and that you have to pay more money to replenish your resin to do more content compared to rolling for a character/item. On top of that the rates for attaining a 5 star is so low that it might as well be a 0% chance.… Expand
  75. moist_pillow
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    This game has caused me to lose my 2 children because my whore ass wife took them when she saw that I spent 10 dollars in order to roll for a child that bombs puppies for fun.
    This was fine and all because, between you and me, the children were annoying and a waste of money. And my wife was cheating on me for Ted the janitor at her job, so **** 'em
    Oh, and resin system go brrrrrr...    This game has caused me to lose my 2 children because my whore ass wife took them when she saw that I spent 10 dollars in order to roll for a child that bombs puppies for fun.
    This was fine and all because, between you and me, the children were annoying and a waste of money. And my wife was cheating on me for Ted the janitor at her job, so **** 'em
    Oh, and resin system go brrrrrr...
    Tired of only being able to look at keqing booty for 20 minutes a day besides on danbooru.    … Expand
  76. Snow2711
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Game seemed okay on the surface, but damn it's so restrictive. The Gacha rates are .6 chance to pull a 5 star. However, it can be either a weapon or character. Most of the time you'll pull useless 3 star weapons that are just material fodder. Then you have the absolute trash resin (energy/stamina) system. Literally you can play 10 minutes a day or less then have nothing left to do but waitGame seemed okay on the surface, but damn it's so restrictive. The Gacha rates are .6 chance to pull a 5 star. However, it can be either a weapon or character. Most of the time you'll pull useless 3 star weapons that are just material fodder. Then you have the absolute trash resin (energy/stamina) system. Literally you can play 10 minutes a day or less then have nothing left to do but wait hours for it to recharge. Wait until this game fixes its resin (energy/stamina) system to play, then maybe it'd be worth your time to give it a chance. Music is good though. Thank you to the music composers and producers on the development team. Whoever decided on the monetization and resin system is brain dead though. This game will be dead before patch 1.1 if they don't fix it.… Expand
  77. boiiiiiiiiiiii
    Oct 25, 2020
    0
    If playing for 15 mins per day counts as fun i would rate 9/10. Considering it does not count as fun for me, I will give this game a 0 because the game forces you to be unable to play after only 15 mins of game time by having nothing to do.
  78. Hifumin
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    this game is good and amazing at first and it have a good potential but the resin system is absolutely bad
    im on World level 5 and i just got new character but even one week is not enough to level her up, everything need resin you need exp card doing ley line using resin, dont have enough mora ? doing ley line using resin, want to have a good artifact for your character ? doing domain    this game is good and amazing at first and it have a good potential but the resin system is absolutely bad
    im on World level 5 and i just got new character but even one week is not enough to level her up, everything need resin you need exp card doing ley line using resin, dont have enough mora ? doing ley line using resin, want to have a good artifact for your character ? doing domain with resin and + randomize drop, level her up talent ? yeah resin too
    all of it using resin, but the resin regeneration is 1 per 8 minutes
    even when i go working, the resin is not full yet when i came back
    this need to be reworking or be improvise or a lot people just gonna leave when new game came out    … Expand
  79. Itskaiser
    Oct 24, 2020
    1
    Good game in the early run but in the end you see how greedy of a company mihoyo is
    -Outrageous prices, 200 dollars for 1 character thats crazy
    -a stamina system that stops you from playing the way you want doesnt belong on pc
    -useless battlepass
    -tons of paywalls
  80. Questbuster
    Oct 27, 2020
    0
    Great game. Art and music is really good. Kill by his own deleovper who suck ass. Try go to the Chinese web to see how they talk about it.
  81. nachilao
    Oct 15, 2020
    4
    Exploration is fun. I found it addictive and somewhat rewarding. The start of the game is easily 9 of 10 if not a full 10. Then the gacha mechanics start to kick in. The elemental combat system has been done and swapping characters to get elemental combos isn't really fun. The end game spiral abyss takes this mechanic to 11 requiring 2 teams to beat each floor.

    Again, it's probably    Exploration is fun. I found it addictive and somewhat rewarding. The start of the game is easily 9 of 10 if not a full 10. Then the gacha mechanics start to kick in. The elemental combat system has been done and swapping characters to get elemental combos isn't really fun. The end game spiral abyss takes this mechanic to 11 requiring 2 teams to beat each floor.

    Again, it's probably a 9/10 if you just play for a while and quit when you get to end game (til a major content patch). Otherwise, there are better, cheaper games with similar end game. 1/10 for end game.    … Expand
  82. nedmo000
    Oct 25, 2020
    3
    Putting aside the fact that this game is free and i will only recommend it if you really have nothing better to do ,sure it is fun at times i would even say it does really give an amazing first impression, but ultimately its just below average game for me and here is why

    -Uninspired this is one of the biggest gripe i had with the game ,this might very well be the most uninspired game of    Putting aside the fact that this game is free and i will only recommend it if you really have nothing better to do ,sure it is fun at times i would even say it does really give an amazing first impression, but ultimately its just below average game for me and here is why

    -Uninspired this is one of the biggest gripe i had with the game ,this might very well be the most uninspired game of this generation ,which says alot since this generation is so filled with uninspired games even worse than dark souls clone ,this however takes it to ridiculous heights even the damn map looks almost exactly the same as Botw ,it tries to steal so many gameplay mechanics from breath of the wild and sure this really does sound great on paper it ultimately fails miserably i will explain later on in this review ,it even steals some animations from nier automata and it has an uninspired anime artstyle to pander to weebs because they are the ultimate simps who will spend their money on an anime waifu.

    -Gameplay mechanics are shallow and just dont work well together ,like the characters can do all sorts of flashy moves but god forbid if they sprint or climb their stamina will deplete ,this is kind of like the opposite of what nintendo does ,nintendo adds few gameplay mechanics and build an entire game around it ,GI however just shoehornes mechanics from very popular games and add gacha on top of it and just expects it to work ,elemental combos started out great but later on it just became awful ,same with RPG mechanics do you know why? because these mechanics have not been worked upon lack depth and are just added for the sake of more content.

    -It just baffles me that reviewers and many people praise the story, im not expecting planescape torment or Disco Elysium but has the bar really been this low? the story is the most generic anime garbage i have seen in a while and unless you enjoy that stuff im not judging ofc ,the praise for this games story is as empty as this game.

    -Awful dungeon and boss design this is part of my complaint on how the game shoehornes uninspired gameplay mechanics and expects it to work ,the dungeons suffer from the same thing.

    -Enemies lack variety and are poorly designed

    -side content/quest are mediocre at best ,poorly designed and will get repetitive later on

    **** Endgame and resin system if you read most reviews here you will get what im saying so i dont think i will need to echo what everyone has already said countless of times.

    Overall i only recommend this game if you want something for free and have literally NO game in the backlog you might even enjoy the first part of the game but ultimately it will fall apart later on ,i hope next time we see something that is original and has depth unlike this mess of a game    … Expand
  83. RoyCarmine
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Game is pretty, greedy and it don't want you to play it. Your overall expirience and expenses depend on your first 100 gacha rolls. And they decide for you how long you are going to enjoy this game. Untill you'll face another artificial barrier called 'resin'. After game will sell you everything, all aspects of the game are monetized as hell (exp/skills/weapons). All this stingy bs wasGame is pretty, greedy and it don't want you to play it. Your overall expirience and expenses depend on your first 100 gacha rolls. And they decide for you how long you are going to enjoy this game. Untill you'll face another artificial barrier called 'resin'. After game will sell you everything, all aspects of the game are monetized as hell (exp/skills/weapons). All this stingy bs was compensated by descent story, art design and gameplay...after 2.1 they stoped making good game content. Now it's just one manipulative commercial of a casino for 12+.… Expand
  84. Cat28
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Resin waiting simulator, the game is fun until you get to adventure rank 35 then is a energy game that you can only play for 15 minutes each day.
  85. Plombie
    Nov 4, 2020
    0
    Typical predatory monetization system common in mobile (gacha) games and lots of issues that wont get adressed even after waiting 1 1/2 months for a single update, these issues were reported in the 1 open and 3 closed beta tests and the predatory systme got even worse than in the beta.
  86. Jeabus
    Oct 24, 2020
    2
    Short answer:

    It's a predatory microtransaction-riddled mess that lures people via the first few hours being decent. But it's actually a surprisingly shallow cashgrab for the gullible. It's genuinely not a good "game" and don't lt anyone tell you otherwise because it has fundamental core problems. Long Answer: The gameplay is one-dimensional and becomes stale shockingly fast.    Short answer:

    It's a predatory microtransaction-riddled mess that lures people via the first few hours being decent. But it's actually a surprisingly shallow cashgrab for the gullible. It's genuinely not a good "game" and don't lt anyone tell you otherwise because it has fundamental core problems.

    Long Answer:

    The gameplay is one-dimensional and becomes stale shockingly fast.

    It has no real identity of its own because it blatantly absorbs aspects from other games to try and have as much mass-appeal as possible to lure people in. A result of this is that it's all surface-level and most people realize this by the time they reach "Adventure Rank 30". Aka the ranking system from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon except turned into a slightly annoying grind instead of a tangible accomplishment.

    It's literally a Mobile game. Right down to the oversimplified braindead controls and some awkward camera issues on mouse/keyboard. The graphics are also an obvious holdback of this too but less important. However. HOWEVER. Being a mobile game also means something else...

    Lootboxes. The game is fully designed around lootboxes and trying to force the player to spend money. This is probably the single worst offender for this practice because it lures people in with the façade of a good game that doesn't really exist and then stonewalls progression if they get invested.

    It is genuinely not a good game. Anyone who has a gambling addiction or suspected vulnerability towards it... Never play this "game". Keep children away from it. Keep everyone you can away from it. It sets a very bad precedent for game development.    … Expand
  87. vash_ts
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    resin limit is too low resin limit is too low resin limit is too low resin limit is too low
  88. Iracy
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    All the positive reviews you read are from completely new players that haven't reached the "resin wall" yet. The game, early on is great and there's lots to do. You have roughly 40h of gameplay, for free and it's great. Then the game does a 180 and becomes absolutely terrible. Everything you want/need to do requires resin. Resin is their "Energy System" allowing for players to do content.All the positive reviews you read are from completely new players that haven't reached the "resin wall" yet. The game, early on is great and there's lots to do. You have roughly 40h of gameplay, for free and it's great. Then the game does a 180 and becomes absolutely terrible. Everything you want/need to do requires resin. Resin is their "Energy System" allowing for players to do content. EVERYTHING "meaningful" in this game requires resin. And even if you were to spend all your resin, you get like 20 minutes of game out of it a day. Trying to upgrade your characters is horrendous, there is no incentive on getting new chars because you can't even level them up. That's also gated behind resin, yes. As is gold. And character evolution mats. And weapon evolution mats. And talent upgrade mats. Even the WEEKLY bosses cost resin. Half of your daily maximum, mind you. The game forcefully limits the players to only playing around 20 minutes a day, doing "reasonable" progress, which pretty much diminishes to nothingness once you get to AR40. I do not recommend this game, in it's current state to anyone. In this worldwide pandemic we're currently in, they also put a gacha system in the game. New 5* characters cost approx. 400$ if you're really unlucky. That's a PS5. For one single unit. Did I mention that you need 7 copies of one character to max them out? So if you have really bad luck, you'd have to pay 2.8k $ to get one single 5* maxed. And then you gotta spend another truckload of cash to level them, get them gear and upgrade their talents. In this worldwide pandemic which has causes millions to lose their jobs. First causing a worldwide pandemic and then making a new shiny game with ridiculously predatory systems in it. Well played china, well played...… Expand
  89. N88dles
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    You CANNOT rank this as a PC game since they're clearly ignoring all PC and Console users. This game launched cross platform but still functions as a MOBILE gatcha game. This game had such potential to be an amazing game but once you spend a couple of hours per day, you'd eventually hit the RESIN wall. Why would you limit your players progression especially since it's mainly a singleYou CANNOT rank this as a PC game since they're clearly ignoring all PC and Console users. This game launched cross platform but still functions as a MOBILE gatcha game. This game had such potential to be an amazing game but once you spend a couple of hours per day, you'd eventually hit the RESIN wall. Why would you limit your players progression especially since it's mainly a single player game? You're PREVENTING people from playing thus preventing future transactions to make you MORE MONEY? This oddly makes no sense. Please devs, if you have a chance for a Q&A, ELABORATE THIS CONCEPT.

    People are upset not because they hate the game but because it has SUCH POTENTIAL that we can see it dying due to company not listening to its customers/playerbase.    … Expand
  90. OdoubleT
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Delete the Resinsystem
    Delete the Resinsystem
    Delete the Resinsystem
    Delete the Resinsystem
  91. Hachira
    Nov 4, 2020
    0
    The game's world is amazing and refreshing and the anime style is a very nice touch. All ruined by the Time-gating stamina system (resin) that has no place in a pc game. The account's level (adventurer rank) determines which content you are allowed to play and enjoy and the only way to progress it further after rank 35 is to do daily missions and use resin which doesn't even yield thatThe game's world is amazing and refreshing and the anime style is a very nice touch. All ruined by the Time-gating stamina system (resin) that has no place in a pc game. The account's level (adventurer rank) determines which content you are allowed to play and enjoy and the only way to progress it further after rank 35 is to do daily missions and use resin which doesn't even yield that much experience where at this point it's just about daily logins.
    The game is pro actively discouraging people from playing the game by barring content behind said stamina system and you only get to play the game for like 30mn daily. The system needs to be fixed before anyone can enjoy the game. Not even p2w in this game works because you have a limited amount of refreshes on the stamina. The studio got an insane amount of feedback on how bad the stamina system is during closed beta and yet they managed to make it worse on live. The game seems very promising but leaves a loooooooooooooooot to be desired.
    The gacha system leaves a lot to be desired and pretty much gates you from playing new characters. For most content you can do it with the basic characters given for free to players but for the endgame (spiralling abyss), if you don't land some lucky rolls you are stuck in a wall and can't progress any further at which point even skill doesn't matter and the game becomes about which characters you acquired from the gacha.
    Came with expectations, left with disappointment    … Expand
  92. ror0noazoro
    Dec 6, 2020
    0
    0,6% To get a 5 star character.... 90 "wishes" to get to the "pity" where you get a 5star if you haven't yet....
    160 primogems for each wish = 14400 for 90 wishes ..... 14400 primogems are about 150~ euros :)))))
    AND IN THE END EVEN IF YOU GET THAT 5 STAR IT COULD BE A FAKING WORTHLESS WEAPON FOR A CHARACTER YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE OR WANT TO USE....... for the first time i play a game    0,6% To get a 5 star character.... 90 "wishes" to get to the "pity" where you get a 5star if you haven't yet....
    160 primogems for each wish = 14400 for 90 wishes ..... 14400 primogems are about 150~ euros :)))))
    AND IN THE END EVEN IF YOU GET THAT 5 STAR IT COULD BE A FAKING WORTHLESS WEAPON FOR A CHARACTER YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE OR WANT TO USE.......
    for the first time i play a game every day for 3-4 hours that i would never recomment to my friends to join....    … Expand
  93. zkl
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    fun gameplay at its core bogged down by psychologically manipulative monetization & player retention tactics
  94. bigfungus
    Oct 17, 2020
    1
    Monetization in this game is atrocious. 200+ dollars (90 pulls) to guarantee a single RANDOM 5 star (rarest and strongest) character. And to max out the character you need to get the SAME EXACT character SIX TIMES. This is simply ridiculous even if you intend to spend money, and it is straight up impossible to do as a F2P player, as you dont get nearly enough currency for 90 pulls.
    The    Monetization in this game is atrocious. 200+ dollars (90 pulls) to guarantee a single RANDOM 5 star (rarest and strongest) character. And to max out the character you need to get the SAME EXACT character SIX TIMES. This is simply ridiculous even if you intend to spend money, and it is straight up impossible to do as a F2P player, as you dont get nearly enough currency for 90 pulls.
    The game looks good, my highest praises to artists, and you very well may like it, but i highly suggest not spending money unless they change their pricing. This company do not deserve any support, this is straight up predatory.    … Expand
  95. Cephiro2022
    Oct 23, 2020
    1
    An archaic stamina system that keeps you from most everything in the game that means anything is ridiculous. With this new resin " fix" I've already uninstalled. Shame. Game was fun
  96. Scrap_Resin
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    This is a great game that is held back by a Resin(stamina) system.
    Adventure Rank 30 and below is the honey moon phase. Once you get past that most of the progress is locked behind the resin system.
  97. Tankex
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    It have the core to be an amazing RPG, but it's monetization its beyond terrible, all the positive reviews are from players in the 20ish first hours of the game, where you have prety much no limits, but once you hit AR25/30 **** goes crazy.

    - Do you want to keep leveling your fav character? Then you need mats and more AR wich both are gated with resin. - Do you want to experiment    It have the core to be an amazing RPG, but it's monetization its beyond terrible, all the positive reviews are from players in the 20ish first hours of the game, where you have prety much no limits, but once you hit AR25/30 **** goes crazy.

    - Do you want to keep leveling your fav character? Then you need mats and more AR wich both are gated with resin.
    - Do you want to experiment different builds in the chars you have? Then you need artifacts and AR wich are gated with resin.
    - Do you want to keep progresing in the games history? Then you need AR wich is gated with resin.
    - Do you want to try new characters? Then you need to pay some hundreds to get the character you want.
    - You just want to face some cool bosses? Sure you can for free, but they drop nothing if you dont use more resin.

    For new players or people not used to the resin system is a stamina system, where you get 180 stamina/day with a cap of 120 (now a 160 with the next update). Basic activities require 20 resin, bosses are 40 and weekly bosses wich you can only fight once a week need 60 resin (yeah, they are gated with both time and resin). Once you are done with your resin all you can do is your daily quests, 4/day, wich are basic quests with a "go there, get/kill that, come back", about 10 min of actual gameplay. Then all you have is run arround the world and gather stuff/look for world chests. Thats it. Thats the game. Run away.    … Expand
  98. koini8niti
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Before I say anything I want to start by saying thank you to miHoYo for creating a beautiful and wonderful game. I enjoyed it as long as I could and I loved every minute I was able to. The music, the graphics, the sounds, the combat, the exploration, the secrets, the collectables, the achievements, it was all fun and I’ll always remember the positive points of my experience with GenshinBefore I say anything I want to start by saying thank you to miHoYo for creating a beautiful and wonderful game. I enjoyed it as long as I could and I loved every minute I was able to. The music, the graphics, the sounds, the combat, the exploration, the secrets, the collectables, the achievements, it was all fun and I’ll always remember the positive points of my experience with Genshin Impact.

    However I’m writing this to speak plainly about issues the game has had since Day 1. Issues that have yet to be fully addressed, explained, or resolved. The number one issue that’s been a hot topic for weeks now is Original Resin. Lackthereof or otherwise, this system is the largest obstacle for players to overcome once they reach a certain level, making it nearly impossible to progress meaningfully. There are a few other issues I would like to address as well.

    1: Original Resin
    2: Low Gacha Rates / Wish System
    3: Lack of F2P PrimoGems
    4: Lack of meaningful co-op experience
    5: Lack of communication from Development Team/Staff

    As of 10/22/2020, The developer conference post mentioned that Original Resin will be boosted from 120 to 160, and the required amount used for the weekly battlepass will be lowered. That’s all well and dandy, but I’d like to explain why this solution isn’t beneficial to the players or the game, and what could be done instead.

    At the current regeneration rate, we receive 1 resin per 8 minutes. Even if the amount of resin we receive increases to 160, we are still capable of regenerating nearly 180 resin every 24 hours. While the new rate of 160 is nice, as it allows us to complete our daily mission in our battle pass, it does not actually allow for more game time due to resin costs being very high and regeneration being so slow. (Regeneration is so slow in-fact, I can often go to sleep and wake up and still not have my resin completely replenished. Adding a higher cap will only exacerbate this issue.)

    Yes, I could refresh my resin with Fragile Resin but once I run out of fragile resin, refreshing takes primogems, which I barely have. I can rarely even make a single wish.

    I do not want to waste my primogems on energy.

    No one WANTS to waste their primogems on the energy system. And that’s where the problem lies. There is no REASONABLE incentive to spend the gems, therefore people won’t.

    It really is a shame because I enjoy playing this game so much and I would love to spend more time with it, but once I complete my daily commissions and burn my resin, I am left with nothing to do other than gather random materials.

    Because of the current limitations, I have been forced to explore every corner of Teyvat and I have found so many chests, seelies, and materials, that my world is almost ghostly. There is nothing left for me in my world. Unfortunately, this means I have nothing to do anymore. Since once my resin is used, I can’t farm character ascension materials of any kind.

    All meaningful rewards are trapped behind resin. Exp, Mora, Talent Books, Weapon materials, character materials, etc. I have hundreds of all of the materials that I could possibly gather that don’t require resin simply because I am -forced- to do this if I want to keep spending time with the game. This by design, punishes the player who has the time to play for long sessions.

    The Genshin community has repeatedly done the math and the amount of materials required to max even a single character is weeks of grinding materials. With a roster of 20+ characters and growing, it would take a year or two for me to see the roster all at the same level. Players can’t use the characters they paid you for simply because they do not have the resources available to them.

    PS. Kudos on Nook from official discord who is wrote this. I just copy pasted a part from his doc.    … Expand
  99. Almalexion
    Oct 24, 2020
    1
    I only give 1 point to this just 'cuz of the sake of coders who manage to reverse engineered the Breath of the Wild really well... Probably took them decades to do it and converting it to Unity engine from Unreal engine... Rest is just a horrific rates and incredibly expensive gacha model and the abysmally progress blocking stamina/resin system which you saw it's terrible effect afterI only give 1 point to this just 'cuz of the sake of coders who manage to reverse engineered the Breath of the Wild really well... Probably took them decades to do it and converting it to Unity engine from Unreal engine... Rest is just a horrific rates and incredibly expensive gacha model and the abysmally progress blocking stamina/resin system which you saw it's terrible effect after AR35, also chests not even respawn... Developers also don't give a flyin' **** and you have abolutely no way to level up your characters in normal ways which everything requires resin, resin and resin... You only enter game for 5 minutes a day and wait afterwards for 24 hours... And not only that, even if you buy the monthly boost thing, you can't even roll for gacha a day 'cuz it gives 90 and with daily quests, you get extra 60 and combine, you get 150 primogems and one roll costs you 160 primogems and since chests are not respawns, forget the rest...

    Stay away from this trap... Don't even dare to install it in your hard disk... Do not pay for it, do not get charmed by it's anime aesthetics and beautifull looking 'cuz this is a phone gacha game and a really bad and predatory one. I hope world ban it as fast as possible so we can save addicts from this ****    … Expand
  100. Daenieal
    Nov 10, 2020
    3
    Pros:
    + Beautiful graphics
    + Amazing soundtrack + Decent story Cons: - Terribly managed - Overly monetized - Poorly designed - Pay to win - Gacha Imagine a team of talented artists making a gorgeous game, but the game is unfortunately directed by the most out of touch director/team there is. The part where they copied from Breath of the Wild is awesome as expected, but every    Pros:
    + Beautiful graphics
    + Amazing soundtrack
    + Decent story

    Cons:
    - Terribly managed
    - Overly monetized
    - Poorly designed
    - Pay to win
    - Gacha

    Imagine a team of talented artists making a gorgeous game, but the game is unfortunately directed by the most out of touch director/team there is. The part where they copied from Breath of the Wild is awesome as expected, but every other part where there's business involved is awful.

    The game expects you to pay, I mean it is balanced around players paying for its paid perks. If you don't, you'll just never have enough. They even had weekly quests that required you to pay to play more than their daily limit if you wanted to complete it, yes, there's a LIMIT to how many activities you can do daily. It's like they don't want players to play their game.

    The gacha system itself isn't bad, but they chose to put atrocious rates. So expect to pay up to $200+ to have a 75% chance at getting a character you want. And then you probably won't have resources to use them, because they come at level 1 and your enemies will much stronger, and the only feasible way to level is to do your very LIMITED daily activities. So you have to choose to either spend your activities to level your new character, or continue leveling your high level ones who are probably doing all the heavy-lifting already to clear the same activities.

    The pay to win in this game is, unfortunately, too much. You can see in many games where paying gives players a small boost/advantage to catch up with others and in my humble opinion that's fine, gives players who doesn't have too much time to play a way to keep up, but in Genshin there are items/systems that are only designed for PAYING players. There's a bunch of items that the only way to obtain is by paying, as well as skills/level-ups that are also only available if you pay (and pay a LOT by the way).

    Their balance is also out of whack, in nearly everything they give as low resources as possible, you'll never have enough of anything to level your characters and their multiple systems that require leveling up, and there's a bunch of ways to purchase (real money) these resources you desperately need just to feel you're not being left behind. Enemies will keep getting stronger, and so must you, but you'll struggle to keep up unless you pay, that's how it's balanced.

    The game is still in its infant stages, but a lot of these are complaints from players ever since their beta began and their direction did nothing to address these, so I hold very little hope they'll improve any time soon. Probably when their player base/profits sink so much then maybe they'll take a second look at these complaints again.

    In short, it's a beautiful game with great gameplay (copied from a critically acclaimed game afterall) filled with poorly business decisions trying to squeeze money from players in every possible way.
    It is free to play, but expect the usual scummy cheap mobile game money grabbing tactics limiting you to play in every way unless you pay. Just stay away from this for a couple years when they improve their game and check if it became a whale-only territory with 20 players online or an actually decent game.    … Expand
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#31 Best PC Game of 2020
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 8, 2021
    75
    Rather than a typical online game, Genshin Impact resembles a traditional single-player jRPG with a real-time combat. For a free-to-play title it is very impressive, but turns out to be pretty derivative and quickly slumps into monotony. [13/2020, p.52]
  2. Games.cz
    Nov 12, 2020
    90
    Oh, the joy of exploring this beautiful world. Oh, the clever combat, the great voice acting, the compelling story. This is one of the best RPGs of the year. And it’s almost beyond comprehension that you can get it for free.
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  3. MMORPG.com
    Oct 20, 2020
    90
    Overall, in spite of things that should bring Genshin Impact down, the game is so much fun to play that the negatives are ultimately minor gripes. [...] The gameplay is smooth and simplistic, and it works great on all platforms - though I’m still not sure why the PlayStation version can’t be linked to a Mihoyo account so I could play on my phone when I’m not at home (PS Vita version please??) but it’s a small gripe to an otherwise terrific game.
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