Genshin Impact

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4.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3024 Ratings

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  1. PredatorIWD
    Sep 30, 2020
    7
    -Big, beautiful world but:
    -A bit empty given that you know every chest and item you gather isnt gonna give you anything special which makes game exploration after the initial area visitation a chore more than anything else
    -Navigating it is too slow due to limited stamina, aside from giving more stamina I think there should be 2 stamina bars, one for climbing and one for running at    -Big, beautiful world but:
    -A bit empty given that you know every chest and item you gather isnt gonna give you anything special which makes game exploration after the initial area visitation a chore more than anything else
    -Navigating it is too slow due to limited stamina, aside from giving more stamina I think there should be 2 stamina bars, one for climbing and one for running at least
    -Somewhat clunky and not too smooth gliding mechanic

    -Lack of good multiplayer
    -You need to drop a couple of days into playing the game before you even unlock any multiplayer
    -Basically forget playing with friends in any real capacity outside of **** around for no reason given many many limitation put on multiplayer (you can only join worlds of others that are X level, you dont share many types of loot you can find around the hosts world at all, you cant go through the story together with someone and so on...)

    -Gacha
    -Relatively generous gifts during launch week
    -Very very low droprates (if you're f2p forget max tier troops ever dropping)
    -No guarantee system which you can use to buy any troop/weapon you want after pulling X amount of times meaning you might play for months and months if not years never getting what you actually wanted (it doesnt need to be too easy to earn that, it can take a month of two of play for example, look at the mileage system in Guardian Tales)

    TL:DR
    The game basically plays like your average MMORPG except you grind endlessly towards a character/weapon that you no only didnt design but may not even like/want (welcome to gacha). Another problem to the empty feeling world that the MMO wouldnt have is the actual multiplayer aspect of it, here you just follow the generic chosen one trope main questline totally alone in that big world making the game pretty pointless to anyone who doesnt want to play it purely for its initial world exploration and gameplay. But again given that 70% of gameplay is running for 4 seconds before your stamina depleats > walk until it fills up > repeat, 20% of gameplay is navigating game menus and the rest of that, 10% or less is actual combat which is not that bad but nothing too incredible either.

    Check out gameplay/characters/world online, if you like any of it then try the game out given that its free and fun at the start, enjoy while it lasts and uninstall if/when it gets boring.    … Expand
  2. Bbplayer
    Nov 8, 2020
    6
    UPDATE: Censoring Mtashed and others on reddit when criticizing your game is not ideal. - 2

    Fully Free to Play Account Overall a good time if you can manage staying free to play. The story is okay but not very memorable. Some of the side story missions are better honestly. Also it seems like they rushed some text fixes as characters will say one thing and the text will display    UPDATE: Censoring Mtashed and others on reddit when criticizing your game is not ideal. - 2

    Fully Free to Play Account

    Overall a good time if you can manage staying free to play. The story is okay but not very memorable. Some of the side story missions are better honestly. Also it seems like they rushed some text fixes as characters will say one thing and the text will display something else. I can not give it a 9 due to the fact that it does copy elements of BOTW. Good otherwise    … Expand
  3. IgorVech
    Apr 15, 2021
    5
    I did not like it. Just timekiller with beautiful graphic and good soundtrack, but no more. The plot is interesting at first, but then begin silly quests like "Go do (any action here)" or "Bring me (any item here)". This mechanic is outdated and just annoying. Also I, as men, was not quite accustomed to being surrounded by women(you need more variety among the characters, this will makeI did not like it. Just timekiller with beautiful graphic and good soundtrack, but no more. The plot is interesting at first, but then begin silly quests like "Go do (any action here)" or "Bring me (any item here)". This mechanic is outdated and just annoying. Also I, as men, was not quite accustomed to being surrounded by women(you need more variety among the characters, this will make the gameplay process more convenient for different genders).… Expand
  4. Pikathulhu
    Dec 7, 2020
    5
    The resin system is bad. Western-style monetization models have proven to be better, it needs to go. All it does is hold back what could otherwise be a good game.

    The game is also incredibly easy outside of the abyss, almost to the point where you wonder why you're even playing.
  5. Padudu
    Oct 25, 2022
    7
    Beautiful open world with diverse biomes and an interesting story enabled by engaging characters with limited gameplay options. This game really captivates you for the first hours with countless activities and unlocks that let you experience the game in many ways. That feeling starts to dissipate as you start approaching the later stages of the game where the unlocks start being minimalBeautiful open world with diverse biomes and an interesting story enabled by engaging characters with limited gameplay options. This game really captivates you for the first hours with countless activities and unlocks that let you experience the game in many ways. That feeling starts to dissipate as you start approaching the later stages of the game where the unlocks start being minimal and requires a lot more grind and the gameplay options repetitive and limited by a gacha paywall.… Expand
  6. VVayfarer
    Jan 4, 2021
    5
    Pros: The visuals look nice, and the dialogue can be funny at times.

    Cons: Gameplay aspects are mediocre, and the story has little substance; a recipe for hours upon hours of mind-numbing boredom.

    Summary: All-in-all, the game is alright if you like anime visuals and if you have plenty of time to waste. Personally, I'd rather spend my time playing something more interesting and unique.
  7. SuingGenshin
    Oct 2, 2021
    6
    Blood, sweat and tears. All of those were poured into gaining 2000 priogems. To get what? Beido. TWo times. In a SINGLE 10 pull. Whats even worse.. is that I already had her. I even did 9 1 pulls. But got nothing, NOTHING good. I am in pure rage, **** tears, and sobbing. I comand an apology, for making me waste my priogems only to get the same character twice.

    Sincerely, gay genshin impact fan.
  8. CoolBR
    Oct 18, 2022
    6
    It is a good pastime. I like to do my dailies commissions and farm some artifacts while hearing an podcast since the game doesn't really need the full awareness of the player but I really only play because of the rewards (primogens), it isn't funny at all to farm the same set for de 908th or to do the same stupid commission to protect a Ballon for the 67th time.

    The story of the game is    It is a good pastime. I like to do my dailies commissions and farm some artifacts while hearing an podcast since the game doesn't really need the full awareness of the player but I really only play because of the rewards (primogens), it isn't funny at all to farm the same set for de 908th or to do the same stupid commission to protect a Ballon for the 67th time.

    The story of the game is just a miss or hit, some are good, others are not. One thing annoying is the amount of unnecessary dialogues this game has that doesn't add anything to the stories or the event and it is just an annoying thing between you and 60 free primogens that 80% of the time is just worth it 1/3 of a wish that you get a literally useless 3* weapon.

    Many people complain about the gatcha system and I agree it sucks sometimes. I had my bad moments but also has lucky moments. I like this system simply because I am 100% F2P and honestly I have all characters that I need to beat any challenge in this game and if I managed to get this without paying 1 cent, at least for me, this system worked just fine so I don't have any reason to complain. I think people have to know, they can't have all characters in the game. They need 2 top-tier DPS and pull for good supports only.

    The combat system is cool, many people say they don't like the Spiral Abyss, I like it. I pretty much always get 36* on every abyss reset, not because 50 primogens are a great reward (they are trash) but because I like the challenge that only floor 12 (and sometimes floor 11) bring to the game. I always wanted more content like Spiral Abyss or new floors but Mihoyo never brought it. It is a shame, so I can only play Spiral Abyss every 2 weeks.

    The exploration of this game is one of my favorite parts. I like to solve puzzles and explore the world and the maps of this game is really beautiful. It is a shame that the content ends so fast.

    The graphics of this game are ok, the models of the characters are kinda bad, they lack models of musculus type of characters. Actually, they pretty much only have 3 models of characters, child characters, teen characters and adult characters. All are slim.    … Expand
  9. BlackDarkFOX
    Aug 1, 2022
    5
    If you cannot control your expenses, do not download this game in any case! An extremely aggressive monetization system has been noticed!
    BUT
    If you can control your expenses and firmly believe that you will not bring miHoYo a single cent, you can try. Because this game is so relaxing.
  10. Vaeu
    Jul 21, 2022
    6
    What I like:

    - Aesthetic - Waifus - Gameplay to an extent (desire for more skill expression) - Exploration is masterful - Generally fun - Character interactions What I don't like: - About 7 layers of RNG for artefacts - Don't really give a **** about the story (I only find out about the story through occasional lore videos and theories from TikTok) - Feels too grindy at    What I like:

    - Aesthetic
    - Waifus
    - Gameplay to an extent (desire for more skill expression)
    - Exploration is masterful
    - Generally fun
    - Character interactions

    What I don't like:

    - About 7 layers of RNG for artefacts
    - Don't really give a **** about the story (I only find out about the story through occasional lore videos and theories from TikTok)
    - Feels too grindy at endgame
    - Could do with more resin

    An important thing to understand with this sort of game is that you shouldn't treat it as a job. Don't be consumed by the game as it can get addictive. Even for someone like me who loves to get maximum value out of things, it can be hard to realise that you just gotta take that L and let go. Stop playing for a few weeks, a patch or more. Wait until something like an event, character or new region comes to reignite your passion for the game.    … Expand
  11. MONGOKSEONG
    Feb 13, 2021
    6
    Beautiful World that engaging at first, but things get repetitive later on.

    What i don't like about this game is : Latency. Why they're putting "latency" on a single-player game like this? Look, if we're playing or talking about co-op mode, then it's pretty much reasonable that we should bear with the latency. But nope, even on single-player mode we even get this "latency" thingy, and    Beautiful World that engaging at first, but things get repetitive later on.

    What i don't like about this game is : Latency. Why they're putting "latency" on a single-player game like this? Look, if we're playing or talking about co-op mode, then it's pretty much reasonable that we should bear with the latency. But nope, even on single-player mode we even get this "latency" thingy, and this is annoying because ALL of your action are server-sided, means if you have high latency, means our movement is slower and sluggish. I've experience 100ms, 200ms, and 300ms+ gameplay, thanks to my ISP. You'll have no problem when you has less than 100ms latency obviously. It's getting somewhat annoying to play this game at 200-300ms+. Try it yourself, but if you don't feel any difference, then you're somewhat ignorant.

    Resin system is no good too, because the regeneration rate is way too slow (20 Hours/160 Resin). Not to mention we spend it all in less than 30mins daily. I know this is to prevent the players from progressing too fast (please don't call it resin-management 101), but hey that's bad idea because:
    1. Resin are NOT used for collecting materials alone (20/Run)
    2. Leyline EXP Card & Mora need resin (20/Run)
    3. Weekly Bosses also need resin (60/Run)
    4. How about artifact? (20/Run)

    Speaking of artifact, they should make weekly bosses to 100% drop random *5 artifact when you've reach at least AR45, otherwise i find it pretty useless for the players to raise their AR. Not to mention the prototype drop rate is pretty random too for a weekly event. For daily domain, it's pretty cool to get 100% drop of random *5 said artifact when you're at least AR45. If you can apply it for the daily domain, i don't think it's that hard to apply this for the weekly bosses, too.

    Another one is levelling your favorite character which consume A LOT of EXP Card and Mora. Let's say i want to raise my Fischl from Lv. 80 -> Lv. 90, which cost me around 700.000 Mora. Assuming i got 60.000 Mora / 20 Resin, this will need around 240 Resin.

    How about EXP Card (Hero's Wit) i need for leveeling my Fischl from Lv. 80 -> Lv. 90? I need at least roughly 170 Hero's Wit. Assuming i get 5 Hero's Wit / 20 Resin, this will need around 680 Resin, which is approximately 4 days for 1 character. Fun fact, the dmg increase is not even reach 5%.

    What irritates me the most is the Constellation System. Hey, i know the devs need to make money too, but what's the point of the game when we can't even play the characters to it's full potential? *5 Character has low drop rate, too. Instead of limiting characters full potential, why the devs won't CAP the damage of said characters? It'll be a win-win situation for both the players and devs. The F2P can enjoy the game to it's fullest (Even though has lower damage with F2P equipment as the consequences), while the whales can literally draw even more powerful premium equipment.

    Anyway, i've stopped playing this game this February because i feel it's like a boring chores.
    P.S : I don't have any problem/salt with the gacha itself because i play what i want for fun. Just dropping some honest opinion about this game, hoping it'll better in near future. Thanks for reading :)    … Expand
  12. Aeccipit3r
    Sep 29, 2021
    5
    I love the game I love all who work on it and I acknowledge their effort but the company is slapping us on the face with the anniversary
  13. Meidori
    Sep 29, 2021
    7
    Отбалансите героев (Цици уже год бесполезна и ничего с этим не делается, Райден играет только с дополнительными констами и сигнатурным копьём, что просто нереально достать free to play игроку, Сара на фоне Беннета смотрится ненужной, Кокоми, которую я кстати зачем то выбил, просто худший персонаж в игре, проигрывающий как на роли саппорта, так и на роли главного керри/семи керриОтбалансите героев (Цици уже год бесполезна и ничего с этим не делается, Райден играет только с дополнительными констами и сигнатурным копьём, что просто нереально достать free to play игроку, Сара на фоне Беннета смотрится ненужной, Кокоми, которую я кстати зачем то выбил, просто худший персонаж в игре, проигрывающий как на роли саппорта, так и на роли главного керри/семи керри персонажам, которые были уже в игре, и нет я не прошу повер крипа старых персонажей, я хочу чтобы кокоми игралась на равных с другими героями, но имела свои особенные механики, которые щас делают героя неиграбельным, а также есть дизбаланс стихий и их реакций в игре, например: перегрузка неиграбельна); Прорабатывайте основной сюжет более детально (в Инадзуме плохо раскрыты персонажы, кроме нас самих. Даже те, кто имеют задание легенд, оставляют кучу вопросов и недосказанностей. Концовку можно было сделать гораздо интереснее). Ну и конечно хотелось бы больше наград для free to play игроков, а то накопить 90 круток(70-80 софт гарант) и выиграть 50 на 50 для героя которого хочешь очень трудно. Но конечно игра имеет огромное количество плюсов, такие как музыка и визуал игры, благодаря которым уже целый год (я играю еще с патча 1.0, но переодически покидая игру на небольшие сроки) я слежу за обновлениями игры и самой компании, получая удовольствие, но к сожалению находя огромное кол-во минусов в игре, на которые почему то не обращают внимания разработчики. Надеюсь, что в будущем разработчики будут больше контактировать с комьюнити, учитывая их предпочтения и недовольства, а также проявлять к нему внимание!… Expand
  14. jamezgower
    Sep 11, 2022
    7
    With 400+ days logged into Genshin Impact, I can confindently say that the game is good but the potential in this game is being wasted due to manipulative practices.

    Genshin's open world is stunning. The latest 3.0 update has released Sumeru, which is a nation filled with lush rainforest and beautiful flowers and plantlife. The landscapes of the previous region, Inazuma, which is    With 400+ days logged into Genshin Impact, I can confindently say that the game is good but the potential in this game is being wasted due to manipulative practices.

    Genshin's open world is stunning. The latest 3.0 update has released Sumeru, which is a nation filled with lush rainforest and beautiful flowers and plantlife. The landscapes of the previous region, Inazuma, which is inspired by Japan and it is breathtaking.    … Expand
  15. eblan1
    Feb 26, 2023
    7
    На самом деле игра не так плоха, конечно это фтп дрочильня но плохо ли она работает как дрочильня, в плане, есть ли там гора интересного контента для нового игрока? И ответ - да, в игре куча активностей, приятный геймплей, и красивая графика, но за всем этим скрывается гачи система из-за которой без доната скорее всего вы не сможете получить свою вайфу, ведь если не донатить придетсяНа самом деле игра не так плоха, конечно это фтп дрочильня но плохо ли она работает как дрочильня, в плане, есть ли там гора интересного контента для нового игрока? И ответ - да, в игре куча активностей, приятный геймплей, и красивая графика, но за всем этим скрывается гачи система из-за которой без доната скорее всего вы не сможете получить свою вайфу, ведь если не донатить придется буквально играть ТОЛЬКО в Genshin Impact не выходя из нее, так у вас наверное получится собрать большое кол-во примогемов и вы сможете выбить Яэ Мику или кого - то другого. Я считаю что это игра для аудитории не играющих в игры людей или детей которые не во что никогда не играли, тут нет действительно супер крутых и интересных квестов, игра максимально простая, наверное потому что это мобилка а не крупная ААА игра и я не считаю разумным требовать от мобилки уровня проработки ААА игр, игра уже где то на уровне игр юбисофт а большего по сути и не надо… Expand
  16. Hyperfailure
    Mar 4, 2023
    5
    Boring story, whose cutscenes are not always skippable. Overbearing PG-rating and tedious grinding galore. The primary gameplay loop of combat is well designed, especially with element interactions. The gacha is harsh and not very friendly to f2p players like myself, especially when it comes to levelling up your characters and weapons. And yet, I'm still GODDAMN ADDICTED.

    pls throw a    Boring story, whose cutscenes are not always skippable. Overbearing PG-rating and tedious grinding galore. The primary gameplay loop of combat is well designed, especially with element interactions. The gacha is harsh and not very friendly to f2p players like myself, especially when it comes to levelling up your characters and weapons. And yet, I'm still GODDAMN ADDICTED.

    pls throw a primo for the impoverished.    … Expand
  17. saladsandwich
    Jan 22, 2023
    6
    Game looks very nice i feel like there is always something to explore something new to do, unique pve mechanics i dont see in any other game like this every character has some sort of story small or big, but there are some discrepancies the gacha system is very predatory, sometimes i felt lost and didnt know what to do when i returned i didnt know how powerfull my charaters should haveGame looks very nice i feel like there is always something to explore something new to do, unique pve mechanics i dont see in any other game like this every character has some sort of story small or big, but there are some discrepancies the gacha system is very predatory, sometimes i felt lost and didnt know what to do when i returned i didnt know how powerfull my charaters should have been at my level. overall pretty good game + its free. solid 6/10… Expand
  18. realWhiteMan
    Mar 5, 2023
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  19. ArmaniBax
    Feb 7, 2023
    5
    Игра хоть и гриндилка донатная, но приятно сделанная, можно даже сказать ламповая, вначале дают куча всего и кажется что донат не нужен пока ты не доходишь до японского острова у которого и сюжетка скучная и без доната там тяжело. Эта игра на уровне последних игр от юбисофт, зато бесплатнаяИгра хоть и гриндилка донатная, но приятно сделанная, можно даже сказать ламповая, вначале дают куча всего и кажется что донат не нужен пока ты не доходишь до японского острова у которого и сюжетка скучная и без доната там тяжело. Эта игра на уровне последних игр от юбисофт, зато бесплатная
  20. aleptj23
    Feb 7, 2023
    7
    es buen juego pero honestamenste hay ciertas cosas que tienen que cambiar si o si

    1 el tripledesgraciado sistema de artefactos me la e pasado semanas farmeando un solo set y pocas veces sale algo bueno y cuando lo hay o sale con malos sub-stats o es de un set que no tiene nada que ver 2 sistema de gachapon en parte no hay mucho que decir esta algo equilibrado pero el hecho de que    es buen juego pero honestamenste hay ciertas cosas que tienen que cambiar si o si

    1 el tripledesgraciado sistema de artefactos
    me la e pasado semanas farmeando un solo set y pocas veces sale algo bueno y cuando lo hay o sale con malos sub-stats o es de un set que no tiene nada que ver

    2 sistema de gachapon
    en parte no hay mucho que decir esta algo equilibrado pero el hecho de que para conseguir deseos haya que farmear semanas y que aveces ni toque el personaje deseado o un personaje que no se usa en el equipo es realmente frustrante

    3 sistema de recompensas
    es una basura sin dada mas que decir

    4 balanceo de equipos
    en pocas palabras o usas un equipo para cierto nivel o x cosas para que el personaje haga un dalo deseado o te jodes no puedes llevar nunca un personaje que te guste porque aveces no ayuda en nada

    el sistema de seguridad

    esa es otra basura nomas un capcha de mierda que ni proteje te roban la cuenta google y lo unico que te salvaguarda es un simple codigo que facilmente los rusos te lo roban (no me a pasado pero conozco a gente que a perdido cuentas desde la beta )

    5 recompensas de evento
    esa es otra bazofia pocas veces dan buenas recompensas

    6 artefactos
    aqui si digo lo que pienso realmente minimo me banean la cuenta asi que ya saben    … Expand
  21. Triblue
    May 21, 2023
    7
    Breath of the wild en moins bien mais breath of the wild en moins bien c'est quand même cool.
  22. Guthraiel
    May 26, 2023
    6
    Over the past almost 3 years I've spent about 15 bucks on this game. The characters are fun, though a little fanservice-y, especially the femme ones. The character design is probably my main issue with this game. The characters based on people of colour are pale as hell, most of the recent characters have no personality, the only child characters are girls and the fandom consistentlyOver the past almost 3 years I've spent about 15 bucks on this game. The characters are fun, though a little fanservice-y, especially the femme ones. The character design is probably my main issue with this game. The characters based on people of colour are pale as hell, most of the recent characters have no personality, the only child characters are girls and the fandom consistently sexualises them. The developers feed into this quite a lot too.… Expand
  23. cronoslegacy
    Jan 9, 2021
    5
    A generic gacha clone of Breath of the Wild. You might be thinking "HEY! isn't being inspired by a Zelda game a good thing?" Well, yes and no. in the right circumstance of creating something new and great yes but this isn't it. It's a copy of a popular game to sell gacha, nothing more. Environments and mechanics were lifted straight out of BotW to sell this generic, low-key slotA generic gacha clone of Breath of the Wild. You might be thinking "HEY! isn't being inspired by a Zelda game a good thing?" Well, yes and no. in the right circumstance of creating something new and great yes but this isn't it. It's a copy of a popular game to sell gacha, nothing more. Environments and mechanics were lifted straight out of BotW to sell this generic, low-key slot machine featuring poorly animated females.

    good:
    * Looks nice but that's a given since it's a clone of a good looking game
    * Element reactions are fun
    * Exploring has it's moments

    Bad:

    * lack of main story content

    * often, poor subtitles don't match what the characters are saying

    * cringe dialogue that is neither engaging or smart, really just grown people acting and sounding like children

    * MC is thousands of years old, was a powerhouse (loses his powers ala Samus) and yet acts and looks like a teenager without the street savviness you'd expect from someone that is thousands of years old

    * Everything is a grind-fest. Weapon? Grind materials, mora (in-game gold) and experience items. characters? skills? level up? food items? weapon refining? EVERYTHING is a soul-sucking grind-fest
    of multiple materials locked behind chambers only open certain IRL days of the week and costs insane amounts of mora so you'll constantly be grinding with minor returns. or you could grease the gears a little bit (or a lot) with some cold hard cash *nudge*nudge*.

    * co-op is a mess, want to play with just one friend? TOO BAD! we are sticking you with random people whether or not you like it! We'll also randomly drop people in mid-match for cannon fodder.

    * Low summon (aka gambling) rates. Ironically, the rates are so bad to get some animated boobs most weebs would probably have better luck IRL.

    * can someone explain why I need flowers to ascend a character to a new level? Do they eat the damn flowers?! None of this crap makes any sense. They didn't even try. You don't have 1000 masks of the many slain Hilichurls (which they have lowered rates on after all pre-mature ejaculation from weebs)? Too bad, now you can't be stronger.

    * The main point of the game (unfortunately) and the worst: boobs look like jello unmitigated by gravity so just standing still they are flying all over the place S E P A R A T E L Y. Again, cringe community proud of their pathetic cringe so don't bother trying to discuss this with anyone who identifies as Otaku or weeb. Imagine if they incorporated these unrealistic physics on a guys crotch. You'll have their two balls flying around just standing still. Hilarious...until the weeb community gets involved and does their cringe crap.

    * Otaku community. If you aren't one of them, you'll have a bad time interacting with the community. Every other sentence is blatant predatory and cringe. You'll never meet a group of more pathetic people proud of being sexual predators. What's worse, majority of characters are at least modeled after to be/act/look like teenagers or children to up the creep meter.

    * game gets a free pass to be **** because it's f2p and the target demographic (pathetic teens with no money and pathetic man-babies with no friends) eat this anime loli **** up.

    * main story quests are locked behind Adventure Rank (levels). there are only two main story arcs. the second one is an annoying long fetch quest. go here get this, bring this there, ad nauseam. The rest is just terrible filler junk that will have you roaming around looking for materials and treasure chests until you've lost your grip on reality and fun.

    * every sidequests is some pathetic sob story: "my daddy's gone I miss him...can you deliver this one flower to him thousands of miles away for 200 mora?"

    * Paimon

    * Limited interaction with the random people you find in the world. Just some basic dialogue usually.

    * Other thoughts: I wish there was more enemies vs enemies situations. It pretty much seems the entire world is out to get you. There are times you will fight treasure hoarders, Fatui and whopper flower all at once. Somehow, there is a secret pact that if they see you in the world they will team up to **** your **** up. Also, NPC friendlies don't react to their environment and are unaffected by enemies around them.

    all in all: it's everything you'd expect from a gacha, crappy rates, poor storytelling, all in a attempt to sell you some animated boobs. This game is the definition of the ongoing battle between the West vs East of gaming. This type of gaming is popular in Asian countries where "fun" is often times synonymous with "grind-fest" and misinterpreted as "rewarding". There's enough articles out there that go into depth about the split of the gaming community but you'll quickly see the fans of this title will be, by and large, Asian. Youtubers don't count as they are just following the money and are often paid advertisements promoting the **** out of this terrible game.    … Expand
  24. gipskyy
    Nov 24, 2020
    5
    This game surely has potential, but i think the devolepers are not maximizing those potentials.
    I played this game for over 50 hours. I'm on AR 40 right now and it feels boooringgg
    Actually, the open world system is good because the world is not really empty, you can explore the world for hours and won't get bored ON LOW RANK. After you're a higher rank, there's nothing you can do    This game surely has potential, but i think the devolepers are not maximizing those potentials.
    I played this game for over 50 hours. I'm on AR 40 right now and it feels boooringgg
    Actually, the open world system is good because the world is not really empty, you can explore the world for hours and won't get bored ON LOW RANK. After you're a higher rank, there's nothing you can do especially the worlds feel really empty.
    The story is really good, but why tf the developers are releasing a game with only 20% of the story done? This game has 7 nations but we can only access 2 of them right now, and they are planning to release the others nation in several years, like wtf are you sure the players are still playing and not bored?
    The gacha system is even worse, they said this is an rpg game, but you can only get characters from gacha and the rate are very low for some good characters. If you want to upgrade your characters, you also need to get another same character through the gacha system again.
    Resin system is even worse, you get only little resin daily and can't really do anything daily. I played for only 15 minutes daily because of the limited resin system.
    This game surely has potential and I hope the developers could really update the game and make better system.    … Expand
  25. Cryppy
    May 2, 2021
    5
    Good gameplay but I can't even grind it that much. It gets boring. I grind for the sake of grinding and not to progress the story. Not a game for me.
  26. BitDreyar
    Oct 22, 2020
    6
    its a good game, good history, soundtrack, playity but very very bad end game we dont want to play one hour for day, the recin system is very bad to the end game.
  27. Mans4d
    Oct 28, 2020
    6
    Для бесплатной игры поначалу отлично, сюжет нормальный ( даже относительно смешной ), персонажи, их японская озвучка, квесты, всё отлично. Пока не настигает 30-35 ранг... ОЧЕНЬ малое количество той самой смолы, её КРАЙНЕ МЕДЛЕННОЕ восстановление, а тебе много куда надо сходить, если хочешь нормально одетого персонажа ( а он НЕ ОДИН ), и просто омерзительный шанс выпадения пятизвёздочногоДля бесплатной игры поначалу отлично, сюжет нормальный ( даже относительно смешной ), персонажи, их японская озвучка, квесты, всё отлично. Пока не настигает 30-35 ранг... ОЧЕНЬ малое количество той самой смолы, её КРАЙНЕ МЕДЛЕННОЕ восстановление, а тебе много куда надо сходить, если хочешь нормально одетого персонажа ( а он НЕ ОДИН ), и просто омерзительный шанс выпадения пятизвёздочного оружия или персонажей. 0,6% ребят? Серьёзно? Окей, многие защитники скажут, что ну есть же гарант на 5 звёздочного! Но вот он работает с 90 открытия молитвы, а фармить валюту для покупки молитв весьма геморройно, да, в начале тебе отсыпают ну роллов на 40, но вот на 30-35 помяните эти отсыпки.
    Добавьте малое количество контента, почти что несуществующий кооператив, малое количество квестов ( да, они неплохие, но их МАЛО ), ну и главное система СМОЛЫ.
    Будем надеяться, что ребята реально не ожидали такой хайп, и что в дальнейшем ( например 11 ноября ) нам действительно завезут контент и улучшат систему смолы ( нет, ваши подачки в виде 160 единиц вместо 120 фигня полнейшая, а не улучшение, больше похоже на издёвку ).
    А пока что имеем что имеем.    … Expand
  28. Newen
    Nov 18, 2020
    7
    UPDATED 18/11

    At first I would definitely have pushed an 9/10. But now, I am extremely divided between whether MiHoYo wants to create a favorable universe to all kind of players, or is completely obsessed with money. After initiating my critical awareness and thinking three times about it, I realized that something is very wrong. Never forget this is a Gacha and sadly one with    UPDATED 18/11

    At first I would definitely have pushed an 9/10.

    But now, I am extremely divided between whether MiHoYo wants to create a favorable universe to all kind of players, or is completely obsessed with money.

    After initiating my critical awareness and thinking three times about it, I realized that something is very wrong.

    Never forget this is a Gacha and sadly one with the worst possible rates and very expensive, those who enjoy the world at its full potential are the same ready to spend thousands of dollars, or the luckiest free to play players, and yet they tried to target a larger audience? Lel.

    Who thinks as a free to play player, that farming a whole month for nothing when it comes to pull Gacha for new content was a good idea? Do they hate us that much for not paying enough?

    Before going to the positive stuff we have to speak about the negative content.

    - Terrible rates.
    - Pity system not so pity.
    - Cannot target lock.
    - Cannot skip cutscenes... (lucrative reasons).
    - Cannot reroll secondary stats with the artifacts (for example we could use resin to reroll secondary stats).
    - Artifact sets do not have the same drop rate within dungeons.
    - Artifact sets drop rate terribly unbalanced (one set may loot too much often than another), as it’s not hard enough having the right main and secondary stats.
    - No global playing time indication.
    - User ID always shown at the bottom right corner.

    And now for the good part!

    An amazing work has been done to the universe, it is a pleasure to explore what the world has to offer.

    The characters are very charismatic, weeb oriented design and yet really well developed in their story and personality!

    The voice cast is really good and for the first time of my life I have a preference for Chinese dub in a video-game!

    The freedom of movement (walk, run, swim, and climb) with the fluidity of the animation powered by Unity Engine makes it a true pleasure for exploration and the rp aspect, and did I mention you can soar in the air with your glider?

    The variety of artifacts and weapons gives you the opportunity to make diverse loadouts to maximize firepower of your party.

    You can coop with your friends for much more pleasure!

    In conclusion, the game could be compared to a jewel stuck in a haystack, the hay is the Gacha, remove it or improve it, and there you have your 9/10 game! But for now (although it's a pain in the ass to say that) there is no way it can score more than a 7/10.    … Expand
  29. AlecFair
    Oct 8, 2020
    7
    This game has its highs and lows when it comes to mobile/pc/console title. mIHoYo from what it looked like tried to break the mold of gacha games with a fantasy adventure game filled with exploration, puzzles, and bosses with light mmorpg elements. At face value this game is fantastic with decent gameplay and cast of characters with good visuals and sound/music. But let me go through theThis game has its highs and lows when it comes to mobile/pc/console title. mIHoYo from what it looked like tried to break the mold of gacha games with a fantasy adventure game filled with exploration, puzzles, and bosses with light mmorpg elements. At face value this game is fantastic with decent gameplay and cast of characters with good visuals and sound/music. But let me go through the good and the bad with this review:

    -The Good-

    -The Zelda BotW looking style is really good and captures the inspiration of the game. Even running in the lowest graphics setting on pc the game still looks good.

    -There are two regions of the game one being the fantasy land themed region of Mondstadt which is the starting region and is the smaller of the two available regions and then the other being the Oriental fantasy themed area of Liyue which is the larger region. While the smaller region is pretty simplistic with enemy camps and some small villages here and there the larger region is filled with villages, ruins, mining encampments and other areas of discovery. Both maps even have their special statues that are called statue of the 7 which both regions have their own version themed around their own element that region worships as well as their own Oculus tokens to collect to max out the shrine of the region which gives adventure experience, currency, and even increase your stamina cap so you can run, climb, swim, etc more as you journey.

    -The story is pretty ok for your typical anime adventurer from another world please help us do things as you look for your lost sibling scenario, I think what shines is the cast of characters you can meet along in your journey which you can also unlock as playable but the only issue is its through the gacha.

    -The combat with characters you have is simple but highly customizable in a way. Each character you collect or get lucky to get are based around one of the 7 respective elements. While using different weapons, their combat styles along with accessories and element team composition play a role in how you will play. Elements even have a combined effect next to strengths and weaknesses to one another where you can really dish out damage, gain more defense against, or even break shields of an element yours is strong against.

    -Standard gameplay is pretty much like BotW, people new to it will be ticked because of the stamina system but those who have played it won't be bothered because this game goes by the same principles. like jumping at the last bit of stamina to get that leap of faith jump to climb to top or finding different slope angles to rest on. There is even cooking in this game which plays a big role in your adventure where collecting everything nailed down really helps in your cooking, crafting, forging, etc.

    -The Bad-
    While the game is good with the positives the negatives is what really drops this games score down:

    -This is the big sting to this game. One this is a gacha game first and foremost since made by a Chinese developer nuff said. The character rates in this game is really bad with 5* characters having a 0.6%, 4* Characters and weapons being 5.1% and the rest filled by useless 3* weapons. This alone is the largest stink of the game since you would like to play the characters more than get useless gear that will just end up being used to level up your better 4* weapons that you craft or get unluckily out of the gacha. There is a pity system where every 10 pulls give you a 4* anything but it takes roughly 100 pulls to get a 5* while that does not sound bad the next worse thing on this is next.

    -Lacking ways to get primogems which is the currency needed to do your gacha pulls. The rates used to be 5-10 per chest opened in beta but on release they nerfed it through the ground where common chest you get nothing and every other chest just tiers up from 2,5, and 10 based on chest rarity. All this to funnel you to spend nearly $200 usd to get that 5* pity pull since the price for the premium currency which converts to primogems on a 1 to 1 basi. A streamer even spent $2k irl money to get the chracter he wanted and then you have to turn around and pull them 6 more times to level their constellation 4* not much an issue if you get banner for them come up but terrible if you want to level the 5*.

    The limiting system is also bad since it gates the 28+ game really hard. You only get 120 resin with barely any consumables to replenish it besides the ones you get for level up you can only use once. And doing dungeons to get stuff cost 20 resin to run while mini world bosses cost 40 and big bosses cost 60 and you only fight them once per week. It also costs $10 to use the 6 recoveries you are allowed to with primogems.

    -Chests in game all drop garbage items besides a few select. You do get better rarities at higher world levels but it still ends up as all garbage for endgame and only reason to open them is increase AR.    … Expand
  30. BaronScarpia
    Oct 23, 2020
    7
    They could have an ARPG GotY candidate - if only they could give a damn (and I sorta get it).

    It feels really weird. They avoided a lot of pitfalls that even BotW took a nosedive into (You're Zelda. You don't need to copy things from Shadow of Colossus our Souls-like franchises) and got a really good game that will probably have a decent amount of story by the end of the year. They    They could have an ARPG GotY candidate - if only they could give a damn (and I sorta get it).

    It feels really weird. They avoided a lot of pitfalls that even BotW took a nosedive into (You're Zelda. You don't need to copy things from Shadow of Colossus our Souls-like franchises) and got a really good game that will probably have a decent amount of story by the end of the year.

    They also have a intrincate elemental system that has it's flaws (electro end game scaling) but hey, it's complex and deep in a genre that people (Blizzard) seem to cater for gold fishes with low attention spam. And they have that in a game that flows like a modern Assassin's Creed.

    And yet, they bottled it with the resin system. This is the screwed up world were ARPGs are into: it's better to make a great game and kill it with a stupid system and profit with gacha AND pay to progress instead of making an AAA ARPG with reasonable monetization (cosmetics).

    The worst part is, while I would rather have silence than a tone-deaf response - I get it.

    I don't like the feeling that this whole thing tells more about the stock market disguised as gaming industry than about Mihoyo and Genshin. I don't like the feeling that, in the screwed up world we are into, Mihoyo could be "right".

    Into the paywalls:

    - The gacha system is a gacha, but it also is the least of your problems. It's a PvE game and the 4 star trash can clear it. It's garbage can, not garbage can't - and some non-5-star suports are even S tier, mind you. Same applies for some non-dps weapons and the farmable DPS wepons are A tier, not D tier.

    - There is a resin (energy) system that could makes it pay to progress - if it didn't have a cap after you pay a little bit. This is the firs wall you'll encounter, but not the last nor the tallest.

    - Unique items to max talents have a low drop rates on bosses you can fight once a week. This is "it".

    So yeah. They made a good game you can't enjoy at your pace past a certain point not even if you whale. That's bad design. That would be easy to fix (remove the energy system, reduce boss respwan timers form one week to one minute). If only they could give a damn...    … Expand
  31. yishay
    Oct 7, 2020
    5
    A very mixed bag of strong pros and strong cons. Being free to paly, and so far not having a PTW wall for many hours into the game, it's certainly worth playing for a little while. I'll go into more detail bellow but they key ideas are:
    Decent, but uninspired all around. Gameplay and graphics are held back by being cross platform. fun but lacking in depth, difficulty or design to keep it    A very mixed bag of strong pros and strong cons. Being free to paly, and so far not having a PTW wall for many hours into the game, it's certainly worth playing for a little while. I'll go into more detail bellow but they key ideas are:
    Decent, but uninspired all around. Gameplay and graphics are held back by being cross platform. fun but lacking in depth, difficulty or design to keep it that way for long.

    -The world is beautiful at first glance, but after a few days of playing, nearly every location (so far) has more or less the same atmosphere. It gets old no matter how much i like it.
    -Character designs are quite nice, amber is a favorite, and they are animated fairly well
    -Characters have a little more customization than some similar titles, though even with the entire gatcha roster their are fairly few at launch
    -Enemy variety is a bit lacking, their are a few variations of each enemy, but that aside their are only a few enemy types, and fewer still that are significantly different in combat
    -Combat on the whole has some interesting features like elemental reactions, but some enemies can feel like damage sponges even when you out level them. The AI is fairly basic and and easily exploited if you are willing.
    -Map is compact but fairly large and filled with lots of stuff to do. It's very fun and reasonably fast to navigate which almost makes the plentiful teleportation points a pity.
    -The characters themselves are passible, their are no grand backstories or anything, and only a couple are really memorable for me. That said every NPC is unique and has at least some dialog.
    -The story is nothing special, at least for now, not any huge glaring faults but, not very inspired.
    -Climbing is quite fun, though it could be faster. I only dungeons used the mechanic in a unique way, rather than practically disabling it.
    -Dungeons are fairly dull affairs, with no puzzles and only very occasional platforming to break up combat slogs.
    -loot and rewards are plentiful, but even higher tier chests can be duds and actually exciting finds are quite uncommon after a short time.
    -Graphicly it's nicely stylized and smooth aside from a couple of bugs, but ultimately feels like it is being held back by the cross platform nature.
    -Too many menus and currencies
    -linear stat increases punctuated with infrequent skill unlocks makes leveling up more boring and less exciting that it should be, though exp items are given with such frequency that combat EXP is practically ignorable, and I often level up 5+ times at once on multiple characters at a time.    … Expand
  32. Chakrom
    Sep 30, 2020
    5
    Music and visuals are top notch. Gameplay wise its pretty stale. AI isn't intelligent and difficulty isn't really there. Character customization doesn't exist. Only visual appearance that changes are weapons. Characters cant use a different weapon other than their class. When playing solo, you do form a group but they dont fight as a group. You add them to a hotkey. That lets you swap toMusic and visuals are top notch. Gameplay wise its pretty stale. AI isn't intelligent and difficulty isn't really there. Character customization doesn't exist. Only visual appearance that changes are weapons. Characters cant use a different weapon other than their class. When playing solo, you do form a group but they dont fight as a group. You add them to a hotkey. That lets you swap to them, like a secondary gun in a shooter. Not much to do in the game except pay or grind for other characters and gear. As a PC/console game, its a 5. But as a mobile game its an 8.… Expand
  33. Rventus
    Oct 4, 2020
    6
    As a mihoyo Fans, this is the highest score I can give.

    +++Beautiful Scene
    +++Breathtaking OST
    ++Interesting Combat
    ++free to play
    +Dont you guys have phone?
    +A lot of Waifus.

    -Poor Optimization
    -Poor Rewards on exploration
    -Mediocre story(but still got some)
    -It’s a MiHoYo Games, on the long turn it’s always gonna be boring
  34. Frost_Kasumi
    Oct 5, 2020
    7
    As a Chinese player, this game is by far the best Chinese mobile (cross-platform) game I've ever played (I play the game using a desktop instead of a phone). Stunning character and open-world designs, immersive BGM, and top-notch graphics, this game represents a great leap forward for the Chinese game industry. Compared to Tencent and Netease or other mobile game developers, I would sayAs a Chinese player, this game is by far the best Chinese mobile (cross-platform) game I've ever played (I play the game using a desktop instead of a phone). Stunning character and open-world designs, immersive BGM, and top-notch graphics, this game represents a great leap forward for the Chinese game industry. Compared to Tencent and Netease or other mobile game developers, I would say Mihoyo makes better games, period. To be honest, I enjoy this game more than BOTW.

    HOWEVER, those who gave 10 out of 10 are just hilarious and biased, and I guarantee most of them are scams, or those players aren't reaching lv30 by now. Daily quests are extremely repetitive, and the whole open world is lack of re-exploration contents. This game IS a p2w game (a Chinese mobile game developer, what else do you expect?), and it has not one, not two, not three, not four, but five monetization systems, four of which are extremely profitable (battle pass, monthly subscription, skins (upcoming patch), and the gacha system (0.6% for 5-star characters OR weapon in one pool? Are you serious?). Several characters are vital for your experience (i.e., Wendy, Diruc, and Keqing), and their lower-tier substitutions are nowhere as good as they are. The main character (5-star) is underpowered, and several 4-star/5-star characters are also useless or underpowered except some specific mechanics in the game (yeah I am talking to you, Amber and Jean). Also, poor optimization for phones (so I don't know why people are rating 10/10 if they are playing on a phone). Poor rewards for explorations, quests, or even battle pass.

    I don't think this game deserves a score of 0/1 or 9/10 to be honest. Let's see if the operation designer can handle the game better (they screwed up the mid-autumn fest and Chinese national day, there isn't any event and Chinese players are pissed off).    … Expand
  35. RinShibuya
    Oct 16, 2020
    7
    Pretty solid for a F2P game, but not perfect. The resin system can be improved. The rate at which it recharges is acceptable, but the 120 cap is terrible. Its like you have to wait for 12 hours to fully recharge your resin, and you can spend all your 120 resin in like 15 mins just doing few domains, and you have to wait again. The game gets pretty grindy once you get past AR30, but thatsPretty solid for a F2P game, but not perfect. The resin system can be improved. The rate at which it recharges is acceptable, but the 120 cap is terrible. Its like you have to wait for 12 hours to fully recharge your resin, and you can spend all your 120 resin in like 15 mins just doing few domains, and you have to wait again. The game gets pretty grindy once you get past AR30, but thats kinda expected for games like this. The gacha rate are horrendous as well. Storyline is alright.

    Also, why only support 60fps? Honkai impact 3, a game from the same developer supports up to 120FPS, so its weird why MiHoyo just didnt implement 120FPS support for this game as well.

    The best thing about GI is the rewarding exploration and the characters.    … Expand
  36. quietgrave
    Oct 15, 2020
    7
    I am actually really surprised by the amount of effort that went into making what is essentially a mediocre, single-player-mmo. If you don't pay attention to the retarded story and annoying voice acting, there's a pretty well-defined gameplay loop with reasonably satisfying physics that would really REALLY benefit from being able to actually co-op the game instead of just killing stuffI am actually really surprised by the amount of effort that went into making what is essentially a mediocre, single-player-mmo. If you don't pay attention to the retarded story and annoying voice acting, there's a pretty well-defined gameplay loop with reasonably satisfying physics that would really REALLY benefit from being able to actually co-op the game instead of just killing stuff together. It's obvious the developers care about the game more than any other freemium pay-to-win mobile shovelware, with around ten trillion hours of reading if you actually care about the paper-thin plot and characters. Their premium (P2W) currency isn't terribly priced and doesn't really do much aside from give you good gear, however they have methods through which you can get those items without paying, so nothing remains exclusive. Even if the characters lore is shallow, each one feels like they could be viable and are very fun to use if given the proper gear and levels. The combat is really satisfying, usually requiring you to use a mixture of ranged and melee attacks kind of like the combat for Horizon: Zero Dawn. It's not a masterpiece but it's definitely a fun game with caring developers.… Expand
  37. Tuxi
    Oct 14, 2020
    5
    Very cute game, nice graphics, smooth game-play. Nice to drop in and out of, for quick content (quests exploring etc).

    I would have paid for this kind of game (with some improvements)... though not with the free to play model they have, it's not worth that much. I would rather having a character I could create, picking a weapon and element; rather than the two that we get to    Very cute game, nice graphics, smooth game-play. Nice to drop in and out of, for quick content (quests exploring etc).

    I would have paid for this kind of game (with some improvements)... though not with the free to play model they have, it's not worth that much.

    I would rather having a character I could create, picking a weapon and element; rather than the two that we get to choose, Seems to be lacking in any real diversity between sprites as well.    … Expand
  38. vinceVanced
    Oct 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Genshin Impact starts out unbelievably entertaining and exciting. It's so easy to get hooked and spend hours playing. You get to meet delightful and endearing characters that you would want to be able to play with and level up. It's seemed a little too easy to ascend them all at first. You could easily believe that the game will be consistent in impressing you.

    You don't really mind investing resources, thinking the game will be generous to let you grind out upgrade materials because it's a no-brainer, people not only want to pull a character just so they could collect them.

    Early on, it’s easy to think like it's a great idea to pull as many characters as you can only to hit a certain Adventure Rank level to realize that you shouldn't have invested in all the characters you got from pulls. Why? Their stamina system, namely Resin, is a heavy time-gate. How much resin you can get is how fast you'll advance. Resin will force you to prioritize building characters that you will need to advance further. What I don't understand is that Resin can indirectly discourage players from spending on pulls, because more characters, more items, that need to be upgraded to become relevant in your current World Level.

    Resin takes a whopping 16 hours to fully regenerate to the max capacity, but it just takes 2 weekly bosses to spend it all, or 3 Elite Bosses, or 6 domain runs. Resin is so heavy on time-gating players that it takes too long to regenerate, collecting rewards cost too much resin and there are too many Resin sinks. It does not scale in any way with your Adventure Rank. Meanwhile, the resin costs scale up, because higher AR means more access to resin sinks. The materials required to ascend and to level up not only scale up, but it also skyrockets!

    After you happily blaze through all the quests currently available, what’s left are daily commissions and a few world quests with rewards that do not scale up. Doing meaningful activities that push your progress forward becomes mind-numbingly slow.

    What do players do without resin? Some are smart and start planing out and getting materials that do not require Resin to collect and open chests that they find along the way. But the more frequently you explore, the emptier and baren the world becomes.

    Genshin Impact is just a recently released game so I am hopeful that it will improve to keep the player base invested. While I am truly infuriated by Resin, I am still excited to see how miHoYo will expand the world that is Teyvat.    … Expand
  39. Mr_Atlantic
    Oct 30, 2020
    6
    I'm at 41 AR. now it is more than the endgame level.
    Well...
    Pros: -Interesting storyline company (currently ends at rank 29) and good additional tasks. - Quite a good fight, tied to a combination of elements. There are few possibilities for creating builds (squad and artifacts). -Large, beautiful open world that is fun to explore in the beginning. -Excellent musical background    I'm at 41 AR. now it is more than the endgame level.
    Well...
    Pros:
    -Interesting storyline company (currently ends at rank 29) and good additional tasks.
    - Quite a good fight, tied to a combination of elements. There are few possibilities for creating builds (squad and artifacts).
    -Large, beautiful open world that is fun to explore in the beginning.
    -Excellent musical background

    Minuses:
    -Gacha. Nothing can justify the loot box mechanic.
    -Primogems for gacha in the game is farmed very slowly. There was more on beta, but the drop from chests was reduced at release.
    -After completing all the quests, there is only a boring grind 30-40 minutes a day.
    -Energy system (resin) strongly inhibits character development at a high level. The developers clearly want players to donate for energy replenishment. For example, to ascent character on 70 lvl, you need 12 resources from bosses, they only drop 2 (rarely 3), most likely you will have to kill the boss 5 or 6 times, and this is at least 200 resin, more than one day of generation. And you have 4 characters. And you also need to get money for this resin, res for character exp, skill books.
    -It is very difficult to change the character or weapon in the lategame. You will have to spend a lot of resin on the character, and you can only get weapon enhancement materials by running all over the map and collecting crystals. Also, you can get a lot of additional resources from the Battle Pass (and even this won't solve all problems). So experimenting with builds is problematic. Pick one and play with it.
    -Mihoyo doesn't really listen to players. They promised to add a couple of the requested mechanics (like blocking the artifact so as not to accidentally throw it out), but instead of increasing the rate of resin generation, they just increased its maximum storage (which is useless with constant play). They are clearly not going to increase the very low drop rate of 5 * characters (0.6%). At the same time, it is really good to get some characters several times (for example, Klee almost certainly needs the first constellation), the cost of loot boxes is quite high. The respawn time of the chests is also clearly not going to increase (you can forget about the game for a month, and even a half of the chests in the world will not be respawned).

    If you have a question "what's the problem with spending another 1-2 weeks and power up more characters?" Answer: Adventurer rank. With it, the level of the world grows, the main source of growth: 4 daily quests and resin. If you try to spend resin on many characters at once, then the world level will grow, and you do not have strong enough characters, the difficulty of the game will grow until you catch up with the world level, spending all resources on 4 main characters. You can power up one new character, but even 8 (for the abyss) is a problem.

    This game has potential, but version 1.0 has too many flaws. I don't expect a lot of content from the service game on release, but these disadvantages are too obvious.    … Expand
  40. Alvelian
    Dec 15, 2022
    7
    Дрочильня на тысячу часов, выглядит довольно привлекательно, плюс игра полностью бесплатна. В чем смысл жаловаться на донат в игре без пвп?
  41. Sepherim
    Nov 28, 2020
    6
    Entretenido, pero la historia en general es floja y le falta contenido. Una vez tienes todo completado, avanzar es enormemente tedioso porque depende de la resina, lo cual hace que incluso obtener personajes nuevos pierda interés y gracia.
  42. IrregularDBJ
    Mar 22, 2021
    7
    its a good game ruined by the gacha and resin system, +$200 for a 5 star character ain't worth it
  43. otmiyo
    Jun 19, 2022
    7
    Quite fun battle system, good story and lore but with a bit too much text, with a big open world wounded with the micro-transactions system leaving all the good stuff behind artificial limitations, ergo, few incentives to explore because all these good stuff are not in the wild, nonetheless recommended
  44. Trigger_Happily
    Aug 8, 2022
    5
    Genshin Impact is a fairly good game. Sure, it takes heavy inspiration from games like Legend of Zelda BOTW. However, a lot of problems I face with the game is not the game itself, but the pay- to win aspect the developers added. I remember some time last year, people were outraged about the "rewards" they received after some events and quests; and they have good reason to be. How do youGenshin Impact is a fairly good game. Sure, it takes heavy inspiration from games like Legend of Zelda BOTW. However, a lot of problems I face with the game is not the game itself, but the pay- to win aspect the developers added. I remember some time last year, people were outraged about the "rewards" they received after some events and quests; and they have good reason to be. How do you expect people to enjoy the game, when they're not being rewarded fairly and properly? If you actually did want to spend a little money to make the game progression easier, then you would have to go through the game's crappy wish system, where the RNG is either amazing, or more unfair than a casino. Other than that, there is still one major issue I have with the game. It's the lack of actual content. When people who play the game regularly run of content to play, and ask miHoYo to add more things to do, they interpret that as rereleasing the same stuff almost every single time. Sure, it technically adds something to do, but that's not what people want. This also poses a problem for the people who just started playing and are overwhelmed by the amount of content they have to go through. This makes the game feel like a chore more than an enjoyable past time. The art style and a lot of the character designs are pretty good, and so is the combat. I think Genshin Impact has a lot of potential, but the developers not listening to the problems of the players makes it hard to improve the game.… Expand
  45. nitorita
    Oct 4, 2020
    6
    A beautiful anime-influenced adaptation of Nintendo's Breath of the Wild that is technically free to play. If you are a patient gamer, you may find a good amount of enjoyment out of this game.

    Ever since Nintendo pioneered BotW's free-roam action RPG, people have craved for more. Sadly, with BotW being a Nintendo exclusive, a void has been left unfilled for the longest time. However,    A beautiful anime-influenced adaptation of Nintendo's Breath of the Wild that is technically free to play. If you are a patient gamer, you may find a good amount of enjoyment out of this game.

    Ever since Nintendo pioneered BotW's free-roam action RPG, people have craved for more. Sadly, with BotW being a Nintendo exclusive, a void has been left unfilled for the longest time. However, today, miHoYo has delivered. If you've never played BotW before, this game is a decent way to experience it.

    The game has fluid 60 FPS gameplay, a clean interface, a rich story, multiple characters, and a world more lush and with less empty land than BotW's.

    Now you may be wondering: If Genshin is that good, why is it not a 10? The reason for that is simple. It is a blatant copy of BotW with added content and level barriers that limit the free roam aspect.

    Nothing disincentivizes adventuring more than opening up the map and seeing that you're not high enough level to go anywhere. miHoYo should've granted the player complete freedom, as it was one of the defining features that made BotW great. But now you're forced to follow the story and grind levels.

    Genshin Impact doesn't cost a penny, in theory. This alone warrants a good rating for the game. It comes with cross-platform co-op if you want to play with others as well. However, the typical mobile game inconveniences will eventually get to you.

    No "free to play" mobile game can be truly free after all since the company needs to make money in the end. This game is designed to have microtransactions since it is a mobile game at heart. If you can look beyond that, it's not a bad game to try.    … Expand
  46. Chnmmr
    Oct 23, 2020
    5
    I enjoy the gameplay very much, but the greed of the cash shop and mechanics will kill the game off. The resin system which heavily limits progression is, honestly, offensive. The recent response to resin complaints and their planned change is pointless and does nothing to address the issue that you get too little of it to do any significant progression.

    They are also overly stingy    I enjoy the gameplay very much, but the greed of the cash shop and mechanics will kill the game off. The resin system which heavily limits progression is, honestly, offensive. The recent response to resin complaints and their planned change is pointless and does nothing to address the issue that you get too little of it to do any significant progression.

    They are also overly stingy with ways to earn primogems in game. They've gacha'd this game too hard, and releasing this game on PC and PS4 makes this heavy gacha even more ridiculous.

    Keep the gacha, just don't be so stingy with it. I want to give the game an 8, but the resin problem really collapses this score to a 5.    … Expand
  47. mrlongmien
    Oct 14, 2020
    7
    hey look, its breath of the waifus. the game which takes everything good about breath and toss it in the trash can and make everything bad into the games selling point. it is free so i got no complaints but its like a normal open world rpg with not-good story and microtransactions. best part about the game is its combat lmao
  48. muzmuz
    Oct 28, 2020
    5
    Genshin Impact is nice for a free-to-play cross-platform RPG; the singleplayer and the story is enough to warrant a separate game, but it's all included free of charge, and executed wonderfully with its pretty anime-style graphics, cute voice acting and overall praiseworthy design.

    Unfortunately, a significant portion of the game's progression system is locked behind a paywall that is    Genshin Impact is nice for a free-to-play cross-platform RPG; the singleplayer and the story is enough to warrant a separate game, but it's all included free of charge, and executed wonderfully with its pretty anime-style graphics, cute voice acting and overall praiseworthy design.

    Unfortunately, a significant portion of the game's progression system is locked behind a paywall that is not only unreasonably expensive, but also purely lootboxes. There are no direct purchase microtransactions in this game whatsoever. Now, I can forgive lootboxes that contain nothing but aesthetics, but weapons, characters and a section of character upgrades can only be attained by spending real money. While Mihoyo is generous enough to give rewards in the form of currencies so that you can access lootboxes by simply grinding the game, it is however a slow grind, and I believe it is practically impossible to max out any of your characters by relying on the freebies.

    Additionally, there are only a very limited amount of weapons and weapon types available in-game, and surprise surprise they are all locked behind lootboxes. Moreover, the simplistic skill system and lack of more enemy types make the combat minimalistic, if not shallow for what you would call an RPG game, even if it's on mobile.

    Don't get me started on a resource system that limits your ability to obtain rewards by consuming "resins", which are units that refreshes over time. Of course, you can spend real money to expedite the attainment of this resource.

    The game also sports a poorly executed multiplayer mode. Genshin Impact's coop system lacks content, activities and it does nothing to encourage you to play multiplayer. It's a nice addition, but it is an afterthought.

    Genshin Impact has great potential, however it is ruined by greedy business tactics and lack of ambition. You want to play Genshin impact? Have fun, but don't get too attached.    … Expand
  49. Dsewry
    Oct 12, 2020
    7
    В целом, игра не плохая. Прекрасное музыкальное сопровождение, графика вполне не плохая, с сюжетом всё ок. Открытый и интересный мир. Много персонажей за который можно поиграть, но их нужно выбивать. Доната вроде и умерено, а вроде и много. И бп, и энергия которая копится через определённое количество времени и т.д. Некоторые квесты сделаны ПРЯМО ОТВРАТИТЕЛЬНО, таких видел 2-3 штуки этиВ целом, игра не плохая. Прекрасное музыкальное сопровождение, графика вполне не плохая, с сюжетом всё ок. Открытый и интересный мир. Много персонажей за который можно поиграть, но их нужно выбивать. Доната вроде и умерено, а вроде и много. И бп, и энергия которая копится через определённое количество времени и т.д. Некоторые квесты сделаны ПРЯМО ОТВРАТИТЕЛЬНО, таких видел 2-3 штуки эти квесты просто ужас. Нельзя изменить пару настроек, это очень не удобно. Игра нормальная, семёрка, но не как не выше… Expand
  50. StickyMoh
    Oct 2, 2020
    6
    First off, the good stuff. Visuals and Music were both very nice and polished, and the cooking system was decent as well. The way different elemental attacks interact was also interesting.

    Now to the not so great stuff. Having Gacha mechanics in a (mainly) single player open world RPG is an embarrassment to the genre. Imagine playing Skyrim and instead of getting a cool Daedric weapon    First off, the good stuff. Visuals and Music were both very nice and polished, and the cooking system was decent as well. The way different elemental attacks interact was also interesting.

    Now to the not so great stuff. Having Gacha mechanics in a (mainly) single player open world RPG is an embarrassment to the genre. Imagine playing Skyrim and instead of getting a cool Daedric weapon from finishing a special questline, you could only get that weapon by getting lucky and spending IRL money. It's dumb to have in a game like this at all, regardless of how necessary it is to progress or not.

    Speaking of progression, while working through the main story, I got to a part where I could not continue until I hit a certain "Adventure" level. Again, this is something that should not even be in an open world RPG. You should be free to explore and take on whatever quests whenever you want, not be roadblocked because you haven't hit some arbitrary level. This is actually what made me uninstall the game in the end.

    While the combat was interesting with its use of different elements and their interactions with each other, I did not enjoy how each character you unlock can only use one type of weapon. It felt tedious to have to level and equip each character individually just because you want to be able to switch weapons and not get bodied by enemies.

    The story wasn't anything special/compelling, but it could get better later on so I won't judge it too harshly here. You also get stuck with an annoying guide NPC that follows you around and talks in the third person.

    Overall, I would say this is a middle of the pack PC game, but a top tier mobile game (depending on how well it runs on phones). It is super polished and has plenty of potential, but does not hit the mark for me. The point of open world games should be to freely explore the world you are in, and the roadblocks presented within this game, with level requirements and relying on Gacha mechanics to get the best gear/characters, keep it from reaching that level of freedom seen in other games within the genre.

    6/10 I'm convinced the only reason this game is getting so much hype is because it is free and has cute anime girls in it.    … Expand
  51. Mapartipin
    Oct 13, 2020
    5
    frankenstein impact. Only graphicfrankenstein impact. Only graphic good.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------… Expand
  52. Kreshton
    Apr 26, 2021
    6
    Not bad MMORPG,but have some problems : monotonous and boring gameplay, like: went a long way for the quest, talked go back to the nine lands, or take some item on the quest and again go back almost to the end of the location, and it's a little annoying.
  53. Bawer
    Jun 5, 2022
    7
    The world of MMOs gets bigger and bigger and this has good reasons namely discovering an unknown never ending world, fighting the toughest battles, being connected with people from the whole world and developing your own character whereas you identify yourself with him.
    A few years ago i heard about Genshin Impact but at the first glance i wasn't interested in it because as far as i    The world of MMOs gets bigger and bigger and this has good reasons namely discovering an unknown never ending world, fighting the toughest battles, being connected with people from the whole world and developing your own character whereas you identify yourself with him.
    A few years ago i heard about Genshin Impact but at the first glance i wasn't interested in it because as far as i understood it was a Single Player MMO or something what i have found weird.
    Last week it got my attention again and following the quote "The taste comes with eating" i gave it a shot.

    The intro starts with a brother and sister who have mighty personalities but an enemy appeared. Now you can choose to be the brother or the sister. Depends on your decision you will be separated from your family and then the journey begins.

    In your journey a cute and adorable mystic girl named Paimon accompany you in order to find and save your family. In the meantime you meet many peoples and stories what give Genshin Impact a recognizable face.

    The World is quite huge and detailed. I saw two cities and especially the second city which has real asian style was very beautiful and invites you to stay there even longer. The Flora and Fauna is also well integrated into the world whereas the weather conditions have a negative impact on your health.

    I like the anime-style and the characters i just met are detailed and are irreplaceable characters

    The soundtrack is very cool and contains an asian-flair that creates a deepening and serious atmosphere in Genshin Impact. The composer really knows what he is doing. The music still is in my mind what confirms the right choice of the soundtrack.

    Right now i'm in the prologue so i can't tell too much concerning the story. What i can tell is that the family that you try to save could become your enemy. The other thing is that the enemy who appeared in the intro seems to have a personal interest in you but it is not clear what she is really up to. These elements cause question marks and that's why following the story line is motivating.

    You are in a Four-Man-Squad and you fight the battle with one person whereas you can switch easily to the other warrior. There is basic-attack, special-attack and a very special-attack but there seems to be no counter-attack. Every warrior has a different style and how to attack. It is right that you can develop your own character very very far while you can unlock certain talents. Unfortunately your character cannot learn more new attacks.
    In connection to this kind of Development and Battle-System the Gacha-System takes a huge and important place in Genshin Impact. There are many characters that you can get in the Gacha-System whereas you can another characters through certain story-lines. But i have to admit that the fighting style of the characters in the Gacha-System is more interesting and refined than the other ones you can get in the story itself. The Gacha-System offers three banners which includes 4- and 5-Stars characters. I noticed that mainly the 5-Stars characters can cause a very-special-attack with an animation while i love the animation-attacks.

    Well, now we come to an issue with what many Genshin-Warriors have a problem. In order to get these 5-Stars characters you have to spend for example about 150-200 € in one banner. You have to draw a 10x-Ticket (in Genshin Impact it is called: Prayer) about 9-10 times to get a 5-Stars Character whereas there is a high chance that you get 4-Stars Characters. We are lucky that there is a pity-system or else it would be even worse. The problem is that you can draw a character you already have. In such cases you can get an exchange. You also get other kind of coins which you can spend at the Tradesman.
    My point of view is that it is reasonable to get the necessary money so that you can finance Genshin-Impact, new projects like "Zenless Zone Zero", the company, the employees and even the cleaning ladies. Paying at maximum 50-60 € per month would be very fair but not 150-180 €. To be honest, i just checked if there is some sort of a subscription-pass like in other MMO and yes there is one. You can get a pass for about 10,99 € and you can get a subscription for 4,99 € where u can get the necessary coins day for day. This pass for about 10 € is available at Adventurer-Level 20.
    This seems to be fair but nevertheless the users are very frustrated of the Gacha-System anyway. So seeing it in a long term i cannot tell if the pass is the solution of the whole Gacha-Issue.

    It would be useful to create a subscription-pass with a price of 10 to maximum 50-60 € per month and depending how much you pay you can get more coins for buying the tickets. So it would be great that if you pay 50-60 €, you get more than 12000 crystal coins for drawing the 10xTickets. I think this kind of concept could lower the frustration-grade of the Genshin-Warrior.

    Conclusion: 7/10    … Expand
  54. o0Haruki0o
    Sep 28, 2021
    5
    It took too much time to complete game content when you are "unlucky" with gacha. The only answer for confortable and time-saving gaming experience is to offer money to Mihoyo. One important thing is that the company is quite greedy with their policy with gamers.
  55. TeemoTime
    Aug 15, 2022
    7
    Gameplay is lackluster, at least in the beginning stages of the game. But it has the benefit of being Breath Of The Wild.
  56. Charnooh
    Jun 7, 2021
    7
    This game would be a solid 7/10 if it was a 30$ game. Instead it's free with very impressive visuals (considering it runs on mobile), amazing orchestrated soundtrack and a really fun gameplay loop.
    Yes, the Gatcha and stamina mechanics are there, but I don't get why people are scoring this game only based on their exsistance, and not on how they are implemented. You can aquire new    This game would be a solid 7/10 if it was a 30$ game. Instead it's free with very impressive visuals (considering it runs on mobile), amazing orchestrated soundtrack and a really fun gameplay loop.
    Yes, the Gatcha and stamina mechanics are there, but I don't get why people are scoring this game only based on their exsistance, and not on how they are implemented. You can aquire new characters with better skills than others with the Gatcha system, but it's not the only way of getting them (some are currently only obtainable through the Gatcha but the game is only 2 months old and already there are have been about 2-3 events every month where you can easily get those, and the amount of characters only obtainable through Gatcha decreases.).
    The stamina system doesn't prevent you from doing much of anything in a single day, it prevents you from repeating the same mission 10 times a day to get the best loot, preventing balancing problems. Every other quest which you get either daily, with a certain level or just by exploring the world do not require this stamina.
    I don't get why people act like this is just another scam gatcha game. There's clearly a lot of effort put into this game and the Gatcha rules are clearly stated, and seem to actually behave as stated.    … Expand
  57. Rhadnar
    Oct 8, 2020
    5
    The game is great, but has a few bad points to it, as a free to play it has to earn its money from the gacha system, players can earn a limited amount of the currency used on the gacha through playing the game, doing achievements, finding chests and doing quests, but those are all limited to a point where after you opened every chest in the game at least once you wont be getting anymore ofThe game is great, but has a few bad points to it, as a free to play it has to earn its money from the gacha system, players can earn a limited amount of the currency used on the gacha through playing the game, doing achievements, finding chests and doing quests, but those are all limited to a point where after you opened every chest in the game at least once you wont be getting anymore of that currency from chests in the open world.
    Another bad point is the limited respawn of monsters and bosses, you need an increasing number of itens to upgrade your characters and weapons, the resource is limited to a daily respawn of monsters and to gated chests from bosses where you have to spend resin a type of resource that you slowly generate through the day, you can buy Resin with your limited gacha currency or real money.
    So after you open all the chests in the world and do the main story of the game you will be in a spot where you have 4 daily quests, some random events that can appear or not, some chests that may or may not respawn (like 10 or so in the vast world), monsters that you kill and they take 24h/daily reset to respawn, or bosses/dungeons where you need to either spend Resin to get their loot or real money.
    In a F2P perspective the game is not that bad as long you want to play as a specific character from gacha, those will cost you almost all the resources you can earn in your first week of playing if not more.
    0.6% for a 5 stars where a 10 rolls on gacha cost around $19 USD has a guaranteed chance for a 4 star, but that 4 star can be a weapon and not a character.
    Dozens of streamers have spend more than 1.000, sometimes close to 3.000 to get a single copy of the character they wanted.
    In general the game is amazing, has an open world just like the way a good open world game should have, the combat is fun and well done, some quests are really well done and you can expect the game to become even better in future with more characters, new places to visit and dungeons, but like i said before its very limited for F2P.    … Expand
  58. gilga001
    Oct 14, 2020
    7
    The game is still unfinished yet, only 2 maps included. After a week or two, you will just log in the game , finish those daily missions, spend your resins and log out(1 hour is enough).
    It definitely does good in music, graphics and dubs, but gacha sucks.
    Exploring is the main purpose like BOTW. Combat is fine and you will need to do some research on it while reaching end game to    The game is still unfinished yet, only 2 maps included. After a week or two, you will just log in the game , finish those daily missions, spend your resins and log out(1 hour is enough).
    It definitely does good in music, graphics and dubs, but gacha sucks.
    Exploring is the main purpose like BOTW. Combat is fine and you will need to do some research on it while reaching end game to optimize your team build.
    It's F2P and someone succeeded F2P all the way to the end game(of course it takes a lot of time). However, F2P is indeed a hard mode of the game.
    In all, it's a fun game to play and I'm looking forward to seeing the complete game in the future.    … Expand
  59. Veigarbage
    Oct 8, 2020
    7
    Graphics are amazing. Story is great. Amazing open world. Only downfalls is the abysmal gacha system where to get anything useful you have to spend a huge amount or many or rely on a very small chance. Also after a certain point the game runs out of content and ranking up becomes slower and slower until you have thudded to a halt and are wandering around the world trying to find everyGraphics are amazing. Story is great. Amazing open world. Only downfalls is the abysmal gacha system where to get anything useful you have to spend a huge amount or many or rely on a very small chance. Also after a certain point the game runs out of content and ranking up becomes slower and slower until you have thudded to a halt and are wandering around the world trying to find every single chest, even though the chests have nothing useful in them.… Expand
  60. BlazeGunner
    Oct 24, 2020
    6
    Okay, so going into this game, you need to set your expectation properly. Don't get addicted, don't be lured by the marketing game, the gacha, and the bling blings, and what you end up with, is a FREE open world adventure game, with up to 100 hours of gameplay (that's when you're starting to feel the grind). JUST based on that alone, a free game that can make me have fun for a hundredOkay, so going into this game, you need to set your expectation properly. Don't get addicted, don't be lured by the marketing game, the gacha, and the bling blings, and what you end up with, is a FREE open world adventure game, with up to 100 hours of gameplay (that's when you're starting to feel the grind). JUST based on that alone, a free game that can make me have fun for a hundred hours, I absolutely love this game. it's even more fun time than some "AAA" games that I've paid 60$ for.

    BUT, once you hit this grindy wall, it's going to suck really hard. (for me, it's around 100 hrs in, or around AR35+) this is in version 1.0. maybe it's gonna be longer in future version, but it's going to be there waiting for you if mihoyo decided to keep this practice. If you drop the game at this point, then it's gonna be a very positive experience for you, but if you decide to stick through it and power through the grind, then you'll see the glaring flaw that this "PC" game has. resin wall, mats wall, mora wall, exp wall, etc. and you'll have less fun overall. this is why I'm giving this game a 6/10. lucky for me I didn't spend a single dime on this game, or I'd rate it 0/10. I may change the review in the future if anything drastic happens, but I don't think it's very likely    … Expand
  61. Dubeau
    Oct 27, 2020
    6
    Genshin is a fun RPG. The story is pretty good. Maybe there is too much characters at some points. The dialogues are good. I really like Paime's lines. There really are only two worlds and they are pretty big. The control is easy enough. Flying is a blast. On PC, you have to redo your controller settings at every opening.

    The combat is action with around two special powers. Really    Genshin is a fun RPG. The story is pretty good. Maybe there is too much characters at some points. The dialogues are good. I really like Paime's lines. There really are only two worlds and they are pretty big. The control is easy enough. Flying is a blast. On PC, you have to redo your controller settings at every opening.

    The combat is action with around two special powers. Really engaging. There are camera strange placements at times. The levelling mechanics is the frustrating part. Those of the characters are super fast and you gonna miss a lot of items to ascend. The adventure rank is another one, which is super slow (on purpose to make you buy, of course). After you reach level 20 with adventure rank the story abruptly halt, and you have to grind your way around. Then is goes again at 24, and to reach 26, it would take days/weeks of boring tasks.

    World quest do exist but they are not on the map, which makes them hard to find. I don't like a levelling system that is broken in two parts like that. It makes everything more complex then managing a character or a party. I must say there is a lot of nice RPG stuff too. Like cooking, creating potions, making or upgrading weapons. There is no real armours, only accessories of 6 types that you can upgrade. The under layers of upgrades are rich, no doubt about that. But there is a lack of simplicity, in my opinion.

    I give it a 62%. It's free and fun.

    Update: I have lower my score. The story doesn't move after level 25 and everything revolve around grinding. Since the game is only a partial product it's not surprising, but the way the grinding works isn't that fun. I heard about resin, that seems even worst. I have uninstalled the game, and I would be surprised if I ever go back again. Beating elite bosses 3 times to get a level item, isn't my idea of fun.
    And there was a credit card fraud after I bought into that game. 20 days after (no transactions after that). You draw your conclusion on the safety of their servers or employees. No support for that.    … Expand
  62. zaftgun
    Oct 22, 2020
    7
    Pros:

    Really nice looking adventure game with really good movement animations. Interesting quests, nice music. A lot of details and useful functions. Cons: Very clunky system, controls feels sluggish. The progression system is pretty much dice and roll to get 5 star, 4 star characters and weapons with super low drop rates. Its like lottery which is normally regulated by agencies    Pros:

    Really nice looking adventure game with really good movement animations. Interesting quests, nice music. A lot of details and useful functions.

    Cons:

    Very clunky system, controls feels sluggish. The progression system is pretty much dice and roll to get 5 star, 4 star characters and weapons with super low drop rates. Its like lottery which is normally regulated by agencies that regulate gambling. Login rewards. Like so many other mobile games, but definitely unsuited for this type of game.

    Progression are locked behind map exploration and mini quests like that of guild wars 2. But in guild wars 2 map exploration is purely optional. Very very slow movement speeds to make sure you can't progress quickly.

    Flying is exactly the same as guild wars 2, even the rate of decline and updraft mechanic, they work and look essentially the same. I can understand the game choosing a climb and glide gameplay, but the way gliding is done just tells you that its a straight up copy and it is done to restrict movement and slow game progression.

    Conclusion:

    Largely a copycat with different skin challenging the originals. Could have been top game if done properly. End game maybe better but it will take too long to get there. Something that's ok for casual relaxation. May change with game updates.    … Expand
  63. Casua1
    Oct 27, 2020
    7
    Make a human donate system in this game pls, i believe in this game too much.
  64. cerealfyfy
    Oct 26, 2020
    7
    Game has lots of potential. Graphic, music and gameplay are all top notch. -2 for bad stamina system
  65. Furtado
    Oct 8, 2020
    5
    the game has a good construction and all, but sadly for the f2p player base is really harsh, especially for those who like to spend their time grinding items and etc...
  66. seawindzjr
    Oct 30, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. early gameplay (first 30-40H) is great, I think it's mostly agreed, and then it's empty. So it's pretty much just a beta.
    My opinion is to treat it as any other betas. We play it out, we uninstall it, we wait for the next version, end of story.
    Forget about the dailies, it's a single player game, you are not competing anyone or catching up anything, dailies would do nothing helpful but make you bored.
    Play it out, uninstall it, wait a half year, play it out, uninstall it, repeat this, I ensure you, you could enjoy the game itself but not be fooled by the company behind it.
    Oh, most important thing: DO NOT SPENT A DIME IN IT!    … Expand
  67. Mandulum
    Nov 6, 2020
    5
    If it was a regular, non-F2P game it would be a lot better. As it is the game has two large problems for me:
    1. You get a very limited set of weak characters. All the decent characters are lock behind gambling with very low odds.
    2. They give you access to the game at a snail's pace. It's not so limited at the start but eventually I couldn't progress through the story without hours of    If it was a regular, non-F2P game it would be a lot better. As it is the game has two large problems for me:
    1. You get a very limited set of weak characters. All the decent characters are lock behind gambling with very low odds.
    2. They give you access to the game at a snail's pace. It's not so limited at the start but eventually I couldn't progress through the story without hours of grinding (or weeks of very little playtime).

    Date Dropped: 2020-11-05
    Playtime: ~ 15h
    Enjoyment: 5/10
    Recommendation: No    … Expand
  68. MetalRobot69
    Feb 4, 2022
    6
    It is a good pastime. I like to do my dailies commissions and farm some artifacts while hearing an podcast since the game doesn't really need the full awareness of the player but I really only play because of the rewards (primogens), it isn't funny at all to farm the same set for de 908th or to do the same stupid commission to protect a Ballon for the 67th time.

    The story of the game is    It is a good pastime. I like to do my dailies commissions and farm some artifacts while hearing an podcast since the game doesn't really need the full awareness of the player but I really only play because of the rewards (primogens), it isn't funny at all to farm the same set for de 908th or to do the same stupid commission to protect a Ballon for the 67th time.

    The story of the game is just a miss or hit, some are good, others are not. One thing annoying is the amount of unnecessary dialogues this game has that doesn't add anything to the stories or the event and it is just an annoying thing between you and 60 free primogens that 80% of the time is just worth it 1/3 of a wish that you get a literally useless 3* weapon.

    Many people complain about the gatcha system and I agree it sucks sometimes. I had my bad moments but also has lucky moments. I like this system simply because I am 100% F2P and honestly I have all characters that I need to beat any challenge in this game and if I managed to get this without paying 1 cent, at least for me, this system worked just fine so I don't have any reason to complain. I think people have to know, they can't have all characters in the game. They need 2 top-tier DPS and pull for good supports only.

    The combat system is cool, many people say they don't like the Spiral Abyss, I like it. I pretty much always get 36* on every abyss reset, not because 50 primogens are a great reward (they are trash) but because I like the challenge that only floor 12 (and sometimes floor 11) bring to the game. I always wanted more content like Spiral Abyss or new floors but Mihoyo never brought it. It is a shame, so I can only play Spiral Abyss every 2 weeks.

    The exploration of this game is one of my favorite parts. I like to solve puzzles and explore the world and the maps of this game is really beautiful. It is a shame that the content ends so fast.

    The graphics of this game are ok, the models of the characters are kinda bad, they lack models of musculus type of characters. Actually, they pretty much only have 3 models of characters, child characters, teen characters and adult characters. All are slim.    … Expand
  69. TwoBe
    Jul 23, 2021
    7
    *Story: 6/10*
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    The story is doll at times and since the game forces you to grind for quite some time before continuing with it you can get lost on what's going on, so you may have to do your own research to make head or tails of the lore, the ending had a really good twist tho. The side stories for the characters are awesome, it let's simp for the characters that you want, I    *Story: 6/10*
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    The story is doll at times and since the game forces you to grind for quite some time before continuing with it you can get lost on what's going on, so you may have to do your own research to make head or tails of the lore, the ending had a really good twist tho. The side stories for the characters are awesome, it let's simp for the characters that you want, I think it would be great if you could marry one of the characters at the end of the game after finishing her/his route lol

    *Art: 9/10*
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    miHoYo created a vast beautiful world, I lost count how many times my jaw was dropping while exploring Liyue.

    *Sound: 8/10*
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    The OST is very good, every region has its own theme so it makes you feel in tune with the environment.

    *Character: 9/10*
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    I love the characters. Even though each type has its own mechanics mastering them and building them is part of the enjoyment so you will always have fun. Top tier waifus:
    Lisa (Ara, Ara…)
    Mona (Perfect buns)
    Noelle (Naughty of closet + the girl that you end up marrying one day)
    Barbara (Ufff... + the girl that you end up marrying one day)
    Ningguang (Professional model legs)

    *Enjoyment: 9/10*
    ===============
    Clearing domains with your build up character is really satisfying. I only wish the bosses that you find in the outside world would've being related to the story instead of just being "there" waiting to be beaten. The lack of toxic players amazes me, I've never encounter one and mostly all of them are like :3

    Really nice and wholesome experiences in co-op. It makes me wonder what is the game demographics.

    *Overall: 7*
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    This is a great game, which unfortunately its censorship and gacha mechanics ruin it. I wouldn't mind paying 40 or 50 box for this game, it deserves it, but seeing people paying from 5k to 10k to get the characters that they want… that's just insane! No game is worth that money no matter how beautiful its world is or how great its characters are.
    If you go for the F2P route you won’t be disappointed, the game will be more challenging but it will feel more rewarding. Just please bear in mind that it might take up to a year to get the characters that you want because you will have to grind and grind hard.    … Expand
  70. Sheogor
    Oct 23, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game it self is awesome , lot of details , stuff to do , characters , weapons, but there's an issue that is currently splitting the community in 2 groups , the Resin System , when you got AR35 the resin becomes the most important resource , the lack of resin makes the game impossible to progress even if you focus it all on a single character.… Expand
  71. DYYLEr
    Jun 12, 2022
    5
    I like the game, but this is a casino simulator that doesn't even appreciate its players. I have a qiqi curse
  72. Toowzeer
    Jan 8, 2021
    7
    -The game's story is good.
    -The characters and its elemental resonance makes new meta in every update
    -Free to play-gacha based game
    -The negative comments mostly taked about resin, gacha system, empty world etc.. Honestly idc.. as long as it has anime tiddies.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).. -The good thing, the developer made the pity system, so this game won't be a totally hell game..

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  73. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    7
    A well-developed colorful world, I consider it the Zelda of a healthy person, high-quality work with a combination of elements
  74. peterk111
    May 1, 2022
    7
    I played this game since 1 month after the release and this game keeps on sucking. why tf this game caped at 60fps

    You can tell that the people that made the story never played a real single player game. They probably only play **** like valorant and ****pex legends there entire life. A mf in grade 6 could of made the plot. plus the English voice acting is half ass you tell that its    I played this game since 1 month after the release and this game keeps on sucking. why tf this game caped at 60fps

    You can tell that the people that made the story never played a real single player game. They probably only play **** like valorant and ****pex legends there entire life. A mf in grade 6 could of made the plot. plus the English voice acting is half ass you tell that its some obese gay mf "trapping" in moms basement. the story on on literal LIFE SUPPORT

    I only play for the HALF ASS gameplay ;-; i want splatoon 3 and botw 2 to come out so i can stop playing this gay **** Plus the community is gay mha fans yuck go watch some yu gi oh.    … Expand
  75. ClearIce
    Nov 26, 2021
    7
    A lot of grind. Grind in the events, grind for the story, artifacts, weapons, pesonage, talents, for all this is unreal much grind, to see the story should grind, grind on the spiral, events and anemocles are grind, sometimes the competition but basically the whole game is grind
    Instead of some cut scenes are just captions on a dark screen
    It's impossible to play but the interesting    A lot of grind. Grind in the events, grind for the story, artifacts, weapons, pesonage, talents, for all this is unreal much grind, to see the story should grind, grind on the spiral, events and anemocles are grind, sometimes the competition but basically the whole game is grind
    Instead of some cut scenes are just captions on a dark screen
    It's impossible to play but the interesting storyline, gacha system, competitiveness and community keep me playing
    At the moment this is the only multiplatform online game with a very long story, good visuals and an open world.

    I don't like feminism, but I also don't like semi-naked pesonazhis, it really interferes with immersion, especially what's on Eula's feet, no one can walk long in that, let alone run and fight.    … Expand
  76. Neneleakes
    Jan 19, 2022
    7
    Genshin Impact delivers a beautiful world, creative characters and tons of content ranging from story to combat challenges accessible without paying anything. The game is updated very regularly and continuously has events which keep the game feeling fresh. At the same time the game is held back by annoying timegating and an aggressive monetization system, which limits certain parts ofGenshin Impact delivers a beautiful world, creative characters and tons of content ranging from story to combat challenges accessible without paying anything. The game is updated very regularly and continuously has events which keep the game feeling fresh. At the same time the game is held back by annoying timegating and an aggressive monetization system, which limits certain parts of progression behind a gacha system. Spending money on the game is in no way required, but is heavily incentivized. It is a game I would definitely recommend, yet understand the limits (and possible gamble risks) involved. :)… Expand
  77. Kostas_Spirou
    Apr 24, 2022
    7
    A very beautiful Open World, full of vibrant colors and life, unfortunately plagued by generic and repetitive content.

    The character models look fantastic, very creative and interesting designs. The map is relatively big and there are various areas to explore, from grassy fields to rocky mountains and even some unrealistic fantastical regions. The core gameplay is great, you can combine    A very beautiful Open World, full of vibrant colors and life, unfortunately plagued by generic and repetitive content.

    The character models look fantastic, very creative and interesting designs.
    The map is relatively big and there are various areas to explore, from grassy fields to rocky mountains and even some unrealistic fantastical regions.

    The core gameplay is great, you can combine different elements and do combination attacks, use the environment against the enemies and have fun, but the grinding is ridiculous, and the only way to unlock new characters is by either buying them with real money or getting them through a "lootbox" mechanic.

    There isn't really an actual story, or rather... it's not very engaging and important, but there are indeed main quests, side quests and challenges but they barely differ.

    Multiplayer mode is also not working very well, only the host of the lobby can properly interact with the world.

    In the end it's merely a good game, it looks and plays very well but it gets boring after a while, and if you want a change of pace then you'll have to deal with gacha mechanics.

    Final Rating: "Good" ~ 7/10.    … Expand
  78. DarkwingSchmuck
    Mar 20, 2022
    7
    Genshin Impact has the dubious honor of being the best free-to-play gatcha game ever made. While on the surface that isn't saying all that much, Genshin Impact's core is a very strong Breath of the Wild clone with a substantial combat system and a gorgeous aesthetic. Furthermore, you can put a number of hours into the game before ever feeling the need to spend a cent. It's a shame thenGenshin Impact has the dubious honor of being the best free-to-play gatcha game ever made. While on the surface that isn't saying all that much, Genshin Impact's core is a very strong Breath of the Wild clone with a substantial combat system and a gorgeous aesthetic. Furthermore, you can put a number of hours into the game before ever feeling the need to spend a cent. It's a shame then that its nature as a gatcha game only allows it to go so far, as the game does wear out its welcome over time.

    One can only hope that if Genshin Impact 2 ever becomes a thing that it will drop the gatcha mechanics and flesh out its story, because there are the bones of a really good action/adventure game here.    … Expand
  79. agns
    Dec 16, 2022
    6
    It’s straight up decent to be real. Most people just rate it horrible because there are some features that are ripped from other games and awful community exists. If you actually play it, you can kinda enjoy it.
  80. Chaothic
    Dec 21, 2022
    5
    9/10 artistic design
    7/10 story
    5/10 gameplay 0/10 gatcha-monetization -- Playable for exploration, screenshot material, and some story, otherwise an absolute waste of time, please do not fall for it, value your time. Major activities that take hours of time, or anything seemingly significant for that matter, reward barely scraps of a single pull. When you think outside the box, you    9/10 artistic design
    7/10 story
    5/10 gameplay
    0/10 gatcha-monetization
    -- Playable for exploration, screenshot material, and some story, otherwise an absolute waste of time, please do not fall for it, value your time.
    Major activities that take hours of time, or anything seemingly significant for that matter, reward barely scraps of a single pull. When you think outside the box, you can see how pathetic it is, how poorly F2Ps are treated here. There are literally barely enough primogems in the entire game (which takes hundreds of hours to gather) just to guarantee a single 5* which takes double pity (180pulls - 28800 primos).
    Just don't, far better options around for the gatcha element. Better yet, don't bother with gatcha at all, lookup mod communities, have incredible characters made with passion for free.    … Expand
  81. TomKing13
    Jul 17, 2022
    6
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  82. brandonsavage
    Jun 18, 2022
    6
    It's really amazing and fun at the beginning of the game. However, as it proceeds it becomes more boring and draining, especially after AR 50. More further, we can easily say that there is almost nothing to do after AR 55.
  83. TitaniumDragon
    Jan 2, 2021
    5
    While the core of the game is fun, the game is unfinished. Moreover, because of the awful gacha system combined with the inability to level your characters fully, playing the game just feels like a mistake – you’ll have fun for a while, long enough to get you hooked, and then you’ll run out of stuff to do and be stuck with a lot of repetitive, grindy gameplay.

    The actual cost of the    While the core of the game is fun, the game is unfinished. Moreover, because of the awful gacha system combined with the inability to level your characters fully, playing the game just feels like a mistake – you’ll have fun for a while, long enough to get you hooked, and then you’ll run out of stuff to do and be stuck with a lot of repetitive, grindy gameplay.

    The actual cost of the game varies from “free” to “outright extortative”, and anyone with impulse control problems should never, ever, ever play this game, as it will try to fleece you for all that you’re worth.

    The game’s core mechanics drive you towards grinding, but the result is that the amount of “fun” gameplay you get will ever dwindle over time.

    All in all, as much fun as I had with this game starting out, I can’t recommend it. It’s a game that tries to eat your life, and it is unfinished to boot.

    Maybe when the plot is finished, you could just pick it up and play it as a free open-world game. But you’d have to be able to ignore the myriad ways in which the game is trying to get you to open your wallet and devour your time.

    All in all, this is a game to be avoided, not because of its low quality, but because of its incomplete nature and attempt at eating your life and wallet.    … Expand
  84. somah
    Nov 16, 2020
    5
    Si fuera un juego gratis para PC con cosméticos y moneda en juego para comprar algunas cosas le daría una mejor calificación, pero no es así, es un gacha con unos drops muy bajos no solo en las invocaciones si no en todo el contenido, incluso si pagas esos drops siguen ahí, comparado con otros gacha que he jugado es uno con los drops más exagerados que he visto y no solo eso, tiene muySi fuera un juego gratis para PC con cosméticos y moneda en juego para comprar algunas cosas le daría una mejor calificación, pero no es así, es un gacha con unos drops muy bajos no solo en las invocaciones si no en todo el contenido, incluso si pagas esos drops siguen ahí, comparado con otros gacha que he jugado es uno con los drops más exagerados que he visto y no solo eso, tiene muy poco contenido si un mapa abierto donde no hay mucho que hacer y menos después de que lo exploras por primera vez, le doy un 5 por su jugabilidad el cual es sencillo pero no es malo tampoco y si divertido de jugar, esta reseña la hago después de llegar a Rango 45 de aventura y cada día pensarme más si seguir en el juego, ya que incluso pagando (que lo he hecho), no da una buena experiencia al jugador. Su historia en ciertos puntos me parece buena pero por lo general es muy regular y en cuanto al cooperativo es muy limitado, en si el juego ya es limitado por su falta de contenido.… Expand
  85. mece
    Aug 30, 2021
    5
    The game has huge potential in cooperative and character leveling but there are too many artificial limits making this game grindy and painful. I'm disappointed.
  86. nichi
    Jan 20, 2022
    7
    Joguei durante 1 ano desde o lançamento, no início foi uma grande surpresa, muito bom, mas com o tempo era necessário se ter mais elementos para o end game, e isso não ocorreu, o jogo se tornou basicamente um farm infinito de equipamentos e ir atrás de cristais...nem os eventos são realmente divertidos, no fim é tudo sobre cristal para o gacha que inclusive é muito zoado.
    Além disso jogo    Joguei durante 1 ano desde o lançamento, no início foi uma grande surpresa, muito bom, mas com o tempo era necessário se ter mais elementos para o end game, e isso não ocorreu, o jogo se tornou basicamente um farm infinito de equipamentos e ir atrás de cristais...nem os eventos são realmente divertidos, no fim é tudo sobre cristal para o gacha que inclusive é muito zoado.
    Além disso jogo ainda sofre censuras aí pela china, em fim, infelizmente o jogo decepcionou e muito com o tempo.    … Expand
  87. Kostas101
    Nov 15, 2021
    7
    A very beautiful Open World, unfortunately full of generic and repetitive content. The character models look fantastic, the story is interesting and the gameplay is great, but the grinding is ridiculous, and the only way to unlock new characters is by either buying them with real money or getting them through a "lootbox" mechanic. Multiplayer mode is also not working very well, only theA very beautiful Open World, unfortunately full of generic and repetitive content. The character models look fantastic, the story is interesting and the gameplay is great, but the grinding is ridiculous, and the only way to unlock new characters is by either buying them with real money or getting them through a "lootbox" mechanic. Multiplayer mode is also not working very well, only the host of the lobby can properly interact with the world.… Expand
  88. onehitok
    Aug 4, 2021
    5
    This game is pretty good. The graphics are great, the lolis are great. The story and everything deserves a 10/10. Except... the resin system and character lock behind paywall... It's such a pity because this game has what it takes to be awesome if they know how to stop making gamers pay. It is not consumer friendly, okay? 100
  89. lessacebola
    Nov 18, 2020
    7
    Pra um jogo de graça tem qualidades bastante consideráveis, não chega a ser meu tipo de jogo favorito, mas é bem impressionante eles entregarem um jogo com esses gráficos de graça.
  90. esaxiv
    Nov 27, 2020
    5
    I really enjoyed this game until my account hit AR 40. The game is free to download so i thought the developer would take the advantages of gacha and battle pass. But i realized when i was at this level that developers would be extorting more money from players using the resin system. And the game becomes very boring without any missions update, coupled with a big barrier of system, resin.I really enjoyed this game until my account hit AR 40. The game is free to download so i thought the developer would take the advantages of gacha and battle pass. But i realized when i was at this level that developers would be extorting more money from players using the resin system. And the game becomes very boring without any missions update, coupled with a big barrier of system, resin. I usually play games for 1 to 3 hours a day and more hours on weekends. Now i can only enjoy this game for 15 to 60 minutes a day. I support the developer by using battle pass and blessing. But this resin is really too much.… Expand
  91. f2pplayer
    Nov 30, 2020
    5
    i think this game have a good aesthetic but the resin system made me as f2p player very struggle to keep my progress on the game, the condensed resin its not enough to resolve this problem, if mihoyo see this post i hope in future update they fix this problem like reduce the refresh time for every 1 resin.
  92. Mazma
    Dec 25, 2020
    5
    Grafica semplice e funzionale, trama banale e tranquillamente evitabile, buon gameplay.... pochi contenuti attualmente e il sistema Gotcha ne guasta la piacevolezza.
  93. MiuFurinji
    Mar 24, 2021
    6
    Genshin Impact a game that tries to appease otakus and normies but ends up pleasing none

    I have been playing Genshin Impact everyday since it came out and the game has a lot of potential but the resin system, lack of content and too many filler updates (festivals being dropped too often) holds the game back. The story on Genshin Impact is nothing out of the ordinary but is fun to    Genshin Impact a game that tries to appease otakus and normies but ends up pleasing none

    I have been playing Genshin Impact everyday since it came out and the game has a lot of potential but the resin system, lack of content and too many filler updates (festivals being dropped too often) holds the game back. The story on Genshin Impact is nothing out of the ordinary but is fun to experience it and there's nothing to lose if you plan on just being a F2P player. The gameplay is simple, fun and the open world is beautiful with a lot of stuff to explore. The game has some co op features like being able to join someone else world and explore it and also the ability to play domains (dungeons) in co op mode were you kill mobs to obtain certain rewards as long you have enough resin.

    I have to admit that exploration on Genshin Impact is really good and you feel like there's always something new to do, however when you complete the story and do every side quest possible is when the game begins to fail. On Genshin Impact there's a system known as "resin" which is basically a stamina system. In order to make progress on the game you need to use resin for the rewards to drop. Once the resin runs out you are basically left without anything to do and the open world will feel empty as you cannot make any progress without resin. Playtime on Genshin Impact is reduced to basically 20 minutes per day as everything that makes you progress requires the use of resin.

    Genshin Impact as of right now lacks end game content which doesn't help much and most updates that drop are basically filler "festivals" that have little progress on the story. Not to mention that most of the mini games during the festivals are basically straight off rip off from other existing games. If you plan on playing this game for a long time, dropping cash is required if you desire to obtain a certain character.

    Now for the censorship topic. Genshin Impact is made by a company whose slogan is "otakus tech saves the world" but those words don't hold much. The developers of this game tend to make a bait and switch with characters already being presented. If you see a certain character introduced, you can bet that the final design will be "adjusted". For example a character know as Rosaria was introduce as an NPC and a few updates later said character becomes a playable character. However the character goes from the largest bust in the game to the smallest one from the tall female cast. I'm not sure why would developers change the appearance of existing characters on a waifus & husbando game.

    Overall good game but the lack of content, censorship and developers not listening to the players feedback, might may you think twice and look for an alternative.    … Expand
  94. Shlrine
    Jul 29, 2021
    6
    As a Genshin Impact player since the release, I've dropped the game since January 2021 for a couple of reasons:
    - The game has a terrible Gacha System, it is even worse than EA loot box, you need to pull 90 times to guarantee a 5-star character, but here is the bad news: you only have 50% of that 5-star to be your favorite characters, lots of time you will be surrounded by unfavourite    As a Genshin Impact player since the release, I've dropped the game since January 2021 for a couple of reasons:
    - The game has a terrible Gacha System, it is even worse than EA loot box, you need to pull 90 times to guarantee a 5-star character, but here is the bad news: you only have 50% of that 5-star to be your favorite characters, lots of time you will be surrounded by unfavourite 5-star characters, some even useless, some even not in your taste and you will leave them in the "Storage". To have 90 pulls, you need to pay approximately 200 US dollars, and the game still does not guarantee your wanting characters, you will need to pay another 200 US dollars to pull 90 times more to guarantee the "chosen one". For F2P, you will need to play every day for a whole month to have 90 pulls, and if you are not lucky enough, you will need to grind for another next month. The rate of 5-star character is 2%, so if the system works properly then the guarantee at 60 pulls is perfectly reasonable, but no, Mihoyo decided to TRIPLE that number.

    - The second issue with the game is the unbalance of characters. You may say "Hey but it is clearly true for every game to have higher rare units stronger than the lower ones right?". The reality in the game is different: There are multiple 4-star characters, who are supporters, are even stronger than the 5-star version of them. For example: Barbara is a 4-star healer and she did equally, if not better than 5-star healer Qiqi. Another example is 5-star "electro" Keqing, she is terrible weak that except someone like her design and her voice, no one uses her, even Keqing-hardcore are desperately demanding miHoyo to buff Keqing but after half of a year, nothing changes, except they bring ANOTHER 5-STAR "ELECTRO" CHARACTER who is straightly stronger and Keqing, another bad news for Keqing is her "signature weapon" is now being used by the new character "Baal", when something is called "signature" in the game, it means that "signature" item will boost the character to the highest potential power but now, Keqing can't even have a proper "Signature weapon". The "imbalance" of "elements" is also a big problem too, "electro" is too weak because they don't have a strong DPS (Keqing is too weak though), the "elemental reaction" also does not favor "electro" and when I said "not favor", I mean it is completely useless: You have a reaction of "hydro" + "electro" deal little amount of damage, you have "pyro" (fire) + "electro" deal "pyro damage", you have "cryo" (ice) + "electro" reduce enemies' physical resistance. None of them truly increase the electro DPS. While look at Pyro reaction with "Cryo", the damage output will be double, I know it feels crazy but yes if that ability, which having a pyro element, attacks into a "cryo" enemy, the damage will be DOUBLE. Another problem about Genshin is unbalanced lore, some characters never find any show: Xinyan is a severe case: she has dark brown skin, her style is rock and she finds nowhere in the story, one small side quest, that's all, after 6 months, after a whole 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5... 2.0 patch, Xinyan is still nowhere, no one plays her, no one raises her, just because she is rock style? she is black skin? (Not gonna lie Keqing although has "white skin" and kind of not accepting the "Vision" so maybe that's the reason why Mihoyo does not buff her?) (Vision is a "gift from God" to the "chosen one" so they could use "element" according to that god. Keqing's lore describes her as a hard-working assistant and never accepts talent or god's gift, she even tries to destroy the "vision".)

    - The third reason is the scale system: you have 240 "energy" per day, and you need to farm a lot of "dungeon" to have material for your characters: you need around 2 weeks to a month of grinding to have a "proper" gear for ONE character, the upgrade system is also RNG, some cases report no useful gear for 2 months. After finishing the main quest, explore the whole map, you will spend 2 weeks to a month grinding and waiting for the next patch and you need to do it every day, for Genshin Players, they can't bear seeing "energy" full because each "energy" is so valuable, but also, forcing you to play the game even when there is nothing new, yes, you still need to grind every day.

    The character design is also under criticism:
    + The characters are mainly "white skin", "big eyes", "similar characterism", "similar skill move set", "similar style",etc.
    + The future characters are always stronger, more op, more relevant than the previous characters: future characters also have stronger DPS, stronger healer, stronger support kit, weaker weakness, or even no weakness at all. The marketing strategy of miHoyo is terrible: they create more OP characters so players will spend more money to get them. In Genshin, you can "promote" a character by using multiple copies of themselves. The maximum "promotion" is C6, which means you need 6 copies to maximize it = 2000$.    … Expand
  95. Almzazovl
    Nov 3, 2021
    5
    Игра большой челлендж. И не в плане самого геймплея а в скачивании. Но не суть. Вообще я заметил мало плюсов, поэтому перечислять их даже не хочу. Минусы: у моих знакомых игра не поддерживалась на телефонах(не знаю вроде телефоны не старые). Самая обидная вещь это сытость, то есть персонаж может наесться из-за чего больше не собирается питаться а значит и регенерироваться.Игра большой челлендж. И не в плане самого геймплея а в скачивании. Но не суть. Вообще я заметил мало плюсов, поэтому перечислять их даже не хочу. Минусы: у моих знакомых игра не поддерживалась на телефонах(не знаю вроде телефоны не старые). Самая обидная вещь это сытость, то есть персонаж может наесться из-за чего больше не собирается питаться а значит и регенерироваться.
  96. XabiXroSS
    Feb 10, 2022
    6
    The game looks really good, and the music is impressive too. But I never got to engaged to the game.

    The story, at least what I played, seems bland and just a excuse to do missions. Also, the gameplay itself feels very repetitive, seems more like a RPG than a game like BoTW when you're fighting monsters. But the major reason why is this only a 6 is that, the whole game is covered    The game looks really good, and the music is impressive too. But I never got to engaged to the game.

    The story, at least what I played, seems bland and just a excuse to do missions.

    Also, the gameplay itself feels very repetitive, seems more like a RPG than a game like BoTW when you're fighting monsters.

    But the major reason why is this only a 6 is that, the whole game is covered by a gacha system, and I don't like that kind of games.    … Expand
  97. konansupernova
    Feb 21, 2022
    7
    This is one of my favorite games, and has been for the past year now, but it is not without its flaws. The rampant sexualization of characters, while typical in the genre, can be off-putting at times, and the tactics the game uses to entice players to spend money can be frustrating at the very least. While I don't see myself putting this game down anytime soon, I would recommend thatThis is one of my favorite games, and has been for the past year now, but it is not without its flaws. The rampant sexualization of characters, while typical in the genre, can be off-putting at times, and the tactics the game uses to entice players to spend money can be frustrating at the very least. While I don't see myself putting this game down anytime soon, I would recommend that anyone interested in this game take some time to assess their vulnerability to gambling behaviors before picking it up.… Expand
  98. GregorRisenwald
    Jul 11, 2022
    5
    I **** hate gacha games, this is not a game but work, I've reached AR 55 and I'm so dissapointed that I wasted 400 hours...

    Story is good

    OST is awesome
  99. imalynxcat
    Aug 18, 2023
    7
    Genshin Impact oyunun başlarında free to play bir oyundan beklenmeyecek kadar iyi bir oyundu. Ama sonrasında etkileyeciliğini kaybetti.
  100. ILOVEBLIZZARD21
    Aug 10, 2023
    5
    Just as the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower and made its impact i would like to say thanks to our sponsor Genshin impact The Best zelda clone if you like anime boobs the exloring is very boring if you dont have a certan charaters that rotate on the banner once a year but ist still better than whatever blizzard is doing Its all blizzards fault
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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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