Genshin Impact

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4.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3024 Ratings

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

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  1. Superbadfish
    Aug 6, 2023
    0
    Just another weeb game full of inappropriate child sexualization and clearly a way for the Chinese government to get more data from people.
  2. Yosemito
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    Çin menşeili bir yapım olduğu için şaşırmadım türkçe dil desteği getirmemişler bu kadar ayrıntılı oyuna ingilizcesi orta üstü olmayan birisi etraftaki şeyleri zorlanarak anlar bi zevkide kalmaz durup durup çevirdiği için bu yüzden Ben ve benim gibi pek çok insan mail atmasına rağmen takmadılar kimseyi hikayeleri anlarken çok sinir oluyorum ve bi zevk alamıyorum o yüzden 1/10Çin menşeili bir yapım olduğu için şaşırmadım türkçe dil desteği getirmemişler bu kadar ayrıntılı oyuna ingilizcesi orta üstü olmayan birisi etraftaki şeyleri zorlanarak anlar bi zevkide kalmaz durup durup çevirdiği için bu yüzden Ben ve benim gibi pek çok insan mail atmasına rağmen takmadılar kimseyi hikayeleri anlarken çok sinir oluyorum ve bi zevk alamıyorum o yüzden 1/10
  3. Grimm0
    Sep 18, 2021
    0
    this game force you way or another to spend above 50$ or 99$ at least to get the character you want they do every month once or twice to lure people to their addiction awful practice.
  4. sus34
    Nov 23, 2021
    0
    Полная залупа, для любителей гомосятины. Так еще и с лютым донатом. Играть запрещено
  5. Zozolion
    Oct 1, 2021
    0
    I hate Paimon, she is annoying and I wish she can be deleted from the game.
  6. slvrmn
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    казино-игра, где прикручен геймплей и мир для галочки, просто чуть лучше чем в обычных мобилках уродливых.
  7. warknighter
    Feb 26, 2021
    0
    игра про расизм китацев по отношению ко всем другим и огромный донат, прикрытая аниме
  8. Kelltas
    Sep 27, 2021
    0
    Happy Anniversary! Hope your company gets covered with a copper basin!!!!!!!
  9. Cossette
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Una empresa como Mihoyo se pasa por la pichula. toda la comunidad y hace recompensas basuras para su aniversario. y para que decir del juego que no hay arreglos mas que sacarle plata a la gente. las armas la resina etc etc
  10. RedMatterGG
    Sep 29, 2021
    0
    no endgame,greedy company,no roadmap,pure cash grab,dont play this,wait for blue protocol to come out
  11. KsaKsa
    Nov 3, 2020
    0
    Game has no content after 1st chapter, events are a joke, they are awful. Resin system is inexusable, it's a huge failure. Also MiHoYo isn't giving players anything worthy, but don't forget to increase prices. Extremely unfriendly and greedy.

    Not recommend this game. 0/10.
  12. Gallexy
    Nov 4, 2020
    0
    Огромные цены на донат и вся игра завязана на ресурс смолу. Куча косяков в боевке - прилипание к стенам, летающие противники над водой, камера живущая своей жизнью.
  13. Sleky
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    For the aniversary, greedy mihou. Haha funny joke, get what you deserve, not a single dollar for you
  14. remuremu
    Oct 7, 2020
    0
    the game has a 0.6% rate for the 5* pool, that's the lowest rates I've ever seen in a gacha game

    don't let yourself fall victim to a predatory monetization model

    resin system is entirely unjustified and the only purpose it serves is to artificially slow down the player
  15. bert_
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    This game has crazy potential. First 30 or so adventure levels are fantastic. But after that, there is no real endgame. You log on, do dailies, and do as many activities as the game's incredibly limited stamina system allows. And even if that stamina system weren't there, or even if it had been significantly improved, there isn't much to do. At all.

    If we're going off of the core    This game has crazy potential. First 30 or so adventure levels are fantastic. But after that, there is no real endgame. You log on, do dailies, and do as many activities as the game's incredibly limited stamina system allows. And even if that stamina system weren't there, or even if it had been significantly improved, there isn't much to do. At all.

    If we're going off of the core gameplay, it'd be a zero. However, everything else, like the art, music, graphics, lore, and the gameplay itself would all get a 10/10 from me. Feels like real passion went into it. Can't say the same for the core gameplay loop.    … Expand
  16. Angelius
    Nov 2, 2021
    0
    Never even got to play the game. If you internet disconnects even once during the download it will almost want to redownload all of the files over and over. Happened to me 3 times while trying to install the game before i gave up.
  17. Buscudianh
    Sep 29, 2021
    0
    disapointed about this game , 2.1 main story like a **** although team design map, make music very good. 1st aniversity make me feel lke mihoyo is a greedy company, you should lay off your marketing team and make a apology for us about **** 1st anniversity
  18. Myxobouka
    Sep 16, 2021
    0
    ГаЧи, Онемэ, Неинтересный мир, Купленные обзоры... Ну шо сказать - це перемога.
  19. Hij45g
    Oct 25, 2020
    0
    This game is just a gambling hoax it does do anything new it's 70% copy paste of Zelda breath of the wild in this game there's no horse or any animals to ride no weapon customization , no physics engine you can't go roam around having fun it doesn't have any gadgets or som
  20. Alejo818
    Sep 29, 2021
    0
    El juego es hermoso, pero la empresa que lo maneja es horrible, no merece la comunidad que tiene, los mira como números, los censura cuando tratan de decir que las cosas que hace la misma empresa están mal, dan recompensas solo a personas selectas y buscan generar publicidad con TODO, sus concursos son casi un insulto.
  21. wrRhonin
    Oct 18, 2020
    0
    Stupid kryptonite games, copying nintendo, capcom, putting mobile game routines on consoles and PCS, junk pictures, empty worlds, very little to explore, rewards for exploration are nothing compared to top-up, illegal program implantation, **** like games.
  22. Damigamermxus
    Oct 16, 2020
    0
    This is a cheap copy of The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. This is 0 original
  23. Erz
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Полнейшее неуважение разработчиков к коммьюнити, игнорирование накапливающихся в игре проблем, невероятная жадность разрабов и скатывание в донатную помойку, хотя игра и без этого приносила им огромные деньги. А так хорошо всё начиналось.Полнейшее неуважение разработчиков к коммьюнити, игнорирование накапливающихся в игре проблем, невероятная жадность разрабов и скатывание в донатную помойку, хотя игра и без этого приносила им огромные деньги. А так хорошо всё начиналось.
  24. Kapralas
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Its the worst anniversary in the world and very bad last heroes. Mihiyo spit on their audience
  25. nakomaru
    Aug 3, 2022
    0
    I have two AR60 accounts and I still hate this game. It's very expensive to get all the content in the game. The game has pitiful F2P rewards. The devs never rework the kits of garbage characters. The censorship is getting worse and worse. We'll never see character skins like the ones they released in 2020 again. I can't wait for a real competitor to come out that's not run by prudes.
  26. MementoKoishi
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    Do not fall for this trap. They paid so much for marketing to hide the fact that the game is still EARLY ACCESS in disguise. It's also a Gacha game so you should avoid it ASAP. The company that makes it is very anti-consumer to the point it puts EA to shame with their monetization practices. For people who are not familiar with Gacha, it's a basically an anime casino where you have toDo not fall for this trap. They paid so much for marketing to hide the fact that the game is still EARLY ACCESS in disguise. It's also a Gacha game so you should avoid it ASAP. The company that makes it is very anti-consumer to the point it puts EA to shame with their monetization practices. For people who are not familiar with Gacha, it's a basically an anime casino where you have to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars in a slot machine to get a playable character or weapon for the game. You can't even choose what you want, it's all random. You can spend 300$ and not get the character you want.

    Let's say you actually got lucky and got a character you want, you can't even level up this character at all. In order to get materials and money to level up your character you need to go on dungeons and the game only allows you to do 6 of them per day. The only thing you can do is free roam and do nothing at all in the game if you do your 6 dungeons a day. You can choose to do 3 bosses instead of the 6 dungeons and thats it.

    Please do not download this game, it's a complete waste of time and money. It encourages gambling and addiction and gives nothing back. It's extremely anti-consumer and they don't listen to feedback at all. There are many people who are getting paid to argue on reddit and forums and defend the company. Do not fall for their propaganda and lies.    … Expand
  27. opor
    Dec 4, 2020
    0
    Looks good graphically but the whole gatcha system is even for gatcha games outrageous greedy
  28. taro5
    Oct 11, 2020
    0
    In order to play the game I taught myself Chinese, download the advance version on September 15, now my adventure level is 40, play time more than five hours a day. It was a very, very bad experience after the high level game. I had a great time in the first 20 hours. I charged $300, but after that there was nothing new to play. I didn’t think it was worth it, and the graphics on the PS4In order to play the game I taught myself Chinese, download the advance version on September 15, now my adventure level is 40, play time more than five hours a day. It was a very, very bad experience after the high level game. I had a great time in the first 20 hours. I charged $300, but after that there was nothing new to play. I didn’t think it was worth it, and the graphics on the PS4 PRO were terrible.

    If you are short of games to play at this stage, I will recommend it to you, but please do not invest too much time and recharge to gamble.    … Expand
  29. Olejandar
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Pésimo juego, después de jugar muchísimas horas no dan nada a su comunidad,
  30. JuicyNinja809
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    If you treat your comunity like trash, then well review your game as trash, im starting to get bored of the repetitive content and the anniversary didnt help at all.
  31. firetheft
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Greedy company, they only purpose is to milk money from players. Dont waste time on this, buy switch and Zelda.
  32. Plombie
    Nov 4, 2020
    0
    Typical predatory monetization system common in mobile (gacha) games and lots of issues that wont get adressed even after waiting 1 1/2 months for a single update, these issues were reported in the 1 open and 3 closed beta tests and the predatory systme got even worse than in the beta.
  33. Stireden
    Jun 25, 2021
    0
    I don't care. This game is clearly a rip-off of Zelda BOTW. They stole everything, from animation style to the game mechanism. Now I even know that they also stole from Final Fantasy as well.
  34. FarmerHLee
    Oct 20, 2020
    0
    Don't be deceived by the beautiful designed characters, soothing music, and addictive gameplay. The first 30 hours of explorations and battling bosses were enjoyable and gave me the impression that this is a game worth playing for countless of hours. But the honeymoon phase is over and I can't stay positive about this game with its predatory practices. Thi is a gacha game and it's out toDon't be deceived by the beautiful designed characters, soothing music, and addictive gameplay. The first 30 hours of explorations and battling bosses were enjoyable and gave me the impression that this is a game worth playing for countless of hours. But the honeymoon phase is over and I can't stay positive about this game with its predatory practices. Thi is a gacha game and it's out to get your wallet. There needs to be a change to its gacha system because getting a specific 5* character is nearly impossible outside the rotating banners. Also, their resin system needs work too. The current system makes it difficult to upgrade multiple characters and takes the fun out of playing to collect new loot. Maybe give this game a shot next year because they might have more content for the players to play, which would help avoid burnout from the current state that it's in. And maybe the rates of their gacha system will be friendlier to their players.
    Adding an update after playing the game since launch. The initial high of exploring a new game is gone and I'm left with doing fetch quests over and over again and the grind for good artifacts is horrible. The gacha system is still horrible and MiHoYo shows no signs of addressing it.    … Expand
  35. Dnomin
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    AR 38 here, so I know what I will talk about.
    When you first log into the game, it’s just beautiful. You are given 10 spins for anything, there are a lot of quests and activities and they are not going to end. But what does the game turn into after level 30? Stopped in, completed 4 daily quests, spent 120 resins, came in again in the evening and spent the remaining resin. That's all,    AR 38 here, so I know what I will talk about.
    When you first log into the game, it’s just beautiful. You are given 10 spins for anything, there are a lot of quests and activities and they are not going to end. But what does the game turn into after level 30? Stopped in, completed 4 daily quests, spent 120 resins, came in again in the evening and spent the remaining resin. That's all, that's all you can do here in lategame. And the company is very stingy with rewards after level 15, when you buy a monthly card, you will receive 150 stars per day, one spin costs 160. And events give you about 1-2 rolls. The chance of a 5 * hero is 0.6%, a guaranteed 5 * hero (or weapon) will fall to you only after 90 rolls, it's over 3 months! Well, and resin, which is simply never enough. 180 resin are given per day, this is enough for 9 dungeons or 3.5 elite bosses, and bosses and dungeons are completed in 2-5 minutes each. Therefore, everything is not as cool as it seems at first glance.    … Expand
  36. Kilouani
    Nov 12, 2021
    0
    trash game...got stuck on a quest with a baloon transport.....cant teleport, cant enter teapot...cant nothing until i escort the baloon ..which wont move....:)
  37. xDestroid
    Oct 28, 2020
    0
    Leaks from the newest Mihoyo QnA:

    Q. How to be sure players are not having too much fun? A. Implement "stamina" system, in game that pretends to be single player. Q. How to be REALLY sure players are not having too much fun? A. Make limit of "stamina" and it's refresh rate **** Q. How to be REALLY REALLY sure players are not having to much fun? A. Make endgame a grindfest in    Leaks from the newest Mihoyo QnA:

    Q. How to be sure players are not having too much fun?
    A. Implement "stamina" system, in game that pretends to be single player.

    Q. How to be REALLY sure players are not having too much fun?
    A. Make limit of "stamina" and it's refresh rate ****

    Q. How to be REALLY REALLY sure players are not having to much fun?
    A. Make endgame a grindfest in pair with 0.6% 5* rate (which may not even be a character).

    Q. How to avoid players complaining about DLCs, not finished content and stuff like this?
    A. Pretend you add new content in "patches", timegating players from finishing this piece of crap too fast and forgetting about it.

    Q. What is an ideal type of endgame content?
    A. An exploration simulator in empty world ripped from botw/xc2/tales of/pick your favourite.

    Q. How to please CCP?
    A. Censor Taiwan and Hong Kong on CN server, who cares about freedom, when dollars are involved?

    PS. Dear weebs, no it's not revolutionary game, it's another predatory gacha with timegating content and making endgame a textbook example of grindfest.

    PS2. It may have a potential, but so did Fallout 76    … Expand
  38. DracomW
    Sep 29, 2021
    0
    I stopped playing when they promised one thing (Rosaria in Dragonspine update) and brought another when Rosaria came out, I hate that they change things without community consent. I found out that they took the unique animation off (the kicking spear animation) too, and now the company doesn't even give a gift to the community, also the new hero is so weak just because is a 4 star (FeelsI stopped playing when they promised one thing (Rosaria in Dragonspine update) and brought another when Rosaria came out, I hate that they change things without community consent. I found out that they took the unique animation off (the kicking spear animation) too, and now the company doesn't even give a gift to the community, also the new hero is so weak just because is a 4 star (Feels like only p2w can play the game) so 0/10 I hope the game dies because this company doesn't deserve the fans it has.
    Also I hope someday Rosaria will have her original design too.    … Expand
  39. HardestMoon
    Feb 18, 2022
    0
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  40. Rookwie
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    A very huge paywall after a sorten amount of gameplay, Resin system destroying the entire game, developers response to the community was literally a joke.

    doesn't deserve any higher than 0/10 at the current version of the game.
  41. zbcha
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    I really want to give 1 for all the artists that contribute to this game. The game mechanics, graphic, sound tracks are amazing. But Gacha system just ruins everything compeletely. So, 0 for this game.
  42. Ihadtomajeanacc
    Oct 21, 2020
    0
    Would be a good game but the problems all start at AR 30-35 where the game becomes a chore and you have to wait for resin which is the stamina system that cripples the game.
  43. Hakisak
    Jan 17, 2021
    0
    DISGUSTING 60FPS LIMIT. Poor render distance even at ultra (grass disappears after 50m). Poor LOD's. Vertical sensitivity is slower then horizontal with no way to adjust it. Data doesn't carry over between servers and there is no ping counter before you choose a server.
    All of these ground breaking problems we're found out in the first 30seconds of gameplay, there's no point in    DISGUSTING 60FPS LIMIT. Poor render distance even at ultra (grass disappears after 50m). Poor LOD's. Vertical sensitivity is slower then horizontal with no way to adjust it. Data doesn't carry over between servers and there is no ping counter before you choose a server.
    All of these ground breaking problems we're found out in the first 30seconds of gameplay, there's no point in continuing.

    game is half assed mobile cash-grab. there is no passion built into this game, only money from chinese mobile gamers.

    If it didn't have those problems it would be 10/10.    … Expand
  44. Kyra197
    Dec 14, 2020
    0
    Setting aside the fact that mihoyo limits players from playing the game behind bad gacha (only way to get good weapons and constellations for characters) and resin so as to not repeat what most people complain about, l still have issues with this game. That is, it is boring. It looks pretty, l like the story mode and character quests, but so SO much of the game is just "How much damage canSetting aside the fact that mihoyo limits players from playing the game behind bad gacha (only way to get good weapons and constellations for characters) and resin so as to not repeat what most people complain about, l still have issues with this game. That is, it is boring. It looks pretty, l like the story mode and character quests, but so SO much of the game is just "How much damage can your team comp do in 10 seconds?" Combine this with how simplified combat is and how attacks just auto-aim towards the closest target, even if it's not what you want to aim for, fighting is very...bleh. It's just about building characters with good artifacts and weapons (Did l mention resin and bad gacha?)
    So yeah, game looks extraordinarily pretty but that's all it has going for it. Either go full F2P or hardcore whale, because spending ~$60 on this game nets you nothing.    … Expand
  45. GeoffKeighley
    Oct 5, 2022
    0
    Anything that requires effort the company refuses to do. Constantly releasing characters that function so bad they are borderline unusable. And now they're taking interviews and proudly telling the player base they won't make anything that shows their incompetence at making balanced, well designed characters or any progression based content. This game is run by a greedy company that'sAnything that requires effort the company refuses to do. Constantly releasing characters that function so bad they are borderline unusable. And now they're taking interviews and proudly telling the player base they won't make anything that shows their incompetence at making balanced, well designed characters or any progression based content. This game is run by a greedy company that's incapable of appreciating it's players. I'm tired of this incompetent, greedy, lazy company. Don't play this or any of their other trash… Expand
  46. ricethief
    Aug 9, 2022
    0
    Trash trashy trash trash trash trash trash. This explains the talents/abilities of the devs involved with this software. They are garbage.
  47. Sergeyb1212
    Sep 30, 2021
    0
    The game is great, exсept gacha system. But we condemn the developers for their attitude towards the players
  48. ToastAzazine
    Sep 29, 2020
    0
    Toxic community, Characters not worth pulling, company is too stingy.

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

    They still haven't fixed Monas C1 after 2 years. The devs don't care about bugs unless they reduce their profit. Just shows how much the devs don't care about the game or the community.
  49. Cakelord
    Sep 29, 2020
    0
    You can only get good weapon or stuff by paying, chest give you nothing but useless materials
  50. DokaSama
    Sep 30, 2020
    0
    Really bad. This is simply to re-cook the characters available from HI3. If you've imitated BOTW, at least exploit more types of characters, not just abuse the characters with good looks to entice players to spend money. In addition, the gameplay is also very 'mixed', mainly just stolen from other games and makes this game not have any particular qualities. The PC version is no differentReally bad. This is simply to re-cook the characters available from HI3. If you've imitated BOTW, at least exploit more types of characters, not just abuse the characters with good looks to entice players to spend money. In addition, the gameplay is also very 'mixed', mainly just stolen from other games and makes this game not have any particular qualities. The PC version is no different when it comes with Kernel Level Anti Cheat included so thank you but I don't want any Chinese spyware watching my PC all the time.… Expand
  51. NameIsTaken8
    Sep 30, 2020
    0
    Currently AR27, real hard to level up without waiting on the 4 daily mission.
    Honestly, the only thing they need to do is remove energy mechanic. Takes 12hours to regen to full?(not sure about the right number) actually just fight 3 bosses in the open world and they all gone.
    After you get to around AR23 or something, you can't continue your main quest = no experience and there's not    Currently AR27, real hard to level up without waiting on the 4 daily mission.
    Honestly, the only thing they need to do is remove energy mechanic. Takes 12hours to regen to full?(not sure about the right number) actually just fight 3 bosses in the open world and they all gone.
    After you get to around AR23 or something, you can't continue your main quest = no experience and there's not many side quests. Think side quest only gives 100xp anyways .
    Pretty much 99% of the time just running around the map and finding chests for straight few hours, the worse thing is all the mob are the same everywhere.

    Make it endless grind dungeons not finding chests :)

    Side note, if you want to fully max out a 5 star character you might have to spend 2-3k. Because the rate is insane low.    … Expand
  52. MozzieSaga
    Jun 22, 2022
    0
    This game is just crude and lavicious gambling! So I stopped play this game and I delete my account! And if gacha (or lootboxes) still horrible, I'll NOT RECOMMENDED ANYONE TO PLAY THIS GAME!
  53. Zelarido
    Oct 1, 2020
    0
    Just another Chinese game with 0 originality. The game might be fun for the few first hours just to drop very low after a short time.
    A grind fest and also a P2W clone. This isn't "inspired". this is an actual rip off that's trying too hard to gain money with the fame of other games. Not to mention most of the characters looks like underage little girls or boys which has to be of concern    Just another Chinese game with 0 originality. The game might be fun for the few first hours just to drop very low after a short time.
    A grind fest and also a P2W clone. This isn't "inspired". this is an actual rip off that's trying too hard to gain money with the fame of other games. Not to mention most of the characters looks like underage little girls or boys which has to be of concern judging by how many people treat them as "waifu" material.    … Expand
  54. Itzmana
    Oct 13, 2020
    0
    Lots of grind and an insane amount of micro-transactions. Typical for a free game. Also has a Kernel level anti-cheat when the game barely has multiplayer.
  55. lolicow
    Oct 18, 2020
    0
    1.There is some fun gameplay, but limited.
    2.More gameplay is gated by resources, resources now matters more than gameplay.
    3.Feed players with limited daily/weekly/monthly activities that give resources so players don't starve, but never give them enough if they don't PAY. 4.Players who played for an enough long period will be very attached to the game as they've spend so many time    1.There is some fun gameplay, but limited.
    2.More gameplay is gated by resources, resources now matters more than gameplay.
    3.Feed players with limited daily/weekly/monthly activities that give resources so players don't starve, but never give them enough if they don't PAY.
    4.Players who played for an enough long period will be very attached to the game as they've spend so many time keeping log into the game to finish those repetitive activities as a part-time job. They now are the Gacha slaves who will defend the game no matter what because they just do not want to admit the characters they rolled and the resources they spent actually does not worth too much.

    This is typical Chinese mobile/web game routine. Chinese players notice this pattern since Genshin's 1st day of launching as they are already very familiar with this. That's why its scored so low in Chinese gaming communities. I worked in Chinese mobile game industry before and what I can tell you is they do not value fun gameplay so much, they always treat that as a hook to innocent players. Instead they believe the business model and monetization is the only valueable thing in game industry. A famous quotation in the industry ,given by Shi Yuzhu who made a top grossing mmorpg about 10 years ago says "Put 95% of your good art resource in to the first 5% of the game". For the past 15 years, this twisted value in game industry almost killed Chinese console/PC game industry,especially blocking the single player game studio from having any resource. This is why Black Myth: Wukong is given so much credit as it is really a brave act to even try to make a good single-player game that focus on gameplay in China.

    I admit Genshin has a much longer single-player RPG gameplay period than those typical P2W or Gacha mobile games. However as I suspect the game is still applying this terrible routine and as long as their management team still believes in the value of business model and monetization instead of gameplay, there's absolutely no reason the resin system will be reworked. They will probably feed you more resin when you get raged with activities until less people talks about it.

    Well I'm not a Mihoyo employee so you might consider all this just my personal guess. Actually if Mihoyo decide to change Genshin into something more like a single-player RPG or an MMORPG I would be happy as well. But again, taking consideration from what this company has done in the past, for Genshin CBT and other games, that chance is too low.    … Expand
  56. zbsokan
    Oct 3, 2020
    0
    this game is bad.game is not fun, I don’t recommend you to play it. I suggest everyone to play The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
  57. Mokbetus
    Oct 5, 2020
    0
    Мобильная донатная копия зельды думал я. Но игра превзошла все мои ожидания. Уже 100 часов наиграл, не задонатил ни копейки и пока игра сплошное удовольствие. Вот только сюжетные квесты закончились жду патча, надеюсь там квестов добавятМобильная донатная копия зельды думал я. Но игра превзошла все мои ожидания. Уже 100 часов наиграл, не задонатил ни копейки и пока игра сплошное удовольствие. Вот только сюжетные квесты закончились жду патча, надеюсь там квестов добавят
  58. Kayendo
    Oct 7, 2020
    0
    Literally a BOTW clone. A game with 90% of it's content based off of another shows almost no originality. A game with no originality deserves no praise. Just a copy paste.
  59. pureklkl
    Oct 7, 2020
    0
    It has very few actual content, and your majority time will be spent on waiting daily mission and opening chests. This is a gacha gambling game, you cannot get all characters/weapons without A LOT of money. Another problem is that it got published on all platforms, If other companies start making game like this, it will be the end of 3A game industry.
  60. zeroX52
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Tienes que abandona el juego después de llegar a Rango 30 o similar, porque se vuelve rutinario de hace lo mismo, la falta de contenido y los que sí añade son de rango demasiado altos de 38
  61. neiamenase
    Oct 8, 2020
    0
    Copy itself is not 100% wrong. But it uses the music from FF7 and the UI, actions, maps from Zelda, that is a big issue. The gaming industry must not encourage such kind of game to exist.
  62. kennywwh
    Oct 9, 2020
    0
    P2W trash game, copied everything from Zelda BOTW. Doesn't deserve to be published on any other platforms than mobile. The game has the exact same UI n combat system as BOTW, but worse.
  63. wingler233
    Oct 9, 2020
    0
    this game is not fun at all.not worth playing.dont say it's a free game.GATCH IS NOT FREE BUT EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE THAN 60$ GAMES.
  64. hg4399
    Oct 21, 2020
    0
    Genshin Impact is an unfinished sh!tty cash grab a mobile game that covers by the innocent shell of ACGN.

    1. Most of the in-game control is built for a mobile game, even for the PC/PS4 version. 2. The disgusting part of the game is hiding behind the freshness of the "open-world" concept and ACGN contents. however, the world of Genshin Impact is not an open world at any means. There    Genshin Impact is an unfinished sh!tty cash grab a mobile game that covers by the innocent shell of ACGN.

    1. Most of the in-game control is built for a mobile game, even for the PC/PS4 version.

    2. The disgusting part of the game is hiding behind the freshness of the "open-world" concept and ACGN contents. however, the world of Genshin Impact is not an open world at any means. There are multiple noticeable limitations to the player, and most of them are indirectly reaching for your wallet.

    3. The process of discovering the true sh!tty side of the game may take a gamer on an average of 20-40 in-game hrs. Meanwhile, the game will keep approving to the wattle of the gamer. Once the gamer spends a single coin in the game, there will be no way back.

    4. Free to play, but pay for satisfaction. A 0.6% Gocha rate for a random 5-start is only a little better than winning a lottery ticket.

    5. Please take care of more of your valuable money and gamer life. stay away from sh!tty games like this, horse excrement may better than it. Hope this review will help. :D    … Expand
  65. HoppouLover
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Extremely greedy, the game used to be beautiful, but the corporate decisions are completely destroying the game.
    Its disgusting what they did, the anniversary rewards are just what made the barrel finally explode!
    0 points are still too much.
  66. Jkei
    Oct 12, 2020
    0
    Don't be fooled by positive reviews.

    These people haven't run out of story and non-renewable resources (chests and one-time domains) yet -- and you inevitably will around AR 30 or even earlier. At that point, this game stops being a charming BotW-like with a passable story and honestly great soundtrack, and it starts being a bloodsucking gacha, down there with the worst of them. If you    Don't be fooled by positive reviews.

    These people haven't run out of story and non-renewable resources (chests and one-time domains) yet -- and you inevitably will around AR 30 or even earlier. At that point, this game stops being a charming BotW-like with a passable story and honestly great soundtrack, and it starts being a bloodsucking gacha, down there with the worst of them. If you aren't already resigned to being a slave to a time-gated energy system ("resin"; go ahead and search other reviews for mentions of that) straight from those trashy mobile games we all like to joke about, this game is not for you. It's arguably not for most of the PC/PS4 players brought in by this game being marketed as a proper RPG, and it won't be until the developers take a sledgehammer to all the artificial limitations that prevent you from getting much done outside of their carefully balanced dopamine drip-feed.

    If you're looking at this game because you liked BotW and similar games, avoid it like the plague.    … Expand
  67. aptxczh
    Oct 13, 2020
    0
    This is **** not to mention that it's very much similar to many other games. Itself is not open world at all.
  68. fakeDonaldTrump
    Oct 14, 2020
    0
    One of best games of 2020 so far, it's a complete master piece in every sense.
  69. LoyalFlush
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    The game is fun for the first dozen or so hours. After that, the game immediately halts your progression behind paywalls and arbitrary time gates. For most players, the daily routine consists of logging in, doing dailies for 20 minutes and logging off. There's nothing remotely fun nor engaging about this chore of a game.
  70. Deneviel
    Oct 15, 2020
    0
    The only reason ppl can give this game more than 2* it's cause they still haven't reached ad.rank 20.
    The game starts amazingly but purposely hide most of his features till rank 15-20.
    Here what they don't want you to find out in the first days of play: 1) The stamina system: called Resin in the game, it's the same stuff we see in any idle Asian product. The main problem it's that    The only reason ppl can give this game more than 2* it's cause they still haven't reached ad.rank 20.
    The game starts amazingly but purposely hide most of his features till rank 15-20.

    Here what they don't want you to find out in the first days of play:

    1) The stamina system: called Resin in the game, it's the same stuff we see in any idle Asian product. The main problem it's that it's reward oriented and shared among any event. Basically unlike any other idle game here you either hunt for gold, exp or scrap materials. Also the in-game request are huge; with a 120 cap a boss takes 40 stamina to collect the reward ( 3 bosses and "see you tomorrow!" ... But you can always drop money to refill stamina )

    2) An huge empty world: It's cool to roam around when you feel it has a purpose but soon you realize that any chest in the open world it's just scrap materials and it loses any sense ( premium boxes may be the only exception ). All the good stuff come from instanced events that use the resin system. Field decent rewards seems to not re-spawn; so, after a first run, you go around collecting stone and plants and killing the same 3-4 monsters tipe.

    3) The gatcha: Sniping a hero it's surely not cheap with a 0.6% rate. ( On YouTube videos of famous streamers that dropped up to 10k$ for a specific 5* hero ), then you also realize that the game has a "constellation" and "refine" system and that to actually max a hero or weap you have to drop 8 of them. That's just insane.

    4) The rewards: With the insane resin system and such low drop rates you would except that at least the game has a nice currency flow.... Well... NO!. Most of the free stuff come from events and 1-time quests or rewards, once cleared them the drop goes to 0. A 10* pull cost 1600 diamonds and you can earn 50-60 of them daily. Timed events provide something like 200-300 diamonds for a week of efforts.

    5) What this game really is?: Don't get fooled by the a-rpg battles style and the open world mechanic this game it's just a full idle RPG like any other in the store ( actually even worse considering drop rates and stamina system ). It has rune system ( artifacts ), stamina system ( resin ), idle-RPG type lvling system based totally on the gatcha feature, daily dung, bosses and gold/exp events.    … Expand
  71. Yuyuko
    Oct 16, 2020
    0
    This game is triple-A quality and I recommend playing through it for a while. I do not recommend spending a cent on it however unless the state of the game improves from the time of this review.

    There are HUGE issues after a certain point in progress, and it's not "there's no content" entitlement type stuff. Please do not blow loads of money on this game, you will only be left feeling    This game is triple-A quality and I recommend playing through it for a while. I do not recommend spending a cent on it however unless the state of the game improves from the time of this review.

    There are HUGE issues after a certain point in progress, and it's not "there's no content" entitlement type stuff. Please do not blow loads of money on this game, you will only be left feeling hollow and frustrated that they aren't improving the game because you and everyone else is shoving money down Mihoyo's throat. They have no ethics, no standards, no desire to improve player experience unless it directly causes higher profits.

    Enjoy the first few dozen hours, this game is beautiful, action is satisfying, and the game is full of potential. But if Mihoyo does nothing with said potential, then let this game crash and burn like it should. Tired of great games being held back by **** practices and greed.

    Note: Problems with game will be much more apparent as you play farther into it. Please do not be ignorant and decide your stance before that point.    … Expand
  72. Eclipse_
    Oct 25, 2020
    0
    So firstly this game has the potential to be at LEAST an 8/10, probably closer to 9/10 and when you are just starting out the game you will have a blast, the world feels full, progression feels meaningful and there is a lot of flexibility in different ways you can build your team and change up your playstyle, so if you only want to play through the main story-line and do a bit ofSo firstly this game has the potential to be at LEAST an 8/10, probably closer to 9/10 and when you are just starting out the game you will have a blast, the world feels full, progression feels meaningful and there is a lot of flexibility in different ways you can build your team and change up your playstyle, so if you only want to play through the main story-line and do a bit of collecting in open world you'll have a blast for about 30 hours.
    But...
    If you have any intention of playing the game beyond that initial burst of gameplay you are going to start seeing issues very quickly. There are some technical issues such as not being able to change key-binds or turn off frame-rate locks but MiHoYo has already said they intend to fix those in 1.1, the real issue is in the monetization.
    1. Its a gatcha game, so all of your characters except a sparse few you get for free when you start, are going to come from lootboxes - in this game called "Wishes" - given the nature of this game that is to be expected, but in GI the rates are absolutely terrible. 0.6% chance of a 5* and 5.1% chance of a 4* with 100% pity rolls at 90 and 10 wishes respectively in theory this wouldn't be so bad if the game gave you lots of free rolls, and it does... at the start. But after that you stop getting free premium currency almost all together (60/day from dailies, while wishes cost 160) and free wish items Acquaint Fates or Intertwined Fates also start to become very rare likely in the range of about 1/wk after AR 40 - This becomes an issue when you look at the cost of primogems combined with the droprates the first time you buy primogems you get a 1x bonus so 6,480+6,480 for $100 which equates to only 81 wishes while after the first time purchase bonus it drops to 6,480+1600 for $100 which is only 50.5 wishes - the rate up banner gives you a 50% chance of pulling the character featured so if you really want that character and don't pull it on the first pity you have to wait for the 2nd pity at 180 wishes, That's $300 to 100% get the character from the banner and if you want other 5*s not featured in the banner you are looking at thousands potential 10s of thousands of dollars to get the character you want, keep in mind that after you get a character for the first time they are not removed from the drop pool after you hit max constellation so you could have "wasted" pity rolls on top of the already low rates.

    2. The Resin System: Need Mora to pay for upgrades? Resin. Need xp books to level characters? Resin. Want some good gear? Resin AND RNG.
    Resin is a Stamina system that allows you to spend a slowly refilling resource to get loot from various tasks in game: world bosses that drop character ascension materials, domains that drop talent materials/weapon ascension materials/artifacts, weekly bosses, ley line's that give xp books or Mora. Domains and ley lines cost 20, bosses cost 40 and weekly bosses cost 60. Resin refreshes at a rate of 1 per 8 minutes and caps at 120 giving you a maximum of 180/day without refreshing. That's 1 weekly boss and 3 open world bosses or roughly 20 minutes of gameplay a day. combine that with the 10 minutes for your daily missions and you only get 30 minutes of meaningful progression content a day without paying money for more game time. Its like an arcade except instead of a quarter its a dollar, and everytime you want to add more the machine charges you more, and after 6 refreshes the machine tells you to go home and that you can't play anymore. I don't think I have EVER encountered a PC game that actively tried to discourage you from playing it in the way that Genshin does.

    3. Chest respawn timers: when you first enter the world its full to bursting with loads of things to pick up, enemies to fight and chests to open, but after the first week or so when you've opened all or most of the default spawn locations the world starts to feel barren, you'll spend time running around aimlessly remembering the feeling of your first time through the world trying to get that enjoyment again, but its just not there with only a handful of chests re-spawning in random locations on a weekly timer there just stops being anything to do outside of instanced content - unless you want to spend hours running around other people's worlds hitting rocks....

    In short MiHoYo's greed, lack of meaningful open world content at higher levels, and gameplay time restrictions take what is otherwise an extremely enjoyable game and turn it into a frustrating mess.    … Expand
  73. GaryWil
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Beautiful game with a lot of love and passion that went into it, unfortunately ruined by a predatory and far too restrictive "Stamina" system.

    The dreaded Resin has ruined the game for most, as far as I've seen, in a way that if it's not fixed soon Mihoyo may not be able to come back from. The game has immeasurable potential, to the point where i'd argue it could even contend for    Beautiful game with a lot of love and passion that went into it, unfortunately ruined by a predatory and far too restrictive "Stamina" system.

    The dreaded Resin has ruined the game for most, as far as I've seen, in a way that if it's not fixed soon Mihoyo may not be able to come back from.

    The game has immeasurable potential, to the point where i'd argue it could even contend for GOTY, but when the higher level gameplay, after the current main questline, is restricted to 2 to 6 activities daily taking no more than half an hour at most then the game is doomed to lose most of it's player base.

    After all, why play a game that you can't, well, play. Even whales will most likely see the lack of sense in dropping thousands of Dollars on characters and weapons they won't be able to enjoy using due to the extreme limitations stopping them from effectively leveling said characters and weapons up.

    Just the other day I rolled a new character, not one I really wanted a great deal but I'd still like to try them out, but since I got her she's been relegated to running the in game 20hour "expeditions" where the character becomes unavailable to use but comes back after that time with a small amount of resources.

    If this system didn't exist, or at the very least was reworked to be far less, or not at all, restricting then I'd happily give the game a 9/10, but right now I can't bring myself to give it a score higher than 3 because what use is a computer game you can't play as much as you want to?

    Imagine if Skyrim restricted you to 4 side missions and 2 main mission a day, and if you wanted to kill a boss during any of them it cost you one of your limited missions? There's no way it would be as successful as it was.

    Happy customers stick around, they're returning customers, but Mihoyo right now has a whole lot of very unhappy and frustrated customers on their hands and they're about to lose a lot of people that may have otherwise invested in their Battle Pass and Monthly "Welkin Moon" pseudo-subscription. Is that really worth the Resin system? I don't think so.    … Expand
  74. 1998HondaCivic
    Oct 24, 2020
    0
    Early game is a honey trap to lure you into a Ponzi scam that will shaft you. They ruined this game's potential to have a great RPG with anime aesthetic. The game have pretty braindead mechanics: Go in, element 1 and mix another element; and boom! Higher damage output. It's kinda shallow and the learning curve is just thrown out of the window. MiHoYo just dumps on the player by raising theEarly game is a honey trap to lure you into a Ponzi scam that will shaft you. They ruined this game's potential to have a great RPG with anime aesthetic. The game have pretty braindead mechanics: Go in, element 1 and mix another element; and boom! Higher damage output. It's kinda shallow and the learning curve is just thrown out of the window. MiHoYo just dumps on the player by raising the cap of the resin while not doing anything about the resin regeneration. Gacha, I won't care about about the rates if the Primogem income is pretty decent but nah, the primogem you get as you level up is non-existent and chest will not spawn unless you get to level up your world level which is gonna be painfully tedious to do after AR 35+. On the technical aspect, You have stamina system of the phone and yet majority of phone users who want to play this game either can't download it or their phone is about to blow up after few minutes into the game. Some people who also have high spec monitors have technical problems playing the game. Overall, great potential is just potential if the execution is awful.… Expand
  75. scoredsky
    Oct 21, 2020
    0
    The game is good, the combat action is fun, the map is beautiful and it has a cool BGM. However the creators decided to lock the content from the players with the resin system.
  76. DynamicGamer
    Oct 19, 2020
    0
    This game is has such massive potential it's a shame that I feel the need to write a 0/10 review but trust me it really deserves it. Genshin is an ARPG open world game with an interesting combat system that feels fun with different elements and really grabs your attention when you first start playing. However, there are quite a few problems with this game. First one being the lowest ratesThis game is has such massive potential it's a shame that I feel the need to write a 0/10 review but trust me it really deserves it. Genshin is an ARPG open world game with an interesting combat system that feels fun with different elements and really grabs your attention when you first start playing. However, there are quite a few problems with this game. First one being the lowest rates for 5* characters out of any Gacha game I have ever seen, 0.6% to be exact. Your chances of getting the character you actually want are absurdly low. There are content creators who have spent thousands and still haven't gotten the character they want. You need to pull 90 times to get a guaranteed pity and it's only guaranteed to be a 5* character if it's on a special rate up banner for characters, otherwise you could potentially get a weapon. You need around 14,400 primos just to land that pity which is more than $100 on their store. Pricing is very greedy and the rates are very stingy...but it doesn't stop there.

    In the beginning of the game you hardly notice the energy system or much less care because you're busy exploring, doing quests, and finding chests among other things. Once you've done all that and hit around Adventure Rank 30 character upgrades such as ascension, leveling, and even talent books start to become a real problem because you run out of either Mora (money or credits in the game you get in game), exp books, or materials really quickly. So how do you get more?

    Enter Resin. Probably one of if not the worst implementation of an energy system I have ever seen in any gacha type game. You have to use your pool of 120/120 energy (resin) to try and get a few of some of the materials/money you need for character progression. At this point of the game progression slows down tremendously. All activities that help with your progression are gated by this energy system and not in a good way. Costs to claim rewards from these activities such as leylines/domains/world bosses can range anywhere from 20-60 resin per activity even though some of them are already restricted by being available one time for a whole week, not to mention Resin regenerates at a snail's pace. About 16 hours for a full recharge.

    That being said you need lots to level up a character and make them strong but you are limited in how much you can do per day unless you spend primos (banner rolling currency-premium currency)/fragile resin/ or really money to get more primos to spend for only 60 resin. This isn't even taking into account weapons or artifact leveling which is also gated by Resin. Players have to make a choice each day about how they will spend their resin and as certain domains change what they give you each day based on a schedule it really make the player feel pressured from this energy system and not rewarded for using it except by not letting it go to waste.

    MiHoYo also has not said a publicy let alone addressed this issue in-game even though it is a pressing matter to change the resin system to a lot of players, MiHoYo stays silent and refuses to acknowledge this problem. If they don't make meaningful changes to this system, lots of players, including myself are going to drop this game one for better ones in the coming months.    … Expand
  77. celaka
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    Genshin Impact really is an ambitious game. Putting gacha system for playable characters inside open world action rpg, making chance for player to pull for their favorite character in the gacha pool and doing some action gameplay with them. The action gameplay is really nice. The story is pretty good. The open world is beautiful. The soundtrack is absolutely stunning. I would totally giveGenshin Impact really is an ambitious game. Putting gacha system for playable characters inside open world action rpg, making chance for player to pull for their favorite character in the gacha pool and doing some action gameplay with them. The action gameplay is really nice. The story is pretty good. The open world is beautiful. The soundtrack is absolutely stunning. I would totally give them 10/10 rating if not for the **** mobile energy system getting in the way of character's progressions.

    Meet resin system. The mobile game standard energy system, making almost all of playable character's progression options gated by time. For 1 resin recharge time every 8 minutes. You need 16 hours to refill the capped amount of 120 resin, which will be used up in less than 30 minutes game time.

    You want to level up your characters? Spend resin.
    You want to increase level cap of your characters? Spend resin.
    You want to increase your characters talent level? Spend resin.
    You want to upgrade your character's weapons? Spend resin.
    You want to increase level cap of your weapons? Spend resin.
    You want to get artifact for your characters? Spend resin.
    You don't have enough currency (mora) to do any of things above? Spend more resin.

    This might not be a problem if they make the recharge time faster or the amount of drop increases but right now it's just plain disgusting. Someone already do the math on reddit and to fully leveled one of your character, with no mats it took weeks if not month. You can spend money to recharge half of cap amount and even that is limited to 6 times a day with a total of $10~. This is so stupid that even if you whale and spend on their main monetization which is gacha, you might not be able to use the character's for month.

    The problem is that the resin system is so obscured until you spend around one week of playing the game. You watch the game with brilliant shiny glasses until you finished the main storyline that abruptly end, and reach Adventure Rank 30 and start to notice the problematic resin system. And when you finally reach Adventure Rank 35 the problem is becoming way more apparent.

    Genshin Impact grossed $100 million in less than 2 weeks. I believe those people have yet to reach AR35 when spending money on this. I bet a lot of people regret spending their money way to early in the game just to meet with this time-gated content. If not, then Mihoyo successfully laid them in their predatory monetization traps.

    I suggest you to stay away from this game at least until they actually heard the community, and change this massive **** system.    … Expand
  78. Seravy
    Oct 19, 2020
    0
    It baits you into thinking it's an open world adventure game, but open world content respawn rate is too low to play it beyond the first week. After that you're stuck farming the same 1 room dungeons or bosses a certain amount of time every day, and the most you can do about it is pay real money to be allowed to farm those exact same things more often. Where did the open world game go?It baits you into thinking it's an open world adventure game, but open world content respawn rate is too low to play it beyond the first week. After that you're stuck farming the same 1 room dungeons or bosses a certain amount of time every day, and the most you can do about it is pay real money to be allowed to farm those exact same things more often. Where did the open world game go?
    Not only does it force you to smash into a paywall as soon as you are addicted - and believe me they do everything they can to achieve that- but also changes the genre from entertaining to boring at the same time, so even if you do pay, it's not going to be fun. Buy hey, if you already paid 10 thousand dollars for the characters you like as it literally is that expensive, paying a hundred dollars every day to be allowed to kill another 500 of the same slime monsters in a single room "dungeon" is worth it because then you don't have to admit you have been scammed and the open world game was a lie.    … Expand
  79. unlimitedbladew
    Oct 20, 2020
    0
    Mihoyo, the company responsible for creating Genshin Impact, is known for being incredibly stingy with its in-game currency as well as ignoring feedback from players.

    Let's talk Genshin. A game that spent several months in Closed Betas, where Mihoyo had the chance to listen to the criticisms of the many beta testers who participated. They complained about the Resin system being too    Mihoyo, the company responsible for creating Genshin Impact, is known for being incredibly stingy with its in-game currency as well as ignoring feedback from players.

    Let's talk Genshin. A game that spent several months in Closed Betas, where Mihoyo had the chance to listen to the criticisms of the many beta testers who participated. They complained about the Resin system being too restrictive, as well as the Wish System being too unforgiving with its 0.6% rate for 5 star units/weapons (yes, when you pull a 5 star, you can get a weapon instead of a unit. Who thought this was a good idea? What did Mihoyo do? Simply ignore all those criticisms and release a game out into the wild jungle of the Internet hoping to catch players in its revenue net with its attractive visuals and characters. They throw wishes/summon currency at you in the beginning to give you a small taste of their in-game gambling system to rope you and your credit card into the game.

    Don't get me wrong. I did enjoy playing this game for a time. I loved the character design, the pretty visuals of the map, as well as the story. Hell, I even thought the music score was done fantastically. But when you get pulled in, then you will realize what a trap this game is, and how incomplete it is.

    Good video game companies start with listening to feedback from its players. Only time will tell if Mihoyo decides to make Genshin a simple cash grab or a masterpiece of a video game.    … Expand
  80. Arenraizel
    Oct 20, 2020
    0
    The first 15 hours of the gane till u reach ar25+ are a bliss that is when you understand the gane is really bland, boring honestly anything remotely fun is tied to something called RESIN!!!

    This game is not f2p nor is it p2w, it is a pay to playyy game and a horrendous one at that. They have marketed it as an arpg and you are asked to pay in order to explore. Every single monetization is    The first 15 hours of the gane till u reach ar25+ are a bliss that is when you understand the gane is really bland, boring honestly anything remotely fun is tied to something called RESIN!!!

    This game is not f2p nor is it p2w, it is a pay to playyy game and a horrendous one at that.
    They have marketed it as an arpg and you are asked to pay in order to explore. Every single monetization is predatory in this starting with abyssmal gacha rates, out right malicious resin system, the extreme limitations on currency and how everyone of them is tied to the resin again . Even if you roll new characters it is pointless cuz u will never have resources to anything with them.I wonder how many of these so called critics that are supposed to supposed to play the game first before reviewing actually did it, how the hell does anyone even give it 5 much less an 8 for the systems in place. You all outright paid or plain morons.    … Expand
  81. Fallen-Angel
    Dec 2, 2020
    0
    The resin system kills the entire gameplay in the game. MiHoyO doesn't really fix bugs and old bugs issues. but instead, they launch banners with new characters.

    P.S. removed the game at rank 45 after update 1.1. The last straw was the introduction of an item to drain excess resin. (just wondering where to get the "extra" resin if it is consumed in 10-15 minutes, and full recovery takes    The resin system kills the entire gameplay in the game. MiHoyO doesn't really fix bugs and old bugs issues. but instead, they launch banners with new characters.

    P.S. removed the game at rank 45 after update 1.1. The last straw was the introduction of an item to drain excess resin. (just wondering where to get the "extra" resin if it is consumed in 10-15 minutes, and full recovery takes 24 hours). I had high hopes for this game. but I have never seen such idiocy from MiHoyO    … Expand
  82. smlzhou
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    The developer Mihoyo just doesn't listen to the playerbase at all. We've been pushing for changes to the incredibly predatory gacha system as well as the giant wall of the resin system. There have been complaints on the official Discord server, Reddit, TWO player surveys, and feedback in the Suggestion Box. Not to even mention the feedback of Closed Beta Test players on the issue of theThe developer Mihoyo just doesn't listen to the playerbase at all. We've been pushing for changes to the incredibly predatory gacha system as well as the giant wall of the resin system. There have been complaints on the official Discord server, Reddit, TWO player surveys, and feedback in the Suggestion Box. Not to even mention the feedback of Closed Beta Test players on the issue of the Resin System

    You grinded your Adventure Rank because you want to level up your characters? Well here's a giant wall to block your progress from obtaining anything and only allow you to play ~10 min per day. The world becomes a desolate wasteland as chests do not "re"-spawn and there is literally nothing to do. Even the chests give a measly amount of primogems are garbage loot, so it feels like you are a "garbage collector" (term used from Chinese forums) when you are chest hunting.

    Now lets talk gacha. 0.6% chance to get a 5*, with 90 rolls being the pity timer. Lets do the math shall we? 90 * 160 = 14,400 primogems. Pure free to play players, once reaching the end-game, will only have daily commissions as a steady source of gems (Spiral Abyss doesn't count, the refreshable reward levels are just flexing grounds for whales, have fun fighting lvl 100 enemies on Floor 12), which ends up being a measly 60 primogems per day. A lack of a permanent login reward system also hurts this further. It will take 14,400 / 60 = 240 DAYS FOR A F2P TO GET TO PITY WITH ONLY DAILY COMMISSIONS. Also that 0.6% summon rate is a joke, Chinese players made a joke already of spontaneous car glass exploding at 0.3% and that we should be happy its twice the rate. Now imagine you hit pity on the permanent banner. Well, there's now a near 50/50 chance of getting a weapon instead of a character. Now let's get this straight. 5* weapons are nice but they just can't compare to characters. What use is a 5* weapon when you don't even have a character to equip it to? What a joke.

    Now some may say, "other "gacha" games started out with poor systems as well, just wait for Mihoyo to improve with QoL changes!". Well first of all, Genshin Impact isn't supposed to be a gacha game. It was supposed to appeal to the global audience, including PC/Console players and not JUST mobile players. Can't wait for Cyberpunk to be released and have the entire PC/Console playerbase die out! (Sarcasm, but the reality of this happening is not very unlikely). Secondly, this isn't even Mihoyo's first "gacha" game. It has a terrible system even considered in today's "gacha" games, and Mihoyo isn't stupid. They already have experience with Honkai Impact 3 (Which I heard they improved drastically in terms of QoL changes), so what does this mean? THIS MEANS THAT MIHOYO IS DOING THIS ON PURPOSE. The reason for this is unknown. Thoughts of mine on this are they want to do a cash-grab approach and try to keep the player base with freebies once the hype starts dying down.

    Now you can dispute my opinions if you wish. Not everyone plays this game in a grindy way, and some enjoy playing it slow-paced and don't experience this problem. BUT please, just respect other people's opinions on this game. We are trying to improve the game, it's not like we're just scummy people to Mihoyo for no reason. The countless amount of "white knights" I see on Twitter, Reddit, and the official forums is baffling. It's like they either are bots or just can't read.

    If you made it this far into my review, congrats. Genshin Impact has a chance to make history as a game with record-breaking numbers. Don't get me wrong, there are aspects of this game I enjoy, such as the story, characters, and the music (it's amazing, trust me, especially the Liyue soundtrack).

    Please don't screw this up Mihoyo. Please listen to your playerbase. I would rather see this game succeed and just die out as a laughingstock.    … Expand
  83. Vek17
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    The game starts out great with fun game play, a wonderful aesthetic, and smooth consistent progression of your characters. Once you get out of the prolog though you realize all of the smoothness you experience then was a bait and switch when you hit the hard timewalls where the game asks you to wait weeks to level characters or pay money to shorten it to days. The content is quicklyThe game starts out great with fun game play, a wonderful aesthetic, and smooth consistent progression of your characters. Once you get out of the prolog though you realize all of the smoothness you experience then was a bait and switch when you hit the hard timewalls where the game asks you to wait weeks to level characters or pay money to shorten it to days. The content is quickly exhausted and there is nothing really repeatable outside of dailies that take around 5 minutes to finish in total.

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

    I can live with the TERRIBLE gacha rates and the poor value for money spent there, but I cannot recommend to anyone a game that actively discourages you to play it.    … Expand
  84. Ptech
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    Don't play this game until the fix the resin issue. Seriously people have been complaining for weeks now and the devs come out and add 40 to the 120 cap. This does nothing to fix the issue.

    0/10 for now.
  85. M0lestia
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    A Good early game (like 20/30 Hours when you are slow).
    - Gacha mechanic > the worst possible (0.6% chance to get a 5* unit, and almost 100$ for 50 pulls)
    - Best weapons lock behind paywall - After 30 Hours of "good" gameplay you'll be locked behing gate with 20 min/day - you need to pay 15$ PER DAY to play the max amount of time they'll let you - NO Communication what so ever from    A Good early game (like 20/30 Hours when you are slow).
    - Gacha mechanic > the worst possible (0.6% chance to get a 5* unit, and almost 100$ for 50 pulls)
    - Best weapons lock behind paywall
    - After 30 Hours of "good" gameplay you'll be locked behing gate with 20 min/day
    - you need to pay 15$ PER DAY to play the max amount of time they'll let you
    - NO Communication what so ever from Mihoyo
    - 1 YEAR of BetaTest and they didn't change anything (the things that ruin the game right now)
    - 5/10 on taptap, China Burn cause they DIDN'T Listen and spit on est their face

    They must change their politics, but that's not the priority.
    If you wanna play 30h of "WaifuBOTW", do it, but the "LateGame" is Empty.
    Even Forbes made 3 articles on them (and not good review ones ...)    … Expand
  86. MrUnholy
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    Any kind of progress in the game is heavily gated and filled with predatory practices. By the time the honey-moon period of the game ends which is once you reach adventure rank 30, theres absolutely nothing to do and your gameplay is reduced to 20 minutes daily. The developers dont care at all about player feedback and just want to monetize absolutely every part of the game. Dont fall forAny kind of progress in the game is heavily gated and filled with predatory practices. By the time the honey-moon period of the game ends which is once you reach adventure rank 30, theres absolutely nothing to do and your gameplay is reduced to 20 minutes daily. The developers dont care at all about player feedback and just want to monetize absolutely every part of the game. Dont fall for this, dont support anything from this company. Advertised as an open world with lots of exploration yet the open-world is basically a one time thing, explore it once and then its a barren wasteland. The resources are heavily time locked and gated by 7 layers of rng so at mid-lategame your gameplay ends up being reduced to daily comissions 10 minutes + 6 dungeos of 2-3 minutes each.
    Also its a gacha game (ya lootbox kind of game with a 0.6% rate on "legendary items")
    They developers have recieved feedback from the players yet they choose to ignore it. (the game just came out but the complaints were present even before the game was release on the closed betas)    … Expand
  87. GIRG3020
    Nov 3, 2020
    0
    The game has great potential, but is absolutely ruined by its overly intrusive and extremely restrictive Resin system.
    Beyond AR30 content will become extremely scarce, and by AR35 nearly everything will have dried up, leaving players with less than an hour of meaningful progression per day (unless you're a whale willing to spend literal hundreds of dollars per month just for the    The game has great potential, but is absolutely ruined by its overly intrusive and extremely restrictive Resin system.
    Beyond AR30 content will become extremely scarce, and by AR35 nearly everything will have dried up, leaving players with less than an hour of meaningful progression per day (unless you're a whale willing to spend literal hundreds of dollars per month just for the "privilege" of an hour more gameplay per day).
    Devs are completely tone-deaf to this issue, deciding to release a "fix" that, at best, changes nothing NEXT MONTH, and likely nothing after that for another SIX WEEKS, after COMPLETELY IGNORING NEARLY ALL CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK.
    Should the devs decide to get off their ignorant behinds and actually address the community's problems with the system, the game would be so much better. Until that point, I'll be leaving my negative review as a sign of my utter disappointment and complete lack of faith in this dev team.

    Edit: So... now they're doing regional price hikes without any warning as well. Just more reasons to not trust these devs with this game lol.    … Expand
  88. Shiiru
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    An amazing game with a value comparable to anything in the $20-$60 range, but it comes packaged with one of the most shady and pathetic cash grab business models I've ever come across. After playing for a prolonged time you will find yourself gated heavily by invasive micro transactions.

    1. Want one of the new characters or weapons? The only way to get characters and weapons are to    An amazing game with a value comparable to anything in the $20-$60 range, but it comes packaged with one of the most shady and pathetic cash grab business models I've ever come across. After playing for a prolonged time you will find yourself gated heavily by invasive micro transactions.

    1. Want one of the new characters or weapons? The only way to get characters and weapons are to spend on average $180 for enough LOOTBOXES to get a random 5* character or weapon. Repeat this till you get it fully powered, this takes seven copies of a character and five of a weapon. New stuff, for the most part, are their 5* rarity, the drop chance is 1/167 gambles but you are guaranteed to get one by the 90th gamble. This is also how you get any decent weapon in the game, which competes against getting a character as well. A new character is, so far, released monthly.

    2. Want to make meaningful progress for more than an hour a day? That will be up to $10 a DAY to progress for an extra couple hours.

    3. Sold your car to finally get that character you want? Please see the above transactions, stop progress on everything else, and wait a month for random weekly drops to make them playable compared to your older characters.

    4. So, you can't get materials or new stuff, so doing the staple of any RPG and kill monsters in the game's beautiful world? Have fun roaming a landscape devoid of rewards and punching bags that fall over after being sneezed on and don't even grant you enough character experience or in-game currency to be worth looking at. You need millions while monsters give you on average 15.

    5. The most recent announcement to fix some of the issues is to increase the total amount of stamina a player can have at any one time, which is used to make meaningful progress. While this looks good at first, it does nothing as the rate at which stamina regenerates was untouched. They're giving us a bigger cup when there isn't enough water pouring in to fill the smaller cup.    … Expand
  89. Thoorie
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    At the beginning it was great. Visual vistas, engaging story and numerous activities to do out in the open world. However once you reach around AR35-40+ (around 20-30 hours of game play), there is almost no meaningful progression to be had, players must wait 16 hours a day for a measly 15 minutes of game play due to artificial stamina gating system called "resin". Not only that, afterAt the beginning it was great. Visual vistas, engaging story and numerous activities to do out in the open world. However once you reach around AR35-40+ (around 20-30 hours of game play), there is almost no meaningful progression to be had, players must wait 16 hours a day for a measly 15 minutes of game play due to artificial stamina gating system called "resin". Not only that, after spending hours into the game, there are barely anything to do that is worthwhile in the open world, hence wasting their great world building and just leaving it in the dump after one thorough inspection of it. Furthermore, after thousands and thousands of feedback from the community, they have yet to make any meaningful changes to the resin system nor the reward system for players who are willing to dedicate more than 15 minutes of game-time each day. Horrendous. Hope to see changes made to this game as it has a potential to do great things but is ruined by greedy cash grab mechanisms which are deeply rooted into the game like the tendrils of an evil god on an innocent child.… Expand
  90. Darkesht
    Oct 22, 2020
    0
    horrible resin system gating player progress remembering need a ton resin to upgrade the character
  91. Loid_
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Genshin Impact is an unfinished cash grab, a mobile game.
    The shadows render distance seems low and take se out of the game. (We are in the days of ray traced shadows, please at least make your shadows have higher render distance)
    locked to 60 FPS, I have a 144 Hz screen I can't see a reason why game should be locked to 60.
  92. Roodboye
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Game becomes literally unplayable after a certain point unless you want to shill out 15$ a day, and even then you will get about 15min gameplay out of it. Stay away from this game untill (hopefully) things change for the best.
  93. RESINLOOL
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Remove Resin or the game will die because of this stupid system it ruins the game and keep gating the players from playing the game like what in the world is this system if they don't remove it I'll quit the game
  94. Hyperion2012
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Don't play this game if u have any intention of spending any more then 20 min a day playing . ounce u reach a pony in progression it locks u out so hard u can only progress meaningfully with 20 min a day due to a system they placed that. Locks resources behingd a currency that regens too slow to even call this fun its annoyi g and its anger inducing save urself the heartbreak of falling inDon't play this game if u have any intention of spending any more then 20 min a day playing . ounce u reach a pony in progression it locks u out so hard u can only progress meaningfully with 20 min a day due to a system they placed that. Locks resources behingd a currency that regens too slow to even call this fun its annoyi g and its anger inducing save urself the heartbreak of falling in love with tjis game only to be punched in the face by the fact the this games mechancs basically say dont play this game… Expand
  95. krwr
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Up until AR25 the game was breathtaking. Now at AR38 my only content is 10 mins/day. Completely out of touch devs that cannot implement meaningful changes despite a plethora of good feedback/suggestions/criticism from a very passionate community.
  96. 3Y0W1N
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Time is money. Waiting is wasting time. Waiting is a waste of money.
    When you wait for resin to refill, thats a waste of money. You can buy the time waiting for resin to refill? Thats exponentially a waste of money. MiHoYo spending time to create this resin system is double exponentially a waste of money.
    Progression in-game need everything. Gathering everything need time. Time used for    Time is money. Waiting is wasting time. Waiting is a waste of money.
    When you wait for resin to refill, thats a waste of money. You can buy the time waiting for resin to refill? Thats exponentially a waste of money. MiHoYo spending time to create this resin system is double exponentially a waste of money.

    Progression in-game need everything. Gathering everything need time. Time used for grinding is a time well spent for progression.
    When you use resin to get more of everything when grinding, thats a money well spent. You can buy the time used for grinding with resin? Thats exponentially a money well spent. MiHoYo spending time to rework resin system as drop booster is double exponentially a money well spent.    … Expand
  97. welknair
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Genshin Impact is a beautiful game dragged down by its long-term content. Once you've cleared the (admittedly great) single-player content, there's very little to do. The energy system ("Resin") restricts productive play to roughly twenty minutes a day without spending, and the gacha rates are abysmally low (lower even than stingy FGO). Don't bother playing until these issues are fixed.
  98. Resin
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Everything about this game is good except one thing, Resin problem! Everything you do needs a resin, and the amounts of items drop per resin needed are measly!!! And when you are farming artifacts, you are locked with RNG, main stats need RNG to get what you want and even the sub stats need an RNG too to get perfect stats. There have been a lot of complaints about it, be it CN players orEverything about this game is good except one thing, Resin problem! Everything you do needs a resin, and the amounts of items drop per resin needed are measly!!! And when you are farming artifacts, you are locked with RNG, main stats need RNG to get what you want and even the sub stats need an RNG too to get perfect stats. There have been a lot of complaints about it, be it CN players or global players... They said that they have listened to our voice, but guess what? Instead of increasing the rate of resin regen, we get increased resin cap instead!? We asked for more water but given bigger cup?? How does that make sense? If we are not getting an increase in regen rate then bigger cap does not change anything. Previously we need to log in twice a day, burn resin in 10 minutes for trash items and log out, now they give us a QoL that is you only need to log in once a day, burn your resin in 10 mins and don't bother play the game again until the next day at the same day time. This is the problem of endgame players with slow content updates from developers, until they truly listened to players' voice, this review stands at 0 rating!… Expand
  99. illiex
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Worst gating i have ever seem, even for gachas standards. For the early start, it's pretty good, just to turn into a mess after ar35+. The stamina system in this game put other predatory gachas into shame. You have 15 minutes a day of meaningful play. It's ridiculous and i regret wasting money before i knew what a mess this game is after some time. Don't get invested if you intend to playWorst gating i have ever seem, even for gachas standards. For the early start, it's pretty good, just to turn into a mess after ar35+. The stamina system in this game put other predatory gachas into shame. You have 15 minutes a day of meaningful play. It's ridiculous and i regret wasting money before i knew what a mess this game is after some time. Don't get invested if you intend to play it. Sounds crazy, but that is one system put in by the developer, on purpose!
    That's even without mentioning one of the worst currency and pull rates in ALL of the gacha games.    … Expand
  100. Aliali23
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    The honeymoon phase is done,, after 2 weeks playing and realized how bad is resin system is,, and now we have 1.1 update that only increase resin cap from 120 to 160 without reducing the resin gain, its still a crappy 8 mins per resin,, yes the problem is so severe and my daily time playing this game only 15 mins each day,,, nice gameplay,, 11/10 btw I'm AR41 player,,
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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 20
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  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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