Genshin Impact

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4.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3024 Ratings

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

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  1. mayconcomy
    Nov 24, 2020
    0
    The game starts very well, but the Resin system, boring history and looooooooooot of unnecessary dialogues totally ruined the game.
  2. Nin00
    Nov 24, 2020
    0
    It is just dirty plagiarism.
    The legend of zelda+dirty anime character.
    WOW.
  3. Byxgalter
    Nov 26, 2020
    0
    Игра не оправдала ожиданий и вложений. 20 минут сетевой игры с другом в день - за такие деньги которые я вложил (5к рублей) в игру это слишком много, а ведь надо вкладываться ещё. В одиночку я могу поиграть и во что-то другое. Синий шмот за реальные деньги это очень жирно. Пустая карта на которой нечего делать на моём 47 уровне приключений, это просто нонсенс. *Великолепная* система смолыИгра не оправдала ожиданий и вложений. 20 минут сетевой игры с другом в день - за такие деньги которые я вложил (5к рублей) в игру это слишком много, а ведь надо вкладываться ещё. В одиночку я могу поиграть и во что-то другое. Синий шмот за реальные деньги это очень жирно. Пустая карта на которой нечего делать на моём 47 уровне приключений, это просто нонсенс. *Великолепная* система смолы которая искусственно ограничивает прогресс. Боссы с которых редко падают улучшения, мне понадобится год чтобы полностью прокачать скилы одного персонажа. Жесткие ограничения по всем аспектам игры. Спасибо за 6 одинаковых луков на мастерство стихий которые до сих пор работают не правильно . Платить в игре приходится за всё, это ужасно. За баттел пас - плати, за примогемы плати (да не обязательно а как без них?). Я ставлю 0 за эту ужасную игру которая требует только денег. Ты ведь можешь играть и бесплатно!! Ну конечно я могу, и могу вечно пытаться выбить понравившегося мне персонажа, оружие, созвездие. Без доната в игре делать нечего. Это рулетка которая портит настроение!!!… Expand
  4. b0nkers
    Nov 28, 2020
    0
    2 major issues with this game for me:

    1) after launch, repeatedly shows "unable to connect" message. The only suggestion from support is to disable my VPN. Not going to do that. Many (all the other games on my PC) work with VPN just fine. If the choice is between possibly playing with no VPN, and not playing while keeping VPN, I choose to uninstall the game. 2) website forces me to    2 major issues with this game for me:

    1) after launch, repeatedly shows "unable to connect" message. The only suggestion from support is to disable my VPN. Not going to do that. Many (all the other games on my PC) work with VPN just fine. If the choice is between possibly playing with no VPN, and not playing while keeping VPN, I choose to uninstall the game.

    2) website forces me to use portrait mode on my tablet. I use landscape mode, and do NOT want to be forced into portrait mode because:
    A) do not want to use portrait mode.
    B) do not want to continually drag window contents left/right to view.    … Expand
  5. 012yeap
    Dec 1, 2020
    0
    The biggest disappointment of 2020 award goes to this pile of garbage named genshin impact.
    1. Its free to play, but its not free to enjoy, this game have every known monetization and amount of money you have to put in it to roll "wishes" and get what really good is enormous even for mobile game
    2. Around ar 35 youll start to have problems, at ar40 youll get kicked in the nuts by devs,    The biggest disappointment of 2020 award goes to this pile of garbage named genshin impact.
    1. Its free to play, but its not free to enjoy, this game have every known monetization and amount of money you have to put in it to roll "wishes" and get what really good is enormous even for mobile game
    2. Around ar 35 youll start to have problems, at ar40 youll get kicked in the nuts by devs, simply because for previous world level increasing you had to do missions and had chance to keep up with resources before leveling up all the enemies now you dont. it just goes on without asking. so if you didnt maxing someone strong enough - forget about surviving now its rape time for you party members.
    3. There is no actual co-op nor online, but still game need to be connected so if you have connection issues - it will cause to fail fights or cooking etc.
    4. Resin - the biggest problem of this game, maybe its ok for mobile gacha games to stop players from playing (its not) but here its absolute joke. You get limit of 160 resin per day and recharge of this 160 is about 22 hours, so there's not much things to farm with it, and tbh you have to farm in this game despite everyone could say, you need to get character lvl up resources, character talents lvl up resources, weapons and amount of this items is growing with each level, so once you get to about 50-60 lvl you going to stuck with surprisingly low drop rate of higher grade resource, "but dont worry they added condensed resin which supposed to increase drop rates" could say someone new to this game, and the problem with this resin is that it takes x2 of regular amount to open domain lootboxes, but still not granting you to get item you need and to make this game even more suffering for players - you can only have 3 of this resins, and not 3per day but 3 in inventory. Now add this info to that fact that whole co-op that you can do is only missions with rewards for resin, and you can connect only to your lvl or lower players, so basicly whole coop takes about 5-10 min/day if you not going to use primogems etc.
    5. Endgame, there is no such thing like endgame by reading previous info you could understand that devs trying their best to stop you from power progressing while still leveling up world, you have to grind but you cant unless you spend money for it,and all this just to keep players from understanding that this game is just empy wallet leech, this game is all about rolling wishes for characters, once you get who you want - there's no activities for you to enjoy and you start to understand that whole previous gameplay is to get extra wishes or upgrade resources.
    6. Gacha, everything as usual for this type of thing, but devs went further and drop rate of good things is below 1%, so yeah, enjoy. Also they increasing prices for donate, so enjoy x2.
    7. Quests, Simpliest part, because quests here is just dumb unskippable time waste, once you start reading - you understand the problem, maybe for kids below 10yo it will be ok but someone older its just idiotic, extra credit for those dumbasses who wrote protagonist answers like "yes"/"definitely, yes" such rpg, now fallout's [sarcasm] isnt that bad.
    So yeah, game pretty bad and maybe if they didnt release it on pc it would remain unnoticed "gem" but for pc and especially consoles this 10min/day gameplay is just joke and paywall with enormous prices just making its problems even bigger. tldr: grind that you need but its limited + no story at all + limited with gameplay by amount of characters and weapon you have + lowest among other gacha games drop rates + pretty damn high prices with tons of monetizations + slowed progression so before you hit empty endgame - devs throw at you some boring event to suck whole your resin and show how broken their aspects of game is = genshin impact.    … Expand
  6. Cake_fly
    Dec 1, 2020
    0
    You can do nothing in this game. You cannot farm. You cannot get new characters. You can only donate exorbitant amounts to get nothing.
  7. Okami450
    Sep 30, 2021
    0
    Empresa toxica não escuta os jogadores e censura a própria comunidade, muitas lootboxs também
  8. ror0noazoro
    Dec 6, 2020
    0
    0,6% To get a 5 star character.... 90 "wishes" to get to the "pity" where you get a 5star if you haven't yet....
    160 primogems for each wish = 14400 for 90 wishes ..... 14400 primogems are about 150~ euros :)))))
    AND IN THE END EVEN IF YOU GET THAT 5 STAR IT COULD BE A FAKING WORTHLESS WEAPON FOR A CHARACTER YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE OR WANT TO USE....... for the first time i play a game    0,6% To get a 5 star character.... 90 "wishes" to get to the "pity" where you get a 5star if you haven't yet....
    160 primogems for each wish = 14400 for 90 wishes ..... 14400 primogems are about 150~ euros :)))))
    AND IN THE END EVEN IF YOU GET THAT 5 STAR IT COULD BE A FAKING WORTHLESS WEAPON FOR A CHARACTER YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE OR WANT TO USE.......
    for the first time i play a game every day for 3-4 hours that i would never recomment to my friends to join....    … Expand
  9. Lisec
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    I can't believe this crap is capped at 60fps.

    The engine: Unity - offers absolutely terrible performance.

    I do not recommend at all.
  10. JoltieRL
    Dec 8, 2020
    0
    i just want to say that this game is free-to-play friendly, you dont have to spend money to enjoy the game, but people kept complaining about the low drop rates of 5 star characters, the game isnt that difficult and still playable without 5 star characters, although i feel like the story isnt that great because its full of plotholes, it might be explained later when new content getsi just want to say that this game is free-to-play friendly, you dont have to spend money to enjoy the game, but people kept complaining about the low drop rates of 5 star characters, the game isnt that difficult and still playable without 5 star characters, although i feel like the story isnt that great because its full of plotholes, it might be explained later when new content gets released. Despite that, this game is still far from complete and there are still potential content in the future, which is probably why the resin (energy or whatever it is) system existed in the first place, its there to prevent people from playing the game too much… Expand
  11. ElPopaso
    Sep 6, 2021
    0
    P2W and weeb **** Its a The Legend Of Zelda BOTW but with anime cringe and microtransicions. Awful
  12. reyhankhairul
    Dec 10, 2020
    0
    trash game with resin system, not support f2p player, 5 stars character/weapon so hard to get with gacha system 0.0006% in 90 pulls, update system to 1.1 need to download entire client game again
    dont play this **** game
  13. limowka
    Dec 11, 2020
    0
    хорошая игра, играть можно абсолютно без донаната, все зависит от того, что бы тратить время и фармить или задонатить и получить все разом...
  14. DikiyAlex
    Sep 29, 2021
    0
    жадная мобильная помойка,администрация ужасная,лагов полно,аккауты угоняют,доната море,влияет на геиплей очень сильно
  15. Magica_0
    Dec 11, 2020
    0
    A copy cat game that added a lot of anime girls showing off their legs, also added gacha to rip off everyone who doesn't have self-control. That's basically what it is. A great game for people who haven't played many games in their life.
  16. RageSage
    Dec 13, 2020
    0
    After playing this game for 300+ hours as f2p, I can not recommend this game, at all. It is not a game as much as it is a money scam dressed as a game. It borrows/steals concepts from Zelda Breath of The Wild, and adds Anime Waifus and Husbandos. If thats your thing, go for it. The level progression is laughable when you are not paying for anything, so get ready to spend countless hoursAfter playing this game for 300+ hours as f2p, I can not recommend this game, at all. It is not a game as much as it is a money scam dressed as a game. It borrows/steals concepts from Zelda Breath of The Wild, and adds Anime Waifus and Husbandos. If thats your thing, go for it. The level progression is laughable when you are not paying for anything, so get ready to spend countless hours rolling for items that you need for levels and weapon upgrades. It just grinds on your goddamn soul, and crushes any initial good will you had for the game. I actually loved this game the first 50 hours, after that I just kept on playing out of obligation. The only redeeming factor this game has is its combat, which I do commend it for. Everything else is just bland and uninteresting. Maybe it's a cool game if you pay for it, but you should spend your money elsewhere.… Expand
  17. enygf
    Oct 4, 2021
    0
    It's just p2w game. You can't play without donations. Another proof that F2P = P2W
  18. KevinG9999
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    It's mathematically impossible to lose 7 consecutive 5* character for 50/50 chance. This game is manipulating its gambling system.
  19. StarFaiL
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Best anniversary ever! Best anniversary ever! Best anniversary ever! Best anniversary ever!
  20. Dekkem
    Dec 17, 2020
    0
    The scammers have stolen the account. The support service is silent, the developer absolutely does not care about their players.
  21. roflbots
    Sep 6, 2021
    0
    This game seems great. At first. The problems take a while to mount and BOOOY are there problems.

    1st off let's focus on the current issue. The state of the entire element, and the newest Raiden Shogun character. Electro is trash as an element from the ground up. There are standout characters, but they would be better in ANY other element. The Archon of electro is disappointing as a    This game seems great. At first. The problems take a while to mount and BOOOY are there problems.

    1st off let's focus on the current issue. The state of the entire element, and the newest Raiden Shogun character. Electro is trash as an element from the ground up. There are standout characters, but they would be better in ANY other element. The Archon of electro is disappointing as a support, taking up an inordinate amount of field time for performance that can be achieved by other batteries, and hits like a wet paper sack, unless of course you shell out hundreds of dollars for multiple copies of her. There are also pretty credible allegations of false advertising with her release.

    That's what this game is. Intentionally designed so that you spend money, and purposefully crowded with bad, misleading and deceptive mechanics. Oh there's a problem after a release, oh it was a translation error. Every time.

    Primogems for starters cost a TREMENDOUS amount more money than they should. We're talking 1600 for a single 10 pull, of which you might acquire one, 4 star character. A 5 star will cost you 90 pulls. You won't even get that many pulls from spending 100$ on the game.

    The company behind it is NOTORIOUSLY stingy for a gacha company. Literally they will mess up a character with deceptive advertising or mistranslation, and apologize with not even enough currency for 1 pull, and their anniversary, typically a time when Gacha companies thank their players for spending an entire year with them, and seek to get new players?

    A single 10 pull. Yep that's right. A single 10 pull.

    The game also has a resin system. Playing normally you can finish the quests and all content to date in probably around 3 months. After that? Enjoy playing for about 15-30 minutes a day, if that. They do this because, surprise surprise, you can refill that with more PREMIUM CURRENCY.

    Oh what's that, everything in the game other than nominal amounts including xp, gold, artifacts, weapons, etc, is all tied to resin or the premium currency?

    Yes that's correct, you can't even properly level your characters without spending resin, or of course using the cash shop. Monsters will give you 19-20 xp each at the HIGHEST world level. The xp and mora off of monsters is so low I doubt most players even KNOW you can level up on the actual content instead of the items you can get from running leylines.

    The gacha rates are actually very bad too, and don't get me started on the weapon banner, which is a total scam.

    Not to mention they have routinely been locking 5 star characters that are already extremely expensive, behind massive constellation (multiple copies) paywalls. They will release a character with massive problems (see raiden) and oh well she can be okay, if you get constellation 2, only 100 more dollars if you are lucky. Unacceptable. It's okay for multiple copies to offer a bit of power, but when it comes down to releasing an incomplete, poorly designed broken character and locking a functional one behind a paywall? That should be actually illegal.

    It's honestly a masterclass in predatory game design.

    Artifact rng is also a MASSIVE problem in the game, and it's been proven time and time again that the rolls are actually rigged towards useless or mostly useless stats (flat def, def % hp and HP %) rather than the rolls you actually need, artificially lengthening the life of the game, oh and the resin you'll have to refresh if you want to actually yknow, get a good roll sometime this year. All with that aforementioned premium currency.

    If that wasn't enough, in an interview they literally said they don't pay attention to the west. Now I get China is their largest market (they are a chinese company after all), and Japan is pretty up there, but the west is sitting around 25% of their revenue too, and growing rapidly. The minute a company basically admits they don't care what a large portion of their customer base thinks? It's not a company worth doing business with.

    Honestly once a competitor arrives, Genshin is gonna get completely stomped. All of these problems are of course fixable, but the company does not care. Avoid this game.    … Expand
  22. Lufia
    Jan 1, 2021
    0
    A very bad balanced game and heavily Pay2Win. It has a big open world map which I like but that's all. Getting money in this game is a hard job. Working for items to summon is horrible. I have summoned so often and don't have atleast 1 good charakter. You have to spend like 300 $ each month to get something good.
  23. Cloud_88
    Jan 1, 2021
    0
    This game has an awhfull balancing, the enemie are to tough and it takes ages to beat them. The droprate for charaktor is almost 0 and I just don't get it why so many people like this game. It has a good graphic yes but it is brutally Pay2Win. There are summoning items which you almost has 0 chance to get them.
  24. xdves
    Dec 27, 2020
    0
    Worst game mechanics I have ever played, it's all RNG with no compensating mechanics. I needed a pyro damage artifact for my main carry, after months of farming I have 16 five star element damage artifacts of all other elements (cryo, hydro, electro, geo, anemo, physical) but NONE for pyro.

    I need dvalin plume for talent upgrades, but the weekly boss drops claws every week, i have 9    Worst game mechanics I have ever played, it's all RNG with no compensating mechanics. I needed a pyro damage artifact for my main carry, after months of farming I have 16 five star element damage artifacts of all other elements (cryo, hydro, electro, geo, anemo, physical) but NONE for pyro.

    I need dvalin plume for talent upgrades, but the weekly boss drops claws every week, i have 9 claws that I can't use.

    There is no way to progress in this game if you are unlucky, it feels extremely unrewarding and frustrating.    … Expand
  25. deltaDecay
    Jan 4, 2021
    0
    This game proves that gacha games no matter how beautiful and well-crafted it is can be tainted into an utter cash grab of a system that leeches on whales in order to keep up its playerbase's activity. I must admit that the graphics of the game are just gorgeous; an eye-opener on how jaw-dropping anime graphics can be in a 3D environment especially with its professional voice acting andThis game proves that gacha games no matter how beautiful and well-crafted it is can be tainted into an utter cash grab of a system that leeches on whales in order to keep up its playerbase's activity. I must admit that the graphics of the game are just gorgeous; an eye-opener on how jaw-dropping anime graphics can be in a 3D environment especially with its professional voice acting and decent storyline. Unfortunately, it is just corrupted and overshadowed by the imminent gacha system that the game's core system relies upon. Most of the time, players are just whining that they didn't get Diluc or Venti or whatever 5-star character that has humongous humabogolous breasts or generic lullaby """"cute"""" loli that fulfills the hilariously unbalanced meta of the game. Just like any other gacha game, balance doesn't exist. Meanwhile, the other part of the playerbase boasts about getting those meta characters either through sheer stupid luck or whaling their parents' inheritance. This game literally dictates the amount of dopamine you get just through luck. Get 5-star => dopamine overdose. Get 3-star weapon => depression.
    I would have much prefer if this game was a paid game at the cost of removing the tedious gacha system. And that would have been an excellent 10/10 game for me.

    TL;DR: Gacha bad.    … Expand
  26. Raaanndom
    Jan 10, 2021
    0
    This game is a **** car crash. It is made by incels for incels that have low standards. It is a poor mans zelda and has a multitude of glaring issues.
    1- The art direction, is a direct rip off of Zelda Breath of the wild to appeal to a wider audience because they cant design games for the lives of them. It is meh and uninspired as it is a clone.
    2- The voice acting is disgraceful and all    This game is a **** car crash. It is made by incels for incels that have low standards. It is a poor mans zelda and has a multitude of glaring issues.
    1- The art direction, is a direct rip off of Zelda Breath of the wild to appeal to a wider audience because they cant design games for the lives of them. It is meh and uninspired as it is a clone.
    2- The voice acting is disgraceful and all voice actors should have been aborted. The dialogue is painful and makes me want to shoot myself. i was spamming the spacebar throughout the whole dull mess that is the tutorial.
    3- the fighting is dull and patheticly shallow, it does not feel like any effort was put in and is on par with most bargain bin mobile games. There is no ooph behind attacks and the camera feels floaty.
    4- It is an awful isekai that is on the same level with uninspired amines.
    5- The characters are walking archetypes and will make you want to pinch yourself to keep awake while they speak.
    I cannot bear to talk about this game anymore as it is physically painful to think about.    … Expand
  27. strife7
    Jan 16, 2021
    0
    delete resin please? artifacts with good stats already difficult to get, why limit artifacts farming with resin?
  28. CNP-
    Jan 21, 2021
    0
    Um dos piores RPG que já tive o desprazer de jogar, apesar de bonito o jogo tem uma ambientação completamente morta, npcs desinteressantes que nem sequer saem do lugar, inimigos extremamente sem graça que não passam de variações elementais dos mesmos o que não condiz com um jogo de tal orçamento, um sistema de resina que funciona pior do que em jogo de celular, afinal é um jogo de dungeonUm dos piores RPG que já tive o desprazer de jogar, apesar de bonito o jogo tem uma ambientação completamente morta, npcs desinteressantes que nem sequer saem do lugar, inimigos extremamente sem graça que não passam de variações elementais dos mesmos o que não condiz com um jogo de tal orçamento, um sistema de resina que funciona pior do que em jogo de celular, afinal é um jogo de dungeon mas nem podemos fazer dungeon já que somos limitados, definitivamente o pior sistema, além disso a exploração é maçante e monótona, chegando a ser até incomoda, um sistema de gacha pra lá de nojento digno de jogos da EA gasta grana e eu te dou o que você quer, o jogo apresenta ainda um sistema quase interessante de combate baseado em elementos, além disso tem uma história incompleta repleta de personagens q n desenvolvem assim como a trama, dependendo de missões exclusivas para que criemos um mínimo de afeto por esses personagens sem depender do design, simplesmente péssimo.… Expand
  29. eSpiHRA
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    This company will take your money with out giving you what you paid for. If you buy the Gnostic Hymn and don't have time to play, you will essentially be giving them money for nothing as it expires over time. I was not aware of this, bought the pass for the rewards, didn't have time to play, returned to the game to see I wasn't getting rewards for what I paid for. The company is tryingThis company will take your money with out giving you what you paid for. If you buy the Gnostic Hymn and don't have time to play, you will essentially be giving them money for nothing as it expires over time. I was not aware of this, bought the pass for the rewards, didn't have time to play, returned to the game to see I wasn't getting rewards for what I paid for. The company is trying their best to rip their players off, I just want to make it clear!… Expand
  30. ramchannel
    Jan 30, 2021
    0
    This game created only to grab money from fools, after 30 lvl game will end. on high lvl 40+ const party abyss only. if you dont have it. dontate ten milllion $ to roll some gacha, its not f2p. its a p2p and like not 10$ like wow, but 99999999$ on random trash with 0.6% chance to get something usefull, and off cource 0/160 of energy, realy? open world+enegy+gacha = garbage should be in theThis game created only to grab money from fools, after 30 lvl game will end. on high lvl 40+ const party abyss only. if you dont have it. dontate ten milllion $ to roll some gacha, its not f2p. its a p2p and like not 10$ like wow, but 99999999$ on random trash with 0.6% chance to get something usefull, and off cource 0/160 of energy, realy? open world+enegy+gacha = garbage should be in the trashbox. dont play this crap. just delete it and save your braincells.… Expand
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#31 Best PC Game of 2020
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#6 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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Metascore
84

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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