Genshin Impact

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4.1

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  1. HipSGuinness
    Sep 15, 2022
    8
    It's a good Gatcha Game to play :
    +Interesting mecanics and characters gameplay
    +Lot of Boss, chests and puzzles
    +All 4 stars and 5 can be play and find a usefull on teams compositions

    But It's not perfect :
    -Gatcha with a 50% lost the pitty, the worst part for F2P players
    -Multiplayer are useless and not very usefull (only for help news players or rush boss)
  2. weebe
    Feb 25, 2021
    8
    despite the fact its basically p2p, the world is amazing.

    The artstyle is done well, and the enviroments feel great, soundtrack is amazing, and extremely well made.

    Monetization is eh, getting 5 star characters is practically impossible, but it isn't exactly necessary.
    4 star characters can perform just as well as 5 stars as long as you invest the time to level them up.
  3. KepasaAmigo
    Jul 16, 2021
    8
    Fun gameplay. Free game,good storymode. -1 point for the gacha system. but they need to earn some money anyway. many hours of gameplay. Pretty good graphics. and u got it on ur phone as well.
    will give it a 8/10
  4. Cuelo
    Jan 15, 2021
    8
    Every bad review is like: the game is great, but resin and gacha! What the hell did you expect in a gacha game? To not find a gacha system? They give out a decent amount of materials to roll, and there's the pity system, it's really not as bad as they say. Moreover, it's not like you HAVE to spend money, you can always just...Not. The game is totally completable with the characters theyEvery bad review is like: the game is great, but resin and gacha! What the hell did you expect in a gacha game? To not find a gacha system? They give out a decent amount of materials to roll, and there's the pity system, it's really not as bad as they say. Moreover, it's not like you HAVE to spend money, you can always just...Not. The game is totally completable with the characters they give out for free (look up Enviosity). I agree that the resin system is **** but that's the only thing, no reason to give it a 0 or something like that...As for the rest of the game I'd say it's really great, especially considering that's it's free to play. It offers a story that's looking good, nice characters, beautiful world and graphics, good soundtracks, plenty to explore and challenges, which are renewed every two weeks. And events are added every week, with greater expansions coming once a month and a half.… Expand
  5. k0LhozDn1k
    Dec 9, 2020
    8
    Best waifu simulator ever with the copy-paste from the legend of Zelda. And some grind on higher ranks but for free2play single player game it's ok
  6. Idmi
    Sep 29, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Surprisingly fun and well built for a game that looks like a Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (BotW) Clone. It definitely copies a lot of the style and mechanics and ideas of Breath of the Wild, but the gameplay and feel of the world is very different. especially when it comes to stats. The weapon system for one is actaully surprisngly similar to Destiny 2 (though I'm only a light Destiny 2 user).

    I'm only a few hours into Genshin Impact game but so far I find it more engaging than BotW, and I think this is because although BotW was more intricately made with more attention to immersion and the beauty of it, this makes it quite slow at times, and the world is very plain in my opinion and you can travel for hours with little to do. and it doesnt help that the storyline is very simple and (though I havent fninished it I am many hours in) a lot of it is stuff that already happens in the pas, but the present is the same, unevolving situation and list of tasks to do with a few fetch/kill quests from npcs.

    The graphics are pretty much on par with BotW, there is essentially no difference - some areas are niceer some are worse.

    The world of Genshin has a lot of stuff going on [SPOILERS OF FIRST 10 MIN GAMEPLAY] such as people from other planets, abundant elemental magic, dragons, gods, knights, power hungry factions. It makes for a very dynamic and lively feeling world and I am actually excited to see where it goes. It is one of the few games that has made my curiosiy overcome my self control and make me wan to play much longer than I planned to because its actually interesting and makes you want to level up and explore the world and go on with the story.

    The combat feels fun, which is difficult to pull off, but switching between characters (which is sometthing you can do pretty soon from the start) and their unique weapon types and abilities is actually prety fun. And trying to find good weapons and buff items and upgrade them adds a level of detail which is actaully really cool to play around wih, geting your favourite play style and more power. I actually enjoy combat in this game along with the weapon and buff system, none of which are easy o do at all, and in most other games I really dislike how nay of these are done, so I'm amazed to see it done so well here.

    Genshin is a much more alive world than BoW, where npc interaction is much more rich and complex and entwrtwined with storyline rather than simple fetch/kill quests. What's also interesting is how levels are designed - during quests you are often lead to large dungeon-type areas which dont appear on the world map - this actually reminded me a lot of Destiny 2 level design and the versatility was quite interesting and exciting, since you're discovering new things instead of exploring the same areas on the map.

    Unfortunately is basically devoid of online multiplayer until you reach adventure level 16, which I havent done yet but I am curious how that will be.

    Also, it is annoying how much content is lifted from BotW. There are just a lot of things you see pop up tha clone it almost exactly, like [SPOILERS FIRST 10 MINS GAMEPLAY] basically bokoblins exactly as hey arer implemented in BotW but they just look differen (they arer by far the most common enemy, there are camps of them often, you can unlock chests by defeaing them...) and you ge gliders and climbing and you drown if you run out oif stamina while swimming... That said, while way too much copies game mechanics from BotW, how the game actaully plays out feels very very different. It is much more action packed and plot driven and the combat is much more complex (but thank goodness wepons dont take damage like they do in BotW forcing you to always hunt out new ones or be stuck with clubs).

    There are also a few bugs at the moment like npc mouths stop moving while halfway through talking and dialogue accidentally being repeated in the wrong place. Also you can change the controls layout for key board or controllers even though apparantly some dialogue says you can change those settings. It also isn't erribly well optimised. I am running an intel 4770 RTX 2070 12GB RAM running a 1080p and in places my FPS dips into the 40s - even Horizon zero dawn almost never does that.

    Some design choices are also odd like, even on PC the FPS is limited to 60, theer are almost no HUD options (so you can hide useless stuff that takes up space on the screen), you cant fullscreen on other resolutions than 1080p (on a 1080p screen or below),

    Also this is more preference but to me the voice acting and the choice of words is often really cheesy.

    That said, it is genuinely one of the few games that has me actaully _excited_ to play more of it to see what happens. Especially because it's a free to play, I can highly recommend you try it. Although if your a PC user the download is very long right now because of high demand and bad servers. Its only 12 GB download, but downloads as 0.5    … Expand
  7. FlowZei
    Oct 7, 2020
    8
    1.I saw many people said that the game has a lack of challenge. Those people must be Under AR 25 at which your world will level up to 2 and Start becoming harder. Even am start to Struggle with some of them even tho.

    2. I have only 4 stars Characters in My Team Beidou,Chongyun,Xiangling And Barbara and I have never been stuck at a point of the story because my character doesn't deal a    1.I saw many people said that the game has a lack of challenge. Those people must be Under AR 25 at which your world will level up to 2 and Start becoming harder. Even am start to Struggle with some of them even tho.

    2. I have only 4 stars Characters in My Team Beidou,Chongyun,Xiangling And Barbara and I have never been stuck at a point of the story because my character doesn't deal a lot of damage.

    3. The Gacha. You will Constantly keep getting primo gemmes for anything am even asking me if breathing does give me Primo-gemmes too. So far for a F2P player, I pulled at least 8-10 Wish.

    4. Saying that Miyoho copied BoTW it's like saying Saying that a Mandarin is an Orange but at last the taste is not the same.    … Expand
  8. Wiker
    Oct 7, 2020
    8
    +Low hardware requirements
    +Free to play
    +Nice community +Beautiful stylized graphics, characters and locations designs +Addictive gameplay +It's not necessary to pay (just like in Warframe - most/all of the things in game you can get playing f2p if you play regularly or if you farming a lot) +Online co-op +Japan character voices quality +You can play on pc and portably on phone with the    +Low hardware requirements
    +Free to play
    +Nice community
    +Beautiful stylized graphics, characters and locations designs
    +Addictive gameplay
    +It's not necessary to pay (just like in Warframe - most/all of the things in game you can get playing f2p if you play regularly or if you farming a lot)
    +Online co-op
    +Japan character voices quality
    +You can play on pc and portably on phone with the same account

    -It's gacha game so you can get annoyed when you have bad luck many times (+game guaranted rare drop every 10 opens and super rare every 90)
    -At this time it feels like an early access (there's not much to do after you made it to mid game)
    -Specific gameplay, inspired by many other games (mainly TLOZ Breath of The Wild) and it may be not made for you (plays like non target mmo rpg but singleplayer)
    -English character voices quality
    -There's no pvp so it's not p2w    … Expand
  9. Menomed17
    Nov 29, 2020
    8
    Genshin Impact deserves the title of becoming a pseudo-AAA that is free to play. You can say thatit counts that include a very in-depth storyline plus a colorful ensemble of characters that each display their own uniqueness in their position in the game.

    The game itself as a gacha action-RPG is almost certainly a nod to MiHoYo's former works as they represent similar mechanics but their    Genshin Impact deserves the title of becoming a pseudo-AAA that is free to play. You can say thatit counts that include a very in-depth storyline plus a colorful ensemble of characters that each display their own uniqueness in their position in the game.

    The game itself as a gacha action-RPG is almost certainly a nod to MiHoYo's former works as they represent similar mechanics but their first attempt in the world of RPG is simply surprising. The simple yet deep battle mechanics that lies in the game is a fun and customizable feat and evolves on the certain armor and accessories. Its implementation on elements is quite different as they create reactions which add more to the certain double damage.

    The thing to take note about this game is its constant progression however as you level up farther into the game, the more difficult and troubling levelling up becomes as the best weapons and characters are trapped behind the money-reliant gacha system of Genshin. The game makes it hard for people who have explored the area fully to acquire Primogems, the game's premium currency, and also costly as a roll costs at 160 of the gems and you could get at an average 65 Primogems per day which can get too far.

    The game's most controversial element would be its resin system as it restricts players more to enjoy the game as many of Teyvat's challenges require a somehow heavy amount of Resin which can bring trouble much for dedicated players compared to the F2P players. Another problem would be its sad probability rates as not everyone can get a 5-star at most rolls and players can certainly leave the game out of the whim just because of it so those are one of the major issues that needs resolving.

    Though locked behind a very obvious paywall due to its jarring gacha system and a somehow tedious grinding process just to be able to experience more of the game, Genshin Impact strives with an impact, no pun intended, as to becoming one of 2020's numerous surprises.    … Expand
  10. Dracziek
    Oct 29, 2020
    8
    For a free game, this one is 100% worth downloading and playing. You can easily get to Adventure Rank (AR) 20 within a day or two which is where most of the game is unlocked. Unfortunately once you rank up to AR 30s the game gets VERY grindy; with the limited Resin system and world respawn rates for items (mushrooms, etc) which are necessary for advancing your characters, you'll beFor a free game, this one is 100% worth downloading and playing. You can easily get to Adventure Rank (AR) 20 within a day or two which is where most of the game is unlocked. Unfortunately once you rank up to AR 30s the game gets VERY grindy; with the limited Resin system and world respawn rates for items (mushrooms, etc) which are necessary for advancing your characters, you'll be logging in and wondering, "what can I do?". Beyond that, the animations are beautiful. Some of the English voice work is spectacular and is pretty engaging. There is a "Pay-2-get better" system much like Warframe, and I would advise not spending any money towards the loot boxes aka Wishs here. You can buy them with in-game currency. Overall Great game, would recommend playing.

    For the record im AR 32 atm and downloaded it about 5 days ago.    … Expand
  11. Skylens
    Nov 27, 2020
    8
    Хорошая игра с плохой монетизацией и ведь разработчик старается делать интересный контент и разнообразные патчи, но нужно бы сделать что-то со своим отношением к комьюнити, а больше и нечего сказать.
  12. Vikomon
    Nov 13, 2020
    8
    Good and enjoyable gameplay, especially explration with a friend. The world is decently dence, but does lack side activeties. And the gacha system is kinda bad. as in, really terrible.
  13. TomSoe
    Nov 18, 2020
    8
    Really nice for a free game, although gacha would lure you to spend hundreds or thousand dollars on it, the game itself is still playable, not to mention it is also giving players gems occasionally, not only through email but also through events. Players also got at least 50 pulls for free when they reaches level 10.
  14. crunchtoastii
    Nov 30, 2020
    8
    My rating would definitely be 8.5. It really is a great game. I love the vivid graphics, the wide range of colors, the fun-to-play characters, and of course, the waifus and husbandos. The only reason why I'm not giving it a 10 is because of the rates and resin system. I'm a f2p player, and it is tough to get good characters. Currently, I'm AR 24, and I have one 5*character for around 40My rating would definitely be 8.5. It really is a great game. I love the vivid graphics, the wide range of colors, the fun-to-play characters, and of course, the waifus and husbandos. The only reason why I'm not giving it a 10 is because of the rates and resin system. I'm a f2p player, and it is tough to get good characters. Currently, I'm AR 24, and I have one 5*character for around 40 pulls in total. That is not bad considering that I haven't hit the pity yet; however, it still takes an incredibly long time to save up enough intertwined fates, especially with the lack of resin. In addition to that, I feel quite bad for saying this, but I feel like MiHoYo is kind of greedy. They should make the f2p experience a little better. For example, give us at least 100+ primos for logging in --keep in mind 1 pull is 160 primos so it seems reasonable for the company, they should also fix the resin problem (not by making the cap bigger but by making the resin generation faster) so that we f2p people have more chances to get better artifacts and more primos from bosses. All in all, although it has it's problems, it's still an AMAZING game and I recommend you try it!… Expand
  15. Vitalick
    Dec 19, 2020
    8
    Awesome game that provides you hours and hours of fun, beauty and colorful world, and excellent music.
    Easy to play it ftp. great game
  16. Szeidil
    Dec 15, 2020
    8
    Genshin Impact is rly great game if you like zelda clones, where you mostly explore, so if you not like exploring its not game for you, combat system is rly great, like from final fantasy games, where you can switch between characters in middle of fight, there is kinda same system as in other games from mobile where they try to force you to pay them a money for rolling in item shop, ofGenshin Impact is rly great game if you like zelda clones, where you mostly explore, so if you not like exploring its not game for you, combat system is rly great, like from final fantasy games, where you can switch between characters in middle of fight, there is kinda same system as in other games from mobile where they try to force you to pay them a money for rolling in item shop, of course you no need and you can play complete for free, and aquire all characters but you can get most of characters only from rolling wishes, which require special currency from item shop or free one so basicly whole " getting new chars " system depend on RNG. Overall game is rly good, world is rly colorfull, gameplay is great, you can even meet friends or join random lobbies. RNG can kinda kill this game for you.… Expand
  17. Friskegr
    Jan 5, 2021
    8
    i think the game is a 7 but there are too many idiots that dont know what the words pay to win even means. THIS GAME IS IN NO WAY PAY TO WIN. saying this is like breath of the wild is a compliment, but of course its still not in that level.

    combat: ok story: ok, maybe meh music: good world: looks really great, could have more stuff in it(they are adding it) graphics: really good    i think the game is a 7 but there are too many idiots that dont know what the words pay to win even means. THIS GAME IS IN NO WAY PAY TO WIN. saying this is like breath of the wild is a compliment, but of course its still not in that level.

    combat: ok
    story: ok, maybe meh
    music: good
    world: looks really great, could have more stuff in it(they are adding it)
    graphics: really good
    price: its free but its a gacha, still no need to spend money at all, im almost AR 50 and i have only bought the thing that gives you primogems everyday for a month just 2 times, i did this not of need but because i liked the game. again because of all the idiots that cry p2w. YOU DONT HAVE TO SPEND MONEY.

    if you want an honest review then read the ones that are scored from 5 up to 8 (8 ones with a grain of salt)    … Expand
  18. l2aYz
    Dec 20, 2020
    8
    The dev is greedy as f for sure but you can beat this hardest content with f2p.
    some people just be an impatient and too demanding
    Combat system is pretty simple but enjoyable . the down side is You don't have much option as f2p because some cool mechanic and cool characters are locked behind paywall. World building is a plus if you enjoy anime fantasy things. TBH, I enjoy this    The dev is greedy as f for sure but you can beat this hardest content with f2p.
    some people just be an impatient and too demanding

    Combat system is pretty simple but enjoyable . the down side is You don't have much option as f2p because some cool mechanic and cool characters are locked behind paywall.
    World building is a plus if you enjoy anime fantasy things.

    TBH, I enjoy this free game even more than some AAA title this year.    … Expand
  19. Wiktorrock
    Dec 25, 2020
    8
    Can get repetitive, but there is a lot to do, a good story, and all around a well produced game. (Also quite annoying that i have to log in every time i launch the game but that’s okay)
  20. Tanub
    Jan 3, 2021
    8
    This game offer a great content till Ar 35, after around that you are only able to play for around 1-2 hours a day with the resin limits. But this game had a really fast updating speed compare to most game I've played (Around one or two months). Example Raft had one update around a year or half and you can finish the content around 2 days with friends. The four star in the game is alsoThis game offer a great content till Ar 35, after around that you are only able to play for around 1-2 hours a day with the resin limits. But this game had a really fast updating speed compare to most game I've played (Around one or two months). Example Raft had one update around a year or half and you can finish the content around 2 days with friends. The four star in the game is also playable with great artifacts but gacha rate is really low compare to other games (Four star are playable but not comparable to five star). The game do offer a great visual and also music but sadly with the resin and artifacts this game are not able to call itself "Open world" I gave a 8 score since this game help me passes few month of quarantine since October… Expand
  21. kmas88
    Feb 12, 2021
    8
    First off you have to understand this is a gacha game! This free game wants you to spend money and that's. That's literally how the developers make money off of this. Apart from that this game is a gem in terms of presentation: beautiful scenery, great music, and arrive game mechanics that keep getting better with each update. Most will say the game is bad b/c they didn't pull theFirst off you have to understand this is a gacha game! This free game wants you to spend money and that's. That's literally how the developers make money off of this. Apart from that this game is a gem in terms of presentation: beautiful scenery, great music, and arrive game mechanics that keep getting better with each update. Most will say the game is bad b/c they didn't pull the character they wanted, but new players should be aware the game is very much playable and fun with even the less rare characters. The duties are okay but ultimately the interchangeability from mobile to pc and backon the fly makes this game amazingly convenient and fun to pick up whenever.… Expand
  22. kalyaratkp
    Mar 4, 2021
    8
    Genshin Impact is the story game that have to do it gradually. This is free game play but you can also spent for it. Animation of this game is so beautiful and gorgeous, there are new characters in almost every week and it can make you fall in love while playing and back ground and scenery is different in each land that varied difficult. In the main story, you have to select fourGenshin Impact is the story game that have to do it gradually. This is free game play but you can also spent for it. Animation of this game is so beautiful and gorgeous, there are new characters in almost every week and it can make you fall in love while playing and back ground and scenery is different in each land that varied difficult. In the main story, you have to select four characters on the field in, each characters have different skill, attacks and elements. There is a tricks that you can combines the elements and get more stronger attack. The story quest and dialogue are interesting but also the weakest parts, the story conversation is completely okay to skip it, it ‘s so long and I surely that most of player also skip it. In some quest that have to find something, it’s hard to find them but it’s still say that it’s on this area, I take long time to find it. The ingredients and equipment is hard to find to make the food or level of the characters and weapon because they are in different area and this game and the map is so big, perhaps you not only to just pick the ingredient in the way but also have to kill the animal such as to get a meat, fish and chicken. In the high level, it hard to defeat the monster if you don’t have high star weapon and characters and can’t go to the next quest because you can’t pass the before quest with low stars. This game is fun but the gacha is so terrible, although you paid many thousands you still can’t get the 5 stars. Sometimes it make me feel dizzy because scene is rotated manually itself.… Expand
  23. Sheepish
    Mar 29, 2021
    8
    I hated this title with a fiery passion when the trailer was first released. I considered it to be a direct ripoff of my favorite game, Breath of the Wild. In late December my boyfriend told me to get it. I downloaded Genshin Impact on my phone and really enjoyed the first few hours. The game didn't feel like a ripoff to me, it felt like a love letter to the Zelda franchise. The OST isI hated this title with a fiery passion when the trailer was first released. I considered it to be a direct ripoff of my favorite game, Breath of the Wild. In late December my boyfriend told me to get it. I downloaded Genshin Impact on my phone and really enjoyed the first few hours. The game didn't feel like a ripoff to me, it felt like a love letter to the Zelda franchise. The OST is perfect, the graphics are stunning, and the character designs blow me away. The amount of work that goes into each character's outfit, idle animations, and lore is incredible.
    Despite that, Genshin still has big problems. I don't really mind the resin system but I understand it limits a lot of gameplay. The Gacha aspect turns away a lot of potential fans and can be detrimental for some individuals. That is to say, Gacha is not integral to the gameplay. The four or five free characters you get are really good if you build them right(Kaeya is a god). Another issue is the repetitive nature of the missions. I get tired of sweeping leaves for Albert and mopping up some kid's boat but you have to keep in mind that the game hasn't finished yet. It probably won't finish for years to come. Plus, I used to be an avid Red Dead Online player so I'm used to participating in repetitive missions and menial tasks for a sliver of cash.
    I feel like it is important to add that I have spent money on the Gacha system. I have spent $25 in total. $15 for Xiao on his last day and $10 in the months since for the Welkin Moon Blessing. I didn't get Xiao if you were wondering. It is really easy to drop $300 in 3 minutes for even the prospect of getting Diluc and hackers are a big problem. Mihoyo seems more invested in closeting leaks than fixing bigger issues.
    I really like Genshin Impact so my review is going to be very biased. Please take my words with a grain of salt. If you hate this title with as much passion as I did when it first released, just try it. If you still hate it, then that's ok.

    Kinda a nitpick: (1)I saw a review that said they paid full price for this game and complained about the Gacha system. Genshin is free. (2)A game cannot have the potential to be labeled as "AAA" because that term is defined as follows, "AAA is an informal classification used for video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher..." By this definition, Genshin Impact is a AAA title. I just saw some misinformation and wanted to correct it. I doubt any person would actually believe the false info but I still wanted to clarify.    … Expand
  24. SunGamePlay
    Apr 12, 2021
    8
    The biggest advantage of Genshin Impact is actually the art and audio of the game. Everything other than that is only close to average. No one can deny that it is a good game to play before you have explored the world, but it is not that fun to play the game after that. As Genshin Impact is actually free to play, It is very recommended to play the game until you have finishing exploredThe biggest advantage of Genshin Impact is actually the art and audio of the game. Everything other than that is only close to average. No one can deny that it is a good game to play before you have explored the world, but it is not that fun to play the game after that. As Genshin Impact is actually free to play, It is very recommended to play the game until you have finishing explored the world. Remember that you don't need to pay anything to get the main experience of the game.… Expand
  25. dragonhatt
    Jun 5, 2021
    8
    I think the game is good but, there are reasons I dislike the game 1. The Resin System After many many Months of the game you would think they would have fixed The Resin System but they haven't The Resin System they really need to fix this because you get resin every 8 minutes and resin is a crucial thing for Genshin Impact you can't get additional mora without resin you can't get expI think the game is good but, there are reasons I dislike the game 1. The Resin System After many many Months of the game you would think they would have fixed The Resin System but they haven't The Resin System they really need to fix this because you get resin every 8 minutes and resin is a crucial thing for Genshin Impact you can't get additional mora without resin you can't get exp books if you don't have resin and you can't get loot from bosses and it's just an extremely viable thing for Genshin Impact, they could easily fix this by just giving us resin by doing commissions and with that let's talk about commisio--

    Part 2. **** commission rewards

    For doing 4 commisions you as an idiot that went onto **** to learn if among us is a good game must think hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm reward epic no its not its **** part tres: good things

    the game is fun its rewarding you can fuel your gambling addiction with its gacha system that everyone on this **** website says is garbage even if its a **** gacha game what the hell do you except you idiot great storyline amazing visuals and overall fun and rewarding when you finally deal 100k damage after 3 months of work then realizing that tony to exists and he will forever deal more damage than you no matter how hard you try well **** this **** website its the absolute worst it has idiots and **** garbage braindead humans **** you    … Expand
  26. neon_
    Jun 19, 2021
    8
    okay, i noticed if you go on the bad reviews, all of them talk about the resin wall. yeah sometimes it can be a problem, but it replenishes over time so you may have to wait a few hours between playing. also, you can get fragile resin for free just by playing, so you can replenish it yourself. my only advice is to not rush through the game, then complain that there’s nothing to do. youokay, i noticed if you go on the bad reviews, all of them talk about the resin wall. yeah sometimes it can be a problem, but it replenishes over time so you may have to wait a few hours between playing. also, you can get fragile resin for free just by playing, so you can replenish it yourself. my only advice is to not rush through the game, then complain that there’s nothing to do. you don’t need any fancy character’s to win the game and if you want a character, just save up wishes. you don’t have to pay to unlock everything. before anyone asks, i’m AR 41… Expand
  27. tyker1
    Jun 23, 2021
    8
    So no one is saying the game itself is bad. People talking about the Gacha and Gambling System.
    Yes, it is not that good, if you never played such game (like i say, most japanese MMOs, all korean MMOs, and almost every single mobile games). In fact compared to other mobil games ( just remember, its in fact a mobil game with cross play function), the small pitty for 90 draws, where you get    So no one is saying the game itself is bad. People talking about the Gacha and Gambling System.
    Yes, it is not that good, if you never played such game (like i say, most japanese MMOs, all korean MMOs, and almost every single mobile games). In fact compared to other mobil games ( just remember, its in fact a mobil game with cross play function), the small pitty for 90 draws, where you get a random 5 star garantieed, and according to the survy, most people will reach this pitty between 70-80th draw.

    Alright even 70-80 sounds terrible right? that means you need about 200 bucks for a random 5 star (50% to be the pick up one), or 400 bucks for the pick up one if you had bad luck. But lets think about the free crystals you can get. Approximatly you get about 6000 crystals each version, and genshin updates every 40 days (its basically 2 banners, each for 20 days). So without paying anything, you get 6k crystals every 40 days as long as you just spend about 10min each day for dailies, and doing all campains ( either 4-7 hours for the whole champain, or about 30min everyday during champain). In addition to it, you get about 10k crystals each major area, where you have 3 currently plus 1 time limited and only gives about 2k. So lets say, join the game play the first month and paying nothing will give you about 36k crystals, which is more than 220 draws. If you willing to pay a little bit for it, get the monthly subscription which costs 5 bucks every 30 days, grant you 100 crystal every day and 300 genesis crystal (the currency where you can only get buy paying real money, used to exchange 1:1 to crystal or buy some packages/skin from cash shop), even more you can get a battle pass for each version, which costs you extra 10 bucks and gives you 5 draws (800 crystal) for time limited banner and 5 for normal as well as 680 crystals and tons of resources. So paying about 15 bucks you can get almost a pitty every month considering the 5 monthly free draws from shop and most people get thier pitty between 70-80.

    So what do you get from gacha? Either Powerful and/or cute/sexy waifus. But the game is completely playable even you dont draw a single charactor (there are people doing this way as challenge), you just need some player skills and spend a bit more time when fighting boss.

    And those complaining about "Pay to play daily", they meaning the rensin system, oh yes, you get about 180 rensin regen for each day, those daily activities costs you either 20 or 40 each time when you want to claim the prize. And you can spend up to 900 crystals every day for 300 extra rensin, if you whale it, bringing you tons of more trash relics and about 300 extra exp, which means almost nothing if you plan to play long with it (since the game is softly capped after lv55, and even not spending a single coin on it, you get at least 50 moons from main quests result in 3k extra rensin, and you can hit lv55 within 3 month buy just doing the daily and use your daily 180 rensin). So in some way, it is pay to play long, but even if you whale, you cant play it the whole day.

    And just to make it sure, its neither an MMO or a Diablo-Like game, which keeps you on endlessly. Even those 3As, which also turn out to have nothing to do for the most people after the first 100 - 150 hour game play. As its an PvE game without super hard dungeons, its just fine to not have all the charactors. ( i mean, you want to play an awesome game, but dont want to pay for it, and you want to have everything? games are not charity i mean. f2p means you have to gave up some game experience)    … Expand
  28. tai230
    Oct 15, 2021
    8
    The game has beautiful graphics, beautiful characters and a good story. But I don't see the respect for the player from the publisher Mihoyo.
  29. Sorenko
    Jul 31, 2021
    8
    For people that can play casually a game:
    I feel like every single bad review is focused on the same SINGLE aspect of the game. And it is called "Constellation/Refine". To explain to whoever is thinking of playing this game, there are quite a few "parallel power systems" on the game. A weapon, for instance, has its level (and upgrading is totally free, requires no real money) and a    For people that can play casually a game:
    I feel like every single bad review is focused on the same SINGLE aspect of the game. And it is called "Constellation/Refine". To explain to whoever is thinking of playing this game, there are quite a few "parallel power systems" on the game. A weapon, for instance, has its level (and upgrading is totally free, requires no real money) and a "Refine level" (which u upgrade by sacrificing a duplicate of the weapon. The only way to get reliable duplicates is through loot boxes). The same goes for characters (though they have more parallel power systems). But here is the caught: you DO NOT NEED max Refine level to play even the hardest part of the game. It is not required. So I have to explicitly point out that this is a F2P game and if your desire to min/max is so strong, then pay the ridiculous amount of money to min/max ALL characters (again NOT NEEDED). It feels unfair to give a 0 or 1 based on constellation/refine. I do agree that it is frustrating to not be able to have character X or Y due to in-game currency being locked out (but, again, it is a F2P game). Regarding "energy" limit, people seem to think time-gate is bad... I think a bit of it (not saying Genshin has the perfect amount) is GREAT... cause it keeps people from grinding the game and finishing it in 24hrs.

    Genshin can be played in different ways. You can grind and max out chars to see big dmg numbers, you can spend hours exploring (like Skyrim, which costs money btw), you can dive deep into intricate lore with meaningful side quests (like MMOs, again... money). You can casually play and slowly build up a good team FOR FREE while exploring the current patch/zone (in a seasonal manner, much like PoE). This game is GOOD and can be played casually. Don't let min/max culture keep you away from trying the game.

    Regarding the grind aspect, Genshin was designed so that you could spend a lot of time on it (much like WoW, FF14, MOBAs) and it is something to consider if you want to farm some types of in-game currency. But I play it like PoE, a seasonal think. The third MAIN zone has just been out and there is more than 100 hours of game (basic exploration, main quest, and side characters story quest) to be done. So, I'll again just make it clear:

    You don't f****** need ALL legendary characters to get AND/OR max constellation/refine on itens to play this game. It is mostly single-player. Nobody, but you, will see how much dmg you do.

    Nobody cares. You should just care to see if you can beat the challenge. And, nowadays, it is GOOD that some challenges take time. People want to buy a game and beat it as fast as possible to jump to another game. Just be chill/casual and juggle between a few games. Genshin can be one of those games for the price of 0 dollars.

    8/10
    -1 cause I also dont like gacha systems (but at least this one has a scalling odds subsystem)
    -1 cause they are yet to re-release a character through loot boxes (its dumb and new players, currently, 0 chances of getting "old" characters)    … Expand
  30. Jeltok
    Sep 29, 2021
    8
    Спасибо что услышали своих игроков и дали на годовщину хоть что то памятное
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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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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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