Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact is part of a wave of titles from China that is slowly eroding the bad stereotype that Chinese devs are devoid of creativity and skill. While the initial comparisons are there, Genshin Impact does go beyond to distinguish itself…now if only the gacha rates and the free primogem are better I would have no hesitation recommending the title.

Genshin Impact is a well above average RPG to which we will dedicate many hours, but that gets lost in a monetization system typical of the gacha genre that sometimes demands too much from us. However, the free to play experience is wonderful offering us a beautiful and colorful world that can boast an absurdly good character design and a story capable of keeping us hooked.

This is a great ARPG that successfully introduces the ‘gacha’ mechanics into the West. Yes, it is build around micro transactions, but they’re not particularly aggressive, and it’s definitely worth a try.

With a dense open world inspired by Breath of the Wild, Genshin Impact provides hours of free entertainment with its rich combat and deep RPG systems.

Put aside your reservations about free-to-play mobile RPGs, gacha mechanics, and weeby storytelling: Genshin Impact is totally unique. I came in a skeptic and now find myself genuinely relishing hours more time spent chaining elemental combos, grinding for new characters, and the intrigue of its ongoing story.

Its success is already guaranteed, let's just hope that the follow-up is of quality and that its economic model does not reveal any unpleasant surprises with the updates.

Genshin Impact has been nicknamed "Breath of the Waifu" due to its obvious influences and cute characters. But surprisingly, the game is much more than that.

I don't understand the hate for this game at all. What is a "predatory gacha" game? It sounds like people get upset when they lose on pulls not understanding they ARE playing a GACHA game which is sorta like gambling. You could always take the FTP (free to play route)...I did. And now am sitting here 2 years later with over 60 characters and 10 of them are 5 stars. The saddest thing that happened to this game recently is a voice actor strike causing silence and captions where there should be voice which ruins the immersion a bit. Regardless of that literally pretty much every story in the game is excellent. I'm glad miHoyo didn't just throw in AI voice actors instead even at the cost of feeling like the new patches are quick and there is no care involved. It is actually the opposite. This game wanted to be organic so they stuck by their VA's many of which were able to drop their contract and come back. The soundtrack is not synthesized they actually used orchestras and it turned out beautiful. As a long time Zelda fan I gotta say this game seems inspired by breath of the wild and it's recycled counterpart tears of the kingdom. Loved BOTW but this game came along added elements, great combat, a party system, a building system and knocked it out of the park 10x better than zelda could've and that pains me to say since I've been playing Zelda games since the very first title. Then you got people whining that the game is too "grindy". If you don't wanna grind for character building don't play RPGs like in general.. at all unless you want to get an idle rpg and let AI play a game for you because attention span is low then do that.. or don't game at all. I really wish people would quit review bombing this masterpiece because all that really does is point the devs in the wrong direction cuz they think people don't like their game. Rant over as I said this game IS A MASTERPIECE and have literally no complaints just a wish the devs would add more character relation options but it's already around 130GB so prolly not would be cool tho and the ability to customize character outfits and weapon skins even just change the colors. But please stop review bombing this game because it deserves the opposite. Highly recommended game, loved every minute playing since March 2023.

overall is good but lately the powercreap is real, and it feel like this game start to more greedy.

God this game requires you to be an actual no lifer lol. The amount of grinding you need to do the spiral abyss decently, DECENTLY, is crazy. Can't really talk about the story because i dont even know wtf is going on. At first we had to find our sister all of a sudden we helping nations?!?! bruh. The way they deliver the story is so boring i just cant help but to skip it lol.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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