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Genshin Impact Review
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An incredible open-world and addictive exploration make Genshin Impact anime-zing adventure.
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Travis Northup
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In the open-world action RPG Genshin Impact, you are a traveler drifted from another world who has awoken in a new land. You will explore this wondrous world freely, make friends along the way, and look for "The Seven" -- Archons of the seven elements.
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JeffX24
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After playing this game for 3 years I wouldn't recommend playing it.
I start with the story. The story itself is interesting, but will miss out portions of the story or the lore because most of them are only playable in the current update. If a next update comes up, you either have to hurry and finish the story or you will miss out the content. The devs punishes player for not playing and for a newcomer it is not worth it.
The other issue is the wishing system. There is a standard banner, a weapon banner and a limited banner, which features limited characters. Each of them are 5 stars. The problem with the wishing system is that the character or weapon isn't even guaranteed. You have to atleast make 80-90 wishes for a 5 star weapon or character and if you are unlucky, you get a charcter or weapon from the standard banner. If you fail once on the limited banner, you have to make an additonal 80-90 wishes to get your guaranteed character. On the weapon banner you have to fail twice to guarantee your weapon. The limited banner last for a month and either you grind for the wishes or they encourage you to spent money on them.
The gameplay is nice, but only, if you have the characters, weapons and good artifacts. If one of them (especially artefacts) is missing, the experience isn't as good as it should be. The artifacts have random stats and even if you have some good ones, you have to level up the stats too and it is NOT guaranteed which stat will level up. It is just frustrating to see how often it messes up your artifact and the game itself runs with an energy mechanic, which prevents you from playing, unless you pay for it.
Then there is the issue with the devs themselves. They earn millions of dollars and they give less in return. A good example is the third anniversary, where they only gave 3 wishes for our "loyal support". A real slap on the face for all players. If you are reading this please stop playing this game. Just play other games where the devs listen.
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baiardiQuit
Not Recommended
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Please free yourself from gacha games, they are not worth the value. The game is good, but I do not recommend it because players are heavily influenced to spend money on it
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musePlaying
Recommended
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This game is fun but their gacha is unforgiving :(
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I don't consider my self a MMORPG player at all i simply lack the patience, yet genshin made an exception.
I even didn't know the game genre when i first download it, at first the fighting mechanisms and graphic didn't catch my eye and i only kept playing to get my hands on aloy character but as i went through the main story i realized the game has a surprisingly great story, I can't even point at the reasons you just cope with characters and their logics.
at its simplicity you can find countless deep and well-thought details which is surprising considering games first impression.
the game-play by it self is brilliant even as a player who avoids MMORPGs you would easily learn to enjoy it over time.
and there is no need to discuss the amount of the play-time, today the main story alone has a 60 hour game-play and more than 500 hour to full completion which basicly means that you can die on this game.
an other surprisingly noticeable feature of the game is how they could keep adding content to the game and keep it relevant to the already existing content even keep it deep and logical too.
in a more simple words genshin impact is one of the most under-rated games of this generation i can stress this enough i don't like RPGs, genshin is one of two MMORPGs that i really enjoy playing and simply can't get enough of.
only two flaws i can find in this game
one is that it was built in unity which i can see why, according to make a anime themed game they go with a well proved engine in 2D game development which can handle 3D games as well but it simply was wrong, unreal would have been far more suitable for a game of this mass and it could create better graphic, lighting, detail and keep the anime art style.
two, game has a ranking mechanism (adventure rank) and each mission (quest) has its own minimum adventure rank to start i simply see it as a way to extend play-time which with the amount of content in genshin is obsoletely unnecessary, its just annoying.
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Great art style, regions and characters. But the daily grind for 1/100 of a character that you aren't even guaranteed the one you want I cannot justify
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takes a lot of storage and in 2024 it may be hard to get into
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An incredible open-world and addictive exploration make Genshin Impact anime-zing adventure.
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