Is Genshin Impact Worth Playing in 2023? (An Honest F2P Perspective)
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- Is Genshin Impact worth it? In this review, I go deep into Genshin Impact's gameplay, open world exploration, combat and gacha mechanics, so you can decide whether it's worth playing in 2023.
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1:14 Exploration in the Open World
3:35 Combat
7:00 Progression
10:15 Questing
12:43 Gacha
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God, microtransactions are the worst thing to happen to gaming
except they've been present since a very long time ago like expansions and accessories to game devices. Microtransactions are not the worst thing to happen to gaming, in fact I'd argue it can be utilized properly when used well that doesn't feel horrible to the players.
@@dragoneater2596 The differences is expansion packs and even gaming accessories were almost always Sold after the fact as a 1 time purchase. modern Games with micro transactions have their gameplay built around the fact that micro transactions exist. And yeah like anything could be implemented in a way that it doesn't harm players but it's not lucrative to use micro transactions like that, It's more lucrative to milk whales by pushing people towards buying micro transactions by designing the game to Be a grind and And hide exclusive contents behind shitty ass loot boxes.
Tell you never played the game without telling you never played the game
@@samirm9097 i don't need to play a game with microtransactions to know the microtransactions have made the game worse than it otherwise would be. game companies don't implement them for the players benefit they do it because they get more money and design the game to get players to buy microtransactions.
@@Noschool100 most of the games have microtransactions* even Call of duty or Warframe have them
Ok, a few comments for people who are on the fence about playing.
During the review he mentioned world level.
As you get more overall experience, there are stages when you can move the world level forward. Each time you do, it becomes harder.
Or to put it another way, the game is easier at lower levels, so you can go many places and the mobs are scaled down to your level.
As your characters progress (their level, their weapons level and refinement, their talents, their artefacts) , they become stronger.
There are a couple of times, where if you progress the world level with badly equipped characters, it can be a bit of a challenge.
So you hold the world level back, until you have a better team.
At high levels the overland content becomes trivial.
The fun (at high levels) comes from beating bosses, progressing characters, weapons, artefacts and skills, trying out new combinations of characters, enjoying the story and events, and beating your own times.
As there is no PVP in the game, it makes absolutely no difference if your characters are not as well equipped as somebody else.
The only time you even see others is during some co-op events, and nobody cares if you are stronger or weaker.
The pity system means that there is about a 1% chance per pull of a 5* character. On the 90th pull after your last 5* there is a 50% chance you will get the character on the banner. If you do not, then your next 5* will be the character on the banner.
This pity carries over from banner to banner.
I.e. I am five pulls for a guaranteed banner 5* character.
Most characters have a preferred weapon, but there are many other weapons they can use.
You may not be in the top 10% without that weapon, but as no PvP it makes absolutely no difference.
Some of the best characters in the game are 4* characters.
I have nearly every character in the game, and my best team (national team) is made up for three four stars, and one five star.
You can enjoy the game free to play easily, if anything, I wish I had not have whaled on it, as nothing is a challenge now.
As long as you can beat the content, it is pointless spending (apart from getting new characters to try) as there is no PVP, so you are never compared against others.
No pvp well I love this game
Thank you. For me this comment was much more informative than the actual video.
You should make a short video too, lots of info to share
Man, your comment actually makes me wanna play this game.
Adding this: some people who are toxic do care but tbh I've only ever met 1 person in the close to a year I've been playing
This review is kinda bad if you ask me, alot of your points kinda fall flat if you just continue the game. I wont explain myself because I cant be bothered to type it to a guy that blatently ignores critasism (reading comments).
For the people watching feel free to find other f2p reviews as this one is pretty misinformed.
"Its getting better later" is cope and you know it. If the early game is bad enough to turn off some people, it does not matter how good the rest is.
I'm really curious to see your part 2 on the regions they built when they had raked in the money and put it back into the game. The parts you've reviewed are what the game released with but it was an enlightening experience to hear a fresh perspective on the release regions after playing so long in the new regions.
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I totally agree. Sumeru's archon quest was pretty cool in my opinion.
The enemy variety will increase as you unlock new region. There will be new types of enemies in Inazuma, and there will be new type of enemies in Sumeru. And more region will be released in the future, which means, more variety of enemy. As the HP bar, you need to put on artifact and upgrade them to boost your damage and increase your talent. Level character and weapon alone wont be enough to deal with higher level mobs
A conventional rpg or mmorpg has how many types of enemies? And for genshin, you can even count and name them without the need of a spreedsheet
@@alfredchen4579 Well if we classify them it would be
Elemental Lifeforms:
Slimes (8 different types)
Specters (7 different types)
Eye of the storm
Hypostasis (7 different types)
Oceanid
Thunder Manifestation
Fungus:
Floating Fungus (3 different types)
Grounded Shroom (2 different types)
Stretchy fungus (4 different types)
Whirling fungus (3 different types)
Winged Shroom (2 different types)
Jadeplume Terrorshroom
Hilichurls:
Hilichurl (14 different types)
Mitachurl (5 different types)
Lawachurl (3 different types)
Samachurl (6 different types)
Abyss:
Abyss Mage (4 different types)
Abyss Herald (2 different types)
Abyss Lector (2 different types)
Rifthound Welp (2 different types)
Rifthound (2 different types)
Golden Wolford
Shadowy husk (3 different types)
Black serpent knight (2 different types)
Fatui:
Fatui Skirmisher (6 different types)
Fatui Pyro Agent
Fatui Cicin mage (2 different types)
Mirror Maiden
Automatons:
Ruin Guard
Ruin Hunter
Ruin Grader
Ruin Destroyer
Ruin Defender
Ruin Scout
Ruin Serpent
Perpetual Mechanical Array
Ruin Drake: Earthguard
Ruin Drake: Skywatch
Aeonblight Drake
Primal Construct: Repulsor
Primal Construct: Reshaper
Primal Construct: Prospector
Algorithm of Semi-Intransient Matrix of Overseer Network
Maguu Kenki
Other Human Factions:
Treasure Hoarders (11 different types)
Nobushi (3 different types)
Kairagi (2 different types)
Eremites (12 different types)
Weekly bosses:
Stormterror
Lupus Boreas
Childe
Azhdaha
La Signora
Magatsu Mitake Narukami no Mikoto
Shouki no Kami
Other:
Hydro mimics (8 different types)
Whopperflowers (4 different types)
Regisvine (3 different types)
These should be all of them but there's still at least 3 more reigons to come
@@alfredchen4579 Not a spreadsheet but my man @Foxy Pinky gave you a CVS receipt 🤣
@@foxypinky1317 🏋🏾♀️🏋🏾♀️
@@alfredchen4579 interesting
I think if you get over the beginning hump of the tutorial under AR7 then you have a chance to get hooked in, and then if you make it past moondstadt then you might easily get addicted. Some of my friends quit the game early on, but after convincing them to try it again they became massive fans. Big obstacle is also the daily grind, however after you just get your basic team of 4 characters that can take you through the overworld, which is really fast you can just relax and play it as a constantly updated single player RPG.
The combat can feel lackluster or tedious at times, but honestly that is usually remedied by getting new characters which you can combine and it switches up the gameplay, that is the biggest negative for me probably. A lot of people are fine with playing the same team for years, but for me i just need all the characters. The health bars are obviously tuned for a good team composition or just characters at higher level, in the early game the balance is a bit off for sure.
Addiction is bad
Impressive very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's mobile game.
*Raid Shadow Legends*
NOOOOOOO
I disagree about enemy variety. Have you actually left Mondstadt? Also as an ar 60 with a 266 crit damage ayaka I one shot everything so enemies need more hp...
I was thinking this too! I think the variety in enemies is fine as it is, and with investment in dps character, even as a f2p, you can kill anything fast. I think this guy is mistaken with it, because he seems like he's only played in Mondstadt and Liyue and is really low AR without good artifacts.
Ikrrr
How do you get 266 krit damage? By grinding Artifact sets?
I 100% agree with your disagreement. Inazuma, enkanomiya, the Chasm and Sumeru address many of his conplains. And investing in the one Character you like makes you a powerhouse that can rip through anything. 😈
There might be many enemies but they are just as braindead and cheaply designed as hilichurls. All they do to increase difficulty is invincibility phases and a fuck ton of health.
The enemies in this game are some of the worst I have ever seen.
I don't know if someone pointed that out, but when you are talking about de progression system, there is one thing that you don't talked about, in the talents of each character can be upgraded, this is most likely the reason that you are feeling that the enemies have too much health...
As someone who hasn't really delved into talents. I only feel like enemies have too much health if I'm not combo'ing elements right or my team Comp doesn't match the challenge. The health pools are high to force you into combos imo. I dont mind it personally.
I"ve been playing as an f2p since the launch back in 2020. I still absolutely love the game: the characters are nice, the story/lore is fantastic and the exploration brings me joy (not all the time but especially when a new region is out, summer at this moment more specifically). As far as saving up goes: depending on how active/grindy i'm playing at the moment (say: events, new archon quests, etc.) it may take as long as a few months to save up for characters. I don't mind it as much as most of the characters that i like are four stars anyway.
For the combat: it's true that elemental reaction based teams are more favorable, considering the last physical focused 5star was Eula from Mondstadt, and deal more damage. It's also easier to do a quick-swap team that focus on elemental reactions rather than physical damage.
My bottom line is: there's no need to actually pay money for characters but it's true that staying active in the game such as completing all your dailies, the events and the archon quests all the time is necessary to collect enough primogems (excluding the occasional livestream codes that appear before major updates). But that's just my opinion at the end :)
Nobody gives a fuck about "your" bottom line this game is a scam, period.
@@Herme5touch grass
@@bryanamb4302 says the person watching a genshin impact video 😂
Big cap lol
Is it true that it can drain battery fast?
I'm surprised, You as Mass Effect _connoisseur_ made a review of Genshin Impact. I guess the game is affecting us all. But I'm glad you did! The games are massive now! 😌
My experience with the game is just POSITIVE. No complaints. It's really beautiful, and the music is absolutely gorgeous, shout out to Yu Peng and his crew for making masterpieces for this game. I would even say that music carries the game by 70%+. I can get immersed in it and forget about world problems for a long time. The story is amazing, yes, it might not be perfect in every aspect of It, but I will say the story is really complex, so mistakes happen in telling the whole story that the audience appreciates but personally, I love it all the way. Talking about combat and endgame content, for those who want to start the game, *THE GAME IS CLEARABLE WITHOUT SPENDING A SINGLE PENNY!* Just don't be dumb, don't waste your maths and resources which are not mandatory at the moment for you if you intend to beat the endgame for example The Abyss. There are tons of guides on CZcams which can help you like Sekapoko, Zajef, Xlice etc. But that's just my opinion and suggestion but you can play the game how you want and in your own way. Any character and their combinations (Teams) are possible to clear any content in the game if you do it properly. A lot of people blame the gacha system because "I have to whale for Constellations to make my characters stronger, this games dogshit, I can't do it." No, whaling is optional in this game, the most power will derive from *ARTIFACTS*. Yes, it's sadly RNG with 4+ layers on each artefact, that's true. It could get grindy, but if you put the time into doing it like daily commissions you'll eventually get a good artefact, not perfect, but good enough to clear most of the content.
Lastly, I think the only negative side of the game is it might be harder for new players to come to play since a lot of events in the game are time limited. If you make it you make it, if not you lose it all. I have no idea it's possible to fix it that - if you come late, you lose touch with some parts of the story and its characters because a lot of the ingame content is not permanent, it's time limited.
Well I play since day one and haven't skipped any event I can't complain but for new players, it might be hard to hold them in.
In conclusion, play the game in your own way and play it smart. You don't have to spend money if you don't want to. It could give you extra power but it's not mandatory. 🙏
Wow was not expecting this review but imo I think the game is really fun, been playing it since 2020 release and yes it can be confusing or feel a bit to grindy and the enemies can be really tanky. Building you character is a lot more difficult because it’s not just about the level or weapon u also need to get artifact sets that match your team synergy and upgrade your characters talents. I highly recommend to all new players to look up some guides for new players and character/ team builds for characters u have. The game opens up a lot more there’s so much more content right now than the 1st 2 areas and alot more enemy variety. It’s good not to over play and stress yourself out take breaks. I took a few months off and now I’m having so much fun in 2 new areas named The Chasm and Sumeru the new region. The game is very grindy to get to end game but I think it’s worth it. Oh and there is so many ways to get premogems in game my friend is free to play aside from buying 2 battle passes and he has so many good 4/5 star characters and weapons. When u explore and open chest and do certain quest u get a lot of premogems like a lot over time and another big way is through limited time events but sadly most are for higher level people so start grinding. Hope new players enjoy this game and don’t take it to serious please be cautious on spending money the only things I would ever recommend if u get into game is BATTLEPASS and or welcon moon which is $5 US (you get primogems for 30 days every time u log on). Thanks for anyone who read this and enjoy ur day/ night
I'm a little surprised there's no mentions of the puzzles. It would be fun to see what he thinks of the expansion regions and how they shake up the content.
This is a "early game" review, because almost everything you said, is solved lategame:
Until now (patch 3.0)
- Enemy variety: You named 4 factions -> Elemental lifeforms (slimes), Hilichurls, Automatons (ruin guard), Other human factions (treasure hoarders).
- The game has 7 main factions + (15 subfactions): Elemental lifeforms (Slimes, Specters, hypostasis), Hilichurls, The abyss (Mages, Heralds, Rifthounds, Shadowy husks), Fatui, Automatons, Other human factions (Treasure hoarders, Nobushi, Kairagi, Eremite), Mystical beasts (Whoppeflowers, Vishaps, Cicins, Fungi).
Some of them are World bosses (Like the elemental flowers, Cubes and manifestations).
- We also have 6 Weekly bosses: (Stormterror, Dominator of the wolves, 11 Fatui harbinger, Azhdaha, 8 Fatui harbinger, Magatsu mitake narukami no mikoto).
- 2 story only bosses (Overlord of the vortex, Avenger of the vortex).
Progression:
- Adventure rank is not only to unlock quests...but also to increase difficulty (world lvl) and rewards.
You'll get better drops from enemies/bosses and domains.
The dungeons you are fighting are just "tutorials", the true Dungeons are Artifacts/Talent domains.
Lvl up Characters and Weapons is only the beggining.
The true power is: Talents + Artifacts that you'll only start to farm at AR 35-45.
Gatcha:
- You don't need to care. They'll give us enough resources to get a few characters and maybe a premium character/weapon each patch.
- If you spend 5$ per month, you can get at lest 1 premium character per patch,if not... in 2 is garanteed.
- If you didn't get the premium character of the banner, the next premium WILL BE the featured character.
- Weapons banner is a scam... don't pull there.
- A bunch of 3* weapons are GREAT for normal gameplay. The 4 and 5* weapons will be better ONLY on Endgame (Abyss). Most of the 3* will have better passives for casual players.
- 4* Characters/weapons ARE NOT GARBAGE!!! Are you insane? WTF!!!!
Premium characters (5*) will have better animations/Story quests and better stats... but THEY ARE NOT BETTER THAN 4*.
Some 4* are TOP META.
Most of the 5* weapons are maded for specific 5* characters. You DON'T NEED IT! (All my dps are using 4* weapons).
You didn't talk about Exploration and Puzzles, the best thing in Genshin.
Also, some Sidequests are Bigger and WAY BETTER than the mainquests (sadly, no Voice acting).
Sorry for my bad english.
i remember playing this game every day like two years ago on my ipad. it was literally the only game i had because it required so much storage. i can't even imagine how big it must be now, but god i miss playing it so much.
aw, why aren't you playing it anymore?
@@saeravi like i said, its too big to even be downloades on any ios device that has other apps. i’d rather have tiktok than genshin. and its not even available on mac.
My first time hearing about this game. I may try it out on my PS4. I like f2p games. I played a lot of Fortnite and later Fall Guys.
Would like to know what was the last music track playing in the background. It's so melancholic and chill.
Hey BigDan! Is there somewhere to watch your streams if I miss the live stream?
Very Organized and straight to the point , thank you :)
This is like a beginners review things change once you hit endgame and more regions you need a part two because enemy variety changes drastically and enemy's die rather fast endgame
Hmm this review is interesting but like others have said I think you need to play a lot more before talking about the game in depth, right now it's like playing the first 10 hours of a 100+ hour game.
Case and point, enemy variety: you said there wasn't a lot of enemy variety, but Genshin actually has a huge amount of enemy variety, it's just that a lot of it was added later on and as such are in later zones and later game content. You have Hillichurls, Mitachurls, Lawachurls, Slimes, Abyss Mages, and Ruin Guards, yes, in the first few hours of gameplay. But later on you get fatui, Abyss Heralds and Lectors, All types of ruin enemies like doritos and graders, wolfhounds, vishaps, specters, Samurai, mushrooms, automatrons, and much more. Not to mention a large amount of bosses.
cope more lmfao
@@bradlesmcgee9566 Everything OP said is right, though. While the video got a lot right, there are factual inaccuracies that seem to mostly be based on his info being extremely outdated, or at least all from the early portions of the game.
New enemies get added in with each major region and now there are a ton of them (to say nothing of the fact that some of the various enemy elemental variations even in the prologue region can play completely differently from one another, and how you have to fight them), and right now they have an absolutely massive roster of enemies. The story also gets really dark, including things like civil wars, human sacrifices, terminal illnesses, degenerative mental disorders, etc...
Heck, 4:23 missed the meta-redefining Dendro element that they made playable in the same patch that they added a bunch of new enemies, including an entirely new faction of humanoid enemies (making it the 6th one after the Abyss Order, the Fatui, Treasure Hoarders, samurai, and Black Serpent Knights, all of which contain multiple distinct enemy types themselves), which released around a week or 2 before this video came out.
@@bradlesmcgee9566 you'll never be like internet historian, cope.
10:45 this does drastically change and will change even more as the game goes later on. Same goes for Honkai Impact 3rd, for some reason Mihoyo likes to start their game really cozy and slow, which makes them kinda feel boring at the start to be honest, but then the story gets way darker and more interesting.
I would say this is true to about 80% of all fantasy jrpgs
thats the point
If you want to sit through 30 hours of dialogue each quest then it might get interesting to you, but it's a horrible torture for the rest of us.
@@jackdren9974 I mean at that point you are just playing the wrong game... same reason im not playing DS or Diablo, they are not for me
@@HelloOnepiece except the game is marketed as a combat mechanic-based game and not a story game. I don't mind the story and I actually used to like it back when they actually put some effort with cutscenes and unique storyline quests rather than scrolling through endless lines of texts and talking with npc's I don't give a shit about for what feels like 5 years each time.
Damn i just was looking for a video like this, thanks!
Too bad it's a poor one. Although a year old now, the mentioned Genshin critique by NeverKnowsBest is far superior to this barely researched joke of a video.
I have to disagree on the enemy variety…there’s already a lot, at this point, I feel like if I had to remember any more enemy types and weaknesses I might actuslly cry 😂 the region bosses are also really fun to re-fight too😅
I thought I was the only one thinking that xD this game is not here for hard core fight Systems. So I also don't want to lern more then necessary to enjoy the rest of the game
now we get more enemies 🤣
Hey Big Dan, if gambling is good is swooping still bad? Lol. I was on the fence with this one so thanks for the review, I think I'm going to give it a try. Love the content, keep doing what you're doing. 🤟
New players: Enemies are too tanky.
Veteran players: Enemies are too weak.
chad non players: Playing genshin is a waste of time .
if u r f2p u get around 8000 primos each update (around 40days). which means around 50 wishes. and that is events only and dailies. if u add that 5 bucks welkin to it it would be around 11000. no exploration included. each region has around 100-200 wishes worth of primo just from exploration
@あやんこあいこ depends on the update it is usually around 8k-9k for f2p and 3k more for those pay 5 bucks welkin
As someone who’s played it since early this year, yes.
The game doesn’t force you to roll for characters and can be played entirely with the free ones
Not to mention that you get lot of primogems just by playing the game, so you're never really going to be stuck with just the four characters the game gives you at the start.
I'm a dolphin, but my two friends who I play with often are free-to-play. We all play together just the same, and I don't really have any huge advantage over them.
@@danielhounshell2526 additionally you get a free xiangling to destroy the game
Yeah I feel that I'm not still pulling starting 2.6 until now. Maybe I save for Nahida.
@@peterbabicki8252 well Thats just bs i spend well over 8k on genshin while some friends who are f2p i sometimes play with (started at the same time) just aren’t nearly as progressed as i am weapons characters do make a bigger difference than people think not that it really matters since genshin in 90% a solo game anyway
There is one annoying thing, the resin. If you want to level up a character and weapon it takes ages when you dont have any reserves.
It's not just Resin, it's repetitiveness. Upgrade materials mean unfun grinding of the same bosses again and again and again.
@@whade62000 this tho the reason why i stop playing genshin...i rather play arknights
@@whade62000 its just so tedious bro i dont care if its repetitive its just something about the monster's behavior that we have to deal with and places we have to climb just to get to the monster it feels like they purposely make it tedious so that it feels longer to grind.
Upgrading character and weapons feels like hell compare to artifacts...
Oh hey, Big Dan did a Genshin video, awesome!
I love your Cyberpunk videos, and Genshin has been getting hyped, so now I want to learn more about it
I have a question My Traveler and Kazuha(C0) are both at Lv 70 my AR is 39 I'm currently working on the Chasm archon quest.
Should I raise my AR rank? OR should I wait until I have more Characters boosted? IF so what Lv for Hero, Talent, & Weapon and How many should I level up? Currently my gear consists of blues and purples..(Also IF I wanted I could outright ascend straight to AR 60. but that's besides the point. I'm aware that with each AR rank increase the Overworld becomes increasingly difficult. so information is helpful
wait this isn't April 1st
DAN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I've been really enjoying it- having just finished Mondstadt's main questline- even the wish system. I like that I can easily get an intertwined fate a day, which lets me participate without paying and makes getting the roll I want actually feel like it pays off. I'm also just a fan of the stories and characters in general.
The grinding is beginning to get annoying, but I was also just jumping around whichever quests gave the most primogems.
I play this game for a year now and i love it stress free❤
Have u done any follow up vids yet?
What song is playing during the Questing segment????
for a video labeled “in 2023” this video seems to show that u didn’t make it to inazuma, from there on most of the quests r kinda dark. also, as someone else pointed out, there are so many different enemies at this point that it can be hard to keep track. and many many different combat mechanics.
'I go deep into genshin impact's gameplay, open world exploration, combat, gacha mechanics'. Well, no, it's not a deep introspection. It's actually 15% to 20% of the game that's been covered.
I appreciate the honest review. More power!
enemies have way to much health?
players playing since 2021: Clears domain run in 30 seconds 🤣🤣
This.
His critique is based on so little experience that it is more or less bad. Even at the beginning enemies are so easy. Slap a Weapon and few artifacts on your character and you are good to go.
I whis that we would got new world levels, they dont need to increase loot, i sjust want to fight stuff for longer than 2 sec....
@@ChrissoWiper93 the trick is to not prefarm and not immediately level new characters
Sumeru has been fun with a lvl20 Tighnari (with good weapon and artifacts tho), supported by a built Thoma and Kuki.
Now if only abyss didn't force me to level Tighnari properly welp
yeah with the character you've no-lifed to build for a month
@@reformed827 Lol get to AR 45 get all you 1 team synergy level 90 lvl 6 talent slap a 5* artifact with CR circlet, Elemental goblet, ER sands you can literally do that in 3 days to easily clear domain, heck someone already clear abyss in day 1, what the hell are you talking about.
2:32 the floating mountain (avater mountain) is actually a real Place in China called Jhangjiajie Scenic park. It's breathtaking
Also, you do realize that this is a hybrid co-op game right? You can switch between the characters you have. I vaguely remember that, but you can also have a friend who has the electric element while you have the water elements in the two of you are combining as your way by remember right it works either way you can switch between or you can just have a friend with that element on your team
What's the music you used in the background?
Nice review but I have to disagree with the enemy variety. And the too much hp. Hahaha enemy variety is actually numerous specially in inazuma and sumeru. Hp isn’t really a problem as long as you build your character correctly.
For enemy types - also spectres, various kinds of lizards (vishaps), mushrooms, wildlife in Sumeru, samurai, desert treasure hoarder types, a bunch of robot types (they're regular mobs not minibosses), rifthounds, abyss mages and heralds (heralds count as minibosses I guess though they're regular mobs in Enkanomiya), husks/knights, whopperflowers, hilichurls themselves come in a bunch of flavors (the huge shielded ones that jump are really not the same mob as the small ones).
oh and Fatui, also several flavors (the shielder ones and cicin mages and mirror maidens can't be considered the same type of mob)
Don't defend the producers laziness - as a rpg, you can count mobs in Genshin with fingers and other older games than Genshin has a spread sheet of mobs. Not even mentioning Genshin's " borrowed inspirations" of bosses and abilities from others.
@@alfredchen4579 You can make a spreadsheet here too. There are 14 different types just of mushroom mobs and they're not palette swaps.
@@alfredchen4579 Plus this is also really late but if you're counting on over 100s of drops to ascend characters (also having to alchemy them into higher tiers) and use them for talents,you have to sprinkle variety between regions. If there was as video complaining about you'd increase the grinding time by probably 5x the amount and would make this game slog a lot harder and less fun. Because face it raising characters is a boring, tedious process especially for those that play casually.
Really enjoyed the video! Well made, informative. Good presentation. Appreciated this thanks!
anyone can help? i don't have full clearance on sand slate although i finished all the missions
Wasn't expecting a Genshin review from you Dan....but I'll take it👍😂
Only gripe i have with the review is about the story being...not that dark. Give it time....it gets darker 👀....and it'll keep getting darker as the new regions unlock. Dont expect it to live upto Mass Effects story tho.....you cant improve on perfection 💁♂️
What is the background song at the end?
I really recomend you to not get conclusion based on this video. He only played 20% of the game, basically 2020 content, the 2 starter region. He did not go to Inazuma, which another main region, he did not go to Enkanomyia and the Chasm, with are pretty huge maps bellow the surface, and have not gone to the biggest region in the game that Is Sumeru, Sumeru is bigger than Liyue and Mondstadt togheter,
Genshin Impact was my first "gotcha" game, (started in November 2020) ever!
I was taken with the fairytale art design... Every outfit is ridiculously detailed. I never grew up playing Zelda, so I was happy with the story. It's really beginner friendly!
Anyway, now it's my main game and I'm enjoying learning about the lore at my own pace. Oh, the dialogue is very simple. but let me tell you - the lore is so dark and twistty and so much detail is hidden HIDDEN in this game, domains, everywhere :)
It’s gatcha bro
@@UNK226 GATCHA :p
@@AmberPlaster22 gacha, no t
Gacha
@@UNK226 its not you ape
I suggest you need to at least experience inazuma or even sumeru region and its archon quest and the newest chasm archon quest to fully give your thoughts on the quest lines because based on the footage you shown here you only experience the first 2 archon quest and that 2 quest are literally the game based quest on the game release, they are foundation to the newer one.. the newer one are more detailed, more high quality specially the cinematic cutscenes and they give more lore for world building.
Agree
I was thinking the same thing for the monster variety but at the same time I get why he did it now.
@@GhostEmblem He has footage from Liyue; idk, between like 6 kinds of Fatui you can find in Mondstadt, treasure hoarders, like 4 kinds of hilichurls in different sizes (regular, samachurl, mitachurl, lawachurl), whopperflowers, slimes each version of which is pretty different, abyss mages, beyblade vishaps in Liyue, cicin mages also in Liyue, four kinds of ruin enemies (guard, hunter, the huge one and the small flying ones on Dragonspine), the rifthounds near Andrius
...I'm not sure if enemy variety is really an issue
You shouldn’t have to play that long to decide if a game is good. The amount of grinding I took to get to inazuma just so that I can get the materials I need to ascend my character is stupid, it’s like these devs don’t know how to do game design and levelling mechanics
@@ayani633 ‘that’s the challenge’ no, that’s just bad game design. It’s like Elden ring fans saying ‘get good’ to excuse when devs don’t know how to game balance and scale boss hp.
keep playing different region on the map have different type enemy, sumeru have weird shroom and animal and inazuma have samurais for example
Dan I love it!! What about a Destiny 2 review now?🤔
the thing I hate about gacha and needing to grind to get new characters is that normally theres PVP and most characters are better than others making me feel left out and angry. I am a very competitive person to the point that I can't play Multiplayer games at all. I haven't played genshin but I have seen the character models and they look really good, so maybe I will try genshin...after my list of games is finished and I have nothing to do.
I have been playing Genshin for a year and a half, since its initial release, and have spent some money on it. In my opinion, this game is an excellent choice for people who enjoy art, sound design, and story, particularly if they are not fans of playing other games. While it can be tiring at times, you will eventually get the hang of it, including the combos and other gameplay mechanics. However, as you progress through the game, you will start to notice its repetitiveness.
This means that although you will explore new maps, islands, and items, and gain exclusive rewards through events, you will mostly spend your time grinding and waiting for your resins to refill, which can take up to 16 hours, or you could pay to speed up the process. Ultimately, the game becomes repetitive, as is typical of most MMORPGs.
My biggest issue with Genshin is that it lacks certain features found in other MMORPGs, such as trading, PVP, guilds, and market values for items. The game's community is also limited, with only a handful of players able to participate in co-op mode, which does not allow for item trading between friends. While Genshin's art and design are impressive, I found myself wishing I had invested my time in a game with more depth and opportunities for growth in these areas.
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The wish system feels a lot like xenoblade chronicles 2 blade bonding crystals. The thing xenoblade did correctly is that you couldn't buy the crystals ( unless you bought the deluxe addition copy of the game then you get 50 common, 50 rare, and I believe 60, legendary" but the game forced you to grind for characters which I liked a lot.
I think you highlighted an issue that many new players face because you seem to think enemies have too much HP or take too long to kill. The way to maximize damage in Genshin is a rather complex as you have layers upon layers of different systems that affect your damage output including: Character level, ascension levels, talent levels, constellations, weapon level, weapon stats and substats, weapon refinements, artifact primary and sub stats, artifact levels, artifact set bonuses, team elemental resonance, elemental reactions, team synergies, buffs and debuffs, etc. It's probably way too complicated for new players and I see far too often new players feeling like it takes too long to kill enemies. But once you understand all the systems, you'll be able to kill even large enemies in a matter of seconds.
it shouldn't be that complicated though.
@@koolaidmansam8yearsago273 the comment honestly make it seem much more complex than it is. level up your characters, weapons, gear and abilities and you’ll deal more damage. it’s not that complicated
@@patronizeee I know lol. I play genshin impact from time to time. His point just didn't make sense to me. He was defending bad game design that's not even really in the game.
@@patronizeee Wrong. You will not do millions of damage as a f2p with that method. You must completely understand the mechanics of the game to reach those numbers. For me I have the opposite problem. Enemies are made of paper. Even the bosses die in seconds. The regular enemies in the overworld are slaughtered instantly by my supports let alone my main dps characters who do not even get to use their abilities before everyone dies. Even when I equip level 1 weapons they are still too strong but then it makes me feel like why did I waste my time ever collecting and strengthening these weapons? I remember I forgot to replace my level 1 slingshot in spiral abyss and I barely noticed. I just felt like it took a few seconds longer to 36 star in first try.
Basically this game starts off harder and gets ridiculously easy later on.
@@koolaidmansam8yearsago273 can't reason with these waifu gacha gamblers. Lol.
Good video, but the background music in "questing" made it so hard to focus that I had to shut off.
then turn off music
You feel the enemy has too much health because you forgot that artifact can boost your damage. I suggest using Berserker Artefact set to boost your dmg early on. You can use a reaction to boost your dmg also. Using Water + fire usually does the trick. Vaporize reaction can double your dmg, but you have to make the enemy "wet" constantly to trigger this reaction.
The ennemies are so weak in this game yeah xD
I also noticed that at least in the footage he chose for this video he is mostly just whacking the enemies with physical attacks. I see his characters all have their bursts ready and unused. No wonder he feels enemies are spongey if he doesn't use the elemental combat properly.
yeah, superconduct is not an example you'd use to show good elemental reaction damage in genshin bcs that's mostly for physical damage booster not good elemental reaction damage
My game is glitched, I can’t see other players online
5 seconds before you said thats a bit boring I was like dude thats sick
Enjoyed the review had to sub.
i LOVE this kind of cartoony/high HD anime look :) it's relaxing somehow
Honestly, as person who started close to 80 days ago, its fun. Tho how you experience the game is different for everbody is different bcs of the gacha. Shouldn't be played seriously tho but i enjoy playing it as my main game bcs i had a potato pc that couldn't run genshin now im addicted
anyone else recognize the infamous second son music in the backgroud??? (during the combat section)
Still lacks endgame content and objectives, so it’s not worth it.
can you give a review after you get AR 60
Thought I lost my account because of hoyoverse. They made it easy. I got back in. Didn't realize I had heat. Does it have android controller support yet
The fact ur saying the enemies are to hard on a game based on character building says u just have bad builds. You can 1 shot major bosses. Do you expect to be op at the very start of every game??
the starting character can have all elements btw
Ok, so first loook at the characters you want and like, then save for them, whe i first started i spent all my wishes for a straight week, then i heard rossaria and hutao were getting in the game and i saved up, i just wanted rosaria i didnt care much about hutao, but i got both, for that i am gratefull, since she is one of the strongest and in my opinion funnest characters. Just a little bit of grind, wich is not bad, if you get like 2 hour a day in every day for a month you are gonna get the character you want from a banner, if the pitty sistem is as it was when i started playing, cuz right now i just got back into it.
I've been wondering what this game is all about, thanks for the video!
Don't take his word for it. He barely scratched the surface of Genshin and as I mentioned on my own comment he also lacks the knowledge about the very basics of Genshin's combat.
@@Silent_Depths He's low AR, I don't expect a good review from someone that's not at least AR55. Fresh AR55s are still considered newbies tho
At least the gamling is quite clear, you win 0% instead of the lottery 7/10 or casino 34/36 of what you invest.
I was on the fence about this, but your review made me realise that this isn't for me. Thanks.
Is there missable purchases though? I'm one of them that hate seeing something I like and knowing I'll never be able get it.
Not enough enemy variety??? There are 12 types of Ruin Machines alone in the automaton family of enemies. Among humanoids there are the Nobushi, Treasure Hoarders, Eremites, and Fatui. There are about 30 types of mystical beasts like Whopperflowers, Vishaps, and Fungi but, a lot of them are just different varieties of elemental alignment.
Anyway the main problem later on in the game is that you become too powerful and the variety no longer matters because they all die instantly so you never get to experience their mechanics. I mean if you just wait around or are too weak you can see all these interesting abilities they have like Clone Charge and Clone Slash from the Fatui Pyro Agent.
is there pvp? wouldnt mind playing if there’s pvp
This review doesn't take into account starting in late 2022. My answer would be no (especially as f2p), it is not worth playing in 2022 because you're starting with a ~670 day deficit in terms of resin, dailies, and missed events. Also, new events are locked behind quest progression, and new gacha characters' ascension are locked behind new regions, this results in new players trying to speedrun the game and being miserable because their starting power level is nonexistent. It takes 6+ months to build up characters to competent levels, to even begin enjoying the game; it reminds me of a South Park episode where the kids played World of Warcraft and grinded in Goldshire to max level to beat a pk (player killer), and finally be able to play the game (as intended).
Avoid like the plague, unless you're able to roll a featured 5star character and their signature 5star weapon without pity (this is worth about 1 year of time spent saving primogems).
If u play for the build then ur right, this progression is nonsensical.
But Im sure people play for landscape exploration and the story as well. I mean, did u see the comments about being able to clear content with only starters?
It does not take 6+ months to build a character levels. I was AR45 and 3 of my characters were level 80 my first month playing and several others were in their 60s and 70s. I'm not oneshotting enemies but I'm not struggling to fight enemies or beat bosses either.
You don't need 5 stars or their weapon enjoy the game or be competent at the game. I use Sucrose and Kaeya 99% of the time even though I have 3 5 stars.
@@izumichan31 To this day, I still regret playing this game. My account isn't nearly as strong as it should be given how long I stuck with it. I'm always late by a year compared to everyone else when it comes to getting meta 5stars and decent elemental goblets; lucky 10pulls vs double pity easily makes a 1+ year difference, now factor in starting late by 2 years and you can see that it's an exercise in futility.
The game is easy because Hoyo intentionally made it so, but they could easily keep ramping the difficulty up like they did originally with Inazuma, and I reckon they would eventually continue ramping to give those c6r5 whales a challenge.
Events like this new hypostasis event are a real eye opener. I can beat the extreme difficulty in under 2mins (before berserk mode) with food buffs and carefully tweaking loadouts and rotations because I'm "oh so clever", but I am the one who is mid, meanwhile whales and possibly extremely lucky f2p can beat it in 20-60 seconds without food or even trying. Ignorance is bliss, but I cannot keep looking away, my 2 years could've been better spent.
He never reached Liyue or Inazuma and he talks about monsters being repetitive. He should try abyss to see new enemies that gets added with each region. Some of those monsters are tied to the story of the game like those hillichurls. spoiler: those hillichurls are an ancient civilization that was destroyed and cursed by the gods of celestia.
The storyline is actually really good
Excellent reivew, thank you. I had never heard of this game before, but it looks interesting. I'm going to check it out thanks to this review!
Just play the first 10-15 hours. Then it immediately show the true nature of this game - a game pretending to be something amazing.
@@alfredchen4579 well then any other game is also shit
Here's the thing, they spent more than 5 years and $10m to make the game (up to liyue). After the game's massive sucessful they basiclly fourfold their development team(only on genshin, not to mention they started multiple projects like ZZZ), recuiting that number of new employees in a relatively short period of time is an extremely risky and unhealth practice. It takes a long time to fully absorb the new horsepower and we are just starting to see that taking effect in 3.0. In Sumeru there's better music/level design and everything especially a huge improvement in story-telling. A good script does not instantly come with a newly formed writting team. If you know anything about writters, they may be the most talented but also the most chaotic in terms of team-working. It took them two years to finally present to us the future of Genshin Impact and I think that's a reasonable amount of time needed. But for new players tho, they still had to sit through that 20+hours of 'old' gameplay before they get to the new content. This reminds me of FF XIV, I know it gets better...but still that first 10 hours or so is so unbearable I stopped playing.
Honkai has the same issue too.
Honestly this issue right here is something I've noticed when it comes to trying to introduce new people to the game it also doesn't help that events that expand further on the characters are locked behind timeframes. At one point Hoyoverse needs to go back and polish up the older chapters as they will make it HARD for new players to even consider downloading
@@supercoalmcgath6248 Personally, I think this is the only negative side of the game and it's kinda sad. I have no idea it's possible to fix it that - if you come late, you lose touch with some parts of the story and it's characters because a lot of the ingame content is not permanent, it's time limited.
Well I play since day one haven't skipped any event I can't complaint but for new players, it might be hard to hold them for long in the game
5 years just up to Liyue?
@@mguitar3931 Perosnaly i loved honkai, the combar was amaizing, but the story is so dumb, why everithing has to be a threat to the world, and why i have to use the characters the game give me, not the one i want, i quit there because, the combat was amaizing, the characters were good, but the last event you could see the latest events werent as polish as the game beggining, genshin is more polish and the game have good stuff, but the game feels boring, yes you have things to do and i agree the combat was repetitive and boring
How far did you get in the game though?
I love playing it in F2P but I stopped playing it coz my phone was burning and drained my battery. I'm waiting for it to be on switch. I want to play it like ROM.
Bro the first ad on this video is a genshin promo for the new players that will recieve 20 wishes. 😂
11:10 "No one actually dies"
Have you really played the whole main history?
He said " barely anyone dies" which is true💁♂️
This an extremely short-sighted and limited review. With a few characters and laughably narrow game knowledge, this review is pretty much worthless.
Playing this with my Xbox controller on my phone screen made realise there are no auto battler and a auto battler with no switch to input to auto mode like wtf
Thank You, a long grind and long combat with little variety is not fun for me, so I will pass and just watch others play in short bits.
I can see this game is too complicated for me. I'm looking for something a bit more relaxing and a lot less demanding.
Good luck with that
To anyone reading this, don't play it. Run as far away from this game as you possibly can. The game will pretty much dictate you if you remotely have a passion for it, picking it up was a mistake for me.
I played about 10 minutes, then uninstall. 😆
You mentioned combat getting repetitive and boring over time - the way to get around this is playing differently characters. 5 star characters tend to be more interesting, flashy, and powerful. Not to mention better looking. It's all very much intended.
Yeah, and what are you chances of getting said 5 star heroes without paying.
There should be no adjustments in enemy health bars in the open world. Even as a f2p, as you get better artifacts, the open world is a joke. Btw there will be better enemy variety as you eplore more of the continent and go to different regions.
ughh, i really wish CCs do more research with gacha system rather than spouting random bs that they dont understand.
First time I’ve ever heard ppl complain about lack of enemy type.
I got my favorite character through a quest. A long shot.
Barbara is my favorite character. Also why is Noelle b tier? She should be in at least A tier because of the op shield she gives the party members.
Because my account is at such a high adventure rank, getting a new character actually makes me groan. I don't care how good it the character is, I don't want to spend a whole week grinding just to get them to max level, and I definitely don't want to grind for the randomized artifacts in the most repetitive and basic dungeons I've ever seen. I think you should have talked more about the late game grinding in this video, because it's a huge problem.
Played on day1 for few weeks then quit. Will start playing it again tonight
may suffer
I tried to get into it cause it looked interesting but I just couldn’t