having played Genshin Impact since release day as a pay2win player i finally have my verdict for this game. Genshin Impact stormed the world of mobile gaming with it’s stunning graphics, beautiful world design, amazing OSTs and interesting character designs. Animations, voice acting, dialogue details, everything about this game looked like there was a lot of work put into it, high quality. Visual beauty aside, there’s a lot that is lacking in gameplay. The combat system is too simple, all characters have 3 buttons to click, the normal attack, special skill, and ultimate skill. This is a gashapon of course, and the lack of detailed character kits make the characters boring very fast, you spend 400$ for a character with 3 moves? Genshin Impact tries to compensate this by making it a character team game where you use 4 different characters to combine elements for combos but i still find this lackluster and not to mention some combos are too overpowered compared to others which makes you not want to use everything (pyro x hydro was broken). You also have to spend some cash for weapon banners if you want the character kits to work optimally. The story is pretty mediocre (me and my sister isekai’d into this world i can’t find her im gonna travel the 7 kingdoms to find clues about her, wait she actually joined the Akatsuki), i would say most people hype it up just because of the characters. Now the last major con i have for this game would be the resin system. The resin system is an energy system that you are bound to for farming in Genshin Impact. You can’t invest a lot of time into Genshin in one day, the game forces you to put in time daily to progress which i find very apalling, not to mention the day gate for dungeons. The dungeon drops are also rng so timegate+gashapon drops ends up being a no go for me (you can speed this process up with primogems aka money). Having been left with nothing to really praise except graphics, OSTs, a beautiful map and some likeable characters i can’t really give a high score until they redesign the gameplay, the farming system and blow tmy mind with some crazy plot twists to the story, because those are essential for a game to be good.