I've already written a review for this game before, but after some time, as an AR52 player, I thought I should rewrite all of it.
I'll be writing about the negatives most of the review, this game has really strong points, like enjoyable and pretty characters, quite a beautiful soundtrack and lore, which is is actually really good (people would understand that if the story-telling wasn't god awful), but it also has some stuff that's really bad, that holds it from being a 10/10.
Before starting, don't be pressured by twitter or by the people you know, once you actually play this game you'll realize that it's not and it never was a BOTW copy, people that say that either hate just to hate and most likely never even touched the game. Don't surrender to peer pressure, you're better than that.
Generally Genshin Impact is easy, the difficulty comes from dumb and enormous incoming damage in higher world levels and dps races in the abyss, which sucks. The balance is awful as well, some characters are braindead while others seem as if they were butchered from the start.
There are some good fights here, the weekly bosses come to mind. A majority of the rest is not good though. Boring, annoying or unfair. I still can't understand how people like Oceanid.
I've always been a F2P, and I tend to have insane luck in this type of gacha. This wasn't an exception but I can't deny that it is ass, the pity system is nice but the rates are bad and the lack of 3 and below characters combined with a dependence on good weapons that also come from gacha is not good. The fact that some late 5 constellations are busted, like Hu Tao C6, doesn't help this game's case. FGO's system wasn't good by any means but good lord.
Once you hit AR45 shit hits the fan, you're now ready to farm artifact domains and get 5* artifacts! Those are essencial to your damage, so you better do it now! Would be a shame if they had 20000 layers of RNG.
This isn't like World's RNG on Safi weapons, nooo, you need 1) The right piece 2) From the right set 3) With a good main stat (except for flowers and feathers) 4) Good substats and 5) Good rolls on 6) The right substats. Sounds appealing doesn't it?
This becomes worse with the amount of sets, there is a lot of diversity, too much in fact, so you have to do it a lot of times for a lot of characters. And it isn't like armor sets in Monster Hunter, certain characters demand certain sets or their damage goes to the ground.
This leads us to the biggest problem of all, resin.
While the amount of RNG on artifacts is still absurd, it becomes the problem that it is because you have limited resin. If you want to raise a character, you need to use resin on leylines, on ascension materials, on talents, on weapon ascension materials and on artifacts, providing you have a decent weapon to begin with. This strips your will to raise a different character.
This game is fun and I honestly enjoy it, but hoyoverse needs to understand that I don't want def% on my yanfei, I really don't. Give me crit cowards.
I'll be writing about the negatives most of the review, this game has really strong points, like enjoyable and pretty characters, quite a beautiful soundtrack and lore, which is is actually really good (people would understand that if the story-telling wasn't god awful), but it also has some stuff that's really bad, that holds it from being a 10/10.
Before starting, don't be pressured by twitter or by the people you know, once you actually play this game you'll realize that it's not and it never was a BOTW copy, people that say that either hate just to hate and most likely never even touched the game. Don't surrender to peer pressure, you're better than that.
Generally Genshin Impact is easy, the difficulty comes from dumb and enormous incoming damage in higher world levels and dps races in the abyss, which sucks. The balance is awful as well, some characters are braindead while others seem as if they were butchered from the start.
There are some good fights here, the weekly bosses come to mind. A majority of the rest is not good though. Boring, annoying or unfair. I still can't understand how people like Oceanid.
I've always been a F2P, and I tend to have insane luck in this type of gacha. This wasn't an exception but I can't deny that it is ass, the pity system is nice but the rates are bad and the lack of 3 and below characters combined with a dependence on good weapons that also come from gacha is not good. The fact that some late 5 constellations are busted, like Hu Tao C6, doesn't help this game's case. FGO's system wasn't good by any means but good lord.
Once you hit AR45 shit hits the fan, you're now ready to farm artifact domains and get 5* artifacts! Those are essencial to your damage, so you better do it now! Would be a shame if they had 20000 layers of RNG.
This isn't like World's RNG on Safi weapons, nooo, you need 1) The right piece 2) From the right set 3) With a good main stat (except for flowers and feathers) 4) Good substats and 5) Good rolls on 6) The right substats. Sounds appealing doesn't it?
This becomes worse with the amount of sets, there is a lot of diversity, too much in fact, so you have to do it a lot of times for a lot of characters. And it isn't like armor sets in Monster Hunter, certain characters demand certain sets or their damage goes to the ground.
This leads us to the biggest problem of all, resin.
While the amount of RNG on artifacts is still absurd, it becomes the problem that it is because you have limited resin. If you want to raise a character, you need to use resin on leylines, on ascension materials, on talents, on weapon ascension materials and on artifacts, providing you have a decent weapon to begin with. This strips your will to raise a different character.
This game is fun and I honestly enjoy it, but hoyoverse needs to understand that I don't want def% on my yanfei, I really don't. Give me crit cowards.