This game takes a lot of the hallmarks which define genshin and instead of transforming those elements it dumbs it down to a point which doesn't even make sense, instead of a lavish open-world you get hallways that are just reskinned for every new map,
You have "elements" but now they don't play interesting enough of a role like they do in genshin and most of the time you are picking an element just to break the shield on enemies, which makes essentially every element feel the same in some regard, there's a class system such as destruction where you sort of favor more "risk vs reward" gameplay (my interpretation of the destruction class also comes from the simulated world) but the MC is destruction at the start and they have no risk vs reward gameplay so the game doesn't have anything written in stone for these classes, the game's combat loop forcing you to break shields for the smallest vulnerability window makes it feel so fucking useless I don't even know why they even bothered making a staggering mechanic to begin with
This game is also leaps and beyonds more annoying for endgame content since there's an escalation for DPS that just feels annoying to meet, MoC is just a terrible abyss knockoff, simulated world is a very interesting idea and fun to play at the start until you have to do it like every other week for drops and filling out the battle pass bracket and you start to HATE it
The game has the same gacha system and the paimon shop as genshin, it has a way less interesting regional expansion concept than Genshin, with an evil organization that seems so stupid in typical HYV writing, it has the ugliest china I have ever seen and music thats a massive stepdown from what HYV can deliver
HSR fans love to point out that the game has an auto-battle system and I just have to laugh, the game cannot EXIST without one. The issue with the combat is when you want to burst you have to press 2 buttons for no reason, its not like you press 1 button and get to deselect your burst incase you change your mind, in reality it just does this to force player input and the only way to not be forced to do these useless inputs per rotation is to auto-battle. This isn't restricted ONLY to the burst, some characters have this double input attached to their skill, the game is simply UNPLAYABLE without auto, its too fucking annoying otherwise
The dialogue which I found funny and self-aware at the start becomes childishly annoying the more you play the game, in the world of hsr and especially one as bad as this game the charm wears off rather quickly
Even though I'm giving this game half a star, I actually wish I could give it a negative rating, a new coat of polish with some QOL changes mean nothing when the base game has no understanding of what made genshin great and translating none of the good to this game
Horrible
You have "elements" but now they don't play interesting enough of a role like they do in genshin and most of the time you are picking an element just to break the shield on enemies, which makes essentially every element feel the same in some regard, there's a class system such as destruction where you sort of favor more "risk vs reward" gameplay (my interpretation of the destruction class also comes from the simulated world) but the MC is destruction at the start and they have no risk vs reward gameplay so the game doesn't have anything written in stone for these classes, the game's combat loop forcing you to break shields for the smallest vulnerability window makes it feel so fucking useless I don't even know why they even bothered making a staggering mechanic to begin with
This game is also leaps and beyonds more annoying for endgame content since there's an escalation for DPS that just feels annoying to meet, MoC is just a terrible abyss knockoff, simulated world is a very interesting idea and fun to play at the start until you have to do it like every other week for drops and filling out the battle pass bracket and you start to HATE it
The game has the same gacha system and the paimon shop as genshin, it has a way less interesting regional expansion concept than Genshin, with an evil organization that seems so stupid in typical HYV writing, it has the ugliest china I have ever seen and music thats a massive stepdown from what HYV can deliver
HSR fans love to point out that the game has an auto-battle system and I just have to laugh, the game cannot EXIST without one. The issue with the combat is when you want to burst you have to press 2 buttons for no reason, its not like you press 1 button and get to deselect your burst incase you change your mind, in reality it just does this to force player input and the only way to not be forced to do these useless inputs per rotation is to auto-battle. This isn't restricted ONLY to the burst, some characters have this double input attached to their skill, the game is simply UNPLAYABLE without auto, its too fucking annoying otherwise
The dialogue which I found funny and self-aware at the start becomes childishly annoying the more you play the game, in the world of hsr and especially one as bad as this game the charm wears off rather quickly
Even though I'm giving this game half a star, I actually wish I could give it a negative rating, a new coat of polish with some QOL changes mean nothing when the base game has no understanding of what made genshin great and translating none of the good to this game
Horrible