Genshin Impact

I quit Genshin and you should too My dearest Genshin, for dearest you will always be to me, it’s time to let you go. As a player who has been playing this game since its release, I’ve had a lot of complaints, just like other long-time players. Not once have our complaints and requests to improve the game been heard. The game still has the same terrible reward system, there’s no button to skip side quests and unnecessary dialogues, Genshin is still as time-consuming as ever. Lately, I’ve only been logging in to follow the story, but when I realized that even the story was starting to lose its luster, I knew I didn’t want to waste my time on a game whose developers couldn’t care less about improving the game. All you get from an hour of gameplay is uninteresting dialogue, a protagonist with questionable morals, the forced romanticization of certain characters, the inability to skip unnecessary in-game events, and a measly reward of 15 Primogems. Stop wasting your money on this, leave an honest review, and maybe then the developers will listen to the players’ opinions.

I hate this game I use to live breath and die for Genshin when I was younger, but now that I’ve since grown I can attest to the fact it’s garbage. The characters suck, their outfits suck, Meta sucks, the very limited and greedy way you barely give us primogens absolutely sucks to the point you have to grind for hours to get five wishes. There’s too much map with little reward and for gods sake- NO ONE WANTS A FIVE HOUR ARCHON QUEST. also the Archons suck, what is the cryo archon????

This game has taken such a questionable route. The downfall of this game really needs to be studied. Fontaine was the last region where Hoyoverse put in actual effort into the story, characters, environment, and so on. To keep it short, the Natlan story was so obviously rushed, and the characters were incredibly whitewashed (given that they're supposed to be inspired by Latin American culture). I should have quit then, but I let it slide. Shame on me. The recent region of Nod-Krai was such a filler region that was obviously not supposed to be a main quest nation; rather, I think it was meant to be a sub-region like Enkanomiya, but Hoyoverse changed it because of their rushed rewrite. Anyway, back to my original point: Nod-Krai is a part of Snezhnaya (Snezhnaya being the nation of cryo, inspired by Russia), so you would expect it to have a cold environment and covered-up characters. And sure, the men are perfectly clothed for the cool weather. The women characters, though? You can see the underwear of nearly EVERY female character released in Nod-Krai so far. The women are so unnecessarily sexualized, it's unnatural. My next complaint ties in with this: Hoyoverse can't write consistent evil women characters anymore. The two specific characters I'll bring up are Columbina and Sandrone. Both of these characters were formerly part of the Fatui, a supposedly antagonistic organization (then Hoyoverse watered them down to “misunderstood”), and are the game’s biggest disappointments. Columbina was clearly hinted at being an eerie, disturbing angel (hence the eyecover and seraphim headpiece). In-game voicelines from before also support this, describing her as “unpredictable” and warning the Traveler to steer clear of her. During the Nod-Krai arc, she was obviously rewritten. Hoyoverse even admitted it. Being rewritten isn't inherently a bad thing, but they rewrote her as some perfect moon goddess and clearly made her bait for certain predatory individuals. Sandrone had something similar done to her. For years, Sandrone’s whole thing was the contrast between her, a small woman, and Pulonia, a huge robot. In recent gameplay leaks, though, she appears to be with a female robot with boobs. It's so clear they replaced Pulonia to (again) aim at a certain demographic of people. And on top of that, they cut her skirt so that when she does her attacks, you can easily see up to her panties. Lastly, the terrible rewards system. This is self-explanatory, really. In this current patch, Hoyo decided to have banners with TWO new limited 5*s and only give out about 60 or less pulls (which isn't even enough for one 5*). Truly disappointing. It was sad seeing this game go on such a strange path.

《原神》，请听听玩家群体的声音吧，我们的要求并不高。 《原神》面临的最大问题之一，在于它往往给人一种不尊重玩家时间的感觉。其“祈愿”系统本就令人沮丧：五星角色的获取率极低，且即便玩家积攒数月资源，仍可能在“50/50”机制中落败（即未抽中当期限定角色）。玩家可能投入数百次祈愿却最终失望而归，这使得抽卡本应带来的兴奋感，反而变成了压力与负担。 另一个主要问题是缺乏有效的对话跳过功能。许多任务包含冗长的对话，玩家被迫逐一观看，即便是在其他账号上重玩内容，或是对特定剧情不感兴趣时​​也无法跳过。逐行点击对话既缓慢又繁琐。若能提供跳过选项——特别是在首次完成任务后，或设置确认提示——玩家便能按自己的方式享受游戏，同时也不会剥夺那些喜爱剧情的玩家体验故事的机会。 《原神》拥有精彩绝伦的世界观、令人难忘的角色阵容以及充满乐趣的战斗体验；然而，令人沮丧的祈愿系统和缺失的对话跳过功能，始终是玩家社区呼声最高的两项体验优化需求。若能解决这些问题，无论是新玩家还是老玩家，都能获得更愉快的游戏体验。

Genshin’s Downfall Now that Hoyo’s games like hsr and zzz are out, I feel like they dont put effort into genshin anymore. Their rewards are incredibly low compared to their other games and the newer designs are so repetitive. Take Sandrone for example. Sandrone had a good and cool design which made people want to pull for her. But then, suddenly they butchered her skirt twice and then blamed it on Signora?! This is so disappointing. The game I fell inlove with in 2021 is so different now. All the character have the same personality and same detached sleeves and short skirt design. Genshin also tends to not listen to their players at all. No one wanted Sandrone’s skirt to be that short but did the listen? No. Also, in Snezhnaya, Childe literally said if they didn’t keep moving then they would freeze to death. So why do the women have thigh highs and short skirts while the men are fully covered? And to ‘fix’ this problem they just randomly made Childe a pathological liar 😐. I truly hope that Genshin can fix their game from the poor rewards, to start taking feedback from their players and just to overall stop this pattern.

Skip button I only care about exploration. The story needs to be shoved aside optionally

Lost its quality in exchange for botched stories and fanservice I used to play Genshin a lot back in 2022 and deleted the game due to storage issues. But when I returned I learned that the game went through whole lot of controversy, from the McDonalds collab to the entirety of Natlan to now. If you are also a veteran player that planned on returning to Genshin for nostalgia’s sake: DON’T. That’s all I have to say, just. Don’t There’s quite a few YouTube videos out there explaining the current state of Genshin right now but I’ll try to summarize them for simplicity’s sake: -Very greedy: Sadly almost any and all games fall into this fate, including Gacha games. But compared to all the others Genshin is actually the least generous of them all, it’s gotten so bad to the point where ENTIRE NATIONS are pay to win (and the Resin system hasn’t changed at all) -Botched story: Remember the days where Genshin had masterpieces such as Liyue and Sumeru? Well sadly nowadays Genshin is copying MLP for some reason, it’s also way too scared to kill off playable characters or make them evil, they also don’t want to add any impacting changes for some reason, one of my favorite nations with my favorite Archon Quest: Fontaine, while does have an amazing story. Doesn’t add any lasting impacts sadly :( And if there ARE lasting changes, they’re either fixed or hardly acknowledged at all! -Fanservicey designs: This one REALLY makes my blood boil, this is a problem that affects 99% of female characters, with the 1% being older characters and a Harbinger that was WASTED, that problem being the overused fanservicey designs. A lot of new female characters have these four distinct design traits 1. Very top heavy with almost NOTHING on the bottom, except for an abysmally small skirt at times and stockings 2. Often fulfills some kind of fetish, there’s one character, that has a trailer THAT IS LITERALLY JUST FOOD PORN, there’s also another character that is extremely weird to Melusines. (THAT LOOK LIKE CHILDREN BTW) One character does that stupid slutty table crawl and there’s another in a short skirted maid outfit. A SHORT SKIRTRD MAID OUTFIT 3. Exposed backs, some characters also have their backs exposed for no reason. There is a chef character out there that is literally ONLY WEARING HER APRON, NOTHING ELSE!! And there’s also the Pyro Archon which that itself is a whole other can of worms Overall the game has sadly been changed to cater to an entirely different audience because the devs knew that they made the most profit. The games just not for you or me either. I will forever mourn those who used their IRL money for this game… Also it’s obviously a Gacha game, and those games are really predatory in general, but if you are the kind of person that likes fanservicey Gacha games, try Zenless Zone Zero! Sure it’s made by the same company but it wears it fanservice on its sleeve and it’s gender equal too! Maid dresses and all.

Disappointing Continuously disappointing

Greedy corp The designs are repetitive, doing damage is locked behind expensive characters, no melanin in characters that are supposed to have them, grown women look like literal children and so do the adult men, women are always borderline naked while men have appropriate attire, insanely goon bait game.

So much storage Bro why does this game take up so much storage