Checking in on Genshin Impact 

I still honestly find it absolutely hilarious that even the damage burning grass does scales based on which region you're in.

I've actually found that the grind gets less annoying overtime, once you have enough good artifacts you can just slap random stuff on a character and make them work based on stats alone. The only problem is it took me 3000 hours to get to this point.

Sumeru burnt me out too. I hated how each desert zone locked its most interesting areas behind huge quests. I just wanted to explore at my own pace! Nicest surprise in Fontaine was flying to the floating water cubes and realizing with delight that I could explore the area before unlocking its complimentary quest. I never felt restricted in Fontaine, whereas Sumeru became a massive slog despite how beautiful it is.

ive gotta say, one thing genshin really improved upon was the exploration. Fontaine's exploration is some of my favorite yet. the puzzles aren't needlessly frustrating like the were in inazuma, and the addition of underground maps alleviate a lot of problems that Sumeru's desert had. maybe it's just me but exploring Fontaine has been the closest genshin has come to the early days of exploration where everything feels new and exciting

Honestly the Sumeru burnout is so real, a lot of friends and i stopped playing because there was simply too much desert and it just was not fun at all, but when Fontaine came around we explored it 100% in no time, there was just something about Sumeru that made it feel off

one problem that still remains with the story: if you were just doing the archon quests without anything else, some things really might not make much sense. Main example being the traveler’s relationship with childe… if you didn’t do his story quest, or any timed event that included him, it would be extremely weird how traveler and childe are just randomly buddies in Fontaine after what happened in Liyue. As well as meeting Charlotte.

The only thing I disagree with is the world level thing. I wish there were a way to make overworld enemies more difficult bc they feel like trash mobs after playing the game for more than a year.. i miss being afraid of a ruin guard or something. I actually want to set MY world lvl higher.

Tbh abyss isn't even that necessary. You get far more premos by doing dailies every day. I just casually beat floors 9-11 and don't stress about the less than 1 wish every couple weeks.

The best way to enjoy this game is to just take your time. Hell, even the characters in the game emphasize this theme a lot about "enjoying the journey" and "enjoying the breeze every once in a while". I found that simply enjoying the game and getting stronger through that means is much more enjoyable and still yields fruitful results. Around my second year of this game I was grinding incredibly too much, never giving the game a break. But it's just like any other game, sometimes you gotta put the controller down and relax, don't let the FOMO get to you and don't think that by not playing there's valuable time that could be spent leveling up your characters. That's about all I wanted to say.

Actually very interesting video, the only thing I disagree with you completely with personally, is funny enough, the one thing you said you were confident in. The World Level system they did was perfect, and if anything, still not enough. The overworld is WAAYYYY too easy enemy wise. I can't use my built characters because the enemies die in one skill. For example, I love Eula, but her auto attacks by themselves to 10k+ each, I have not been able to use my Eula burst against an enemy in the overworld ever because they would just die before I can use it. Unless I purposely used it early, or purposefully nerfed myself by like removing my artifacts. That's no fun to have to purposefully nerf yourself. They way they combat this is just making overworld more about puzzles then any combat, with enemies just feeling dropped in. As long as you actually are progressively leveling up and just using decent artifacts when opportunities arise, the world level system is perfect. Because if I wanna go BACK to mondstadt, or go back to Liyue to 100% it (the only region I don't want to since it's my least favorite), the enemies won't just.. die to a sneeze. I wish there were more level beyond 60 and the enemies got harder. And obviously they think so too, because the same system was implemented into Honkai Star Rail with the Equilibrium.

6:40 there is still 1 recent instance of this problem during the 3.5 Windblume event there was a huge lore drop about the hexenzirkel, this was a small thing mentioned in the recent main story and it refereanced the happenings of that limited event. So, although more rare it defonatly still happens.

I think the substitution you proposed to the world level system has far more problems than the one we have now. For me just the story has a linear progression, except Inazuma you can go where you want from the very start.

4:00 that aged well

personally I really think the spiral abyss could do with some variety in what gives you stars because I really feel like the current system is what drags it down for casual players and even some more meta focused people. Maybe rather than all of the stars being based on time, there could be a floor that only spawns low level enemies and your stars depend on the number of enemies defeated, maybe one that counts the number of reactions performed on enemies, the number of times you’ve stunned a boss, maybe even rewarding you for beating the floor with a mono team of either one element or weapon type and the number of stars you get depends on the number of character with that trait. There’s a lot more that could be done with the spiral abyss to make it fun and an actual gameplay experience beyond farming primos

As someone who plays the game every day and keeps up with new characters, it's weird hearing someone say the game is hard. I really wish I could raise the world level because I feel the over world enimes are so squishy that I can't get through a full rotation before they're all dead.

i didnt even know they nerfed inazuma. i am SO glad i played it before the nerf. if anything i'd like to see stronger overworld enemies.

21:12 -These enemies aren't immune to CC. -You were using Wriothesley, who drains his own health to deal more damage, which got you down to 2/3 of your max health before the enemies started hitting you. -Your Xinyan's shield wasn't active/just ran out. -Your Qiqi's healing wasn't active. -Your Dehya's damage mitigation wasn't active/just ran out. -All of these enemies have long and obvious wind ups, so paying a little bit attention to their positioning and animations would've easily prevented you from getting hit by all of them.

I feel like the reason artifacts are so specific and long is to stop power creeping because you can only make so many new characters with abilities and focus on certain things without overpowering previous ones so having even more specific artifacts for more specific and sometimes niche characters and abilities may be a lot but overall keeps the game from just being about needing the newest strongest character

haven't watched enough of the video to formulate an opinion yet but I wanted to mention Wanderer flying up at 4:00 made me giggle

World levels are fine tbh. Enemies in the open world are so easy it only really matters while you level up and honestly, it gives you a good challenge every time which i enjoyed. usually by the time you increase your wold level, you steamroll all enemies. So them giving you a fight again is a good thing IMO. At the end game you really only get challenged by Abyss 12 anyways.

I just started playing genshin, but I really appreciate the perspective that it's your personal responsibility not to burn yourself out. I have 10k hours in old school runescape and I came to that conclusion a while back, I learned to not care about progression or maxing and just do what I find enjoyable at the time. That is one of those moments where you mature as a gamer, you realize that the game only stops being fun because you are forcing yourself to do stuff. It's kinda like how challenge runs in dark souls 1 can often be way more fun that actually trying to get a speedrun going, you are making your own fun.

Your difficulty point I think is a total victory for you. A lot of people forget how difficult it was, back in the day when every future patch was surely gonna be the Chasm patch, back when we all thought Dragonspine was the most challenging place ever, and when we were still a little unsure about if chests respawned or not.

My personal BIG problem with genshin: I stopped playing, cause every time I took a break, I was "left behind". Whenever I rolled to get more characters or constellations, I got a character who I couldn't even use, cause his upgrade materials were behind 20 freaking main story quests. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to new players, the fact that you can get a 5 star you can't even level up until multiple hours of main story quests. I felt that way when I started playing when Liyue was out. I felt that way when I came back to genshin when Inazuma came out. I never returned, cause when sumeru came out, and it was only accesible through multiple story quests, instead of immediately, I knew where the game design was heading. Also, artifact grinding. I remember playing for the first time, loving it, making my team however I wanted, when suddenly bam, a "timed" battle. Suddenlt DPS was important. Well damn, I won't beat any timed battles if I don't build properly! *Weeks of grinding later* I still can't beat it... I like the difficulty of "don't die", not the "go fast" kind...

honestly im glad that they dont automatically make 5 stars better than other characters. the biggest reason why im still putting up with genshins gatcha system is bc theres no powercreep. i do think that what they did to dehya is diabolical tho. a better approach is making them on par with the 4 stars (example: xinqiu, furina and yelan with xinqiu being a lot of the times better). something that i have noticed is that the more hardcore players preferred sumeru over the other regions. most ppl disliked the dessert exploration, but the way that the quests were connected to the exploration/other parts of the game was nice. i feel like genshin is divided into different gamemodes (combat, exploration, lore, tcg, teapot...) so having things like that makes it feel like an actual, cohesive game. this is spoilers but theres gonna be a new event claymore(? or sword im too lazy to check again lol) whose passive will relay on how many melusines u have helped which i think is very neat

I actually think there's another issue with timed events: event weapons. For example, if you don't have the resources to spend on the weapon banners, which most people seem to say is not worth it if you aren't a whale, then the best weapon you can get for Furina is an event weapon from a 1.X event that if you weren't playing at the beginning of the game, you just can't get the weapon at all. They need a mechanic that makes it so after some amount of time, another way to get missed event weapons eventually becomes available.

Eyyyy great video mate, ive been a long time player (longest breaks have been between events) and its great to see many problems genshin has being fixed. For example, domains. Very recently they actually made it accessible in the handbook, so you dont have to run through sumaru to do fontiane artifacts. The game is definitely on a upward trend in quality. The main worries now is some characters being full on ass (aloy, Candace, xinyan) My hope for that is that they add a very limited buff system. Where by doing a quest with the character, they get a wish granted by say... a new hidden god? Idk. But they would unlock a new 3rd talent for them. Letting them get a nice buff to make them more usable. Execpt aloy. That poor girl really just needs constalations

This was a beautifully edited video! I really liked the way you reflected in each point and I pretty much agreed with a lot of them! I related heavily on the "Me" section as I am also a sucker for wanting characters and internally kicking myself for missing a Spiral Abyss run for the primos. I'm lucky to have made peace with not getting every character and just choosing who resonates the most to me via lore, vibes or whatever else makes me latch onto a character! (Navia wasn't someone I wanted originally when she was first teased but goodness her writing has seized me in her grasp-) I never stopped playing Genshin even during times I skipped a few days, I always made time to do a big event. I adore getting immersed in the story so that quirk made going through grueling parts (like Sumeru exploration) much easier than what I'd assume others would handle. This game helped me in a time I was in a long game-playing hiatus and in a sad patch of life during the virus year. Even when optimizing my team to optimal efficiency takes a toll on me, I find myself slowing down to take in the main reason I got into the game, the environment, the ambiance of just existing in the beautiful world and music. This video helps renew my already solid decision to continue til the game ends. It's not perfect, but it's absolutely the perfect game for me, flaws and all.

I share the same feeling. I also burnt myself out on Sumeru around the second desert update, though the main reason was that I was grinding for Wanderer's artifact for far too long (2 months of collecting trash I think), but also the amount of quests you have to do. But those quests are really neat, with small hints and snippets about the traveler's sibling's past adventures and history about Fontaine's past hydro archon, but there's just so much dialogue and text. Hoyoverse can make a good story, but I know they had to stretch the dialogues a lot mainly to buy time for the dev to finish the next region, but also some players skip the story and come to the wrong conclusion even if the story was condensed, and structured well enough. Now I'm also started to feel hyped about the game again because of Fontaine. Overall the recent experience has been great, amazing story and kinda difficult puzzles. I just hope future updates have somewhat good filler, or even better, a traveler centered archon quest, like what they did with "We Will Be Reuinited" and "Caribert", since we're just 1 nation away from Snezhnaya and how close Fontaine is to Celestia (on the map at least).

As someone who completed 100% of the Sumeru dessert I can tell you that Yelan and Saiyu are your best friends xD , I can see why many player don't like the dessert, its a huge area with enemies that require electro and obstacles that require dendro, and a lot of levels, puzzles and underground secrets, not mentioning the damn scarabs for Cyno ascension. Luckly Furina ascension flowers where super easy to farm.

Regarding Ningguang and Qiqi's rarity, it probably helps to remember that Ningguang is a paper pusher who spends her down time hanging around with civilians and probably never used a catalyst until she got her Vision fairly recently, and that all her cool story feats took place while she was standing on what was essentially a battleship she hired other people to build, which was itself loaded to the gills with donated and statefunded Adeptal magic. Meanwhile, Qiqi is presumably a trained martial artist (since she uses an ancient form of Keqing's swordsmanship style, which she is unlikely to have picked up in the current era) who was turned into a zombie when she herself was involuntarily loaded to the gills with Adeptal magic to the point where multiple Adepti had to team up to stop her subsequent berserker rampage and seal her away for centuries, and she somehow has an Adepti Name (Fortune Preserver) now, so she's essentially an amnesiac demigoddess.

It’s really nice to see someone sharing the same experience that I’ve had. I’m a new player, I started in July of 2023, which there was A LOT for me to catch up on. I’m a sucker for the difficulty in games and I always came across the meta team compositions and the things that you ‘should aim for’ when it comes to becoming the best at the the current stages of the game. Seeing all of this really put the idea into my head that I HAD to become better and it really effected me negatively, and really stopped me from what I enjoyed and what kept me playing in the first place. Thankfully I have come to an internal peace with myself to limit myself from overwhelming myself with what I should try to accomplish in the time that I have been playing compared to people who have been here for a long time. Having funny and unconventional builds is so much more fun than worrying wether my goblet is mathematically impossible or not. Which is how I ended up with a physical build yaoyao. This video really exemplifies the struggle of everyone; but despite, we all keep playing.

Yeah, the balance between chest types and what you do to get them have noticeably improved in Fontaine (though I think it's partially because they also reduced the total amount of chests, in exchange for more bountiful chests instead, so the average Primogems income is still the same). I actually remember going through that moment of fighting beefy enemies in Sumeru to only be rewarded with a Common Chest (as you did by near the end of the video), quite a few times, lmao On another topic, it's actually really interesting to know you were already cooking a follow up video on this. I actually only found your previous 1y video within the past week (along with a few other videos with the same theme from around that time actually), and was really wondering what people of that time think of the game today I find myself already agreeing with some of the current top comments on certain topics I find interesting, so I won't bother elaborating further on my other thoughts and just latch on their comments instead

i love how a lot of these issues are just simply fixed in Honkai Star Rail but Genshin is simply not getting the same treatment

I think the problem with world levels for me lies within the difficulty jump. Especially within the lower 3-4-5 WLs the jump was just very big for someone that doesn't grind artifacts at all. It's in fact the reason I'm still stuck on AR45 with like 500k exp (and I lowered my WL too lol). I have some okay artifacts and some characters that I've levelled up in terms of talent too, which makes me play comfortably in open world. Anything besides that is too much time for me as a student. I like to play the game for the story quests, not to get big numbers. Not doing the ascension quest allows me to kill enemies quick and easy while still having all the game's content. I'm debating on ascending since I'm curious to see which AR my exp is actually worth, but knowing the enemies will immediately jump up in difficulty and me having no desire to grind artifacts is the reason I'm still chilling at AR45. It's also a loop if you think about it, but at least I'm self aware (Sumeru shade) :p

Sumeru is massive. And I just hated the Aranara quest but I got it done. My favorite part of Sumeru was actually the desert just because I liked the Jeht story, the puzzles and the feeling of being an archeologist Tho, I like Fontaine better. Solely because I love retrofuture and how it mixes victorian with rockies and freshwater

Thanks for making this video mate!! I think I remember seeing the original one a bit ago, so it was nice to see an update :) You made some good points

This is such a well made video! Love the editing and gags happening in the background I must say that i started playing Genshin impact on November 2020 but I quit a little bit after that not only for the stupid large size of the game, but because early game was really boring for me? I found the need to level up the AR to unlock the quests I wanted to do, very tedious and not entertaining at all, apart that my AR was too low to even finish the prologue and be able to participate in limited time events. I played on and off with months apart, the thing that got me playing this game again and I kid you not was the Lyre mechanic, I loved trying to figure out how to play certain songs (I can’t read music sheets) and the combat was pretty fun, I stayed because I kinda finally found a character I liked, this being Yanfei her gameplay it’s bouncy and fun apart that her voice and character clicked with me a lot and now I’m hoping she gets an outfit since you know Fontaine is kind of worshiping the god of justice haha

Like most other of your subscribers I found your channel from the original video. I checked out your other vids recently and found I actually really like your content so....glad to see a follow up to that video honestly! Entertaining and great editing as usual

Also the problem with timed events is limited weapons from events (ie. Albedo's signature weapon is a timed event weapon and Furina's best 4 star was only available in 1.2)

Rarity in gacha games means how rare it is to get them. In genshin 3stars have a 94.3% chance to be pulled 4stars have 5.1% and 5stars have 0.6% chance. Making the 5stars rarer. Thus the rarity system

6:00 Scaramouche acknowledged players who met him in that early timed event. Those who haven't playe though it, had different dialogue. Also timed events are often mentioned in later timed events and everything is always connected. Like Iridescent Tour was mentioned for the first time when Xinyan went to Inazuma, just for it to be referenced in 2.8 summer event again and finally resolved in 3.4 (when Yaoyao came out). We even had some lore about Nahida throughout the 2.8 summer event and her powers relating to dreams. Even Zhongli ordering tea in Mondstadt during the bartender event was referenced during Spring festival. Another thing with timed events is that they keep the online interst in the game. As an example, people who came later into the game would be interested in the past events and search/watch them online. That in turn would give Let's players more views and incentivize them to keep covering and streaming (uploading) new events at regular intervals, thus bringing back interest to the game. A very convenient strategy. It's similar for old players who want to feel nostalgic and rewatch the old events, maybe even with different perspectives by watching different content creators. About the Inazuma being too difficult for new players, definitely true, since day one players already had one year to prepare for it and it was the first real overworld challenge of a region. It was ruthless and wonderful at the same time!

World level increase is interesting. Enemies drop better loot at higher levels, and I'm not just talking about loot grade, I'm talking amounts. It's been an option to set your world level lower for a long time, and once you've reached the peak you can select easier with slightly worse enemy drops or a bit harder with slightly better enemy drops. Plus, the ascension passives gained along the way do a lot for power level, so increases in world level are theoretically easier to deal with as you get stronger. I'll admit it could probably use a rework since the issue "enemies gain an increase right as you do" does still apply and is kind of dumb until you get used to it.

This is the first time I've stumbled upon your channel and I'm already subbed. The editing is fun and beautiful and you give me techno vibes but are also interesting and entertaining in your own way. Well done👍

i just recently redownloaded genshin after taking probably close to a year and a half break from severe burnout, and your very last point is a huge part of it. i got so sick of the pressure to minmax my characters for no reason other than to keep up with other people that i just. stopped playing. that on top of some other nitpicks i had with the game that lessened my enjoyment. coming back to it now the flaws and issues i had with it are definitely still there, but i'm having way more fun with the QoL updates they've added and i'm super stoked to see where the story goes. this is also the first video i've seen that addresses the problem of them locking important story beats behind timed events early on. i'm glad to hear they've fixed it a bit.

bro srsly predicted the chronicled wish

I actually agree with you on letting the players pick their desired 5* in the standard banner. Arknights (another gacha game I've been playing) just implemented a new banner system for their standard 6* character pool (6* characters that already had their first rerun), where you can select the featured 6* & 5* characters on it.

it's hilarious as hell that less than a month after this video's release we get an artifact that trumps Ocean Hued Clam in textsize by 30characters: Song of Days Past (healer-mains are truly forced to read)

loved this vid! never watched ur first one but you brought up some great points, glad most of them have been resolved. also this is so random but it irked me- the reason lyney is a 5 star and lynette isn't actually makes a lot of sense. lyney is a magician, lynette is his assistant. Lyney is also probably going to become arlecchino's sucessor and become a fatui harbinger, which is a LOT of power. anyways, I actually find it quite funny that so may genshin players were burned out from sumeru- I've played everyday for 2 years and rlly enjoyed the quests in sumeru (I don't actually mind blocks of dialogue which might be part of it😭) and I enjoyed exploring the desert, tho i didn't explore much- my desert is like 30-40% while the rainforest is in like 80-90% lmao I also never really had a problem with inazuma, from what I can recall- tho I was SO glad they nerfed specters just bc of how fuckin annoying they were lol

I know nothing about Genshin, but as an enjoyer of Battle Cats (a game with a similar update style but longer lifespan), I can totally see where you are coming from with these points. I know way to damn well how annoying grinds are, and seeing the devs add new loot while not improving early-mid level loot collection is tough. Good video!

I love genshin, but a lot of what you said is still valid. My biggest issue is the resin system and artifacts. If you want to optimize teams, it will take weeks for one character alone. And for long-time players like myself that makes building all your characters very time consuming.

I completely get where you're coming from. I agree with a lot of points you made and I quit playing for similar reasons. I recently actually considered going back recently and doing as you've done and just enjoy the game.

what a good video to have come out the day after i get back into genshin after a year long break to "check on it"

I'm not sure what you mean by enemies getting harder, because even in Fontaine, the enemies aren't really getting harder. Spiral Abyss has always been Genshin's hardest content, and while that is constantly getting more inflated HP each cycle, even the early Abyss cycles are considerably harder than what Fontaine has to offer currently (besides the Local Legends, of course) HoYo has taken major steps in insuring newer players won't feel the difficulty. There's no brick wall of a difficulty spike that block story progression unlike in the Souls series or something. That's also the reason why underwater combat doesn't care about your Artifacts/Builds because they want new players to be on an equal playing field. Underwater content is 50% of Fontaine as HoYo mentioned, there's no reason for them to cater to newer players if what you say is true that the Story/Area progression is linear, which it's not. Finally, new players can immediately teleport to Fontaine after completing Mondstadt's Archon Quest, so they really don't want the latest game content to require optimised gear and teams.

One thing the Genshin team needs to take notes from is how to do QoL changes like the HSR team like the maxed out stamina getting stored for later use so it doesn't go to waste, sure we got those 5 resin we can condense but it's still limited to 5 and it still doesn't fix the stamina being wasted if it max out for not playing consistently. There's also more recent changes coming to HSR that even makes the Abyss counterpart in HSR a better experience.

Unrelated but I love the little transitions from each topic 😭 and how they match with the music

I actually like the points you make in the video. It was really entertaining to watch.

Ironically, Sumeru is the only reason I'm still playing Genshin to this date I just hated inazuma so much that I quit Genshin and came back with 3.3 which I loved. I play only on weekends but still managed to 100% all of Sumeru, and it still the only region that I 100% it. I only play and explore when I feel to and not forcing myself to play to caught up-to-date content, I feel that the main reason I appreciate it so much because it had so much content it can be overwhelming but for me, it was perfect :) or maybe because the first thing I do in any region is complete the world quests before exploring and the writing in these world quests is so interesting for me because they reveal some of the jouncy lore that I like :)

the fact some ppl find this game hard genuinely boggles my mind farming artifacts is a chore so i do the least i can and i stiill find the game piss easy im 100% f2p just slap some ok artifacts on ur char lvl the talents and a weapon they good for 90% of the content and no the new enemies arent hard they just more annoying a new fatui girl enemytakes the exact same skill as a mondstd hilichurl just mash buttons with a healler or shielfer on ur team the only place that rquires a tiny bit of attention in floor 11 and 12 of abyss which u kinda need to know what ur doing and there is no point in doing the abyss unless u want the primos so dont force urlself to do it

loved the transitions for the video, especially going into the artifacts section lol

I really believe you are still able to play characters you want on spiral abyss, with a fitting team. I would love to watch you talk with Zajeff about a colab on this. He is very understanding and knowledgeble

I literally started playing Genshin again today after not playing for almost a year 😭

to be honest its probably really hard to design the game in a way so it adheres to all kinds of players. as a person who has a crippling addiction to this game, i literally didnt even consider half of the points listed in this video, because by the time inazuma came out, i was already overpowered to the point that i just blasted through all enemies and world difficulty increase didnt feel like anything to me. i dont rly remember the last time i actually struggled to beat floor 12, let alone world enemies or bosses. so if you asked me the question “what is genshin impacts biggest issue”, i would probably answer “the game is too easy” (and thats given that im a low spender). so i guess it is hard to find that middle ground where both casual and more invested players find the game fun :0 but overall, great video! i kinda looked at the game from a new perspective thanks to you

Its crazy seeing this video now considering I also saw your other video about genshin around the time I also took a break from the game (honestly seing your video and a couple other like it was the reason I quit). I also haave returned to playing the game again for about 2 weeks now and so far I have been enjoying myself : ). You make some great points great video (Inazuma was definitely too difficult).

i love this video, its very valid criticism of the game and i agree with a lot of your points, honestly it feels very refreshing! but i cant help but notice your team comp at 21:11 and it made laugh so much im sorry

I have been waiting for this for a year

08:40 there is a Filter button, I use it all the time it's not an issue for me because the Filter is actually useful :)

loving the editing!

As a gameplay enjoyer I do agree that there's a lot of things that are debatable, like element and character balancing, domain gameplay, quality of life, resin etc. I've took a long break after the version 1.2 for a reason "This game can be better, but for now I don't feel like that my time spent is being respected.". During my break I was keeping myself up to date with the news about the game and eventually returned during 2.5 and logged in everyday since then. The game has improved a lot but the main reason why I took a break still persists, while not as severe to the point that I don't want to play the game, still makes me feel uneasy about the direction where the game is going. I'm talking about the fairness of the rewards for exploration in comparison with event rewards. During an event you can get a large sum of primogems in a short period of time, while in open world you have to put a lot of effort to get the same amount of primogems (assuming you don't have 100% in every region). For example, current event has a subevent where you gather 3 things in a small area, which can be done under a minute, and you get 80 primogems for that. I don't feel like that's justified at all. Now think what you have to do to get 80 primogems in open world. Some chests require far more effort than that and they give you mostly 10 primogems. The easiest solution is to divide these 80 primogems into 16 stages that give 5 primogems each, which is exact amount that an Exquisite Chest gives and the effort is about the same. But that wouldn't be fun to gather the same 3 things 16 times to get all of the rewards, right? I don't feel like my time invested is being respected when I do these events, there's not even a leaderboard, co-op or a badge that you can put on display in your profile. There's no drive for me to play the event after getting the rewards. But when they dropped the Windtrace (hide and seek) event, that was literally the most fun I've had in Genshin Impact. This event also has problems, but they all are overshadowed by gameplay, how fun it is. I was in the game for an hours just to play good old hide and seek lmao. They can make good events if they put enough effort, but today's event's gameplay is ridiculous, there's nothing fun to do. The same combat event with a clever twist, the same explore-for-a-minute event, the same clever puzzle event. And you can't even share what you've achieved during the event without social media. Man, whoever makes these events can't catch a W lately.

I don't understand the complaint about the world levels. You upgrade your characters to be able to keep up with the higher world levels. The reward is that you have access to better loot. Isn't the whole "higher difficulty leading to better rewards" a key concept in many games?

the main problem with wanting more 4* than 5* characters is that you can guarantee yourself a 5* character but technically cant with 4* characters, for me, i lack some 4* character constellations or characters outright that i didnt get simply because i didnt want to pull for certain 5 stars, and if there were even more, that chance would be even lower... Also while 5* being weak is not *great* they still have their uses technically. Zajef made a good video about this recently in terms of powercreep, Genshin barely, if at all, has it. Sure 5* characters have more interesting kits and tend to be more relevant, and some are very Op especially with constellations, but in the end, the most meta characters are 4 stars, including one you literally get for free (Xiangling), Xingqiu, Bennett and Fischl are all considered S tier and are some of the oldest characters in the game, theyre meant to be more accessible. Which is a good thing

5:40 Scaramouche's dialogue does actually vary depending on if you playing this event, however the actual event doesnt end up getting mentioned much. Also it is cool that the story of timed events has stopped being important, but its still annoying to have tons of character lore behind them. Like we've had major dives into certain characters' lore and if you missed those events then you'd have to watch them on youtube. The two main examples that bother me are Albedo (Because his event was pretty cool and he is actually kind of lore important) and Fischl (Cause she had a cool and unique domain to tell her story) Also on Game difficulty, I really dont think the game is getting harder at all, I would say the highpoint in difficulty is still inazuma - the game has honestly gotten easier, however what does change is the team comps the game wants you to bring in order to counter certain enemy types.

so you said it yourself - you dont want to optimise your time farming primogems, you dont want to finish spiral abyss, you dont want to farm artifacts, you dont want to go through most of the quests, you don't want to play at max world level in what universe does this mean you should be getting characters consistently? yeah getting new characters and new ways to fight enemies is the biggest fun in genshin, but you are interacting with the game casually, which is fine, but the drawback is that you are now meant to spend money to catch up on the primos. that's the premise of f2p games. you either grind with your time or pay for your time skipped. the game is far from hard once you get your artifact setups going. in fact thanks to bonkers artifacts you CAN swap around to your favorite characters. 90% of setups can blow through abyss with enough artifact strength. feeling good about inazuma being nerfed is not something to be happy about. the game is already lacking difficulty in its endgame, the least you can do is enjoy your progression experience. i miss the days where two bursts didnt clear an enemy camp and actually got to use my full team. now it is just abyss 12. and removing gear is a shit solution.

While I agree with all of your points, I also think it’s just a skill issue lmao. I’ve literally never struggled with any combat outside of the spiral abyss, at least since my first like month of playing. No overworld enemies have anything on even a somewhat built max level team.

Honestly imo the biggest problem Genshin has and it becomes more and more of a problem is the dialouge, the writers make it so they say something that could be said with 3 words in a few seconds, be said ingame using 140 words in like 5 to 10 minutes, they stretch the everliving shit of the narrative string and it becomes more and more boring to do everything story related when you read an entire library's worth of text and 90% of it is filler crap no1 ever cared or will ever care about that they add in to pad the playtime more, in Mondo in the early game in a couple of dialogue options in like half a minute you knew what you had to do, in Fontaine or Sumeru you need to go through an essay of 700 words for like 15 minutes just to get the next quest objective, i know how storytelling works and i get that some exposition is needed but there is also one thing MHY should abide by but never does which is the saying "too much of anything is bad" and Genshin's main problem is it has too much dialogue, specifically too much filler padded out dialogue. I don't hate reading but when you need to read an entire book worth of text just to then get the objective "go there kill enemies" it's frustrating and infuriating.

ive played the game since just before eula's first banner (i forgot which patch it was dont hurt me) and ive played nearly every day since only really missing days when im on vacation or something. i always hear people talking about burnout but ive never actually experienced it myself and i think its just because of how i approach the game. i used to keep an eye on the meta only really for how to build a character optimally but now my experience in game has taught me how to build the characters myself without needing the meta and 8/10 times im at least in swinging distance of what people consider meta. i also approach the game with probably a lot more passion than other players, which is not a flex at all lmfao, i just happen to be the kind of person who loves making lists and organising things and getting to do that in relation to a game i adore is even better. as such i find that making priority lists of things to do with the limited resources i can get to be a nice challenge. this is also what carries me between interesting updates as i can prefarm for characters i dont have yet, still giving me that feeling of progression even if im not actually doing anything to progress me in the moment, plus i get the added bonus of enjoying a new character at relatively max strength as soon as i get them. also the prefarming avoids the frustration of getting bad artifacts as its not as if by getting a bad artifact it means my character will be weaker for longer as i still have to wait like a month and a half until they come out. basically prefarming is how ive avoided burnout for so long, i was lucky af that the characters i got at the beginning of the game were characters that i didnt really care for EDIT: my point about meta and building characters comes across like im trying to flex, im just bad with words. i was *trying* to say that by avoiding paying attention to meta and just judging a character based off of appeal and gameplay, ive kept my enjoyment of the game alive for ages because i dont feel the need to play characters just because the meta says they are good

Very nice vid! The menues issue is actually been already developed to make them easier to access and look through! (it will be out in 4.3)

Good for you. Finally a content creator who knows why stop playing and why keep on playing. Many people who love Genshin can be burned out so it's a common occurrence for a long term game then continue again when you wish. I just hate some content creators who stop playing clearly not because of burned out but because they hate Genshin then come back playing the game while constantly mocking it for views.

I think long quest in sumeru is to help players to explore more with a guide, rather than just randomly explore it. I find them enjoyable, cuz the quest "is" the content. And after finishing it we can go back freely

I am also a similar player who got bored of the game, but im so glad i came back to do the things i wanted to enjoy and to have fun again :3 New characters are fun and all but coming back to play the characters i already have has given me a reason to aporeciate them once again

every kazoocat video is a great one

There are two dendro artifact sets available early on. Thunrering fury hyper bloom and other electro sided reactions, and Crimson witch for burgeon

Yay, they added chronicled banner!

Ooh, I remember the old video but not how I felt about it lol! I've stayed a daily player since I started, but I think you have a lot of great perspective here and made a lot of good points back then as well. The point about not forcing yourself is super key imo, I have to remind my friends who play the game sometimes that beating the spiral abyss isn't going to bring me that much joy, and repeatedly failing at floor 12 just makes me like the game less. At heart, I'm a character collector, a map explorer, and an ost addict, among other things, and while my builds have gotten better over time, I definitely don't think I would've been able to stay with the game as consistently as I have if I'd ever let the meta become my main focus. I do think Genshin could do a bit more to make the difficulty more adjustable for players of different skill and interest levels, but there is some satisfaction in going back to enemies that used to give me a headache and realizing how much I've improved in skill level and in my builds. Also, I'm pretty sure this hadn't been announced at the time of this video's release, but at least one of the menus (the enemy tracker one specifically) is finally getting optimized to reduce scrolling in the next patch or so! Only a small step in the right direction, but at least it's something. Oh and one more aside, I totally understand why people got burnt out from the Sumeru desert. Really, I do. Even as someone who loves exploring, I struggled through that desert, and I'm sure there's still content down there I haven't even discovered. But I still have incredibly fond memories of it, because I think the story, characters, and music were really hitting a new high point for me, and while I adore Fontaine, I think Sumeru remains my favorite nation and possibly always will (just wish we'd gotten more forest)! Anyway, yes. This is a great video. Your voiceover and editing style really make the whole thing feel very approachable, which I appreciate as I was pretty apprehensive to click on it at first (there's a lot of pointless negativity out there). Here's hoping the game is still going strong come Snezhnaya!

I ACTUALLY TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU FROM YOUR FIRST VIDEO. A LOT OF THINGS THAT NEED TO IMPROVE I HAVE A LOTS OF COMPLAIN. COMING FROM ME WHO COMPLETED 100% EXPLORATION ALL MAPS UP TO 4.2 🤷🏼‍♂️

chronicle wish banner coming in clutch

Its been quite some time since I played genshin, and coming back to it has been fun as of recent. Honestly, I thought I wasn't going to at first, but well.. here I am. Edit:This video was also very well made.

I’ve been playing this game everyday since august of 2021 (I actually started on launch but stopped playing for like an entire year) and I see the grind as something of a bell curve. When you’re first starting out, you’re not all too concerned with decking out your characters with the optimal artifact sets and maximizing talent levels because you’re just enjoying the game in its “non endgame” state. Eventually this will likely change for most players since they start to want to invest more into their favorite characters (that they were able to obtain) and build teams that capitalize on their strengths (which is also usually around AR 40 when they start actually paying attention to that). Artifact domains that drop 5 stars don’t open until AR 45 so I can imagine some players might rush into the hardest artifact challenges trying to grind for their characters and finding it super tedious and frustrating because idk that damn lawachurl in the Heart of Depth/Blizzard Strayer domain won’t stop tackling you and shitting out icicles on the ground. This part is typically the most tiresome point of the grinding journey since not only are you having to deal with annoying domain challenges but also you could struggle for like 3 minutes just to reach the tree and get your 4th defense percent goblet that your Xiao definitely needs. Eventually players will get to that level (whether because they asked a friend for help or they just persisted) where they can handle the domain challenges on their own, it might not be in a speedy fashion but they can handle them at a reasonable pace. For me personally, the downward curve of the bell (as in how annoying it was to grind) started once I had built enough teams at a decent level to where I could at least experiment with comps while trying to grind. It makes it SO MUCH more interesting for me instead of just using the same hypercarry team repeatedly. That’s where I think Genshin shines the most (other than exploration imo) is with how dynamic HoYo is trying to make team building. The biggest issue however is that it takes so long to even get to that point and I completely understand why people just don’t even bother. The latest characters released in Fontaine (and characters like Chevreuse based on leaks) give me more hope that HoYo is trying to make sure that team building brings in lesser used characters or incentivizes the use of more niche comps. This comes with the caveat however of the fact that some of these more interesting teams might require you to build a character in a different way (a different way than their “optimal” way)…. which means it might be time to head back to the artifact domain yet again.

4:06 bro really predicted the the banner system

7:53 Not enough hot men is the most based criticism ever

As a day one Genshin player I totally get what you are saying, but it also sounds like you want the game to give you max power level characters so you can one shot any enemy by clicking one button. Oh, and not being forced to do any quests (in an RPG) and granted access to the entire world from day one. Sounds like a very, very casual experience to me.

Going from a Zajeff, try hard theory crafting video, to a casual players take on genhsin really puts into perspective the vastly different sides of the players.

desert was a slog for sure i probably wont do it ever again if i go onto another account but i do like how sometimes youll run into something that stops you in your tracks the first time and you have to reconsider your approach or loadout to get through parts of the game. Theres not much that stops me at ar60 but it is nice to have some enemies that will give a challenge and punish slip ups.

So I've heard the reason why there's no other 5 stars on the standard banner is legal marketing issues. Almost all of the 5 star descriptions say that they will not appear in the wanderlust invocation banner, so to go to standard would be false advertising and liable for a lawsuit. It's a self inflicted problem bc they could just do it like dehya and tighnari and just add that yeah we'll put them in the standard banner eventually for everyone but money go brrr

What a coincidence. I've just today decided to check back on Genshin after dropping the game for like 8 months or so. It seems some cool things have been added like not needing to do the daily commissions to get the rewards but for now most of the problems I have with the game are still here like the artifact system being just as random, the way they play into your fear of missing out with the abundance of events that ultimately don't impact the main storyline as the game acts like everything never happened or the quests which play out in the most boring dialogue scenes you still can't skip. Note that I actually want to follow the story and not skip it but since there are so many unnecessary dialogues and nothing actually cinematic happening on screen it just feels dull. The Fontaine Archon Quest I started right now is very interesting but the dialogues sequences keep on dragging on and on and last for so long even if you spam to go as fast as possible that it's still bad. I'll check back on the game from time to time because I still believe it's great artistically, but the usual gameplay not being fun keeps me away from staying. I don't fear missing on anything and I've enjoyed my time away from the game so much by trying games from completely different genres that I just don't really care anymore.

These are all valid points I completely agree but theres one issue that much more apparent for mobile players, storage. My Ipad is basically used just for genshin i keep deleting games, photos and other things just to play genshin now that the next update is tomorrow im scared i wont have snough space to play it…

I started noticing that I was falling into the burnout abyss of... the spiral abyss, when I decided that it was not worth it to care so much about it, so now I only do up to floor 11 because they're easier and only worry about seeing how much I can do on the 12th, I do miss like... 50 - 100 primogems but at this point I just accepted that I will not have every character I like and will only get a new character every 3 - 5 patches if I lose 50/50 at 90 pity I wasn't really into gridding endlessly for artifacts because that's also too much of a pain to inflict on yourself. Of now I'm way more into having fun with niche under leveled teams because they make the combat actually engaging with the worry of me dying with a few hits and I've been having so much fun

Why even have character stars? If a majority of characters are 5 stars and the only other option a character can be is 4 stars, then the numbers lose all meaning and it's just a binary "are they important-ish?" checklist. You could remove the stars, and nothing of value would be lost.

As someone who doesn't play Spiral Abyss, I consider myself a casual player. However, I haven't faced any difficulties with the world level, which has been consistently easy for me since Inazuma. Most of the time, when I see someone struggling with the game, it's because they neglect the basics. For instance, they don't level up their talents, weapons, or main level, nor do they take the time to understand the mechanics or team composition. Now I've never seen you play, so maybe it's just me. But I think Hoyoverse should explain these things better, cause its something I've seen many newbies struggle with.

omg Necrit hii~ Good video, I don't play Genshin to relate though, stopped playing after starting Liyue when I realized that I would continue not caring about what was going on for as long as there was no character that I really wanted to get in the gacha game but I like listening to people talking about games they like.. and like game design in general, so I liked the video!

day 1 player here im actually very excited for the story is amazing cant wait what comes next... i feel like for a new player starting nowdays is just pure satisfaction so much to do