The Problem With Sumeru 

I played Genshin religiously everyday until Sumeru came out. Everything about Sumeru overwhelmed me so much that I retired from Genshin for a year, until Fontaine was released.

You forgot to mention the Dendroculus! How those too are locked behind quests and elemental needs AND the map often displays them in the wrong location due to the layers!

"the map is confusing" ok, but remember when we didn't even have multilayer map for the entirety of Sumeru. They released all those caves and you just had to do them all blind for an entire year. I did 100% sumeru on two accounts with no cave map.... Incidentally, the Fontaine world quest chain is also long as heck and also locks progression. And special shoutout to the fungi for personally hating you if you dare use electro or pyro to fight them. Who thought that was a good idea

That's what bothered me the most of Sumeru, puzzles and areas locked behind a super long quest (which I did enjoy btw) but to backtrack all around the forest and desert... It's why I've low exploration % compared to Fontaine which I have progressed far more than Sumeru, oddly enough I NOW have less time to play than before.

I always loved eremites for how much personality they have , whenever you look they are walking around , dancing , playing instruments , playing tcg , training or just laying on the ground they were always fun , i didnt have a problem with how much of them there was in sumeru but i guess they were the basic enemy of sumeru that appear only in sumeru so maybe hoyo had to give players easy access to their materials

You forgot to mention that Fungi drops are different if you hit them with Electro or Pyro, which the drops are never practically used

I 100% all of Sumeru before the underground maps, it was hell, probably got claustrophobia because of the caves. Jeht's quest is the best world quest in genshin but probably not worth.

It wasn't until they added the underground map that I realised how massive the 1st desert area is. How in the world did they expect us to understand where to go and not get lost before the underground map!?

Sumeru damn nearly made me quit the game because the very thing that made me stick around (exploration) was turned into a chore. I’m so glad I came back for fontaine though, and now that I feel a little more motivated to play the game maybe I’ll give the desert another shot.

ngl i thought the desert was kinda bearable. on the other hand, i will never 100% the forest because finding all the aranara to get three chests is where i draw the line lmao

When I actually started finding the 76 aranara's i had a meltdown throughout one week. I followed 3 different guides only to find 2 aranaras that i was missing. And backtracking every single place pissed me off so much I didn't even touch genshin for a week.

I remember ppl used to complain about Genshin not guiding the players well enough for puzzle solving. I think the quest locked Aranara and desert areas were Mihoyo going too far extreme into that direction lol. Another thing is that although with all the added locked areas and layers, Sumeru's puzzles are actually way too easy. I do wish they can bring back the Inazuma level of puzzle difficulty but yes I know ppl will have problem with that too!

And this is why I listen to music on Spotify when I explore things and watch video’s while doing world quests I would never get invested in because I don’t like reading walls of text that can be cut down by 75% and still be over-explained or unnecessary.

I really love how Fontaine turned out. For underwater exploration you dont need to swap elements because of abilitys and for above land the only element you need is hydro. Way better experience than Sumeru

i loved sumeru, i also loved the aranara quest, it was very well written and it actually felt like i was going on a big epic adventure, it was also the first side quest to give us some info on our sister, but yeah it being necessary to explore is kinda dookie, i think the devs expected you to explore whilst doing the quest and explore the areas the quest takes you to

The first area of Sumeru was actually quite amazing. It was the first time Teyvat actually felt somewhat alive and the vertical exploration was taken to another level (no pun intended). Sure, it was guilty of all of the things you mentioned, however the pros outweighted the cons. However, the desert areas afterwards not only didn't improve on the rainforest, but they doubled down on its issues and on top of that barely entertained any of its strengths. All that remained were tears of frustration and godforsaken sand.

i think the worst thing that came from sumeru was many people (specially on tiktok) coming to the realization that either genshin or world exploration games are not for them, and making it seem like its a flaw of the game to require you to explore to grind wishes or unlock domains. all the points you made are good criticisms of the exploration, which I wish is what these players said rather than making it seem like all exploration is bad.

I really enjoyed Sumeru, especially compared to Inazuma and Fontaine, but you bring up so many incredibly valid annoyances here. I left a fair bit of Sumeru exploration and world/reputation quests on the table because of some of those annoyances. It seems Hoyo cleaned up some of those things for Fontaine, thankfully.

BRO getting chain staggered by those big bison things was the literal worst. And I'm one of those that hasn't completed sumeru, my aranara quest log is basically untouched and Rana is still stuck in the tree on my world lol

Sumeru is what broke me. I typically would explore all the areas of a new region but having to go through the aranara questline to do anything just to realize I was never done with it just drove me nuts. Sumeru just made me straight up quit. The region is beautiful but there is so much about it I hate. XD

Sumeru is my favorite region, but you actually made some valid points. Although I would argue, I would rather have a region filled with enemies than a region feeling empty 😭

I think that the main problem with Sumeru is that its progression in some cases is linear, which distracts from the freedom that an open world brings. Part of the magic of Genshin's open world for me is that there's so much to do when exploring, and I often find myself getting lost in it. I'll be on track to open a certain chest, but see another chest in the distance, and decide to open that one first so I don't forget about it. Then, when I open it, I'll see 12 other chests over the hill and almost forget about the original chest. In Sumeru, I found this immersion being broken by areas that are blocked off completely, with no context behind them. While Genshin has blocked off areas for quests before, most of the areas prior were hidden so that players wouldn't naturally stumble into them. In Sumeru, so many areas were quest-locked that it was almost impossible not to encounter them while exploring. They were so abundant that it became distracting.

Crazy that people complain about having too much content, exploring the Sumeru jungle area is the only time in Genshin Impact where I felt like I was playing an actual game and not just a primogem farming simulator

I can only explore Sumeru for a few minutes at a time before I get motion sick. I NEVER get motion sick. I'm 100% in every other region except Fontaine. Not a problem. I play motion intense VR games. Nothing. Planes, cars, boats... nothing. But running around all the steep slanted terrain in Sumeru gets me every time.

I agree with this so much. Sumeru looks great and has a lot of cool stuff in it but exploration is a nightmare. I cannot stand me hanics that force a specific element, I personally even include elemental shields on enemies for this since you can't freely swap in battle for example and Sumeru doubled down on it with so many random overworkd things requiring specific elements. Also there are 2-3 domains that pissed me off because they require a bow but there is nothing telling you that before you enter, so if you didn't have a bow character, you could get like halfway through and then be stick and have to exit and do the whole thing over. The desert was the worst offender for me, evwrything looks very similar, even with the map that actually shows different layers finally, it's still a confusing nightare of corridors and things blocked by the slate. The amount of times I had to leave aomething, would mark the map and then try ro find it again later and couldn't figure out how I got there.

My problem with Sumeru is that when you do a time trial challenge, almost always it yeets you to a different galactic quadrant, with no way back, or a very tiresome backtrack from a waypoint just to get back at the time trial pedestal.

I seriously don't understand how someone can defend the Aranara questline or the amount of gatekeeping present in the desert. First, you have to help Aranara "heal" the forest and, in the process, unlock old and new Vanarana (something you can't do until you engage in the questline, something no other region does). This process unironically takes 10h to do. Yes, it gives a lot of primos, but those primos could've been scattered across puzzles (seriously dude, 90% of the chests in Sumeru are common). Then, you have to engage with Aranyaka. This involves going to nurseries which have time-gating, finding random chests hidden in the middle of nowhere by looking at poorly-drawn pictures for reference and exploring some more. After you do all of this, you then have to find 76 Aranara accross all of Sumeru to be able to open 15 or so chests of all rarities in a cave. You think this is bad enough? Well, the very last Aranara you have to find is LOCKED BEHIND A WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD QUEST that requires you to kill the ruin machines locked behind dendro prisons. I was kinda ok with the initial quest where we were clearing the withering and doing other stuff, but the Aranyaka stuff and the 76 Aranara made me lose my sanity. I unironically now love desert more than the forest. Speaking of the desert, I don't mind it now in the modern era of underground maps, but I despised it so SO much when we didn't. I refused to explore it before we got the underground maps, barely having above 50% on all of them (especially desert of Hadrameveth).

Trust me your now in healing period NXT comes trauma period, whenever someone or something says "DESERT" it just reminds you of the sufferings of 100% it. Take it from me just by the title I'm traumatized by the rememberance of the sufferings of the desert 💀.

I must say, desert levels are always my favourite part in video games, and I am one of the few people that really enjoyed the desert expansions (although with the 3rd one I also experienced a bit of burnout); but even I didn’t like the great amount of empty space in the ground level and the INSANITY of 100% it without ANY MAP TO GUIDE ME

I remember when Sumeru was new and they had this treasure digging type event and I haven't really unlocked much of the map. One of the areas in the event was locked behind the old varanara and at that point I just gave up after learning about the tedious process to unlock it.

Going off the poking fun at not considering events as actual content thing (which I know isn't the point of the video but w/e), this is probably the thing that always bothers me the most in terms of complaints about the game. I'm a Day 1 Player who, besides a roughly one month break after Tears of the Kingdom came out, has logged in every day. There is SO MUCH permeant content in the game that I haven't yet despite this. I find it crazy that I see so many people talking about having nothing to do in the game. The only ways I can reasonably make sense of it is people who basically have unlimited free time, and/or it's the only game they play. It blows my mind... And for the record I'm not white knighting this game or Hoyoverse, I just don't see content as something worth complaining about when there's SO MUCH MORE viable stuff to complain about in my eyes.

Sumeru is still the best region in my book, but when i had to find theses 70+ aranaras i went insane, didn't have much problem with the desert mostly because i enjoyed the world quests, but quest locked exploration still suck, especially the quest where you need to remove the orange thing on top of the mausoleum, i'm never having 100% in the desert because of this quest

After Sumeru Fontaine felt like sip of fresh water *pun intended * I really hate Sumeru, specifically because i had to do it 3 times! (i have 3 accounts, don't ask why) And only on my third time i was able to get all 76 aranaras without double-triple-checking them again and again, because those little bitches camouflage themselves with the grass, it's annoying. Oh, and some people say that puzzles in Sumeru were easy. Well, they kinda were, unless you come across one specific flooded cave under another flooded cave where you need to do a tedious quest of finding and killing 16 ruin mechanisms that scattered around whole green zone map in the most ridiculous places sometimes. And if you still have water in that second cave better checking rain switcher in the Apam (?) forest that located miles away from that cave, because SOMEHOW they're connected, and you should've been able to deduct their connection SOMEHOW too, i dunno.... God bless the portable way points... And as for the desert... I hate backtracking. And also there was no underground map when i did it first time, so yeah.... Who am i? Where am i? What the hell is going on? And btw, nowadays you can collect all the "Authority" or whatever that power was for the Plate easily (not really), but back in 4.1 you had to wait for 4.2 so the second part of the desert would drop and you finally could collect the last bits of power you need to open that last door in the tomb.....so if you're stupid, like me, you would aimlessly run around searching for the last power you need, and after few hours you'd finally check the mighty thing called internet and learn that you need to wait for 20-30 more days. Duh. You also had to finish first Jeht quest, then randomly teleport to Aaru on the second day so you could trigger Soheil quest (or whatever the guy's name, if you already explored everything because you were stupid like me and did not teleported to Aaru via Statue of the Seven teleport, you can basically finish his quest right there, but it's still needed for last page to appear), collect all the available power then start the second Jeht quest so you could get more easier way to the place you need and read 6-7 random pages that will give you last portion of Plate power. I mean, all this time we were getting that power through some tomb puzzles and now it's suddenly a paper reading? Who designed that shit??? And btw to collect everything in King Deshret Tomb you will have to return there 4 times! 4!! 5 or 6 if you're stupid. Gosh i hate backtracking, really. Btw [2] i think that the guy who designed Meropide Prison in Fontaine is the same guy who designed the King Deshret Tomb. I fucking recognize his hand! Was he not fired yet?? Stop adding bullshit layouts to the game pls that don't make any sense! Jeez....

Imagine the AUDACITY this man has to complain about the underground maps in the desert. It's not like there are people that exist who got 100% in the desert region before it existed. No... of course not, Masochists like that would never exist. Everyone was smart, and just waited for 4.0 to fully explore the pyramids.... hahaha-HaHaHa-HAHAHAHAHAHA /s F the aranara, F the underground, and F three different desert expansions... but even after all that sumeru is still the best region...Great video, enjoyed every second of it.

I agree with most of the comments and the video, but I’d do it all over again, I just love exploring and prefer to have a backlog rather than be at 100% like I am now. What I definitely agree with is the freaking combat music that plays over and over… same in TCG the SAME SONG plays EVERY TIME YOU PLAY. It’s hell like

Nice vid but would’ve been better with like 74 more Aranara 🤔

My top 3 problems with sumeru: 1. Aranara 2. Aranara 3. Aranara

Exactly why Fontaine takes negative brain cells to complete. Sumeru took time and effort

the aranara quest was worth it in the end of the day Primos :)

I’m honestly surprised the stretch of 3.4-3.7 didn’t take me out of the game. It was literally horrifying to be a Genshin player during that time. I really liked the Lore, but I couldn’t help but be overwhelmed by the amount of content they gave you and I was playing the game everyday (reckon, that was on me because I was grinding my ass off trying to get to AR 60). All of my friends despised the Aranara quest-line, but I actually liked it. It gave me a sense of nostalgia and somewhat a Zelda vibe to it, and I was actually invested in helping out those “fairy fuckers” (shout to my friend who called them that lol). Now, I didn’t finish the book but I did finish the most important ones. Now for the desert…I couldn’t say the same when it first came out. I did come back to it during late 2023 and I actually enjoyed exploring it, but man I did not enjoy those caves and puzzles at all. However, I will come back to 100% it one day like I did with the Rainforest after I took like a year break from it. As for the events…yea I wasn’t a big fan of them. Most, maybe all of them were really boring and not fun at all. I swear, there were like at least 2-3 events I liked which sucked since I used to like nearly every Genshin event at the time. Archon and World Quests were really good, my nitpicks are pretty minor and the only criticism I had was the length of them. It’s the first region where I felt that Genshin was truly getting serious and they weren’t as much “cheery and unserious” moments like there are in the past. We actually got more information on the world of Teyvat and our main characters for once that didn’t include “Dainsleif” in it. Not to mention that depressing scene with the Greater and Lesser Lord. Overall, I loved Sumeru but I felt that the “content” people asked for more of honestly ended up backfiring and killed many enjoyment of players. Not to mention the time Hoyoverse publicly announced that Endgame content wasn’t coming anytime soon. However, Fontaine seemed to revive a lot of excitement and enjoyment for many people including myself

Just imagine what 100% the desert was like before underground maps. That took a lot of time figuring out the map.

I love Sumeru more than any another region. I play just of 3 months tbh but still I'm almost done with it and that makes me sad cause I'll miss forest's adventure.. the desert quests.. but at least I'll be happy about 100% in all Sumeru! 💚

Bro ur doing a great job with this videos , keep going bro hope your channel becomes big as its deserves

I remember starting the aranara quest to save Rana... and then we're told to find all the lettuce to start a party in a week. We're having fun with lettuce and at no point do I ask, "is Rana ok?" And then we go back and not only is she OK but she has a vision now

Funny how when Sumeru first came out everyone loved it and now suddenly people have stuff to say. Imo Sumeru is still the best region alongside Fontaine

very cool video but also might i just add LAST DINOSAURS OUTRO MUSIC?? very much a surprise, but certainly a welcome one!

I just discover your channel and I loved your content and jokes already lol I am definitely subscribing ^ ^

Honestly i thought i was the only one with low sumeru exploration (i literally have barely 30% on average for that region lol) i basically did all the necessary quests and moved on. Often times i felt so claustrophobic in the areas, especially the desert, i remember thinking that i can find a way out of them through a gap, but that gap is literally blocked by that invincible wall which you can only see when you get up close. The desert felt too overwhelming the more they released it, the forest region was somewhat fun because everything was new around you, but the desert was literally just sand, more sand, caves, ruins and it made it difficult to explore. I literally got multiple headaches, felt nauseous because of this region, got motion sick and i barely only completed the required quests, and then i quit for 6 months because i had enough of this game lmao, and recently got back because of fontaine. Im so glad im not alone in finding sumeru annoying and hard to explore, all that terrain, caves, puzzles (they're not even that hard but they're so annoying), claustrophobic environments literally made it hard to play. And especially the slanted ruin guard quest? i actually genuinely threw up because the angle made me feel so sick. Edit: just wanna clarify that i only hate the exploration part of sumeru because its hella annoying, the story quests are amazing though.

It's funny that the first thing I do in every new region is start playing world quests and I explore at the same time, so half of these problems I never faced lol ^ ^ it might be frustrating a lot but Sumeru exploration experience was very solid I enjoy it a lot and ironically my favorite area in the game when it comes to exploration is the third part of the desert I loved the mechanics there and my least enjoyable area is the second part of the desert, but my favorite world quest of all time is from there so I have mixed feelings about it My first region to 100% fully was Sumeru, yes the exploration was tough sometimes, but I enjoyed it the most for some reason, maybe because I enjoy playing world quests and the lore behind it, I think that the main reason :)

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Sumeru exploration for me at least is the most tedious but the most satisfying to do, especially at 3.6 when they released the last sumeru region, way before the underground map is added. Sure there are problems, but it's just a game. After conpleting sumeru, exploring fontaine felt like a walk in the park.

I loved sumeru and LOVED exploring sumeru 100% I found it sooo fun and entertaining, I enjoyed it even waay more than I'm with fontaine 😭

I love Sumeru and imo I consider exploring the rain forest area some of the best in the game, but I feel like thats mostly because of the environment and music and maybe not the puzzles/feeling of exploration in itself. More than anything the part that frustrated me about exploring Sumeru was what you mentioned about having to use so many different elements and weapon types. I constantly had to switch my party just to get like, a common chest and 2 primogems. Compared to that its incredible how much more fluid fontaine feels, even though i still enjoy the aesthetics of sumeru more

I enjoyed everything you mentioned. Lots of new, fun stuff - huge areas with, once again, unique differences in each and content that isn't finished within 2-3 days. It is the very reason why we 100% in the first place. The undergrounds however were terrible at Sumeru release, a real blessing that they got maps at all nowadays :) Everyone has own opinions, nice vid nontheless!

The way i still haven't even finished the main quest, i got so overwhelmed right off the bat

Ray, your deadpan voice delivering those b0mb a$$ jokes is probably my fav form of comedy. I didnt expect to be so pleasantly surprised by the his video when I clicked on it but its so well made! The editing, the script, the jokes, just *muah* chefs kiss

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the mob density, felt like I was in combat 24/7 when going from quest location to quest location

Oddly enough Sumeru is the only region I 100%. I love desert area's I love the rainforests and the caves. It was just chill to do everything and backtrack sometimes. I know a lot of people complain about the length of the Aranara quest but I didn't mind. I just opened chests and watched random RU-vid essays while doing it. Exploring the pyramids made me feel like an archeologist. I loved it.

I've got the opposite reaction, I adore the adventures and exploring around Sumeru (and yes, even the desert) but for some reason, I'm not enjoying the Fontaine exploration as much. I still stand with the Aranara Questlines eventhough I understand people's frustrations with is. I usually play the game on my own pacee and terms so it didn't bother me much by how long it is. Also I don't ubderstand why people are complaining the desert is true to how a desert is in real life.

This channel is really underrated

The aranyaka questline made me shoot myself about 7 times

Nah, man, you can't sneak that outro song in there and expect me to not notice. Great taste in music, my guy!!

i quite enjoyed doing all the world quests and exploration the first time i did them and i didn't even realise how long it took!! having a second account or helping friends through everything though really makes it a total drag... also the desert made me dizzy bc it's like 90% beige and whenever i saw another color it then made me dizzy or straight up have a headache

It was an ok region I knew I wasn’t going to enjoy that much from the start and I knew I would get burnt out of the desert extremely quickly, That’s why I love Fontaine it feels so good, and the balance between land and water is amazing makes me not feel burnt out of the water and most of the puzzles are more straightforward and feel more rewarding and comprehensive than sumeru. hoyoverse has outdid themselves with Fontaine truly

Mouse dropped the cheese and did not disappoint

Omg I thought I was done after “Children of The Forest” it’s more dude!! Wtf was the plan here 😂😂😂 this is an amazing video btw!

I loved sumeru, i really liked how large in scope the world quests were, sue me. And i liked not having a map, played before the pacth that added them and getting lost for hours underground felt like real exploration.

Nice video, it was well explained, do more plis

1. Kusanali's existence 2. Forcing princess scaramouche to interact positively with Kusanali and not deporting his ass back to Inazuma

I like your video!! Keep it up!!

I also completed Sumeru around the same time you did. I don’t know how people managed to do it within even the 3.x period. It was such a pain towards the end and after getting only 23% more exploration in one day in the desert of hadramaveth (I got to about 92% after that, i honestly thought i could get to 100%) i didnt go in that desert except PURELY for necessity for over half a year. It was only just now I completely explored Sumeru, and you better believe the last place I got was the desert of hadramaveth. That sucked so bad. but hey, it was a solid year of content, althought mind numbing.

i like your video! keep it up!

Genshin players: NOOOOO YOU CANT LOCK EXPLORATION BEHIND QUESTS?!? FF14 players: -oh, another very important and crucial feature locked behind story -yeah that sucks but oh well

Anyone remember doing the underground pyramid and caverns WITHOUT underground maps? My brain has blocked out those times... probably trying to protect me from myself. :P

The godamn triangle things 😭 after doing the quests I don’t even bother with them anymore, just have no energy anymore, i just run away and ignore them

i loved all the aranara stuff!! it was really fun but i wish that wsd the only long questline in sumeru cuz its do overwheleming with other things.

Am I the only one who actually enjoys exploring sumeru? I also love the quests.

I really liked the exploration in Sumeru

gonna be honest i started watching with no expectations but i dont regret it ur video is the first ive seen that has genuine critism of sumeru that i agree with rather than just hating on sumeru that i keep seeing

I'm glad I didn't bother with the desert until the layered map was added. I *didn't* know the desert ruins would be massive but my procrastination worked out in my favor in the end and I'm finally making progress in my Sumeru exploration after almost a year of ignoring it But yeah with all that being said Sumeru was just exhausting

I love suneru, but I LOATHE the aranara quest, and also I'm like stuck in the quest because I can't use the cube mechanism to lower the water to get to the fane of ashvattha

I didn't start playing Genshin until right before Fontaine, so by the time I got to Sumeru, everything was unlocked. The size of it alone is almost as big as the prior three regions combined and, yet, when you really break down the content in it, it's no different than any one of those regions. A region far larger than the others without having much more to do is pretty bloated design. I got there really excited only to pray for it to end before I even reached the desert half. It was the first region where I didn't bother trying to get all the regional 'Oculus' until later. I don't tend to mind when some things in a region are locked behind quest chains... but in Sumeru, almost all of the interesting things are locked behind the Aranara or Jeht quests and both those quest chains are long and bloated to hell. My style of playing is to go exploring on my own, get all of the waypoints/statues, and clear every 'Oculus' I come across before touching the quests. Even in Inazuma, where things like the furnace or Tsurumi are locked, there is a lot to do and explore, giving those locked areas a sense of mystery without removing the interest in the islands as a whole. I even went through a lot of those lightning-covered islands before ever knowing there were quests to clear the storms... and it was fun. But, in Sumeru, it seems that any time I would take a step off the road, something would stop me from going anywhere, whether it be a locked temple in the desert of root covered cave in the forest. So, I got into the Aranara quest line and couldn't do it all at once. Every step forward was interrupted by another side objective that made all my progress feel pointless. So I backed out and went to do the Archon questline, not realizing that the Aranara quests were the ones that would unlock the blocked content. And, I got through the stupid Subzeru questline which made me start to dislike the Archon quests as well. At some point I just looked back and thought, "why am I even bothering?". I was at the point where a lot of the content people taked about being really fun was unavailable to me because it was time-locked to periods I wasn't playing. I had little to no chance to get the interesting characters from other regions because the banner system means you only get limited times to ever see your favorite 5-Star. And, the banners that were active around that period were of characters I knew nothing about (Lyney) or openly disliked because of how bad Sumeru was (Cyno).

Bruh... you're the lucky one. THERE'S A LOT OF PLAYER WHO FINISH THIS QUEST including the long quest on Desert. WITHOUT THE UNDERGROUND MAP BEFORE FOUNTAIN UPDATE

We were in Sumeru for so long that I just didn't even bother trying to finish anything specific and just wandered around doing random things. If I couldn't finish a puzzle, I skipped it and moved on. I got 100% on everything without much effort and that was before the underground maps. I had literally none of these problems except that battle music got annoying after awhile. So i just turned the music off and fired up widows media player. Listened to Animals as Leaders instead.

i love the duration of sumeru quests i think the time is perfect

Once u hear the battle music in a dancing animated meme your only thought is henna be "try not to vomit... try not yo vomit"

I felt the final issue in a spiritual level lol. Just because we really like the combat soundtracks, doesn't mean Hoyo can just shove it in our ears in like every 10 steps we walks in Sumeru 😅. Fortunately though, Fontaine fixed this issue by adding tamer mobs like blubberbeasts or one of those small crabs.

I'm the type of person to start those exploration quests right away, and exploration was smooth sailing once I was done with them. Though I didn't manage to 100% all of Sumeru until the layer map update came, which I can agree can still look complicated. I feel bad for one of my friends who hadn't finished the Sumeru archon quest, but came back to play because they were interested in seeing Fontaine. They wanted the characters from there too but if they wanted primos they had to do 57 quests and explore Sumeru first, which understandbly sucks

I was so excited for Sumeru I tackled the entirety of the Aranara quest on like three sittings. I got the wind kicked out of me when the sand came and got all into my shoes lmao.

Also, I did the festival ustava after like 3 weeks of the quest and then, "get to the fane of ashvattha"

3:07 this made me rage so hard, I bashed my head against the wall several times. Thanks Cyno.

Hey, I liked that Cyno-like joke actually^^ Was nice

Im like 90 percent sure that one of my desert quests (the secret of Al Ahmar I think) is broken because one of the light things you need to follow just isn't there for me. I looked everywhere just in case I somehow followed it a little on accident but I still cant find it, so that quest is forever unfinished lmfao.

This makes me unmotivated to try and 100% sumeru 😭

I 100% explored the whole region before 4.0, which means that the multi-layered map wasn't added yet, so imagine how fun the desert was...

I agree, once Sumeru came out I did the archon quest and didn't do anything else. Sumeru was just so big and overwhelming for me so i quit for a bit, but once Fontaine came out my love for genshin came back

I'm a completionist and at this moment I have literally completed the game, as can be completed through gameplay means. I have every single achievement in the game that you can get through those means (therefore excluding achievements from chance daily commissions). I have procrastinated completing the Sumeru Region for a year. ... In conclusion, I agree. Well put.

Sumeru was fun to explore but I wouldn't dare to do it again. Especially the deserts.

my fav song as outro

which sucks because i was so excited for sumeru and it's so pretty, but going there makes me overwhelmed. it will take a loooong time before i have the patience to get 100% there 😭