Unlikely Storytelling - The Brilliance of HoYoverse's Worldbuilding 

The worldbuilding and narrative are my favorite aspects of Genshin. It's a shame that many outsiders will write it off because it's a gacha game.

What I like about Genshin is that the story was written with the open world in mind. A lot of open world feel like their just here to look good or because it's the trendy thing to do in the game industry. But Genshin feel like they decide to do a open world because the story they had to told could only be say trough the open world.

When you said that genshin lore is like studying an actual lost civilization, that was actually so accurate for me

‘Genshins deeper lore is just as well thought out and intricate as everyone else wants to think zeldas worldbuilding is’ couldn’t have said it any better lol. As someone who started playing genshin expecting it to just be a zelda clone but with anime and a gatcha system i was blown away once I discovered that every weapon, artifact, item, and even fucking furniture had deeper lore. This is how worldbuilding for an open world style game is done. When you contrast it to totk it really shows how much they just didn’t care about its world? Like what was the bargainer statue in the depths? What happened to all the sheikah technology? And i could’ve maybe accepted the lack of worldbuilding if the actual main story was any good, but uhh yeah, we all know how that turned out

No joke, the worldbuilding and lore of Teyvat is one of my favourite pieces of lore in fantays fiction on par with Lord Of The Rings and serves as inspiration for my dream to make fantasy stories.🔥🔥🔥🔥

Good video, and it helped me re-adjust my perspective. I started with Hoyoverse's previous game Honkai impact 3rd, where the backstory of HI3's protagonist is deeply tied to the world's lore. The traveler being an outworlder disconnected from the world's history made me initially feel like the lore of the world wasn't as important to Genshin's plot as in HI3, but your video made me realize the level of care and planning has for it's story. Thank you.

Im a huge fan of the Zelda series but Genshins storytelling is way deeper and can be pretty tragic too, I mean the backstory of the Inazuma god is that all her friends and her sister died some even by her hands so yeah pretty good storytelling

You articulated what ive been thinking all along, and its the reason ive been playing almost every day for years. The lore is deep and the payoff is sooooo worth it. I think all of sumeru demonstrates this, with the aranara world quest, the world quests following Jeht in the desert, and most of all the archon quest.

You've nailed down everything that has been on my mind!!

Sad that videos like this barely get any views but low effort memes shitting on Genshin gets millions of views :(

such a great video and a core strength of Genshin that people missed. Maybe because not a lot of games do this as well as Hoyoverse did it. T This is why speculating or cooking Genshin theories are one of the most fun things to do, even when I'm not playing the game. Either way you gained a sub!

now that LoZ:Tears of kingdom is out after genshin is out we can joke about it being a genshin look-a-like lol

Most people who see a gacha game expect a fanservice that makes you cringe. Hoyoverse actually followed that trend on the very beginning of Honkai impact 3rd (in my opinion) by making the protagonist the most unlikeable being I've ever seen, but as the game and story progressed that initial disgust turned into a mild annoyance, until she finally grew up from a childish teen with a powerfantasy (and a concerningly hateful view on anyone who is not in her already established friend crew or a man... sorry I may have just read too many fanfics that depict Kiana as a feministic brat (by that I mean the cringe Woman superiory kind of fem activist not the female equality activist kind)). When genshin released and the game caught my interest (the time when Klee was first released) I started it and was shocked at the depth of each moment in the game. The story eventually go so progressively complex that I actually had to look back to remember certain things, but it never felt like I was disconnecting myself from the story, now admittably like most I thought inazuma had the least interesting story part, but I would say that actually works as the nation was in a enforced stasis and everyone was supressed from expressing themselves, making the story of understandably monotone. Sumeru served as a gigantic lore dump that was meant to overwhelm as the entirety of tevyat connects with Sumeru. honestly I feel like Honkai impact 3rd had a weak start, but eventually hoyoverse realized what was wrong and added the 3rd dimenions to a painting, while using that knowledge in their other works.

Great video 👏🏻

I can respect this, could you also make an analysis on Xenoblade Chronicle's world?

Zelda games' lores aren't meant to be connected. The timeline is just for fun.

While I strongly agree with your general points, to be fair I don't think that anyone in Breath of the Wild actually worships Hylia, since I don't recall anyone mentioning anything about their religion at all except for the ancient Sheikah who mention a Goddess. Not even the Zora preist who performs a wedding in front of a Goddess Statue (which was a landmark that was also coincidentally in the only place in town with enough space to perform a wedding at). Also, if it actually happened it would make more sense for people to start worshipping Hylia again than it would for people to start following the tenets of dead real world religions, since Hylia actually exists in Hyrule and could hypothetically be discovered again some way or another, of she ever felt the need to get worshippers, whole the same is *probably* not true for Blorbo, the hypothetical ancient Indo-European god of Smoked Meats. Edit: Is like that old chestnut about how if every real world religion was completely wiped out with no records relating, no one is likely to ever rediscover Episcopalian Christianity again since any specific sect (at least) is almost certainly fake, but if all knowledge of science and the relevant documentation were completely wiped out, people in the far flung future will develop pero much exactly the same theories we have now eventually since those are just models to describe things that actually exist. If Hylia exists, then there's really no real reason why she can't be discovered again even after her worship got lost and forgotten, especially if she decides to make contact herself for whatever reason.

The lore is the only thing that keeps me playing genshin lol