Genshin Impact

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  • Summary: Welcome to the beautiful fantasy world of Teyvat. Step into a huge open-world of adventure and mystery, where heroic quests await. As a traveller from another world, you must find your lost sibling and unravel Teyvat's many secrets. Joined by Paimon, a kind-hearted sprite guide, your missionWelcome to the beautiful fantasy world of Teyvat. Step into a huge open-world of adventure and mystery, where heroic quests await. As a traveller from another world, you must find your lost sibling and unravel Teyvat's many secrets. Joined by Paimon, a kind-hearted sprite guide, your mission takes you through beautiful forests, bustling towns, and treacherous dungeons. And while your journey may put you into the path of merciless foes and fiendish puzzles you can count on numerous playable allies to join your custom party of four, harnessing the power of the elements to overcome all obstacles.
    Key Features:
    Explore Teyvat however you want
    Fly across the open-world, swim in a massive sea, climb mountains, and stray off the beaten path. Whether you decide to follow the storyline or just enjoy the gorgeous environment, Teyvat is yours to discover.
    Add up to four party members
    Choose who fights by your side, with over 30 characters to meet and create your party witheach possessing different abilities, personalities, and combat styles. Will you pick Jean, the acting grand master of the knights? Or Lisa, a witch harnessing the raw force of lightning?

    Master the seven elements
    Control and combine Pyro, Hydro, Electro, Anemo, Dendro, Cryo, and Geo to solve challenging puzzles and unleash powerful attacks.

    Travel alone or hunt together
    Charge head-on into battles by yourself, or invite your friends to join the fight against dangerous monsters, and discover the secrets of this vast world together.    … Expand

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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. PlayStation Universe
    May 3, 2021
    90
    Genshin Impact is still one of the best and most accessible free to play titles on the PlayStation ecosystem. The PS5 upgrade is a technical achievement providing even better visuals at a silky 60 FPS, and 4K support. The game's load times are so fast you won't even have time to look away from the screen, allowing you to continue your journey without any stoppages. It's just a shame that the PlayStation 5's unique Activity Cards and DualSense controller didn't get much love, especially since the DualSense is one of the best pieces of next-generation hardware on the market.
  2. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Jan 4, 2023
    88
    Genshin Impact is a must try gacha - action/adventure game. With free updates coming in certain periods, the game, which adds so much new content that we can call "Expansion Pack" almost every year, gives you the opportunity to play more content than many AAA games without paying any fee.
  3. Jeuxvideo.com
    Oct 5, 2021
    85
    Forget the bad tongues, Genshin Impact is, a year later, a staple of the genre. Very (very!) Generous in content, with sublime graphics and incredible staging, MiHoyo's RPG-gacha has overcome our preconceptions to become a game of rare quality, whatever the platform on which you are evolving. Complete, and endowed with an exciting universe on condition of not being totally allergic to the "kawaïsque" atmosphere, Genshin Impact has not finished surprising us, in fact justifying a higher rating than originally.
  4. GamingBolt
    May 5, 2021
    80
    Genshin Impact remains an unbelievable proposition as a free to play title, and the PS5 version of it remains the best way to check it out on consoles for now, in spite of several missed opportunities for obvious and meaningful upgrades.

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  1. Positive: 24 out of 137
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 137
  3. Negative: 109 out of 137
  1. LaVitaBella88
    May 9, 2021
    10
    A free to play that has the same amount of content as a paid full scale epic RPG!? It really is something, content and microtransactions feelA free to play that has the same amount of content as a paid full scale epic RPG!? It really is something, content and microtransactions feel similar to Warframe or Path of Exile. As long as you keep your expectations level an understand what they're trying to do it really is great. Fully recommend.… Expand
  2. deelelie
    Nov 23, 2022
    9
    Wonderful FREE open world game. There are many ways to play this game. You can choose to take it easy and roam the open world, picking up lootWonderful FREE open world game. There are many ways to play this game. You can choose to take it easy and roam the open world, picking up loot and doing the odd fight, but you can also meta it by fighting bosses and doing the spiral abyss. The latest instalment of the game gave us Sumeru and it's lush! Very sad to see so many entitled teenagers that believe they are owed more than they're getting. It's clear that they're spending money that they shouldn't (and needn't). Be a bit more patient and you'll also get there, no need to pay for your luck.… Expand
  4. P4BL103
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Should not be allowed censoring your community! It's not just about the content for anniversary
  5. dark0153
    Feb 7, 2022
    0
    Piece of **** time gated singleplayer game. Thats REAL TIME gated, meaning you have to wait days for things to respawn (like fish) and ofPiece of **** time gated singleplayer game. Thats REAL TIME gated, meaning you have to wait days for things to respawn (like fish) and of course there are achievements/trophies that requires you to fish thousands of fish (8 fishing spots, each with less than 10 fish, each 3 days - you do the math)

    Dungeons that require you to play on a specific week day

    Content gated behind pay walls and gatcha systems

    Decent graphical art style and music (doesn't deserve any game of the year award on consoles/PC)    … Expand
  6. AiasTheGreat
    Jan 24, 2022
    0
    I have never seen such a massive disappointment of a game that fails at everything get so popular, this is probably one of the most overhypedI have never seen such a massive disappointment of a game that fails at everything get so popular, this is probably one of the most overhyped games ever. The developers were lucky enough to combine world exploration with gacha isekai story and they failed horribly at both.

    The gacha is mediocre at best, some of the lowest rates and highest pity I've seen in all gachas, on top of that you have 50% chance to miss the banner character, combined with every banner limited and standard banner being a literal waste / trashcan where you can drop your free pulls. It's literally a slot machine on a strict timer before it explodes and you won't be able to pull on a character you wanted for like 6 months or more. The materials you get for dupes and pulls can be spent on 2 useful things every month, nothing else is worth it.

    The only good thing is guaranteed banner 5* on second 5* pull, but I think that this makes the gacha lose it's spirit and basically slapping a price sign on every character. Unfortunately you will have to spend most of if not all 160 pulls to get to that guaranteed part, for a F2P player this is very damaging, it takes multiple months to save up for just for one 5* so you might end up pulling only one character you wanted every 5-6 months, this happened to me. And even if you are a low budget player you will still struggle greatly but you may cut the time by one month, I don't recommend buying anything other than the monthly card (!! be very careful with the monthly card, if you don't log in for a day the primogems for that day will be gone (basically you are paying to log in every day !!) ).

    The constellation system is a huge whale bait, basically requiring you to pull the same character multiple times to be useful or up to 5x more powerful. WEAPON BANNER oh god don't let me even get started on that, even if the cost of it was decreased by half it would be still horrible, It's insane that a 5* stat stick will require as many pulls as a full character. People saying that this game is not pay to win are either high on copium or didn't play the game enough.

    Ah yes the "world exporation isakai" bleuugh.. It's sad to see so many people get baited by this because it's one of the most popular things, the escapism, being reborn in a fantasy world. Too bad this is one of the weakest fantasy worlds you will ever see, the story is so bad that people care more about the cooking system.... World exploration is only good for the first time after that it becomes annoying and repetitive, just like 90% of the enemies. Even new zones are just copy paste of the old ones to the point that new zones don't even count as new.

    The endgame is non-existent, the powercreep is getting worse and worse, every 4* character is getting replaced by a 5*. The enemies are getting more and more annoying, jumping all over the place, teleporting and flying, while you have very limited movement and stamina, It's like they are forcing you to either use characters that do more damage or characters that are easier to use, eliminating even more skill that's needed to play this mess, like the auto-aim on everything wasn't enough.

    Not even gonna mention how the developer and the community behaves, you have probably seen it all anyways, I'm just wondering how people can completely ignore all this and continue to support this mess, even if you like the game a lot, the community and developer will make you hate it.    … Expand
  7. WarioLandFan
    Feb 3, 2023
    0
    This game blows, play Wario Land 4 instead. Wario Land 4 is a 2001 platformer for the GameBoy Advance, starring Wario.
  8. gusfsoarez
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    This game had so much potential, and was, for the longest time, the best game i had played in a long time. But the lack of end game content,This game had so much potential, and was, for the longest time, the best game i had played in a long time. But the lack of end game content, the resin timegate and now, this greedy stingy company makes this horrible anniversary. Just not worth it, don't play or if u do, don't spend.… Expand

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