I maybe one of the thousands that rate this game highly and sing the same song of praise for this game. But let me say this:
As Street Fighter 2 is to Mortal Kombat 2
As Guilty Gear is to Blazblue
As Soul Calibur is to Tekken
As Virtua Fighter is to DOA
As FIFA Football is to Pro Evolution
As Monster Hunter is to God Eater
So Breath of the Wild is compared to this. It maybe the same thing for you but it's entirely different story for me!
But I really don't mind at all as they belong to the same game genre, graphics, gameplay, style and setting but diffrent game value, goals, characters, optimization and experience.
And I highly emphasize the word EXPERIENCE as it is a huge factor and it will IMPACT you while playing. Long story short... It doesn't play exactly like Zelda's Open World Game would...It just looks like it. As it should, since this is an Open World Game too, with a different vibe and experience. Heck! This game is on multiple gaming platforms including the option to cross play on your smartphones, so that's saying something!
However as a huge fan of BOTH Zelda (especially since Hyrule Warriors!) and Genshin Impact (since I am a Mihoyo Fanboy, U gotta rate 'em) and do not join either side, it is SO much better to play without comparison, confusion or competition as it's more enjoyable and less stress that way.
I mean, that's how this game is meant to be played, to have fun and experience the open world adventure for yourself and all it has to offer you.
Simple as that. Straight Up 10/10. Best Game of the Year.... for me that is.
If you like the game and this review. Give it a high rating and enjoy yourself. Because trust me. This game is AWESOME and if MiHoYo keeps on increasing content & improving the game, I know that there will be greater things in store!
Thanks for reading. *PEACE!*
Whoever think it's good idea to limit scamtifact transmute only usable every 41 day need to be promoted to costumer, relic leveling rng is shit, also wtf with this version imaginarium theater 5.0 ? Only 6 usable unit in my account are u funking kidding me? Stop copying star rail David & his team doing amazing job at designing & testing the version before it's patched, u only genshit, at this point I consider this game being wuthering wave beta.
This is by far my most favorite game, and while there is so much i love about it there's still a few things I just can't come to like.
personally, this are the pros of the game for me:
- You can explore and roam the world with characters you have, which is a whole new thing for a gacha game to do.
- There is an actual pity system that's shared on banners, so if you lose your 50/50 and can't get the current banner character, your pity can be carried over to the next banner that comes which is a win/win if you wanted the other too and are willing to wait for a rerun of the one you missed.
- I love the teapot ok, I love decorating things to my tastes and the teapot is amazing at that! Though I wish I could also decorate places like Seiraimaru but that's fine. I'm fine. It's not like I go there often to imagine what furniture I could use around...
- Paimon is great and I love her, she's so funny.
- I actually enjoy a lot of the quests and a lot of the events have been so fun to me, even when they're 'hard' because it motivates me to build my characters more.
And this is the list of things I don't like:
- I haven't reached it because I still have a lot of quests to catch up to but the endgame content, there's none so if you reach it you'd be stuck only doing dailies, using what resin you have left, join worlds to co-op with if they let you in or simply log off.
- Speaking of resin, I don't mind much but I will admit I hate it with a burning passion simply because talent books/artifacts and the like are RNG from drops, to main and sub stats and when leveled up, even the sub stats get randomly upgraded so you might have the perfect artifact after years and still suffer with the wrong upgrade...
- The teapot has a limit, so you can't really let your imagination flow and have to work with whatever you have even tough you're basically left with almost nothing and huge empty spaces...
- I hate Paimon, she's so annoying sometimes and her voice is too high pitched it actually does give me a headache sometimes but the other VA's (I use English dub) make up for it because I love them all so much.
There's more but that'd be unnecessarily long and no one wants that. As for Paimon I did mean it when I said I love her but even if I do I won't deny there's many times I wished she would just stfu.
Also, the game is quite stingy when giving to the community so if you're F2P be ready to spend a lot of time saving for characters or not having enough primos to pull if you're the type that can't save primos to save their life.
Edit: Fixed a few typos rip
This is the second game I've sunk too much time into, the first is FGO.
For the reviews, you've seen them all, Youtube or otherwise. Anything I say will be regurgitating these facts over and over.
The gacha system here, while the rates are just as bad as in FGO and MiHoyo's previous and still ongoing game, Honkai Impact, it's the least intrusive so far.
The only time I spent money was to get a card that gives you 90 Primogems (gacha currency) every 30 days, which costs like $5.
Content is still new, so don't rush. This game is meant to be played casually, as the terrible resin system can attest. Although, you're also supposed to farm to improve stuff. So, basically both.
Elements, Weapons, and Artifacts make up a bulk of your gameplay. Even the characters the game initally gives (before you start emptying your life savings on the gacha like some starved pleb) are powerful enough if you build them right.
Now, for any comparisons made to Breath of the Wild are...rather obvious at most. What I can say is that this game is not a copy of it. It's more inspired, even if MiHoyo's inspirations are a bit too much similar.
Every new game is inspired by a previous game. For every new fad or trend, there will always be copycats, derivatives, and inspirations. That is true for media or any content as well.
I was shocked that for a game as good as BotW, there isn't any game like it....until now. Because of that, I'm glad. Nier Automata-inspired game when?
Overall, if you're into games like this, have all the fun you can have and more. If not, you can either give it a shot or you don't. No need to make a fuss over it.
Of course, if it's created by miHoYo, it will have the best graphics, kawaii loli- I mean gurls, and etc. Most importantly, the space it consumes is way beyond top tier... Not a bad sacrifice for a game of this tier tho... Anyway, mah review:
Graphics:
As I said earlier, miHoYo = Stunning anime graphics, which is why I love miHoYo. They make games for mobile with graphics comparable to that of a computer's. Dragon Raja's graphics looks amazing, but it leans more on to FF style, which kind of prioritizes realism over neatness or kwaiiness (probably, Hazuto not sure nanodesu (• ̫•) ). Anyway, the graphics is top tier as usual, just as how it's space consumption is lol (wwww).
Sound:
One word: Sugoi... Sugoi subarashii... Hands down... Even the English version... Hearing English dialogue cringes me (a bit) most of the time because I don't know why, it just cringes me (Not all games, some). But after hearing the prologue, It all felt, natural? I dunno the word for it, but ye. Still switched to JP version tho, cause girls sound more moe and kawaii... (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ
Gameplay:
Just like HI3, simple yet complex (what's it called again, paradox or something?). These are the buttons: attack, dash, jump, and the skill buttons. Pretty simple, yes. But how u use them effectively to create combos is the fun part. You could spam attack, then skill, etc. Just play wildly, or on instinct. Hec, I accidentally latom'd a fox like thingy by randomly attacking when I was following Paimon-nya.. (The memory still hunts me btw, killing an innocent fox (。_。) )
Storyline:
Can't provide that much on this part (to avoid spoilers) cause I haven't gotten that far yet. But based on the Beta players gameplay I saw before the release of this game, The story seems prrtty interesting. The cutscenes tho, you can't not love it (unless lag, or something)... o(*≧□≦)o
Anyway, Paimon kawaii, HOV hawt...
Something's wrong with me, yes
Genshin impact is an amazing game with phenomenal graphics, characters, designs, and an interesting storyline to keep you going. Although the game eats your phone its a nice game and worth it but I prefer playing it on laptop. The storyline is about two siblings gettign seperated then you travel through all the nations to ask the Gods where your sibling could be. Although the main storyline is a bit boring since thats all you do, travel around teyvat helping the nation then ask the archon who is basically a God in the game for answers and get an answer or no answer. The Main storyline is not really interesting or is getting boring but it was exciting at first but the other storylines like character stories and event stories and such are all interesting and fun to do, honestly more fun than the main storyline. But dont get me wrong the main storyline is still fun and nice and all of that. All the events are yes nice and fun and although a bit time consuming still rewarding and some are quite touching. My personal favorite is the golden apple archipelago since I started the game during the event and it was really fun exploring the beautiful islands and just enjoy the scenery and music and the storyline presented. The games music is over the top, its all beautiful in its own sense and quite relaxing and something that just makes me happy and it all really fits its nation or what that area is about and just makes it better overall. The characters design are unique and nice, the gameplay of each character in their own sense is really good, unique, and all fits well. Although some characters could use some changes or buffs all the characters are again good in their own sense. The game overall is good but I do have a problem with the gacha system, its time consuming and expensive but its still somewhat ok or just not the worst I have seen. And the artifact system too, it can get real grindy. The rewards are it really depends since sometimes its good or bad so I don't know what to say about that one. Again overall very nice game!
A very fun game Indeed!! the graphics are nice. But if you ise mobile and you want the best Graphics it's not really guaranteed as it will turn out as Overclocked.
The sound is amazing. especially the Background theme. I like how they change it base on where you are or when your fighting.
Next is gameplay. It is nice but when it comes to wishing. It isn't F2P friendly as you want the Characters especially the Limited Event 5 star. But it is worth it if you like to play and won't stop. Next is the coop. It is fun to coop with other travelers but I wish it can fit up to more people, because when I wanna play with my friends and my sister my sister is just left out because of the capaciy of the coop. But it really is fun. For the fights it is fun. Especially bosses and domains. You can coop and so on.
Next is Storyline. The storyline is great. But what saddens me is that in the Archon quest or Story quests. You can coop to help each other as it is super hard. Unless you have good characters you can fight is easily. But the archon quest really is a great story the development is great!! It is worth playing!!
I approve this game
The best ADV-RPG game I have ever played so far. Currently using a mid-end spec smartphone and it works just fine on med graphics 60fps (with a lil bit of lag sometimes). Been playing for 2 months and sitting at AR 46 atm with the worst possible luck on gacha as a starter XD (got Qiqi on standard banner guaranteed 90 pulls and Mona from losing 50/50 on Childe banner (pls send help). At first, the game will probably very grindy rushing to level up AR, Chars, Weaps, and Artifacts. But no worries if you want to play casually just need to do daily (commission and resin) and you will catch up with the others eventually.
It's a non-PvP game anyway lol why so serious. JK
Review Time~!
I'll try to keep my review organized XD.
Gacha:
The gacha rates are indeed low,(0.6%) however, as a person whose played countless gacha games, I can say that the gacha in this game isn't as scummy as other games(excluding the weapon banner.)
I think others argue that 0.6% is very low. And yes it is, however, the Guaranteed pity saves it for me. Most games don't have guaranteed pity. If they do have guaranteed pity, its split between numerous ssr and you can get countless ssr and not get the rate up unit that you want.
As a beginner it will be fairly easy to get to 90 pity if you farm for a month or 2.
Gameplay:
The Gameplay is very smooth and beautiful. Each character has their own special and unique moveset as well as animations. The elemental combo follows the same principle as other games(i.e Ice + Fire = Melt).
Their moveset aren't just random things that were put together, its actually tied to said character's backstory, personality, and culture.
I think the biggest most obvious example would be Xiao.
Character Design:
Very lovely. I like pretty much all the characters' designs. Their designs werent just thrown together aimlessly, its connected to their culture and lore! I've played countless gacha games and sometimes they just add a unit in a modernized school uniform in a fantasy setting world or in a post-apocalyptic world. Lol.
Voice/Ost:
100% love it. The Japanese VA are all loaded! They have a lot of my favorite VAs! The Korean, Chinese, and English voices are also top notch! There are various cases where I prefer the English or Chinese or Korean voice for some characters, but sticked to JP because I'm more familliar with Japanese.
The ost are simply lovely. I listen to some of them in my spare time. I already expected beautiful ost since honkai had amazing ones.
I just woke up when I wrote this so please have mercy if you see any typos.
Everyone is comparing this game to Breath of the Wild. Yes, this game may have drawn inspiration from Breath of the Wild, but they are separate and each unique. That being said, the game review. First, for a mobile anime game, the graphics on this are superb. It's on par for an Indie console game, if not better. Next, the soundtrack. The soundtrack for the game is excellent, pulling you into the environ that surrounds you; however, I do have a complaint. The tracks played are rather short, so you have a short moment of music, then a long pause with nothing but the world you're in to listen to. The gameplay is well-polished. Combat is simple and the need to swap characters to handle different situations is innovative, not just trying to cram 4 models onto one display. Throughout my extensive gameplay, I haven't run into any bugs. The world loads smoothly and there's no lag between one loading area and the next. Your characters gain levels and you, as a player, also have an adventurer rank. The higher in rank you are, the more features open up. This was nice as it keeps low-ranked players in the area they need to be in, but for an explorer, such as myself, this is a nuisance, but quite understandable. The quest system is fantastic and provides plenty to do if you don't feel like continuing the main quest, while having plenty of story-building for some of the NPCs/PCs. The storyline is great, although, I'm still trying determine how everything ties together. It's super detailed and very polished. Overall, this game is fantastic and isn't a simple gacha game like others are. It's got plenty of content, as well as gacha characters and weapons, although, it's not necessary to do so to become powerful. With enough work, a F2P player can be every bit as powerful as a paid player. Will update once I actually test the multiplayer content.
TL;DR: This is a fantastic, console-quality game with plenty of content, a great story, captivating audio and graphics, and a gacha you can lovingly waste your paychecks on if you want. It's definitely worth a play, but don't compare it to Breath of the Wild because that's a different game entirely. The people that say this is a clone are idiots.
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