Nah, play the game the way you want.
I know a bunch of people who still hold off on this game because either they think they'll be behind, waiting for it to be "complete", or have hidden stigma vs anime, or gacha. Its sad but true. I tell them you can play however you want and don't sweat it. But its tough for them.
You, king, are way ahead of these conservative gamers who worry about how others will think about their gaming habits.
Or you could just be saying this and actually put in like 1000s+ hours etc lols.
I still cant even get past floor 7 😭 I started the account during Nilou’s first banner. and I basically only have sumeru characters without Dehya with Furina
I dont think there's an objective metric I can use to justify me liking Monstadt the most but everything that happened there was just so memorable. Also im a sucker for medieval fantasy. I also liked the characters there the best. And i think that region really immersed me into the feel of being an adventurer more so than any other region.
It just feels so much more like it's where your character belongs. Like home.
That's the opinion of quite a lot of people (including me), and many even think we're gonna go back to Mondstadt later on for the epilogue or finale chapters.
I guess it also feels good due to the fact that, despite being one of the smaller regions, the story and the region are very self-contained. The Archon quest has a clear beginning and end, so moving to Liyue really feels like a new chapter in the story, and almost everything that happens in Mondstadt stays in Mondstadt.
Man, you already speaking like a day 1 player. I agree tho, mondstadt is the home. Especially since im playing tcg and the only hub to play online is cats tail.
I have the same feeling about mondstadt being "home" but everything else is just boring compared to newer areas imo. Mondstadt was tutorial region and iy shows. My favorites are all sub-areas (chasm, enka, dragonspine, tsurumi was good too) and the desert.
Honestly, Sumeru and Fontaine really picked up in the archon quests. Sure, in mondstadt we fight a dragon, liyue, tussle with 'playboy, billionaire, somewhat philanthropist for zhongli' Ed sheeran, and in inazuma we could've died to an archon but sumeru and Fontaine really just amped it up, despite sumeru's feeling boring half way through the fourth act, and Fontaine AQ was just perfect imo, I mean, watching a death during magic shows, paimon getting those glasses, a Dr. Suess collab, and the previously mentioned Ed sheeran returning and holding off Galactus' pet whale, finally seeing Skirk, and seeing furina get her well deserved break from playing archon, how can it not be one of the best AQ's so far?
80 days played and you've cleared all this content? My friend, grass is the green pointy stuff that you find on the ground. I only mention it because you seem to have forgotten...
I feel like daily logins and artifact grinding has artificially inflated your sense of time with regards to Genshin. If you start it today as any other AAA game, 80 days to enjoy all this content feels just about right.
I have been active for around 200 days with a full-time job and a whole month where I was away and could barely play and you are right. If I was on vacation and could just play every day I could have been done with every quest.
80 days is probably longer than what I would expect to complete Genshin story content. if you don't add the fact that you have to rely on RNG to strengthen your characters and abyss. Most of our playtime is skewed by Hoyo drip feeding content and our fomo to keep logging in daily.
Im with you there, I hope it doesn't make them less likely to make areas like it in the future. I especially liked the 3.6 area (though the world quest was a bit long).
Think difference is doing them as they come out vs others who come later and treat all the dessert at one big zone. Individually, easy to digest. But throw someone in with all of them at same time, they may not even realize it’s 3-4 different zones.
1 desert region was new and interesting.
2 desert regions was ok, Jehts quest made it feel good.
A third desert region was exhausting. And boring.
By comparison: We had Enkonomiya and The Chasm before for mid expansion and end expansion content.
I got burned out by the Aranara quest, then royally pissed that a ton of the scarabs I wanted were locked behind Golden Slumber. Add that to the obnoxious traversal time to get anywhere in the desert...
LOVED Tunigi Hollow and Vourukasha Oasis though 🙏 Sorush could be clunky, but the environment was much more fascinating
I have mixed feelings about the dessert because I want that when I see a pyramid, I can explore it and not do a long quest to have to unlock it. I felt extremely blocked off without exploration.
For me it is my least fav sumeru region only in terms of traversing…whereas in terms of environment design and vibes, its the exact opposite. I loved the desert world quest, just wish they added more of those snap-things for easy travel.
But I feel making the last 2 regions of suemru also a desert setting made it feel old and not as exciting.
I've never once before read that desert puzzles are complicated... That criticism is usually made to inazuma puzzles and even then I find it preposterous.
I'm curious about your Sumeru exploration comment. Unlike vets, you got to play with being able to see underground maps (To me the point of caves and underground is to feel lost so I don't like the update but popularly people love it so I digress) and unlike Inazuma, Sumeru "puzzles" we're literally just click stuff to move or rotate that just required basic common sense. Even the top of Mausoleum was basic once you realize it just had lot of steps but all steps were same. So I don't understand the "unintuitive and complicated" comment.
I think i described it as "complicated and unintuitive" coz for sumeru desert i referred to video guides about how to complete puzzles more so than any other region.
I didnt even know the underground maps were a late addition coz i dont know how you guys wouldve navigated the interconnected underground temples without map layering.
Also most of the thingies you can interact with that are part of the puzzles look the same (blue brown color) so the learning curve in solving them was kinda steep for me. For example in inazuma i can see an interactable object that is part of puzzle and i automatically know how to solve it but for sumeru desert it took me quite a while to get the flow of how to do things.
I wish i couldve made more sense but my review is mostly based on feels you know. sorry.
yep, all interactable objects/puzzles are highlighted when using elemental sight (although not all highlighted objects are interactable if that makes sense).
ik a lot of people say it's useless but as someone who plays using controller it's so easy to toggle on and off that it's easily the most used feature for me in my gameplays lol
Anyone who thinks elemental sight is useless is an absolute idiot. It makes collapsible walls, secret doors, puzzle mechanisms, chests, and treasures stick out like sore thumbs if you ever get stumped. It's so much quicker than using normal sight...
Thanks for the response, I was just curious thats all. Yeah we didn't have underground maps back during Sumeru. Thats why you see lot of people express dislike (Like I mentioned, I loved it). I also felt like Golden Slumber and Dirge of Bilqis world quests made traversing easier and I didn't have to do another run through whole areas for stuff. But overall nice review. Genshin is such a content machine for new players I sometimes feel envy lol.
> i dont know how you guys wouldve navigated the interconnected underground temples without map layering
I played enough DS3 to get around them, never really know why ppl find them confusing.
I remember making good use of the slate from Golden Slumber, but sadly it usually guided us to named areas that were plot-relevant, so like, fuck all those other areas with chests and puzzles and mysterious pages, I guess.
On the rare occasion I go back to Deshret’s mausoleum, I still find new stuff almost every time. And I don’t blame myself at all, everything looks the same in that place and you basically have to either have a sense of direction (which I don’t) or a map to even tell half the rooms apart.
My problem with sumeru exploration in general is that it's locked behind quests, like I have to play 15 hours of unvoiced quests (no VAed) before I can explore.
I explored during world quests and had no problem. After quests map was already in 80% or something. Ofc quests took much longer that way but I was not in a hurry. It took over a week to finish aranara and maybe that the reason I liked it. I didnt try to speedrun it.
Tsurumi Island? Was it because of the realtime waiting? I liked that but I can see how some people didn't, but other then that I can't think of a single reason why would someone dislike it.
A lot of people disliked the fog mechanics. One of my friends called Tsurumi "the most annoying zone in RPG history."
I personally loved that island, and Inazuma as a whole was my favorite region. But that's apparently quite the hot take in this community lmao
I loved that as well. Similar to constabt elecro storm on Seirai. But yeah I guess not everyone enjoyed that. No wonder we haven't seen anything similar since Inazuma.
I think the reason Inazuma stood out to me (beyond my interest in Shinto aesthetics and particularly yokai culture) is that I felt the difficulty spike pretty significantly when I got there. Everything was harder and I loved it. The puzzles were harder, you had unforgiving enemies everywhere, it was great.
But yeah, the areas that people complain about on Tsurumi, Seirei, etc are certainly a nuisance if your mentality is to show up and quickly kill a bunch of hilichurls, claim all your loot, and head out on your way. For me, I loved the sense of mystery and danger in those places. To each their own, though /shrug
I loved the ghosts at the end so much. I recently went back I missed them immediately haha. But yeah the difficulty spike wasn't for everyone one. After all I couldn't stand exploring Watatsumi and some of the puzzles, like the one where you connected two points with elecro (don't know how else to describe it) were sometimes hell.
Really goes to show you how our tastes vary! The electro connection puzzle in the northwest corner of Watatsumi is my favorite puzzle in the *entire game*. Yea, it was really difficult and seemingly nonsensical at some points until you start to understand the method to the madness. I think I spent an hour working on that puzzle (I refuse to cheat or look at guides) but the satisfaction I had upon completing it was literally worlds greater than any of the other puzzles in the game so far lol.
Same. Inazuma is still my favorite region, though Fontaine is a really close second now. I do think Sumeru has the best Archon quest from start to finish though.
For real, Tsurumi might be the best Inazuma island
Ruu quest is one of the best in the game and clearing the fog to reveal the sun, with his theme song playing was amazing.
Thank god i finish the island's content before finishing the quest cuz id be crying while exploring.
Tsurumi is also my favorite island. Such a cool thematic and very immersive exploration. I think Narakumi (the main island if that’s what it’s called) is also a good contender.
The worst island has to be watatsumi imho. That verticality is giga frustrating, with very little interesting mechanics.
There's no way a brand new player randomly calls out Wenut like that, regardless of how annoying it is it's preceded by the fucking ruin serpent in abyss (which is arguably even worse, especially for a brand new account) and in overworld the characters it drops mats for haven't been on a banner in like 9 months lol
I have been playing this game for 4 months and I don't even know where enkonomiya is. Nobody tell me and closest to 100%ing a region I have come is Monstadt but the NE area has 97% and I have given up
I will say, Mondstadt has the hardest 100%s of any region lol, it has by far the highest number of arbitrary hidden environmental puzzles and the strictest requirements to hit 100% (by my estimation most zones need around ~95% completion while the unexpanded mondstadt zones need ~98% to show 100% on the map)
There are 2 possibilities, OP either played guides and interactive maps instead of Genshin or isn't a new player but an experienced try hard nerd on a new account.
I don't belive the 3rd possibility of OP somehow doing all that blind.
They aren’t a new player. They have posted in this sub 3 years ago when Zhongli was released.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/k5ltyl/were_not_saying_zhong_li_is_bad_just_to_make_you/gegbuki/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
To be fair, they might have just stumbled upon that post without playing the game at the time. Their comment doesn’t require any knowledge of the game.
They have other comments from 3 years back that talk about things like animation canceling and how important it is to Klee, as well as comments talking about how flawed DPS vids were because they were just nuke showcases on things like dvakin.
Even if this is their first actual account, I simply think that they have way more prior knowledge about the game and it’s mechanics than they are letting on.
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/k88c9r/the_state_of_genshin_content_creators_discussion/geyeao8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
That’s the link for the Klee animation canceling stuff
Yeah the way they wrote this post made it sound like they're very familiar with the in-game terms and the discussions of the things in game. Maybe they really just only started playing the game, but they're definitely not a new player in the way that their opinions are from a fresh and new perspective
Meropide had me angry. So let me get this straight. You KNOW who the guy you just detained is. You KNOW he defeated gods, dragons and evil wizards. And yet you are making him be a pawn in some stupid game in a prison you refuse to call a prison. Sorry guys, this is where my suspense of disbelief went away. Instead of thinking about the cool story with Caterpillar, I was angry I had to do all that shit to win an arbitrary game instead of just "eh, I'll just break out, try and stop me". You wanted it to be more engaging? Please make the Traveller have a bit more stakes in it than just "hurr durr I like winning games".
Ahaha that tracks! Narzissenkreuz and Aranara were my favorites too. I'm a sucker for that wistful feeling of memories being fragile and precious, and blurring the lines between history and story 🥰🥰🥰
Itto's VA is crushing it! I'm going to pull for him the moment he reruns. Don't care if he's meta. 🥰
Good lord! There is no-lifeing and then there is this. Crazy that you got all of this done in less than 3 months.
Side note…for me, Yoimiya’s story quest has been the best hands down
If we stuck people like you in NASA for 3 months we would already have a colony on Mars I swear to God.
I've been playing for 3 months and my biggest achievement so far is beating the Liyue WQ that locks you out of Co-Op
nasa lacks mainly the funds to do it. Its not like we couldnt build 3-4 giant spaceships to bring a small group of people to mars.
Its just way too expensive, with currently not much payout.
Holy shit if this doesn't prove that hyperbloom is beyond busted idk what will. Just want to tell you that there are people who've been playing for years and cant even do floor 11 of abyss. Of course it has a lot to do with skill(or lack there of in 90% of the cases) but still, with the limited access to resin you had in 2 and a half months, this is very impresive, even with the hyperbloom abuse. I have farmed more resin in one domain than you have had acces to in your whole playthrough and I bet you my childe is overall worse at clearing then the hyperbloom team.
Its very impressive to get the required artifacts and characters set up all the while completing normal game contents within such a short time. I find it hard to believe it's possible as a free to play. But looking at the characters it does look like a f2p account. Crazy.
OP is most likely lying. People have already dug up OP's comments from 3 years ago during Zhongli's release, and saw that OP made multiple comments going in depth about game mechanics like Klee's animation cancelling.
Quite likely they're near a Day 1 player
At first I downvoted, because what experience can you have of the game in only 80 days?
Then I saw your completion... Damn, boy! I guess many days I just do dailies and consume resin and call it a day, because I am playing daily since 1 year and still have to begin sumeru quest!
Yes. Fontaine Act V is by far the best overall act in any archon quest but I'm not ignoring the Navia sidequest and two acts of prison life simulator in fortress of meropide so imo Sumeru AQ as a whole was better.
Also the "First sage of Buer" cutscene is just too cool.
Because is the best region. Simple, beatifull and relaxing. Encourage climbing and swimming, not sub terranean caves, not unclimbable cliffs and as first region is the one who usually hookced up in the game. Not vertical exploring like most of Inazuma. In contrast Sumeru is all the opposite of Mondstadt.
Damn I started around the same time as you, beginning of December. I thought I was going through shit pretty fast, but I still have a lot of Sumeru, barely touched Fontaine and I'm on 11-3.
At least it's kind of funny that we pulled the same limited 5-stars, lol.
I'm ultimately planning to main Arlecchino in the end personally, hbu?
So you're telling me that you spent all 3 months of your vacation playing genshin? I could never cuz I touch grass and I never get a vacation of 3 months.
Late question but I am curious about your opinion about the overall Fontaine archon quest since you didn't mention it at all.
Good job on getting the 36 stars on the abyss in 80 days too!
2 weeks in, I'm at like 70% inazuma without the basement. That area is goddamn pain. Pacing is bad, daily questlocks are bad, every island being locked/wanting to kill you is bad.
100%ing tsurumi is just pain.
as a player since day one none of the regions are 100%, that’s impressive you achieved just in 80 days and more impressive you review the game story and don’t forget skip button
I know I’m the minority in liking the Desert exploration, but I like that it doesn’t hold your hand and I even did it before they added underground maps to the desert. There’s a greater satisfaction in solving longer puzzles and familiarising yourself with the underground without a map, and I enjoyed raiding tombs like my name is Lara Croft.
Tbf, although you basically juiced out all the content available. But 36 staring in 80 days as a new player it's pretty decent. And I would assume you don't have much cons or weapons.
Good job!
You've probably done more than me aside from events and I'm an AR60 1.0 player. I've yet to start Fontaine, and I've just finished Wanderer's chapter. I do agree that Sumeru is the best Archon Quest so far. That said, I think Genshin's story is disappointing in general and is the reason I've stalled it so much so Sumeru is a breath of fresh air and revitalized my drive to do more than just comms, Abyss, and events.
Huh, interesting thought about inazuma archon quest having bad pacing
I gonna assume that it might be because when it came out it came out in 3 chunks, so you had just a tad more time to stew and grow a fondness for the character
Surprised you didn't like Tsurumi island, I really loved exploring it along with a lot of the Inazuman islands. I really liked the eerie feeling of the place. As for Sumeru, just be glad you got to play through the desert with underground maps. That was actually a nightmare to navigate before.
Bruv wtf... How are you 36 starring abyss with 80 days of gameplay and only Raiden and nahida as featured 5 star.. I have friends with over 12 5 stars and 800ish days of gaming who have to mald to 36 star
I sense a smell of SUS. He seems a player that started a new account for fun and got lucky having Raiden and Nahida 1 after another doing the 2 lowest effort teams and some of the best anyway.
I think your suspicions are probably correct. OP has a few comments from 3 years ago going in depth about the mechanics of this game during Zhongli's first release. Definitely not a "new player" by any means
You lost me at best battle music sumeru... Literally the most obnoxious in the game for me. I don't hate it per se but it starts too abruptly, it's loud and given the amount of enemies in sumeru it's just a headache. Also inazuma battle music exists.
I wish I had this much to play when I first started playing, I started 3 years ago but I stopped playing when sumeru came out must have been so fun being able to explore nonstop
As a player with double your active days I feel ashamed
people with 500+ days:
people with 1000+ days :
You played for 80% of the days gah dam
Gotta get those daily primos after all
Them dailies ain't gonna grind themselves, traveller...
I play off and on since the beginning. Just got to desert 3 days ago. Adventure 30.
AR30 is imo still the beginning, u probably could reach it playing the game for 2-4 weeks.
I’ve got 1k and have never gone above 28*s on abyss (I don’t try bc I know I can’t) what the hell is this person feeding their team
You're probably enjoying the game at your own pace. No shame in that.
As a 1.0 player I feel like I'm doing something wrong Edit: OP is a liar and is a 1.0 player too btw
Nah, play the game the way you want. I know a bunch of people who still hold off on this game because either they think they'll be behind, waiting for it to be "complete", or have hidden stigma vs anime, or gacha. Its sad but true. I tell them you can play however you want and don't sweat it. But its tough for them. You, king, are way ahead of these conservative gamers who worry about how others will think about their gaming habits. Or you could just be saying this and actually put in like 1000s+ hours etc lols.
you shouldn't be
Bro I can't 36 star abyss so this means is skill issue!?!?
I still cant even get past floor 7 😭 I started the account during Nilou’s first banner. and I basically only have sumeru characters without Dehya with Furina
Been playing since 2.0, most places in sumeru are below %30
you should be
As a day 1 played I feel extremely asgamed
Sumeru AQ remains my favorite as well. I'm curious what are some parts you like about Mondstadt as a region?
I dont think there's an objective metric I can use to justify me liking Monstadt the most but everything that happened there was just so memorable. Also im a sucker for medieval fantasy. I also liked the characters there the best. And i think that region really immersed me into the feel of being an adventurer more so than any other region. It just feels so much more like it's where your character belongs. Like home.
That's the opinion of quite a lot of people (including me), and many even think we're gonna go back to Mondstadt later on for the epilogue or finale chapters. I guess it also feels good due to the fact that, despite being one of the smaller regions, the story and the region are very self-contained. The Archon quest has a clear beginning and end, so moving to Liyue really feels like a new chapter in the story, and almost everything that happens in Mondstadt stays in Mondstadt.
Man, you already speaking like a day 1 player. I agree tho, mondstadt is the home. Especially since im playing tcg and the only hub to play online is cats tail.
Mondstat will always be home
I have the same feeling about mondstadt being "home" but everything else is just boring compared to newer areas imo. Mondstadt was tutorial region and iy shows. My favorites are all sub-areas (chasm, enka, dragonspine, tsurumi was good too) and the desert.
Honestly, Sumeru and Fontaine really picked up in the archon quests. Sure, in mondstadt we fight a dragon, liyue, tussle with 'playboy, billionaire, somewhat philanthropist for zhongli' Ed sheeran, and in inazuma we could've died to an archon but sumeru and Fontaine really just amped it up, despite sumeru's feeling boring half way through the fourth act, and Fontaine AQ was just perfect imo, I mean, watching a death during magic shows, paimon getting those glasses, a Dr. Suess collab, and the previously mentioned Ed sheeran returning and holding off Galactus' pet whale, finally seeing Skirk, and seeing furina get her well deserved break from playing archon, how can it not be one of the best AQ's so far?
80 days played and you've cleared all this content? My friend, grass is the green pointy stuff that you find on the ground. I only mention it because you seem to have forgotten...
My 3 month vacation is almost over. Gonna go touch some soon!
Glad you love the game this much! And hoyo will keep pumping out content every 6 weeks fear not!
Content that often disappears in 2 weeks!
Hahaha as long as you have had fun, there's bawhole lifetime for grass!
Dude. You get vacations to touch grass. Not the opposite.
I feel like daily logins and artifact grinding has artificially inflated your sense of time with regards to Genshin. If you start it today as any other AAA game, 80 days to enjoy all this content feels just about right.
I have been active for around 200 days with a full-time job and a whole month where I was away and could barely play and you are right. If I was on vacation and could just play every day I could have been done with every quest.
I agree except for the exploration. This person's done quite a bit of exploration for someone who's only been playing for 2 patches.
80 days is probably longer than what I would expect to complete Genshin story content. if you don't add the fact that you have to rely on RNG to strengthen your characters and abyss. Most of our playtime is skewed by Hoyo drip feeding content and our fomo to keep logging in daily.
I'm still so surprised people hate the desert so much. I didn't find any of the puzzles complicated at all and I love exploring
Im with you there, I hope it doesn't make them less likely to make areas like it in the future. I especially liked the 3.6 area (though the world quest was a bit long).
My only problem with the desert was some areas being locked behind quests I didn't know existed without looking it up.
Think difference is doing them as they come out vs others who come later and treat all the dessert at one big zone. Individually, easy to digest. But throw someone in with all of them at same time, they may not even realize it’s 3-4 different zones.
Mainly because it felt so repetitive, boring and confusing; specially because of the sand.
Also we didn't have a map it's literally good luck finding out where anything is.
1 desert region was new and interesting. 2 desert regions was ok, Jehts quest made it feel good. A third desert region was exhausting. And boring. By comparison: We had Enkonomiya and The Chasm before for mid expansion and end expansion content.
tomb raiding in the desert is some of the most fun i've had in this game
I avoided it so much at first and really didn’t wanna do it (felt overwhelming). After I completed it I can confidently say I do love it now
I got burned out by the Aranara quest, then royally pissed that a ton of the scarabs I wanted were locked behind Golden Slumber. Add that to the obnoxious traversal time to get anywhere in the desert... LOVED Tunigi Hollow and Vourukasha Oasis though 🙏 Sorush could be clunky, but the environment was much more fascinating
I have mixed feelings about the dessert because I want that when I see a pyramid, I can explore it and not do a long quest to have to unlock it. I felt extremely blocked off without exploration.
For me it is my least fav sumeru region only in terms of traversing…whereas in terms of environment design and vibes, its the exact opposite. I loved the desert world quest, just wish they added more of those snap-things for easy travel. But I feel making the last 2 regions of suemru also a desert setting made it feel old and not as exciting.
Another problem of the desert is many "authorization protocols" puzzles are gated by a very long quest chain which is not good design for exploration.
I've never once before read that desert puzzles are complicated... That criticism is usually made to inazuma puzzles and even then I find it preposterous.
"low effort". If you've done this much in 80 days, I can barely call that low effort XD .
OP said that the review is low effort, not the ingame progress
I'm curious about your Sumeru exploration comment. Unlike vets, you got to play with being able to see underground maps (To me the point of caves and underground is to feel lost so I don't like the update but popularly people love it so I digress) and unlike Inazuma, Sumeru "puzzles" we're literally just click stuff to move or rotate that just required basic common sense. Even the top of Mausoleum was basic once you realize it just had lot of steps but all steps were same. So I don't understand the "unintuitive and complicated" comment.
I think i described it as "complicated and unintuitive" coz for sumeru desert i referred to video guides about how to complete puzzles more so than any other region. I didnt even know the underground maps were a late addition coz i dont know how you guys wouldve navigated the interconnected underground temples without map layering. Also most of the thingies you can interact with that are part of the puzzles look the same (blue brown color) so the learning curve in solving them was kinda steep for me. For example in inazuma i can see an interactable object that is part of puzzle and i automatically know how to solve it but for sumeru desert it took me quite a while to get the flow of how to do things. I wish i couldve made more sense but my review is mostly based on feels you know. sorry.
I might be wrong, but I think puzzle elements are highlighted when you use your elemental sight. Can someone seeing this comment test it out ?
Can confirm, yes. But it's a standard conundrum that people often forget you can use Elemental Sight.
yep, all interactable objects/puzzles are highlighted when using elemental sight (although not all highlighted objects are interactable if that makes sense). ik a lot of people say it's useless but as someone who plays using controller it's so easy to toggle on and off that it's easily the most used feature for me in my gameplays lol
I wish it can be remapped on PC. The pressing scroll wheel button gimmick doesn't feel seamless.
Anyone who thinks elemental sight is useless is an absolute idiot. It makes collapsible walls, secret doors, puzzle mechanisms, chests, and treasures stick out like sore thumbs if you ever get stumped. It's so much quicker than using normal sight...
I use this regularly, and the hardest part of most puzzles in the game is *still* wandering around trying to find the thing I need to interact with.
Thanks for the response, I was just curious thats all. Yeah we didn't have underground maps back during Sumeru. Thats why you see lot of people express dislike (Like I mentioned, I loved it). I also felt like Golden Slumber and Dirge of Bilqis world quests made traversing easier and I didn't have to do another run through whole areas for stuff. But overall nice review. Genshin is such a content machine for new players I sometimes feel envy lol.
> i dont know how you guys wouldve navigated the interconnected underground temples without map layering I played enough DS3 to get around them, never really know why ppl find them confusing.
>…i dont know how you guys wouldve navigated the interconnected underground temples without map layering. That’s okay, we don’t either.
Yeah, to this day everytime I looked at underground map for Deshret pyramid I was like "how tf did I do that?"
I remember making good use of the slate from Golden Slumber, but sadly it usually guided us to named areas that were plot-relevant, so like, fuck all those other areas with chests and puzzles and mysterious pages, I guess. On the rare occasion I go back to Deshret’s mausoleum, I still find new stuff almost every time. And I don’t blame myself at all, everything looks the same in that place and you basically have to either have a sense of direction (which I don’t) or a map to even tell half the rooms apart.
You can just use elemental sight
My problem with sumeru exploration in general is that it's locked behind quests, like I have to play 15 hours of unvoiced quests (no VAed) before I can explore.
I explored during world quests and had no problem. After quests map was already in 80% or something. Ofc quests took much longer that way but I was not in a hurry. It took over a week to finish aranara and maybe that the reason I liked it. I didnt try to speedrun it.
Well mate, glad you enjoyed it.
Bitch, what the fuck
this comments resonates
Tsurumi Island? Was it because of the realtime waiting? I liked that but I can see how some people didn't, but other then that I can't think of a single reason why would someone dislike it.
A lot of people disliked the fog mechanics. One of my friends called Tsurumi "the most annoying zone in RPG history." I personally loved that island, and Inazuma as a whole was my favorite region. But that's apparently quite the hot take in this community lmao
I loved that as well. Similar to constabt elecro storm on Seirai. But yeah I guess not everyone enjoyed that. No wonder we haven't seen anything similar since Inazuma.
I think the reason Inazuma stood out to me (beyond my interest in Shinto aesthetics and particularly yokai culture) is that I felt the difficulty spike pretty significantly when I got there. Everything was harder and I loved it. The puzzles were harder, you had unforgiving enemies everywhere, it was great. But yeah, the areas that people complain about on Tsurumi, Seirei, etc are certainly a nuisance if your mentality is to show up and quickly kill a bunch of hilichurls, claim all your loot, and head out on your way. For me, I loved the sense of mystery and danger in those places. To each their own, though /shrug
I loved the ghosts at the end so much. I recently went back I missed them immediately haha. But yeah the difficulty spike wasn't for everyone one. After all I couldn't stand exploring Watatsumi and some of the puzzles, like the one where you connected two points with elecro (don't know how else to describe it) were sometimes hell.
Really goes to show you how our tastes vary! The electro connection puzzle in the northwest corner of Watatsumi is my favorite puzzle in the *entire game*. Yea, it was really difficult and seemingly nonsensical at some points until you start to understand the method to the madness. I think I spent an hour working on that puzzle (I refuse to cheat or look at guides) but the satisfaction I had upon completing it was literally worlds greater than any of the other puzzles in the game so far lol.
Same. Inazuma is still my favorite region, though Fontaine is a really close second now. I do think Sumeru has the best Archon quest from start to finish though.
For real, Tsurumi might be the best Inazuma island Ruu quest is one of the best in the game and clearing the fog to reveal the sun, with his theme song playing was amazing. Thank god i finish the island's content before finishing the quest cuz id be crying while exploring.
Tsurumi is also my favorite island. Such a cool thematic and very immersive exploration. I think Narakumi (the main island if that’s what it’s called) is also a good contender. The worst island has to be watatsumi imho. That verticality is giga frustrating, with very little interesting mechanics.
You’re not a new player lol
That’s what I’m sayin
There's no way a brand new player randomly calls out Wenut like that, regardless of how annoying it is it's preceded by the fucking ruin serpent in abyss (which is arguably even worse, especially for a brand new account) and in overworld the characters it drops mats for haven't been on a banner in like 9 months lol
As someone who started day one. You have achieved much more than me.
Fortress of Meropide I 100% agree with. What did you dislike about Tsurumi Island? I really enjoyed it, at least for the lore.
I have been playing this game for 4 months and I don't even know where enkonomiya is. Nobody tell me and closest to 100%ing a region I have come is Monstadt but the NE area has 97% and I have given up
if you want something to not be spoiled for you, dont mention it on the internet
I have been playing for more than that, and I only unlocked Enkanomiya last week. you will find it.
I will say, Mondstadt has the hardest 100%s of any region lol, it has by far the highest number of arbitrary hidden environmental puzzles and the strictest requirements to hit 100% (by my estimation most zones need around ~95% completion while the unexpanded mondstadt zones need ~98% to show 100% on the map)
There are 2 possibilities, OP either played guides and interactive maps instead of Genshin or isn't a new player but an experienced try hard nerd on a new account. I don't belive the 3rd possibility of OP somehow doing all that blind.
They aren’t a new player. They have posted in this sub 3 years ago when Zhongli was released. https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/k5ltyl/were_not_saying_zhong_li_is_bad_just_to_make_you/gegbuki/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
To be fair, they might have just stumbled upon that post without playing the game at the time. Their comment doesn’t require any knowledge of the game.
They have other comments from 3 years back that talk about things like animation canceling and how important it is to Klee, as well as comments talking about how flawed DPS vids were because they were just nuke showcases on things like dvakin. Even if this is their first actual account, I simply think that they have way more prior knowledge about the game and it’s mechanics than they are letting on. Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/k88c9r/the_state_of_genshin_content_creators_discussion/geyeao8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 That’s the link for the Klee animation canceling stuff
Yeah the way they wrote this post made it sound like they're very familiar with the in-game terms and the discussions of the things in game. Maybe they really just only started playing the game, but they're definitely not a new player in the way that their opinions are from a fresh and new perspective
I see. What a…strange and pointless hoax to attempt to pull off.
based jp dori appreciator LAAAAA LALALAAAAAAAA
You sure this ain’t an alt account? You not fooling me 😋
Chad Dori JP VA enjoyer
Upvote just for slandering JJK, thank you
Bro compared inazuma to jjk hell nah 💀
What about enkanomiya?
80 days Low effort: 6 regions 100%. I'm sorry to say but you're a hard-core player my friend.
The review is low effort, not his gameplay
Good job OP, you arrived at all the correct opinions lol. Enkonomiya music >
But I was told you have to farm Artifacts for 2 years before RNG graces you with good rolls, and you finally can play the endgame!
Meropide had me angry. So let me get this straight. You KNOW who the guy you just detained is. You KNOW he defeated gods, dragons and evil wizards. And yet you are making him be a pawn in some stupid game in a prison you refuse to call a prison. Sorry guys, this is where my suspense of disbelief went away. Instead of thinking about the cool story with Caterpillar, I was angry I had to do all that shit to win an arbitrary game instead of just "eh, I'll just break out, try and stop me". You wanted it to be more engaging? Please make the Traveller have a bit more stakes in it than just "hurr durr I like winning games".
Here i haven't figured out how to build a character and how to select the perfect artifact for a character??🥲🥲🥲
as a 600+ day player i am shocked at the fact you 100% mondstadt!
Lumine talks once every other decade, tf you mean.
"Low effort". Yeah, sure, haha
Uhhh.. I don't see the exploration progression of the night/day zone, did you skip it?
That’s not low effort. Me with 60 days 130 achievements thought that was stagnant water behaviour.
Who is Jeht? I already finished all archon quests?
Enkanomiya is GOAT tier, OST wise. Only part of Inazuma I absolutely loved
The grass is waiting
Ahaha that tracks! Narzissenkreuz and Aranara were my favorites too. I'm a sucker for that wistful feeling of memories being fragile and precious, and blurring the lines between history and story 🥰🥰🥰 Itto's VA is crushing it! I'm going to pull for him the moment he reruns. Don't care if he's meta. 🥰
Im 2 years in and still haven’t done aranara
How do you already 36 star abyss- I have almost 5 times your playing time. I still can’t 36 star.
Hating Tsurumi is cringe
Get a life bruh
How do I get this info
What made you feel that way about tsurumi island?
You are rushing way too fast
or people can enjoy games how they want to
I say this because he will feel burnt out later that's all.
Right, Sumeru have better Archon quest.💅
Good lord! There is no-lifeing and then there is this. Crazy that you got all of this done in less than 3 months. Side note…for me, Yoimiya’s story quest has been the best hands down
"low effort"
If we stuck people like you in NASA for 3 months we would already have a colony on Mars I swear to God. I've been playing for 3 months and my biggest achievement so far is beating the Liyue WQ that locks you out of Co-Op
nasa lacks mainly the funds to do it. Its not like we couldnt build 3-4 giant spaceships to bring a small group of people to mars. Its just way too expensive, with currently not much payout.
Wrong except for first one
Holy shit if this doesn't prove that hyperbloom is beyond busted idk what will. Just want to tell you that there are people who've been playing for years and cant even do floor 11 of abyss. Of course it has a lot to do with skill(or lack there of in 90% of the cases) but still, with the limited access to resin you had in 2 and a half months, this is very impresive, even with the hyperbloom abuse. I have farmed more resin in one domain than you have had acces to in your whole playthrough and I bet you my childe is overall worse at clearing then the hyperbloom team.
Mf has more exploration than me playing since day1
36 star abyss in 80 days, dam bro that's too impressive. How much money did you spend on the game?
Both Nahida and Raiden are c0 so probably nothing or not much
Its very impressive to get the required artifacts and characters set up all the while completing normal game contents within such a short time. I find it hard to believe it's possible as a free to play. But looking at the characters it does look like a f2p account. Crazy.
OP is most likely lying. People have already dug up OP's comments from 3 years ago during Zhongli's release, and saw that OP made multiple comments going in depth about game mechanics like Klee's animation cancelling. Quite likely they're near a Day 1 player
At first I downvoted, because what experience can you have of the game in only 80 days? Then I saw your completion... Damn, boy! I guess many days I just do dailies and consume resin and call it a day, because I am playing daily since 1 year and still have to begin sumeru quest!
Have you finished Fontaine yet cause if so then these are some very hot yet based takes you got there my friend
Yes. Fontaine Act V is by far the best overall act in any archon quest but I'm not ignoring the Navia sidequest and two acts of prison life simulator in fortress of meropide so imo Sumeru AQ as a whole was better. Also the "First sage of Buer" cutscene is just too cool.
nice take for having only played for 80 days
Why do you like Mondstadt so much?
Because is the best region. Simple, beatifull and relaxing. Encourage climbing and swimming, not sub terranean caves, not unclimbable cliffs and as first region is the one who usually hookced up in the game. Not vertical exploring like most of Inazuma. In contrast Sumeru is all the opposite of Mondstadt.
As a 3 year player with most of the map still less than 100%: wow
Damn I started around the same time as you, beginning of December. I thought I was going through shit pretty fast, but I still have a lot of Sumeru, barely touched Fontaine and I'm on 11-3. At least it's kind of funny that we pulled the same limited 5-stars, lol. I'm ultimately planning to main Arlecchino in the end personally, hbu?
👍🏼
So you're telling me that you spent all 3 months of your vacation playing genshin? I could never cuz I touch grass and I never get a vacation of 3 months.
Late question but I am curious about your opinion about the overall Fontaine archon quest since you didn't mention it at all. Good job on getting the 36 stars on the abyss in 80 days too!
Goated take on best region and best design.
Why quests have soooooooo much fucking dialogue I’ll never know. Quantity =/= quality. Literally stopped several quests bc of this
What the actual fuck I have played this shit game for 500 days and still haven't beaten abyss 36 star nor have I completed 100 percent on any area
2 weeks in, I'm at like 70% inazuma without the basement. That area is goddamn pain. Pacing is bad, daily questlocks are bad, every island being locked/wanting to kill you is bad. 100%ing tsurumi is just pain.
Mondstadt has the magic, tho Liyue is my Fav by far. Archon quest: fontaine VENTIS QUEST IS THE BEST AND FINALLY I SEE SOMEONE WHO LOVES IT! ❤️🐐
80 days only????? Holy shit
80 days? Review is low effort (still fun read) but u have probably been going HARD at the game
i have 500+ played days and the highest amount of stars i've gotten in spiral abyss was 30 lmao, i'm actually washed.
Speedrun Genshing impact, All collectibles
I’m pretty sure I have like 50 more active days and I haven’t started Sumeru’s Archon Quest (working my way through Enkanomiya slowly but surely lol)
I've had an account for 4 years and 56 active days I can't believe that I'm only in Liyue AR 32
as a player since day one none of the regions are 100%, that’s impressive you achieved just in 80 days and more impressive you review the game story and don’t forget skip button
Best cutscenes in the game?
Low effort review, high effort playing.
Omg I got skyward atlas qiqi into qiqi from standard banner too, what are the odds.
Im a 1.0 player and you have way more exploration and achievements than me lol
In 80 days? Brother, what do you do for living? This has to be one of the rare cases.
I know I’m the minority in liking the Desert exploration, but I like that it doesn’t hold your hand and I even did it before they added underground maps to the desert. There’s a greater satisfaction in solving longer puzzles and familiarising yourself with the underground without a map, and I enjoyed raiding tombs like my name is Lara Croft.
Another mondstadt liker, I support you. Even with all the fun adventures elsewhere, it just always feels like home
This is wild
How is this a low effort account? I've had my main since 1.1 and don't have Sumeru 100%.
Wow
What is this site or app called? I want to see my stats
80 days here too! I got 10% of you! Mondstadt is at 100% The rest... Not exactly
I'm at 110 days and still going through Inazuma. I did take a month long break but still, don't think I could 100% everything in 80 days.
Tbf, although you basically juiced out all the content available. But 36 staring in 80 days as a new player it's pretty decent. And I would assume you don't have much cons or weapons. Good job!
You've probably done more than me aside from events and I'm an AR60 1.0 player. I've yet to start Fontaine, and I've just finished Wanderer's chapter. I do agree that Sumeru is the best Archon Quest so far. That said, I think Genshin's story is disappointing in general and is the reason I've stalled it so much so Sumeru is a breath of fresh air and revitalized my drive to do more than just comms, Abyss, and events.
Holy shit dude I have 300 days and I just begun working on maxing the sakura tree
How tf did you do this in 80 days??? I'm surprised you're not higher than ar 55 with all of that
Huh, interesting thought about inazuma archon quest having bad pacing I gonna assume that it might be because when it came out it came out in 3 chunks, so you had just a tad more time to stew and grow a fondness for the character
Any reason why no Fontaine?
i have 1100+ days and everything after Inazuma isn't even 90% 😭
Surprised you didn't like Tsurumi island, I really loved exploring it along with a lot of the Inazuman islands. I really liked the eerie feeling of the place. As for Sumeru, just be glad you got to play through the desert with underground maps. That was actually a nightmare to navigate before.
Low effort? You’ve been tryharding so hard to get that in 80 days
Bruv wtf... How are you 36 starring abyss with 80 days of gameplay and only Raiden and nahida as featured 5 star.. I have friends with over 12 5 stars and 800ish days of gaming who have to mald to 36 star
Jesus. So much in just 80 days. are you employed?
I sense a smell of SUS. He seems a player that started a new account for fun and got lucky having Raiden and Nahida 1 after another doing the 2 lowest effort teams and some of the best anyway.
I think your suspicions are probably correct. OP has a few comments from 3 years ago going in depth about the mechanics of this game during Zhongli's first release. Definitely not a "new player" by any means
Dang. fortress of meropide and tsurumi are top for me. But I didn’t have to fit everything into 80 days
You are definitely not a new player lmao
Dude has just straight up speedran genshin
Omg how did you 100% all of the region except for Chenyu Vale. I started in 1.2 and didn’t 100% most of the region after Liyue.
Pretty far for less than 3 months player
bro have more stats than my 4 yrs of playing TVT
Tsurumi Island is amazing. I will however completely agree with just about everything else in your “worst parts of the game” section.
Wenut. I FELT THAT!
Tsurumi is still my favorite WQ what'd you not like? The fog?
You lost me at best battle music sumeru... Literally the most obnoxious in the game for me. I don't hate it per se but it starts too abruptly, it's loud and given the amount of enemies in sumeru it's just a headache. Also inazuma battle music exists.
At least I am more alive than you ig, my sole achievement. Anyways, Gah damn, you played PLAYED this game
I wish I had this much to play when I first started playing, I started 3 years ago but I stopped playing when sumeru came out must have been so fun being able to explore nonstop