Genshin Impact: A Failure in Storytelling

impact is a game that came out of the right place at the right time it's fantastic World captivated audiences along with its phenomenal cast of characters characters that would go on to help tell a story that would spend multiple years a story whose lore went deeper than the bottom of the chasm itself and whose history at times seems to be darker than our own so it's a shame that I have to tell you that how they chose to tell that story is terrible it's astounding hook company that makes this much money you could things up so badly from the main quest to the timed events to the character quests and so on at every turn for every good decision that's made it feels like there's 10 bad ones to go on with it so come along with me and see how Genji impact is a failure in storytelling [Applause] [Music] but before I fully dive in I want to make a couple distinctions one genshin is definitely trying to tell a story despite large chunks being hidden behind different aspects of gameplay which we'll get into later large portion of the game is dedicated to a long-running narrative and anybody that tells you otherwise is either lying or misinformed 2. the story of genshin isn't the bad part the amount of effort that has gone into the lore and backstory of everything and everyone is incredible it is how that story is being told and directed towards the players is what makes it bad so with all that said let's start at the beginning the prologue of genshin isn't terrible it's rather slow yes but unbearable there are quite a few games especially RPGs that get off to a slow start for some games they wait and slowly introduce the world through small bits of dialogue as well as an introduction to the gameplay genshin also does this as we open up to a beach the game introduces to our character as well as our traveling companion pymon and yes I'll talk about her later and we set off on our journey as we learn the mechanics and gameplay a small amount of travel later and we soon discover genshin's colorful cast of characters and it's here that the game story kicks off we must save the city of monstat from the onslaught of the vicious Dragon a classic tale when you think about it and after a series of trials and tribulations we are able to receive help from the Region's God and save the city as well as the dragon but just as we think all's well it ends well the main character and venti the god from before are ambushed by the vitui a malicious force from a rival country the group is led by a woman named Senora oh boy can't wait to talk about her later she then proceeds to attack venti and steal something from him after this altercation we revive and we seek out venti who tells us to go to the next country to continue our journey like I said I don't think the prologue is that bad some of the tasks are tedious sure but I personally think we have enough to distract us from the slow start their chest open areas to explore enemies to kill and characters to pull yeah I see the elephant in the room but I'm not here to talk about the wish system back to my point I think there's enough to keep you busy during the story I think it's a solid prologue I just have a couple problems with it one where were pymon and the traveler doing on the beach for two months I met you two months ago at the start of the game it's explained that the traveler and pymon had been camping out for two months uh what were they doing why didn't pymon take the trailer to monster it's like a couple miles away pymon seems interested in taking the traveler there once the game starts but she didn't think to take us there beforehand we should head off let's get going or the traveler in pymon just swapping ghost stories over the campfire what was going on two what is pymon and how come nobody asks about her now this one might seem a bit strange but hear me out I understand that the characters ask about pymon and we explain to them that she is our traveling companion or emergency food but that's not what I mean not one person we come across has really ever pondered pymon think about it have we met anything like her in two years I know her identity is meant to be a mystery but this is weird everyone around us hasn't pulled us aside and asked who is that and I've never seen one questions that would seem normal and valid under the circumstances all the NPCs and playable characters seem to act like pymon belongs here it's just all very strange the second act of gentian story Quest seems to pick things up in my opinion despite having to do multiple touch quests since there's several minutes of dialogue what they'll leave a portion of the story offers is something special from the mystery surrounding the death of Rex lapis to ascending to the Jade chamber or culminate into a fight with the fatoui harbinger child and in my opinion this is regenshin impact's story Peaks and then it ends and it's not as if the story becomes worse after this point however I personally feel that it doesn't get any better but I'm getting a little ahead of myself as we deal with the revelation of rexopus which let's be real most people start coming we celebrate and close out the second region of Genji for me the story was pretty smooth but for some people I understand if it might have been a little repetitive you see I started Genji when it first launched in North America and as mentioned before I was distracted with the gameplay and exploration that by the time I made it through half wave leave a story Quest I was forced to take a break to the next installment this would come in early November as sketch would be updated with a new story Quest as a result I was able to avoid most of the repetitiveness of the story Quest but I understand how daunting it could be for others who came later and could not other than that I don't have any problems with the story although the problem with pylon still applies no it wouldn't be until the next region were against the story started to collapse to say that the region of Inazuma was heavily anticipated would be an understatement you see up until this point we didn't have many new areas to explore we received Dragon spine back in version 1.2 and to be fair we got the golden apple archipelago in 1.6 but only for a limited time it wasn't until after the summer Islands event in 1.6 that we received Inazuma to start off we are told to go meet up with Captain Beto of the Crux to make our way to Ian Zuma Ben would have been a playable character since the game's launch so it was nice for players to finally meet the strong independable captain of the Kirk's Fleet it's hero we also meet a Wandering Samurai by the name of kaido harakazua who is from the next region of inezuma and as we spend a little more time with him we learned of his past and just how dangerous this next leg of the trip is going to be and so we board the Alcor and set sailed to inezuma the country said to be protected by a Perpetual storm blanketing the region and we get to see none of it when we board the Crux and had at Sea we were given a brief cutscene before immediately cutting to our arrival on inezuma the Storm which had been so heavily built up was completely skipped over and so having finally arrived inezuma we step out the boat and start the next part of our journey to be honest how the next section of the archon quest begins is not that bad as with all the traveler we meet several new characters along the way as we step off the Alcoa we first meet Tomah and and it's here that rather slow portion of the game rears its ugly head once more as Tom introduces us to the land of Electro we are given a brief look into its economy and politics and that's just fine but it all changes when we are tasked by Tomah to help out the locals and this is the slow portion I was talking about Genji has a way of telling its story that it's rather slow and painful dialogue through NPCs and look I understand that you need to talk to NPCs in other video games but these parts of the quest are unbearably long and at least another game is the main character will talk to the NPCs but not in this game which brings me to my next problem I was going to talk about this later but you know what it let's talk about it now uh-oh I'm on I'm on uh flying lavender melon pymon pymon has single-handedly become one of the worst things about the story as well as the game instead of having the trailer talk somebody thought it would be a good idea for pilot to talk over them the whole time time I can count on one hand the amount of times the traveler has spoken the main character for whatever reason doesn't speak why can you imagine in The Witcher if geralt didn't speak but instead his horse roach spoke for him how about in the anime series bleach what if cones spoke for Ichigo you know cone the stuffed animal imagine if he spoke the whole time and not only that but Pokemon will exist on explaining the entire sections of dialogue that we just discussed with an NPC pylon will go out of her way to explain to you like a baby our objective how we're supposed to reach said objective and why that objective is so important like we're playing a gotcha version of Dora the Explorer that's one heck of an info dump pymon is a mascot and this mascot what's the deal with it mascots are meant to be seen not heard now with all that said let's get back to inezuma so after dealing with some side quests we are finally able to leave the first island and explore and it's up to this point that the gameplay as well as the story picks up we get to explore the area some more and interact with new enemies as well as new mechanics the story introduces a sayaka as well as Joy Mia and gives us a glimpse on how both characters play a role in our Conquest as I could tries to rope us into the conflict within Azuma to which the traveler refuses for some reason I don't know why in the end she convinces us and we are thrusted headlong into a confrontation with the electro archive who at this point has been teased to be an antagonist a ruler with an Iron Fist and now we must face off one-on-one and we lose I gotta be honest this first part of the story is great yes we did have to get through that first rough patch but now we're here fighting the Shogun and everything is on point from the animation to the voice acting as well as the music it's all phenomenal and so after being defeated we are forced to run away and meet with the resistance on watatsumi island it's here that we were introduced to characters like kokomi the leader of the resistance and her General Goro we are also introduced to an NPC named Tepe who I will talk about later we then engage with the Chopin's forces and then once the battle ends the first part in azuma's story Quest is finished and it's past this point when I realized that the story was slowly falling apart the second half of the story at one point seems quite beautiful but for the most part it feels uneventful and pointless that isn't to say that all of the archonic quest is boring the climax for instance is enjoyable but therein lies the problem I feel like the climax is the only interesting part let's review after the battle you were given an invent invitation to otatsumi Island to me with the resistance in kokomi we were escorted by Tepe the NPC I mentioned before and are given a position within the resistance a somewhat high ranking position and nurse it off on a mission with our new Squad this does nothing it's a group made of two NPCs but that's fine people would get to explore their backstories and find out why they're in the resistance [Laughter] nope this game can't be bothered to make you care about the side you're fighting on for sake this is a story about rebellion we're over halfway through and I can barely be bothered to care about the good guys this might as well be an anime version of Star Wars in video game form how are the writers having such a hard time with this and it's here where the biggest problem with gentian story quests start to expose its biggest weakness all telling and absolutely no showing gentian impact breaks the number one rule of Storytelling in a visual medium the main character is supposed to be training with their squad but it's never shown how many people are in a squad don't know how did Tepe receive a promotion don't know either how am I supposed to care about any of this also don't know anyway let's move on we find that the fatou have been supplying the resistance with delusions something similar divisions that give the characters Elemental abilities but there's a catch delusions give power in exchange for life force and wouldn't you know what Tepe had one edit ends up killing him kind of We aren't even told or shown directly that he died when last we see him it's kind of implied that he just fell asleep remember guys we're playing a baby game we can't have a character Diane's screen it's heavily implied in kokomi's story Quest that he passed away but we aren't even shown his funeral come on and here I thought I was supposed to care about this character if they had spent a little bit more time and actually given him a unique model and made us spend more time with him learning his motivations and his reasons for joining the resistance then maybe just maybe I could have cared we then go on to confront of Dewey and reunite with Scaramouche whose number six of the fatou harbingers wait wait wait wait hang on you don't you don't remember meeting him huh well I certainly hope it isn't some kind of foreshadowing we are being somehow we are then rescued by yay Mikko Q training montage and we go to confront the Shogun and who should be waiting for us none other than Senora what happened to Scaramouche oh away I think I know what happened see this was supposed to be scaramouche's region but in development as they were making this portion of the game they had geared us up with the fight was ignora but then remember Scaramouche was supposed to be an appearance at some point and then proceeded to replace Senora with Scaramouche halfway through but it's only a theory but it could explain why he shows up so randomly in this one's segment and why the fight was Senor I feel so anti-climactic in some ways or they're just bad at writing and then we finally defeat Senor and then she dies what the okay okay maybe she's still alive I mean come on she has a really tragic backstory really deep really rich they just wouldn't kill her off so unsanctemoniously I mean so many people wanted to wish for why are you laughing and so we Face Off against the Shogun and the cutscene is cool the music is cool the action is cool did you catch all that this particular part is good this is the part in every reaction on YouTube that you see everybody's excited people are going wild we're all invested but what about the rest of it Denton's story does this quite a bit but here I think it's more noticeable before we spent time with other characters and learn how they fit in the world and how the events of the main quest were affecting them but here it feels like they're barely involved think about it who fights the Shogun it's just the main character we hardly receive no aid from the other characters of Zuma at least in the final fight what a wasted opportunity how cool would it have been if we had to play as each one of the good guys you know Aika Toma joemia Guru kokomi all of them all of them fighting to save their country as it is though I suppose it's all right we've heard the Shogun start to lose gain the power of friendship and win the end so with all that said and done we move on and despite certain aspects of the story not be being so great at the very least it's all complete I mean could you imagine if they tried to tell major story points and timed events imagine if you will your favorite show suddenly a plot point you've never heard of gets brought up you then come to find out that same plot point was brought up in a special limited time episode and your chance to watch it has come and gone this is what it's like for certain parts of Genji impact do you remember when I brought up Scaramouche earlier I wasn't lying when I told you our meeting Indiana Zuma wasn't his first appearance on November 16th 2020 genjin released a new event titled unreconciled Stars it would make the first time where the play race could receive a free character doing this event players could obtain the character official as a reward this would also make the First Time Players could see a limited story event all those you may have guessed this would be to the game's detriment in the event we are tasked by The Adventurous Guild to investigate meteors falling from the sky and as it just so happens The Guild is also hired official as well as the astrologist Mona well isn't that interesting were any of you wondering how they met and became friends during the 2.8 event it was here in unreconciled Stars it's here where we also meet Scaramouche the sixth Harbinger at first he betrays himself as an unassuming Wanderer but it's later revealed who he really is a malicious member of The fatoui Who at this point had set his sights on killing us keep that in mind for later it's also during this event where we learn the sky is false which is interesting but you want to know what's even more interesting it's never brought up again for some reason seems like there'd be kind of important I guess not this is just the first story event I have a few more to cover the Summer Event in 1.6 introduces us to Clay's mother Alice all beat only through audio it also gives us the first verified confirmation of Gene and Barbara being sisters granted that didn't need confirmation but it was nice nonetheless there's also 2.1 and the moon chase Festival ah not much happens just some friends hanging out with some cooking and oh yeah grope is a God I just want to let you know that the bear who's been hanging around jingling is actually a God just a little detail there on top of all this we have the reveal Albedo is a homunculus it's not important at all no why would it be are you starting to see the problem some of these are Big reveals but they're being wasted in limited time events they don't come back so the only way you can see them is on YouTube through other people and not gentian's own account genshin does have the cutscenes on their main YouTube channel but just the cutscenes not the entire story that's played out so you're still missing a lot and some people have been lucky enough to find these in their entirety I'm talking about content creators as well as streamers the people who started late but have the benefit of having an audience to tell them what they missed and where to look for it but other people don't have that luxury not everybody has an audience so the best case scenario for them is to do homework for a video game which you should never have to do under any circumstances period some of this is very harmful to the overall story Quest that they're trying to tell they just don't realize it but then that begs the question if major plot points for some of these characters are being brought up in limited timed events then what's happening in their character quests I personally believe that a story is only as good as the characters that reside within it and Genji has really good characters but you wouldn't know that playing through their individual story quests it's incredibly bizarre that mihoyo would take this much time and effort in making amazing characters only for that effort to go to waste let me explain let's start with D Luke D Luke is characterized pretty well at first he plays the role of millionaire by day and vigilante By Night monstad's version of Batman if you will which gives us a good introduction but that's it if you were hoping for a little bit more backstory for him tough luck a large portion of his backstory is locked away behind genjin's manga which is fine if you're willing to go out of your way to read it but what if you didn't or worse you didn't even know it existed I have a big problem with important information Nation being held from the consumer in other forms of media this applies to most things for example you wouldn't read Harry Potter only to find out Harry Potter's backstory is actually not in the book but instead inside of a magazine this just isn't how things are done what about Gene how does her story hold up it's just a birthday party and not much more it does give you a slight insight into her character but not much else they didn't even go out of their way to explain that Barbara and Gene are sisters the game doesn't even offer the bare minimum here we are told that Gene works hard the people of monster at respect her and we are told that she admires Vanessa which you may not even know who the hell that is just FYI she's from the manga I know what a shocker there's nothing here but an introduction which is fine but there's no second chapter after two years and I suspect there may never be one and then there's clay who is super adorable but other than that there's not much to be said well except maybe for a reckless nature perhaps next up is bona and with her we were given a little bit more towards the end with her interactions with Glee but that's all I could continue but why bother at this point I'm being a bit of a broken record here everything I just mentioned applies to almost every character their individual quests give you a brief introduction to what the character is like and then it's over when are we going to cover Deluge backstory are we ever going to get around to his relationship with Kaya what was it like for Gene and Barbara growing up what is the relationship between Milan and her master really like who is Mona's Master what was it like for clay and Albedo growing up look I only just covered monster characters but this applies to everybody else as well all these quests do is scratch the surface on really deep characters and the sad thing is it appears that genshin doesn't even care I can only think of one character where that's different it's venti now to be fair his quest is also bogged down with the same problems plaguing every other character that is to say most of our time is spent talking to NPCs and not learning much about the titular care character however what makes vintage story Quest different from all the others is how it ends at the tail end of his quest we actually receive some backstory for the animal archon for the first time we actually received some more for not only the character but the region as well well okay baby spent his God that might be the reason why we get some more for his character and if that's the case maybe the other archons will have just as much backstory as he did unfortunately this is not the case Jean vali's first story Quest is nothing more than a tease in our search to uncover the secret behind the god of salt we were taken beneath the lands of Lila and it's here where we discovered the remnants of a civilization although from what little is left it's nothing more than a tomb we think at first name would be statues but instead they are the people from the land of salt Frozen for all time behind the mineral for which the land as well as the God is named for and while we are told of the events that took place here we are given nothing more see at the beginning of the quest it's heavily implied that Jeong Lee may have killed the god of thought long ago he is able to prove his innocence at the end of it as the goddess was killed by our own people but there are so many other questions that can be answered here what was his relationship with this God had she ever sought out his help had they ever met to begin with with his second Quest things are a little bit better we are given some backstory for him as well as a pretty decent boss fight with age daha but with this Quest it's the exception and not the standard and Noah's Young Lee out of the way we can move on to a and she's even worse than he was what is the leader of a warrant-torn country have to offer a date kind of see what Raiden shogun's Quest offers is a tour through Inazuma but you're not the tourist a is because the electro archon is such a shut-in The Traveler has to play tour guide I have several problems with this but it's not really you would think it isn't necessarily the nature of the quest itself that makes me frustrated it's how it's presented how this could have played out is so simple just have the other characters show up as you and the ride and Shogun are talking about we could have like and Toma help us explain the you know working as minajuma to the electro archon as we parade around town we could then visit kujosara who would be more than eager to show the Shogun around the tenrio commission and then finally we can get a visit from Mikko you know yay Mako the one who's been with a most of her life who hardly shows up in the quest at all and while we're at it why don't we have flashbacks for the characters that show up in her teaser like who are all these people what role did they serve in Nina Zuma who are these people who was the previous writing Chopin like who were these people or the battles that a took part in long ago who the are these people I need to know man I need to know that fox lady looking super sexy and then have it end with a firework show by you and Mia just a thought her second Quest is a bit better what we learned about some history of inezuma and have a cool boss fight there's not much else to speak of yet again the quest is weighed down by NPCs which wouldn't be the worst thing but remember what I said earlier about about pymon she never shuts up the entire time and venti doesn't have a second story Quest I suspect the writers realize that if he did we would have to talk to him about the Calamity that happened 500 years ago and I see no reason why he would keep that information from us he's not that kind of person as a result they haven't given him a second story Quest but it's just a theory now before I move on I feel like I owe these characters some mention I'm talking about the traveler whether it be Aether or lumine does anybody care about these two because I don't even think the game does as stated before you're also helpful in emergency food insists on talking over the main character how are players supposed to connect with the series lead if they can't speak they hardly emote how would you know if they're differently characterized between the two of them this game has so many colorful characters it's disgusting to see the one who's supposed to be the main character is more boring than a damn cardboard cutout and the journey we're on to find their sibling does anyone even care do you care heck does the game want you to care after saving the city onset and giving the people Aid The Traveler is rewarded not with gold or anything of particular value but they do ask for the town's assistance in finding their sibling and the country obliges with missing person posters the knights don't help us in our search nor do the townspeople they simply put up posters and call it a day better ways to help you than just putting up missing person posters so I just realized something The Travelers perfectly content with this like their sibling is gone and the travel is just like it's fine don't worry about it you know it's that's whatever he'll come back like he's some lost dog honestly I think you're supposed to forget about the main character Quest who cares about your sibling I don't you don't I don't even think the game does the answer is nobody now when it comes to the four stars I honestly thought we weren't going to get any of them well except for maybe a select few this would change with genshin's 1.4 update it was here where we received hangout events these were the story quest for a portion of the 4 star lineup and give players the chance to learn a little bit more about their favorite 4 star characters however as you may have guessed this only leads to more disappointment you do get more interactions with these characters yes but like the five stars that preceded them all the hands do is scratch the surface now you could argue that that's the point you're just hanging out with these characters and nothing more but for me this doesn't cut it on top of all that upon first glance you might think the Hangouts just might be a dating mechanic how the Hangouts work exactly is just like a standard character Quest however these particular quests have multiple endings where I think the mild confusion comes in is towards the heart mechanic that is used in these hangout events when the hangout events were leaked the heart mechanic misled some players into believing it was a dating mechanic now from what I gathered the hot mechanic X is sort of a gauge between success and failure between the different various endings although let me be honest who's gonna fail the hangout event I don't think I could if I tried how badly do you have to up to fail a hangout event how many people do you really think have failed a hangout event besides let me be frank there's no way they're gonna add a dating mechanic in this game there's just no way that would happen has it dawned on anyone there's no actual romance in this game I mean for some of us it's pretty obvious but for others it just might be a terrible realization that they have yet to understand see I'm not totally against some of the characters having a relationship I honestly think it could add a lot to the story but unfortunately it'll never come to pass this includes the gay ships as well as the straight ones it doesn't matter what kind of relationship it is it doesn't matter whether it's gene or D Luke it doesn't matter if it's ning Wong or Beto none of them will ever be real and here's why because certain parts of the player base are so protective over the waifus and has Bandos due to the outcry from some of these fandoms the developers haven't even bothered why lose the revenue but losing the romance in this game is the worst thing but it does leave me with one inescapable problem a little itch in the back of my brain that I just can't quite get rid of who is clee's Dad like does a guy like this even exist seriously is he even in the game she's referenced him in her profile kind of but he is yet to be mentioned at all in the story at first I thought he was going to be mentioned at some point but it's been two years and in all that time not a single piece of information is known about him and honestly at this point I don't even know if he exists well at least not anymore it seems he may have existed at one point in the story but now due to the issues I spoke of before his presence may have all been but removed because if he's married into Alice that means she can't be your waifu and uh let's just be real with ourselves has that stopped anyone before now you might say why does this matter come on man aren't you looking forward to Alice to which I say a course you idiot let me ask you something all right she's the least bit curious but the man who was brave enough to put his dick in that level of crazy like what kind of dude saw the women up to that looked the other way but then saw the crazy girl throwing bombs and said yeah that I'm just thinking it could add some cool backstory to both clay and Alice but then again all the story is All Surface level when it comes to characters there's nothing really too deep so many Rich characters and they barely have any backstory wait what what do you mean they have backstory they do well where the is it you've got to be kidding me you've got to be kidding me so it seems after all my ranting and raving there is a proper backstory for every character and then a big point to this video is pointless you'd like that wouldn't you too bad because there's a catch the information is laid out in front of you yes but solely in text form so if you want to get through the backstory of every character you're going to have to read an essay's worth of information which wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to do it let's see 52 times you might will pick up a novel at that point how many players are actually willing to read that much information I'm gonna go on a limb and say 10 at best do you realize how many players probably skip over the dialogue from the main quests and to be honest most of the people I'm talking about are the adults how about the children and teens they probably can't even be bothered to look up the information heck some of these players can't even be bothered to look up the information to see what their artifacts do speaking of which if you go into the artifacts menu you can find hidden lore deeper than anything present in the main quest going into the enhancement section and then clicking above it you will find the description by hitting the button in the bottom right corner doing these steps will allow you to see a brief section of the game's history as if artifacts weren't getting more complicated to read now we have this BS how many people do you think are going to read this in the artifact sets Crimson Richard Flames as well as pale flame you will find the story of a young woman from monstat who lost her lever in a horrible battle while she was away studying abroad upon her return and discovering her Lover's death her heart grows cold and thus she turns herself into liquid flame and becomes Crimson witch through the Mystic Arts she learned in Subaru that was the backstory for La Senora what the actual why do we have to do so much work to find the backstory of this one character why is it buried under so much work I shouldn't have to go to YouTube to find a synopsis on her character and look no shame to the lore channels on YouTube they do phenomenal work but it shouldn't be a requirement for people to watch these just to understand the character look be straight with me how many of you knew the backstory of Senora or did you have to look it up on YouTube that's the problem and this is why I also have a problem with scar Moosh yet again he also suffers from a lack of backstory and yet he's the one who's going to be a playable character despite the fact that he's the biggest dick in the game yeah you know what I don't even care anymore I feel more sympathy for lost Senora than I ever did for Scaramouche she was a little confrontational with us on occasion to be sure but Scaramouche has been the biggest douche since day one at every turn this guy is trying to kill us insulted us and been a complete Jackass the entire time but now I'm gonna have to put up with all the same girls saying oh don't worry I can fix him but that's neither here nor there can't wait to read about his backstory in the husk of opulent dreams artifact set you know instead of being in a cut scene nope we'll just get it underneath mountains of text text that most of us aren't even going to be bothered to read now this last part may seem a bit nitpicky but I think it is a place in this video while we were playing together my editor brought to my attention the repeated use of janky animations let me explain During certain cutscenes the characters will cycle through certain animations that are used in the game proper typically used in gameplay this by itself isn't the best issue after all the developers can't make new animations all the time but it's become increasingly annoying over the years to see various characters try to be emotional and all that's used is recycled gameplay animations whenever you see characters talking it's always the conversation animations whenever you see characters excited the Applause animation has been used to illustrate this let me take you back to 2.6 in 2.6 Clee arrives in Inazuma to celebrate the festival upon being introduced to things that excite her her response is to Simply applaud this doesn't fit her at all it's these stale animations that are being used throughout the whole game do you remember how the game begins during the prologue there was a plethora of unique animations during the cut scenes but now it just seems they've gotten lazier and now these days it seems we get less cutscenes which means things just feel boring listen I know it takes time and money to make really good cutscenes however they have the time and they have the money so what happened to all the effort they put into the very start it's all gone they've attracted players to their game they no longer are required to put in the same effort as they once did even when it comes to the story what am I saying they'll even cut out parts of the story for a little while now instead of having cutscenes in dialogue genshin will just fade black I'm not even kidding you here here's some basic text on the screen good enough for you right just slap it on there you'll figure it out why would they even bother and even though it seems pretty Petty I really wish they would I have slowly been getting more and more bored as The Story Goes On why should I care if the company doesn't in 3.0 we are finally introduced to Colette a forest Ranger Trainee who has been engaged in the story for a while that is to say in the manga and instead of showing us her terrible backstory the game yet again tells us instead you read the comment right they'll say so you should already know about her character they'll tell you but this is not how you should tell your story Lisa is a graduate of the Subaru Academia but she doesn't come with us to the region why bother having a guide Who would know the ins and outs of the country what else would she be doing Amber knows call a but she didn't even bother coming with us this game can be at its best when these characters are interacting with one another but It generally seems to do this during the main story Quest or limited events if these characters don't ever interact with each other the world just feels less lived in and speaking of this next part is going to seem really Petty but I might as well get out on my grievances the NPCs are just really lazy this comes back to how the animations are recycled and not only are the animations recycled but the character models are also recycled and it doesn't help that they all have identical inorganic idle animations they all just feel robotic sometimes virtually none of the NPCs have their own unique behaviors Everything feels like stock acids that were just placed there even if these cutscenes are more demanding you couldn't have a design team handcraft these NPCs as well as the animations laughs [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] s but you know they spent the money on the playable characters because that's what Genji does it knows how to Market its characters but it fails I'm telling its story as a fan of the game I hope it gets better but if things continue to stay the same I suspect it never will [Music]

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Keywords: Genshin Impact, genshin impact gameplay, genshin discussion, genshin impact analysis, mihoyo, hoyoverse, genshin impact game, genshin impact graphics, genshin impact sumeru, genshin impact dendro, genshin impact limited event, genshin impact content, genshin impact event, genshin impact problems, Genshin Impact 3.1, Genshin Impact story, Genshin Impact characters

Id: C0oiTeO_JGw

Length: 36min 56sec (2216 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 18 2022