Eh idk, I play Genshin for the open-world exploration, which I find really enjoyable. Also love the landscapes and music. The combat is alright too, but the story is below mediocre, and the monetisation is predatory af.
Genshin Impact does storytelling really bad but I don’t know how to explain why. I’m not aversed to games with lengthy dialogue (I love the Persona games for example), but Genshin Impact feels like a slog to sit through 95% of the time.
Saaame, I love games with a ton of dialogue, hell one of my favourite games ever is Disco Elysium. And it’s not even that Genshin’s story is that bad, but it is told and localised very badly. It’s basically the trope of r/Im14andthisisdeep - an overall pretty shallow and meandering story (probably due to its gacha nature), often told using such an extremely dry and ornate language (probably due to direct translation from Chinese) with tons of characters and concepts thrown in in the attempt to pretend it’s something epic and profound, that the end result feels really disjointed. Also Paimon’s constant inane intrusions and hogging of the Traveler’s role is just actively bad storytelling.
Eh idk, I play Genshin for the open-world exploration, which I find really enjoyable. Also love the landscapes and music. The combat is alright too, but the story is below mediocre, and the monetisation is predatory af.
Genshin Impact does storytelling really bad but I don’t know how to explain why. I’m not aversed to games with lengthy dialogue (I love the Persona games for example), but Genshin Impact feels like a slog to sit through 95% of the time.
Saaame, I love games with a ton of dialogue, hell one of my favourite games ever is Disco Elysium. And it’s not even that Genshin’s story is that bad, but it is told and localised very badly. It’s basically the trope of r/Im14andthisisdeep - an overall pretty shallow and meandering story (probably due to its gacha nature), often told using such an extremely dry and ornate language (probably due to direct translation from Chinese) with tons of characters and concepts thrown in in the attempt to pretend it’s something epic and profound, that the end result feels really disjointed. Also Paimon’s constant inane intrusions and hogging of the Traveler’s role is just actively bad storytelling.