Genshin Impact

Been playing since yesterday and already hooked.

Can the mods edit the title to remove 'playstation 4'?

Kingp35 wrote: »

I'm interested in this but considering it's a free to play game, what content is locked if you don't spend money?

From what I've encountered so far (only at adventurer rank 6) it seems to be where the 'wishes' are concerned i.e. loot boxes to get the best characters and weapons. The currency needed to make a wish is limited and when I ran out it directed me to the playstation store. Haven't explored the other aspects of monetisation yet.

Dcully I know what you mean, it's really addictive. It's one of those games that is impossible to bookend in a night because every time you complete what you've promised will be your final objective you get distracted by something else. It also doesn’t help that it’s a game that constantly rewards you so everything is worth doing, at least at the point I’m at.

It's a bit too good to be true though that it's free to play so I'm waiting for the inevitable late game grind. Even the wishes where you can get extra characters is not a problem as you get plenty of the currency to convert into wishes in pretty much every activity you do, and to be honest I have about 6 characters that I am babysitting. Extra characters are only really good for sending out on expeditions for supplies.

I'm adventure rank 17. I’m at phase 1 with most of my characters except the one I got in a wish today. I’ve obtained the power of Geo but think I prefer anaemo so will stick with that for now.

Combat is a mixed bag. The way the different elements can combine to make stronger attacks is the best thing about it. There are the obvious combinations but you can also combine your tornado ultimate ability with fire which has a devastating effect. Also, sometimes I set an enemy on fire and then a mage will cast rain on him to cancel it out. At that point I just whip out an electro or ice character. They quickly cut that out.

However, the combat overall does need work, especially when facing off multiple enemies. It’s not responsive enough, a bit chaotic at times and the Amber/bow and arrow character has a lot of issues.

Other weakness is co-op - it’s very restrictive from what I’ve read. You can’t open other player’s chests, you can only join those whose world/rank are the same or lower and you can’t play with those outside Europe.


On a performance level it runs surprisingly well and I haven’t encountered any game breaking bugs. However, the quick menu is very irritating, sometimes it just doesn’t work or it selects the wrong thing. It’s much easier to just use the options button. They need to fix that. Looting also has a 1 second delay and in a game where you’re going to be picking up stuff a lot over hundreds of hours it can become tiresome. It’s still early days though so a lot of this could change.

I wish this had a platinum.