A Rant About Genshin Impact

[@Lina_729]

12:12 I actually spent like 40 minutes walking through whole damn Sumeru desert to unlock Fontaine only to realize there’s been a waypoint this whole time 💀💀

[@baki577]

I unlocked it on accident😂

[@simonaube8042]

ME TOO!

[@nonamemister2643]

L waypoint, good for conveniece, but skipped the whole 3 different special deserts

[@AuraLegend-up8tp]

I was one of the one in 1billion new players to notice the Fontain waypoint so I could use it, but I reallize now that Im Ar53 that nearly every new player doesnt know that, so now I hop into lower Ar worlds just to point it out and they usually thank me a lot cuz they actually had plans to walk there later.

[@rainbowpegasus8]

i unlocked almost every waypoint, just to find out that there was a teleport waypoint ;-;

[@fresh3670]

Keqing sure is doing all this just to obtain that legendary rex lapis figurine

[@srivatshav5263]

what game is it??? sorry i dont know

[@constellar6330]

​@@srivatshav5263im not sure but i think its sekiro?

[@savaohara]

​@@constellar6330it's indeed Sekiro

[@daisy198]

I think elden ring​@@srivatshav5263

[@ZEUSTHEGOD___]

@@daisy198 sekiro

[@EggiRoll]

I just want the traveler to feel like the actual main character and be fully voiced

[@pr0ntab]

There is a a lore reason for this choice. There's been this focus on the traveler as being a witness and Paimon as being their "voice". Of course there are practical reasons why this is the case; One set of voice lines for both genders Easier for the player to self insert cross-culturally Feeling closer to the gacha pull units through gameplay But I think they wanted the game to make those decisions have a narrative explanation in the game's world.

[@EggiRoll]

@@pr0ntab still don’t like it, just feels like a lazy excuse to not pay two separate VAs for the traveler to speak

[@LittleTurtle-o1m]

@@EggiRoll well it's a lazy excuse justified by lore reasons...

[@ligeiasiren4290]

It's literally the most common trope for RPGs like Zelda, and Final Fantasy, which Genshin is based off. You are supposed to be the travelled, it literally has your name. It's what this genre of game is: ROLE-PLAYING-GAME, you role play as the protagonist. You may not like it, but complaining about it, 4 years into the game, is like watching all Scream movies, and complaining that people kept dying. That's what the movies are about 💀.

[@Jade.051]

@@EggiRollIt would also probably increase the game size with all the dialogue there is

[@openmilhouse]

9:35 I agree with this sh*t, 46 hours for materials that are REQUIRED to ascend characters is just stupid. I literally have all the materials to ascend Jean to level 90, but she’s stuck at level 60 until the damn flowers respawn. At the very least shorten it to 24 hours PLEASE MIHOYO

[@MoonCheesy]

use co op bro

[@Kekekekenn]

Co op exists......

[@sedij2358]

​@@MoonCheesycounterpoint: they shouldn't have to

[@MoonCheesy]

@@sedij2358??? just use co op its makes it so much faster

[@openmilhouse]

@@sedij2358 agreed, that’s what I do, but I shouldn’t have to. The other issue is if the person I’m joining has already collected what I need, it’s not there. Same goes for the reverse, if I pick something up in another players world it’s gone for again… 46 HOURS. So if they need this mats also I’m just stealing other players progress

[@posypkachlebowa]

the argument that they SHOULDN'T add a skip button is so stupid...😭 people that want to read the lore and will be actually interested will read it and people that are not won't no matter if there's a button or not!!!!😓

[@pofficial3345]

Actually, even people who love the lore like myself probably won't bother reading LOL. Why would i make the effort to listen to so much useless yapping when i can watch a couple videos on youtube about the quests that explain much better ? It's so stupid !

[@posypkachlebowa]

@@pofficial3345 seriously! Like the lore isnt even interesting atp its so bad written with all this useless information that it genuinely cannot be enjoyable, but maybe im just nitpicking idk😓

[@pofficial3345]

@@posypkachlebowa no you're so right it's genuinly infuriating to me they ask the players to sit through hours of quests that aren't even relevant to ANYTHING. By this i mean it doesnt affect the archon quest and you don't know even see the actual characters in those quests so like ?????? If you want players to care at least put playable characters in them idk lmao

[@FreeSp17]

Your right, this days I just mute Genshin while doing quest and open up a video app on top of it so I can watch a more interesting video while I spam click on the side clicking any dialogue choices. Were forced to listen to a mechanical puppet, random npc, or even paimon yapping about a random thing that is not even relevant or we would not talk about ever again for many hours straight, its a never ending useless dialogues tortre.

[@petko6926]

⁠@@posypkachlebowa While I agree that the quests can be VERY long and not very entertaining, the game’s lore has only been getting more interesting and complex, and has been improving. But I do think they should work on quest dialogue and make it more minimal (maybe Natlan will be shorter yk)

[@charlizen.4863]

I really felt that point u made about Nilou/Ayato's story quests being longer than Dainsleif quests. I always felt that we never have enough time learning about main story lore and ACTUALLY seeing our sibling 😭

[@biggie395]

like i understand the 5 star characters are their main point of cash but cmon you cant have a silent protagonist but also a protagonist with a lot of lore. i think the travelers lore is wayyy more interesting than hearing random sh about ayato and nilou (no offense to them their still good characters)

[@Oleja2008]

​@@biggie395 "no offense to them their still good characters" - 𝐍 𝐨 👹

[@thewanderingartists]

They did Dain dirty

[@ashton_playz9341]

​@@biggie395 no they ain't, nilou is literally dog shit as a character 💀

[@Feyr4]

They're edging us frfr

[@amymarieyoung_]

i’m ar 45 and its so frustrating that sometimes hilichurls wont even drop a damaged mask. i think at that point you should be guaranteed a basic drop. makes farming so frustrating.

[@belliebeltran4657]

If that's already annoying, prepare mentally for when you farm nobushis one day. There's a difference between a chore and farming nobushi materials.

[@klmnts]

Although, this is more of an East Asian RPG style: make you frustrated enough that you just spend money instead.

[@VeliaOwO]

@@belliebeltran4657 farming Nobushi, Fungi and Specters is the worst thing in the whole game…

[@jittu_1462]

@@belliebeltran4657 They are getting a huge drop boost in 5.0 so we're chilling

[@castleofshadows]

You'd think fish drops would be easily farmable cuz the sea is huge But NOOO they don't drop and when they do it's the tiny one. I suffer in Neuvi, furina and navia haver, I'd rather farm for Raiden again

[@w7ndI]

really liked this kind of video, you’re normally just doing goofy challenge videos which we love, but its nice to hear your honest thoughts on the game. 100 percent agree with most the stuff you said, they need to fix the things that they have already done with other games like hsr and zzz, but also focus on making quests feel more interactive and/or relevant to the main topic so that people dont feel bored or discouraged to play. lot to unpack in this video, but still 100 percent based

[@gamerbeast3616]

Hes a cry baby

[@Oleja2008]

​@@gamerbeast3616The most based genshin player indeed, correct

[@MugWitch]

@@gamerbeast3616 If complaining about something automatically makes someone a cry baby, then you can count yourself as an official member of the cry baby club too! Welcome.

[@bataku_yt]

​@@gamerbeast3616 it's the first time he said atg bro wym

[@asdfasdf11835]

@@gamerbeast3616 agree 90% of this rant is just bad, bitching like women...jesus is this what men become?

[@scissoroo]

The cost for weekly bosses needs to be removed. It’s punishment enough that I can only fight them once a week, but it’s a kick to the gut when I also have to spend 60 resin for the rewards. And speaking of the rewards, I’m AR60 and yet I consistently get only 2 of the boss drops when they have 3, or sometimes will only get multiple of one. They should have it be where when your AR is high enough that you could get all three of the boss drops.

[@Lily-cd6gu]

According to leaks boss drops will be 3 sometimes 4 cause there'll be wl 9

[@plum6999]

Why are you doing all the weeklies? Just the first three each week should suffice well enough...

[@123leyang321]

@@Lily-cd6gu They're talking about the weekly bosses, not world bosses. WL9 isn't going to change that because the weekly bosses are all in domains. The only one that might change is Andrius (the wolf in Wolvendom) because he's the only weekly boss that spawns in the overworld.

[@123leyang321]

@@plum6999 Farming billets? Weeklies are the only way to farm them.

[@itsmikki44]

this! omg it took me forever to crown my lyney's talents because for the life of me, the damn boss wouldn't drop the material he needed and i also wasn't getting the crystal thing to convert weekly boss drop materials(i always forget what it's called...probably cuz i never get any of them 😒)

[@moonlmoon]

I agree so much on the story quests. I am a HUGE fan of Cyno, and in his first quest... well, it kinda was about him and his average work day, but more about his (NPC) senior and partner going rouge after he comes to find out his son died due to his neglect. I and other Cyno fans would have loved to see it be more about him, but it at least was about his views and his beliefs as a Matra. His second story quest on the other hand, is of one of many Sumeru character cameo's, a new introduced 4star, many, MANY retcons on Cyno's lore and previous lore on the Temple of Silence and Hermanubis, and it's barely about Cyno himself. He feels more like a spectator, than the SQ being about him personally. Its loredump and cameo's. Cause that is another growing trend. Hoyo introduces so many characters each region, that a lot of characters end in what fans lovingly call "the dungeon". So whenever a new SQ or event is introduced, Hoyo crams in as much cameo's as possible these days. Like, I often joke that if Ayato ever gets a 2nd SQ, it begins with a cameo from every character in Inazuma (yes, even the Shogun), telling them there is trouble on the way, only to meet Ayato in the last 2 minutes in which he tells you he already dealt with the problem behind the scenes. And the Itto breakdances in the end, idk 🙃

[@sugacatPudding]

i really REALLY wish they would do something about the coop experience.. like, does it work? yes. is it good? absolutely not. i love playing coop with my friend and especially going in lower AR players worlds to help them with bosses/domains etc, but its just so lacking?? the fact that you cant even claim your commission rewards while in coop, open statues of the 7, or that only the host can light elemental pillars says a lot. i know the coop is probably not something everyone cares about, but as someone who is ar60 with nothing to do because everything in my world is at 100%, i wish it would be more fun and optimized

[@itto_potato]

I helped another player do exploration a few days ago and at least three different mechanisms stopped working just cause we were in co-op. It literally breaks the game. They tried doing the exquisite chest challenge at the Mondstadt cathedral plaza and fell the first time. After that the light wouldn't appear again until I left their world. The co-op experience is quite miserable, which is a shame especially wneh hoyo is unable to add any significant end-game content for players who have done everything else.

[@roseyoung44]

My least favorite example of this was one of my first times doing coop. I had just gotten to Fontaine and decided that I would open my world up for randoms to join. I was in the middle of the Melusine Painter quest, the one with the incredibly laggy teleports. Someone joined up, and for some reason, the teleport completely broke for both of us. I attempted it and got stuck in a weird animation loop until either the other person left or the server kicked us. Coop is just non-functional

[@familyguysofunny1933]

I like playing games with friends. Genshin feels like they're actively trying to isolate you while trying to squeeze out every single penny and every single minute of your life

[@N3id1]

0:05 never thought i'd ever see keqing fighting isshin.

[@ThatDude808]

Same. But are we gonna talm about how craked she is?

[@N3id1]

@@ThatDude808 nah

[@Boujipa]

​@@N3id1 bro straight up refused😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dominickroberts4653]

'Hesitation is defeat'

[@The_chicken_123]

Cut to the chase! 🪦

[@xNico1412]

My biggest problem with the resources is actually those fucking Gemstones. As someone who very recently finally levelled up all their characters to 80+, the gemstone amount suddenly tripling for one ascension makes absolutely no sense. It genuinely forces you to grind bosses for the gemstones, not their materials which REALLY sucks

[@khankhomrad8855]

Preciselly. Gemstones are pure hell.

[@actnow5927]

Dust of Azoth from the Paimon shop helps a lot with this.

[@xNico1412]

@@actnow5927 It does, however trust me when I say it only delays the problem, not solving it.

[@pr0ntab]

If you always do the three weekly trounce domains (whether you need the materials they drop or not) the extra gemstones they give you which is significantly more per the resin cost, plus using dust of azoth, plus being consistent about daily commissions, allows you to keep pace and final ascend all your units. If you don't do this however it's nearly impossible without overfarming world bosses. It's uncanny how well-tuned this is.

[@plsnobulli]

as a day 1 player i never thought of this as a problem since i always have hundreds, even thousands, of spare gems. newer players do have it rough. 200 resin a day and you're forced to farm like 6 different things at once or else you won't be able to kill overworld enemies, not to mention artifact domain enemies are incredibly hard to kill as for newly ascended ar45 players (thank god coop exists. the only time i remember them giving out dust of azoth for free is when they first introduced it back in 1.3 i think? never understood why they don't give them out more often.

[@AvgLila.]

All these rants about Genshin is very agreeable. Also another rant from me as a player who started in 4.3: Obtaining primos Of course limited banners stay for 20 days to let us grind for the characters. But the lack of primos you get from story quests, world quests, normal quests, and exploring is very annoying. For me, it takes almost 1 hour to get at least 1 wish. And just doing that everyday wouldn't even be enough to get the character I want(if it's at low pity.) What I want is that they increase the primos we get for world quests us to at least 90-140 And for exploring at least get the common chests to 4 primos Exquisite chests to 12 Precious chests to 25 Lux chests to like 50 or 60 We should not be staying for hours just to get like 3 or 5 wishes from today.

[@wingusdingus7061]

I just completed the entire Summertime event that's currently still live and that entire thing gave me like 6 wishes total. Maybe a few more if I'm remembering wrong. Primogem farming is absolutely miserable, especially as someone that is strictly free to play because I do NOT want to financially support such a disgustingly racist company. Very important aspects of this game, such as the actual gacha system, and artifact farming are so very pay to play, and it's very disheartening to make the tiniest amount of progress per week but still have SO far to go to get your favorite character (let alone TEAM) on par with the rest of the in-game world.

[@AvgLila.]

@@wingusdingus7061 I agree with this. Genshin is just becoming more and more p2w than f2p (Well now it's their anniversary and we get like wishes and Natlan giving more.) But like, c'mon. Hoyo can do better than this. They're just too money hungry and don't know how to make characters resemble their skin colors that a region is supposed to be based on. I was so disappointed that most of the playable Natlan characters w their skin colors not based on the names given to them. Absolutely disgusting. I'll still play the game because I like lore, character designs, and exploration. But otherwise, I'm staying f2p. (Unless if I do actually wanna get something from Genshin, best thing to spend money on is Welkin. That's it.)

[@prince_nox]

I really wanted Ayato's story quest to be about the Shuumatsuban and him commanding them, have it be showing us the lengths Ayato will go to dirty his hands for the sake of his family, with his mysterious group of literal assassins that he uses to keep threats at bay, 'cus it's, you know...The ACTUALLY INTERESTING PART of his character building that every artist and writer latched onto in fan content?? but no, instead his character story isn't even about him, just some marital affairs between two people we don't care about and will never see again 😑

[@millie567]

Wasn't that interested in him to find out about the assassins, but I did imagine him torturing some people for information when it's needed. And also wrote a small part of him preparing to do so together with Kaeya(some Mondstadt people arrived for a celebration and the two "clicked"). But yeah, if his quest was more about his "darker dealings" as the head of the clan, it would have been much more interesting.

[@GutPoacher]

I don't own Ayato nor do I care about his character, but maybe this is why... I didn't know any of this shit until I read your comment. I thought he was just some boring mf who's constantly busy and has way too much paper work to fill out because he's the leader of a clan lol. I didn't know he was hardcore like this wtf? Hoyo makes some lazy ass story quests; now I feel compelled to research characters I don't like to see if there's more to them than what I was given

[@millie567]

@@GutPoacher You can start by reading the GI manga(manhua?). The Prologue is about the aristocracy period and Vennessa, and the rest of the chapters are about Collei arriving to Mondstadt and what happened after. Sites like Mangadex have more chapters than the official one.

[@shutupandeatpotatoes4180]

been playing genshin for years and up until now, the wolf boss in wolvendom doesn't even have a teleport waypoint, dvalin literally has two (the domain itself and a waypoint) i understand you fr

[@MintyChu]

i seriously relate to the frustration with hyv refusing to listen to global feedback and opinions, it feels extra miserable that they ask us to fill in surveys and tell us they value our feedback, but then ignore everything we ask for ;-; thank you for putting your thoughts out there despite that!

[@danf1025]

thats why ive just started writing/selecting random bullshit in there

[@Naruneyl]

I fill in the survey when it appears but I don't write feedback anymore. Why would they hear some latin america nobody? Is the localization team going to translate my rants? Nope. We don't even have a dedicated server, we're colateral and it's quite clear. It has been like this for pretty much the whole gaming industry for like, ever. Very frustrating.

[@cmmiestcat]

China gaming industry has never once cared about Global server. They only care about their own playerbase and their own playerbase alone can sustain the entire industry. Us Global is just their side quest. I'm so tired with them fake asking about our opinions. I'm convinced that our Surveys never actually went through to their HQ. Honestly, fck hoyo. (still gonna play HSR tho)

[@LittleTurtle-o1m]

I am sorry for you guys being fustrated about all these stuff... while Chinese and HK, TW(me), XM players are having a great time...

[@BRAY_L0N]

that's why i switched to wuthering waves, at least they listen and the game is good

[@islippedtheslime]

11:44 important to note that materials for characters like collei or cyno are a lot scarcer if you haven't completed the very lengthy world quests in sumeru.

[@Floqera]

is that a hajime pfp.

[@violet9530]

When I first started playing 2 years ago, my first limited was Yelan. I was only AR 30, and then I realized I had to do the Chasm quest to ascend her to level 50. Then when I was done with part 1 I had to do part 2. Then because there's world levels, I needed help to kill the ruin serpent. I finally ascended Yelan to 70 3 MONTHS after I got her.

[@vince77-z27]

​@@violet9530Yelan is a Liyue unit, imagine people pulling for Dainsleif lmao

[@bad3ip2k10]

@@vince77-z27 I can already imagine a new player pulling for Dain and have to go through 6 regions to farm for his materials. lmao.

[@alicedodobirb2808]

​@@violet9530I was stuck with a level 50-59 yoimia since the day I got her to now because of similar reasons.

[@BASILFOREVES]

19:09 i will forever believe Mondstadt is the best world, its simple, its fun, i was actually interested the entire story quest. And Venti's amazing, i hate how no one cares abt it bc ot was the "starter world" and was just used to practice bc its SO GOOD, its simple. But some of the most important stuff to Traveler’s story lore happens there, we need to talk about mondstadt more in my opinion

[@familyguysofunny1933]

It's the only world where I actively avoided teleporting and just explored every nook and cranny. It was fun seeing something cool in the distance, going to get it and seeing something in the distance again almost like following breadcrumbs. I thought Dvalin was the final boss. Too bad I realized Hoyoverse sucks massive balls. Having fun with WuWa now

[@ryokyko]

Thank you so much for voicing those opinions! And thank you for mentioning co-op, as it seem it's just an afterthought in a game labeled as multiplayer... Anyway, here's a short list of what longtime Genshin players have been asking for, if you are interested to read; - Standard *5-star character selector* after xxx amount of wishes, *retroactive* _(already implemented in Honkai Star Rail)_ - Option to *save a few artifacts sets and weapons per character* as loadout, especially for "main characters" Aether/Lumine, one for each element type+add option to change element anywhere in overworld _(already implemented in Honkai Impact 3)_ - *Advanced SOLO AND CO-OP permanent combat challenges (Endgame)* with customizable difficulty, buffs, de-buffs, time, HP, etc. But also *more casual challenges like HSR “Simulated Universe”* _(it was already done in events such as : Hypostatic Symphony 2021/01/16, Legend of the Vagabond Sword 2021/06/25, Labyrinth Warriors 10/21/21…)_ - *Resin overflow system* + resin capacity and condensed resin capacity increase - *Optional old events (DLC)* to be re-playable for *new players* and be able to experience *hidden/missed lore* and *mini-games* _(plus an option to read previous story dialogues)_ - A way for *new players to acquire old event character signature weapons* in a shop - *More options and quality of life updates for every type of players* such as; Teapot load limit increase, more in game character emote and pose for role-players, more options for content creators with UI and advanced audio/video settings(un-cap FPS), *skip the entire dialogue option for speedrunners* - *Togglable constellations* for content creators, testers or people who want to try challenges - Add *3 extra 10-pulls* (cost: 8 fates) to the *beginner's banner* and make the *50th pull a guaranteed standard 5-star* character. _(HSR already implemented this)_ - *Epitomized Path for 4-stars* and more characters/weapons in the Starglitter shop - Clear *buff indicators with cool-downs* in the UI(user interface) and *hp bar for shields* - *Retire the day locked domains for weapons and talents materials* - *Add controller support for Android devices* - *FIX DEHYA.* Then address the *bug reports* on characters like Eula, Mona, Xinyan etc - *More rewards* for the free to play, more than just *3 pulls for 3 years*

[@ryokyko]

Ah and I forgot - Favorite food/dish option and more inventory optimizations

[@desktony]

NAH THE 3 PULLS FOR 3 YEARS PISSED ME OFF SO BAD. "thank you for your time spent with the game for these long years" 3 wishes...take it or leave it..

[@Hezkun]

If you think they'll fix dehya after making someone as HORRIBLE as Sigewinne limited (who is MUCH worse), then idk what to tell you

[@moeshmoe8494]

Make passive talents toggleable. I’m tired of having all of my characters move unnaturally fast all because I want to use dehya or gaming or rosaria.

[@Bekha.]

22:20 it's scary how you described almost perfectly what happened to me with Albedo. I saw Albedo in his first Banner and fell in love with his character, tried my best to pull for him and even did the event to get his weapon (I gave up with it at some point and now the first weapon for him I have it at R3) I lost the 50/50 in his banner and waited for about and year or so until his first rerun. Got him to C4 and his weapon, everything for him. Even when I was in every event with him I felt so sad about the first weapon bcs I didn't even know how important it was to be able to make it to R5. I have it stuck at R3.

[@alicedodobirb2808]

When I got the weapon in was so sad bcs I thought I only had r4, while I was mistaken(thankfully) I can understand how you felt as I didnt notice for a while. It really sucks, especially since there are no real substitutes.

[@putent9623]

The difference between r3 and 5 isnt something to be upset about

[@qwertiyy]

I'm stuck at r3 cinnabar too but bc back then I was playing on mobile and it was so laggy I couldn't complete the event mini games lmao

[@guccilatae]

HERE WE GOO! I always get so excited when I see notifications from the Micheal Jordon of genshin impact!!!

[@ventiismybbg]

TWINNNNN

[@Mc_klee_donald]

HEY GET BACK TO WORK SOMEONE ORDERED THE ENTIRE M3NU

[@zandik500]

HELP WHAT IS HAPPENING 😭😭

[@jaytay223]

I’m fully convinced the gadget for Natlan is going to be crafting on the go but it’ll be locked behind reputation level 6 or whatever and then you’ll need a bunch of region materials to craft it and they’ll somehow make it so they disappear after each use

[@Hokaru11792]

You're probably going to be right and that makes me hate it even more lol

[@asdfasdf11835]

just teleport jesus fcking christ it only took you 5 second...how many craft you do each login???? 100 times???

[@arnabghosh4638]

How about you stop riding genshin's meat. It's a fair complaint since hsr has it. So there's no reason to not implement it. They are just being lazy and want to wait till another big gacha game drops and implement a "new" feature​@@asdfasdf11835

[@Nope-z2q]

@@asdfasdf11835 Asd, remember this is supposed to be a discussion, not an argument. I think the main issue about the crafting is more the monotonous nature of going back and forth and knowing that OTHER games like ZZZ and HSR have a crafting on the go option.

[@SkyeSoleil]

Nahhh they won’t make it disappear. You’ll just have to wait 7 days to use it again 🤗

[@BAPK1602]

My #1 complaint about Genshin Impact is how they treat the MC. The MC is a "plot witness" and not actually the main driver of the plot. You can insert literally anyone else in their position and the outcomes that come of it remain the same. The MC has done nothing of importance or specialty that is outside the ability of other characters in the same verse. And the only mention of anything remotely special is the one token comment every 17 patches of characters being like "yOu dOn'T hAvE a ViSiOn?!?!?!" And then proceed ignore that for the rest of the game lmao. Even in ARCHON QUESTS where the MC is supposed to be main character of, it's hijacked 100% of the time to showcase new characters and new events. Like the first time you meet your sibling with Dainsleif they just yap about Dainsleif then walk through a portal; completely ignoring you. Like ????? hello??? You actively get ignored by your sibling, then Dains runs through the portal RATHER THAN TAKING YOU WITH HIM & the next time you see him he starts yapping about Kaeya???? I would've drawn my sword like Bro??? Tell me where tf you went! Fuck Kaeya, wtf happened back there??? Like in Sumeru where Alhaitham blocks Cyno's attack and he's like "you're lucky he blocked it otherwise you would have died" like????? BROTHER I'VE FOUGHT LITERAL GODS AND ANCIENT DRAGONS CYNO. YOU AINT SHIT!! And I refuse to accept that someone who is capable of fighting at that level just somehow did not sense or notice Cyno like Alhaitham (A FUCKING SCRIBE) did and not you... like what??? The MC is only as good as the plot lets them be, and that's only as good as they want them to be so that the newest characters can use as a stepstool to showcase how much better THEY are; even during the MC's own questline...... Anyway, my two cents and it's something that ultimately made me drop the game.

[@PuddingQueen23]

@@BAPK1602 Not to mention there's so much more we don't know about them! They have hidden lore too but Hoyo refuses to expand it because "it's self insert", then why give them even hints to a backstory with lore to begin with? 🗿

[@diyanaperera23]

I'm so extraordinarily grateful that you're speaking on the skin color issues, as a south Asian i coped hard when i saw sumeru characters. I didn't even realized it was based on south Asia til i literally started connecting the dots from the game and character names.

[@babowasalwayshere]

This is kinda my issue with the representation of other cultures. When you make them all so pale like that, many people, especially those who don't know much about other cultures, don't even realize what culture these arcs are meant to be based on. Basically, how is Sumeru meant to be any different from Liyue or Inazuma? It wasn't until I was looking at interactive maps for Sumeru and saw people talking about the dish recipes you collect and how happy they were to see their food in the game but they wish it was more useful, that I even realized the place was based on anything at all (which could be more due to the fact I'm a dumb American but hey, I'm probably not the only person who hasn't ever went outside their country and doesn't get out of their home much). But when they for lack of better word, essentially neuter a culture this much, one has to wonder... did they even want us to know it was based on a real culture at all? Or were they hoping that people who aren't as learned would think they entirely came up with it on their own while people they *are* "representing" would be satisfied with the crumbs they got? But that's it from my tinfoil hat.

[@SourResistance]

Yeah it’s straight up a textbook example of white washing. Yet at least half of the player base couldn’t care less and instead call me racist for “black washing” Dehya or Alhaitham.

[@diyanaperera23]

@@babowasalwayshere no frr like absolutely. Its beyond disrespectful and just a demotivating move too imo. And Like I personally I don't cosplay BUT holy shit would I be so down to cosplay poc characters instead of cosplayinh white ones. Things like that just fucks it all up too

[@lostnemesis]

I'm going to use an example of my feelings on game development. And character design in representation in general, Guilty gear there is a character called Bridget. For 20 years Bridget was a boy character that was forced to live as a girl in order to even survive because of how the birth twins are treated in the land they grew up in. So quite literally a character that was forced to disguise themselves for their life, and as time has went on and Twitter exists. They saw a pretty boy with long hair and said trans and people like me who read up on the story and know the character went "this should be the opposite of what you want because this is a character that was forced to be this way. This is a character who literally had to hide himself in order to survive" and that back and forth continued for a while until the game company came out and said the character is trans. And then the arguments stopped and it was done. Because people like me can't argue with the game company literally saying "it's over we made the decision" And that's how I feel on this you are entitled to feel how you feel I feel that the Bridget decision was pandering and it contradicted 20 years of story but it is what they decided. We all can feel what we feel but it is their game they get to make it

[@babowasalwayshere]

@@lostnemesis My guy, what does being trans have to do with traits of a culture and the skin tones of people from that culture? Genuine question.

[@R3dsl0th]

The quest where the skip button is most needed imo is the aranara quest, because even though the end is really beautiful and you get a lot of rewards from it, I don’t feel like sitting through hours of listening to and helping aranara with their everyday tasks just to unlock certain parts of the map

[@josie8997]

Plus the beauty and impact of the ending is sort of ruined by the fact that the lead up was such a drag. At least that's how it was for me, by the end I just wanted it to be over and it didn't have any impact

[@Naruneyl]

Idk what's wrong about the aranara quest in general because they're cute but I wasn't able to like them at all. Was it the lack of expressions and animations? Was it their vocabulary? Was it the fact that the whole quest chain is basically set on places that look exactly like one another...? I didn't have this problem with the melusines, and I have high hopes for the dragon creatures in Natlan. But oof. I had more fun in Enkanomiya than with the aranaras.

[@josie8997]

@@Naruneyl I feel you on that. I think all those issues definitely contribute, but for me the biggest issue was, being dyslexic, I couldn't follow the story at all because ALL the words use the same five letters and look and sound the fucking same 😭 i swear i was worse than Paimon about remembering that shit

[@plsnobulli]

bloated dialogues coupled with fetch quests that don't give out clues on how to proceed. as a person with a job that already struggles keeping up with events, my already time limited ahh couldn't even be bothered to continue 💀 no matter how good the story is i won't be able to care about it if the execution is so unenjoyable.

[@luckylaniang5574]

I feel like I'm the only one that just, skipped the whole thing, just as I do with everything that's isn't voiced (mostly). Or maybe those people just don't comment which is most probably the case.

[@AwesomeDomi1]

*grabs popcorn*

[@ZeTrashEater]

Can we share? :3

[@SillyCar31]

Grabs my 🦆

[@SillyCar31]

Grabs poosay

[@Crebss]

*grabs a pipe bomb*

[@JaylessXCyno]

Grabs a 🐕

[@non-existent9501]

Ranting about Genshin has been my favorite Genshin content for the last year since I too am a frustrated veteran player who has the same issues as u do with the game. So this was a fun watch.

[@gamerbeast3616]

Game has No issies stop crying

[@non-existent9501]

@@gamerbeast3616Hoyo bot spotted.

[@plvto1]

​@@non-existent9501 more like a 10 year old

[@Kyugorn]

Same for me. I'm gonna be hard pressed to give Genshin any credit.

[@spacebanana712]

I sometimes feel like an outcast lol, I'm a day 1 player that didn't miss any day but most issues players have I genuinely dont care about.

[@certifiedsiren]

What personal annoys me the most is that there is no skip dialogue button 😐. Like I’m here to play a game not to read a damn book and like you said most times it’s about a irrelevant NPC … I also play on multiple accounts ( cause yeah no end game content) and I haven’t gone through most stories again cause it’s so painful to hear all that yapping AGAIN😭. ( I admire you for going through these stories so many times I could never ) But yeah we need a skip dialogue button ‼️

[@amandaslough125]

What's the point if playing a story based rpg if you're only going to skip the story?

[@WhiteFeatherr]

​​​@@amandaslough125 The thing is though, most dialogues in the game have an UNNECCESSARY amount of extra dialogue that doesn't move the story forward, just extra yapping. It's also a thing that you obviously wouldn't have to click on the skip button if you want to read/listen to all the dialogue! It should be a player's choice if they want to skip or not skip. In ZZZ when you choose to skip the game still gives you a summary of what the characters were discussing during the cutscene which I think is great

[@certifiedsiren]

@@amandaslough125 i think personally most of the later quests involve too much yapping( the early ones in Mondstadt , Liyue are lots of fun to play through) I’d say once you get to sumeru it just gets too much.( parts of inazuma too but it was more interesting there for me personally). Nonetheless playing through the same story multiple times is just boring 🙁. Most of my new accounts get stuck in sumeru cause the story just gets too long at this point. They should make a skip dialogue button or make their stories more interesting shorter and also not abt NPC 😭( like in mondstadt …). These are my main issues basically but I get where you’re coming from.

[@Johnnymeloveo]

​​@@amandaslough125if it was baldur's gate I would understand that argument, but genshin is far from a story driven game, and definitely not an Rpg. The game promotes itself as an action/open world but without action and an empty world, that is straight up a scam

[@kageyamakatsura5205]

​@@amandaslough125 It's a gacha, not a story based game. Story is secondary in gachas, and all gachas must have skip button. Grow up.

[@Anish_B]

To add to the 12:56 point about the world bosses, the same thing can already be done with trounce domains, so I do not see why just adding a quick shortcut in the handbook that teleports you there even if you dont have it unlocked will hurt. Like just limit it to a set area yk if they are concerned about someone exploring enkanomiya without doing the quest. If you leave a set area, tp them back to boss or something. I am sure Hoyo can find a solution to that

[@Anish_B]

Also at 13:58 if you are above ar58, you can get WL9 that gurantees 3 drops or even 4

[@freakincheezits9813]

they can add a barrier that blocks off the region till you actually get there through the story but still lets you tp freely to the boss arena

[@sera1143]

They actually did this with the PMA in Inazuma, as it is underground and locked behind a quest but its materials were needed for Ayaka and they knew everyone and their mother's toenail would pull her.

[@7lyssa]

huge point on world quests, enkanomiya is my favorite region and i LOVED speed running it when it first came out but the fact that it wasn’t voiced is just quite disappointing. a lot of players just down right skip it which is sad because the region is filled with so much lore and eerie-ness like no other region. i had to watch lore videos on youtube just to understand the story behind the region

[@azetka4029]

and then they had a fucking audacity to release a flaship event that took place in a special instance of enkanomiya, replacing the regular one, and that one WAS voiced. I believe they did that purely to asign a voice actor to Enjou, cos he later reappeared "in voice" during some special programme.

[@JoshtheOverlander]

Sad to say that I'm one of the people who doesn't like Enkanomiya. I dunno, something about it both bores me to tears and annoys the crap out of me. The lore is interesting and it is a very interesting location, but idk, I can't help feeling like every moment I spent in Enkanomiya is a waste of time overall

[@cassie2323]

this really isn't talked about enough, the enkanomiya world quests along with the tsurumi island quests, the various jeht quests, the narzissenkreuz quests, etc, have so much lore and importance but have zero voiced lines. not only would having them voiced make more people interested in the quests it would make the quests themselves seem as important as they are. world quests vary from taking a photo of an npc to travelling around an island of ghosts, it almost feels unfair.

[@7lyssa]

@@cassie2323 exactly this

[@JoshtheOverlander]

@@cassie2323 I'm so sad that Tsurumi Island questline didn't get voiced, that would've been great

[@lauraobrien8359]

The complaint abt story quests hits so close I have stopped doing them ever since sumeru came out for the exact same reasons u mentioned - idgaf abt random npcs yapping my ear off for 30 minutes abt absolute bs that doesnt matter in the long run. The story quests should be focused on the character.

[@MikoYotsuya292]

This. And don't forget about the dialogue "choices", where most of them don't matter. It just gives players the "illusion" of choice, but the outcome will always be the same. The only time where dialogue choices matter is when you're solving riddles in certain quests or events, and that's pretty much it.

[@aubreyholdinggun]

Genshin 🤝Korean Skincare Products "No-one is darker than pale tan."

[@Kyugorn]

Goodness. Cleverness like this is due more credit.

[@thewanderingartists]

Indians skincare products have joined the chat.

[@nintendo3030]

Fair & Lovely must go crazy in the Genshin universe fr

[@TheSuperBoyProject]

It's a fictional game based in china that's full of han chinese that have pale skin. I hope more companies follow in their footsteps. If africans and south americans want dark skinned characters they can make their own games.

[@yuuuaii]

​@@TheSuperBoyProjectliyue is based on china. sumeru is based on egypt and natlan is indigenous america which commonly has people with darker skin tone.

[@geboaebo]

This video is actually so damn eloquent like I'm actually surprised. You could make more content in this style and I'd watch all of it. Thank you the MJ of GI you're so funny and attractive

[@SlayrinaF]

I'm joining you in the move to go f2p, it doesn't feel like it's worth it anymore for all the reasons you mentioned. Natlan designs really solidified it for me 🙃

[@AlcatrazGoat]

I can't believe mistahfeet made 39 minute rant without mentioning how sh*t electro traveler is (good video tho, imma also mention how characters functions that should be at C0 are getting locked behind constelations more and more, especially for 4* ig, and "C1 baits")

[@biggie395]

every element traveler so far in general

[@sandara4187]

Lolll, unlike hsr that made hmc so op for a free unit, beside a not so good of pmc

[@Yozos]

God I hate constellations so much like it's locked and you have to spend too much primogem just to get at least one constellation for some random character you don't use I'm so sick of trying to pull for some random 4 star cons just so I could play them the "meta" way it's so frustrating to even get this character to c1 when they didn't appear in a banner since their last rerun and oh my god can starter characters such amber and kaeya appear in a banner I'm so tired of waiting for them in the paimon shop or wishing in the standard banner just to get them

[@ZanathKariashi]

yeah, it's really bad when Geo Traveler is a better overall character than electro AS A BATTERY. In terms of raw Battery, Electro is better (gives the same amount no matter how many enemies you're fighting) BUT their Cons are harder to get, they have severe energy issues themselves, they barely deal any damage, and their application isn't great. Geo Traveler on the other hand, can provide about the same energy (especially vs groups), their burst provides some nice group benefits, and can be quite hard hitting, and due to not really much else to focus on, you can just stack pure EM and have a surprisingly effective shielder with spammable shields that are about as strong as the average shielder's shields (and similar to Zhongli vs element) and Archiac Petra for some party support. Their skill is a little bit annoying to use but once you've got it down, it becomes 2nd nature after awhile (though I do wish they'd revamp Geo traveler and make the Tap-meteors explode instantly (or not even summon constructs at all unless Held) instead or allow us to blow them up with a Charge-attack similar to Keqing's stilleto).

[@Alekscheto_G]

IT'S THE MICHAEL JORDAN OF GENSHIN 🔥🔥🔥

[@SillyCar31]

It’s the poosay king 💅 MISTAHFEET

[@richardschilling-g8r]

MJ of GI

[@metallicarequiem2936]

if mistahfeet is the second best, who is Genshin's LeBron?

[@timmythecat529]

@@metallicarequiem2936bro is about to be flamed by so many people

[@Alekscheto_G]

@@timmythecat529 FRRR

[@ventigaming951]

Demon of hatred without taking damage! Bruh that’s crazy.

[@sidneysun5217]

one thing i wanna mention is that genshin, HSR, ZZZ are 3 separate teams that do not talk to each other. the devs mentioned that themselves. so just because there's a good system in HSR/ZZZ, doesn't mean HYV can just tell the genshin team to impliment the same thing. i mean they probably could, but idk probably not how they do thigns. and in case of the resin system, they simply chose not to fix what's not broken. i mean yes the resin system can be better but they're making tons of money so there's no incentive to change. same with the natlan controversy. recent poll of CN players showed the darker skin characters are the least liked among the natlan roster. so that really explains why HYV does what they does. like you said, money.

[@khankhomrad8855]

To add to that, Genshin is the older of the bunch, made in a time when the company was much, much smaller. I'm no software engineer but I'd imagine that the older the product the harder it gets to add new things to it without breaking something else (and Genshin has a stellar track record of not being broken by industry standards).

[@lanfae9353]

If you read the manga, Vanessa's whole tribe is from Natlan, and they ALL have brown skin. In the Trevail trailer, the Natlan representative has brown skin. Now suddenly, the only character with skin darker than a very light tan is the one that was in the Trevail trailer, and she's shown for literally half a second. It reeks of corporate meddling, and it's so sad. HYV saw that the CN fans didn't like/care about the brown-toned characters, so they gave Cyno no support, made Deyha bad, and made every character in Natlan as pale as possible except the only one we'd seen before the whole Sumeru controversy, and I bet they're gonna give her the smallest amount of screen time possible and might even demote her to being a 4 star just because they're so concerned with licking the boots of the CN fandom. It's so gross. The rest of us shouldn't be deprived of good character designs just because some loud fans in China (and honestly it's probably not even the majority of the fanbase, just the most vocal ones) are racist and colorist

[@CrispBaker]

Chinese culture is really really colorist in general; a lot of Asian cultures are. That ain't changing because some westerners want representation, Hoyo doesn't care at all about western players and never ever will

[@Spardasrebellion]

I'm a bit out of the loop on this, are there clear examples of CN being colorist/racist? In the same trailer that Iansan was first shown, I swear Cyno was white and they later gave him brown skin. Was there a fiasco over that in the CN fanbase?

[@Sarathewise158]

@@Spardasrebellion I realized in the middle of writing this that I might've misread your question but I already typed a bunch of stuff out oops LMAO. I don't know a lot about the CN fanbase but I've seen that there are complaints/protests from both CN and JP fanbases around Natlan, which is probably where there have apparently been some skintone changes. TL;DR for the stuff below: a lot of the darker skin characters we have are so light that they appear light skin depending on their environment, including Cyno, and if you need more evidence of Hoyo's racism/colorism issue, look at how they characterize desert folks. I think that's more an effect of Cyno's skin tone being so light that depending on the surrounding environment he barely looks dark skin at all, which is a whole other problem. Mistah gives several examples of racism/colorism in the video already. The thing that got me to basically quit Genshin (I only log on when there's character crumbs for someone I like) was Sumeru as a whole, but especially the treatment of desert folks. For example, there's very few dark skin people who aren't eremites, which is a problem because the game goes out of its way over and over to paint eremites as inherently bad (even in Fontaine, there's that one Melusine where we're forced to beat them up because Traveler immediately assumes they're evil). The desert folks are also made out to be stupid for believing in their god (King Deshret). In Jeht's first quest, the Traveler resorts to both side-isms when Tirizad constantly belittles her and her father and implies that they're too stupid to know anything about their own culture as he continues to slander Deshret.

[@Danny-mp8dq]

I really, really, really, really don't think it's a coincidence that they're the darkest skinned Genshin characters we're revealed early on Kaeya, Xinyan, Iansan, and Vennessa. Now they're nowhere to be seen. But oh, the ba😊d guys can coincidencely be allowed to have dark skin? Like how does that even work

[@CrispBaker]

@@Spardasrebellion It's not specifically a hoyo thing, it's been a thing for, like, centuries

[@euriditia]

Yay, I'm glad to hear your honest thoughts! Edit: you're not alone. The character story quests featuring NPC's is awful. And all your other points I agree with too. I'm pretty sure 99% of us players agree.

[@I.disagree]

I kinda like Xianyun's quest though, even if it's about 2 npcs

[@ishansharma2463]

Sorry bro I am completely fine with NPCs because most of the time it's still showcases the characters abilities to handle the situation or their responses. Dekhya, ayato, xianyun, nuev all have major characters that are NPCs yet they are amazing quests. I'm sure this is subjective but I feel like the story doesn't need to center around the character for that character to shine and show their capabilities

[@Supreme_Bargainer]

If the quest is good then it's good....

[@Oleja2008]

Quests recently are kinda getting rid more of npcs. Baizhu & Neuvillete use npcs as the tool to narrate their stories, Chiori just being cool af, Clorinde letting more light on Hunters' lore. Lyney's & Wrio's quests were shit lol but had the case of Baizhu. Dunno about Arlecchino, but I heard her quest bases on the animation-trailer story Arlecchino have gotten.

[@Supreme_Bargainer]

@@Oleja2008 not recently... it's since sumeru.... look at every character story quests except nilou....they are all character.... also who cares?? if the story is good then players are gonna love that....I just want good stories that's all... doesn't matter if the story is npc centered or character centered.... if the story is npc focused but has good writing then the story is already great for me..... but if the story is more character focused but the writing is absolute dogshit....then the story is already bad....

[@IshimurA99]

Genshin has so much to say that Mistah spends 39 minutes talking about it 🍿

[@srivatshav5263]

and we will sit and watch it all🤩

[@slyguy183]

All the yapping in Genshin finally got to him 🤣

[@asdfasdf11835]

Yapping nonsense for 39 minutes but REFUSE to stop playing dumbass challenge that burned out him. Because nobody will watch if he do other gacha game....lmao another hypocrite.

[@alport1331]

Burnout is getting in to him. To be honest, most of his problems are stemmed from playing the game repeatedly when under normal circumstance it should be a one-time experience. He mostly wants accessibility, some makes sense and some don't (in a sense that it is a free-to-play, story-focused, mobile game targeted to teenagers), rewards (but given that the game is stingy I've already accepted that) and some other things such us DEI which will very likely won't happen because it's a Chinese game.

[@ANUBISseyes2]

“For comparison some characters were already in Liyue at this point” 😂

[@94sconvs]

We love Chris just as MistahFeet, and I agree with everything. I can't spend money on games usually and I always feel left out because I feel like I'm missing out SO much content. Skins, characters, like having to choose wich one I like the most, because I can't afford both. I know they need money to keep the game alive and all of that, but it's up to a point that, after 2y or more, I go a week or more without playing and don't even feel it, when I felt sad without playing once a day before. I'm a little burnt out of this system, and I recommended the game for a person and they're loving it, but for how long? Idk man, the fact that the game HAS potential, but it doesn't matter smh.

[@wildrabbit2237]

My biggest issue (that you didn’t mention) is that Physical is basically a dead “element”. I was a Eula main all the way up to Sumeru’s release before I realized that they will never give Physical any kind of QoL, so I dipped

[@NotTergel]

Agreed with Natlan. And it’s not gonna change. The next region is Snezhnaya and that’s a cryo area. I bet on my Genshin account every Snezhnaya character is gonna be pale asf. Like i’m talking about literally white.

[@Somecreacher]

I believe Snezhnaya is based mostly on Russia, so yeah they will be white. I just wish there was more skin color variety for the non-white region though. People complain about Sumeru and Natlan, and rightfully so, but I wish there were more brown characters in Liyue and Inazuma too 😞 there is so much cool stuff about this game but seeing all these super pale characters all the time hurts. Not even the majority of white people are that pale.

[@pipaliveshere]

​@@Somecreacher so true!! people seem to forget that there are brown people in china and Japan too. and I mean not even like foreigners and stuff but like actual ethnically Japanese people. like bro wouldn't it be cool if for example kazuha, a wandering samurai who spends a lot of time at the sea, was tanned? or beidou? or zhongli(it really suits his color palette)?

[@Somecreacher]

@@pipaliveshere yes! esp Beidou cause she literally spends sm time outside. At least liyue has Xinyan but everyone in Inazuma is pale. Kazuha with brown skin would’ve been awesome. It would’ve complemented his white hair.

[@Danny-mp8dq]

It's just a "fictional" game, but I bet Hoyoverse would never have the balls to make a single Snezhnaya character black. Because God forbid one of their European inspired nations is anything but snow bunny heaven, but a dark skinned character in an African inspired region is literally too much to ask for I guess Which is weird because some of the enemy NPC's are black

[@pipaliveshere]

@@Danny-mp8dq FRRRR. and like. those dark skinned eremites are hot asf☠️☠️hyv is WEAK for not making more dark skinned characters because I know I would absolutely devour a design like those of eremite's. or olorun with locks. mualani with brown skin and glowing tattoos omg. like there's so much missed potential there. skintones add to the character designs so much. they make them distinct. there's another chinese game called dislyte and oml its character cast is GORGEOUS. too bad hyv is catering to Chinese colorist incels.

[@Ellie-or3fw]

As a 1.0 playee i agree with pretty much everything you said, and I think the main reason genshin is just stagnating is that hyv rarely wants to take any risks. Not in their character design, events, stories, endgame or anything. Its weird because they wont take any risks that might make things more interesting if it didnt cater to casual players, but at the same time refuse to add any qol that actually makes peoples lives easier 😕 Like one of my favorite events of all time was the 2nd summer event with fishcl and her entourage, it was one big beefy event but it was amazing and it had character development?! In my genshin impact? The characters actually got center stage and interacted with each other. And then i found out a lot of people actually disliked it because it was so long and there was so much to do, even if it was open for almost the whole patch so you had plenty of time to do everything and then some. And genshin never did anything like it again 😭 Every major event that i played after that could be finished in 3-4 hours, even less if you only want the primos and its just such a waste. Theyre all open for more than a amonth but you just finish it in a day. The worst example of this is the 3rd summer event, not only was it so short but it was actually painful how boring it wwa. They had like 5 characters and somehow it still centered around random npcs the whole time Yapped a whole lot here but i just needed to complain i will never get over gaa2. Genshin is always trying to cater to as many people as possible to the point that theres just nothing of substance left past the shiny new stuff

[@invisible-illness]

I’m a newer player (4.3 specifically) but I love what you are saying, I only came to the game late because I never had a device that could handle it 😂 but anyway I liked the game because I learned about Albedo and his backstory. And when I was finally able to play Genshin, I found out that I couldn’t do that one specific event for him. I was so disappointed. Like I understand why they did it and I kinda thank them because my storage is already crying 😭 I’m also mostly FTP other than the fact I got welkin the last 2 months. I’m also yapping but I really agree with what you were talking about

[@slyguy183]

Same but I loved Clorindes dnd story quest. Emilie I could not care less about just endless dialogue with more random npc that I won't remember

[@ying0878]

Actually 2.8 was one of the least popular summer events. If you exit your reddit/twitter echo chamber, not many people liked it for how long it was and how difficult it was to clear.

[@Ellie-or3fw]

@@ying0878 yeah like that's what I'm saying. at the time I wasn't even in the fandom bcs I just started playing again after a break, I only found out on Reddit/twt that ppl didn't like it 😭 I'm pointing out the fact that it was disliked just bcs it was long and there's a lot to do, regardless of how actually good it was. Insane thing cuz ppl also always complain about having nothing to do so it does show which audience hyv prioritizes

[@Ellie-or3fw]

@@invisible-illness ouch 😭😭 sucks cuz albedos events were a lot of fun. Ik there's a storage problem but I wonder if they rlly couldn't find a way around it, like maybe you could just download the events you want optionally

[@danir657]

for someone who plays daily since release, I just continue playing out of habit mostly, but I still look forward for main story.

[@Max.caulfield1]

Same

[@Pyrolite]

I've invested in the game too much so I'm just trying to see where the story goes tbh

[@riteshram74]

As an Indian I was so excited to see my culture and my nation's culture represented in the game but when I noticed that most of the sumeru characters were lighter than me, me being borderline white for an indian/ south (east)asian person, I saw an issue, because I am not the common skin tone here, it should be a wide range. Natlan brought an even bigger disappointment because i saw the colour palette of the skins and they were so obviously made for darker skins but it feels like some higher ups definitely made changes that affected the skin tone change (if there was one). I remember seeing a quote that said, "It's like the company said, we would love to represent your culture, show all the aspects and beauties of it, excluding you" and that hit hard, because these cultures have been pushed away and oppressed and called weird or ugly for what they do in the past but now doing that is basically claiming it was never theirs to begin with.... it's sad...

[@Pyrochilume]

As African I was hyped for Natlan but my excitement plummeted when I sqw the skin tones I felt so disrespected

[@vinzolaguer2943]

As a whale I never gonna pull dark skin character 😂😂😂

[@fantasy-91]

@@vinzolaguer2943Wow! Thank you SO much for your useless, colorist/racist input. Keep on wasting your money on pixels!

[@vinzolaguer2943]

@@fantasy-91 Oh you offended? 🤣 Yes I gonna spend my OWN money not yours 🖕🤣 Dark Skin is never gonna sell on China, S.K. and some part of South East Asia 🤣 sad but true Also Japan 🤣 you woke westerns think you are the biggest whales here huh🤣🤣

[@vinzolaguer2943]

@@fantasy-91 Yes its my money not yours🤣🤪 and also dark skin never gonna sell mark my words 🤣 its gonna be the biggest flop banner here🤣

[@redfrog1628]

Dude THANK YOU I hate how important materials are locked behind specific weekdays. Like the game isn't interesting enough gameplay wise, and story wise for me to come back every Monday to get materials for one or two characters. I agree that they should be open everyday. It would still take a good amount of time to collect all of the stuff to upgrade a character fully with the resin limit.

[@UndeadAlv]

Genshin has a lot of good ideas that get buried under layers of text. Realistically a lot of things wouldn't even be 1% as annoying without that much yapping. But like literally every nation has some amazing environmental puzzles and quests that are the peak of genshin in my opinion. To me unlocking Tsurumi or turning off the oven at Kannazuka was so fun and hard, going to that far af island in Mondstadt, doing archeology at Liyue to know the story of Rex Lapis and that being connected to his story, Sumeru's caves and Aranara was SO FUN to me, Fountain had so many quests too with such deep philosophical outlook. Like the exploration part and puzzles is what I mean I found fun. BUT THE TEXT, for Christ's sake. Try to actually read it, it's useless. I feel like each conversation repeats at least 3 times. Sometimes it feels like they're spelling it out in case you're dumb. It's like you begin the quest and it's introduced, you complete a section and they tell you THE SAME they told you at the beginning, and that you have to go elsewhere, you go there complete that section, AGAIN MORE TEXT SAYING THE SAME SHI, go there, AGAIN, and then AGAIN but now they add more info to head towards the conclusion, and in the conclusion they repeat again everything. Like damn, you know while I was doing the puzzles they could talk to me about that place and its culture and the people? You don't have to make me stand there looking at the 3D models while they talk about how a random NPC used to be friend of NPC_friend1. And specially I DON'T NEED A CINEMATIC FOR THAT, like add a damn object I can interact with (without stopping me on my tracks) and then make them explain what that means, really simple and would trim 40% of plattime I have no doubt. Because those annoying details amount to a distaste that makes the good things about the game be not so good or even be forgotten bc you're just thinking about clicking next for 5 minutes everytime you wanted to have fun (god forbid)

[@paicina]

ahh misterfeet the most amazing youtuber ever, to hear you say what you just said, is a clear reminder on why you are so amazing and open minded heheeh. but honestly i love your view points 10/10!!!

[@elliotangie381]

Just a couple of tips for any people who have a full on Christmas-wish-list instead of a quest journal: do the same thing as with daily tasks irl, plan how much you want and likely can do during a day/ a week ect. and do them at your own pace. It’s usually better when you start with something small, like a 20-primo quest. And while you do the longer ones, try to take breaks - maybe go farming, treasure hunting or just admire the view for a short period of time. It can be so less tiring, than it is, believe me I know. I am a person who doesn’t have anything other than daylies and event-quests in my journal now. It gets better

[@DamalsImZirkus]

I love how you're giving tips on how to make the quests more bearable like they were household chores lol. While I agree with your advice, isn't it kind of sad that we need to develop strategies in order to make the quests feel less daunting? We're talking about a game here, which should be a fun thing to engage with in your free time and not just another to do list. You literally said it was better not to have a bunch of quests anymore (to which I also agree) but it's ironic because usually that should mean that the game becomes more boring. Your comment just highlights very well just how bad and annoying the story quests in Genshin are, when they should really be the stuff that people look forward to every patch. 😅

[@HECHG2]

Y even bother playing when the game is demoted into a chore instead of having fun lol, better to pick up other games instead

[@elliotangie381]

The thing is…I enjoyed a lot of these quests. I needed these methods because I was scared of how many there were. It’s kind of like going outside, you just need to get your shit together and go, you’ll either enjoy it, or enjoy that you’ve done it. That being said, maybe you’re not a procrastinator, and just a lazy person. I understand) You’ll probably don’t need my advice

[@redfrog1628]

I've done this subconsciously, because I'm like THANK GOD the quest is done! So I go and fight a boss or do some ley line stuff to keep my mind stimulated a bit lol. So yeah, that's good advice I agree.

[@Nikkt1000]

As a dark skin woman myself it makes me so so happy that youre talking about the Natlan characters and the disappointment that came with them😭 i love genshin and ive played it the year it came out and im also suffering with burnout on my main and seeing the Natlan characters and trailers made me not even wanna touch the new region. It makes me sad that i havent really seen many other content creators talk about the issue so you cannot imagine the joy i felt when you brought it up!! I dont have much hope for changes either but im still begging that theyll at least acknowledge our frustrations🙏 i dont play any other hyvs game but i might as well at this point😭 love you sm mj of genshin🩷🩷 tysm for this video!💕

[@niicespiice]

genuine question, i'm white and it bothers me they've made the natlan characters pale (same goes for sumeru), is that weird for me to feel upset and not like the regions because of it? or is it kinda weird when it doesn't personally effect me (just asking for your personal opinion because i haven't had the chance to ask other people who actually are affected by racism)

[@erufinn4372]

Dropped the game around the end of sumeru only to see everything got even worse lol The "Wait for natlan and don't complain about skin colors 🤓" quickly changed to "why should there even be dark skinned characters? Those npcs are dark-skinned, see?"

[@stormix5755]

The fact that the characters look like they’re designed for dark skin tones and look better with them is a point I’m glad Mistah brought up. It’s baffling that they didn’t do it

[@Kyugorn]

It really is a missed opportunity. Someone on twitter gave Xilonen properly darker skin and she ended up hotter than her original look. Such a thing was also part of Dehya's charm.

[@emmDelilah]

​​@@niicespiice yes it is. Culture its not only skin color and it specially upsets Latin Americans because we really don't give a shit, most of us are either simping on Mavuika, fighting over which typical dish should make it and the alike. We also know that MANY people have very racist bias on our countries such as the color of our skin, therefore seeing white people complain about it its just annoying. You're right in asking and feeling its incorrect to get mad because guess what? There are a LOT of racist bias you're not even aware of and those are the ones that make you feel awkward when you compare your mental image of a culture with MiHoyo's character design. All these people are upset because MiHoyo it's not meeting their racist bias. I'm Latin American, I'm not considered tan in my country but I'm not white either.

[@eluxcraft138]

honestly, I feel the same, ever since fontaine or summery came out the quests have started to get boring, it’s usually less exploring and more reading dialogues and there’s not much to do in the end game

[@hehuho890]

it started in inazuma for me and left when nahida dropped

[@Its_wispy451]

i apologize advance for the yapping I'll be focusing on the character designs since thats what i have the most thoughts on. i found genshins defense of 'its fictional' in response to the controversy around both natlans and sumerus lack of skin tone diversity incredibly disappointing and downright pathetic. mainly because despite being a fictional world teyvat still takes a lot of things from real life cultures and countries ( i.e arcitecture, food, deities, names among other things) yet it fails to accurately represent a large part of the cultures its borrowing from, that being the people actually living those cultures. genshin brands itself as a game for a global audience yet it seems to cater only to its Asian playerbase because they make the most money. Another problem i have with the characters is how incredibly boring and unoriginal the playstyles of newer characters are every older character has one or two newer characters that do the exact same thing just with a different element or scaling one other reason the characters feel boring is because of the lack of diverse character models and face shapes, causing characters with the same body model to look like one another which is something known as 'same face syndrome' in short the game feels like a lazy cash cow rather than an actual game

[@hovsep56]

*keeps clicking* why does it take so long to skip your comment?

[@Its_wispy451]

@@hovsep56You could've just not said anything tbh

[@jiyu3027]

@@Its_wispy451 It's okay because you didn't yap, you cooked

[@PuddingQueen23]

I definitely agree with your points, but I wanted to add smth in regards to also the NPC in Genshin.The NPCs all look so similar to each other I can't exactly feel attachment to them because I literally met that copy not a while ago. I don't get it if in Star Rail Hoyo decided to design a unique NPC design in Siobhan who appeared in Penacony, what's stopping them to do in Genshin?

[@fenor1862]

1 - its not an obligation to represent different skin tone, its their game, they do whatever they want. There are plenty of gacha where you can find whatever you want. 2 - Admitting, its not ethical (wich i strongly disagree with). You are talking about a glorified casino made to grab as much cash as possible, why would they be ethical?

[@weird_mango42]

The unvoiced, but important dialogue is genuinely depressing. The lore is so rich and deep, and the charters are actually worth caring for - but it sucks that they aren't voice, causing most players to miss out. I understand it takes a lot of data, but maybe there should be an option, so players can choose. Heck, we already got cutscenes in world quests, why not something more interesting!

[@weird_mango42]

*characters

[@daksheeshsahu1196]

i feel like the money to voice all the dialogue would be a pretty big issue right or am i just overestimating the cost of it?

[@quest-nranting7291]

@@daksheeshsahu1196 i feel like it's about not having enough time, early quest on the beginning of the game are all voiced even the non important one. they have so many times when doing that and not a 6 weeks cycle like the later stuff.

[@weird_mango42]

@@daksheeshsahu1196 Hoyo is a very rich company, so it wouldn't be that much of a loss if they chose to voice some of the important world quests (not all).

[@daksheeshsahu1196]

@@weird_mango42 yeah that could actually work Also for the data solution they actually already have that exact system you suggested in honkai 3rd

[@apple2554]

As a huge Ayato fan, I was really disappointed when it was all about the NPCs. At the end of the day, the quests are used to get insight into the characters, their personalities and backstories, and hoyo rlly failed at that. I honestly wouldn’t know anything about Ayato if it weren’t for getting his character (which can only happen once a year) which can really make people miss out on a deep character such as his, esp since he isn’t in the archon quest at all. It is really sad. I really hope this doesn’t happen for characters in the future who I might miss out on because I don’t know their lore because Hoyoverse doesn’t showcase them properly.

[@triplecatnip7413]

They do much better in HSR which has almost no npcs in character quests. When NPCs are there, they're utilized much better than in Genshin. We spend 90% of Yukong's character quest with an NPC and we get to see Yukong herself only several times. However the NPC is her daughter and the quest explores their relationship and Yukong's past. It's considered one of the best character quests in the game. Genshin did a similar thing with Venti's character quest and it's also a fan favorite. Genshin can do better. But most npc-centric character quests are shit

[@ThebestNiloumain]

I will say the story quests are supposed to show you how the characters are in their current way of life- and that’s what Ayato’s story quest did. It showed us how he does work, it showed us how he pulls the strings behind the scenes and deals with the problems of being the Yashiro Commissioner. Take it this way- you know Ayato’s character well, yes? Would it be in-character for him to sit the Traveler and Paimon down and tell them all about his backstory? Or even little snippets of it? He doesn’t just tell people his backstory, much less people he just met. Why would he? It wouldn’t make sense for Ayato to tell the Traveler and Paimon anything about his past. I understand why you’d want to get a glimpse of the character’s past through their story quest but for a lot of characters that wouldn’t be in-character much at all.

[@triplecatnip7413]

@@ThebestNiloumain Just because it makes perfect sense for the character doesn't mean it's good or interesting. They chose to showcase his character in the most boring way possible. They could've made the plot more exciting, have personal stakes or even be funny. Ayato might not share his backstory, but Ayaka or Thoma might.

[@ThebestNiloumain]

@@triplecatnip7413That’s true.

[@yoshsha9694]

39:24

[@Cyperpunk-h3m]

I LOVE YOU MISTAHF YOURE MY FAVORITE GENSHIN CONTENT MAKER

[@arson._.committer]

I was farming artifacts while listening to this and I would honestly like to address that the power up artifacts aren't enough. I finish the domain run, I go to strongbox, I get a rlly good artifact, I wanna power it. I spent 9 condensed resin in the domain, and the 1 five star artifact can only be powered up to level 19. Literally all my other artifacts I wanted to power up can only sit there and collect dust. Even the thrill of defeating enemies in the domain was more entertaining than powering the artifact cuz the domain doesn't give enough artifacts to help us power artifacts. I know there's those ' enchantment bottles " and u can search up an artifact farming tutorial to farm up one or two star artifacts to power up ur five star artifacts but this basically shows to Hoyo that we don't have enough so we have to farm artifacts in the outside world. I am a casual F2P player so I would probably use only 5 condensed resin thrice a week ( bc weekly boss farming ) and yet if I don't have enough then it just makes building characters boring. Just wanted to address this problem lol

[@TabithaIngram]

Some potentially interesting elemental reactions: Anemo + Electro : Thunderstruck Dendro + Cryo : Withered Anemo + Geo : Shattered Anemo + Cryo : Frostbitten/frostbite Geo + Dendro : Entangled Potential future reactions: Light/Dark + Anemo : Blinded

[@ageofdragonz3684]

Regarding the skip button, I am not too informed regarding it but I read on a Reddit post that it might be because most of Genshin's cutscenes are actually executed in the normal world mode rather than hsving a seperate cutscene mode (hence why you can get hit by lightning, get disturbed by Co-op etc.). This makes it very difficult to add a skip cutscene button (ig?) and they are in too deep to change all of it. Again, I am not aware how on point this is, just sharing my two pennies.

[@asjgamz]

They added a skip button on hangout quests, maybe they add it to other quests soon (copium lol)...

[@pr0ntab]

​@asjgamz it isn't really a skip button, it just lets you reset the progress back to a previous quest state. I'll add that there's nothing technically preventing them from skipping to the end of a cutscene, they don't allow you to do it to make it prohibitively expensive to multi account.

[@Jade.051]

@@pr0ntabNo, there is actually a skip button, they added it

[@panzerburgerwafflemaker]

The make a couple of million a month. They have the resources to make a skip button happen , they have the time and money for it , if they wanted to they could , they just dont for god knows why

[@HourajiBallare]

Well, game like rdr2 and gta 5 have real-time cutscenes too where you still can get attacked by npcs, yet you still can skip all of them. Simply just reload the world or adding loading screen when you press the skip button. It's so easy even 2015 games have this simple feature. It's just hoyo being lazy af.

[@lascissorsloid]

10:56 No because the Mika thing is so real?? Why do only two characters use the Cryo Hypostasis (one of them being Aloy which can be a character that a lot of people will never get) and he doesn't? Wouldn't it have been the perfect boss for him?? It drives me nuts when the boss drops don't match the character.

[@Pikatwig16]

Another example, Shinobu and Heizou both use drops from the boss in The Chasm. Shinobu I can sort of get since they say she studied in Liyue, but Heizou really has no excuse.

[@lascissorsloid]

@@Pikatwig16 bruh or Navia that uses Coppelia's drops and not the Geo boss from Fontaine?? I get that they're trying to make us spend MORE resin by splitting boss drops and crystals but it's just so unappealing

[@harkonar4093]

as an Eula main during her time of release I will always find the cryo hypostasis funny as one of the first examples of how egregious the boss ascension mat spread is

[@c_h_a_r_m_e_r]

22:30 this was me, i was so devastated when i found out his best weapon was locked behind an event that wouldn't be brought back. there are a lot of things i can forgive but the events that are never coming back are NOT one of them. i pretty much agree with everything you said, i just really hope they listen to us for once and add things players have been asking for for YEARS. just a month ago i had a HUGE Genshin burnout. i started playing somewhere in March of 2022 and have been playing it constantly until January of this year. Everything just felt overused and i felt bored. i even thought of deleting the game since i was basically forcing myself to join just to spend resin at times, the only reason I'm back and excited to play is Natlan. Same happened with Fontaine so i really wish for more things that can make the game worth joining if that makes sense. Events are very short recently too so they barely count as "something to do".

[@peachy_juice]

dam they mustve watched your live before the 5.0 livestream

[@mentlegen3887]

this video is PURE catharsis . Im happy that someone else that loves the game like i do is ready to be critical of it despite the "THEY NEED TO MAKE MONEY SOMEHOW" i hear sometimes

[@Indian_gae_boii]

the best way i can put this is, genshin is a 4 year old game, and it SHOWS

[@mistahfeet]

Which is crazy for a live service game

[@SorarikoMotone]

@@mistahfeet nah, 4-5 years is pretty standard, at least with gachas (hell, for some of them, its surprising how SHORTLY some of them live, not how long, especially if they come from popular IP). now, 9-10+ years - thats where it becomes crazy because how in the hell you have enough content for THAT. the answer is, obviously, drip-feeding the content and spread it as thinly as possible while practically robbing your players, meta-wise. which actually makes me appreciate genshin even more, because there is something to bite into still besides saving for gacha.

[@gamerbeast3616]

Does not show

[@pyronado4320]

​@@gamerbeast3616 it does just go through character menus of zzz HSR or wuwa and character feel way more alive. Even during dialogue in genshin it's the same 5 animations repeated over

[@Indian_gae_boii]

@@pyronado4320 I'm not sure what you mean by charector menus, if you're talking about UI and idle animations i thin they are fine, now the charector movements during dialogue definitely feel stif

[@romromk3995]

MISTAHFEET YAPPING ABOUT EVERYTHING I HAVE CONCERNS FOR!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@powwowken2760]

Personally, I find that Genshin has become a bit tedious recently. All the dialogue in Fontaine seems to take to a paragraph or more to say what could be said in a single sentence, the new characters vary wildly in quality, new Artifacts and weapons are so incredibly niche and restrictive that they're 100% worthless unless you own the one single character they're designed for, new areas are added just for the sake of bloat rather than actually having a purpose.... I don't hate the game, but its problems are becoming more and more glaring as competitors and other Hoyo games come out and just do what Genshin does but better.

[@kari2541]

its really upsetting how in hsr they give you a chance to do time limited events after they end and in genshin you just cant, like for instance new players wouldn’t even know about albedo story just because they started to play after this event ended, thats stupid

[@pofficial3345]

This is so real...I genuinly cannot believe the event with Albedo lore and the reveal he has a TWIN is not available anymore !!!!!! That version was literally sooo loved by everyone and like many other limited events, really helped develop the characters and lore ! I don't even care about the rewards i just want the quest to be here again !

[@Anti_Hero]

Fellow AR 60 here. - Stopped playing as much during sumeru 2nd half - Came back to try and pull for Clorinde ( 30 pulls away from guaranteed pity ) - Thought of doing some quests for primos - too much yapping and no skipping - Thought of doing some adventuring to collect primos from a year+ worth of content - awful traversal too boring, its not lockdown anymore, we don't have that much free time against the same FOMO - Ended up not being able to get her even though I was so close - Stopped. Will probably return once they make changes to the game we continuously asked for years ago. Ngl it hurt when we saw some of those requested changes in HSR first. I don't think our voice matters, afterall we are not china.

[@Riynxie_]

11:27 NOT MY FAV CHARACTER ROTTING AT LVL 40 CUZ OF THE PAIMON BORDER- i cant even use him in my own world 😭😭

[@pannajohns5255]

Agreed with Natlan. A lot of people who are disagreeing say ‘Well white people exist in Latin America they’re not exclusively POC’ like okay cool! But a large population of Latin America is POC! Why is it so hard to make a POC character? To this day, the only playable character who has the darkest skin tone is ironically, Kaeya, one of the first characters we get introduced to when you play Genshin for the first time. His skin tone has a deeper complexion than Cyno and Dehya ffs!! These two spend A LOT of their time outside in the desert, especially Dehya, so even if they have a naturally lighter skin tone, they should at least be tanned most of the time.

[@sunburnt.hyacinths]

the whole "not everyone in latin america is poc" argument is so braindead because if you follow that logic, not everyone in latin america is white either??

[@emmDelilah]

poc it's a therm exclusive for USA citizens that aren't white so.... yeah...

[@soulfi7734]

xinyan exists too, but yeah, point still stands

[@Oleja2008]

Kaeya having such dark skin is probably because he's sinful enough to be born in Khaenri'ah or shit lmao

[@lotharschramm5000]

I personally think it's very refreshing not to see forced "poc" in every corner like in most american media. If "poc" want representation they can create their own games and make their characters "poc". But I'm pretty sure you're a privileged white american anyway. You may be self-hating like most white americans but don't force your self-hate upon the rest of the world ty.

[@jeel6576]

I don't rly comment but all the points you've spoken about are so well thought out especially the part in which you discuss the culture and skin color aspect of genshin. I rly like u mistahfeet continue to make amazing content because I think you're one of the best and more insightful/introspective genshin ccs

[@liquessernin]

i love how you talked about your thoguhts in such a clear yet and it still coming out in the nicest way possible, it made me enjoy the video even more

[@A_Ataman_N]

Speaking of Abyss, just let us skip floors and 9-10/11 and grab rewards.

[@Nakul22099]

Just finished jhett story and the lack of voice really sucks the soul of what would be an amazing story

[@justinbailey1669]

I agree with all of your points Mistahfeet. You really are so funny and attractive. Warning- Wall of text essay rant incoming. But I have many gripes I need to get off my chest as well: I love Genshin Impact so much. I've been playing since 2.8, I'm AR60, I've spent literally thousands of dollars in this game because of how much the story and characters have touched my heart over the years. I even used an entire week of PTO at my job when 4.0 dropped because I was so excited for Fontaine that I knew I wouldn't be able to focus at work. But I haven't logged into the game in at least 2 weeks, and this is the first time I've ever done that. I even picked up Honkai Impact 3rd to fill the gap. I don't care about the Part 2 story too much but I even chose to play it over Genshin anyway which really says something. I truly believed Fontaine was Genshin at its all-time peak. Sure the Archon quest was dialog heavy, but I thought that dialog was dark, suspenseful, mysterious, and interesting with very high stakes. It seemed like Genshin was going in a more mature direction, like the story was really starting to ramp up with intensity now that we are over halfway through our journey in Teyvat. At the end of the AQ, Neuvillette warns us that we need to prepare before we get to Natlan because we will be faced with incredible challenges and raging war. I imagined a Death Mountain scenario, Mare Javari sea of ashes type shit. The trailer dropped, and what did we get? Pokemon. Fucking Pokemon. With some of the most uninspired, out-of-place, awkward character designs I've EVER seen this game produce. I've always thought one of the best parts about Genshin was how good the character designs were, how they pulled from different real-life cultures for inspiration to really give a nation's cast of characters a unique, cohesive look. But if you were shown any of the Natlan characters out of context and weren't told they were from Natlan, would you have any idea where they were from at all? There is zero cohesion or clear cultural inspiration behind their designs. It felt completely uninspired, "we're out of ideas" type deal, but also like they were specifically catering more to a much younger audience. Natlan has notoriously been the most mysterious nation in the entire game. For years we have not met a SINGLE NPC, we've gotten lines of dialog about it that you can count on one hand, we only knew it is "The Nation of Fire", "inhabited by dragons", ruled by the "God of War". Holy crap. After all these years the trailer FINALLY drops and... wow. First, the Pyro Archon: her design is cool I guess, but looks more like something out of Gurren Lagann than a nation supposedly inspired by meso-american cultures etc. We see some of the other characters, who also look completely uninspired and out of place, entirely uninterested about the annual tournament that is about to take place. We also finally get a glimpse of Capitano, literally the strongest and most foreboding Fatui Harbinger, only to get a "hmph". What?!? Compare all of this to Fontaine's "Final Feast" trailer-- we got to see all the characters, the different landscapes, hear the amazing music, be given mysterious little crumbs about the prophecy and the previous Hydro archon, got to see Arlecchino and hear her speak in a way that hinted at her role in the story and her character. I watched that trailer probably a hundred times trying to fully dissect every little detail because it was truly so good. But the Natlan trailer was a flop in every single way. My investment in Genshin is at an all-time low. In addition to all of the quality of life flops mentioned in this video, Natlan (or at least how it is being marketed) has really left a sour taste in my mouth. I have notoriously whaled in this game but I am also going F2P. I will play through the Natlan Archon Quest and do some exploration because those are my favorite parts of the game, and I still have hope that I will find enjoyment in doing so. But there is also a huge part of me that is prepared for a total letdown.

[@sedij2358]

I'm in a pretty similar situation to be honest

[@pofficial3345]

I completely agree. Tho i think it was obvious the game would take this turn when you look at their inspirations. Fontaine is mostly France, but also spanish, portuguese and Italian. Inazuma is japanese. Liyue is Chinese, Mondstadt germany, and snezhnaya russian...But sumeru ? It's south asia to middle east to north africa, and the same mix is applied to Natlan. It's like they thought those countries had so little differences they mixed them all together, next to nations that are inspired by a single country. It's like they're not rich enough to make a different nation for each of them, which is so, so disrespectful. Like mistahfeet said i'm not surprised, but i'm also not disappointed because i never expected anything at all. I think the only high next point of the game is gonna be Snezhanaya since it's Russian ("european" country with only white people).

[@familyguysofunny1933]

Finally, someone who thinks Natlan reveal was trash. I was so invested in Fontaine. Felt like a depressed nation trying so hard to be cheerful. Death around every corner and a prophecy that seems inevitable every second. I thought Genshin finally grew up. I really thought Fontaine couldn't be topped. Then, I heard Neuvillette talk about Natlan. The land of fire, war and dragons. Every other nation had slight mentions. But Natlan had nothing. I was so hyped to see a dangerous nation filled with lava, warfields and a hardened Archon. They did robot dragons so I thought this would be even bigger. But no. Cute animals and a biker chick. The characters are happy go lucky playful people sleeping peacefully on trees. That was my cue to just quit. It just looks like Sumeru 2.0 WuWa is sort of giving what I wanted. Better gameplay, quality of life features and a bleak world.

[@justinbailey1669]

@familyguysofunny1933 Well said, friend. I wonder if the reveal wouldn't have been so disappointing had we been given more information throughout the game so far. Before Fontaine, we knew it was a technologically advanced nation based on France with a steam punk aesthetic, an energy crisis, a complex legal system with theatrical trials that an eccentric Archon had the final say in, and that's exactly what we got!

[@pofficial3345]

@@justinbailey1669 RIGHT and also like. I feel like genshin is ruining itself with it's rating. They literally pulled a pastel happy pokemon nation that should be associated with WAR. I bet they're gonna make all the gory details be npc dialogue in world quests and we'll only see one drop of blood in the archon quest

[@Babazerker]

My friend who doesn't even play gacha games had told me that he thinks that gacha games have a shelf life of 3 years max, anything after that is just bad or extremely boring. I can't even explain how much I agree with him.

[@levidaxion5218]

After three years, Powercreep really starts to set in and scummy practices start to come out in most cases.

[@hehuho890]

i do hope blue archive still thrive... it's their 3rd anniversary in JP but yeah... least it had a good run with those times... hope genshin's stagnation will show alongside their other games... i despise hoyoverse and their biased practices... tech otakus saved the world? they became monsters

[@Viion]

The only gacha game still running after a long time is Hi3 after 8 years and still running better than ever (I will sing praises to this game to my grave and still not have scratched the surface)

[@hehuho890]

@@Viion i didn't know HI3rd is that long, but yeah... least it's better managed now... if only that one guy should be kicked off on teyvat... foundation restored...

[@plum6999]

Yeah that's why 60million players are actively playing it, no?

[@ArtanBlacknight]

I agree with pretty much everything you said, (except the idea of Coop Abyss as it will inevitably lead to more toxicity). But what is most dissapointing is that a lot of changes we asked are already present in other Hoyoverse games. And not just ZZZ(I quit after 2 hours so I cant talk much about it) or HSR but even in Honkai Impact and it had theses features before the release of Genshin. They have a skip button despite having the best story of all the other Hoyo, they have artefact loadouts despite needing it the least because of how rigid and streamlined gearing is that save a few exceptions there is no reason to swap gear. They even have skins you can get with Gacha currency (34 pulls) and they are not cheap recolors but actual 5* skin with updated animations even better than paid skins. But Genshin will never change. We got some QoL updates because of WuWa but there will never be anything substential. Cant wait for Arknights Endfield to release so we can have QoL that should have been implemented years ago.

[@FriendOfHatkid]

About the boss materials ammount is so true. Bruh. To max ascend a character, you will need to do anywhere from 16 to FRICKING 23 BOSS RUNS. And 16 is only if you get lucky with 15 out of 16 rolls to get 3 on them all. And you can maximum get 5 runs in a day, but here is the kicker: you won't, unless if you always minmax the time between resin refresh, cuz it is 8 minutes per resin and not 6. Bruh. At least make it 4. Like, if you could get 3-4, then it is about 12-16, which is much better.

[@TheHikariOne]

I knew the Natlan thing regarding lack of diversity was going to be much worse if they did it the same way they did in Sumeru. I had no idea it would get as bad as it has, however; even the VAs from the regions Natlan took inspiration from have come out to directly condemn it. The entire discourse around it has brought out the very worst in both sides of the fanbase, EN and CN. Personally, it's left me very conflicted. I'm black (and the only one of that race amongst those I know who play any gacha), and while I found it amusing to hear African style music and see African influence in Natlan, to have the majority of NPCs and the entire player lineup appear to be Caucasian on the surface (which would be fine for the sake of fiction if they didn’t have ethnic, mesoamerican or polynesian names)...it sort of just rubbed me the wrong way. Those I know have tried to say things along the lines of I should look beyond skin color and wait until Natlan drops, but with what we know about colorism and Chinese beauty standards, you’ll have to forgive me if I don't think anything will change on that front. I like the game; mained it for the last two or so years. The whole Natlan fiasco is the first time I've actually paused and genuinely had to reevaluate my stance on it.

[@XASPrime]

Aye I'm right there with you 🙋🏽‍♂️ except it's only my 5th month out here lol. Like I genuinely still like the game but this whole situation, coupled with the recent SAG strike, got me feeling really awkward about it. Like it's a little upsetting but not upsetting enough for me to go on an online activist tirade. But still, I empathize with those who feel miffed by this.

[@lakshaykochhar6799]

Don't get me wrong, I also hate this twitter brain-rotted discussion from both sides of political alse, but seriously, you draw line on NAMES of all things?????? You do know that Genshin despite sharing a lot of names from real-world does not take place in the real-world, right?? You literally mentioned it in you comment during "African influence in Natlen" part? It's like complaining about Paimon not being a male demon from Ars Goetia, despite having the same name. I am sorry, this whole thing is the most minuscule sh*t to complain about.

[@imbtt39]

@@lakshaykochhar6799 ye its not like theyre doing the same as Ubisoft with Assassin's Creed using an actual name of the place like Japan for example.

[@SageRuffin]

Agreed. You only get one chance to make a good first impression. I'm also black, and while I wasn't expecting much from Natlan, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed. My sentiments pretty much echo yours with the added caveat of it remaining to be seen if HoYo pulls another Sumeru and all the dark-skinned characters are tucked away in other areas of the region (hopefully with less... unfortunate implications), but I'm not holding my breath. If nothing else, please, PLEASE let Iansan be an okay unit...!

[@VeliaOwO]

I’m a white person and I’m also so disappointed about the whole situation. I’ve watched many videos about the problem with the Natlan characters and also wrote a lot of comments about it, but each time so many people responded with „You are white, you aren’t allowed to complain about it and all the black people are happy anyways so shut up!“ which obviously isn’t true. Everyone should speak up against racism, no matter the skincolour!

[@starstruck-11]

honestly props to you for speaking up about the design situation, its frustrating when most content creators are silent or call it twitter drama so seeing someone with a large audience talking about it is rlly nice

[@spacebanana712]

Literally everyone is talking about it, either on video or on stream.

[@KuukiSh1]

*cough* itspaikon *cough* But seriously, no shade to him, his comments section was full of people being lowkey ignorant and I felt like I was crazy for caring as much as I do 😭

[@starstruck-11]

@@spacebanana712 ive seen more people dismissing it as just drama but its nice to see that more people have been raising their voices about it !

[@rozee8516]

“Most content creators are silent” bro you living under a rock?😭😭😭😭

[@diputsnoob3815]

@@starstruck-11 There are WAY MORE content creators and even official VOICE ACTOR calls out hoyo about skins situation to the point of "boycott" which failed miserably.

[@aubreyholdinggun]

32:03 This makes me feel like they may have been lightened up before final design was submitted- because... a lot of the "blackwashed" edits look more original than the final designs. It almost looks like they were intended to be darker than they are- which I know is a bit of a stretch but... They don't seem odd darkened, Sumeru characters did- like Dori, but almost all of these Natlan ones don't. It might just be me though.

[@yui2145]

I LEGIT THOUGHT THE SAME. Like the designs look so much more pleasing to look at for me, there's no way that they weren't darker before. To me, they seem too odd whitened and the darker tones make the characters both stand out and blend in more (stand out with Mulani and blend in with Kinich for example). There's no way it wasn't intentional, hope that more concept arts come out to see the real picture. Same thing happened with Wriothesley (I'm pretty sure?), one of his concept arts had him tanned (though with a different design), so we know that there have been thoughts of darker/tanned characters.

[@drewberry4534]

Same!!! I've been saying for a while to my friends that I suspect the whitewashing was an executive demanding it, but that a good portion of the characters were originally designed to be much darker. I suspect the designers agree with us on the diversity and likely support us challenging the whitewashing

[@maybelater1464]

Especially the shark girl. Those "tan lines" on milk white skin are so off putting. Colorism in China is insane

[@randomperson093]

Like,i am a white middle eastern,and there are a lot of white people in my country,so sumeru's rainforest wasn't all that jarring for me,natlan however...

[@aubreyholdinggun]

@@maybelater1464 You can barely make them out at all-

[@hondsdollekat]

26:29 AMEN. I played Genshin for 2 months (december 2023 to februari 2024) and saved up ALL primogems and limited wishes for Wriothesley. After the 2 months I was AR 51 and had accumulated 40k primogems and 40 wishes (F2P) while having 100% explored Mondstadt, Liyue, Dragonspine, Inazuma and Enkanomiya. While doing the omega chore that is Sumeru 100% exploration, I realised it could take up to 6 months for Wrio to return (I naïvely thought by looking at historical numbers) which made me lose motivation to keep playing. I had literally only build Traveler and Sucrose (I don't like any other standard characters design-wise other than Bennet, Jean and Dehya (which I didn't have). In a few days it'll be ONE YEAR since Wrio first released... the ONLY time he ever had a banner.

[@Random.EXE.v7g]

I just discovered genshin recently and I've been longing to actually play. One of the main reasons being, i heard about natlan. I genuinely believed i would be able to see myself in this beautiful game but i guess i spoke too soon...

[@gxalcremieshiny4229]

i REALLY agree with the Archon Quest part It's SO annoying to be like "let's bring A to B on this very safe road that is used daily" "oh no! There are hilichurls! We must fight them!" or each time you enter a building, fatui and treasure hoarders are there for no reason and this is the worst part about it they keep adding bullshit reasons for it, and almost always the same fatui: "oh, we got orders to investigate this" treasure hoarders: "we heard this stuff sells good" I just hate how every fight in between quests is just "oh no, an enemy appeared! Fight them" and afterwards it's just shrugged off as nothing remember that one quest where you fight a fatui and then afterwards they're like "wow, why are you fighting me? I did nothing wrong!" I just walked up to him and he attacked me, that was full self-defense each battle feels the same, each encounter feels the same, but the game acts as if it all mattered, but you can clearly tell it didn't

[@hehuho890]

i would pay for fatuis, hoarders and abyss order to beat each other...

[@CandyBlastt]

Yes finally a vid about not just how we aren't getting rewarding enough and banners n stuff you have so many ideas I hope genshin sees this even though the chance is so low I have watched you since I started genshin I luv ur vids keep up the great videos!

[@colggrtame7406]

I loved this video and how u talked about every single thing and didn’t just sweep genshins clear flaws under the rug since it gives u views. I really also wish they didn’t make their lore so hard for players to understand and access because the story of the game is gorgeous and rich and it’s so well written. I also really wish characters skin tones and cultures were better represented since it’s so heavily based off of them. That’s just my main critiques I loved hearing u talk abt as a player who’s immersed in the lore and design aspects of the game

[@OC_]

11:27 I've commented this on multiple videos of this nature, but you're the first one to describe what happened to me in proper detail. When I started the game I got Itto. I was still in mondstadt when this happened, and I still feel like I didn't fully enjoy the Liyue and Inazuma archon quests because I was rushing through them at times to get Itto's boss materials on TSURUMI ISLAND.

[@eyelock3d]

THIS VIDEO IS SO REAL. 😭🙏 U NEVER MISS

[@mr.morning1901]

1000% agree on the crystalfly/condensed resin thing, having to leap through the same areas over and over to try and catch them is weirdly exhausting.

[@mistahfeet]

It's one of those things where it's fine at the beginning, but over time it gets more frustrating

[@demonking-zm3rs]

...There's a catcher that does it automatically for you

[@RoheySaysHey]

​@@demonking-zm3rsyeah but it takes a week to give you 15☠️ its way quicker to just run around and get 15 in a fraction of the time

[@SorarikoMotone]

@@RoheySaysHey additionally to that tool, there's a spot in fontaine where you can easily get a lot of them, in the merusea village, where you simply click on flowers and they pop up and you collect them i actually find myself drowning in crystalflies nowadays

[@MoonCheesy]

They are so easy to catch and they are used to make one of the best things in game.

[@snren._]

for the characters materials, it's simple enough. Mika and Sethos by example, they have been released much, much later than their regien. Sethos was introduced during Cyno's second story quest, and he is related to the temple of Silence wich is an organization more or less secret. The traveler wouldn't have heard of it earlier if Cyno didn't mentionned it, wich is why we met him later, during a Fontaine patch (4.7 in Clorinde's banner). Even if the longevity and the time we had to wait for him, even being from Sumeru, is absurd, he maybe just wasn't meant to be before, I don't know. My point is that Sethos requiere a boss that only Xianyun needed. Chenyu Vale was released in 4.4 along with Xianyun and even if she does not live there it's a part of Liyue and since it's a new region, the 5* uses the new specialities. Sethos uses this boss, because almost no one else does, and.. Why would a boss exist only for one characters ? The other sumeru bosses are used by severals other characters, he uses this boss for variety reason. As for Mika, there is no special explanation as to why we'd met him so late after Mondstatd. But it's the same as Sethos ; the boss he uses only is Used by Alhaitham (I think?) At least when Mika was released it was only Alhaitham. Same as Sethos, other sumerian and mondsatdian characters uses others bosses so for variety, Mika got the most recent boss at this time

[@SorarikoMotone]

there WAS an explanation for Mika not being there since the beginning of the game, actually. its gated... by an event. Again. for those who dont know - Mika was actually participating in the campaign that Varka and many other people went on from Knights of Favonius. Yes, the one that also left Cavalry Captain without horses, that campaign.

[@snren._]

@@SorarikoMotone ohh yea I forgot about this lmao, thanks for the reminder Hoyo doesn connect everything to lore

[@Oleja2008]

​​@@SorarikoMotone what a shame Mika still was released without a reason for the sake to be released and for some stupid event, without any other actual Mondstadt content like a new location or more info about Varka.

[@Oleja2008]

The illogical connection between bosses and characters isn't the only problem with them, it's also about the amount of bosses to the characters you need to ascend. For a long time now we're getting bosses you would ascend 1 or even 2 characters with. You have particularly no reason to fight a huge part of them. And compare new bosses with the old ones, Cryo regisvine's loot is useful for 6 characters and all of them are popular and old. I would remove the obligation for some specific boss and make every other boss material usable, though there'll be difference in the requiring amount to ascend and the limitation for element of a needed boss.

[@SorarikoMotone]

@@Oleja2008 tbf i dont mind having more characters vs more landmass, because if we're to limit characters like that we might actually run out of land, lol. and we did get more info on Varka on that event, not a lot sadly, and all gated by the event seriously, i dont care about tryhard content - but i really wish we had better access to the lore.

[@MrGshinobi]

4:50 i hate to be the YEP leaker buuuuut, in version 5.0 for imaginarium teather (the new roguelike endgame mode from 4.7) they're completely revamping the mode to add better buffs that actually change how reactions work, which is kind of what you're asking here, they've already added another end game mode that is different from spyral abyss and they seem to be working to improve it (they've already lowered the character requirement to enter the mode for example) since it got a lot of backlash the first time around, which is good that they actually listened to the playerbase for once.

[@Mateo_8886]

Agreed with everything you said. So nice to see that you aren't afraid to share your thought. You are now definitely one of my favorite KZbinrs

[@Specialisto]

I can already smell it in the air. A continuation to the "Character name" Only using the 5 star selector we'll get in the anniversarry

[@colown]

i am SO glad you talked abt the lack of diversity of characters. even though I'm white as hell, I still find it disgusting that they take inspiration from other cultures and not include the people itself. I also love learning about other cultures and seeing that they aren't representing cultures fully is very disappointing...

[@Indian_gae_boii]

tbh, as an indian the lack of diversity was excusable even in sumeru since all the playable characters themselves are mostly persian and arabaic (who are mostly white) save for dehya, cyno, candace two of whom are egyptian and are actually slightly tan (the indian inspiration of sumeru exists only in the locations in the forest, culture, religion and lore, music only) however natlan is a nation that's confirmed to be mayaan/ aztec and latin America in general so I found it quite insulting to see them pale white, not that white people don't exist in latin America but still the inspiration is from before the discovery of the new world, and all the characters designs reflect it clearly

[@vel5785]

@Indian_gae_boii ya but as another indian i felt kinda robbed of a new main

[@vel5785]

@Indian_gae_boii ya but as another indian i felt kinda robbed of a new main

[@vel5785]

@Indian_gae_boii ya but as another indian i felt kinda robbed of a new main

[@yyvan5125]

Bro who cares, the important thing is the gameplay not being tedious, and characters being hot, because that makes money.

[@Playful_]

23:37 Keqing using her electro vision

[@MeyssaIMK]

This guy is so real

[@hd4k356]

I was going to come down here and say some of my takes about genshin current state but Mr feet here just took all the words out of my mouth and made them better. I completely agree with all of your points, esp the resin ones.

[@OnceMoreWithLove777]

Agreed. I wish the devs did better at planning out the story and listening to feedback. After seeing Natlan, I kind of just gave up on waiting for Genshin to do better. Can’t even force myself to open the game anymore after playing WuWa especially.