Is Genshin Impact Actaully Worth Playing in 2024? (An Honest Review)

THIS is exactly the kind of coverage I was after and not the usual Whale, hype BS. Have a sub my friend <3

I just started playing Genshin a bit ago, I’m AR 33 now and I’ve been enjoying it, it’s rather simplistic but that’s what makes it a relaxing game to play.

I've been playing off and on since it's release and it has greatly improved, the story can be a little lacking sometimes, but its still a really fun game to me.

For f2p players, just cause characters can deal elemental damage, it doesn’t mean they’re op (Amber, Freminet, Kirara,Dehya, Chongyun)

This video made me download it. Just started and only 3hrs in and already its so great. Cant wait to put in some hours. Im more of a fps gamer but i wanted to switch it up. Cod is boring at this point. Wanted a nice single player rpg

to sum it up, it isn't.

Fortnite is hated? Not really 😅

You're a shill!

Cool vid, Shark! I just started my account a few months ago. So much content!!

Thanks for the in-depth review, this games looks fun but it also sounds like work due to the vastness of the world and things to do combined with gotcha and resin systems.

Ignore the gambling. You don't need it to clear the game. Then it's a really fun Single player game with coop elements. Give it a shot but be clear to urself and don't pay or (if you >wish< to support the developers) set a limit like nothing more then you're willing to pay for a game in your local store for example.

honestly i had been seeing things and curious about this game for a few years now. i might actually give it a chance though as that element system in itself has drawn me in.

I beta played genshin impact and since then I haven't played so I'm watching this as i am redownloading the game

I just came back to the game last month, i started when the game came out but hated the controls on phone so quest early on. Not sure I want to rush through the story just to get up to the current story for the extra gems in the current event

Getting back into Genshin after losing everything a year ago. I've since acquired a PS5. I had everything before I lost it, and Shark was the guy who I followed to get there. Hands down the BEST creator for Genshin. Ever.

Wow is better js Genshin does have a sort of comedy touch to the story

Just started playing as a f2p player and I am so blown away at the quality thus far. The story is sooooo amazing. The open world in a heavily expanded game is a little daunting, but, I don’t really care because I’m having fun

i wouldnt recommend if your broke like me 😂

okay but how hard is it to achieve hu tao (im sure u know why)

i started playing it for the first time few days ago and i really like it!

After several months i'm going to stop playing Genshin Impact. Boring fights, character enhancemnt too complicated, too much effort required to accumulate material, missions with endless and verbose dialogues. Nice exploration, nice music, nice some missions, but the merits end there in my opinion. I'm starting to get tired of this game. Maybe it's just the type of game that's not for me.

I wouldn't recommend this game to people who want the best gameplay experience. I'd recommend it to people who like anime designed characters, get enthusiasm from their stories and would enjoy playing them with me.

As a new player who started the game about 3 months ago, I consider myself lucky with my gacha rolls. It wasn't until I opened the maps within two weeks of playing that I finally got an Inazuman character. I'm also grateful to all the veteran players who were willing to help me when I was still at AR 10-35. Now, I'm able to clear most of the content aside from the Abyss and Theater. I mean, I'm pretty new as a player, and my character rosters aren't that many to make a great team for it.

I am starting over after leaving the game approx a year ago. I am intrigued to start again 😂 I hope fix any mistakes I had in this one. I did get to Fontaine in my main one.

Honestly i was just thinking about coming back to the game and trying to beat the campaign but im guessing its still not finnished ? I fell off about a year ago so im sure i have a lot i can catch up on but still idk

How big is the game for mobile

Watching this now and as someone who loves BOTW / TOTK, but hates how "empty" those worlds feel NPC wise (HUGE missed opportunity to massively rebuild Hyrule castle and town in TOTK with tons of NPCs), I actually would love a single-player experience to somewhat match the exploration and collection feel from that game, and I know Genshin got compared early on. I also love the BOTW/TOTK battle system, so am not sure if GI is similar to that, or more MMO-like where you click a button and just watch numbers pop up for damage? I am NOT a fan of MMOs in general, and while I would spend that initial $100 happily for the 81 wishes to get a head start (just like paying for a full price game), I wouldn't go beyond that in terms of spend, but don't want to relly on others or have to login and play daily. I also wouldn't have issues waiting 3-6 months to spend those wishes on characters I really like, but hate the concept of games dictating when and how much I need to play them. So I guess my question here is, could I play GI as a SINGLE-PLAYER experience (not having other players run across my screen all the damn time and taking me out of the immersive gameplay) similar to BOTW/TOTK, and can I comfortably take my time, play when I like for months on end and beat all of the content solo? For example, I may spend 30h on the game this month and only 5h the following month, only to spend 50h the month after.

I only started playing a few months ago and for me the game is well... a lot. I enjoy the story and the combat but the collectibles and the rest of the content like the serenitea pot and all the trees you have to level and such get a bit overwhelming sometimes

In my opinion the amount of primogems lost from all the events during 4 years now is enough reason to make me not want to start playing again. Its true the game isnt competitive and maybe you can still clear the abyss and explore easy enough with the gems available but if you are a type of player (like me)that like to collect characters it will be impossible for you to collect more than 20% of the currect characters just with the gems provided by the game , you will have to spend an absurd amount of money. Geshin like most Gacha games are unplayable after some years or after you had a big break from them. My advice is to not bother with Genshin and maybe try the new Gacha MiHoYo is releasing.

Now If you have been playing Genshin for 3-4 years now its definitely worth it to keep playing, game has a lot to offer to faithful players and it is very promising for it's future content .

Started playing last week and i've been having a blast. Wished i had a better phone back then.
Now i'm just playing on pc.

Genshin impact has beautiful music but it will never be as beautiful as kingdom hearts music but overall genshin music probably my second game in music next to kingdom hearts

I really liked genshin, but the wishing system was just too much luck dependent. I was a free to play and played for 450 straight without wishing because i wanted to get Itto c6 (i already had Itto c0). I accumulated around 600 wishes and when Itto’s banner come out i lost EVERY single 5050 and only got him c4. I continued to play but when i lost my 8th 5050 in a row on furina’s banner i just left genshin.

Only problem is no skip button doing hundred of hours to unlock certain zones is just stupid and un streamlined

I see a lot of late joiners comments below so I wanna add some dropped out player’s ideas . I started playing since 2021 December while my friends started earlier than me. It was a great experience as a newbie.

But the artifact system was always a pain in the back. You can spend dozens of thousands of resin across the time of 2-3 months to bring limited improvements to the character (luck based, vary among individuals). This is one of the point that starts to wear me out.

However, things really started to go wrong starting around the patches about Sumeru. The Forest Book quest was unbearably long, which as a student don’t have the enough time to complete it.

Not to mention the size and the complexity of the maps. Exploration of caves can easily get lost, eventually spending hours.

The mechanics of exploration of the desert are even more time consuming as it requires you to search for required amount of tablets (which is quite a number of them) to access certain area.

One may suggest playing slowly to suit your pace, but unfortunately, by exploring and pushing through quest “casual and slowly” is unlikely to gather you the enough resources for the limited banners character in 1-2 patches unless you’re devoted to pull for one single character few patches in the future or you got some extreme BS luck. Through saving resources may get you the character you wanted , but it requires reliable intels of the future banners. So, you still want to get resources as quickly as possible, and you’ll have no other choices but push through long quests and exploration, which takes a large chunk of time .

These collective issues eventually wears my passion about the story off greatly, making one unable to actually enjoy the quest but simply want to speed run through it and knows about the plot. Prolonged playing will also make exploration dull and tiring as there’s limited variation of the exploration mechanism. These will eventually make players feel unmotivated to continue playing Genshin.

It is understandable for MiHoYo to make some of the decisions as it’s still a business project, they must do something to ensure income. But it surely can do better to keep Genshin being entertaining instead of feeling like at work while playing it. Take HSR as an example, it’s developers were able to spot out player’s need, thus reducing the complexity of exploration while adding more entertaining elements into it, making players willingly explore the map while actually having fun.

To conclude, Genshin was a successful business program, but if it can’t adapt to the fast pace life of their players , it will eventually wear them off and what makes Genshin great will become what leads it to its own downfall.

If you’re hesitant about playing Genshin or not, I recommend you to review whether your life have the amount of available time.

Recommendations for newbies:
1.First look at the character list and choose few of them that you like most. You then search for the best team for them and save until the missing characters were available to be pulled again. This saves you most time and resources.
2. DO NOT AIM TO BE META. It’s a trap. The reward of abyss are bait for you to spend to pull and spending eternity grinding artifacts. Just get a team that works with characters you like, get artifacts that’s usable is already good. Spending your life grinding your ass out for that 150 primo for passing abyss 12 is not worth it. Save your time.

Newbies, just enjoy the story and have fun. Isn’t that the point of playing this game ?
Veterans who still persist, I salute you. You are all men of focus, commitment and sheer fkin will. May you all find the happiness that I’ve lost when playing it.

I got an add for Genshin while watching this video. Perfect add placement

goodjob. very helpful indeed. keep up the good work :)

Me as man but captivated by diluc, i was thinking he was like dante of dmc, but power creeped so low

More vids tips pls

I've been playing since the release of the game and might now be quitting soon. The graphics is good not gonna lie. But the content? i dont know. Been doing the same shit every day.

My advice for new players in this game? Don't rush the story or you'll run out of content😂

Idk why i randomly decided to Download it yesterday but I’ve had a lot of fun

not worth it now that wuthering waves is out

I played from release until they released Inazuma…..I got a new job and my kids needed more care I took time off. Things are going good now, I’ve started playing again after about 2 years off. I’m sad I don’t have all the special event stuff and limited stuff, but the hame is still amazing. Takes me back to playing Spyro as a kid.

In my experience new characters actually start out weak and have to be buffed later, very balanced game.

when they start letting me skip the story, ill start playing, until then, this game is not worth dredging through the story.

The lore>>

I started playing in January 2024 and definitely a worth to play game
✨😭

Lost me @ cards

How do I get free access to genshin today?!

this game is not completely f2p
on other games you could say, yea, you could play for 2-3 years, you would probably get everything like anyone that spent money
on this game?
show me 1 f2p gamer that got c6 on one of their 5 stars xD