Gaming

Against my better judgement, i decided to look into Genshin Impact.

I've resolved to not spend any money on it, and I'm fairly happy with my experience so far. I'm currently in act 2 in Inazuma, and I've really been enjoying the Archon quests. Despite the fact that I spent 0 dollars on it, this part of the game really does feel like a full retail game experience.

The world quests are alright, though I'm honestly having trouble fitting them into my adventures; too much adventure experience is coming in, which is causing me to hit world level increases, which is causing me to need to grind ascension mats for my roster, which is causing too much adventure xp. It's a lot! Dragonspine was a fun detour, though.

Story quests are probably my favorite feature in this game. Low stakes hang outs with the weirdos in your party is a fun and important part of RPGs. And Genshin really gets that. The only problem is... A lot of these weirdos aren't in my party! If Story quests unlocked the characters at their conclusion, I'd have had no qualms with putting $60 down on this game, but they're pretty much all locked behind the gacha mechanic which suuuucks. Shenhe and Diluc should be in my gang right now, but the funny gacha rocks disagree. Not a fan of that.

The resin and primogem stuff I feel really negatively about. I don't want that stuff getting in the way of the fun parts, but I'm constantly scraping up against both. It's not intrusive enough to dampen my experience while actually playing through the quests or exploring though, so I think I'll put up with it until I'm satisfied with exploring Teyvat.