I just need to rant. Ik this topic has been touched upon. sowwy
I don’t think it was all bad. The visuals and music were quite nice. Everything else was just so tedious.
The puzzles weren’t great. I know everybody says that since we had 20d’s to do all of them that it wasn’t bad, or that they weren’t tiresome if you just paced yourself. I disagree, you could give me an entire year to do these puzzles and I still wouldn’t want to do them because they are so monotonous. I think the puzzles themselves are fine concepts, but the fact they are practically everywhere, bugged out/ confusing (Fischl and Monas being prime examples) or just annoying (those raven statues), or just “same-y” (like Kazuha and Xinyan having the exact same guiding light puzzle thing for some reason?) really just makes most of it… not worth it. Oh! but you get… 3 primos per chest… ok.
Speaking of the domains, their stories are not great. Well, actually the stories themselves are fine, the only problem being that all of the storylines we’ve already heard before in either character-stories in profile or just their own hang-out/ story quest. There isn’t a single unique story. But why? One could theorize that HOYO doesn’t want to put new stories in limited time events. When has that ever stopped them before? (*cough* Shadows Amidst Snowstorms)
1st of all, Kazuha is a character that is chronically stuck in the past, which is funny because the entire point of his character is letting go and moving on to live life. But no. Every event he’s in NEEDS to center on his past. First time we meet him? We learn about his past (this one actually makes sense because we need the info for his arc) Irodori festival? About his past. GAA? Let’s make the domain center on his past, and let's force the player to enter it THREE SEPARATE TIMES. Story Quest? Actually nah let’s not even have him be personally involved in the main conflict, he’s just reacting to things happening. I know every character's mirage had their focus on their own backstories, but then- like, don’t pick Kazuha to be a part of this event?? He was the main focus of the one two patches back my god. Please let Kazuha do something else HOYO. Let him get into bitcoin, LEDs, slushies, and lean or whatever the fuck kids are doing nowadays.
Xinyan was also a really weird pick for this event. Her backstory is so… uninteresting? Why is she in an event whose story focuses on showcasing backstory when she has the most generic one ever. She was fine in the 2.2 event one because she didn’t need to be interesting by herself. Also side note I had never laughed so hard when I heard her parents with the really badly done southern accents as well. I don’t know what I was expecting but my god. Not to mention you have to go into her domain 5 FUCKING TIMES? Why??
Fischls domain was also the most unique one out of all of them but literally the whole story was ripped from her character profile. Down to the alternate Fischl showing up and shit. The puzzle mechanic was so half-baked it was simply not good. The thing with the lying ravens? Abysmal. Also side note, does Oz have to repeat EVERYTHING that Fischl says with what “she really means” ? It’s so unnecessary. It only works well in small doses and to make jokes.
By the time you reach Mona’s domain you will be show worn out by the 30 million times you have to enter the other domains and Venti leaving you on read, that your mouse will break do to you trying your hardest to bypass all the dialogue before you go criminally insane and start having hallucinations of a international Genshin KFC collab. The puzzles in this one will practically beg you to do the bare minimum. The story is the same shit we have learned in Mona’s normal story quest. Yippee!!!
Finally… why the actual fuck do the Fatui need to be involved in this?? 9/10 times in genshin the Fatui are involved in this story. They don’t really need to be! I swear this game forgets they have other enemy factions, what are the Abyss Order doing? Nuking Heaven? Who the fuck cares I want to see da Russians again. Also I feel like I was the only one weirded out by Paimon and Traveler finding a clearly mentally ill, delirious, and distraught soldier and immediately deciding to bully the fuck out of him. Like damn the cryo-gunner can not take a break, first he gets racially profiled by a magical goat-girl and now little floaty girls are ableists. This is Rex Lapis’ future, can’t have SHIT in Teyvat.
Also wtf was with the squirrel boat thing? Just- why.
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