Seamos sinceros, la gente que le pone mala puntuacion es porque solo ven un juego generico anime gatcha.

Y no niego eso, es un juego anime gatcha, pero no es solo eso.

Primero, es un juego que constantemente tiene eventos de todo tipo, nuevas regiones y demas. Es imposible aburrirse con algunos de ellos. Y luego, esta la historia.

Si la analizas bien, es una historia profundisima con dioses, traiciones, venganzas, guerras y de todo. Es un juego que definitivamente puede ser llamado "el juego otaku".

I love this game. It has tons of issues.

Unironically what holds this game back the most isn't that it's gacha, it's the fact it's designed for the lowest common denominator.

The game assumes you are stupid and it drags it down immensely. Hardest content can't be too hard since fans are too FOMO. Dialogue assumes you can't read faster than a first grader.

But after all that, this isn't a negative review, because there's still something there under the surface, past the initial idea of a shallow BotW clone.

I get it, but the gameplay goes beyond that. The areas get more vast and unique than the admittedly uninspired Mondstat in the beginning, making exploration fun. Some of the regions such as Chenyu Vale are so well crafted all around, leaving me impressed with the gameplay, the visuals, and even the sound design. It's a lot of this general feel of the game that makes it work so well in my opinion - interacting with the world just generally feels pleasant, whether it be taking in the scenery, the nice background music, or getting that perfect smooth rotation in the combat. Speaking of, I also can't praise the combat system enough - elemental reactions in Genshin are actually such an amazing system that gives so much depth and player expression. The different ideas of team synergy and interacting with character kits that you can pull off is some of the most fun I've had with gaming.

The writing is hit or miss especially early on, but the highs are great and the characters are likeable. I have fun with character interactions and the dialogue is surprisingly witty at times, while the overall story is fine enough for the most part - I'd say it's bad in certain arcs, but others stand out as particularly great. Sumeru, Fontaine, and the Abyss story quests have been very interesting, but you have to sit through boring but passable arcs like Mondstat (common theme here) and 90% of Liyue, and then you get the absolute mess that is Inazuma. Still, I find myself following the lore and overall plot pretty enthusiastically, and I end up enjoying most of the character quests, even if not every character is treated equal.

In regards to the gacha - yes, it's not great. You are somewhat limited by your pulls. In fact, I think one of the biggest issues with the game is how bad early game is - Mondstat is boring all around, and you don't have many options character wise. The ability system feels like a slog since nobody has Energy Recharge to use their bursts, so you're mostly relying on physical normal attacks. This makes new players have a terrible opinion of the combat and I can't blame them; the four characters you get at the beginning have awful synergy with one another besides maybe physical Kaeya - Lisa which is a complete meme, so you're just waiting for your cooldowns to expire while doing paper thin damage with normals. It really doesn't show the strengths of the actual great part of Genshin combat with utilizing kits to their fullest in actual synergistic teams and elemental reactions. However, make it past this rough beginning and it's a blast - pull value goes down significantly after you get a few more characters and if you have self control it's not awful. Another downside of being a gacha mobile game is the resin system - you are locked on certain actions by time, such as getting artifacts for your characters, which is RNG. It's just annoying at best and downright awful at worst, and highlights some of the worst parts of this format - you will need to put some time into it to get things out of it. If you can manage that, though, you have a pretty fun game.

To reiterate, the game isn't perfect - it's fundamentally flawed. The gacha model will always be morally dubious at best. The devs make interesting decisions in terms of features they choose to add (and not to). No matter how much fun I have it seems like there's always something that'll bug me about it. But the core of the game is genuinely quite good in spite of all these flaws, and it's why I keep coming back.