Review: Genshin Impact
As for four-star characters, they have (at the time of writing) always been the same three characters on both limited Character Banners. Whether any type of difference would apply if the two character banners had different four-stars is currently not confir
If you want the Electro Traveler to play the role of a battery in Genshin Impact , all you have to do is give them 4pc of Emblem of Severed Fate and Favonius Sword . Both Emblem and Favonius are easy to get, on top of maximizing the Energy regeneration the Electro Traveler can offer for their team. However, adding some Elemental Mastery while building the Electro Traveler on 4pc of Flower of Paradise Lost will allow them to be part of Hyperbloom teams on top of greatly regenerating their team’s ene
Choosing a game to be thankful for in 2020 can be tricky. Given the current state of the world and how many of us are looking for ways to keep occupied while cooped up, I feel like we should be thankful for virtually any good, engaging games. But the one that I was thankful for the most is a game that felt optimistic, warm, comforting and colorful. Even if said game is about ferrying the souls of the dead towards the afterlife. I am, of course, referring to Thunder Lotus' Spiritfarer. Aside from being a possible GOTY contender in general, Spiritfarer hit a certain sweet spot for me, not only giving me the freedom to craft an insane ship filled with tons of activities and giving me an open world to explore, but also providing one of the year's best casts of characters. Azul, Gustav, Stanley...all of them were a blast to hang out with and I truly felt a bond between them as I learned more about their stories. It got to the point where I actually purchased the art book because I heard it had more info about them, and once I learned what not only went into their backstories, but how the world around them is all related to everyone and Stella in various ways, and the absolute tons of metaphorical layers that went into everything, I couldn't stop thinking about Spiritfarer for the longest time, about how what I thought were small bits suddenly had much more meaning. And all of this is just so refreshing. In a year where other games try to attempt drama by being continuously blunt, bleak and depressing by presenting horrible situation after horrible situation to the point where it almost cartoonishly feels like award bait and you stop caring about everyone in the plot, Spiritfarer decided to go hard in the opposite direction. Vibrant landscapes, cute animal characters who just want to hang out with you, a vast ocean filled with magical adventures...all of this means that when the emotional moments reveal themselves in a natural way and do hit, they hit hard. Spiritfarer never stops being comforting as a whole, but it deals with the themes of death and how everyone approaches them in such a beautiful, mature fashion. It's a brilliant bit of fantasy with the year's best writing and it's something we all need right now.
While fans want their 5-Star characters to hold some of the most awesome-looking 5-Star Weapons built specifically for their character, players who want to hyper-optimize their kits can’t go wrong with the Favonius Set . That’s right - despite the Favonius Set being 4-Star Weapons, their overall perks can benefit almost any charac
Being the main character allows the Traveler to switch between all of Teyvat’s Elements in Genshin Impact . When visiting Statues of the Seven in Genshin Impact , you have the opportunity to switch the Traveler's Elements. To do this, simply visit one of the Statues of the region featuring the Element you des
Mind the Pity: Always take note that the game gives a guaranteed 4-Star within every 10 pulls and a guaranteed 5-Star within every 80 to 90 pulls. Every other successful 5-Star is a guaranteed unit from the current banner. However, every other 5-Star pull is subjected to the 50-50 Rule - you either get a unit from the current banner or one from the Standard Ban
To tackle the former comparison -- the reference to one of 2017's more lauded releases and a radical shift in series convention, to say the least -- it's not that such a descriptor is inherently untrue. It doesn't take long upon setting out into the fictional world of Teyvat to spot a fair number of similarities with Nintendo's work, some more blatant than others. But to come both into and away from Genshin Impact and proclaim this to be a clone and nothing else massively downplays the ways in which this game is presented. And above all else, does a great disservice to a developer that -- in all their imitation -- understand why the exploration, world and very level design itself of Breath of the Wild worked so wonderfully. There's even a case here that Genshin Impact actually builds atop the ideas Nintendo brought forth. Better still: masters them wholesale in carving out a SLG game beginner guide, a world, whose back-end monetization, brief technical frustrations and occasional grind can so easily be pushed aside.