Genshin Impact Review: Is it pay to win? What’s the Goal in the game?

Character Teaser “Yelan: Inevitable Justice” Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact is an action role-playing game developed and published by video game company miHoYo. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, iOS, and Android in 2020, and on PlayStation 5 in 2021. The game is also set for release on Nintendo Switch. The game features an anime-style open-world environment and an action-based battle system using elemental magic and Genshin impact characters. The game is free-to-play and is monetized through gacha game mechanics where players can obtain new characters and weapons. The base game is expanded on a regular basis through patches using the games as a service model.

Is Genshin Impact pay to win?

This is a difficult one, as the traditional idea of “pay to win” for most players is a single-player simply buying a huge amount of strength and annihilating everyone else they come into contact with in multiplayer.

This traditional idea falls apart with Genshin Impact Yelan, as the game doesn’t have player versus player – or at least it doesn’t at the time of writing, in any case. So the most blatant idea of pay to win – where it ruins the experience for others, is not present.

With that said, the game does use a few things that can be considered pay to win – a Gacha system used to obtain new characters (and some weapons), and the ability to buy Primogems indirectly, as well as a premium battle pass option.

What is Genshin Impact?

Genshin Impact is a new action-adventure title from Chinese developer MiHoYo. It takes place in the fictional world of Teyvat, where elemental magic, dragons, monsters, spirits, and other fantastical elements are a part of everyday life. You play as a young man or woman called the Traveler who, at the start of the adventure, has been traveling between different worlds alongside your twin sibling before a mysterious woman separates you and strands you in Teyvat alone.

Using your magical abilities and aided by allies you meet in Teyvat including the spite-like creature Paimon, you as the Traveler will explore the world, grow your power, and search for your sibling and the powerful woman who separated you.

What do you do in Genshin Impact?

After a series of tutorial quests, you’ll be allowed to freely (mostly) explore the world of Teyvat as the Traveler and his or her companions. You’ll receive three party members — Amber, Kaeya, and Lisa — as part of the early story, while others are obtained by engaging with gacha mechanics that you can either pay real money for or earn currency through gameplay to use. Each character plays differently with different weapons and elemental magic, and swapping between them comfortably will be key to solving many of the game’s puzzles.

When you’re not following the game’s story, you play Genshin Impact by exploring Teyvat. Your character can walk and run, find wild ingredients for cooking and crafting, climb cliffs to reach high places, and fight enemies you encounter using a combination of your weapons and elemental magic. Opening treasure chests you find will increase your “Adventure Level,” opening up more things to do in the world, while you’ll need to fight enemies and use special tomes to level up your individual party members’ combat abilities.

What’s the Goal in Genshin Impact?

There is a main story line that carries you through the game with fully realized cutscenes and voice acting (English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese). Your goal is to find your sibling, but you’ll face some tough foes like the dragon Dvalin and The Abyss Order along the way.

You can’t essentially “beat the game.” As this is a games-as-a-service title, the story isn’t yet complete and will continue through future updates; the next major update is coming in November. It’s like the current model of Destiny, in which chapters of the story will be released over time and it will continue to keep going.

Currently, there are only two regions out of a presumed seven in the world, so Genshin Impact will likely be updated with new characters, areas, and missions to come across. Unlike other gacha games, it doesn’t pester you that much, making this feel like a fully fledged AAA title like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

There is a comparison to be made with Breath of the Wild as it features a ton of world exploration. You can find better weapons, Artifacts, and currency within the chests around the world, and the best thing is that they don’t break.

Bosses like the Ruin Guard drop important items like the Chaos Device that can be used to upgrade characters, weapons, or equipment. The ruin guard is a particularly nasty foe for lower-level players, but we have the tactics you need to defeat it. Like Breath of the Wild, there are puzzle elements within the world itself like the secret puzzle in Luhua Pool.

How to Get Fate Points in Genshin Impact

Fate Points were an added fixture to Genshin Impact after the 2.0 update. They belong to the Epitomized Path, a feature that helps Travelers obtain the weapons they want from the Epitome Invocation weapon banner.

The Fate Points mechanic can be accessed via the menu and tapping the icon at the bottom left. From this menu, you can chart a course towards the featured weapon you’d prefer to have.

When you receive a 5-star weapon that is not the one you initially chose, you’ll receive a Fate Point. This does, of course, mean that you’ll need to spend Wishes in the Epitome Invocation banner to accumulate Fate Points.

But remember! Travelers can hold up to two Fate Points at once in Genshin Impact. Although, once you do have two Fate Points, it guarantees that the next 5-star weapon you receive will be the one you charted a course towards.

Before you wish on the banner, you can choose a 5-star weapon that you want. You’ll get one Fate Point every time you don’t get the weapon you chose (to a max of two fate points).

This will of course cost you wishes, but by all means you will absolutely be able to get your desired weapon of choice within a reasonable number of attempts.

If you have one fate point, but then receive your desired weapon. Your Fate Points in Genshin Impact will reset to 0 once again until you choose a new desired weapon and try to get that one instead.

What is the point of Genshin Impact?

Genshin Impact is an open-world action role-playing game that allows the player to control one of four interchangeable characters in a party. Switching between characters can be done quickly during combat, allowing the player to use several different combinations of skills and attacks.

Why Genshin Impact is so popular?

Genshin Impact Remains Popular Because Its Quality Remains High. Perhaps the biggest reason Genshin Impact is the most discussed game on Twitter in 2022 is that it’s good. That may sound like an oversimplification, but the game’s high quality is what made it so popular in the first place.

Is Genshin Impact free?

New players can download and play Genshin Impact for free. Even though there are microtransactions, it is an amicable F2P game, with people clearing the end-game content without spending in the game. Nonetheless, Genshin Impact has a microtransactions system, mainly focused on obtaining new characters.

Is Genshin Impact kid friendly?

This game is rated PEGI 12 because it features depictions of non-realistic looking violence towards human-like characters. The VSC Rating Board expand on this rating by stating that, “this game contains frequent depictions of non-realistic looking violence towards human-like characters.