I know this is quite clickbait-y for a title, but I wanted to rant about the game and want to read other people’s rants, too.

For me, I don’t like Alhaitham’s voice. He sounds like a news anchor with how stoic and rigid he talks. I know it fits the character, but every time he talks, I just get taken out of the immersion because he sounds like a reporter and he’s about to narrate the next bits and scenes lol.

  • cyd@vlemmy.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sumeru’s storyline had two big problems:

    • The main antagonist, Scaramouche, wasn’t properly developed. He just parachutes into the plot, with his backstory and motivations assumed from earlier event lore drops and voice lines. That is bad storytelling.
    • Nahida’s plight wasn’t really developed in an interesting way, and devolved into a standard rescue the princess plot at the end. The heist aspect was promising but wasn’t done creatively enough IMO.

    The samsara chapter is rightly praised, and I think it’s one of the best parts of Genshin’s storyline so far in terms of execution. But the bigger plot and the stuff before and after it doesn’t measure up IMO.

    Out of the four regions so far, I actually found the Liyue archon quest the most interesting. Yes, it dragged a bit in the middle, but overall the plot felt cohesive, with solid use of foreshadowing (e.g. introducing the old gods and their history with Liyue, before the Osial reveal), and the twist was executed pretty decently.