Genshin Impact is one of the most famous modern RPG projects presented by the Chinese developer miHoYo. The project was presented to players in 2020 and became available on PC, smartphones and tablets, where players level up Genshin Impact characters and form their own unique squads for their goals and further exploration of territories.
Setting and World Design
The events take place in a world called Teyvat, which unites different regions with their own unique features, monsters, places of power and general ideas that players have yet to explore. You will encounter real cultures that will be combined with myths and deities. You will be able to explore Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma, Sumeru, Fontaine, Natlan and the Snowy Lands.
- Mondstadt is a city of freedom, sharing similar ideas and features with medieval European culture and architecture.
- Liyue is a region that was inspired by ancient China and features mountainous terrain and a bustling harbor.
- Inazuma was inspired by the culture of Japan, is located on an archipelago and has a mixture of ancient cultures and modern Japanese customs.
- Sumeru has clear similarities with the Middle East and Asia, and emphasizes scientific discovery and knowledge in its natural form.
- Fontaine has references to the culture of France and its justice system, and is closely associated with water.
- Natlan and the Snowy Lands are still being explored by players and do not have direct references yet.
Each region is detailed, and gamers go through each of them to develop their skills as an adventurer and achieve Genshin Impact boosts for all their characters.
Each region will bring you a new gaming experience and will consistently tell the story for your character through NPCs and quests.
Gameplay and Mechanics
Genshin Impact has become popular due to its unusual open-world design and combat system that relies on a combination of heroes and elements. The player acts as a traveler, an unknown character who is looking for his lost brother or sister, depending on the chosen gender for his main character.
Exploration
The open world is literally waiting for you to immerse yourself in its exploration. You will cross all available territories, from plains and mountains to deserts and oceans. You will find a large number of tasks, hidden treasures and challenges that will bring valuable resources, items for the character and a lot of experience for Genshin boost.
One of the most important aspects is the stamina system, which affects sprint, the ability to climb high places, swim and slide from heights. A high stamina indicator can greatly simplify your gameplay and add action and accelerated movement to it. By the way, for some treasures, you need a high stamina indicator just to get to it.
Combat system
Battles in Genshin Impact are based on attacks by characters that are in your combat squad. You will switch between them, strike and alternate heroes to inflict maximum damage and save the lives of all squad members.
There are seven elements in the game – wind, earth, electricity, nature, water, fire and ice, and each character will belong to one of these elements. This will be reflected in the available abilities and the effects that they will impose on enemies.
Skills also have synergies, for example, water and electricity cause an effect that inflicts additional damage over time, as well as fire, which always melts affected enemies.
Players can freely change characters during combat to combine elemental abilities, increase damage and simply attack enemies, or restore their health. The system encourages experimentation, because the combination of all heroes will be unique if you change at least one condition.
Character System
The main feature of Genshin Impact is the gaccha system, that is, the need to constantly search for and discover new characters that can potentially become part of your permanent squad. All heroes have their own story, personality, and set of skills. You will be able to use the wish system to try to get a new hero, which can be common, rare, or the same as the one you already have in your squad.
You will use the game currency obtained during the GI boost, or real money, to continue trying to strengthen your squad by opening new heroes.
Each hero will use their own type of weapon, such as swords, claymores, polearms, bows, and catalysts, and for them there will be simple attacks, normal skills, and a super ultimate.
An elemental skill is a special skill that is closely related to the character’s element, and an element explosion is a super ability with more damage, or a stronger effect.
Each hero can be upgraded with Ascension, which will increase the maximum level and unlock a Constellation, consisting of additional upgrades that open up new skills or enhance existing ones.
Story and Quests
The main storyline is called Archon Quests and takes the player through all the regions of Teyvat and allows you to delve into the history and culture of each territory so that you feel your presence and role in the game world. The events that will take place in the game world depend on your Genshin Impact boost.
Most of the quests will help you learn the history of NPCs and characters that have already become part of your squad and are available for exploration. Usually, such quests are accompanied by cinematic videos with your participation, which will immerse you even deeper into the game story.
There will be many additional and world quests scattered throughout the world, in which you will help locals, or change the fate of the region. You can complete them or ignore them, but if you want to squeeze out the maximum GI boost for your hero, it is better to interact with all the tasks that come your way, because in the world of Tevyat there are no useless events.
Adventure Rank
The main measure of progress in Genshin Impact is the overall adventure rank, which is accumulated for completing quests, destroying monsters and bosses, exploring regions and actively taking action in the world of Tevyat.
The higher the rank, the more opportunities will be available to you, including the ability to play cooperatively with friends and increasing the overall quality of trophies and resources that drop from monsters and bosses.
Improving the character and weapons
All heroes and weapons can be improved above their maximum value if you collect the required amount of resources and experience and go through the ascension ritual. You can get everything you need by destroying normal and world-level bosses.
Only legendary and epochal weapons should be ascended, because they are much more difficult to find a more powerful replacement, so focus your efforts only on rare types of weapons and characters.
Artifacts
Artifacts are another slot for your character that can strengthen your hero. They add bonuses to various stats and can be found in random chests and earned as quest and dungeon rewards.
If your artifact is part of an equipment set, then additional boosts for your hero are also activated. Artifacts can be improved and developed by combining items of lower quality.
Cooperative mode
When you reach adventure rank level 12, you will be able to play with friends, joining each other’s worlds and forming full-fledged squads, where you will control only one hero, and not the entire squad as if you were alone.
You will go through difficult bosses and dungeons together and receive joint rewards and accelerated progress.
Conclusion
Genshin Impact is an interesting project in the action RPG genre and the Gacha format, where you will explore the game world and discover new characters to form your squad and go to conquer Tevyat.
You will find locations of different styles and as you explore, you will go through the absolute world of Genshin. Gradually, you will accumulate and improve your weapons and artifacts, achieving an increase in characteristics and strengthening the heroes.
You will encounter a system of elements and the ability to combine heroes for synergy and increased damage.