Genshin Impact Mobile Review

Let's get this straight for this game: Genshin Impact and its striking, outgoing anime world of Teyvat portray inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

It's unfeasible not to be reminded of Link’s open-world adventures in Hyrule while discovering from the art manner to the stamina depended on climbing anything mechanical.

This game isn't some copycat version and its fantastical world with a wide range of different playable characters, deep RPG systems are all exceptional and great enough. Every one of the more than 120 hours I've engaged in Teyvat has been an absolute explosion.

Genshin Impact is a free-to-play adventure-action RPG where you play an indistinct and mystifying “traveler” from another world who appears in the land of Teyvat before being assaulted by a sorceress or God or...something, and your twin is detained.

After waking up on a beach at level one and with zero loot, you set off on a hunt to search your lost sibling that includes a whole lot of picking fruit, crafting items, and combating deities, but astonishingly little in the way of essentially searching for your twin.

Because, just like during Link's rush to save Zelda, finishing these quests where you *checks notes* nourish ducks is way more significant.

Whole new world - Genshin Impact

It's simpler to understand Genshin Impact if you believe in it less like a free-to-play mobile game (that's also on PC and PS4) and more like an appropriate single-player JRPG such as Tales of Vesperia or Ni No Kuni 2.

You participate as one of two interloping twins whose dimension-spanning holiday gets destroyed by a mysterious god.

Whichever twin you decide to play as is dropped into the medieval kingdom of Teyvat and boarded on a quest to search their sibling. It's an expedition that directs you from being inducted into an order of knights to showing your innocence after being accused of killing a local demigod.

Sure, Genshin Impact may be a Chinese game, but it walks and talks as a JRPG.

Adventure Calls

Genshin Impact chases twins cast out into an unfamiliar humankind after a fight with a super-powered demigoddess. You choose a hero to initiate the adventure, and after some story mischief, you become alienated from your sibling.

You spend the rest of the game in the strange world of Teyvat, as you hunt for your sibling and encounter other heroes throughout the voyage.

There’s no denying the visual resemblances between Genshin Impact and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Both games have open-world environments to discover that are jam-packed with treasures to search, walls to scale, and whimsical monsters to combat.

Genshin Impact's archery and swordplay look tremendously similar to Nintendo’s contribution at first glance, and the colorful cel-shaded anime graphical style is very redolent of Zelda's.

Genshin Impact is a pleasing surprise, offering a sprawling, thoughtful world, and resourceful combat mechanics. Teyvat presently only features two regions out of the seven teased in the story, but developer Mihoyo has made it obvious that the latest region, latest characters, and all recent content are just around the corner.

If you require an open world with hours of relaxing journeying and content to enjoy, be it alone or with friends, Genshin Impact has that in spades, and at a price that you actually cannot hit.