It’s possible that, for many, the mobile design tropes and similarities to Breath of the Wild will cheapen the experience. There are treasure chests everywhere providing a near-constant stream of serotonin. You can climb onto a precipice and ride your wing-shaped glider down into an enemy camp of Bokoblin-likes. You can forage poultry drumsticks by shooting live birds, stab lizards for bitter lizard tails, and collect sparkling plants. The world you quest in is undeniably similar to Breath of the Wild’s: rocky cliffsides, grassy plains, fruit trees, ocean vistas. As you go in search for your twin alongside Paimon, you learn that a dragon is besieging a nearby town, and head over there to investigate. There, you encounter a doll-like creature-companion named Paimon-very Cardcaptor Sakura-who, of course, refers to herself in the third person in her squeaky little voice. You are on Teyvat, a beautiful realm where some mortals have elemental magic abilities. The action picks up some time afterward, on a serene beach. In the ensuing battle-which takes place midair, floating near some Grecian sky columns-that god takes away your power to travel from world to world. Genshin Impact opens with an elegantly animated cutscene in which a god captures your twin. An anime Breath of the Wild knockoff or a charming, character-forward adventure that’s too fun to put down, Genshin Impact is plainly fantastic, and there is no reason you shouldn’t play it. Genshin Impact will help dispel some of that bias. There’s enough knee-jerk bias around Chinese video games, especially mobile games, that many get dismissed at face. Some indie games have been cloned before they’re even out. Western gamers and game developers have for years criticized Chinese developer “clones” of popular games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or Fortnite. In the West, where gamers are used to paying $60 once for a console game, Chinese developers’ free-to-play mobile games-the most popular model there-have long raised eyebrows. It’s deserved-and only took a few hours of playing to see why. Yet Wednesday, Genshin Impact claimed the title of the largest international launch of any Chinese game ever. (If you’re into it, you’re into it I sure am). In a clear bid for otaku dollars, Genshin Impact boasts harems of playable waifus and husbandos to whet players’ thirst.
It’s got the cloying "gacha" mechanics you’d expect from a mobile RPG, although it’s also on PC and PlayStation 4. Written off as a free-to-play anime reskinning of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the fantasy role-playing game doesn’t make the best first impression. Genshin Impact is better than it has any right to be.
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