Game Review: Genshin Impact

You'd think I would have written more about this game considering how much I've played it.

Back during the Plague Years, not long after sashagee and I met, she got into a game called Genshin Impact, then still relatively obscure. Her father and brother had started playing it months before, not long after it first came out, and they had gotten her into it in order to play with them. But, as she tells me is often the case, they played much more than she did, rocketed ahead of her in progression, and by the time she caught up with them, they had gotten bored of the game and moved on to another one. She was having a fun time--she's an old gacha hand, having played a ton of the Shining Nikki phone games in the years before she met me until she had to cut herself off from spending too much--but she had gotten herself into a horrible bind. Somehow she had increased her World Level (the difficulty of monsters, basically) up to level 6, but her characters were all severely underleveled and underpowered to the point where she simply could not beat any of the fights necessary to increase your characters' power, which meant she couldn't advance the story either. So she came to me and was like "dorchadas, you're my boyfriend, so I need you to help me."

And that's how I started to play a gacha game.

The traveler and his emergency food.

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