>>542216749
I've dropped HSR about a year ago and don't know anything of what they've been doing all this time, but one thing I distinctively remember is one quest in Penacony where you live the memories of what you're told is a tyrannical empress who went on a crazy power trip and abused everyone.
The memories take place in the empress' home planet, and you live it from the eyes of a trusted soldier, watching everything fall apart. It would be an engaging and dramatic story if the whole thing didn't take place in the first fucking world
i swear to god i spent a good 15 minutes completely confused because everything was reusing Belobog assets so I thought the memory malfunctioned or something. No, they were just that fucking lazy.
Took me completely out of the story. It turned a 7/10 passable grade into pure dogshit.

>Henry is another unga bunga skill amp oneshot character except with even worse visual clarity than all of the others
yeah have fun with that one

Welp, you had your fun pretending you were a serious region for a week, NA. Time for a reality check.

>a big fat pyro boss that needs constant pyro application to lower its billion percentage res point. once it gets past its first stage it gets weaker to all elements BUT pyro
>hydro and cryo which should LOVE a pyro boss more or less fucking heals it due to resetting the res lowering
This thing is so fucking toxic and perfectly encapsulates modern Genshin balancing. Instead of just buffing elemental reactions to be equal to each other, they arbitrarily make bosses require certain ones. Meaning you have no fucking freedom in playing the game with the set of characters you want. This is their idea of balancing. By arbitrarily locking you out of 90% of the characters you own and be FORCED to play with their weaker reactions. It's so fucking bad it's hilarious.