>>723562783
Genshin doesn't feel lively at all because the facial expressions are absolute shit and despite how low effort ZZZ can get, it still manage to get the faces right.
The worst offender in this are Genshin NPCs model, they quite literally RUIN any scene they're in because it's impossible to take them seriously after the first region. They've been reusing the same shitty NPC models for 98% of them over the course of five years, to the point that it's impossible to feel immersed as the whole game look like a cheap play with the same 10-15 actors that change outfit and makeup depending on the setting. It's as if the traveler was an autistic child with a group of adults dressing up as people from different places to make him believe he's an adventurer. The entire game feels off, you only forget this egregious flaw when there are actual important characters on screen but that almost never happen in the hundreds of unsufferable sidequests dotting the world.