Genshin Impact

By Emma Astwood

Feb. 24, 2023 9:00pm

Genshin Impact is an action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. It was released in September 2020 for multiple platforms including Windows, PlayStation, iOS, and Android.

The game is set in the fantasy world of Teyvat, which is divided into seven nations, each of which is tied to one of the game’s elemental types. Players control a party of characters, each with their own unique elemental abilities, as they explore the world, battle monsters, solve puzzles, and uncover the secrets of Teyvat.

Genshin Impact features an open-world design with a wide range of environments to explore, from lush forests of Sumeru to frozen tundras of Dragonspine. The game also features a gacha system, allowing players to acquire new characters and weapons through randomized draws.

One of the unique features of Genshin Impact is its co-op multiplayer mode, which allows up to four players to team up and explore the world together, taking on challenges and defeating powerful enemies.

Genshins events and storylines primary surround the mysterious disappearance of the main character’s sibling. The main character, also known as “traveler”, has an unknown past and is searching for their sibling. As you character travels through Teyvat, you collect clues to the whereabouts of your sibling as well as make a lot of friends along the way.

Some of the people you meet are vision holders. Vision holders possess the ability to manipulate a specific element. these elements consist of:

• Anemo
• Geo
• Electro
• Dendro
• Hydro
• Pyro
• Cryo

All elements also have Archons, or gods, which are the primary users of the elements and play a role in bestowing visions to the inhabitance of Teyvat. These Archons throughout the story befriend our character and help us understand the clues given to us, while in turn we help them.

Each Archon is one part of the seven. The seven referring to the seven elements and the seven archons, each possessing a country under their protection. Currently in the games latests big update we know have four of the seven countries available to explore, those being:

Mondstadt

Mondstadt is the city of freedom, protected by the wind. Its archon is the anemo archon also know as Barbatos, aka our favorite traveling bard Venti. Venti is the first archon you meet, and after you become aquatinted with the wind and assist in the protection of mondstadt, yiu become good friends.

Liyue

Liyue was the second country we visit in Teyvat, at the suggestion of the anemo archon. In Liyue we meet the Geo archon Rex Lapis, aka our local historian Zhongli. Our first experience in Liyue was us getting caught in the dramaticaly staged death of the Geo archons adapters form. We would be labeled a suspect for killing him, but would quickly have that resolved. Later we would also end up assisting in the protection of the country.
Inazuma

Inazuma was the third, and most interesting of the countries. Instead of the archon taking the back seat in the countries issues, the archon was the issue. The Electro archon Ei, also known as the archon of eternity, protects Inazuma with an iron fist. because of her ideals our character joins the rebellion against the electro archon. During the battle were prove our strength and gain the electro archons favor. we later befriend her and gain her undying trust.
Sumeru

Sumeru is the current country we are in. In this part of the story the people themselves have in a way turned against their god and are being controlled by a select few. Sumeru, home to the Dendro archon Nahida, is a huge ecosystem and i’m currently working through its story.

Overall, Genshin Impact is a great game and has a lot of content as of late. the storyline is fun and expansive. It’s great for all ages! I’ll keep you updated on what happens next!