Recently I started playing Genshin Impact and it's pretty delightful! I love the sound design and the visual design is growing on me; the animation and the fighting just feels so genuinely punchy and delightful to engage with.

I started yesterday and then immediately got sidetracked running across the land with Amber and Lumine, forgetting to complete the intro quest. I've been playing so much Dead by Daylight, but right now as school starts I think something with a lighter tone is suiting the level of stress.

I was a little surprised, since I hadn't really seen anyone talking about the player character, that there was a player character with potentially pretty interesting backstory if one wanted to delve into it (although they still feel fairly generic, as is the wont of this sort of gacha game, on a surface level.) World hopping twins put in hibernation by an offended god! Searching for your sibling in a world turned completely alien after centuries asleep!

I'm planning to do a baby Genshin stream tonight lol, and hopefully meet the lady commander (I'm forgetting her official title) I have been hearing referred to in the intro quest. Sadly it will apparently be quite a while before I meet some of the favorite characters of friends I have been hearing so much about lol. But it will help tide me over since the internal deadline for Dead by Daylight's new DLC was moved back.


ETA: I just realized that instead of Amber I bafflingly typed the name of a gacha character I have not met yet and certainly don't possess lol. Diona is like, a child catgirl bartender or something? Amber is the archer with a red bow on her head.