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I feel bad for the people who see the title and think thats my opinion without watching the first 3 seconds 🫣
0:10 That meow was so strong it made Fontaine disappear
I didnt think I was part of the minority on this, but I think Deyha is a great character gameplay-wise. It's nearly the same kit as Fu Xuan in HSR. I find myself adding Deyha to more and more teams instead of Benny because I like the interruption resistance/dmg reduction/fire follow up dmg. I've never liked tierlists and the game is easy enough where I don't feel Deyha deserves the memes.
11:58 That's a most egoistic wish to manifest. One person doesn't like exploration, maybe because he/she would like to converge all rewards to Endgame, because is its favorite aspect, completely disregarding those who (like me) don't care for Endgame but values exploration. Bran answered wisely in one word only: "Why?"
Hoyo should fix my boy albedo 3d model
8:15 this guy pushed my buttons lol. It is not a waste for people who want to look for it. Spoon feeding is the worst thing a game like Genshin can do. Those lore bits are our incentives to explore and check every little trinket that we find. That is the best part of this game..oh god sorry this hot take was way too spicy for me and is lowkey sending me into rage mode.
I love that the new Imaginerium Theatre mode encourages you to build all characters – I just WISH it would've added a mechanic that created NEW elemental/kit synergies that don't exist outside this mode, or that each character gains a unique buff only for them so that all the "bad" characters feel really good to use – and it would make teams that wouldn't work for Spiral Abyss actually feel awesome to play
Like how Fontaine made healers "meta" with Furina without having to actually change old character kits
(like how in Star Rail, Pure Fiction made Herta/Himeko meta in that mode, even if they are not in other modes)
(like how you can change your main echo in Wuwa to have different combat abilities/buffs without changing the kit of the actual character)
This danganronpa music is so distracting….
I agree with the hot take on lore packed into books – BUT I just wish they did them as manga instead (like the manga series they have online) That way collecting pages would be so much more fun.
They don't have to depict things that would spoil the surprises – but with all the names, it's hard for me to keep track of what's going on (like reading the Silmarillion backstory for Lord of the Rings lol)
Sorry Bran, but I gotta disagree on your take with the v.6-v.8 patches. They really are filler updates with the occasional characters coming in. And the events usually contain the same characters over and over again (looking at you Itto 😠)
If they could incorporate less used characters (and make the stories themselves slightly more lush) then i think they can get away with it
I completely agree with Marco here. Fontaine music is good but it lacks identity. It just sounds like typical European-themed anime music. I would add that even Chenyu Vale's music just feels like generic Chinese-inspired anime music. Compare that to the Mondstadt,.OG Liyue, Inazuma, and Sumeru soundtracks.
What i don't like was optimizations in terms of storage like when you're fresh installing genshin on mobile why don't they just detect your account for current quests and stuffs so that you wont download like 25-ish GB worth of game files while theres like 9-ish GB that you can remove because they are no longer in use. OR just make them optional for cutscenes and just download then when they need it and if you logged onto an friends account that has quest they shoudn't download the whole thing just download the needed things and they should do the same on Desktop and Consoles come on LET US REMOVE PAST QUESTS RESOURCES AND HAVE AN OPTION WHICH TO DOWNLOAD.
Saw the title, immediately got pissed, but realized I should watch it first lmao-
4:06 it’s more of an unpopular opinion, it’s also the reason I clicked this video.
I think most of genshin’s music is mid. There are a few good themes but overall the music makes me say “meh” (especially character themes). Sometimes when there’s no spoken dialogue or I’m just out exploring I just turn the music off and play a playlist that I saved
6:30 Why people make it look as If traveler and Paimon don’t barber in the quests?
But again I guess Genshin players don’t read so there is that
I have no idea why but this video made me download HSR again ahahah
One of the most W videos ever made for genshin 🤗. Keep up with the great videos Bran! 🙌
I was just yesterday listening to the Sumeru soundtrack! So good!
I feel like your take on the representation of genshin was quite biased ngl
(TLDR: genshin revenue comes from the characters, and when said characters are not being treated well in terms of representation the culture they’re inspired from, it really affects EVERYONE.)
Yes the game outside the characters does represent the culture pretty well (arguably) but it’s important to remember that the game is largely focused on the CHARACTERS (at least for “casual players”). The games revenue comes largely from the characters and they… really don’t represent culture well appearance wise (heck sometimes story wise). Take a look at Nahida, she’s supposed to represent the god of sumeru, a region FULL of culture, yet her character design is pretty questionable. It also doesn’t help that only the enemies in the game are actually dark skinned. The tanned characters barely count as tanned, it’s just that most of the cast is very pale, giving that illusion of being quite tanned.
Since you have a large platform, it’s important to take these topics with careful consideration, especially since you aren’t from these cultures. I’m sorry if I sound a bit aggressive, but as someone from one of the cultures that inspires some aspects of the game, it really frustrates me seeing people just glaze over these issues. It causes people to have insecurities, and I’ve seen my family be upset at this too. It does affect us.
First of all, nice clickbait, Bran. Now for my hot take, Geo needs more reactions other than Crystallize. Also, on zajef’s comment, not gonna happen, you’re better off screaming at a wall, sorry
abt the skip button thing, i agree with u that if u don't like the feature, don't use it. tho keep it a few clicks away than just one click because imma be scared for people who are playing an archon quest and accidently click skip button. maybe keep it in the interface where the dialogue logs are and then in a corner there's gonna be an option the skip the dialogue. Once you skip a dialogue, A pop-up can give a summarization of the dialogue. If I'm correct, this feature is in zzz aswell (I don't play zzz so correct me If I'm wrong)
Wrong: Duk’s opinion IS a hot take because any NPC can be romancable if you try hard enough 🫦/j
Why is there some people calling hoyovere homophobic?
Its your opinion btw
why would you choose to play a game that one of its main selling points is "open world" and complain there's too much open world to explore? it's like going to a pizza joint and complaining there's too much pizza.
also, complaining that lore is locked behind books and text but then complaining that the game talks too much… people already dislike how story heavy the game is, i don't think taking the lore behind the books, items, etc, is going to go over well with those who already dont like the story amount. it would also bloat the amount of space already taken up by genshin. it's already 100gb on my ps5, and the va's dont aleays have free time for that, so idk of there will be a solid way to compensate this
Theres (unsurprisingly) a lot of racism in these here comments
My take is that Genshin copied the worst aspect of BotW: The best music themes are not in the game (the E3 trailer theme for Botw and character themes for genshin).
Also, if genshin is a visual novel, as some people claim, where are the fast forward and skip buttons? (Yes, vns have skip button)
As an exploration fan, I'd welcome exploration endgame. Something like the enkanomiya event or moonchase festival minigame: repopulate an area with event chests and pseudoculi for a season and give me some primos and cosmetics if I clear it. It would give me a way to re-enjoy some of my fav locations AGAIN. Exploration haters can say whatever they like, I am also not a fan of combat-only events or endgame, it doesn't fulfill me. I have been skipping Spiral Abyss for 3+ years because I hate it more than I love the rewards, they can do the same with exploration if they don't like it. (For the record, IT is way more interesting for me so I love we got that at least.)
I mean music is subjektive.
Obviously some people are not gonna like certain music.
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All the cool stuff is writen in the character profile. From how they got their vision, to interactions with other characters and even some cool backstories but in game most of the dialogue that involves the playable characters is super boring (and probably involves 10 random npcs being more rekevant than the character itself)
Wait.. What's remuria
WHERE DID TARTA'S FACE GO?!
For the Natlan thing, I believe besides just the point of represantation, another major point really just boils down to proper world building in-univserse. There already are canonically black people in the game, yet no single overall long-term population of where they would have actually come from. People don't tend to just be born with a much darker skin tone, but moreso over years of evolution and natural selection in areas with high amounts of sunlight.
For there to be no single population like that, it would either mean that somehow the few dozens of dark toned people just somehow came to be like that (which is not really good world building), or that there used to be a long-term population, that got completly whiped out (which would be too massive of a plot in Teyvat, to not be mentioned once.. Unless you put that into Khaenriah's story, which would actually be fair)
bosses with mechanics oh soo you mean the world bosses? Stand in the circle or die is the only mechanic they can do. Evrything else can be cheesed with a shield. I personally think zongli broke the game and was never intended to be soo good.
10:04 – 10:11 slaps the table THANK YOU. FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT OUTLOUD.
I’m sorry but the fact that the title was in quotation marks makes it really obvious that someone else said it and not Bran 😭 Some of these people are so mad over nothing
3:21 i wanna say marco was really stuck in ypc era of genshin.sure the music is good but it was good even after chen's departure.saying that it lacks identity would only be belittling the existing composers in hoyo mix because let's be honest,it's not like they're slacking off while ypc was perfecting everything.
Next few lines are my opinion, you don't have to read it if you don't agree with me.
Bit of a hot take from my side,but marco went to make friends with some of the wuwa creators and that may be the primary reason why he even stopped listening to hoyo games in general. Couple that with this tweet and i think the points justified.
the "filler" patches ARE important. if you read a book that was all action, and no time dedicated to getting to know the characters and their lives as normal people, it would be WAY too much and WAY too overwhelming. the same goes for genshin. if we were constantly flooded with lore-relevant story, it would be overwhelming. i don't think i'd like genshin as much if a new region or new archon quest came out every patch.
additionally, people who say that the lack of skin tone diversity isn't important in genshin are REALLY privileged. essentially, they are saying that it does not effect them.. to make a weird comparison, it's like political centrists, or people who say they're "not interested in politics". they're only 'allowed' to not be interested in politics because it doesn't effect them. i also find they often say that "if you don't like it, don't play the game"… which is silly. you can be a critical of a game and still enjoy it: in fact, you SHOULD be critical of a game and still be allowed to enjoy it. being critical of the media you consume is how you stay aware and develop your own sense of self and morality. i can play genshin but i can still be aware of things that it doesn't do perfectly, you know? -myriad
Oh no, don’t insult the music, bran will go off
Bran has a torso?! Wait… does that mean he has legs too?!!! OMG!
I dunno man, I really like lyneys music theme 😂
your channel getting bored and suck
5:44 that rift thing happened tho.rememer the SU event in genshin that took place in inazuma ? 😂
I like how the very first one by Min was a theory by Ashikai BUT the twist is the ending is we make the Dream that is Teyvat reality.
My hot take: I don't understand why people hate "yapping" if I'm understanding what they mean. I love a lot of these characters, and I could sit there and listen to them just shoot the breeze for a long time and not get bored of it. I do agree that a skip button would be nice for those who want it though.
He went from sweatshirt and baggy pants to Polo shirt, and cackies so fancy brann so proud.
Really like these kind of videos you're making! Seems more professional! 😄
If you need a theme to talk in a future video, I think potential crossovers/collabs in Genshin Impact would be pretty neat!