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[maniac-fandomist]

Genshin Impact is What I Have Wanted

and this got longer than I expected.

i’ve been playing a lot of Genshin Impact and thus far it has everything I wanted FFXIV to have - 

a seamless open world (i can see as yet unattuned teleport markers from malms and malms away, the sky is so blue, i can see cool landmarks...)

climbing, climbing, climbing, i can climb a bloody cathedral. It’s good thing this game has a stamina bar because I would climb everything (I do that anyway). 

Also - gliding. The story was like “you need a gliding license” and after I had spent between-quests gliding all over town and climbing over every structure and looting everything bird’s nest for eggs, every hidden chest and every ivy vine for mushrooms. I like not having to jump off things and my character going crunch at the bottom. saves some travel time. and it’s just fun/ (game play wise, the gliding license is not important lol)

It has swimming. Also - I wanted FFXIV to add a swan dive emote. If you jump from a height into the water in Genshin Impact, you do a clean swan dive. it’s the little things. 

(Apparently, allegedly some guy smashed his PS4 in a rage that Genshin Impact is similar to Breath of the Wild to which I say - do you not like having two cakes? I haven’t played BotW yet but I wanna.)

I like the elemental system!!! They have seven elements - Wind, Stone, Fire, Water, Levin, Ice and Plant. I am so glad they included Plant, it just makes sense. They call it Anemo, Geo, Pyro, Hydro, Electro, Cyro and Dendro though. 

I love the elemental reactions; it makes the world have consequence and dynamics. I can even use enemy elements against then by using wind to create a firestorm with the enemy fire attack and burn enemy wood mages.

The known gods of the world who are actually acknowledged by common people actually feature in the plot kicks around Twelve headcanons

they have five weapon types - Sword, Bow, Claymore, Catalyst and Polearm but each combines with it’s character and element in new and different ways. Catalyst comes in two variants as grimoires (Like arcanist) or orbs (like starglobes) are basically mage characters

The art work is really, really colorful and pretty, the world is gorgeous and you get to explore every bit of it! It’s very exploration heavy and has a steady pace; tbf it is a new game. Opening new Statues of the Seven fills in the map, rewarding you for reaching it

I know this is a gacha game but honestly, the game hands you primogems for just about every activity and you use them to buy intertwined fates which gets you gacha pulls. I find every character a joy to at least try out

Oh - they let you try out characters either in the story or through banner events.

It has Noelle - a cute maid who’s maid uniform is also armor. Her element is Geo which seems in character for someone with a big fuck-off sword though I gave her a club which seems apt

I thought Genshin Impact didn’t have weather changes for a bit so far I have discover clear skies, howling gales (that was a storm barrier does that count...?) and rain storms.

I am so glad this is for so many platforms including PS4 - it literally can’t play on my phone, it cannot download. I have been playing for like two weeks and I am hooked

#blogged #rambles #non ffxiv #Genshin Impact #long post #mirapris.txt

[maniac-fandomist]

I am still enjoying Genshin Impact

(It’s only been twoish weeks)

When I wrote my Genshin impact impressions i was still in Monstadt and pretty early in the story.

Now I've reached Liyue, finished Act 1 and i'm AR 26. I’ll throw it under a cut this time because it’s a long post.

I started before 1.1 came out so I got Barbara and having a dedicated healer is so great

The mountains of Liyue are more forgiving - they have more jagged edges and footholds than Monstadt's smooth sides

Then i discovered how damn TALL the mountains are in Jeuyun Karst. What the hell

Why is a Statue of Seven FLOATING on a rock high in the sky.

I take this back - I discovered a really high point floating in the sky by solving a puzzle and it was very cool.

I actually feel like this is a fantasy game. I met three animal-formed spirits (adepti), calmed a ghost, met a bunch of treasuring hunting ghosts in a mine, quelled a dragon and talk to gods semi-regularly.

Even slimes - the perennial fantasy rpg monster is interesting - they live off elemental energy

Sheznayans and the Liyuese have both boggled over Mondstadt's apparent godlessness and its both interesting and funny

The plants are fantastic too - the Mist flowers and the flame flowers are gatherable

So are boars. What i thought were back ground filler animals are huntable though I have yet to determine how this is... (when I shoot one, the other runs away - I presume traps are involved i know they exist)

The amber of Mt. Hulao is cool but j also feel like the wrath of the adepti will strike me if I go around smashing more amber

Finding waypoints is an adventure in itself - found two of them on bloody mountain tops. Good for gliding though

There is a lot of voice acting in this game holy shit. but sometimes the audio and the text out of sync.

Lumine talks in her voice overs??? I tried to clicking the voice before and shs didn't talk... I'd like her to talk more in game but this is good too (oh this is a  new thing as of the 1.1 update patch.)

They should call the story quests character or friendship quests instead...

The cutscenes are pretty epic

Geo traveler is pretty cool but i am too use to Anemo traveler and abuse the swirl effect. (i am using Lumine a lot - A) because she’s the main character and B) apparently this is not a popular choice??? - according to guides anyway and now I am doing it out of spite)

The new archive feature is both useful and aesthetically gorgeous

The Wangshu inn has to be my favorite set piece of any game ever

I like their name for dungeons - domains sound pretty cool

The Domains aren't nearly as themed or nice as FFXIV's dungeons - they have the same basic look but i'm okay with that

Some reservations

There's no underwater diving and it makes me sad.maybe in another update?

Why don't we have any dendro characters yet (nvm mind it’s because Dendro only catches fire though i think Hydro should make dendro constructs just grow like crazy)

I wish Geo just canceled electro attacks cold.

I wish books weren't such a large text boxes though.

My only major criticism is the seeming death of explorable houses because FFXIV's later expacs and Genshin Impact don't have enterable shops or npc homes that aren’t separate zones. Genshin impact has more to explore so i forgive it more. Also - lack of useable inns.

Sometimes when i'm in picture mode, the game freezes and i have to reset

I do have a complaint - I couldn't get pass the first stage of the dvalin fight when you had to use acceleration currents to catch up because controls were unclear and moving down didn't seem to be doing anything. (It does do something - move your ps4 joystick down to get into the acceleration currents). I looked up a video where other people gave tips jn the comments. I did beat the second stage in one try though even though I took an age and all the platforms got corrupted. btw, melee character can climb on Dvalin

I need to beat Spiral Abyss, I am sick of having Amber as my only pyro. I have THREE electros (Fischl, Razor, Lisa), two anemo (Lumine, Sucrose), two hydro (Xingqui, Barbara), one cyro (Kaeya) and two geo (Noelle, Ningguang) now but one pyro. I want Bennett and Xiangling and a not-Kaeya cryo character

#blogged #rambles #mirapris.txt #long post #genshin impact

[maniac-fandomist]

Finally got to watch Aquaman recently and I really liked it. It has a lot of story beats from the animated New52 Throne of Atlantis but i vastly prefer Aquaman's version of it. Shockingly.

SPOILERS

in case you're like me and haven't seen this film. I can't do undercut this is on mobile.

Atlanna gets to be badass

Despite opposing each other, Orm and Arthur don't actually hate each other

The family is reunited; Atlanna and Thomas get a happy ending which I did not expect

The Justice League is absent which is great because they were crowding Throne of Atlantis, suffered from the worf affect as a result and worse, they had just met Arthur and had very little emotional attachment to the narrative

The only thing I preferred from Throne of Atlantis was Mera. That Mera is by far my favorite - built like tank, a warrior and kicks ass.

that being said i did not mind this Mera

Black Manta can grieve but he is in the wrong because Aquaman was walking away and Dad Manta shot him with a grenade. it's Dad Manta's own damn fault he got crushed and drowned

Atlanna also gets to live

So does Orm

He also gets to not be a total asshole and is a little reasonable

I do like Young Justice's version of Atlantean society better - a mix of human, humanoid (with gills and webs) and fish-shaped people

Really surprised Vulko was indeed on Arthur's side the whole time

The hippocampus (sea dragon/horses) and shark mounts and sea dinosaur mounts were very cool.

Despite all the explosions, there was alot of constructive talking - which i believe the explosions interrupted

Very good visuals.

#aquaman spoilers #mirapris.txt #rambles #aquaman #rb #movie spoilers

[maniac-fandomist]

God what HAPPENS in Liyue i keep seeing vague spoilers i need to know

#rambles #mirai.txt #blogged #mirapris.txt #genshin impact tag

[maniac-fandomist]

the first king of (modern) Lucis was Somnus, the Mystic, the Founder King.

The capital is called Insomnia. I know it means Sleepless but it can also read as ‘Without Somnus’...

#rambles #blogged #non ffxiv #ffxv #ff15 #mirapris.txt

[maniac-fandomist]

jtownraindancer mentioned you in a post

“Top 10 Fandoms in the Past 10 Years”

…@almapheonix @chimeracuddles @irisparadox @ themirage-prismatic

top ten fandoms??? I can barely remember yesterday.  I had to dig in my blog for some of these. the bottom three are the ones the ended in the most disappointment for me. Top Three are the ones current or dearest to my heart. mentioned on my face blog ‘themirage-prismatic’ by @jtownraindancer but i’m reblogging on my fandom blog. mentioning no one.

Final Fantasy XIV (current)

Axis Powers Hetalia (drifted but miss it)

Mahou Sensei Negima

Fairy Tail (lost interest past certain arcs)

Pokemon (I wanna get back to it)

Legion of Superheroes Cartoon (it still haunts me)

Assassin’s Creed Fandom (I read fanfic in it)

Marvel Cinematic Universe (disowned)

Voltron Legendary Defender (disowned)

Harry Potter (disowned)

#blogged #rambles #mirapris.txt #jtownraindancer #replying

[maniac-fandomist]

I have a bunch of things I wanna write. :/ Feel like I need a schedule. Also my apartment is no longer arctic cold so I don’t have to hide under my blankets anymore.

FFXIV Writes - (Not posting it all in one post from the get go was a mistake and needlessly complicated things. Started to read through it.

Final Fantasy XIV - Tessellation 

Fairy Tail Fanfic I started literal years ago but set aside to work on Tessellation back when I was still calling it ‘Symmachy’

Ikemen Sengoku - (a historical fiction otome game which I no longer play because the game formatting and the teaspoon space of my phone drives me to a rage but I miss the characters so)

#blogged #rambles #mirapris.txt