Genshin Impact is pretty much a clone of Ys in many ways...but with GI having a vastly higher budget than any Ys game does. And unlike any given Ys games, GI constantly will be getting new updates and more content forever. Whereas Ys games die shortly after they are released, because they never get any new content, other than a few months worth of patches or something like that right when they first come out. So in other words: any one Ys games has zero long-term potential to keep the players engaged...

As a completionist, I hated checking on towns everytime the events advanced. Because the NPCs would say new things. Ys 8, Celceta and Oath were the worst for me so far in this aspect. Are there a lot of NPCs, and are there many events that change it?

I currently own the demo for this game, and while the combat is great the environments in the demo are... really bland. Coming off of Ys VIII, the most colourful and beautiful game in the series, this seems like a really jarring change. Is it like this for the full game? I WILL buy the game eventually, no matter what, but I'll hold it off for a while until a significant sale if it turns out it's mostly like this. It may sound picky but it really just seems like there's something lacking without all the va...

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YS8 and 9 are such fantastic games and have such great gameplay systems already. Really all I'd want in the next game is to build on what's already here instead of completely changing it up and following the bland Souls like trend. Everything about the last two games is great and the only main gripe is that the games look dated by modern standards. We'll see I guess....