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@Glaivekiyo breaks down the clear reasons for why Genshin shouldn’t be a game marketed to children, but it is. Saint comments on the clear differences Genshin has versus other gacha games.
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Date: November 12, 2025
Nah i don't need spending when i got 4 limited 5 star characters in just 2 patches
If not kids game, why shaped like one?
Does anyone feel like Glaive is pulling the most cope pieces of videos or its just me? Used to watch him because he seemed to make very objectively and fair videos, but he is kind of dragging it too far as of lately, he brings the most minute levels of "proof" to back up his words and i don't know, just feels like he is trying to too hard to show something that most cant see.
Before anything, there is NOTHING BAD with a game being for kids, it doesn't make it less or better, its just the type of game it is.
At surface level Genshin is a game for kids, its marketed for kids, looks like a game for kids and its treated like one, story telling, character design, even if it has clear and obvious fanservice, I've seen other cartoons where there's attractive characters, and are still cartoons for kids, voice acting, the way they handle livestreams, its like watching Dora the Explorer, events, PAIMON LITERALLY DUMBING DOWN EVERYTHING and most importantly, entirety of Natlan, the only thing that is really not for kids that everyone has pointed out/mentioned it, its the lore, something I bet only a minority actually enjoys, not to say that's good or bad, but stop denying the reality lmao.
Now even then, the Genshin lore is soooooo….. tame? While its genuinely interesting and was something that kept me playing for a long time, if there are controversial topics, they're so hidden behind an extreme amount of lore and its mostly hinted, a lot is left for interpretation, which is exactly what The Incredibles did, as a kid I didn't understand any of that, but as a adult, I can now understand all of the darker things that movie had, yet it was still a family movie-kids movie. If Genshin was trying to be a game not for kids, it would right away not feel like one, that's a huge flaw as a game developer and artist, it shows the game has a big disconnection on what it wants to be and what it wants you to feel.
The game doesn't show you the problems, it wants you to imagine it thru text but that's also another of its biggest flaws, because Hoyo doesn't know how to do interesting story telling, its basically like reading a fancier book, instead of having a physical object with pages, you just have them displayed on a screen.
Late disclaimer, I stopped playing at 5.1, so all of the lore has been mostly gathered from other people's comments + a friend of mine who is a huge Genshin enjoyer. But I did play almost 4 years of Genshin, never in that time I felt like playing an "adults" game, so maybe some of this has changed and they have shown these topics more openly. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Ooh! Ooh! And grass is green!
I remember genshin before the guarantee banner character. That was truly nuts. I still remember the people debating if it would be a good system or not after they added the guarantee. It was a different time.
3:55 i flinched
21:04 true.
A kid's movie I can think of that has such dark themes is Help, I'm a Fish. if you rewatch it now, you will realize that its plot is about ww2 caust.
spoiler:
you literally see one of the fish in a work camp, and the crab officer makes a heil when addressing the crab soldiers.