Stream: Genshin Impact
Dive into Genshin Impact through my perspective. This page serves as a living journal, updated daily with bite-sized reviews, exclusive video highlights, and curated screenshot galleries from my adventure.
Zibai's resurrection (kind of)
Finished the story of this year Lantern Rite and finally we managed to resurrect Zibai thanks to the three pieces of her soul. I was expecting the three personalities to disappear, but thankfully they're still there. Eventually they'll merge back into Zibai of course, but it would've been a shame if they did disappeared immediately.
Of the three personalities I liked the last one the most especially with the banter she had with Zhong Li at the beginning (when he was about to leave), but hard to go wrong considering the middle one was permanently angry and the first one didn't have much screentime at all.
Honestly I think Hu Tao's centered Lantern Rite was overall better in terms of storyline, but that could be because I really didn't manage to get attached to Zibai much while I already loved Hu Tao a lot since before the lantern rite.
I do agree that Zibai's design is stunning which adds up with the updated 3D model that seem to be making all the new characters look a lot better. I wonder if they plan to update the old characters with more details in the coming year, some of them got updated with their skin release, but that will never cover the big cast that Genshin has...
Heavenly Principles Nails on Zibai
Just continuing with the Genshin Impact event and it shows us why did Zizhi / Zibai got destroyed in the past. The Heavenly Principles decided to drop a huge Celestial Nail on her country to clean the abyss from it (the city was hit by a side effect of the huge war happening at the time) and, despite Istaroth suggesting not to do anything, she still went and protected them because it was her people that trusted her.
In the moment when she was about to die Istaroth stopped time and allowed her to continue being in a frozen-like state until today where Lumine is trying to resurrect her.
This is also made easier by the fact that the Heavenly Principles are completely silent right now and don't seem to react to any kind of provocation happening in the world be it Dottore doing weird experiments or Focalor literally destroying one of the thrones. (which I'm sure will be an important fact once we reach the final stages of the story in the 7.x patches)
Now we managed to collect one of the pieces of her soul, need to get the remaining two to finalize the resurrection and take her back to the world of the living. Curious to see what is her final personality, as we've only see specific fragments so far, for example the one we just collected was her Hatred.
Lantern Rite 2026 Event - Istaroth saved Zibai?!
First part of the event ends with a bombshell revelation with Zhongli revealing that Istaroth (Ruler of Time and one of the four Shades) is the reason why Zibai is still "alive" despite dying long ago. Basically Zibai before dying split her soul in three pieces and sent them in different directions, normally they would've dissipated, but Istaroth intervened with her authority over time to make sure they are preserved up to this day.
After Lumine resonated with Zibai's soul fragment, we decided to try and get the three pieces together and revive Zibai. These three pieces apparently are three different aspects of her, so we're going to see three very different personalities. The one we met in this chapter was very silent and serious, but I'm hoping to see a more friendly/happy version of her too.
Her character design and even the animations seems to be heavily similar to Yixuan from ZZZ even though she has, of course, way less skin being shown compared to the former. I'm not a huge fan of these more "lady-like" characters, but I will reserve my judgment until I can actually see her real personality in action (after she merges back).
Lantern Rite 2026 Event - In search of Lang-Gan
The new Lantern Rite event seems to be focused on the new character that was just released named Zibai. There's contrasting info coming from different characters about her origins. Some think she was a contemporary of Zhong Li and she helped him in battle. Some other thinks she come from a precedent era and is actually the "Daughter of Time".
Either way, the only thing that seems to match so far is that she's known as the "White Horse Adeptus from Lang-Gan" and she's heavily present in the legends of Liyue. The whole horse aspect fits with the current zodiac year as from 17 february 2026 we'll be official in the "year of the horse".
Together with the usual gang (Hu Tao, Xiangling, etc...) we're investigating a case of a woman (NPC) going crazy in the middle of the city talking about some relic that she found (she was restrained by Shenhe). This woman belongings seems to lead again to the country of Lang-Gan.
I guess next step will be to try and find the place where to find this country ruins or...maybe we can ask Zhong Li I guess? I mean he should know something about it right?
Last year Lantern Rite was Hu Tao centered and honestly one of the best events we've ever had. The final emotional scenes with Hu Tao are still pretty vivid in my memories. I'm curious to see if this is going to be able to top that.
Genshin Impact Shutterflash event
I have to say that the Shutterflash event in Genshin Impact has been the highest level of difficulty that I experienced in this game since it released. Not even joking, I struggled so much trying to find the right combination of angle to reach near 100% for all the photos.
Genshin Impact has been usually an easy fare when it come to event, but sometimes they underestimate how clumsy their player can be with these.
Now that the event is done, I'll go back to my cave waiting for the next patch even though my mind goes back to Sandrone and her revival that will happen in so many months. It's going to be harsh to wait so long for her to be back, but please at least make it an amazing patch that one. I want to see Sandrone x Columbina ingame!
Don't leave me Sandrone! Not yet!
I need to mentally prepare for what's going to come in Genshin in a few days. Hopefully they make it clear that Sandrone is coming back a few patches later or I'll be sad...
The leaks all seem to point out that she won't be released until June/July in a specific story dedicated to her which is quite a long wait. I really just want to see them together happy just playing around teasing each other like in the other patch.
Also is she going to be Electro like the leaks seems to imply? She currently has more of a "physical" look, but maybe with the redesign...
Christmas Celebration art
They just released a new official art for christmas from the Genshin Impact team. The three "ally" Fatui Harbinger celebrating christmas with us. Columbina with the christmas hat was ultra cute, but watching Sandrone near her playing with the hat was also absolutely adorable.
We're totally going to get Sandrone playable in a future patch later in the year. I want to play a team with just Fatui Harbingers (Arlecchino, Sandrone, Columbina and Wanderer) and see how it plays.
Yes, I know there's technically Tartaglia, but honestly I never liked his character or gameplay much.
Natlan crew in Mondstadt Event
There's a new story based event in Genshin, seems to be centered around the Natlan crew (Varesa, Xilonen, etc...), but set in Mondstadt. Sort of an exchange program it feels. Not sure what exactly is the link between comics and the arena event that is being prepared though. It seems to have the usual mini games in each different stall and a main story divided into chapters. Seems like one of the mainline events for the patch.
Not sure the connection yet, but I guess they'll explain it further in the story. Time to keep reading.
Furina Voice lines Analysis
One of the things I've been doing in the recent weeks is going through all the voice lines of all the characters in Genshin Impact (and other games as well). I always procrastinated, but there's so much interesting lore in them that I simply can't keep ignoring.
Today was the time of Furina and she's absolutely the most adorable as you can see here. Can I take her home already? To think that I did not like her much judging from trailers alone and now Furina is my favorite character of the franchise together with Citlali.
Jahoda is an amazing character
I read a few crumbs about Jahoda's backstory and I feel like it would be nice if they had some event going further into the details. Especially to what happened before she met with Nefer and how she ended up replacing her arm with a mechanical one.
She seems like an underutilized character in the current Nod Krai story due to her being just a normal human in a story centered around supernatural entities. And despite that she still had the courage to stand and protect Columbina from Rerir nearly dying in the process.
Hopefully the future chapters will bring her some justice.
Columbina release confirmed
This is the official confirmation that Columbina will be released in the next patch of Genshin Impact, and honestly, it feels so deserved. Since she’s the titular main heroine of this story chapter, it’s almost guaranteed she’ll be a strong asset, especially for any Lunar reaction teams that might come into focus going forward. I’m really excited to see how she moves the current meta and what her kit brings to the table.
Now the real question for me is whether I should roll for her weapon too… I definitely need to look into whether it actually boosts her performance in a meaningful way or if it ends up being more of a side-grade compared to some of the stronger F2P options we already have.
Columbina story progress in Nod Krai
Started playing just now the new patch story of Genshin Impact continuing the Nod Krai saga. Curious to see if there's more Sandrone x Columbina scenes as the one from the last patch was downright amazing.
Rarely I get so invested into some characters relationship in Genshin, but Sandbina seems to be way too perfect to miss out on it. I do feel that they are changing the direction of the story in this new patch to be more attentive to the older audience of gamers, but let's see if that stands or change along the way.
I always felt that the Genshin Impact story felt too childish at times...
Jahoda release can't come sooner!
Only few more days before Jahoda releases in Genshin Impact! Can't wait as she's my favorite of the new zone so far!
It's both the combination of looks (she looks cute), her voice and personality. How she tries to avoid dangerous missions, but still can't say no whenever her boss Nefer trust her with something.
She still came back to help us despite being scared of what could happen if she was embroiled in a conflict against the Fatui. Hopefully she'll be useful in terms of gameplay too, latest 4* releases haven't been exactly stellar. She's Anemo though which is an element that works nicely as support for other characters reactions.
Time Management for Events
If there's one thing that I really hate is my time management when it comes to gacha games events. I'm almost always at the very end of the time period trying to rush the the events because of procrastination. It can get overwhelming when you have more than 4-5 gacha games to follow at the same time.
Genshin has been quite lenient on this because usually events give you large time windows to complete, but other games are way more strict (some even require you to do things daily to complete the event).
This event was focused on Faruzan, one of my most liked characters from the Sumeru part of the story. It's always nice to see these "fake obaachan" talking.
