Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video is NOT sponsored by Genshin Impact. I mean, they did offer, but I don’t think they’d be too happy with my opinion on gacha games.
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Thanks to Siren, BirbIsGamer, Cherrilicious, Koopie, Matcha, and other members of my Discord servers for helping out with this video, Julian for helping me grind artifacts, and Lumi and Astro for agreeing to build an ice bridge for twenty minutes. And a big extra special thanks to Connor for helping me film the ending :)

Music:
Subway Samba - Laryssa Okada
Main Theme - Breath of the Wild
motorized ice sculpture - Going Under
Theater - Sonic Forces
Liberator’s Hideout - SMT Dx2
Fish Hits! - Sonic Adventure
One-Winged Angel - Final Fantasy 7
Piranha Plant’s Lullaby - Super Mario 64
Mirage Saloon (Wildstyle Pistolero) - Sonic Mania
Game Over - Super Mario World
Hurry! - Final Fantasy 7
In Broad Daylight - Chibi-Robo
Egg Golem - Sonic Adventure 2
Peaceful Hike (Qingce Daytime) - Genshin Impact
Rapid as Wildfires - Genshin Impact
the grind - Going Under
Rage Mage - Skylanders
Surviving Exile - Pyre
An Interesting Labour - Genshin Impact
Staff Roll - Super Mario World
The Only Thing They Fear Is You - DOOM Eternal
Looping Steps - Super Mario 64
Hisstocrat - Super Mario 3D World
Map - SMT Dx2
Mirror Temple (Mirror Magic Mix) - Celeste B-Sides
Can You Really Call This A Hotel - Undertale
So Happy World - Persona 5 Royal
Painful Retribution - Disbelief Hardmode
Aeolic Guardian - Musashiden 2
Specialist - Persona 4
Ideal and the Real - Persona 5 Royal
The Unseen Ones - Hades
Sakura-Scented Kiseru - Genshin Impact
Streets of Elegance - Genshin Impact
It’s Showtime! - Undertale
FEH Event Theme (Instrumental) - Dragalia Lost
Friday Night - Yakuza 0

Other Sources:
My Original Genshin Article
medium.com/@yakkocmn/the-problem-with-genshin-impact-944cac6449d7

Dumpster Fire
youtube.com/watch?v=AfQcqxKyTyg

Granblue Fantasy Guild Wars
youtube.com/watch?v=9-Yaw2nE68U

Genshin Web Event
youtube.com/watch?v=Lf444StbbIU

Genshin Content Creator Bribe
clips.twitch.tv/BumblingCuriousZebraPicoMause

Chapters:
Intro - 00:00
Act 1: The "Open World" - 3:13
Act 2: Grinding. So Much Grinding. - 13:49
Act 3: Gacha Hell - 21:01
Act 4: A Message for the Damned - 27:01

#GenshinImpact