I dislike both at times. Genshin's a mixed experience, they have good voice actors, but occasionally it's annoying. Here, it's just annoying most of the time.
@@bats9218 That's fair. I'm also kind of biased because I mainly watch English dubs since I have a short attention span and I'm more familiar with the voice actors in Genshin. I love Corina, but I genuinely can't sit through Paimon's lines anymore. I just find it funny that they gave Keith Silverstein the npc no one cares about in TOF while Zeke is a prominent character with the worst voice acting ever. It just shows how much voice acting can make or break a game
Funnily enough,some of these are the Genshin VAs. Kuki,Fischl,and an NPC actress are here. Granted,they voice the gacha characters,but it wouldn't surprise me if at least some of the Genshin NPC cast phoned in a few lines here.
@@DS342 yeah I saw that! I almost immediately recognized Zhongli and Childe's va and was wondering why the hell Griffin Burns wasn't given a bigger role lol
@@yoiimimi you know what's weird about the english dub of tower of fantasy? some of the voice actors play genshin characters and sound fine there, but in tower of fantasy it sounds off somehow.
“The only voice actors I approve of are Shirli & the mc” It’s funny because Franz is Zhongli & you can tell he’s trying his best to understand what the director wants at the beginning- he’s pretty okay & comfy with the role by Chapter 2 but yeah. He’s a smidge awkward in the tutorial before the REAL plot reveal kicks in Tbh I walked into this game thinking it was just an mmorpg without any context but after learning all the tea it’s like welp I’m not spending money because nah this isn’t a Genshin Killer in the slightest
ToF is nowhere near a genshin killer. But it certainly has one or two things that made people love it over Genshin. But tbh, I’m not spending my money on ToF either. Because I have my eyes on an upcoming game called Wuthering Waves
honestly its one of those cases where its not the VA's fault man the story and direction is just poor writing especially when you have to tie it in with the retarded fetch quests that so far are activate this thing explore that or give me some material aaa yes and from time to time kill that elite thats about it no other verity what so ever i know 0 thing about all of our SSR and SR characters that aren't really tied to the story that much i dont know if they will be in an expansion or what ever 2.0 but by then i have 0 emotional care and attachment for anyone in this game that's a BIG problem some of them look neat and thats about it just looking neat
@@user-pu5yj4gz5o bestie? sumeru is a whole new map, new characters, new quests, new storyline, new bosses, a whole new element, and more. sumeru is literally a game changer. im *pretty sure* its gonna last for more than a week
@@Auoric bro fr, I love his playstyle but I for the love of the god, I'm always a step away from popping my eardrums every time he says "I AlreaDy KNow whAt tO spEnD oN The CoMmiSsioN"
The static faces killed me Like the character be saying or screaming a lot and their face be like :I :) Also when you do those weapon skills and it zooms in and the face won't move, cracks me up everytime
I knew you'd like it when it comes to the Waifus. But when it comes to the story the game just lacks...a lot. We go on this big search for someone we barely know. But other than the story, like combat and exploration, I'm really enjoying this game. It just needs a lot of polishing.
I actually prefer tof exploration over genshin. In genshin you spend 20 minutes trying to figure out a puzzle only to get 5 primogems... In tof not only the chest feels more like a "reward". You can actually 100% the area effectively without following a video or a map which really kills the feel.
@@sephroth201 I agree, the exploration in this game is rewarding and fun, which is something I feel a lot of open world games fail to do. It's one of the few open world games where exploration doesn't feel like a chore.
Honestly if ToF hadn't been advertising itself as The Genshin Killer, it would just be its own game, but I also cannot deny that a significant chunk of the playerbase are bored Genshin fans who have nothing to do while waiting for Sumeru to drop. It's a gross marketing strategy but honestly I would never have bothered with this game if not for the slew of articles dramatically proclaiming it as the newest competitor who would singlehandedly drive Hoyoverse out of business because it has **gasp, shock, the audacity** character customization EDIT: wow I forgot about this, I deleted ToF a month ago because Sumeru dropped and I don't like co-op. Genuinely for the ppl mad about endgame, where do you find the time and energy to speedrun events and regions? Y'all don't have jobs? School? Friends? And you've decided to act as if it's the devs fault that you can't pace yourself? Sure
Apparently it was a mistranslation but idk. It just feels like everyone is misjudging it by comparing it to the only other anime style free roam gacha, without realizing they're of two different play styles
@@bats9218 It's not a mistranslation actually. I asked my friend who is good at Chinese about it and she said ToF did indeed advertise itself as Genshin Killer. Even her Chinese friends and colleagues confirmed it
Lmao I remember the days when other mmos actually advertisrd themselves as wow killwrs heck even other games advertising beforw as halo killers yet the rwactions weren't as chaotic as these. Hell just for a fucking free to play gacha game put your heads out of your asses people,I can tell genshin is the only game these so called "gamers"play fucks sake
@@hongngocinhvo6277 do you have the original source? Regardless if they actually did it, I'm seeing a lot of 3rd party sources being the ones advertising it as such, even before beta came out in CN
To be honest, the first companion wasn’t Mi-a, it was a gopher. Not sure why they changed it and made mi-a has a role similar to paimon but a little less chatty
My take: This game really shouldn't be compared to Genshin at all. It is way more PSO2 wearing a Genshin skin. If you have to compare them then I'd say Genshin has better characters, story and general polish. ToF has multiplayer, better open world movement and more intense combat.
@@amira3550 What's the problem with it? I wouldn't consider it top tier, but it's far from a bad open world. There are several biomes and unique locations.
@@ThePandafriend Location aren't unique at all, the only location that really are different from the rest are those of 2.0 onwards. The open world itself is ugly as hell, but the movement options are really good with the exception to mounts that are useless
The story was… way too sped up. The only time in which I actually felt emotion is when Zeke was about to shoot Shirli, but it was only a mixture of concern and anger. This is a game rated age 12+ on the app store, I don’t feel like we should be getting that serious just yet. Also, we’ve had no time to bond whatsoever with these characters! I don’t care about them at all. The story is really hard to follow, I don’t understand shit. Why are we doing this? What’s in it for us? Our memories? Yeah, high chance that’s gonna happen from all this. The MC does not feel like an MC, they feel like a fucked up background character. Combat and exploration is nice, story is awful. No emotional investment, voice acting was extremely poor, and way too little time inbetween drama. It felt like I was watching a terribly directed play. I’m gonna continue playing solely because I want Nemesis, but that’s it. This game isn’t doing it for me.
@@TYR1139 I haven't cared too much for the story. Fortunately the combat is good and the MMO aspect keeps it interesting. Hopefully PvP remains balances so whales won't be the best players for all time.
So.. It's basically like Genshin? We have no fucking bond with the characters because it's too short.. If there's lore and connection with them only from the event, then we have no actual bond with the characters.. There's too many characters in Genshin and that makes it more hard for us to have more connection to them.. Plus with the MC having no fucking personality or even emotion on their faces makes it worse
"The only voice actors that I approve of so far is the main character and Shirli" I agree. All of the others don’t have any real emotion in their voice. Plus there’s a scene that Jei didn’t show where the crowd is calling for Shili’s execution and it’s painfully obvious that they just pulled an angry crowd mp3 from some site. Honestly after that I just checked out and deleted the game 31:37 Of course the first NPC that sounds good looks like he’s a member of the Proud Boys 🤦
on a glance, the speaking protag and the combat makes it looks better than that other game but after playing it a few hours I can already feel the jank, Im not touching this until they at least add proper dual shock support
It's almost as if a protagonist speaking or not doesn't actually matter unless you're somebody with the attention span of a literal goldfish and the imagination of a jaded adult. It's almost as if silent protagonists aren't a problem at all and it's just that people want everything spoonfed to them.
Nah, it anyway will be shitty because of tier list based character power. Like in Genshin “best” characters is better because they’re usually more comfy in all way, but in ToF best characters is best because of dmg/healing values
Wow, this game looks like a big yikes to me, this was supposed to rival Genshin Impact? The first major competitor that Hoyoverse should be scared of? This unfinished, unpolished, and clunky mess? Really? I mean sure, I can definitely see the potential, but everything is so rough and ridged, this looks more like an early beta or even alpha, not something ready for an official launch, and the story looks very rushed and badly written, I was actually kinda interested in checking this game out, but after seeing this, yeah no thanks, definitely needed another year or two in development, but yeah, this game definitely won't be competing with Genshin any time soon Oh and those enemy designs are just absolutely atrocious
Tbh genshins rivals would be things like yostars games: azur lane, arknight, etc or something like FGO. They all are part of the same style, ie waifu collection with great story, but genshin went the way of not having stages persay. The games arent really pullijg players away too much any more since its kinda defined and most players are combination of rotators or loyals.
People have different preferences. Although I agree with you most there. Genshin became pretty boring to me fast and the only reason Im playing it is because of lore and saving for Columbina. I liked ToF's fighting mechanic more. Just like PGR. (PGR the best gacha imo)
Its good to see that Kage also thinks that the voice acting its just terrible. That could be forgiven if not were that the audio mixing and effects are also terrible... and i cant belive you also got soft locked on that cut scene... man its like the game its just really close to be good but those little unpolished little things stack on each other to just drag it down. Also, i got Shiro as my first SSR.
Honestly I wouldn't be playing ToF if I wasn't able to play as the ultimate god gamer (Chiaki Nanami). The game is fine for the most part and I like that I can play with friends but that's really it. Btw I love how 5min into the story they try to create some drama with Luminen't and her brother because it's like "B*tch I don't know any of you, why should I care?"
It just doesn't do it for me. Sci-fi as a theme is so cool but seeing it this unpolished is so meh. If they have ZZZ animation with that combat mechanics + a bit of gravity then it'll be better. There's something missing between the characters and the environment that prevents them form meshing together I just can't figure out what it is. ZZZ nailed the scifi aesthetic unfortunately its to repeatable, TOF has some nice mechanics but they are really janky.
@@Kaito8292. Turns out she voices multiple people. Honestly when I learned she voices the female MC I just went, "Aah, that's why I'm surrounded by 2B expies." lol (Edit: Failed to mention it specifically, but the EN VA is Meryl as well. Hilda and Hanna too, surprisingly.)
If they didn't labeled themselves as Genshin Killer, nor steal resources and animation from others, this would've been an actual interesting game, in fact I don't consider it as a gacha game cause I don't feel the gacha aspect that much after my first 30 pulls, I treat it as an mmorpg instead. edit: comments do be wild haha, let me just make some things clear, first I never said I dislike the game, in fact I quite enjoy it, I was just saying it was dumb for them to use resources from other games and even literally stole one artist's animation where they just changed the character and the setting but everything was the same. (MMOByte made a somewhat 'in a nutshell' vid for the company's dumb decisions, the stolen animation was in 5:00) Also about the genshin killer thingy, like what others said iirc I also saw it in a bilibili ad once and just thought it was a dumb decision, I thought that it's cool for them to compete with something large like genshin cause that will give them a goal to achieve, and it's also a good marketing ploy for them but it's dumb once players play the game and quit after a few days or weeks of playing it thinking it's a game that can compete against genshin, I'm not defending genshin here cause I'm not a blind fan, I play gacha games I like it's just as simple as that. Call genshin overrated but the popularity can't be denied cause it worked it's way into mainstream gaming compared to other large gacha games which have been there for years with it's dedicated fans. tldr; I'm having fun with tower of fantasy right now, cause it makes me relive the times I started playing aura kingdom, sadly I haven't played the game since asia server got shut down. have a nice day.
it's a mmorpg where your class is random ( you need 2 of the same role for a class ) if you are unlucky, you can get the same SSR over and over again which would suck. i kinda wished we had 2 ssr selectors so you could have the "class" you want it isn't as bad as it sounds, since SR are usable, but still ...
Fun fact. Originally she actually got shot. But then among other things needing to be censored it was changed to Zeke not shooting her. Doesn't change much because she got the RoboCop treatment either way.
@@Miraris someone said that it was a mistranslation and the real translation was "Genshin Competitor" instead of "genshin killer" im not sure though if its true
yeah it stuck for me there too i literally ran past the point with the guy i was talking to and it "to far from mission point" reset me so i didn't have to alt f4 the game out but still kinda jank XD
tbh this is what i thought genshin is gonna be when i installed it, an mmorpg where we can play with friends as a party and raid bosses with a bunch of players, alas, it's a single player where the peak co-op experience is prop hunt that only happened twice in almost two years, at least keqing was cute and the lore is deeper than mariana trench
@@hanabi.1 better stick with genshin my dude, doesn't matter who you simp for in gi because all you need to clear all content is a xiangling and bennett, and one of them is free
@@vrfitnessandgaming3234 you just reminded me that today is the abyss reset, a lot happend this past two weeks and it felt like a month lmao. anyway time to grab my 600 primogems 🥱
Rather than Adult Bronya, Shiro is just Ann from Persona 5, she’s even got a cat in some of her art and her Simulacrum skills are phantom thief related
I don't know why but I find scifi themed open world, uhh, full of clutter? I mean what is aesthetically pleasing looking at jumbled cables, mismatched cardboard walls and galvanized iron roofing? Reminds me of my country... Pretty depressing stuff... If I want sci-fi type of game I'll just stick to Honkai...
Honestly I like the fact that this mascot character doesn't stab out my ears with their voice Though I never really like mascots Plus the mc actually talks so no need of mascot translation
everywhere i've been i see people commenting how better mia is to paimon meanwhile i feel so disturbed everytime i look at her. she just feels so.. uncanny?
The game has better pity system than genshin but genshin story is better The combat style is like Honkai which is why I like the game In conclusion the game is different than GI You can play with other players and duel with them and the PVP event is fair Whale and F2P is balance in the PVP
@@lolollololol551 Yes they only similar combat style but Honkai is still better (what I mean about that is they also have an evasion skill which is Fantasia in ToF and QTE style, discharge in ToF
Better pity means nothing when everything besides SSR's is useless... That's like improving Genshin's pity system but turning every high meta value 4 star into a 5 star..
I actually think the ToF Gacha could be worse than Genshin in the long run. Because while it is easy to get the standard SSRs, getting the limited SSRs is just SOOOO much harder for F2P. Depends a lot on if limited characters are gonna powercreep the original ones.
5:40 it would've been funnier if it's one of those quick time event and failing to activate the jetpack in time would make your oc fell and turning into mushed tomatoes. It reminds me of that one scene in spiderman 3 game
The only thing keeping me playing after a week is using the few characters I like, including Shiro. If you don't have the SSRs you like it's a pretty lackluster experience. If you like it the combat is the only reason to play and you'd probably get that and more in Honkai. The voicework in English is worse than some terrible 90s anime dubs. The story itself is shit. There's really no other way for me to say it. Story progression, character level caps and exploration ALL being time gated just makes me think the game doesn't have any content to speak of. It's like they know they have to drip feed for anyone to stick around. The PvP, which so many want to champion as being balanced despite it being a gacha game, doesn't even work most of the time. The latency and hit detection is so bad that it's almost unplayable. Add to that you need to have certain SSR weapons to even compete because you just lose by default without a high Shatter weapon. Somehow I have formed zero attachments to any characters, story beats, game modes or even the exploration. The map is large, yes, but it's populated by nothing but a few shines to pick up and mobs you'll eventually just run past because even taking the time to kill them is a waste. Nothing actually happens anywhere. Once you've picked up all the candy in a zone you're done. I may give it one more week of casual play and see how I feel then but it hasn't taken very long to lose all enthusiasm.
I like the game but I can def see all the points you made. The only real drive in this game is to get new characters sadly. Where in Genshin you can clap cheeks with 4* characters that you have a connection too (shout out to my girl Noelle). Its a good alternative for people who wanted a more combat focused experience but def not a Genshin replacement...more like a weekend get away lol
@@Lathander81 I've already decided to put it down for good. Even if it gets huge updates I don't see it recovering. In very little time ToF became a game where all I had to look forward to was a daily grind and a long wait to be allowed by the powers that be to actually level up. When a gacha game becomes a part time job it's time to move on, take a break or slow it down. Hitting that point as fast as I did with ToF is a new record for me and I'm currently playing Genshin while dabbling in FGO and Azur Lane. I feel like ToF is a game where they tried for a lot of things but did none of them very well and some very poorly.
Am i the only one who thinks that they just matchup Genshin and ToF just because they want distracted people from associate it with Honkai? Yeah open world similar like Genshin, but the combat mostly similar to Honkai. And they literally got caught to copy paste Honkai weapon in one of ads. Don't know why people still can put in money in an unpolished game like this. Playing Honkai, Genshin and Tower, clearly Mihoyo is superior in terms of making great games. Can't wait for Zenless Zone Zero. Instead of quantity , I'm always pursue for quality first.
I think I'm finally on the other side of the interest bell curve for ToF. At first I was like, "oh look another genshin clone, SKIP." Then I saw all the quality of life stuff they have that Genshin just won't add for some reason and was getting pretty interested. But now I see how jank the story and voice acting is and just how desperate they are to be genshin without being genshin that I'm no longer interested. I would still give it a shot if it were supported on playstation. All that said, I support ToF existing because it is some needed competition to get genshin to try harder. I literally only want to pet the animals, why is that so hard?
"I literally only want to pet the animals, why is that so hard?" Well, I imagine it's because Hoyo has higher standards than Tencent/Hotta. Of course it's easy to make an "animation" where the cat just jumps a bit when you click it. However, if you want to animate petting the animals properly, for every character, for multiple petting animations that aren't just a short loop, for every character outfit, while avoiding clipping between character and animal, between character and their outfit, between character outfit and the environment... ... ain't that easy. I'd actually be mad if Genshin implemented petting animals and do it the way ToF did it.
@@loop5312 Sure. But they also have to work on constant updates for all their games, not to mention on their upcoming games. Also, it's not just one character. It's every character and all their outfits, as well as every future charater and all their outfits, for every pet available, and it needs to be compatible with every possible height difference between pet and character. ... it's not that easy.
To be honest the stuff they ripped off aside, the game itself so far doesn't seem all that bad to me. It has a lot of things that could use improvement but for what we have now it's a passable game that could be heavily improved given enough time.
the game is like a fusion of Borderlands, PSO2, with a few Genshin and Final Fantasy rpg and crafting elements thrown into the fire. Also I can't even exceed past meeting Mi-a on mobile as the sh-tty game keeps crashing for over a week straight. I haven't even made it past a tenth of your progress yet..It legit took me 4 days just to pass the tutorial between 6 servers like wtf?! Such a let down, I'm honestly debating just uninstalling the sh-ttily managed game. Shirli and the MC are the only VA's that tried from what I can tell which is also a let down.
@@ItsXetren I'm using an Iphone 8 I checked all of the requirements and it's not my phone that's the problem. It's the devs' side of things. I even explained in a helluva lot of detail to the devs support page as to what I was experiencing and they said it was something on their end and that I wasn't the only one experiencing that issue. Why do I have Xiao's cursed luck? Damn..where's Klee, I think I need to relieve some stress by blasting some hilichurls to infinity and beyond..
22:05 wow for some reason it never once occurred to me that I should be shooting the pillar gun into the floor. I've been shooting it horizontally on walls and using it as a step ladder when it's much easier to use it as an elevator lmaoo
Yeah, I kept playing ToF because of it's "lot of features", and I enjoyed the game because I can play with my own personalized character which I've spent 1 hour making it. You know, like a personal waifu thingy 😂 Little did you know, you can do a raid "World boss" with everyone in the server and you don't have to spent any material to claim the rewards, except if you want a better drop you can use an item, and you can get the item about 3-4 per week(?) Idk, I just hope Genshin battle mechanism improved. And put some more features. So I don't feel bored
honestly, the only good things that keeps me playing this game are the combat mechanics and tons of rewards (that made us think that this game is f2p friendly).
Something which became really noticable for me is that the movement is way more fun than Zelda (or Genshin). Double jumping and dashing around freely simply adds so much. Also you don't drown when out of stamina. You lose hp though. And later in the game you also can't solo stuff anymore. The coop domains really require coop partners. Also they are actually fun and not just an arena. The beginning of the game (and the story) is way too easy, but it doesn't stay this way. Also the world bosses are actually a challenge. Plus the world exploration is actually rewarding, because gacha orbs are one of the main collectibles. I think by far the biggest problem is that this is compared so much to Genshin, while at the end of the day mainly the climbing is similar. Almost everything else is just genre related. Also I'm pretty glad that I picked the JP audio. The English direction is pretty awful. And due to using mouse and keyboard that controller implementation doesn't affect me. At the end of the day it's a nice mmo, but partly pretty janky.
When Genshin Impact first came out everyone was blaming it for copying Breath of the Wild, so I can't really feel bad for GI for what happens now with ToF. For us players it's a good thing, competition between the two means they will both try to be better! I do suggest playing the game you enjoy the most, or even both at the same time.
I think the memes where people customize their character to resemble Genshin characters is funny, but I never really took it seriously as copying. I don't really think this game copies Genshin at all (If anything it reminds me a lot of Code Vein). The artsyles are similar, but the world and combat styles are very different. However, I did, 100%, think the thumbnail was KAF. Seriously though, the voice acting has me so stumped. Franz sounds like Keith Silverstein, who is an amazing voice actor, so why does he sound so bad here? Was the director just bad or did he specifically suck the life out of the voices? To be fair I haven't found any confirmation on Franz's voice actor so maybe it is just a less experienced actor with a twin voice.
The writing and some of the voice acting made me uninstall the game after few days. But I hope you have fun with it Kage! Very nice to see you back again! ☺️
@@havidikevidi I would do this but I like reading lore and the dialogue so I’d rather not put my already fried brain from the terrible writing through that 😅
"The game is more pleasurable after I got Shiro." That was literally my experience too, until I got locked out of questing for the 5th time and grew tired
Funny thing is that I have heard from someone say that the reason that ToF was created was because Hoyoverse didn't want to sell Genshin so they decided to make their own game to surpass it. So its understandably why it is so shitty, they rushed to make the game in 2 years and now it needs a lot of polishing.
Deducting the rush part, it only has 1/5 of genshin's budget and 1/3 of staff's amount when developing the game. Not surprised that the game is so unrefined atm. However, there's immediate improvement after the funds finally flow in. im looking forward to that.
@@sephroth201 While I won't deny that it has, it certainly isn't enough to compete with the upcoming games (i.e Wuthering Waves, Gran Saga and even ZZZ) 4.0+ better blow those games out of the water if they wish to compete. P.S: I included ZZZ cause many more people care about that game more just cause it looks better (that's how a mihoyo fan's brain works, they care far more about graphics and aesthetic than gameplay) even though the combat is braindead. Imo ToF is leauges better than ZZZ, all ToF needs is more polish. All ZZZ offers is good graphics, aesthetics and eyecandy animations, nothing else really. In fact, i'd even say Honkai Impact 3rd is better.
the japanese VA's aren't much better tbh. And have you seen the lineup they got for the english VA's? A top quality line up. The VA direction is awful, probably have a bad director or something, because with the VA lineup they have, it should be wayyy better than what it is.
Except for cool fight animations the whole game is quite a disappointment (mostly due to the hype before the official release), especially the main story. It felt more like a side story that got forgotten even by the creators. The only thing that still keeps me playing is Shiro's butt...
Truth be said, I knew this game wouldn't be that good but I'm so sick of genshin routine of commissions+resin spend+log off that I'm enjoying this game more than I should. I even stopped playing genshin for a week now after playing it for 700+ days.
The story department of ToF needs work, but i'm having a blast playing this game. Unlike Genshin's recent updates this game is fun, and if it continues to be fun i'll continue to play it.
Tbh from what i've heard, controller was essentially an after thought for this game, its great and i really like it but man, if they can improve some things (not even talking about the time gated levels, story missions, and chests) it would be vastly better.
@@biazacha Basically, BA and Arknights? It did have bugs that was fixed in China for long time and only fixed after some updates came though both game bugs aren't troubling or bothering anyone and some are quite fun to mess around with so yea.
When you eventually play ZZZ which is Zenless Zone Zero you are going to find it very fun. There is a character called Nicole and the game slows down when you complete a stage but the angles that Nicole does like doing a handstand flip when the combat ends us very nice. If you need someone to watch who had played the beta watch OkCode. Also in ZZZ blue oni girl is best girl cause she's cute and op as hell.
My only problem with the game is literally how fast the plot goes. Like they try to make us care for characters we literally just met 5 minutes ago... Drama started way too early and I just don't care enough to enjoy or feel for the characters yet...
im gonna be real anybody calling this game the "genshin impact killer" or comparing the two games at all has an iq the room temperature of alaska. The two games are in two whole different GENRES. when was the last time League of Legends killed Overwatch? Or BoTW killed WoW? TOF and Genshin are both great games, and while I do prefer TOF over the non-MMO genshin impact, I'm not gonna sit around and pretend like one's better than the other. there is no sensible way to compare the two. and before someone starts pointing out the obvious parallels in character design and graphics, remember when genshin was the "BoTW clone?" There are clear inspirations taken and some parts that feel blatantly copied, sure, but they didn't copy and paste the damn game. It's still unique enough to be fun in its own way. so my message to genshin impact players, put down your prejudice and play or don't play the damn game. It's not taking away your jpeg waifus so what are you complaining about?
True though. I still see a lot of people comparing it to genshin and I'm like.... it's MMORPG, they aren't the same. Calm down. 🙄 If you don't want to play it, then don't! Don't go around other people's stream and complain about how it isn't like Genshin cuz it clearly isn't.
For me, first impression is really important. I can still remember the hype when Genshin got released and it left me tons of good memories and rich emotions! I admit those Genshin cut scenes really went into my heart especially Xiao's appearance. 💓 Tbh ToF should invest more on their character lore/stories that players will feel attached to them because I felt like skipping everything unlike Genshin, they made me so hooked to their story so much. The only character I find amusing in this game was the guy named Crow and I'm looking forward to his story.. 😺 I play both games and I'm enjoying so far. ^^
After playing this game in eng dub for a few days, I don't wanna hear ANYONE complain about the English dub of Genshin ever again
I dislike both at times. Genshin's a mixed experience, they have good voice actors, but occasionally it's annoying. Here, it's just annoying most of the time.
@@bats9218 That's fair. I'm also kind of biased because I mainly watch English dubs since I have a short attention span and I'm more familiar with the voice actors in Genshin. I love Corina, but I genuinely can't sit through Paimon's lines anymore. I just find it funny that they gave Keith Silverstein the npc no one cares about in TOF while Zeke is a prominent character with the worst voice acting ever. It just shows how much voice acting can make or break a game
Funnily enough,some of these are the Genshin VAs. Kuki,Fischl,and an NPC actress are here. Granted,they voice the gacha characters,but it wouldn't surprise me if at least some of the Genshin NPC cast phoned in a few lines here.
@@DS342 yeah I saw that! I almost immediately recognized Zhongli and Childe's va and was wondering why the hell Griffin Burns wasn't given a bigger role lol
@@yoiimimi you know what's weird about the english dub of tower of fantasy? some of the voice actors play genshin characters and sound fine there, but in tower of fantasy it sounds off somehow.
“The only voice actors I approve of are Shirli & the mc”
It’s funny because Franz is Zhongli & you can tell he’s trying his best to understand what the director wants at the beginning- he’s pretty okay & comfy with the role by Chapter 2 but yeah. He’s a smidge awkward in the tutorial before the REAL plot reveal kicks in
Tbh I walked into this game thinking it was just an mmorpg without any context but after learning all the tea it’s like welp I’m not spending money because nah this isn’t a Genshin Killer in the slightest
ToF is nowhere near a genshin killer. But it certainly has one or two things that made people love it over Genshin. But tbh, I’m not spending my money on ToF either. Because I have my eyes on an upcoming game called Wuthering Waves
I'm not spending any money here because I know it's only a filler while I wait for Blue Protocol lol
The English dub for the male ver of the mc sucks 😔... Im still enjoying the game though
I think Childes va is also in it ;-;
honestly its one of those cases where its not the VA's fault man the story and direction is just poor writing especially when you have to tie it in with the retarded fetch quests that so far are activate this thing explore that or give me some material aaa yes and from time to time kill that elite thats about it no other verity what so ever i know 0 thing about all of our SSR and SR characters that aren't really tied to the story that much i dont know if they will be in an expansion or what ever 2.0 but by then i have 0 emotional care and attachment for anyone in this game that's a BIG problem some of them look neat and thats about it just looking neat
"Finally fungus is doin somethin for society"
Sumeru: *I'm about you end this mans whole career*
fr
I'm about you end this man's whole career
LMAO
sumeru will last for like 1 week and thats it ppl will play other games again
@@user-pu5yj4gz5o bestie? sumeru is a whole new map, new characters, new quests, new storyline, new bosses, a whole new element, and more. sumeru is literally a game changer. im *pretty sure* its gonna last for more than a week
I really can't take discount diluc and static face elric seriously. I always bust out laughing everytime an npc starts talking in this game.
Calling him discount Diluc is an insult to Diluc himself. KING is unnecessarily edgy lmao
@@Auoric king is the cool version of diluc wdym
@@Auoric bro fr, I love his playstyle but I for the love of the god, I'm always a step away from popping my eardrums every time he says "I AlreaDy KNow whAt tO spEnD oN The CoMmiSsioN"
The static faces killed me
Like the character be saying or screaming a lot and their face be like
:I
:)
Also when you do those weapon skills and it zooms in and the face won't move, cracks me up everytime
"You are not Diluc. You're not capable of being Diluc"
I knew you'd like it when it comes to the Waifus. But when it comes to the story the game just lacks...a lot. We go on this big search for someone we barely know. But other than the story, like combat and exploration, I'm really enjoying this game. It just needs a lot of polishing.
1.0 story is bad, 2.0 story is decent
I actually prefer tof exploration over genshin. In genshin you spend 20 minutes trying to figure out a puzzle only to get 5 primogems... In tof not only the chest feels more like a "reward". You can actually 100% the area effectively without following a video or a map which really kills the feel.
@@sephroth201 I agree, the exploration in this game is rewarding and fun, which is something I feel a lot of open world games fail to do. It's one of the few open world games where exploration doesn't feel like a chore.
@@ItsXetren It also helps that you can run into other players while exploring and check out their character. It makes the world feel more alive.
@@Enochian_Tomfoolery True, that does help as well.
Honestly if ToF hadn't been advertising itself as The Genshin Killer, it would just be its own game, but I also cannot deny that a significant chunk of the playerbase are bored Genshin fans who have nothing to do while waiting for Sumeru to drop. It's a gross marketing strategy but honestly I would never have bothered with this game if not for the slew of articles dramatically proclaiming it as the newest competitor who would singlehandedly drive Hoyoverse out of business because it has **gasp, shock, the audacity** character customization
EDIT: wow I forgot about this, I deleted ToF a month ago because Sumeru dropped and I don't like co-op. Genuinely for the ppl mad about endgame, where do you find the time and energy to speedrun events and regions? Y'all don't have jobs? School? Friends? And you've decided to act as if it's the devs fault that you can't pace yourself? Sure
Apparently it was a mistranslation but idk. It just feels like everyone is misjudging it by comparing it to the only other anime style free roam gacha, without realizing they're of two different play styles
@@bats9218 It's not a mistranslation actually. I asked my friend who is good at Chinese about it and she said ToF did indeed advertise itself as Genshin Killer. Even her Chinese friends and colleagues confirmed it
@@hongngocinhvo6277 source?
Lmao I remember the days when other mmos actually advertisrd themselves as wow killwrs heck even other games advertising beforw as halo killers yet the rwactions weren't as chaotic as these. Hell just for a fucking free to play gacha game put your heads out of your asses people,I can tell genshin is the only game these so called "gamers"play fucks sake
@@hongngocinhvo6277 do you have the original source? Regardless if they actually did it, I'm seeing a lot of 3rd party sources being the ones advertising it as such, even before beta came out in CN
It's like they saw Paimon and said, what if we made her not fly, sound like a tin can, and make her always on screen somewhere.
So just walking Paimon?
To be honest, the first companion wasn’t Mi-a, it was a gopher. Not sure why they changed it and made mi-a has a role similar to paimon but a little less chatty
at least she’s less annoying than paimon 💀
@@cloudpiercingthat’s a low bar
My take: This game really shouldn't be compared to Genshin at all. It is way more PSO2 wearing a Genshin skin. If you have to compare them then I'd say Genshin has better characters, story and general polish. ToF has multiplayer, better open world movement and more intense combat.
The open world in tof is kinda bad ngl
@@amira3550 What's the problem with it? I wouldn't consider it top tier, but it's far from a bad open world. There are several biomes and unique locations.
@@ThePandafriend Location aren't unique at all, the only location that really are different from the rest are those of 2.0 onwards. The open world itself is ugly as hell, but the movement options are really good with the exception to mounts that are useless
@@Vazmezvez wdym by mounts that're useless?
@@BlankedOutSlate Who needs mount when you can traverse the world by teleporting + grapplinghook
The story was… way too sped up. The only time in which I actually felt emotion is when Zeke was about to shoot Shirli, but it was only a mixture of concern and anger. This is a game rated age 12+ on the app store, I don’t feel like we should be getting that serious just yet. Also, we’ve had no time to bond whatsoever with these characters! I don’t care about them at all. The story is really hard to follow, I don’t understand shit. Why are we doing this? What’s in it for us? Our memories? Yeah, high chance that’s gonna happen from all this. The MC does not feel like an MC, they feel like a fucked up background character. Combat and exploration is nice, story is awful. No emotional investment, voice acting was extremely poor, and way too little time inbetween drama. It felt like I was watching a terribly directed play. I’m gonna continue playing solely because I want Nemesis, but that’s it. This game isn’t doing it for me.
Lmao All I got say is who wrote this shit needs to learn how to write story.
Yeah the only time I felt some emotions was what happened between the two siblings. The rest I just don't give a fuck.
Oh so it's bad like Genshin Impact, and here I thought that wasn't possible, well at least the gameplay looks good
@@TYR1139 I haven't cared too much for the story. Fortunately the combat is good and the MMO aspect keeps it interesting. Hopefully PvP remains balances so whales won't be the best players for all time.
So.. It's basically like Genshin? We have no fucking bond with the characters because it's too short.. If there's lore and connection with them only from the event, then we have no actual bond with the characters.. There's too many characters in Genshin and that makes it more hard for us to have more connection to them..
Plus with the MC having no fucking personality or even emotion on their faces makes it worse
"The only voice actors that I approve of so far is the main character and Shirli"
I agree. All of the others don’t have any real emotion in their voice. Plus there’s a scene that Jei didn’t show where the crowd is calling for Shili’s execution and it’s painfully obvious that they just pulled an angry crowd mp3 from some site.
Honestly after that I just checked out and deleted the game
31:37 Of course the first NPC that sounds good looks like he’s a member of the Proud Boys 🤦
if you played genshin franz is zhongli and main character is keqing.
@@justdoingdalies4383 Female MC is actually Kuki Shinobu,Pepper is Keqing
Why does Zeke VA sounds familiar even Tho Hes Not the Actor in Genshin
@@gin9794 He's voiced by Johnny Young,and I thought that's legitimately Johnny Young Bosch
@@gin9794 zero sounds super familiar too i just cant put my finger on who he sounds like
on a glance, the speaking protag and the combat makes it looks better than that other game but after playing it a few hours I can already feel the jank, Im not touching this until they at least add proper dual shock support
It's almost as if a protagonist speaking or not doesn't actually matter unless you're somebody with the attention span of a literal goldfish and the imagination of a jaded adult.
It's almost as if silent protagonists aren't a problem at all and it's just that people want everything spoonfed to them.
Nah, it anyway will be shitty because of tier list based character power.
Like in Genshin “best” characters is better because they’re usually more comfy in all way, but in ToF best characters is best because of dmg/healing values
@@justsomeguy727 and especially x2 if the person that speaks for the Mc is annoying, case and point, Paimon
Wow, this game looks like a big yikes to me, this was supposed to rival Genshin Impact? The first major competitor that Hoyoverse should be scared of? This unfinished, unpolished, and clunky mess? Really? I mean sure, I can definitely see the potential, but everything is so rough and ridged, this looks more like an early beta or even alpha, not something ready for an official launch, and the story looks very rushed and badly written, I was actually kinda interested in checking this game out, but after seeing this, yeah no thanks, definitely needed another year or two in development, but yeah, this game definitely won't be competing with Genshin any time soon
Oh and those enemy designs are just absolutely atrocious
Tbh genshins rivals would be things like yostars games: azur lane, arknight, etc or something like FGO.
They all are part of the same style, ie waifu collection with great story, but genshin went the way of not having stages persay.
The games arent really pullijg players away too much any more since its kinda defined and most players are combination of rotators or loyals.
People have different preferences. Although I agree with you most there. Genshin became pretty boring to me fast and the only reason Im playing it is because of lore and saving for Columbina. I liked ToF's fighting mechanic more. Just like PGR. (PGR the best gacha imo)
Its good to see that Kage also thinks that the voice acting its just terrible. That could be forgiven if not were that the audio mixing and effects are also terrible... and i cant belive you also got soft locked on that cut scene... man its like the game its just really close to be good but those little unpolished little things stack on each other to just drag it down. Also, i got Shiro as my first SSR.
story get better by the 3rd main area, i recommend just skip first 2 area story you get the gist of it by skipping anyway
After seeing mi-a , my respect for paimon grew
Honestly I wouldn't be playing ToF if I wasn't able to play as the ultimate god gamer (Chiaki Nanami). The game is fine for the most part and I like that I can play with friends but that's really it.
Btw I love how 5min into the story they try to create some drama with Luminen't and her brother because it's like "B*tch I don't know any of you, why should I care?"
Luminen't 💀
Lmao I’m playing as Junko Enoshima >:)
Yeah story is really bad. Funny enough I found the Samir story more interesting than the main story.
Homie over there playing bootleg Genshin while ninjas waiting to see what he thinks of the Pricessin domain..pain
Trust me. It's just him complaining on the mechanics of the domain. At lot of areas I skipped completely using Kazuha and Albedo.
Its actually Not a Copy Lol But its also Not a Bootleg Your Just Ig Addicted to Genshin's Graphics thats why Your saying the Graphics Is Bad
@@gin9794 preach the amount of disrespect from genshin fans is insane
And Genshin was a BoTW bootleg as well.
Bro! The thumbnail picture is my perfect reaction to this video & your comment is so true! I agree wholeheartedly!!
Suddenly, Kage's camera angles get really sus once he has Shiro.
It just doesn't do it for me. Sci-fi as a theme is so cool but seeing it this unpolished is so meh. If they have ZZZ animation with that combat mechanics + a bit of gravity then it'll be better. There's something missing between the characters and the environment that prevents them form meshing together I just can't figure out what it is. ZZZ nailed the scifi aesthetic unfortunately its to repeatable, TOF has some nice mechanics but they are really janky.
Jei immediately falling for Shiro, a man after my own heart. Also the MC is voiced by 2B's VA in English dub. Might be why she sounds so nice.
Meryl in JP is voiced by 2B's VA too
@@Kaito8292. Turns out she voices multiple people. Honestly when I learned she voices the female MC I just went, "Aah, that's why I'm surrounded by 2B expies." lol
(Edit: Failed to mention it specifically, but the EN VA is Meryl as well. Hilda and Hanna too, surprisingly.)
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
If they didn't labeled themselves as Genshin Killer, nor steal resources and animation from others, this would've been an actual interesting game, in fact I don't consider it as a gacha game cause I don't feel the gacha aspect that much after my first 30 pulls, I treat it as an mmorpg instead.
edit: comments do be wild haha, let me just make some things clear, first I never said I dislike the game, in fact I quite enjoy it, I was just saying it was dumb for them to use resources from other games and even literally stole one artist's animation where they just changed the character and the setting but everything was the same. (MMOByte made a somewhat 'in a nutshell' vid for the company's dumb decisions, the stolen animation was in 5:00)
Also about the genshin killer thingy, like what others said iirc I also saw it in a bilibili ad once and just thought it was a dumb decision, I thought that it's cool for them to compete with something large like genshin cause that will give them a goal to achieve, and it's also a good marketing ploy for them but it's dumb once players play the game and quit after a few days or weeks of playing it thinking it's a game that can compete against genshin, I'm not defending genshin here cause I'm not a blind fan, I play gacha games I like it's just as simple as that. Call genshin overrated but the popularity can't be denied cause it worked it's way into mainstream gaming compared to other large gacha games which have been there for years with it's dedicated fans.
tldr; I'm having fun with tower of fantasy right now, cause it makes me relive the times I started playing aura kingdom, sadly I haven't played the game since asia server got shut down. have a nice day.
it's a mmorpg where your class is random ( you need 2 of the same role for a class )
if you are unlucky, you can get the same SSR over and over again which would suck.
i kinda wished we had 2 ssr selectors so you could have the "class" you want
it isn't as bad as it sounds, since SR are usable, but still ...
Did they really labeled themselves as Genshin Killer? I don't follow any news about this game, so I'm curious where they would said that.
It's because it IS an MMO with Gacha weapons.
@@fly8668 Like, in an interview or something?
@@kingmaster04 in their advertising
your commentary made this 100x more enjoyable
Fun fact. Originally she actually got shot. But then among other things needing to be censored it was changed to Zeke not shooting her.
Doesn't change much because she got the RoboCop treatment either way.
as someone who has genuinely loved this game so far, this is HILARIOUS 😭😭 I love this vid sm ☠️
the game doesn't even load plss
@@-castus- it does for me so 🤷♀️
@かたし (Katashi) YESSS same, I love the exploration
bruh im offended that they had the nerve to call themselves genshin killer when the game looks like this LMAOO
They never called themselves the genshin killer, players did, its its own thing
@@Yakasabi they actually did. in one of their socmed updates (already deleted) they mentioned that
@@Miraris so the only evidence that you had that stated them saying it was the genshin killer, happens to be deleted
@@Miraris someone said that it was a mistranslation and the real translation was "Genshin Competitor" instead of "genshin killer" im not sure though if its true
@@joinmeng Yeah, it seems like almost nobody knows anything about marketing tactics here.
It's a good day in the village when the Kage uploads.
16:00 Zhongli and Keqing in another world be wildin
Thank you for this video, I don't think I'll play the game myself, but I'm glad you had fun.
27:15 it happened to me too at that exact part 😭
yeah it stuck for me there too i literally ran past the point with the guy i was talking to and it "to far from mission point" reset me so i didn't have to alt f4 the game out but still kinda jank XD
Bro same hahaha
tbh this is what i thought genshin is gonna be when i installed it, an mmorpg where we can play with friends as a party and raid bosses with a bunch of players, alas, it's a single player where the peak co-op experience is prop hunt that only happened twice in almost two years, at least keqing was cute and the lore is deeper than mariana trench
idk what to simp on tof because the gacha is weapon, i just cant feel it. lol
@@hanabi.1 better stick with genshin my dude, doesn't matter who you simp for in gi because all you need to clear all content is a xiangling and bennett, and one of them is free
@@keq1688 yeah clear the story and then go wait for content to drop cuz all u can do is abyss and domains for 30 mins a day 🤣🤣🤣
@@vrfitnessandgaming3234 you just reminded me that today is the abyss reset, a lot happend this past two weeks and it felt like a month lmao. anyway time to grab my 600 primogems 🥱
@@keq1688 imagine not caring about characters in genshin lmao characters are like the only good thing about that game
Rather than Adult Bronya, Shiro is just Ann from Persona 5, she’s even got a cat in some of her art and her Simulacrum skills are phantom thief related
the way i got so happy just seeing "jeikage.." 😭
basically, tof is a combination of 3 games: genshin, honkai, & borderlands.
I don't know why but I find scifi themed open world, uhh, full of clutter? I mean what is aesthetically pleasing looking at jumbled cables, mismatched cardboard walls and galvanized iron roofing? Reminds me of my country... Pretty depressing stuff... If I want sci-fi type of game I'll just stick to Honkai...
I guess you just don't like steam punk or anything futuristic related. Or you're just biased 🤣👌
I played Honkai for 5 years (and ongoing) btw... And I also know steampunk design, ToF is NOT a steampunk world... ToF is more of a cyberpunk one...
@@claidheamhsoluis3044 apocalyptic steam punk ish and Cyber all mixed together. Your point?
I never face so much glitch as I do in TOF, everything glitch even walking, and got kick out from game
Honestly I like the fact that this mascot character doesn't stab out my ears with their voice
Though I never really like mascots
Plus the mc actually talks so no need of mascot translation
Always a great day when jeikage uploads
everywhere i've been i see people commenting how better mia is to paimon meanwhile i feel so disturbed everytime i look at her. she just feels so.. uncanny?
me too, it's her head for me. It looks like an adult's head stuck to a kid's body.
FAX BRUH
The game has better pity system than genshin but genshin story is better
The combat style is like Honkai which is why I like the game
In conclusion the game is different than GI
You can play with other players and duel with them and the PVP event is fair
Whale and F2P is balance in the PVP
I agree with what you said but the combat style is nowhere near as polished as honkai
@@lolollololol551 Yes they only similar combat style but Honkai is still better (what I mean about that is they also have an evasion skill which is Fantasia in ToF and QTE style, discharge in ToF
Better pity means nothing when everything besides SSR's is useless... That's like improving Genshin's pity system but turning every high meta value 4 star into a 5 star..
ToF Whale and F2P wont be so balanced in the future... in chinese server already the limited SSRs make the standard SSRs basically obsolete
I actually think the ToF Gacha could be worse than Genshin in the long run. Because while it is easy to get the standard SSRs, getting the limited SSRs is just SOOOO much harder for F2P.
Depends a lot on if limited characters are gonna powercreep the original ones.
5:40 it would've been funnier if it's one of those quick time event and failing to activate the jetpack in time would make your oc fell and turning into mushed tomatoes. It reminds me of that one scene in spiderman 3 game
great way to start the day with the kage
"So you don't have to"
Jokes on you, we're all playing ToF
Shirli & Nemesis - Voice by Eula
Samir - Voice by Fischl
Pepper - voice by Keqing
MC - voice by Kuki
The only thing keeping me playing after a week is using the few characters I like, including Shiro. If you don't have the SSRs you like it's a pretty lackluster experience. If you like it the combat is the only reason to play and you'd probably get that and more in Honkai. The voicework in English is worse than some terrible 90s anime dubs. The story itself is shit. There's really no other way for me to say it. Story progression, character level caps and exploration ALL being time gated just makes me think the game doesn't have any content to speak of. It's like they know they have to drip feed for anyone to stick around. The PvP, which so many want to champion as being balanced despite it being a gacha game, doesn't even work most of the time. The latency and hit detection is so bad that it's almost unplayable. Add to that you need to have certain SSR weapons to even compete because you just lose by default without a high Shatter weapon.
Somehow I have formed zero attachments to any characters, story beats, game modes or even the exploration. The map is large, yes, but it's populated by nothing but a few shines to pick up and mobs you'll eventually just run past because even taking the time to kill them is a waste. Nothing actually happens anywhere. Once you've picked up all the candy in a zone you're done. I may give it one more week of casual play and see how I feel then but it hasn't taken very long to lose all enthusiasm.
The playable char designs are just boring af.
I like the game but I can def see all the points you made. The only real drive in this game is to get new characters sadly. Where in Genshin you can clap cheeks with 4* characters that you have a connection too (shout out to my girl Noelle). Its a good alternative for people who wanted a more combat focused experience but def not a Genshin replacement...more like a weekend get away lol
@@Lathander81 I've already decided to put it down for good. Even if it gets huge updates I don't see it recovering. In very little time ToF became a game where all I had to look forward to was a daily grind and a long wait to be allowed by the powers that be to actually level up. When a gacha game becomes a part time job it's time to move on, take a break or slow it down. Hitting that point as fast as I did with ToF is a new record for me and I'm currently playing Genshin while dabbling in FGO and Azur Lane. I feel like ToF is a game where they tried for a lot of things but did none of them very well and some very poorly.
Tbh I didn’t expect to enjoy this game. I’m trying to get her as well, she seem like a good as shield breaker
Am i the only one who thinks that they just matchup Genshin and ToF just because they want distracted people from associate it with Honkai? Yeah open world similar like Genshin, but the combat mostly similar to Honkai. And they literally got caught to copy paste Honkai weapon in one of ads. Don't know why people still can put in money in an unpolished game like this.
Playing Honkai, Genshin and Tower, clearly Mihoyo is superior in terms of making great games. Can't wait for Zenless Zone Zero. Instead of quantity , I'm always pursue for quality first.
man whoever animated Hilda was really feeling themselves
i'm just gonna say i'm surprised hella surprised you stayed with the game that long , i didn't even get to the archon bit or meet discount Diluc .
8:32 that was CRUEL LMFAO
27:15 I had the same damn freeze n haven’t gone back to that mission since lol I’ve just been goin around doin everything else instead 🤣
I think I'm finally on the other side of the interest bell curve for ToF. At first I was like, "oh look another genshin clone, SKIP." Then I saw all the quality of life stuff they have that Genshin just won't add for some reason and was getting pretty interested. But now I see how jank the story and voice acting is and just how desperate they are to be genshin without being genshin that I'm no longer interested. I would still give it a shot if it were supported on playstation.
All that said, I support ToF existing because it is some needed competition to get genshin to try harder. I literally only want to pet the animals, why is that so hard?
"I literally only want to pet the animals, why is that so hard?"
Well, I imagine it's because Hoyo has higher standards than Tencent/Hotta. Of course it's easy to make an "animation" where the cat just jumps a bit when you click it. However, if you want to animate petting the animals properly, for every character, for multiple petting animations that aren't just a short loop, for every character outfit, while avoiding clipping between character and animal, between character and their outfit, between character outfit and the environment...
... ain't that easy.
I'd actually be mad if Genshin implemented petting animals and do it the way ToF did it.
@@mirror452 It's a multi-billionaire company. I'm pretty sure they can animate a character petting a cat.
@@loop5312 Sure. But they also have to work on constant updates for all their games, not to mention on their upcoming games. Also, it's not just one character. It's every character and all their outfits, as well as every future charater and all their outfits, for every pet available, and it needs to be compatible with every possible height difference between pet and character.
... it's not that easy.
@@mirror452 if they can add jiggle physics, they can add pats.
@@loop5312 Be serious
18:10 literally when i forst saw that guy LOL
Same
This has been out in China for some time now, but it feels pretty unpolished.
2.0 is when the game actually improves
To be honest the stuff they ripped off aside, the game itself so far doesn't seem all that bad to me. It has a lot of things that could use improvement but for what we have now it's a passable game that could be heavily improved given enough time.
Poor controller bros, they have to button mash to figure out how to play the game
the game is like a fusion of Borderlands, PSO2, with a few Genshin and Final Fantasy rpg and crafting elements thrown into the fire.
Also I can't even exceed past meeting Mi-a on mobile as the sh-tty game keeps crashing for over a week straight. I haven't even made it past a tenth of your progress yet..It legit took me 4 days just to pass the tutorial between 6 servers like wtf?! Such a let down, I'm honestly debating just uninstalling the sh-ttily managed game. Shirli and the MC are the only VA's that tried from what I can tell which is also a let down.
What phone are you using btw? I'm running it on a OnePlus 6T (quite old at this point) and I haven't crashed once
Sounds like your phone is the shitty one, I haven't crashed once and you're the first person I've heard of with this issue.
@@ItsXetren I'm using an Iphone 8 I checked all of the requirements and it's not my phone that's the problem. It's the devs' side of things. I even explained in a helluva lot of detail to the devs support page as to what I was experiencing and they said it was something on their end and that I wasn't the only one experiencing that issue. Why do I have Xiao's cursed luck? Damn..where's Klee, I think I need to relieve some stress by blasting some hilichurls to infinity and beyond..
The moment I noticed palu's VA is raiden from mk series my heart sank
Wait, did Jei switch to ToF because Zuzu became the main character in Genshin?
The game is actually fun, if you ignore the main story and just keep skipping the dialogue.
22:05 wow for some reason it never once occurred to me that I should be shooting the pillar gun into the floor. I've been shooting it horizontally on walls and using it as a step ladder when it's much easier to use it as an elevator lmaoo
Yeah, I kept playing ToF because of it's "lot of features", and I enjoyed the game because I can play with my own personalized character which I've spent 1 hour making it. You know, like a personal waifu thingy 😂
Little did you know, you can do a raid "World boss" with everyone in the server and you don't have to spent any material to claim the rewards, except if you want a better drop you can use an item, and you can get the item about 3-4 per week(?)
Idk, I just hope Genshin battle mechanism improved. And put some more features. So I don't feel bored
you can play honkai..
@@-castus- Its not open world though.
honestly, the only good things that keeps me playing this game are the combat mechanics and tons of rewards (that made us think that this game is f2p friendly).
I had an inkling you'll be playing this. I hope you're having a good day, Jei!
Something which became really noticable for me is that the movement is way more fun than Zelda (or Genshin). Double jumping and dashing around freely simply adds so much. Also you don't drown when out of stamina. You lose hp though.
And later in the game you also can't solo stuff anymore. The coop domains really require coop partners. Also they are actually fun and not just an arena.
The beginning of the game (and the story) is way too easy, but it doesn't stay this way. Also the world bosses are actually a challenge. Plus the world exploration is actually rewarding, because gacha orbs are one of the main collectibles.
I think by far the biggest problem is that this is compared so much to Genshin, while at the end of the day mainly the climbing is similar. Almost everything else is just genre related. Also I'm pretty glad that I picked the JP audio. The English direction is pretty awful. And due to using mouse and keyboard that controller implementation doesn't affect me.
At the end of the day it's a nice mmo, but partly pretty janky.
When Genshin Impact first came out everyone was blaming it for copying Breath of the Wild, so I can't really feel bad for GI for what happens now with ToF. For us players it's a good thing, competition between the two means they will both try to be better!
I do suggest playing the game you enjoy the most, or even both at the same time.
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Most based GI player.
i play both and is fun
after loading ToF, seeing Paimon is a blessing
Tower of Fantasy looks interesting. A shame it's not available on playstation. I would've played it.
same
@@creatingpulsars9979 same
If u r from India u can use vpn to play there are tricks in utube explaining
It was so funny seeing it be called a “genshin killer” and then everyone forgot about it in literally a week
This game had a bit of hype as real competition for Genshin and when it came out...it was disappointing. Not bad but just disappointing.
I think the memes where people customize their character to resemble Genshin characters is funny, but I never really took it seriously as copying. I don't really think this game copies Genshin at all (If anything it reminds me a lot of Code Vein). The artsyles are similar, but the world and combat styles are very different. However, I did, 100%, think the thumbnail was KAF.
Seriously though, the voice acting has me so stumped. Franz sounds like Keith Silverstein, who is an amazing voice actor, so why does he sound so bad here? Was the director just bad or did he specifically suck the life out of the voices? To be fair I haven't found any confirmation on Franz's voice actor so maybe it is just a less experienced actor with a twin voice.
nah it's definitely Keith Silverstein and one dude around the 30th minute of the video is clearly voiced by Griffin, Childe's VA
@@arsena5209 Oh yeah I hear it for sure. 31:37
The only Genshin Impact Killer is itself.
That’s her, THATS HER, that’s the one I “came” for. No pun intended
You got it bro🤣
The writing and some of the voice acting made me uninstall the game after few days. But I hope you have fun with it Kage! Very nice to see you back again! ☺️
i just switched the language to japanese and it was better, been playing nonstop since it came out now
@@ExMalodios i will definitely try that if I ever give ToF another chance, glad to hear youre having fun! 💕
@@ExMalodios yup, japanese definitely saved it for me. The moment i met hilda i was like ''nope, no way im playing this in english''
@@havidikevidi I would do this but I like reading lore and the dialogue so I’d rather not put my already fried brain from the terrible writing through that 😅
@@havidikevidi how bad is the story?
"The game is more pleasurable after I got Shiro."
That was literally my experience too, until I got locked out of questing for the 5th time and grew tired
I have three accounts- one has nothing on it, account two has green five star and evil shurli,account three has eula but in a dress
I could swear the explosion SFX at 13:56 comes from Zelda: The Wind Waker...
I've seen alot of people say this is better than genshin.The exploration and combat, is better imo but story for genshin is more fun
Funny thing is that I have heard from someone say that the reason that ToF was created was because Hoyoverse didn't want to sell Genshin so they decided to make their own game to surpass it. So its understandably why it is so shitty, they rushed to make the game in 2 years and now it needs a lot of polishing.
Deducting the rush part, it only has 1/5 of genshin's budget and 1/3 of staff's amount when developing the game. Not surprised that the game is so unrefined atm. However, there's immediate improvement after the funds finally flow in. im looking forward to that.
@@sephroth201 Sounds hella copium lmao
@@moebarabitch Have you played 2.0 on cn server? It does improved a lot
@@sephroth201 While I won't deny that it has, it certainly isn't enough to compete with the upcoming games (i.e Wuthering Waves, Gran Saga and even ZZZ) 4.0+ better blow those games out of the water if they wish to compete.
P.S: I included ZZZ cause many more people care about that game more just cause it looks better (that's how a mihoyo fan's brain works, they care far more about graphics and aesthetic than gameplay) even though the combat is braindead. Imo ToF is leauges better than ZZZ, all ToF needs is more polish. All ZZZ offers is good graphics, aesthetics and eyecandy animations, nothing else really. In fact, i'd even say Honkai Impact 3rd is better.
@@moebarabitch c'mon honkai impact 3D is really good
18:22 and here i thought diluc and xiao were the edgiest gacha characters ever made...
Thank you for your sacrifice kage. I wasn't gon play this anyway but like....still nice to know what it actually looks like passed the bad ads
Always a good day when Jei uploads
The budget definitely went to the Japanese VA's lol
the japanese VA's aren't much better tbh. And have you seen the lineup they got for the english VA's? A top quality line up. The VA direction is awful, probably have a bad director or something, because with the VA lineup they have, it should be wayyy better than what it is.
20:33 I agree. That motorcycle should have a gas option.
I like when they made an ad and put venti in there
Except for cool fight animations the whole game is quite a disappointment (mostly due to the hype before the official release), especially the main story. It felt more like a side story that got forgotten even by the creators. The only thing that still keeps me playing is Shiro's butt...
Ngl I did not like this game
Truth be said, I knew this game wouldn't be that good but I'm so sick of genshin routine of commissions+resin spend+log off that I'm enjoying this game more than I should.
I even stopped playing genshin for a week now after playing it for 700+ days.
I'm sorry but have yall seen low bugdet Keqing's hair??? when she runs it just
I've played alot of free RPG MMO's in the past 2 decades and it's pretty hard for me to justify spending any amount of money in this game...
The story department of ToF needs work, but i'm having a blast playing this game. Unlike Genshin's recent updates this game is fun, and if it continues to be fun i'll continue to play it.
I like it, it’s pretty cool
11:13
my problem with the plot in a nutshell.
also, the hoverboard's cooldown is on ground only. you can spam it on water.
Tbh from what i've heard, controller was essentially an after thought for this game, its great and i really like it but man, if they can improve some things (not even talking about the time gated levels, story missions, and chests) it would be vastly better.
The we’re going on in China for a while before opening new serves, is crazy that they still this unpolished on minor things…
@@biazacha Basically, BA and Arknights? It did have bugs that was fixed in China for long time and only fixed after some updates came though both game bugs aren't troubling or bothering anyone and some are quite fun to mess around with so yea.
When you eventually play ZZZ which is Zenless Zone Zero you are going to find it very fun. There is a character called Nicole and the game slows down when you complete a stage but the angles that Nicole does like doing a handstand flip when the combat ends us very nice. If you need someone to watch who had played the beta watch OkCode. Also in ZZZ blue oni girl is best girl cause she's cute and op as hell.
I feel like ZZZ is gonna be Honkai and Jet Set Radio smacked together. At least that's the feel I get from it.
My only problem with the game is literally how fast the plot goes.
Like they try to make us care for characters we literally just met 5 minutes ago...
Drama started way too early and I just don't care enough to enjoy or feel for the characters yet...
Literally heard some of Genshin's va's in this game lmao
im gonna be real anybody calling this game the "genshin impact killer" or comparing the two games at all has an iq the room temperature of alaska. The two games are in two whole different GENRES. when was the last time League of Legends killed Overwatch? Or BoTW killed WoW? TOF and Genshin are both great games, and while I do prefer TOF over the non-MMO genshin impact, I'm not gonna sit around and pretend like one's better than the other. there is no sensible way to compare the two.
and before someone starts pointing out the obvious parallels in character design and graphics, remember when genshin was the "BoTW clone?" There are clear inspirations taken and some parts that feel blatantly copied, sure, but they didn't copy and paste the damn game. It's still unique enough to be fun in its own way.
so my message to genshin impact players, put down your prejudice and play or don't play the damn game. It's not taking away your jpeg waifus so what are you complaining about?
True though. I still see a lot of people comparing it to genshin and I'm like.... it's MMORPG, they aren't the same. Calm down. 🙄
If you don't want to play it, then don't! Don't go around other people's stream and complain about how it isn't like Genshin cuz it clearly isn't.
I legit turn off my brain and played tof and it’s been a blast actually.
For me, first impression is really important. I can still remember the hype when Genshin got released and it left me tons of good memories and rich emotions! I admit those Genshin cut scenes really went into my heart especially Xiao's appearance. 💓
Tbh ToF should invest more on their character lore/stories that players will feel attached to them because I felt like skipping everything unlike Genshin, they made me so hooked to their story so much.
The only character I find amusing in this game was the guy named Crow and I'm looking forward to his story.. 😺
I play both games and I'm enjoying so far. ^^
Even Paimon wouldve never failed like this
If only Jesus is around to teach Paimon
if you are born on 9/9, you are 10% off, remember that.