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by Ceberle

I usually like the mini games in Genshin and HSR. They’re a nice break from the usual gameplay. Unlike most games, Hoyo typically doesn’t put the in-game currency awards, gems, behind the hardest difficulty level. This lets players of all play-styles, hardcore or casual, get gems without getting overly frustrated. This version of HSR added Hamster Ball Nights, which is just awful. I’d put up with the low-effort graphics and boring gameplay if I could clear the levels and get the gems. But no. They have a single score threshold, 2000 points, that doesn’t seem possible to achieve. The best I’ve gotten is around 1800, and I have no idea how I did it. Good runs will score 1100 points and bad runs 1800. I have tried the first level about a dozen times and can’t get any better at it. I’d be fine with just skipping it if there weren’t hundreds of gems I’m missing out on. There’s also a world quest to complete on the “difficult” setting that I’m obviously never going to complete.

Update: the design is even worse than I thought. You score better by spamming the action button than you do by trying to play skillfully. I’ve cleared several levels this way. There’s another variant that gives you a gun, and that one’s even worse.

by Bluedolphin1234

This review is more about Hoyoverse than HSR specifically, but Hoyo continues to show their racist tendencies across all of their games, HSR included. For over a year there has been a single character in the game with tan skin (who was then whitewashed in a sticker, go figure) and now we may have 2 poc characters once Sugilite releases. That is an abysmal ratio considering that there are nearly 50 characters in the game currently, and if we don’t include Sugilite in the current ratio, then 2% of the characters in game are poc. I’ll give HSR a bit of benefit in that there hasn’t been a planet or organization that references cultures with people with predominantly darker skin tones, but in a space fantasy game that can do whatever they want I don’t think that should be fully limiting to white people. At the very least Boothill probably should have been more tan considering he heavily references indigenous cultures and their experiences. I love many of the character designs in HSR but after a while they are going to feel stale and repetitive if you stick to giving all of them white skin. It heavily limits your color palette and there are so many designs in game that could look so much more interesting with a little bit of melanin! Please stop the blatant colorism and start representing people more authentically.

by Chinmokurain

There are so many things to like in hsr - interesting characters, engaging story, and fun combat. But the relic system is completely broken. There are so many layers of RNG that getting a good relic can take months. It’s not just about the time it takes - it’s about the lack of progression when engaging with the relic system. Building up my characters is one of the main reasons why I play this game. It’s fun to grind out ascension and trace materials because it’s a guaranteed upgrade and therefore there is a sense of progression. But, when I spend time and trailblaze power on relic farming only to get trash, I don’t get any satisfaction. I only get disappointment. And when I do get a good relic once in a blue moon, leveling it up is another journey of frustration, disappointment and anxiety. I actively dread leveling up good relics because I am scared that it will repeatedly roll into that single useless substat. I understand that relics are meant to give players something to spend trailblaze power on when everything else has been maxed out on a character, but for the love of god there has to be a better way of doing this that doesn’t make me want to pull my hair out.

TLDR; relic system has too much RNG and as a result is very frustrating and upsetting to engage with.