Our favorite, much-loved game, ‘Genshin Impact,’ might not be as grounded into reality as we imagine. The in-game geographic size, enormously simplified, often leads to some quite humorous disparities when it comes to quests.
Summary
- Players believe Flora’s quest to keep flowers fresh is absurdly impractical due to travel issues, potentially escalating her flower prices.
- The Tsarevich quest seems to demand instant results, making game realism waver wildly.
- Character Salsa’s whereabouts and activities seem to defy logic from a geographic perspective.
Quest Conundrums according to Players
Diving into some of the absurdities, user ZatoTBG humorously points out that the delivery events in the game would require a single restaurant to deliver food across an entire country. They likened it to a small joint in Berlin delivering food throughout Germany. It’s quite comical if you think about it!
The humor continues when another user, MIpoika, recalls the daily in Inazuma, where the player has to order food from Liyue and then travel back to Inazuma. In the game, maybe a 5km distance, but in real-world terms, it would be over 1000km – truly a multi-day affair!
Comedy Gold from Quests in Retrospect
Player stories don’t end there. Reliving memories from the first Lantern Rite event back in 2021, user A_Peculiar_Fish found it laughable that players had to travel around Liyue for quests that in reality would only take a few days. Comedy gold!
An amusing contribution from user RQK1993 is a quest where players had to dig a tunnel from Poisson to the Opera Epiclesis – quite the trek given the ‘real-world’ size of Teyvat.
Game Logic Taking A U-Turn?
Speculating in the same frivolous vein, user caucassius jokingly questions why Flora couldn’t just find a random mist flower for her needs instead of resorting to far-flung chilly Dragonspine. Are Hilichurls, in a zany turn of events, more tech-advanced than the Mondstadtians?
Perhaps the funniest is the massive distances covered during the Sumeru quest, pointed out by user Dark_Matter_19. The sheer scale defies all logic and it’s remarkably entertaining when you realize the absurdity.
It’s clear that Genshin Impact’s realistic charm starts to wane when some quests are examined in light of real-world distances and times. But that’s part of what makes these stories so entertaining to discuss and, enjoy! After all, games are meant to take us away from reality, into a world where impossible quests become everyday adventures.