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

“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

"Finally fungus is doin somethin for society" Sumeru: *I'm about you end this mans whole career*

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

"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 🤦

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.

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.

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?"

Suddenly, Kage's camera angles get really sus once he has Shiro.

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.

Homie over there playing bootleg Genshin while ninjas waiting to see what he thinks of the Pricessin domain..pain

your commentary made this 100x more enjoyable

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.

as someone who has genuinely loved this game so far, this is HILARIOUS 😭😭 I love this vid sm ☠️

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 good day in the village when the Kage uploads.

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.

Thank you for this video, I don't think I'll play the game myself, but I'm glad you had fun.

16:00 Zhongli and Keqing in another world be wildin

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

bruh im offended that they had the nerve to call themselves genshin killer when the game looks like this LMAOO

great way to start the day with the kage

Always a great day when jeikage uploads

the way i got so happy just seeing "jeikage.." 😭

basically, tof is a combination of 3 games: genshin, honkai, & borderlands.

27:15 it happened to me too at that exact part 😭

I never face so much glitch as I do in TOF, everything glitch even walking, and got kick out from game

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Always a good day when Jei uploads

Shirli & Nemesis - Voice by Eula Samir - Voice by Fischl Pepper - voice by Keqing MC - voice by Kuki

Great video as always can’t stop laughing😆 Waiting for your video in Sumeru :D

man whoever animated Hilda was really feeling themselves

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 🤣

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

Always a great day when jeikage upload

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 .

I had an inkling you'll be playing this. I hope you're having a good day, Jei!

"So you don't have to" Jokes on you, we're all playing ToF

So glad you like Shiro as well. She’s definitely my favorite character.

Welcome back Kage!

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).

after loading ToF, seeing Paimon is a blessing

Ayeeeee Jei just wanna say enjoy ur content dude :)

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

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.

The game is actually fun, if you ignore the main story and just keep skipping the dialogue.

Damn I’m early, also I love you vids jei

I could swear the explosion SFX at 13:56 comes from Zelda: The Wind Waker...

Tower of Fantasy looks interesting. A shame it's not available on playstation. I would've played it.

Poor controller bros, they have to button mash to figure out how to play the game

The moment I noticed palu's VA is raiden from mk series my heart sank

If it goes on PsN, I'll definitely give this a try. I'm a fan of the kind of world this is, it just looks clunky as hell.

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

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.

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.

This game is packed full of easter eggs and little nods to other games/movies. the tournie match against Max was a nod to 2 movies, Real Steel and Max Steel.

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?

Wait, did Jei switch to ToF because Zuzu became the main character in Genshin?

I like it, it’s pretty cool

love the game keep reminding kage the superiority of mouse and keyboard and want kage to join the ranks.

This has been out in China for some time now, but it feels pretty unpolished.

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?

yo man. your funny. subbed

I like when they made an ad and put venti in there

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.

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.

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. ^^

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.

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...

jeikage sama commentary is top notch

Feels like all I ever needed to know about ToF.

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.

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! ☺️

The dandelions you see in the open world have wishes in them

Elric sounds like he'd be in an advertisement or PSA or some kind of AI announcer on an intercom

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.

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.

20:33 I agree. That motorcycle should have a gas option.

After 82 trillion ads....now Kage has a video....it looks VERY much like a code vein genshin just like I thought xD

The budget definitely went to the Japanese VA's lol

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.

You gonna be uploading the rest of the golden archipelago event, kage? Would love to see your reaction on the xinyan cutscene

If I could go around everywhere on the Jetboard I would and nothing would stop me. But unfortunately they made it something you can only actively ride down slopes or on water, nor can we do tricks like in Jak and Daxter.

"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 legit turn off my brain and played tof and it’s been a blast actually.

your commentary is hilarious

"Apparently levitation is expensive", Got my rolling over here.

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.