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It feels like a random combat event.

Genshin's combat system is centered around elemental reactions. Limiting that with element restrictions and character randomness loses the main aspect of the game's combat. Not to mention that more than half of the characters are tied with another character and/or elemental reactions.

Friendship exp farming team: The gamemode.

boons are so restrictive they might as well go full illusive realm and make character specific absurd buffs. "when bond of life changes, increase attack" wow groundbreaking stuff

This video is 10/10 - You criticized while being constructive - Suggested improvements - Addressed the haters as haters The CC space needs more people like you and not braindead haters!

HEAVY on the uninspired arenas. I never understood why abyss or some form of late game combat trial wouldnt have something like an "abyss backpack" where maybe you stumble across materials to craft certain food buffs or potions to aid u on your journey through the abyss. like it feels so obvious that they should use their open world aspect in the end game, but they literally just ignore it

Players: Labyrinth Warriors looks really good, we want it as endgame content! Genshin devs: *Implements random combat event with annoying vigor system, which is probably the worst combat system among all their combat events as the actual second "endgame" while butchering Spiral Abyss in the process* Labyrinth Warriors: Am I joke to you?

Saddest guys ive heard from tgs yet

This theatre experience is very similar to Floor 10 abyss rooms that we would play with random teams 😂

im ok with element restrictions but randomized character rectrictions is a no-no for me. I still do it, but just for the primogems not for "fun"

If there were 'paths' in terms of the buffs they give you it would be sooooo cool Think about it, a path for each element Make anemo give a crap ton of Cool Down Reduction Make electro not spend energy and instead use your energy as fuel for more damage (like Sethos) Make hydro turn your healing into damage, similar to clam Make pyro increase your burst damage by a huge ammount but drain your HP everytime you use it Make geo have infinite stagger res and get more damage based on how much hp and def you have Make cryo give you a crap ton of attackspeed Make dendro give your characters a crap ton of elemental mastery and elemental damage I don't know man, these ideas are so free I'M JUST A RANDOM PERSON IN A KZfaq COMMENT AND IT TOOK ME LESS THAN 3 MINUTES TO COME UP WITH ALL OF THESE help

You know you fucked up when u manage to disappoint TGS.

I already said this is in a post but I'll say it again here. I think the best they could do is either make it so you can play underleveled units or not require a full team of 4 to clear a stage. What's the point of making me waste a potentially useful unit if I can already clear that stage with 2 or 3 characters? If they let you bring characters under level 70 you could just slap them on a lvl 1 support weapon, full support artifact set and "waste" them as the last slot in those teams AND people who don't have enough units leveled could at least attempt it instead of being completely locked out (ik there's lower difficulties but you won't get all the rewards that way) I genuinely enjoyed playing it despite the issues but that stuff definitely annoyed me

My first thoughts after playing through this mode was basically "Spiral Abyss 2: Electric Boogaloo, but with arbitrarily limited character selection and now you have to pay for buffs". And on the topic of Genshin combat as a whole, I haven't followed this entire twitter discussion but I feel like everyone there is missing the point or arguing different things entirely. Not even comparing combat in Genshin to WuWa or any other game, it has massive issue of putting almost all of its complexity into elemental reaction system. And it is fun at first, but if you really take a step back and look at it, it really hurts the game. Because reaction system is closed, no matter what characters you put there (and usually you recycle the same characters anyway), you still playing the same team and playstyle differences are superficial, in the end i.e. vaporize team plays the same, because it has to do that to be a vaporize team. In Genshin you "play a team, not a character", and that's not a good thing, honestly. It led to extremely shallow character kits, an absolute domination of Hydro (that will not go away), vast majority of "playstyles" being just E->Q->swap, and any hint of more complex mechanics within character kit being seen as hinderance. And it's not like Hoyo doesn't know it, that's why they sometimes try to make characters like Nilou, Chevreuse or Navia, but it doesn't really matter. The issue lies in the core of the combat system and unless they decide to rework it (and they won't), nothing will improve.

I think if we were given the option to manually select the characters of the respective elements that we're allowed to use in order to make a functional team it would help a lot. Not every single aspect of the game needs to be random.

There has never been more reason to add a legitimate artifact loadout system than this. The amount of artifact scrambling I had to do just to START this mode was frustrating as is. Let alone actually going through.

After running IT a few times, I noticed buying more characters is much more valuable than boons since I can play myself into a corner if I have too few characters and the boons are mostly useless. Having boons being more powerful to the point of replacing a single character (sub-DPS/buffer/healer/shielder) would be a good start and can make other problems of IT smaller. More cooldown reduction boons can make fragmented "2-character teams" viable.

Imaginarium teather is imaginary just like our primos

I wish they hadn't confused us with the worthless stars. I thought I needed them and waisted a lot of time trying to get them.

I really miss that event in 2.6 or 2.4 that had xinyan and childe if they only brought that but harder it would have been perfect

Crazy thing is they already had the right idea with that randomized labyrinth event back in inazuma, but somehow that has never had a rerun and we get more windtrace and vibro crystal bullshit instead

I agree with you, but I have one thing to add: for the "blessings", please make them more readable, because I swear no one can catch me reading them, their description is small as hell and you have to scroll for each of them to know what they do. This problem wasn't there in star rail.

I really dislike the fact that they are so adamant in refusing to give us a few more pull They could have easily keep Abyss for every 15 day, maybe add some weekly content aside from Boss and add new end game mode Theater for every 30 day but nope. We get the same amount of content and reward. 1-2 hour of meaningful content every month is just sad while the rest is annoying daily and busywork like collecting mint to ascend chara, like why tf do we need 200 of those, it is ridiculous. And this is putting aside the quality of the actual content, abyss is abyss, fun but very flat and straightforward DPS check while Theater is just a weird middleground where both the casual and hardcore player are unhappy. Should have followed PGR example by making easy and fun content for casual while keeping a really challenging content for more hardcore player with slightly more reward

I really hate how stingy they are for extending the reset time of the abyss for this.

Genshin Impact is open world game, I also think the end game shout not be just in a small circle, Even if the endgame mode is restricted area, it should feel like open world. Just like there some one time domains in liyue. It shouldn't be just a flat circle to fight in.

This mode would be a lot more fun if they remove the charector restrictions, and keep the elemental restrictions, the charector restrictions make it worse, there's no room for strategising or rotations, something which makes the abyss a little more fun, I bet no one is going to even upload their theatre clears on youtube because it simply dosent matter, everything is random I can't believe this is the best a billion dollars company can come up with

I personally feel that most of the issues with imaginary theatre stem from the elements you can choose - you have three possible team archetypes, mono-pyro, mono-electro and overload. The first two only really benefit from Kazuha as the anemo slot, the latter wants Chevreuse. Imagine if the mode had restricted you to dendro, electro and hydro? You could play tazer, Hypperbloom, spread, quicken as well as mono-teams, and with the possible exception of Fishl in Tazer, no single character defines the playstyle.

Overall the main problem is this mode is full rng. I feel like i don't have much control over my teams. And on top of that they don't allow me to have only 1 or 2 characters for easier levels so that i can save up some character vigour for difficult bosses

A big problem with the mode is that they really cant increase the difficulty substancially without allowing us to teambuild properly. I'm afraid it will get to a point that the mode will become a dps check, and on top of that we'll need to be able to clear with a no sinergy because we were unlucky. If it gets to that point might as well be called abyss randomizer. Before increasing difficulty, they gotta increase our capabilities to team build.

Hard agree. I didn't think I'd like the mode but kept an open mind and... it's worse than I thought. At this point every patch it feels like Hoyo is telling me I'm not the target audience. I'll hopefully like Natlan but it feels like they're indexing even more into the gimmicky cutesy vibe with a Pokemon-like atmosphere for what should be the "nation of war"...

Among the videos I have seen on the theater, yours is definitively the most constructive one. Sure there are several things that cannot change. But it's definitively helpful. Thanks!

Only thing in genshin that isn't a disappointment is the music. Having huge playerbase is curse for genshin. They cant make everyone happy.

Imaginarium Theatre: Where imagination goes to die.

It was so painful to complete. Some of the fights are just bad for a specific dps, but that's all you have.

what makes it even more insulting is you can totally see how much love and effort they actually poured into designing the game mode and its overall aesthetics. too bad it's wasted on this shitty excuse of endgame content

5:29 100% That's pretty much what I thought as well after having spent a good amount of time with WuWa now. It's not particularly better than GI, but different and up to your preference. GI's not simpler at all. I find both are fun, but can still devolved into a DPS check with enough investment on the right characters, since I've now seen some whales cheese holograms with Jinhsi.

Yes, the greatest flaw is that it's just not fun. I've replayed the mode several times for testing. One time I only chose characters and no boons, another time I only choose a minimum amount of characters and only boons. I felt absolutely no difference between the replays. The only thing that mattered a bit is who I got randomly added into my cast early on. The cards may as well not exist. Any punishing mechanic, like "thunder will strike down" is only felt if your units are severely lacking since it's on a timer, so it only punishes weak players. People who wave away the criticism like to boil it down to "it's endgame you have to build that many characters", but if you're someone who clears that barrier there is nothing engaging behind it. So who is this supposed to cater to? Players with well invested characters clear it easy, so there is no challenge, and worse gameplay at that. So it's not for meta players/difficulty raising. Newer Players struggle to fulfill the entry requirement so it's not a step before abyss either, in fact it rather hinders abyss progression by splitting your resources. So it's not for Newbies either. The only rejoicing I've seen came from "finally I can use all my build characters" players, basically players who build and dump. Grinding is not engaging gameplay. And an ownership barrier as the biggest challenge is just gacha incentive not a skill check.

SOMEONE FINALLY MENTIONED THE TEAM SYNERGY ISSUE! I keep saying it over and over again: being unable to change artifacts before combat to suit the wacky teams is so DUMB. They picked arguably one of the worst element combinations to do that for the first iteration too (Venti trivializes the small mobs, Pyro is mostly made up of on-field DPS, half of the electro characters want dendro but you only have access to it if you have Baizhu/Alhaitham) My Beidou is specifically built for teams with Fischl, but I kept getting only one or the other at the beginning or at the end. No in-between. Same applies to my Xiangling/Benny. And then the starting characters... Oh I hate the starting characters. It's obvious they want the player to use Wanderer/Faruzan first but... If this game mode promotes wacky teams up to the player's imagination, isn't forcing specific characters at first the antithesis of that? Even worse, personally I'm not the average player - I'd rather save my C4 Wanderer for the final fight as a friccu to the devs for spamming anemo res every abyss reset.

They could've unironically copypasted Labyrinth Warriors, turn it into a monthly gamemode and I would've ate that crap up instead of this slop mode

To add to your suggestion, I think they should increase the number of elements per cycle to 4 or 5. This would (1) help players to reach the entry quota; (2) add more reactions to make proper teams; (3) give more replayability since you can choose a widely different roster each playthrough.

I don't think Genshin's movement system is cut out for complex stages, maybe one complex stage would be good as a gimmick you would save Wanderer for.

It feels like tectone literally just repeated what you said in negative language lol 😭

I think mihoyo misunderstood "end game" as something that is supposed to be released at the end of the game

I would love a run around the world type of combat event to start the next fight. Something that takes place in the world itself and gives me a reason to ho back through the map. Idk i largely agree with your take that they had 4 years to cook something up and Imaginarium Theater is just ok. Not bad imo, but not exciting

I quite like the new mode. Its random but at least I can use my billion characters for once

Great criticism of the Theatre. You articulated your stance well, while still affirming why some ppl like it. I understand where you are coming from. Also, agree with your take on Wuwa vs Genshin combat.

They went from Elysian Realm to Labyrinth Warriors to Simulated Universe to this. It dropped significantly on the 4th time and it most likely won't get better.

Agreed with everything and for a mode that resets once a month, it's so disappointing how short and easy. Feels what little end game we had in abyss is now over

Tectone doesn't play games, he only talks. For sure he never fought Pyro Lectors, Consecrated Beasts and such to call them target dummies

Adding the ability to guarantee one of your selected characters, revive one of your choice or have non combat based stages like the adventure stages in sim universe in hsr. Like, either you can use up a character charge in a fight or you can do a minigame of sorts (they've got plenty they can reuse) and depending on how you do, you get better or worse rewards. Ranging from the games currency to special blessings or a character of your choice or something. I like the mode, i like what its trying to do, but i feel it needs a bit more to really set itself up as an endgame feeling mode.

I wonder how much collaboration, inspiration, the HSR and GI teams took from each other creating Divergent Universe and Imaginarium Theatre. Divergent Universe is a flop for a lot of players. Considering how strong a lot of people consider HSR's updates, the surprise disappointment with DU is not what people expected. Both games releasing a negatively received permanent endgame mode around the same time is wild when you think about it.

i feel like i was the only person had fun while playing this mode but i fully agree that it is not enough

Dude, your comment on the combat vs WuWa is exactly why I respect your opinions. It's valid and not just blind bashing. I also agree with all your criticism of the new mode. They had an event in the past with buffs that changed character playstyles and I have no idea why they didn't do that here. Even if they didn't, roguelikes have so many good example for interesting mechanical changes... Like, they could make something that limits your skill to 3 charges, but removes cooldown or have all your basic attacks be infused with an element. Like you said, it's just lazy design. Well, not audio/visual design, but mechanical design.

People seems a bit confused on the goal of this mode. The goal of the mode is not to "produce more difficult content for seasoned veterans". The goal of the mode is "how can we increase conversion rate of new players into paying customers". If you think if it from that angle, then the design totally makes sense.

I have all these characters only to use them in meh teams because the game gives them randomly + its very strict with elements, it feels more like a little harder event than a "endgame" game mode. I still preffer abyss because its harder and puts your account to the test, theater just checks if you pull alot. Its too easy for veterans and too hard for new players. PEAK DESIGN EVERYONE

They need to 100% rework the boons. They cannot be specific, its utter anathema to the mode's core concept to have half the boons only interact with a 3rd of the possible characters. Even if they just turn them into abyss cards it would be already a massive step up because those are mostly general use and having 6 of them is very powerful while the current boons cant even properly stack due to all being either element locked, Talent locked or both. So on most teams your 6 blessings will not affect all characters, at best 1 gets 3 boons while the rest get 1-2 while some might even get none. None of the random choices in theater matter in the slightest besides finding the right character to carry you through the last 2 stages. So this isnt really a roguelike so much as its a random combat event that shuffles your available characters but can be cleared with your starting roster of trial units.

The Hypostatic Symphony event and others similar like it were awesome, wish we got that as an endgame.

I agree. They could do so many crazy things. Like for example have a purchasable baff that would make shields resonate with geo structures and deal damage this way. Or add some dot damage with pyro with one baff and with other make all dots prock at overload reactions.

You are one of the few CC's i'm willing to listen to the game's criticism because i know you're not driven by views on youtube or stirring up drama. In my opinion the IT feels unfinished in it's current state, i wonder if it was intentional, to test the waters so to speak, but then here's the thing - hoyo has released some pretty good limited time combat events in the past 4 years, why didn't they just give us that instead of a dull, poorly designed "end game". I saw the dev discussion they posted recently and that gave me a LITTLE hope, but also a LOT of worry - i hope that when they said they were gonna listen to the "constructive criticism" of IT, they meant the criticism from end game players who want to see a better, more challenging version of it, rather than "constructive criticism" (cringing and whining more like) of people who think they should be able to partake in this challenge early - mid game, wanting to remove the 18 characters requirement and element restrictions, the only thing that this event has going for it as of now in my opinion, and what makes it even a bit interesting (it's not just Spiral Abyss 2.0)

I think they should allow you to choose whichever character you want to use both in primary and alternative selection but they can still keep the vigor system.

they could just bring back that corridor event with the paper man and everyone will happy-

I never really though about this stage design issue you mentioned but now that I think about it maybe an arena that isn’t just a flat circle would be way more fun to play in

The quickest way to improve IT in my opinion would be to drastically increase the difficulty of the enemies, while also increasing the strength of the random cards so that your strength may properly ramp up over time to match the enemies' strength if you build wisely. Adding more, harder performance stages can also work if the power scaling curve is right. The fact there seem to be room for more stages on the right side of the UI makes me optimistic that they will add them, and I hope it'll happen soon. Also, let characters be used more than twice, but with some drawback to doing so to incentivise experimentations. Maybe once they lose all their vigor points they start accumulating an "exhaustion" debuff that makes them weaker the more you force them back into the arena. That should make the choice between getting more cards to improve your current team and unlocking fresh characters to build a new team a more interesting choice.

I agree about the team building aspect. But, at the same time, we already have the Abyss for that. I think the Theater is about trying to find other kind of synergies. Obvious examples is Sigewinne+Kazuha to allow Gaming to Vape, or Dori and Fischl helping Sethos' Energy needs. But I was able to make a rotation using Hu Tao and Keqing, for example, since their CD actually align a little. It's nothing great, but still something. If they plan to do a double DPS meta in the future, maybe this is the kind of mode where we can experiment and discover new things. Anyways, I'm looking forward to see what they're going to improve in this mode. Personally I had fun playing (but only played twice until now. The first attempt was quite easy and the second attempt took me 5 hours to complete, it was hard xD). And I think your "rant" is fair, even if I don't agree 100%.

Whatever egg man say, my brain just automatically blocks.

There is also no rogulite elements in Imaginarium Theater (like SU's upgrade tree from Star Rail), its pure rogulike. + There are only fight nods (no event nods), they could have easily recycled old event minigames (there were a lot of different events like: gliding, underwater race, cooking, recent bullethell event (record of reflective writing), mechanical puzzles, musical events, TCG for god sake)

I think increase in boons and boons effect more impactful would be nice and make more stages and harder stages as well. but i disagree by giving characters more times they can be used IF they don’t add more theatre stages. i enjoy the fact theatre tries to test your horizontal investment and it should still attempt to test that.

I had something completely different in mind when thinking about endgame... It was like Misty Dungeon and Labyrinth Warriors, but with a LOT more rooms. The rooms were mostly combat, but you needed to solve puzzles to travel between the rooms. The general idea was that you started somewhere along the outside of the huge network of rooms and passages between them (like a beehive or cube-hive). The combat would be timed. Too long prevents your progression at all. But depending on how slow you go, you can either move directly towards the center of the cube-lattice (the final boss) or you move to the side and have to fight more trials. I was going to make a post about it on Hoyolab...

"abyss blessings feel more impactful than boons" yep, that's definitely real

The elemental restrictions would have made sense if the wondrous boons were powerful enough to even alter the elements and their available reactions, but that is not the case here. There is too much RNG involved, when it comes to gettibg mystery caches to even getting a character. They will need to revamp the buff cards and either remove the character count requirement or the elemental restriction requirement. Fortunately, Hoyo made a post about the ongoing concerns with the game and it does look like they admit that they were short-sighted. Id be fine with either just character count requirement or elemental restriction requirement but not both. Could have had us requirement 18 built characters from any element or have hs bring as many characters as well could with the elemental restriction requirement but also enable us to bring less than a full team. Rather than restrictions, it would be in highee favor if there were just penalties instead. Like you take 15% mode dmg for each off element character in team or for character count penalty, you deal 14% less dmg for each empty slot in your party. Overall, the game mode would have more replayability with just elemental count or character count penalties unstead.

You know what this Imaginarium Theater teach me. How good the character really is with out using the best team support/off field element applier. That teach me lessen of low investment character account.

feels like an extended character trial

Please never take Tectone seriously again. Most Genshin content still requires dodging, healing and/or shielding, especially if playing on mobile.

i think some improvements they could make are (1) letting you pick your starting characters, or at least 2-4 of them. maybe we all have to start with arlecchino, thoma, chorinde, wanderer, faruzan, and kuki, but you can also choose to start off with benny, chevy, fischl, or anyone else. that way, your teams wont be as scuffed and you have more control over the experience. (2) rather than having the special invite characters be chosen by hoyo and be 5 stars not everyone has, let the player pick like 2 units of any element to bypass the restrictions. having the option to use xingqui or nahida or yelan could open up some team comps for some floors and make characters tied to vape or quicken a bit more usable while still incentivizing creative team comps with restrictions for at least half the floors. and (3) give us more choice when picking characters. maybe we dont start off with every character, but give us the choice of when to pick up a benny or a chevy or a fischl

I could understand them reducing the character randomness to make some more synergistic teams. but if they increase the vigor this will just become another abyss where people make 2 teams for the whole thing and never really experiment.

The best video about the theater content I ever watched.

i kinda love it. i found it so fun, it like actively made me think of who to use, who to pick up, when to get charatcers. was especially fun as a day 1 player who has such a massive roster where like 90% of them are like rotting away LMFAO hard agree with your points though. it def needs more TLC

Totally agree, i was expecting something like simulated universe from hsr but is not like that at all, for me is more fun use the characters that i want to use than some random characters with random teams with 0 synergy and i dont think hoyo is gonna do something to fix it so, it is what it is.

Am i wrong for saying the basis seems potent it just needs thoughtful adjustments. Despite the issues i rather love the presentation and lore, which honestly should be a good thing since many of the changes people ask for are more or less just some lines of code, it shouldnt be hard to fix

The most baffling part about IT is that it’s so anti Casual player despite them doing everything else to appeal to those players with lowering Amber training mode and domains. You need so much resin, i.e. you need to login so frequently just to get your characters leveled up/ halfway decent artifacts just to play this mode. Most of these people don’t, they just login, spend some resin, and will occasionally do some odd things here and there. At least with abyss, they can spend money/ only invest in certain units and get some stars pretty easily. But here, you straight up can’t play the game mode if you don’t have enough characters. It’s so restrictive.

Personally, I really enjoy the Theater gameplay far more than Abyss, because I love using different characters (even clunky ones) to tackle different challenges. It also seems to encourage horizontal investment rather than vertical, which has always been my problem with Abyss. However, I agree that many of the things you mention would make it better. Maybe not the "use a character 4 times" thing, but all of the rest of your improvements I think could be implemented. At the moment, I do feel like the challenges might be a bit too generic. If it reset more often, I wouldn't mind, but a whole month of the same old challenges is a bit sad to me. I would hope that in the future challenges are different across the board, and we can choose which play style to stick to in our performance. I also thought that it would be more interesting to add free "curses" that make enemies harder (maybe with different resistances) or even hurt your characters in some way (like lower skill damage, so you don't want to take Fischl) for one stage. In exchange, it could also give you a time buff to get help you be able to get stars/more currency/more characters. That way, the replay-ability may be better and it becomes a risk that players may be wanting to take. Each performance should feel different, rather than just playing the same strats every time.

i guess if you’re testing the new gamemode that heavily relies on having tons of characters built on a development account where you have every character unlocked and fully maxed out in every way, it’s easy to think it works just fine it becomes much more irritating when you only have decent artifacts and weapons for your main team and yeah you have some random units that happen to be high enough level to take on the theater but then you can’t get anything done because you didn’t expect to have to go back and build every single other character you own so they’re really not great in battle and can’t clear floors

I like how the mode values the characters flexibility rather than just being really good at one team, and the way it's more it requires more strategy than the abyss, although the difficulty is underwhelmingly low. I can see why ppl are disappointed with it and i do agree that it's quite bad at moment, but i really see potential in this mode and the fact hoyo is actually willing to improve makes me optimistic

Yes you explained it so well! I wish there was exploration for gettings buffs or negative debuffs as well as combat like hsr simulated and divergence. Also learning some ore from those exploration.

The endgame you are looking for is raid which I wanted since day1 it is baffling why they don't do it, it is fit for open word games like destiny

Totally agree. I don't think the foundation of what they tried to do is bad but it needs a lot of improvements to make it actually enjoyable and worth replaying. One of the interest things about SU is how every run is different bc of the differeng blessings you can get but not punishing bc the RNG just buffs your dmg. And I agree with the sugestions, either make it so we can use the characters more OR make it so we can regain vigor through something, even if its costs a lot of the flower thingies. Make the boons stronger so they feel more worth it to get than trying to get the a new random character. Like imagine you waste your flowers on a broke af boon but then the next stage you can regain vigor on a strong character so you just sit there thinking about your desicions, like I prefer that type of RNG and "punishment" bc yeah, I'm not getting that chara but I'm still doing a shit ton of dmg. As for the length, I think it was leaked that they might expand it to 10 acts on the next updates? Which is good but if they don't improve on the current issues then its not even worth it. I also hope they increase the difficulty a little bit, rn the enemies are quite squishy, which honestly idk if its a good or bad thing bc with some of the teams you end up creating its good that they are like that 💀 Personally, I don't mind the elemental restrictions and as you said, having to think of possible teams you can do with what you have is interesting and tests your teambuilding knowledge but the rest of the stuff does not make it that enjoyable. And as you said, I'm surprised with how many stuff they failed to get with this game mode considering how many feedback regarding other events they have gotten. Like I'm sure they have statistics on what events people liked more and what aspects of it they did, if they put attention to that they would have know the people yearn for a laberynth of warriors gamemode lmao.

this mode has way too much menuing imo

I have a question: what purpose do the stars have if the rewards is tied only to the difficulty

This video does a good job explaining its issues and some of them that i had. As for the wondrous boons being basic i think thats cuz of the limited team styles. It does seem atleast theyre willing to keep updating the theater but an issue of it is as you said lack of replayability and the fact it only resets once a month means we gotta wait a long time for updates.

another TGS banger

I would say that the restricted elements change every day or every other day so u can try mutiple different teams. As someone who played for a while and has a lot of characters it doesn't feel fun to only get to play half of them for 30 days just cuz of the elemental restrictions

I expected the Imaginarium Theater to be like combination of Labyrinth Warriors + Simulated Universe + Divine Ingenuity Sadly, its an RNG abyss combat playstyle

I hate that i run out of healers ALL THE TIME! I dont have 10 different healers im sorry.

Was I the only one that kinda liked it? I even finished it in one run, yeah it required backing up sometimes but I ended up finishing it and can’t wait to do it again!

I feel like it’s gonna just take a lot of creativity to make this game mode exciting. More creative and stronger defensive boons like temporary C6, raining is turned on or something. allowing for more extreme difficulty for example.

Finally did this last night and it was a bit tougher than expected. I'm so use to playing my characters in specific comps and some of those characters felt terrible to play outside their nornal team. I thibk they could ramp up difficulty but give more characters to start and give out more vigor cards to keep support characters in longer.

I think the somewhat forced randomness of teams even with a well developed horizontal roster is what's really killing the experience for people. I had to rerun it like 5 times to get a smooth Act 8 clear, and I still had a few hiccups along the way.

Its funny how this mode is "team-building" focused, yet significantly inhibits how you can express your teambuilding knowledge with all these restrictions in place. A theorycrafter would almost have the same scuffed team as a casual player. It doesn't punish you for bad teambuilding knowledge because the difficulty was designed around bad teams. I expected a mode which tested how well you can adapt to the environment using your knowledge on synergies and characters

4:00 damn that dehya damage went hard