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Top comment from Zajef's video explains it perfectly "It's easy enough for old players and restrictive enough for new players, leaving both sides frustrated with no solution in sight."

It boggles my mind how Honkai Star Rail got Divergent Universe, where all the characters you possess are scaled up to an appropriate level and even get temporary weapons and relics and their traces leveled up, having a ready-made solution for the problem in Imaginarium Theater, yet they chose to not use it in Genshin.

Genshin Difference: Put something that community asked for a long time, but always in a way that community didn't ask or incomplete.

"What if that season it's Geo, Cryo, and Dendro" ok but imagine. Geo Anemo Dendro. Your reactions can't save you now.

So the restriction here is 3 folds: 1. Elements: Forced to use only 3 elements. 2. Characters: Forced to start with a set of principal characters and unlock others randomly later. 3. Party: Forced to use exactly 4 characters with no option of using fewer to save vigor. The game literally treats you like a drone. "Play the content our way. and ONLY OUR WAY. Don't try anything creative now." I'm out.

My question is, why of all the events we had, they decided to use the most irritating and tiring one. They could have brought us a simulated universe type of thing and what they brought us is "here you go, have fun with your 4 dps team, good look"

I wouldn't count the special guest characters as free units. While they are outside of the season's element requirements, you're still required to own them in order to select them as participants.

I can't understand why Hoyoverse can't just make Labyrinth Warriors from 2.2 the new endgame content That shit was 10 times more fun than whatever Imaginarium Theater is supposed to be

Something that also hurts IT, at least in my eyes, is that the Wondrous Boons do just short of jack all in buffing characters in fun and unique ways. They're just kinda... there and that's assuming you're even able to trigger them in the first place. Oh, you just got a useful buff that triggers off Swirls? Would be a shame if you didn't have any Anemo characters available... In "Season 1" (for want of a better term) of Illusive Realm in WuWa, the buffs and alterations you could give characters could get real nutty real fast. Infinite Skills/Bursts. Get healing from _everything._ Turn Chixia into Gunslinger Dante from DMC. Make Spectro Rover throw 3 swords from their attacks and have their Burst go off _3 times_ instead of just once. Make your very own Motivated Combo with Yangyang. The list goes on. I think the worst part about this is that many of us told Hoyo what we wanted: _just bring back Labyrinth Warriors!_ They wouldn't need to make it hyper-specific like in WuWa. Just give us access to some absurd buffs like 500% ER, 80% Skill CD (can you imagine Xiao or Childe with 80% Skill CD?), max ATK speed, stuff like that. They could've even kept the level and element restrictions, i.e. "Ooh, I'll level this character up because I want to see what they play like in IT!" You know? I think a lot of people would've enjoyed that. I know I would've.

I don't have enough levelled characters to do hard mode... Also we're so done when we get a geo+cryo cycle

The worst thing is needing a character that you DO have built and not getting it because RNG. Fuck this mode, I'm not doing multiple runs because Kazuha and Sucrose decided to hide and I can't complete the defend the monument.

The main problem is that the game's intentional resource drought only allows you to properly build 1-2 characters per month, but Imaginarium Theater requires 18 built characters. That's at least 9 months of playing the game just to be able to participate. But, since the game bans 4/7 elements, you'll realistically need around 30 characters to even start (unless you have dreams & know exactly what the next theaters will be, then you can prepare in advance). If you only invest the least amount required on your supports, that's still at least a whole year of farming... just to play.

my worry is that genshin will find the public negativity about the new end game and go "well, new end game failed. Let's never try again".

Incredible that they perfected roguelike mode across 3 games(Elysian Realm>SU>whatever the mode is called in ZZZ) and fumbled so hard.

The problem is that I need to start wasting levelling materials, and the fact that most people are stuck in babyjail until they get more characters for each season 🤷

I am scared for the season when they force us to use Geo....

I was so excited for Imaginarium Theatre because I am one of those players they get stressed out about Spiral Abyss but now that I’ve tried it, it’s a flop for me. I was actually more anxious and enjoyed it less trying to complete this than Abyss because of how restrictive the rules are. At least Spiral Abyss is straightforward, you know what you’re getting. Imaginarium Theatre is basically just another round of RNG. I have enough characters to complete hard mode but I none of my teams had any synergies but I couldn’t get access to characters when I need them.

Remember them saying something about anxiety? And now, they add this, where you in practice will need at least 12+ different element characters built to fill the requirements, and you never know which 3 you will need. Also, making it last a month instead of 2 weeks is also stupid, it is less to do again for an entire month.

I left Genshin last year. I was initially attracted to the game back on launch day as it presented itself as an open world gacha. For hundreds of hours it was exactly what it advertised: I got to explore, do things at my own pace and with characters I liked. Then after the one-shot stuff was all done, it started to hit that all the 'repeatable' content was repurposed honkai star rail nonsense: locking you in instanced circular arenas with a timer telling you to defeat waves of monsters. How incredibly dull and opposite to the entire game up to that point and it's ALL like that. Want to grind artifacts? Circular instanced timed arenas. Want to advance your weapons? Circular instanced timed arenas. Want to advance your characters? Circular instanced timed arenas. Want to do a monthly way of getting some primogems? Circular instanced timed arenas. How about mixing it up with a combat event? Circular instanced timed arenas. What's this? Genshin is adding a new mode? Oh cool, I wonder what they'll d- Circular instanced timed arenas. It doesn't matter how thick the tome of arbitrary rules they slam on top of it is or how much UI drivel you have to navigate past to finally get there. It's still just yet more Circular instanced timed arenas. Oh, and sometimes you defend a monolith... because, y'know, players have historically always enjoyed defending stuff in games where the monsters just attack from everywhere. It's all such a CHORE. That's a big part of why I'm glad Wuthering Waves has recurring Illusive Realm: It's a random dungeon exploration thing. Genshin could've had this if they'd built on the foundations of Labyrinth warriors, but I guess whoever did that event moved to HSR or got locked in a basement somewhere. God forbid they have an activity that involves exploration and doesn't have a timer on every single piece of combat. As for my hatred of timers: one of the appeals of an open world is being able to feel like you're doing things at your own pace. A timer, even if you never actually run out of time, is like the game developer standing over your shoulder with a stopwatch, trying to hurry you along. It sours the experience and makes me want to tell them to f**k off. They don't even try to theme why the timer is there, it's genuinely an arbitrary failure timer: you fail because a timer ran out, not for any actual explainable in-world reason.

My best word about IT would be a begrudging 'it's got potential'. I enjoy using a wider cast of chars, but it's high time to make the mode fun to play.

i'm glad they made a new endgame mode but, seriously, they could've planned it out far better, it's just a dissapointment

I think wuwa illusive realm is good example how to make endgame u get trail units u choose buffs you choose your own supports the stages are sure the same and enemies too but new update new theame for the realm. Its not so rng based or character check game mode

12:18 the thing is, an endless imaginarium theatre kimd of already exists in the game In remuria, there is an arena that spawns infinte geo vishaps and theres a timer, the goal is to clear as many as possible within the limit, this kind of thing but expanded would have been a lot more fun

Endless battles: we’ve been asking for that ever since 2.something. It was during the Childe and Xinyun event. THAT was what a lot of people wanted as another endgame mode and have an endless battles mode ):

They should have called this gamemode Imaginarium Prison with how much restriction they have 😂

My expectations on IT were low ever since I saw the leaks mentioning it featuring vigor, but dear god I somehow still got disappointed

The thing I love about sim uni (it’s my favorite game mode in star rail) is that with the right buffs you can make a character go absolutely ham to the point that the game lags from how many numbers are on screen. I was hoping for a similar thing in this new mode but there’s Almost no reason to go for buffs and next to no rewards so what’s the point???

We could have gotten Misty Dungeon but noooooo, we got Triumphant Frenzy instead

Damn. I haven't played it yet. Not even a week and the community is collectively disappointed 😅

I would love an endless mode but it would require either : -more or no vigor -easier way to regenerate a character's vigor (it's already possible but you need a pretty rare event) -The ability to use less than 4 character in a stage One improvement I could see is change the vigor system but some sort of fatigue system where every stage the character you played get more tired and are debuffed as a result. It would allow more stategy (like having one "dead weight" char that you use to fill the 4 character quota in a stage but never use so it's no big deal if their fatigue meter gets low to the point this character is unusable) and it would also give you to brut force with very strong and invested character that are strong enough to remain viable even when stacking debuff. You could also strategise and use a character to clear the 4-5 first stage since those are easier, allowing you to keep more character for later. All in all, the gamemode isn't bad but it's sad how much wasted potential it has.

It says it though. It tells you what bosses will be at what act you can see it at the difficulty selection.

i havent watched yet but it seems to me that the theatre is almost entirely just pulling bait or something, the element limitation is actually horrible💀

Problem with this is it enhances a lot of Genshins problems that have been ignored by the devs for years. Properly leveling and gearing a single character can take a month or more if you're unlucky. I've been playing for a year and a half (f2p) and i have maybe 9 chars that qualify for this mode before considering elements. At bare minimum we need more resin, reserve resin, or faster resin growth. Basically as usual we need the Star Rail QoL stuff.

I miss Labyrinth Warriors 🥺

You don't have to start over again actually, you can just re do the last level, you can access it by pressing esc before fighting.

I liked it... I build all my characters at least a bit so I jumped right in and found it fun, and I liked the variety of using all sorts of characters. If you play through it once you know what the bosses are and you can plan to keep specific characters for later rounds. For example, I knew the final round needed pyro, so I planned to keep Arle for it, and I knew wanderer wasn't going to do much for me there so I used him up earlier. I'm excited to see what kind of interesting or janky teams people will come up with. Maybe we'll learn new things. Limitation breeds creativity.

I was kinda excited, cause how people described it, they said "Its like Simulated Universe" But when i actually played it.. it wasnt bad.. but it still felt kinda disappointing I like the elemental restrictions, but i have been playing for like 4 years now nearly and have a long list of characters built up (so i understand why people dont like that) But idk, the execution of the gamemode felt.. more like a short event than a permanent mode got through it pretty fast and now there's nothing to do Edit: I see you share the same sentiment about it feeling like an event lmao

Personally I love it, it makes me feel like the random characters I built for fun & don't have a team for finally have a use. I also find the mode quite challenging as an old player (October 2020) that might also be because I'm not very good at the game but as someone whose never been able to 36* abyss I adore this mode. Not to mention how amazing the aesthetics are!

Idk, I personally like the new mode, can totally understand everyone’s grievances with it though. Im someone who’s been able to horizontally invest into different characters and even ones that most would consider “bad.” And it’s not like I care all that much for damage checks like Spiral Abyss, that’s kind of a means to an end for me, the end being to test how my newly built characters are in tougher fights. So honestly, I welcome the rng nature of Imaginarium, it’s fun throwing a random team together.

The restrictions of this game mode makes Alcatraz look like a kid’s Birthday Party.

This is probably the first time i started farming materials, artifacts, mora and books ley lines for C tier characters

it doesn't feel like the devs care anymore, at this point anything new they add always seems to be a way to get more money out of you without contributing much of it's own other than story, lore and character design. it's infuriating how much missed potential this game has.

Personally I had fun. However I've been playing for a long time and I have enough fully built units. I love restricted Abyss challenge runs, and I often replay Abyss with different teams and comps despite no rewards. So the idea of an official Genshin randomizer is so cool to me. I ended up finding new ways to play my existing units who may be overly reliant on specific teammates. For example I have a Xiangling on an EM build who needs hydro application to vape, and Bennett for battery and ATK. So choosing if and when to use her is a challenging puzzle for a character who would otherwise make even the hardest endgame content into a piece of cake. I also got to play with units I don't own, like Arlecchino, Clorinde, Chevreuse, and my friend's Wriothesley. Overall there's a lot more variety to the game compared to the brain-afk that is unrestricted Spiral Abyss with Neuvillette and Furina.

One thing I found interesting as a long-time player is that if you actually use the trial characters it’s considerably more difficult! I think the gamemode is just balanced around players who have characters around the same level of investment as the Trial Characters. And it actually is kind of difficult to account for players like myself who have been playing for 3 years and have many cracked and maxed out 5 stars because if u make a game mode that is difficult for me, it would be near impossible for (low spending) players who have only been playing for, say, 1 year. They would likely need another year to clear that level of challenge. Still, I’d love for them to add a 4th difficulty level or an endless mode that gives no additional primo rewards but maybe gives like Artifact Strongboxes or Artifacts exp or something!

i really love the imaginaruim theater, because i'm ALWAYS thinking on the posibilities with characters, and many have told me a lot of times that it's wothless to think so much, just take the strong characters and play, but now who's laughing! i'm the crazy one that plays only girls and takes xinyan to the abyss (when it favors her. i may be crazy but not that much). the buff system, the randomnes, how it asks you to actually use your head on the road. yes, when it goes terrible, it sucks, a lot, but it's the magic of rogue like game modes. oh when you get various free cards in a row, sweet sweet luck. and to add, i had 17 characters total, i wasn't able to do the hard mode, but i got enough to pull 10, i lost the 50/50, but i got keqing. i was looking at my destiny having to level one of the boys, but hoyo saved me from that destiny. i'm not mad, i may not have sigewinne, but i'm free.

I had fun with it, but definitely made me realize that Genshin over creates dps characters over off-fielders. Legit, I have Xiangling built not because I like her, but just because she’s the only one that does what she does. There’s, what, maybe Thoma too? 😅

"It's extremely easy" vs. "You need to use suboptimal teams" seems like mutually exclusive problems

The problem with this is that it's a LOT late I appreciate them finally adding a new game mode but it just seems like a last ditch effort

I like this game mode. I've been playing for a little more than two years (f2p) and I love building my characters. I invest in their levels, weapons and talents while artefacts really are an afterthought. SA is still decently difficult, but this mode is very nice and fun for me. Also, you don't have to clear it on the "hard mode" right away. Their is only 160 primos difference between "normal" and "hard", so yeah. Also, talking about "wasting materials". IT'S NOT, because this is a permanent game mode now and there are only seven elements in this game. Meaning that leveling some characters from each element will pay off in the long run.

I think an endless mode would suit imaginarium very well, but id like to see them add something more co-op oriented. Something like a boss rush with friends where you get ACTUAL stats like who did the most damage, most reactions, or who took the least damage, etc It feels like the co-op experience is lacking because we rarely get engaging co-op events so having something like this could be fun because the hardest difficulties could promote a diversity of different strategies and characters

I do like the idea that they're at least trying to push players to use something else other than just their main DPS all the time, but it's likely going to take months for players to be able to adjust to that given that nearly every late-game player now builds their teams under the intention of using it in Spiral Abyss. Now using that team in Imaginarium Theater is like taking a Ferrari with low ground clearance for offroading (or more accurately not even going offroading because the car is unable to get on the truck that will take you there). If the units and building part is the issue though, makes me wonder what a gamemode would be like if Genshin instead tossed you the units to choose from based on the element restrictions (with emphasis on reactions, it feels criminal to have Pyro and Electro but not have Chevreuse in the trial lineup) and then it boils down to a game of who can properly make use of the team in a Spiral Abyss-like scenario.

7:35 yes, but we wanted endgame content and this is something for endgame, it's not endgame if a so called 'newbie' can get all the rewards

Not surprised to see this video so soon after Imaginarium Theatre's release

I think is a good mode and incentives players to build different element characters. Me who didn’t looked at Geo , Cryo, and physical is time to un bench Ningguang, Noelle, Kaeya, Rosaria, and even pull for waifu Eula.

IMO the most restrictive part of Imaginarium Theatre is that it only allow us to choose character from 3 elements only . If we can choose from 5 elements or 4 elements at the least, I bet there would be more people able to access the game and actually make a better team roaster that is actually fun to play.

I Love the new End-game mode a lot. I've been playing this game every single day for over 2 years. I have Hated the Abyss ever since I made my way to the end-game. The Abyss has gotten easier since then but my Hatred of that game mode has only increased over time. But I Love the new Imaginarium Theater. I'm somebody who has always preferred having more characters than having more constellations. And on top of that I actually enjoy mixing my characters around to come up with good teams on the spot. I like the Imaginarium much better as end-game content then I will ever feel about the Spiral Abyss.

Leave it to Genshin to somehow add an endgame mode that's miraculously unsatisfying to the entire playerbase... New players will feel cheated by not having enough characters, low investment casuals will feel cheated because upgrading characters is an expensive and time consuming process, and whales/veterans will just be bored...

i can't even play the hard difficulty, i am forced to pull characters

I hate the fact that i've to play characters like Scara or Clorinde in order to get the primos i'd get from Abyss. They basically made a boring abyss

I like the idea of infinite Imaginarium theatre a lot. I think it will scratch the itch of many end game players who lack the motive to build characters and complain constantly about not having content to play.

I did a bit of math for imaginarium theatre, and I found that you'd need 42 characters to be able to always be able do hard mode every cycle, you'd need at least 6 characters of every element to reach that requirement. to level just one these characters to level 80 (4 stars in mind and assuming you get 2 drops every time), you'd need to use around 520 resin. to level all 42, you need to use 21,840 resin. to level one weapon to 80 (assuming you get 1 purple, 4 blue and 3 green per cycle), you'd need to use around 200 resin. for all of the weapons to get to level 80, you'd need to use 8,400 resin. so without even farming for talents or artefacts, you've already had to use 30,240 resin to level these characters. that 30,240 resin will take over 151 days to accumulate naturally, but that's assuming you use ALL of your resin as soon as it caps and if you get 200 resin daily. a little under half a year worth of farming every single day and you haven't even touched half of what you need to level characters. I wish hoyo made it so 3 elements would get a bigger buff and it'd be harder to use other elements, but you can still use those other characters

I completed all 8 acts but getting achievements for 8 boons or 8 caches is pretty hard if you have to also win...

Imo making it "X element is disallowed on this month's rotation" would be way better than the current "You can only use these 3 elements" It would be alot less restrictive and so they could make it a bit harder. I feel like trying to complete a run "without hydro" or "without pyro" sounds alot more interesting than only having access to what amounts to Overloaded + Anemo in this first iteration. Also the NERVE of Hoyo to make the first I.T. essentially an Overloaded one and STILL not rerunning Chevruse. Wow.

Idk man... not every feature of a game necessarily has to be easy for everyone. You made the good point that this game mode rewards Horizontal Investment. People can choose to do it or not. I personally like the idea of leveling up underused characters. Its a different way of thinking about the resource management. I think its fine.

I straight up don't know how most of the daily boss's mechanics work, since in the overworld I have the options of building the team I want, I usually just end up steamrollering them before their mechanics come into play. This mode is a learning experience since I have to MacGyver teams together and figure out what's going on doing boss stages.

I completely agree with you on this. And it's really frustrating to see HSR provide a solid solution, but the Genshin devs act like they gotta figure it out on their own. But to also point in a slightly different direction: Wuthering Waves has a special mode called "Depths of Illusive Realm", in which you pick just one character to fight with, and the buffs focus on turning your character into an absolute monster. It also provides special skills unique to each character that expand the respective gimmicks to ridiculous proportions. I think something to that extent would work quite well in Genshin, where you start with a single character, but earn buffs that gradually provide new properties to the kit. Maybe even add the option to "rescue" a support character which can then be used to call in his skill or burst without switching party members.

I ran through it and the first time I got to the end fight, i realized I didn't have any main DPS to do the boss fight, and kept timing out. (Woohoo. More time based combat. Not that it's exactly hard at all, but still, I wish things were more technical than just DPS checks all the time.) After rewinding an act and doing it again, keeping a main DPS available, I was able to clear it in 20 seconds. The randomness doesn't feel like it makes the buffs you get worth anything until the very last fight, and til then it's mostly mindless. Also it's disappointing we can use friend characters for the featured chars, they can only be for supporting cast. But at the same time I kinda wish that the characters were 'normalized' stat wise, and you gradually got to upgrade their stats as you progressed, and remove or change the vigor aspect.

i think its fine and fun, but the problem for me was the element selection since i have fuck all anemo and pyro units, also i wished we could go into the fights with less than 34 units, its annoying having to sacrifice units when 1 guy can kill everything But i guess that woudl make it too easy

My problem with this modality, is the restrictions. I play Genshin because I love play with my favorite characters (NO! are not Meta units) and taking off one Abyss Cycle, now I risk to use my favorites less than before (when the main reason why we wanted a new endgame content was exactly to able to play more times your favorite characters). Plus, I don't like so many Genshin characters, and the restriction will force me to play these characters (just now, Im forced to play Arlecchino and Wanderer, that I dislike; those stages were a boring chore, no fun). I think the road that HSR took with Pure Fiction was better: I prefer nerf character/element than totally forbid them. Good that they added an Endgame, but not for this I have to be satisfied (specially because they removed 1 Abyss cycle, that is still endgame content; but they could surely give too many gems...)

I enjoyed it in the sense that I am a casual who started only around a year ago who has been fortunate enough to gather a pool of characters this past year (and almost 100 fragile resin as back up when I feel up for grinding) to play it, but not well enough to make it through hard mode (for now). I think part of why I found it fun was because some of the most fun I've had in game when it comes to combat (I decided do NOT play for combat) was random-team format with my friends in Coop and no matter how bad or not well-built a character was, we would bring it into a domain and try our best. We found some weird synergies that way, even if sometimes that meant an entire run would be screwed. It also, luckily or not, forced me to build (or semi-build at least) several characters that I probably would have otherwise not due to my skill issues. I do think the boons/mystery caches weren't that worth it as I saved all my currency almost exclusively for obtaining more characters, and I feel that's the only strategy to go for due to the vigor mechanic. The only thing is there ARE boons/mystery caches that allows you to restore vigor and/or bring an exhausted character back, and that saved at least one of my normal-mode runs, and because you know which bosses are coming up, that means doing your best to plan ahead - even if it means selecting enemies that you may otherwise not have chosen in order to avoid using up a character's vigor in order to save them for later acts. I can see and understand some of the frustrations however, but I guess I've decided to enjoy what I can and then wait and see if any changes get implemented going forward. I have to say that my favorite part of the new mode has been some of the tidbits of potential lore reveals, the ability to meet with the teammembers and what their lines reveal), and I do like the poses, and thankfully managed to earn the two I REALLY wanted.

i genuinely love it, because it's forcing me to use characters i have benched for years. it's helping me have fun with the game again.

I haven't played this yet, so I can't really comment on your view of it, but I will say this: I feel like you're forgetting the pain of building teams for Spiral Abyss when you start out. It took me a long, long time to feel confident enough in my builds to bother with Abyss. 'Average' players don't have it so easy, and it takes a lot of time and effort to build even two reasonable teams. Imaginarium means building more characters if you want to try the harder modes, but Abyss needs better built characters, and not a few of them. Feels like swings and roundabouts.

I love the mode tbh. I level every character i get and i was called crazy😂 NOW I Look smart!. All i had to do was put artifacts on the characters

You see problem, I saw opportunity. I think it is really fun to step out of the usual characters and build others.

for me, who built dori, sayu and whatnot to play this and still havent done abyss 12, it was actually fun! and the wanderer (the only opening cast one i have) having 20% atk on overworld os making me use him more. i know it wasnt for a lot of people but to me it really felt like a breath of fresh air

Day 1 player here, in the begining i was struggling un abyss until the release of eula, then it went to 27 stars and few months later i was able to get 36 star for the first time only failling one time during the hydro and cyro lectors. Since then i have branch out making a team of all elements for fun and its worked out fine for imaginarium. Its end game content, new players are not meant to finish it on day 1 but months later, same like day 1 players and abyss. This is just the same complaints from the early days of abyss

This game mode isnt really hard its annoying i dont mind having vigor for each character but let me just use two or heck 1 character because sometime the other available character do not work together

The design of the lobby and everything is so beautiful, i hope they keep the aesthetic but with a different challenge

so vars if they made imagiunarium theatre endless that would mean u would need endless characters?

There's no reason whatsoever to only horizontally invest going forward - that is a complete lie, you only need a handful of characters to start & beat this mode. If you can't meet the quota, just ascend some filler 4 stars to level 60/70 - you don't even have to use them, it's easy enough to be beaten with just on-fielders.

This mode was fun for me. Granted, I build my characters whenever there’s a calmer patch because I personally think it’s odd to never build a character you own. This mode isn’t even asking for perfection; more of an understanding of what’s on your account. Since this is considered endgame content it’s only natural new players aren’t meant to beat this from the start and while I wish there was an even harder mode for the fun of it, the endgame players I see having legitimate issues beating it are those who strictly adhered to meta units and spent time farming only for them to get perfect artifacts. Kinda hard for me to feel bad for them. Going that hard while ignoring the rest feels like poor resource management. People always say it’s better to have more characters than cons. Apply that to building teams. Do you need the perfect CV piece, or another functioning character who has no pieces at all?

I still don't understand why they couldn't just have made Labyrinth Warriors an endgame thing. It's an infinitely better roguelike-gamemode and could easily be redone every month. Just have the dungeon itself be randomly generated out of preset rooms and corridors with a monthly pool of combat rooms that you're required to get through. Also put in Inazuma, I hate that they just plopped IT in Mondstadt, when they have this absolutely massive map with tons of free real estate. It's not like having the entrances to these endgame modes in the first area of the game makes them any more accessible to new players.

i was left to only use 4 anemo comp by the time i got like act 6 and it was such a drag to redo the entire thing but I had no choice but to do so

I must have been the target audience for this because i have a bunch of characters all reflectively leveled up. Spiral abyss is torture at times. so this was a breath of fresh air getting all the rewards felt achievable and satisfying as a result

Do not pull yoimiya itto eula albedo they said They'll never be useful they said Jokes on you meta slaves I have almost 50% of the limited 5 stars And yoimiya was my savior there It was fun but it sucked too, it's just dumb to not let us use trio parties or duo parties this has to be fixed ASAP.

i need help with my genshin impact, i saw there is two check points unlocked for me in vanarana or vanarana old days while i didn't unlock them myself. i teleported to one of those check points and my game got closed, now i try to go back in the game but when it wants to respond me, the game gets closed again so i cant even have access to map, what should i do? can anyone help?

tbh I wish yo could take 1 chr into a floor, and it didn’t force you to use all 4 slots. that way you can solo easier floors with one strong character and save the good teams for later floors otherwise, it’s definitely interesting. I enjoy that it adds a fun restriction, but I’m someone with a lot of characters built. I have every anemo chr built (except lynette) every pyro dps (except arle) and an.. okay amount of electro supports, so I didn’t really struggle all that much my alt account on the other hand.. it’s more of a fun side account for chrs I don’t use on my main. my only built characters are probably ganyu, nuevilette, nahida, kokomi, shinobu, a really badly built chlorinde, gahming, xiao. you can see the issue there (I also need to add kokomi often does more dmg than nuevilette so uhm. he should be badly built too ngl) I’m not as fussed over my alt clearing since I don’t do as much on it, but I’d consider that acc to a similar level of a casual player, maybe a little worse since a lot of my chrs are lvl 70 bc I’m lazy and don’t enjoy rebuilding a chr twice. (brushes nahida nuevi and xiao under the carpet.. don’t look at them) but yeah. casual/low investments are going to struggle. which is why I do appreciate them giving you trial characters and letting you borrow a friends. I got to have fun with someone’s c6 kazuha and now I want him c6 even more ✨✨ also the randomness is definitely fun but annoying at times. I got very lucky, in the coppellius fight I had yoimiya - fishcl - chevreuse - dehya so it was probably the easiest one lmaaooo. yoimiya got no use before that since every floor was aoe or didn’t like pyro, dehya, well, dehya. think I had her one other floor. and chev/fishcl got the visor refreshed just in time lmaoo OH ADDON TO THE “BORROW A FRIENDS” CHARACTER THING. why only one?? one time?? they could have multiple that you could try resetting runs with its not fair it lets you use one. my friend was struggling on the vishaps so I recommended they use my lyney since he absolutely carried me through that one, but nope they can’t use him bc they used someone else. that feels kindof stupid. like “oh yay encourages you to use different peoples cha-“ stfu what if you have like no friends they didn’t have anyone else’s they could use so like it’s really annoying also one slight nitpick is the area with the table being like a domain area. you cant access paimon menu and are forced to have mc out. I wanted to look at the achievement menu WITHOUT having to leave the area, and having my fav chrs around makes things more fun for me. I like aether and all but I want to have my main out, and access menus

Genshin has been out for 4 YEARS if you've only been using 4 to 8 characters because of Spiral Abyss that's YOUR PROBLEM. I'm GLAD this forces people to not use their perfect "MAIN" to do everything. Learn how to use more characters.

It would be fine if Hoyo released more good 4 stars, but here we are

I'm a 1.0 player so i have most of the characters and they're all built except like 1-2 which did make it a breeze to get thru yet it still felt a bit lackluster simply because of the element selection giving access to not so great reactions. I got some pretty decent teamcomps for myself like overload clorinde, wanderer's usual setup with faru and thoma, a slight variation of raiden national and diluc plunge with xianyun and some throwaway characters but out of these only 3 are actually their respective dps' best teams (clorinde overload can work but it feels pretty cope) and only one of those three is actually accessible via trial characters (which as usual of trial characters are given suboptimal builds, like why was my arlecchino with the same amount of investment as the trial one hitting 10× harder). All and all it's a decent endgame mode for those who have a horinzotally invested account and/or just a solid roster while being a difficulty spike for most new players which i honestly felt on my alt where the run was wayyy less enjoyable

I had a blast playing through this cycle, took me a few tries but I eventually got it. I like that you're forced to play crack teams to beat challenges and think about characters differently.

this video overall just sounds like YOU problem and not the game's problem anymore cuz all the "major" problems you laid out stems from the playerbase itself.

For years playerbase wanted an endgame. Hopefully, i never met this playerbase. And this mode is good enough. It purpose is to give us rewards and doing it well. Unless devs are going to raise the difficulty, i like it.

I enjoyed it very much. Course I have a lot of characters built with dendro only being my weak side.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm too used to Elysian Realm in HI3 and dealing with G&G's highest difficulties in HSR, but the random aspects of Imaginarium Theater aren't really an issue to me. It can be annoying, but it's nothing I haven't dealt with before. I can absolutely see how the character requirements are rough, though. I'm not exactly a new player, but I do have most characters and have even built a decent few of them with just workable builds for doing dailies to grind friendship, so I didn't have much work to do before I could do the challenges. But for newer players who might have not even had the chance to get enough characters, it feels cruel to lock them to the lower levels just because of character count. I feel like there should either be more trial characters available for use, or that the character requirement should be the maximum instead, and characters with exhausted vigor should be able to be re-recruited with full vigor again to allow for smaller amounts of units to still clear the mode.

Honestly I see this more as a knee jerk reaction from the community more than anything else. I personally like the mode for the exact praises you just gave, I also see alot of potential for this mode to be even more challenging once players have their roster up and running. Its just right now everyone got caught with their pants down. Seen some people worried about new players and casuals like #1. New players are still learning the game and dont even have enough teams for spiral abyss. #2 What difference does it make for a casual that is unbothered to complete floor 12 between completing hard mode of IT?

it's 'end game' mode new player can try but shouldn't expect to clear it to begin with. also, this mode rewards those with flexible mind and play style not fix to certain team comps.

Personally, end game for me in Genshin is building my characters. So I've leveled and built almost every single character in Genshin that I own just for fun bc my friends and I like doing 4-star character challenges. This game mode is literally made for me.

Most of the characters i get are by accident (4 stars). You can get enough characters fairly quickly if you grind the game for primos (new players) and if you play long term you should have them just by regular play. The big issue is building them. Thats the time constrained