The Dark Side of Genshin Impact

One last hoorah for Genshin for a while hehehe :3c My throat is dying, sorry for the "Breathiness"

Despite the colorful nature of Genshin’s world, Teyvat itself isn’t for Children. Genshin Impact’s history hides vile stories of human experimentation, child endangerment, and even child extortion.

If you’ve been following this channel, you would know a majority of the things on this list. Either by mention or I’ve covered it before, but I just wanted to showcase this for those that are new here in a neat little video. A compilation of some sorts about the horror stories of Teyvat. Also, I won’t be covering theories for this video, but rather excerpts in Teyvat’s history that I find fascinating.

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[Dragonlordniam]

The Elezar hospital quest is probably my favorite quest in Genshin, EVER. The story telling methods with how the map is structured is heavily underrated. Its horrifying to uncover it all and that really ominous cutscene when you finally open the cave to see the light again. Makes you imagine that this is what the people was hoping for.

[lulubobu]

shit's insane. Playing this game is like a fever drean cos I be farming artefacts, and in the middle go to my inventory, read a random item and it just such trauma dump... girl

[KlausHargreaves_x]

the drug operation using animals stomachs in Lynette's story scares me

[Meadowy]

Being a child in Fontaine must be pretty terrifying. Ironic considering that it's supposedly a nation of "justice", someone would think that they would have some prevention laws or sth

[pepita]

People keep talking about Natlan designs being too colorful. I would advise these peopleto lookup Mesoamericans fashion. They kept sacrificing people, and fought their ritialistic wars in incredibly colorful costumes, with body paints, tons of jewelry, flower crowns, and decorated with feathers. XD
Great video, the last few days I saw a lots opinion about Genshin being childish.
Tho leving Ruu's story out was a crime. That story is pure horror. T_T

[GLoLChibs]

People really acting like dark stories have to have dark and gritty aesthetics. Someday people will understand just because something is brightly colored, cartoony looking, or have a 'fairy tale' and help animals theme in a side story does not mean it's for kids.

[kayleighdriessen]

Stories in the long term can definitely have an general lighthearted even cutesy undertone and still be dark and/or scary sometimes. Genshin Impact doesn't have to be right in your face to make you cry or feel scared or both. I'm not given up on the potential of Natlan's dreariness and horrors of war just yet.

[RocGirl]

i think my favorite dark story in genshin is the entirety of the narzzisenkreuz questline. the logs in sumeru that narrate suffering and transformation of rene into narzissenkreuz. the brutal battles faught between siblings, which lead to the loss of maryann. the testing of abyssal powers on human test subjects, turning them into horrifying monsters-- especially carter/caterpillar's story. the overall cult vibes througgout the series was just so amazing.

although not *as* dark, the chenyu vale quest about guizhengs three adepti, and how they fought to protect the human civilizations at the cost of their mortal lives was also beautiful. I LOVE fujin and lingyuan's relationship, and the the implied angsty love between them.

[fri-cdxy]

Genshin has this folktale vibes that differentiate it from hsr or maybe other hoyo games. Both have sad story, but the gritting part of some gi quest are... we can't change the fate that already set. What neuvillete said about us somewhat accurate, we're here to witness every story of teyvat. The despair comes from the fact that it only have one ending, no matter how much we avoid it (Tadhla the girl from tanit tribe, or fatui guy who kidnap sumeru's kid).

Another thing, some character have interesting viewpoint that maybe difficult to comprehend to nowadays people.
How focalor view sacrifice, how aranara view life and death, or ruu/tadhla's loyalty toward their tribe.
Genshin's feels like a bedtime stories that sometimes have a happy ending, and other times... well that's life, everything happens for a reason :) *flashback to everyone dies*

[tadoshka]

To this Day, I still think lament about that Xiangling's first quest, when she found the last surviving member of a supposedly extinct boar, she decided to cook it instead of breeding it with another boar to restore the whole species.

[gurennsan]

For a nation of "justice", Fontaine ironically had a lot of humans that are just complete pieces of sh*t, even more terrible than actual monsters

[Sky_]

I still feel like sh*t for killing Tadhla....

[Jesses]

If you want to cover all the dark horrors hidden in the game, you will need 5 more videos this long. Child slave trafficking seems to be rather common in Fontaine, and the...good doctor was very busy all over Teyvat with his experiments. You do not have to dig deap to find horror in this game that is for sure.

[happybalint]

dottore should be punished for all his warcrimes

[kizxio]

I remember accidentally stumbling upon the Leroy world quest after finishing up my daily commissions. I thought it was just gonna be some average fetch quest, but then Athos and Autumn showed up I was so concerned with every interaction with them as the quest progressed.

Tbh I was convinced they weren't his family at all, and were planning to kill him to take his wealth, but I was genuinely surprised that it was not the case at all. When the truth came out, I was so happy that we were given the choice to leave him to die because fuck that guy. It made me understand Athos' aggression, and Autumn truly deserved better.

That other quest in the Desert Hospital was also disturbing af, reaching the end of that man's writings on the wall to find a shovel outside the cave gave me chills. I still have that exact spot on my map to come back to. I LOVE THE UNSUSPECTING DARK WORLD QUESTSS RAHH

[Jhaynemain]

I don't know why people think that being 'colorful' means that the Genshin story would not take a dark turn. Have you not learn anything from Inazuma and Fontain?

[Hie_Hyoumaki]

Genshin has always been dark since they put Dottore in the story it's Dottore Impact

[ldogg]

I think the story of both the Raiden shoguns in pretty dark. Especially Ei's part in some trailer where it seems like at some point, Ei had to fight and kill her closest friends. Until none of them were left. The "Cataclysm" event was possibly the largest and most important event in all of Teyvat. Great video Aster, I got to hear tales I was too lazy to discover on my own account. Although I have to say, even though Genshin Impact has it's dark times, if it was rated M for mature instead of T for teen, the devs could be a lot more in your face about how dark and serious all of what Traveler was doing and seeing on their journey through Teyvat. And knowledge like that really makes what we do have seem mediocre in comparison.

[ShelbyLikesStuff]

I hate that people ignore what Genshin truely is because it’s Chinese, or anime styled, or the fandom is cringe and bad (it is in many situations). Seriously, it may not be for everyone but people shoukdn’t deny what it is, it is a story. A story filled with sadness, horror, and just depressing shit. I felt that after finishing the Sumeru Archon Quest (which was a few months ago since I started playing in January this year) that there was more than just Khanri’ah that was sad. Then the Wanderer interlude, my oh my, that shit hurt me personally. Then Caribert, then Fontaine… then Bedtime story. Genshin is just very depressing in a way similar to OMORI at some points (in case you don’t know what OMORI is, it is an indie psychological horror focused on mental health, escapism, grief, guilt, and some other topics. If you can handle its contents do look into the game!), I love that about Genshin. It seems so happy and silly and lovely! Then the further you get into it it gets more sad.

[sinclaire]

Genshin is an exercise in duality, the bright colors create a fun and enjoyable atmosphere for players, but it also is a couch for the colorful history of humanity wrapped up in a pretty package. Packages as you unwrap them may not always hold the prettiest or best things despite the colorful paper and oft time people are disappointed in the contents. Genshin embodies these well.