Does anyone else here find exploring Inazuma to be really annoying and frustrating at times? I feel as if they went overboard with the puzzles. To me, it's a case of just because you can fit 358 puzzles in this small patch of land, it doesn't mean you have to. I mean, i'm all for solving puzzles, and I particularly enjoy the logic-based ones, but those that combine legwork are just downright infuriating.

It also just highlights the most frustrating parts of Genshin exploration. Nothing has tilted me more in this game than running out of stamina while climbing a cliff that has an overhanging ledge which I cannot get onto, so I end up falling in the water and drowning, which forces me to try all over again just to get a stupid fucking relay stone around some corner I would never have seen if I didn't accidentally look up, which will finally end my 30-minute attempt to solve a puzzle that will only reward me a fucking exquisite chest.

Don't even get me started on the various map gimmicks. Oh boy. Electro seelies? Relay puzzles? Lightning probes? Thunder spheres? Those pillars that you have run around to re-position? Holy mother of hell. I pity you who doesn't have Kazuha or Venti.

I think Mihoyo absolutely knocked it out of the park with Inazuma's overall thematic design and OST. It is just stunningly beautiful. But I would never want to explore it again, ever.

I guess I wrote this post to genuinely find out if i'm getting too old lol. For me, Liyue was just the right amount of puzzles and map gimmicks. I can't wait to be done with these islands.