>>790638
>dragonspine mountain
Honestly that area was pretty much the reason why I uninstalled genshin early on, the exploration part simply felt tedious alongside the freezing mechanic because you can't wallrun or do anything extra to make the climbing feel engaging, I think I remember reaching the top of the mountain through a quest but I didn't even felt or remember anything.
>self imposed challenges start to feel contrived and artificial
If you're talking about needing to undergear to not explode everything at once, I agree with you on that but that's sadly on kuro's decision to make. I would love something similar to Borderlands 3 where I can turn Mayhem mode on or off at will
>>790673
I think wuwa at this rate should make it so that wallrun doesn't consume stamina unless you are in combat.
>>790607
>>790618
I'll agree that puzzles have become a lot more "interface" instead of interaction. Makes hoverdroid, levitation device really useless in your toolkit. But I'd say that the puzzles in 1.0 were a bit too randomly placed for some. I'd also like the parkour ones to be back instead of the constant flight challenges (both are railroaded as fuck anyways but at least for the parkour one I can move my character).
However, stuff such as the glow bug in jinzhou not being highlighted makes it simply not fun to find them. And I hate relying on using the chest scanner to even find the remaining chests pre 2.0 but that's primarily due to the chest scanner working as a sphere instead of a column and the minimap showing the height of the chest to your location is very poorly shown.
>>790691
>100% bypass with an external map instead
I know that there's an external map for me to use to finish jinzhou but I simply refuse to use it. Using it would make it feel like I'm ignoring the fact that they made the 100% progress tedious.
Related/ unrelated topic, when I played through my first save of elden ring via coop mod, my mood for exploring instantly went down the gutter the moment I started to use the wiki and the interactive map but that's also because the later areas just don't reward that much for exploration anymore.
Aieeee, I wrote a mouthful, if there's any grammar mistakes then it's because I got hungry. Have a frog for spoiler pic rel