Infinity Nikki review – finally, a worthy Genshin Impact killer

Genshin Impact comparisons are getting boring, aren’t they? Oh look, here’s a free-to-play open-world game that you can play on your phone, better break out the old waifu jokes and gacha complaints. Well, you might only have to indulge my own Genshin comparisons this one final time, because after spending over 40 hours in the batty, fashion-obsessed world of Miraland, I think Infinity Nikki might just replace Genshin as the new standard that future open-world gacha games are compared to. The main reason I suspect we’ll all be changing the target of our eye-rolling is because, while developer Infold Games has clearly nabbed a fair few ideas from Genshin Impact’s (now signature) open-world design, it’s the first of these post-Genshin-style games to hit the sweet spot between emulation and innovation. Quite the achievement for a series with roots in the mobile dress-up genre.

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Source: Eurogamer.net