Genshin Impact’s new Four-Leaf Sigil makes me feel like Spider-Man

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Climb the sheer, sloping, mountainous cliffs of a long-abandoned mine, jog through the dark, torch-lit rocky tunnel, and you’ll emerge into a lush green jungle in Genshin Impact’s new Sumeru region. Within your first steps of entering the region, the game will point out a small four-leaf icon hanging in the sky. The game prompts an image showing a tutorial, and if you press the right buttons, your anime-style character will transform into a glowing gold ball and zip toward the icon via a gold vine. After hearing my character grunt and pant from climbing and running, using this Four-Leaf Sigil makes me feel light for the first time.

The Four-Leaf Sigil, named for its clover-like shape, is a new feature of the 3.0 Sumeru update in the open-world exploration game. When you interact with it, it allows you to soar through the air and speed along a varied and twisting jungle path. As you fly, you can chain together moves from Sigil to Sigil, and experience an almost Spider-Man like rhythm as moving from point to point transforms from a time-sucking task to a mesmerizing delight. I got so into speedily following a curving river that I forgot to unlock a waypoint I had planned to stop by along the way.

The addition comes as part of a new patch that launched on Tuesday. The 3.0 Sumeru update has brought plenty of new features to the game — a lush new region to explore, new characters, and a new story. And while all the flashy additions are certainly welcome, flourishes like the addition of these Sigils feels like a true example of just how far the game has come.

Genshin Impact is a live-service, open-world game. The way this has worked historically is that as time goes on, we just get more and more regions. The game quite