Perfect World's Tower of Fantasy has taken the world by storm. Streamers across the globe have been playing the game over the last few days, and according to SullyGnome, the game has entered the top ten most watched games on Twitch in the last seven days.
Touted as the Genshin killer, its action-adventure gameplay in an MMO open world was clearly built as a direct competitor to Hoyoverse's wildly popular anime-style gacha game Genshin Impact. But has Perfect World delivered? Enviosity, the largest Genshin streamer on Twitch, doesn't seem to think so.
The game has been out in Asian markets for quite some time but only got released to the Western audience on August 11. Even though there are enough changes in the game to differentiate it from Genshin Impact, the comparisons are not unfounded.
Numerous players, streamers and critics have noted the similarities and differences, and a fair few still feel Genshin Impact is the more polished game, with Enviosity being one of them. He describes Perfect World's game as something he will fall back on only when there is no new content in Genshin:
In a recent stream, he compared the two games and described players returning to Genshin after playing the new game as a "humbling" experience:
Enviosity then proceeded to describe exactly why he felt this way, saying:
He tore into people who criticized Genshin Impact. According to the streamer, playing Tower of Fantasy only makes one appreciate Genshin Impact more:
Most Enviosity fans agreed with the streamer, giving their own take on the game:
Tower of Fantasy has made a fair few changes to the gacha formula to set itself apart from the industry giant that is Genshin Impact. Unfortunately, the game is still quite unpolished with bugs and frequent
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