Devs made the puzzles in Nod-Krai very easy to complete.

I am complaining. Exploration has been very streamlined in Nod Krai and pretty antithetical to the point of an open world game

Good.

Nicole's puzzle?

I'm complaining nearly all the puzzles boil down to find the glowing thing and throw it at the problem, whether it's a reflected bullet, a goat beast or a spore doesn't change much

Second golden apple archipelago was the best genshin experience ever. Mona's island was insane. You know it's good when you can't solve everything on your own and have to google. Good times. Miss those. Puzzle wise it was only downhill after inazuma. Now it can't be called puzzles anymore. Just some kind of braindead interactions.

After inazuma too many were crying that puzzles were hard, so here we are

The only thing I struggled with in this region was the block carving lmfao

Bring back the Sumeru expansion, like a lot of player hate desert of sumeru

It's a bit of a stretch to call what we have in Genshin "puzzles" now, they're more like "simple tasks" that either the game or the flying dipsh\*t will tell you how to complete.

I think more than anything these are the best indicators of the age group this game is primarily aimed at, they're like Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol level.

Good. I don't wanna do shit ass puzzles taking a long time

Yippie

Puzzles were a thing of when Sumeru or Inazuma was the current nation. It was so much fun, yet Genshin being a gacha game could not keep the puzzles up because people were hungry for easily accessible primos.

Current "puzzles" are now your classic gacha exploration where you just press buttons and earn free rewards. It is good, but it became obsolete and easily consumable. I definitely don't get the same satisfaction while I was trying to figure out the order of symbols puzzle in Enkanomiya anymore.

Puzzles in Sumeru 💀 and the Sudoku puzzle on Watatsumi Island 💀💀💀

The only hard parts were the moon mirror puzzles. Extremely easy but it's SO BORING!!!

The puzzles complete themselves.

I will always stand by that Genshin's puzzles were never hard. It's always been use the region's gimmick

sorry not everyone wants to spend more time on youtube than genshin

I loved Inazuma's exploration... the puzzles were real puzzles, the electro enemies near water were fricking terrifying, the random lighting knocking you off mid cutscene, and let's not forget that absolutely rage-inducing awful 3x3 riddle in watatsumi Island that had me scratching my head for days on end

The exploration after that just got simpler and simpler with each region

Only when they made a goated compass they HAD to mess up the exploration 😞

Yeah I’d like to have more puzzles like Inazuma again

It’s so funny while some people are complaining about how easy the puzzles are, there’s that other dude who didn’t even bother to read the sign about the slothsheep puzzle 💀

I’ll say the in the apocalypse bunker I struggled way too much at that one part cause I couldn’t get the glowing crystal guys to connect properly. I was overthinking it tbh

I mean ppl were crying when they were hard in inazuma and sumeru,

Top 1 reason I dropped the game was it felt like puzzles took a nosedive after Inazuma, and it was no longer as fun to explore without them.

Nod Krai exploration is a JOKE

I think the only puzzle was the block carving. I 100% the map. I do not recall any other puzzles.

From what I understand Sumeru got a lots of complains so this is most likely the result.

If i wanted a hard puzzle game I would rather play Proffesor Layton

Fr i went back to inazuma to finish the last few digits of exploration and i almost forgot how insane some puzzles were.

What sucks is on this new map you do a braindead task and get 3 chests, and in inazuma you spend 5 minutes doing something for a small chest with 2 primos.

I'd love for the old harder puzzles to be back, but they should be rewarded accordingly.

The reason why we have brain dead puzzles is because the loud part of the fan base hates using their brains and complained that the puzzles were too hard. I want the hard puzzles back.

The thing I actually was complaining about was the amount of stuff so close together. Like, did they scrap an island and had to put all the rewards for two islands on one or so? It's kind of baffling in a sense.

They absolutely made them easier.

They've been making them easier and easier since Inazuma cube puzzles confounded some people who couldn't stand being confused by something when those puzzles worked on pretty simple logic and often could be solved by just casting Oz from Fischl and whacking them randomly.

With the exception of Mona's star puzzles in that one event and a few other rare exceptions, everything else has been simple "match-2" memory games or "fit the triangle in the triangle hole" task type puzzles.

Those of us who enjoy more complex puzzles have been annoyed for YEARS.

I am complaining. I hate this new exploration, not only we get less map expansions, but also everything is like made for newborn monkeys, you can stand next to "puzzle" and it solves itself, fight one weak enemy and get 3 chests. GIVE ME INAZUMA AND SUMERU LIKE MAPS, GIVE ME GAA PUZZLES

Hmmmm this map looks like a fist ✊ sidways

I'm so glad they did that, I recently came back and i enjoyed exploring nod krai so much, It gave me the feel of exploring in genshin for the first time, I didn't need to look up solutions or spend hours between different layers of underground, It was fun

Nod krai is easy and generous. But I feel like the last area was rushed. It's much more empty and the rewards are so stacked vs trials so easy it feels weird.

A lot of the difficulty is reduced by the treasure compass, and that I love. But it's like the size of the area or the amount of content is lower in the last, northernmost area.

Judging from all the posts here of people not knowing what to do with puzzles even in Nod Krai (cause they can’t read the tutorials), it’s unfortunately a necessity for Hoyo.

today I dream that i had an area with 0% and my compass wouldn't work.

chest didn't gave any reward but they count for completion and all the puzzles were combat and very very hard

Exploration has got braindead easy since Inazuma. Nod Krai exploration felt rather boring because how straightforward and streamlined it is, you get three chests for killing few enemies like it feels borderline insulting being "rewarded" like that for doing basically nothing 😭 and oculi are like few meters apart sometimes. It feels crowded. In wuwa their regions get bigger and emptier but genshin gets smaller 🙈

I hope Snezhnaya will bring back the nice combination of chill exploration but also some challenge. Natlan and NK both feel more like chest collecting simulators instead of real exploration. Atleast to me.

There were puzzles? I don't remember any. Maybe they were so easy they completely slipped past me.

Past inazuma all the puzzles are made with the intention of kids being able to solve them.

Puzzles? Nod-Krai? Huh? Where?

Honestly yeah seeing genshin dumbing down the thing I like about it is really sad, the maps are smaller now, there are way less interesting small places in nod krai compared to even natlan, the puzzles being really really easy, and the fact that with the new treasure compass I literally don't even have to pay attention to the game to finish the map is such a downer for me

They are easier but more they are easy to tell what to do and there’s not gadget or special device required. A huge reason why I checked out of exploration around sumeru desert was that it requires gadgets and I’d forget what half the apparatus want me to even do. It’s not hard for people who chug it all at once but if you ever do some then leave for a long time and come back it’s a nightmare

you can explore entire Nod-Krai without too much attention

me when it took me 30 min to figure out u had to put the lighty fungi things on top of the rocks around the chest

As someone who hated the puzzles in the last few nations, I've actually found myself completing a LOT of them in this latest area, and it feels kinda nice actually.

I actually like the new design, it's much less frustrating and still rewarding (at least for me)

For me, every nation should have at least 5-10 puzzles that make u think and 1 that requieres solving multiple ones, or follow hints, throughout the different zones of each nation.


Sadly current genshin barely makes u think.

I don't care about puzzles being hard or easy, but Nod Krai system of finding them easier is something I want all regions to have.

where are the puzzles?

The one thing i really struggled with was not knowing a puzzle was reserved for a world quest, and as such was incompletable until then.

Those ones where you have to connect the flower buds or whatever to clear abyssal corrosion gave me flashbacks to Inazuma and completing the circuit with the relay stones.

They are catering to the dumb players who get angry when they don't just have a "Redeem button"

The players who thought "The Catch" was a monumental task.

The ones who think doing Dailys is too much effort.

I think they made the compass and map so much better to use and it makes exploring waayyyyy easier. It detects mora boxes, seelies, and trials now. Back in my days~ you had to find those caves without an underground map and the chest didn’t show on the map using the compass 🫠

people complained so much about inazuma and desert's puzzles that now this is what we have

if they make the puzzles hard, people will complain

if they make the puzzles easy, people will complain

if they make the puzzles just the right difficulty, people will still complain

Devs can't really please everyone when every single group of people has something to say about it

And it's greatly appreciated, I have other 5 gachas to play. Don't know how long have you been playing but I don't one puzzles as cryptic as Summertime Oddysey, that shit was nasty 💀💀💀💀💀

its been this way since sumeru bud

If I gotta look up stuff to complete a puzzle that should be explained to me in game there's a problem and that's why I started hating exploration since inazuma.

Inazuma and Sumeru was peak exploration and puzzles.

Thats such a shame....exploration in the beginning of nodkrai felt the freshest its been in a while. The mirror puzzles were actually really cool

There are no hard puzzles in all Teyvat other than two cases. Ishine script on Tsurumi Island and Mona Domain in Golden Apple Archipelago event. No single other puzzle was ever hard. Unfortunately. I just deal with it, because this game caters for people who wouldn't be able to walk a meter if they weren't held by hand. I recently watched Tomb Raider stream. The first one. Guy made a challenge to not heal or save the game, but that's beside the point. We talked about how old games expected players to explore and solve the puzzles themselves, without telling them how to do everything. And I immediately thought of Genshin players, because they are exact opposite of that. People here would go crazy if puzzles actually required any kind of thinking. They literally call easy puzzles "extremely hard". So, what would happen if puzzles actually were harder? The infamous one is magic square on Watatsumi Island. It's not even that hard. No, it really isn't. It's more annoying than anything, because the different block state = different number, but if we had displays like in Nod-Krai, when you can get actual numbers on screen, it would be clearer to see. Or even the Fontaine era numbers, although the numbers from the gadget are sometimes ambiguous. Either way, the only two instances of puzzles that were hard were those two. Mona Domain and Ishine script. And I explored everything myself to 100%, so I know all the puzzles.

Prefer it like this instead of having to search the internet trying to figure out what the hell I am supposed to do. 


Exploration in nod Krai is a major upgrade, especially because of the new compass. They should update it for the older regions too. 

Lmao it looks like a closed fist rising up

I have been saying this since fontaine, inazuma and sumeru are last 2 good explorations regions where it force you to think which make solving the puzzle feels even more rewarding. Now they are all just "put the circle to the circle hole" kind of puzzle, whats the point of releasing new regions and playing an open world game where they treat puzzles as "here is primogems" signs, exploration used to be exciting smh.

Damn, that’s unfortunate 😞

These puzzles are impossible..

Thank god cause I’m stupid

Well let it be known it was due to community requests so enjoy.

I like nod-krai very much. Puzzles are easy (sometimes too easy) and could be harder, but good point is that there is no weird exploration mechanics like surians, ropes, flying, swimming, climbing. Just normal exploration like in Mondstad. Sometimes this kind of break is good and refreshing. I was very tired after latest regions and their exploration mechanics. Nod-krai give me back some of my lost energy.

people complained when Inazuma puzzles were so hard. Now people complain nod-krai puzzles are so easy. Devs can't win over this situation.

The puzzles aren't easy. You're a hardcore gamer who already knows the mechanics and knows where to look.

Yeah, I think it's a good balance for MOST puzzles to be fairly easy, but you want to have at least a few that are at least slightly tricky. I can't think of any in the new region that fall into that category. I think that the "throw yellow at the pyramids" puzzles are the worst offenders, because they have some potential there for "how do you find enough charge to meet the threshold," except that you can just keep banging two Mandragoras together to recharge both, so you never need more than that.

I insanely hate it when I have to look up a puzzle on the internet