Now that Fontaine is out and the story line for Sumeru is done, I wanted to see what everyone thought on Sumeru. My sister and I were talking and noticed more negative opinions as of recent.
Overall I thought the story was mid. I was definitely tired of Nahida by 3.4. Mostly tired since it felt similar to Yae or Ayato whenever we see them. They are 5 steps ahead but for Nahida it felt more like she has a problem, you help her, she figures it out midway through quest but doesn't say anything then mentions it at the end.
It would've been nice if they added the underground map feature earlier as well. I would be running in circles since I have a terrible sense of direction lol.
The last thing I've noticed is the issue with making characters one note. It was an issue in Inazuma but has gotten worse as of late.
Want to see what other people like and disliked with Sumeru
Having the underground map feature earlier definitely would have been helpful. Also less stuff locked behind the Aranara quest - they're cute but holy f those quests were easily the worst of Sumeru for me. The Aranara quests were the first time I actually didn't read all of the dialoge because all of these -nara, -bara, -tara, whatevara words made it extremely tedious to follow. As for the archon quest the time loop thingy was sort of whatever, they could have shortened it a bit without making the overall plot worse imo. It wasn't unbearably long, just sort of rather obvious pretty quickly.
Other than that Sumeru is easily my favorite region though. The maps are gorgeous and I honestly don't mind the huge desert, as one half felt more like huge ruin exploration than anything else to me. The surprise inside the sandstorm from the second half is also a truly awesome area and I'm honestly sad we didn't get any reason to go back there after the quest (like big spots of specific resources).
So far my personal ranking from best to worst region is:
Sumeru
Liyue = Inazuma
big huge empty space
Mondstadt
I'm really hyped about how Fontaine will turn out, I'm loving what I saw so far.